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‘Prune Barge’ Heads for Scrap Pile By RUSS REEN United Press International PHILADELPHIA (UPI) The old Prune Barge is desolate, shabby and run down at the heels, but it's still going to take the United States to do what Japan couldn't do. That's to end her battle-marked career and put her away for good, as scrap. The Prune Barge—so called for its homestate's industry—is the U.S.S. California, once flag ship of the 7th Fleet, once the big guns of the bombardment fleet, once the heavyweight puncher which ripped te enemy-held Pacific islands to shreds. And once, sunk in the mud of Pearl Harbor. For, it was from the same Pearl that the California rose to carry the war to the sneak foe which clipped her with torpedoes and settled her on the bottom with aerial bombs on that Dec. 7, 1941 of infamy. When the day ended, the Prune Barge refused to die. She rose again and fought, carried her bruising salvos to the Atols and then proudly, four years to the day, on Dec. 7, 1945, sailed into the Philadelphia Naval Base with her flags flying and her crew of 2,375 home. Behind her on that victory day she was the wreckage of one Japanese battleship sent to the bottom, seven Japanese planes shot down, and seven island bombardments. Baptised At Salpan Detroit Auto Industry Leads Promotion Field NEW YORK (UPI) — Detroit spends as much in one week on auto promotion as the entire imported car industry spends in a year, according to Everett Taylor Martin, vice president of Jaguar Cars, Inc. Martin, who formerly headed publicity and advertising for the British Automotive Manufacturers Association, also noted that dealer organizations of the domestic industry outnumber foreign dealers here by six to one, but foreign car sales continue to grow at a faster pace. Satellites May By CHARLES CORDDRY United Press International LAS VEGAS (UPI)—A sleek said today that satellites 2 miles above the earth may termine whether English or Asian is the language of the future. Such satellites would be making TV available to even on earth, Duncan E. MacDowd said at the first World Conference of Flight. “When we consider the end of TV upon our own oster... again and fought, carried her bruising salvos to the Atols and then proudly, four years to the day, on Dec. 7, 1945, sailed into the Philadelphia Naval Base with her flags flying and her crew of 2,375 home. Behind her on that victory day she was the wreckage of one Japanese battleship sent to the bottom, seven Japanese planes shot down, and seven island bombardments. Baptised At Salpan Behind her too, was the baptism of fire at Salpan when Japanese shore batteries caused her first battle casualties since Pearl Harbor. Also written in her log, in blood, was that day in Lingayen Gulf when a Japanese kamikaze pilot crashed his plane against the after fire-control tower. The Japanese flyer traded his life for the lives of 82 of the Prune Barge crew, and the injury of 158 others. Today, more than 18 years after her triumphant return from the war, the California still sits at the base she never left. But she doesn't sit alone. Squatting beside her is the Tennessee, her wartime buddy. To her starboard bow is the small aircraft carrier Prince Williams. Scattered through the basin are more than 100 other warcraft of the mothball fleet. Eighteen, including the California, are doomed to be scrapped. The Prune Barge was a lady of the fleet, the kind beloved by sailors. She was a comfortable lady, a full grown 20 years of age when the Jap attack sent her sprawling. Old But Game She was too young for the first war and by the time the second one was started with her as fair game, her 19 knots was a slow pace. When she got to her feet after the first round knockdown, she became a club fighter. No swift courser like the 32-knot Missouri, the New Jersey and Wisconsin or the 31 knot Iowa was the Prune Barge. But when she shook out her bustle, hoisted her skirts and waded in, she was a biddy aroused. Her main turrets of 12 guns—big 14-inchers—and her second battery of 16 five inchers belched vengeance. Her 10 quadruple mounts of 40 millimeters laced the sky while the big ones thundered. She wasn't nice to look at when they hauled her from the mud of Pearl, and she isn't nice to look at now. Thirteen years of just sitting around doing nothing have left her an ugly old harpy to anyone who never served aboard. She rests in the basin, bundled against the Tennessee and the of 12 guns—big 14-inchers—and her second battery of 16 five inchers belched vengeance. Her 10 quadruple mounts of 40 millimeters laced the sky while the big ones thundered. She wasn't nice to look at when they hauled her from the mud of Pearl, and she isn't nice to look at now. Thirteen years of just sitting around doing nothing have left her an ugly old harpy to anyone who never served aboard. She rests in the basin, bundled against the Tennessee and the Williams, water lapping at her sides. What the weather hasn't done to her, the Navy did. Salvage crews cannibalized her. Predominant is the silence, except when a stray work party comes aboard. The California's life began March 3, 1915, when she was authorized as a 32,600 ton battleship, 624 feet, six inches long with a beam of 114 feet. Her keel was laid at Mare Island on Oct. 26, 1916, and she was launched Nov. 20, 1919, one year after the first war ended. She was commissioned Aug. 10, 1921. Her crew was 141 officers and 2,400 enlisted men. The cost for hull and engines, $12,500,000. Oftimes, they tried to call her the Golden Bear, but the popular name was the Prune Barge, growing from California's first industry. In defeat and victory, she was a gallant lady. OFFICE FURNITURE Since 1923 ALFERNANDEZ OFFICE EQUIPMENT Authorized Factory Agent Name Brands. 220 E. Commonwealth Fullerton—LA 5-2349 Anahcim—KE 5-7020 Satellites May Determine Language of the Future By CHARLES CORDDRY United Press International AS VEGAS (UPI)—A scientist today that satellites 22,000 above the earth may determine whether English or Russian is the language of the future. Such satellites would be first television relay stations, like TV available to everyone earth, Duncan E. MacDonald at the first World Congress Flight. When we consider the effect TV upon our own ostensibly educated public," he said, "the impact on the people of Asia and Africa might be overwhelming." "It could well help to determine whether English or Russian were the language of the future." MacDonald is vice president of Itek Corp., Waltham, Mass., a newcomer which specializes in the automatic acquisition, evaluation, filing, indexing, storage, reproduction and updating of information. Science is digging up so much new data so fast, he said, that systems yet to be invented are needed to store and disseminate it. MacDonald, a physicist, said the 22,000-mile high satellites may yield the "first big economic pay-off from space-age advances." At that altitude, satellites would orbit every 24 hours and thus be stationary in relation to earth. By improving weather forecasting, navigation aids, aerial mapping, geological surveys and communications, he said, such satellites might affect the lives of masses of people more than any spectacular space feats that follow. MacDonald also said the means now are available for a foolproof open skies" arms inspection plan such as President Eisenhower proposed at Geneva in 1955. 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