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Show Jit SS -Cr-t 5 i Br KOBEXT J. MANNING United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, June 0 (U.PD "Most state department officials.' dapper Emmanuel S. Larsen said today, "probably are very busy now destroying official docu ments which they have taken to their homes. Larsen, a state department expert ex-pert who is one of the six persons per-sons charted with conspiracy to violate the wartime espionage code, defended his possession of data labelled "Top Secret" and "Restricted" aa perfectly normal norm-al phase of a state department official's work. He talked freely to a United Press reporter at the District of Columbia Jail where he was awaiting final arrangements for release on $10,000 bond. "I cannot see how the charge can possibly be applied to me," he said. "Nor can I see how. I could be a party to any communist commu-nist activities as I am no Communist." Larsen said most state depart ment officials had the "tools for their work" reference books, personal files and the like at home and consequently often took secret documents or copies home. Many times, ne saw, iney use the information in them to sup plement their private files. "One must use discretion." he said, "and make certain that such material does not fall into unauthorized un-authorized hands or possibly be used against the interests of the United States. "I have always done this." Larsen Emphasized his denial of reports that he, along with the five others, was associated with Communist activities. He added that he could prove it "by papers in the state department." He said he had no more than a speaking acquaintance with any but one of the five other persons involved in the case. They are John Stewart Service, foreign service officer in the state department; de-partment; Lt. Andrew Roth, US-NR. US-NR. former navay intelligence officer; of-ficer; Mark Julius Gayn, free lance writer; and Philip Jacob Jaffe and Kate Louise Mitchell, co-editors of the magazine Am-erasia. Am-erasia. Larsen said he knew Jaffe rather well and had maintained acquaintance with him as a good source of material for his "Lar-sen's) "Lar-sen's) work as an expert on Chinese personalities, political groups and cliques. - i Twenty Killed In Transport Crash MANILA. June 8 OJ.R) Twenty persons were killed when a C47 transport plane crashed into a New Guinea "Shangri La" - last (month, the army revealed today, but three aboard survived and soon will be brought out of the lost world. An officer, an enlisted man and a WAC the only survivors of the big transport plane crash are under medical care while awaiting await-ing completion of an emergency air strip from which they can be flown out of the hidden valley in the Oranje mountains of Dutch New Guinea. Filipino medical technicians parachuted into the valley as soon as the wreckage of the C47 was found. The plane crashed in the wilds on May 13 while on a routine flight. The announcement was held up until next of kin of the victims were notified. On May 17 a C-47 dropped food, medical supplies and a walkie-talkie radio. The survivors reported that they had suffered only cuts, burns and superficial injuries. The parachutists landed in the valley 10 miles from the wreck Established a camp and surveyed the valley for a landing strip. By May 25 they reached the injured trio, who said the natives were friendly but unhelpful. For the last week the three have been resting comfortably in the valley Rescue plans call for dropping gliders into the valley and bring ing out the party by glider pick up. page e "grasg" Sunday herald pnats View of Pacific Fleet Carrier Jaikd Official Denies Charges In Document Thefts H V." i f - y.-Xr--.-: fl'':!';'i''''';;':'i 7 lit I fat A TrUohoto) A Navy Curtiss HeUdlver soars over its carrier as it returns from a strike at Jap shipping. Far below other planes are being spotted on the flight deck to which the plane will soon return. U. S. Naw ohoto Casualties Flown From Okinawa to Guam in 7 Hours NAVY A I R EVACUATION CENTER. Guam 0.R) From combat to comfort is a quick trip for the doughboys casualty today, to-day, thanks to the Naval Air Transport Service. Japanese mortar fire recently downed a soldier on Okinawa. Forty-five minutes later he was in a giant VRE-1 (Air Evacuation Evac-uation Squadron) Skymaster headed for Guam. During his seven-hour flight he vas tended by a Navy nurse and a Navy hospital corpsman. Upon arrival at Guam, he spent 22 minutes in this center drinking coffee, eating ice cream, and smoking. Then he was rushed In an ambulance am-bulance to the base hospital, where all modern medical facilities facil-ities will aid in his recovery. Twenty-five, to 30 GIs can be ferried at once. In 29 trips, 745 patients were flown from Okinawa. Recently the 1,000th casualty from Pacifc combat zones passed through this center. Arkansas Booklet Refutes Jibes LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (U.R) Arkansas is taking steps to correct cor-rect the misconception spread by comedians and humorous publications pub-lications that it is a "backwoods" state. The state published a 62-page booklet, entitled "With This, We Challenge," which swings freely at jokesters who have made the Wonder State" the but of thousands thou-sands of laughs. The booklet "barely scratches the- surface of the whole amazing story of Arkansas, its wealth and wonders, its people and their way of life." Probe Ordered Into Deaths at Idaho Hospital BLACKFOOT, Idaho. June 9 (U.R) A bi-partisan commission of five men, appointed by Governor Charles C. Cosset!? today began a sweeping investigation of the state (mental) hospital south of here, as outgrowth of the alleged mysterious deaths of two inmates and an employe. The commission is composed of Ralph Breshears, Boise Republi can attorney; Dr. H. P. Belknap, Republican, Nampa; Ralph Jones, Pocatello Democrat attorney; Dr. D. L. Blivens, Idaho Falls Democrat, Demo-crat, and Parley Rigby, Idaho Falls postmaster. It was Rigby s report on his own investigation of conditions atJ the hospital that led the governor to set up the machinery for an official probe. Preparations for the investigation were kept secret until last night to allow the commission com-mission to get on the scene. Dr. G. R. Smith, superintendent of the hospital, said: "I don't know anything about this proposed pro-posed investigation and I have no comment." The commission was given full authority to subpoena witnesses and administer oaths during the survey. Undersecretary Of Navy Resigns WASHINGTON, June (U.R) The resignation of Undersecretary of Navy Ralph A. Bard and the appointment of Artemus L. Gates as his successor was announced today by the White House. Gates is now assistant secretary of navy for air. The White House said he would be succeeded by John L. Sullivan of Manchester, N. H.,; former assistant secretary of the treasury. At the same time, White House Press Secretary Charles G. Ross said President Truman had "no intention" of accepting the resignation resig-nation of Secretary of Navy James V. Forrestal. Ross said Forrestal submitted his resignation shortly after the death of President Roosevelt. Bard, in his letter of resignation, resigna-tion, pointed out that he resigned to President Roosevelt on Nov. 6, 1944, asking to be relieved of his duties on or before V-E day, and that on April 25 he had offered of-fered his resignation to Mr. Truman. Russian Chief Regards Fate Of Hitler Unsolved Mystery By HENRY SHAPIRO United Press Staff Correspondent BERLIN, June 6 (U.R) Marshal Gregory Zhukov said today that he regards the fate of Adolf Hit ler as a deep and still unsolved mystery. Zhukov said that Soviet in- $1500 REWARD OFFERED FOR MISSING PLANE CASCADE. Idaho. June 9 (U.R) A previously offered $1,000 re ward for discovery of the missing plane carrying two Ontario, Ore., men, was increased to $1,500 today to-day as fliers began a thorough search of the Thunder mountain country east of here. The reward is offered by the Van Petten Lumber company of Ontario. Goering's Deer Come In Handy CHAMPAIGN, 111. (U.R) Amer ican soldiers who invaded that part of Germany where Hermann Goering, erstwhile Reich air marshal, mar-shal, had his private hunting preserve, pre-serve, took time off from shooting shoot-ing Germans to hunt deer. Sgt. Gerald Comstock of Champaign Cham-paign bagged two of Herr Goering's Goer-ing's deer to provide his company with fresh venison. Comstock wrote to his father. Policeman W. O. Comstock, saying say-ing that his outfit also enjoyed Goering's fish. They were brought to the surface when the GIs tossed hand grenades Into the well-stocked streams. The Nazi V-2 rocket, weighing 15 tons, is propelled through the air by a mixture of liquid air and alcohol. This highly explosive explo-sive mixture causes the V-2 rocket to travel at an altitude estimated to be 60 miles above the earth and at a speed greater than that of sound. vestigators have not yet discover ed any corpse which can be posi tivcly identified as Hitler's and therefore that the possibility still existeq that Hitler may have escaped. "We have not discovered any corpse which may be definitely identified as Hitler's," Zhukov told correspondents from Moscow on their initial visit to Berlin. "Consequently we cannot make any statement about his death. "He could have fled from Gcr many up to the last minute. We also do not know what has happened hap-pened to Hitler's aide, Martin Bormann who was in Berlin to the end." Zhukov revealed, however, that Hitler was apparently in his Chancellory bunker up to two days before the fall of the Reich capital and that records had been found showing that he married his mistress, Eva Braun, 48 hours before the capital fell. General Nikolai Bezarin, mill tary commandant of Berlin, said that several bodies had - been found one of which could have been that of Hitler but that no thing definite had been estab lished. He said that friends close to Hitler said he committed sui cide but that Russian Investigators had not been able to verify their accounts. "Possibly," Bezarin said, "he is hiding somewhere in Europe,' probably in Spain. Anderson to Mute Food Probe Tour Br DOROTHY WILLIAMS United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, June 9 0J.R Rep. Clinton P. Anderson, D., N.M.. is takinc his house food Investigating committee for a final on-the-spdt food tour oz tne mia- west and west before stepping in to his new job as secretary of agriculture, July 1. The committee, which has been already visited Chicago, Cleveland, Cleve-land, New York and Boston, will now press its inquiry into food scarcities and black markets at open hearings on Omaha, Mln neapolis, Yakima and Seattle, Wash., San Francisco and Los Angeles. An-geles. 1 It will be an investigation with witnesses in each city recounting the food problems peculiar to tneir areas. These hearings are expected to result In the committee recom mendations many of which are likely to be carried over to An derson s own desk when he takes over; his new iob. During its earlier travels the committee gathered much of the testimony which produced its recommendations rec-ommendations to ease the meat shortage. But the meat situation is not a closed book. "We are going to hear more testimony on meat wherever we think there is more Information to be gained," Anderson said. "Now we are extending our sruay 10 an xooas tnat are in short supply including fresh and canned fruits and vegetables. We want to get the country-wide picture." First stop will be Monday in umana. A disturbance of circulation in the pulp of the tooth is responsible respon-sible for the impairment of the efficiency of about two out of every 100 cadets and officers tak ing high altitude training. Schuschnigg Reveals Why He Resigned On Berlin Orders, By ANN STRINGER United Press Staff Correspondent (Copyright. 1945. - United Press) ISLE OF CAPRI. June 8 (U. Kurt Von Schuschnigg, former Austrian cnanceiior, revealed for the first time today in an exclusive ex-clusive interview how he resigned his position on orders from Ber lin in a vain attempt to save Austria s inaependence. "On the afternoon of March 11. 1938, Hermann Goering told me on the telephone that German soldiers would march into Austria wiuiin two hours unless I re signed," Schuschnigg said. "I pleaded for a little time. He finally agreed, warning ray resignation resig-nation was the only thing which could save Austria. "At midnight that night I resigned. re-signed. .What else could I do? I ask you to remember above all else, first of all I am an Austrian. So I resigned. "The next morning March 12 when I awoke, SS troopers hadl encircled my home. I was a prisoner and German soldiers Such was the story of Nazi be trayal told me today by white-haired, white-haired, deeply-tanned Schusch nigg, whom I found on a Sun- soaked, winding street of this storybook island. The onetime chancellor of Austria was window-shopping, with his four-year-old daughter. Cissy, hanging to his hand. Schuschnigg had just come in from the beach where a U. S. army jeep daily takes him. his wife, and Cissy to swim and sun in one of the world's most beautiful beau-tiful settings. He wore a briaht blue suit, a white shirt open at ine tnroat, and rope-roied shoes. Cissy born in a concentration camp was a ihy-flaxen-haired little girl dressed in a blue, print ed and full-skirted frock with baggy blue pants showing under- neath. From the story that Schuschnigg Schusch-nigg told, it developed that he was not treated so badly in German Ger-man concentration camps as first rted. He said- he never once questioned about his polities d never brought to trial, al though the Nazis told him several times he would be tried. For the first year and a half, Schuschnigg was imprisoned in Gestapo headquarters in Vienna. He spent the next two years in solitary confinement at the Political Politi-cal prison camp at Munich. On June 1. 1938, he married by proxy in Vienna, with his brother Artur filling his place. This was in direct violation of Gestapo orders, but Schuschnigg already' had the papers from the church and legal permission to marry before his arrest "However. I was not allowed to see my bride until August. 1938, when I was permitted to have five minutes with her every Friday Fri-day in company with a Gestapo guard," he said. "In 1940, I was allowed to see her three hours a week. Then in December, 1941, they let us live together, and we had our own little barbed wire encircled blockhouse inside the prison camp wans." In the interview, conducted partly in the street and partly in an office at the Hotel Paradiso. Schuschnigg refused to comment on the future of Austria, or his own political future. However, he said the German people were not to blame for the war, adding: "I am convinced that the great majority of German people hated war. I am convinced they had no choice. I believe the war was caused through Hitler, and Hitler alone." Nevada has 124 men for every 100 women; Massachusetts has only 94 men per 100 women. Murdered (NEA TeUpkoto) New York detectives hint that break may come in Park Avenue mystery slaying of Albert E. Langford (above as they trailed dozens of gamblers and "touch" artists who fed on checkbook of his wealthy wife. 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