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Show s TkE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH. UTAH Parachutes, Jeeps, Halftracks, Flamethrowers, Be Used in Peacetime to Battle Forest Fires Plan Just and Speedy Devised fof War Thus, if the original fire does get out of control of the first paratroopTrials for Nazi Bigwigs ers to reach to too and $- Methods Adapted Save Timber Resources Are Being The swords of it, big proves for the first reinforcements also, it is almost certain thajt the third wave of war become of .peace, and plowshares time Mars has some weapthat are going to come in eighty handy in the never ending battle against forest fires. Some very logical questions are being asked today: Why not use bombs to drop on spreading forest fires? Why not use bombers, equipped with the this ons paratroopers and ground forces will resort to building backfires and digging trenches as the maximum effort to check it. Bulldozers and will mechanize a large part of the digging job. Men with and extinguishers will handle the backfires. plow-equipp- U Jk : V A ' - ? ; ' l. if! 'yjft'M--' 'W' '-- half-trac- ed man who is expected to take charge of this program is David Godwin, a veteran of the forest service, who has been active in anti-fir- e experimental work for a number of The years. Godwin already the possibility of has investigated dive-bombi- for- ng Allied Commission to Handle Cases of High Leaders; Local Officials to Prosecute Minor Offenders. ks flame-throwe- rs Other men with , ByBAUKHAGE News Analyst and Commentator. gasoline-powere- d will clear the path of WNU Service, Union Trust Building, the bulldozers and of Washington, D. C. trees too big for them to bowl over. The legal profession is about to America has a big stake in forest meet the greatest challenge it has chain-saw- s half-trac- ks lands. Forest operators are seeing to it that our trees continue to grow, but they know that fire is the biggest menace to growth. They need weapons with which to fight fires, and they expect those that this war proAs soon as a forest ranger spots vides will help to keep a better confire he radios for the flying firetrol over this persistent enemy. fighters. Here a smoke jumper is a feather bed making landing in the tops of a young coniferous precision sights, to aim these bombs? Why not use parachute troops to drop behind enemy lines or to transport to fire regions difficult to a negotiate by land? fire-fighti- ng , growth. of spreading flames. Accompanying them would be men with fire extinguishers, to guard against the back fires getting out of control. The paratrooper, however, will doubtless have a glory and a duty all his own. His greatest service will come from the fact that he can get there first. Once a watcher from On Land or Sea, Navy P. 0. Gets Mail Delivered ever faced. The Moscow declaration, published November 1, 1943, 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 de- clares in its final paragraph that major criminals whose offenses have no particular geographical localization will be tried and dealt System of 5,000 Branches with by joint decision of the Govmuch success. It was difficult, the to hit the exact a Reaches Remotest Islands ernments of the Allies. experimenters found, or from a patrolling That is where the United States spot where the need be only a would do the most good, and there plane spots smoke, it and the challenge of its legal profesOne of the most gigantic warfew minutes until a paratrooper can was difficulty in covering a sufsion comes in. time tasks men land within 50 or 100 yards of the confronting postal ficiently large area. The is to mail units mobile body which will try these big delivering and by getting there while the Aviation enthusiasts, however, are blaze, fire is just starting, he will be able of the fleet. The mounting tempo of shots is an international military counting upon effective bomb-sigin man$ cases to extinguish it with- operations in the last year means tribunal, to be designated by an ofand other precision instruments to not only that greater distances must ficial title, probably by the time out additional help. change this situation. As an alterbe spanned to effect delivery but these lines are printed, and it is beParatroopers by Hundred. native, they believe there may be that a greater number of men are fore this court that a member of the But when long periods of dryness involved in combat activities in- Supreme court of the United States, great possibilities in the use of helihave rendered the forests highly in- creasing all classes of mail to an Associate Justice Robert H. Jack-soNo bombidoubt of a fleet copters. ng planes could be used to advant- flammable and fires spread quickly, unprecedented volume. chosen as American chief of age in blasting a fire out of a forest, a radio summons from the spotters counsel, During March, 1945, 86,132,623 He will will appear as prosecutor. especially with ground support from can bring reinforcements in a hur- pieces of letter mail jointly, it is presumed, through with the act a paratrooper battalion. ry. A single big plane may bring Fleet Post Office, passed counsels of the United KingSan Francisco a score or more paratroopers; a doz- to The use of parachute-droppe- d Socialnavy, marine and coast guard per- dom and the Union of Soviet to troops fight forest fires was first en planes could bring them by the sonnel in the Pacific. In March, ist Republics. tried a few years ago, and they have hundreds. there were 36,686,937 pieces of With their faces protected by plas- 1944, been seeing action in this capacity letter mail dispatched to the Pacific Legal Body ever since. But there never has tic masks, heads covered with pad- showing clearly that the mail vol- Without Precedent been enough of them to combat a ded helmets, and bodies covered ume increased well over 100 per cent Never in history has such a legal fabrics, to spare in one year. It is really big fire. This number can be with expected that it body been convened. Never has such tree-to- p of in case them injuries expanded greatly after the war, and will rise even farther. a task as the one it has before it of rope the wartime training of paratroop landings; and with coils from The mail nerve been of such potential significance to of center the navy the combat units can bring about the handy for quick descent g of social and political in is the service the navy department, organization of a formidable firef- trees, the paratroopers can reach a D. at C. and the of the earth never, Here, Washington, ship peoples fire many precious minutes sooner ighting force. plane movements iare traced and least, since the day of a certain Rocan horseback on or trucks men than Jeep Will Be Fire Engine. communicated daily to the fleet post man procurator of Judea in Palesgenerally arrive. When it comes to post-wtechoffices by wire and airmail. In- tine. Pontius Pilate was unable to devices that formation Portable on ship and plane move- face his responsibility, and finding niques in forest fire fighting, howto a mans back are ments come in from all over the that he could prevail nothing, but ever, it may be not only the use of are strapped already standard forest equipment world by radio, letter and messen- rather that a tumult was made, he waves of bombing planes, and paraSomechute troops to augment the present suitable for the paratroopers. washed his and took water, hand-puma ger. with are these times forces. The ubiquitous hands. acare the there world, jeep Throughout of water. An alternaThe United States does not intend customed to the jungle trails of small tank post offices, varying tive device uses water but builds over 5,000in navy New Guinea and the difficult terrain to wash its hands of the responsibilme size and appearance-sothe pressure behind it with carbon greatlywithin the United of Africa and before it. but States ity Italy is already rec- dioxide, either in its liquid form or ommended by professional foresters There seems to be a welter of conSome the vast majority are on board ship as highly suitable for service as a in the form of dry ice. or on bases at advanced as to just what the function or fusion captured use carbon diminiature fire engine. Likewise, the portable extinguishers ones islands. The of liberated this and large military tribunal is; as to itself to play upon the fires. walkie-talki- e mobile units are the radio unquestionably oxide desigif, any, policy has been what, serving just them out by driving away will be used nated as fleet post offices. the Office of the established the thousands to It snuffs fires, using bombs which in reality were exploding fire extinguishers. That, however, was a number of years ago, and didnt meet with est fire-tow- er bomb-extinguish- ht n, i non-rippi- well-bein- ar fire-fighti- ng ... ps by between fire chiefs, aviation spotters, pilots and paratroopers overhead. Which 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 barriers to the progress of flames. Bulldozers already are essential firefighting equipment. Even developed by the chemical warfare service may he called upon for building back fires, burning out areas in the path keep in contact their crewmen, Half-track- s, flame-throwe- rs the oxygen. Extinguisheis 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. Theyll bring long lines of hose and which pumps, powered by motors rowboats. on used are twins to those With the high pressure equipment, fires in theyll be able to combat are an which trees snags, dead tend because they menace especial to the to carry ground fires upward tops of other trees. Ground Reinforcements. the When a forest fire goes into to difficult as tree' tops it is about be. can fire possibly check as any may In an old forest a crown fire as the 15th be as high above ground no auith story of a skyscraper-wto help tomatic sprinkler system of oxygen to combat it, and plenty make it burn freely. high-pressu- ac c pan After landing the smoke jumper unstraps or carries He ork with his portable fire extinguisher. oe can axes and The heavier equipment ute when spades. necessary. re What Navy Men Want. Extensive surveys show that navy, coast guard and marine corps personnel overseas above all want letters letters giving local news and telling of things done and things planned. Secondly, they want objects with a personal sentimental appeal such as photographs, snapshots, drawings made by their youngsters, and newspaper clippings that can be enclosed in these letters. Such surveys also show that they positively know what they dont want. They dont want cakes, soft candies, cookies, cigarettes and fancy toilet kits. These foods do not survive the trip to the Pacific and arrive in a battered, moldy condition. To make sure your package arrives in good condition, the following suggestions are outlined: 1. Use a strong container (special boxes are designed for this purpose). 2. Pack each article in shredded paper or some filler material to prevent movement inside the package. 3. Inside each package put a sheet of paper with a list of the contents and the full address of the person to whom it is sent plus your return address. 4. Tie the box with cord, then WRAP it in heavy paper and tie it with strong cord. 5. PRINT the address in ink directly on the wrapping; dont use gummed labels which fall off when they are subjected to moisture. Experience has shown that a man overseas places a far higher value on a letter from home than a package of candy , or a long delayed newspaper. Because of the great morale factor, the navy delivers first such toojs class mail to the far Pacific as expeditiously as possible. by 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 can be reached care of the Pentagon in Washington. Soon it will establish foreign headquarters. Despite the confusion, this institution has a definite poliey and I shall interpret it informally hereunder: (1) We shall avoid the laws delay which so annoyed Hamlet. My reason for this assumption is the fact that Justice Jackson did not retire from the Supreme court. The fall term of the court begins in October. Already he has made one trip to Europe for the purpose of rounding up key witnesses and documents and is now beginning final preparation 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 Order 9547 of May 2, 1945, which named Justice Jackson as American prosecutor. Jackson himself said when he was appointed: There will be no delay on the part of the United States, and we think undue delay is itself a failure. (2) There is no confusion as to United States policy with respect to he type of offender to be tried. Many individual cases have already been prepared, though not yetannounced. As I mentioned earlier, what the United States is concerned with is the big shots, that is Jacksons job to try the men whose offenses are aroader than those committed in and igainst members of any single jommunity. To put it broadly, those :harged with crimes against human-t- y as a whole. This rules out the persons brought back to the scene of their crimes, the trials of spies and saboteurs which are coming up daily, offenses against American nationals or against Germans, or individual acts of persecution against Jews or oth. ers.. In other words, Jackson is after big game and he will not be content to fiddle with minor offenses 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 authorities at the scene of the individual crimes or elsewhere. Nazi-Fasci- st 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 does 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 predetermined result. On the other hand; 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 actionist 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 Naziism 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 world 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 opinions. This would destroy the confidence 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. D?an, 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. g PonThere are no tius Pilates among them. hand-washin- The rise in income payments to individuals in the United States from an 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 three' months amounted to $39,825,000,000 this year as against $37,726,000,000 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 increase 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. spending by consumers was at a record high rate during the first quarter, 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 wartime savings, thus increasing the threat of inflation when peace ' " J |