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Newspaper Page Textit I 1 i l: PAGZ TWO' Eden Jap Atrocity HongKong Prisoners, Gvilians : Outraged Asserts Statesman (Continued from Page 1) ; trocities." In reply to a question, tie agreed emphatically that re sponsibility for the outrages lies at the door of not only the troops themselves but also ."the emperor, the government and the whole Japanese people." - - nr : i lia sorry." ha said, "that I have ' had ' tv snake ' aoch- statement . . . two thlags wffl . W Vt4U , ww- ,U the country and U the world. The Japanese claim that , their forces are animated by a lofty code of ehlTalry- Buahldo'-i-la nauseating hypocrisy. That la the first The second . b 4hat the enemy must be defeat ed . - - :,. -: In brief Eden's indictment in- tluded these counts: Fifty British military prisoners, officers - and men, "were bound hand and foot and then bayon oted to death." ' Ten days after the capitulation. while wounded still . were , being collected from the hills, the Jap anese were refusing permission for the burial of dead. "It is known that women, both Asiatic and European, were raped and murdered and that one en tire Chinese district was declared a brothel regardless of the status of the inhabitants." - (The same thing happened at Nanking, where thousands of women were outraged and killed and other thousands of the inhabitants slain during the burning and pillage of the Chinese, city.) All the garrboa survivors (by Japanese' count 5072 Brit ish; 1689 Canadian; JS2S Indian and 157: others) were herded Into a eamp of wrecked hats w without doors, , windows. or sanitation, and by" the . of January " there were 15 eases , of dysentery, but no drugs or medical facilities, and the dead had 4e be burled hi a corner of the eamp. "The Japanese guards are ut terly callous and the repeated re quests of General r Maltby, the general officer commanding, for an interview with the Japanese commander have been curtly re fused. This presumably means that the Japanese high command have connived at the conduct of their forces." Civilian European residents. some of them seriously ill, have been interned and fed on a lit tie rice, water and food scraps. The Japanese have refused to 'permit, visits to HongKong either by a Red Cross repre seatatlvo or aa agent of the v protecting- power aad have or dered all foreign consuls out of all occupied territories. Thus, "It Is clear that their treatment r prisoners and civilians will , not bear Independent Investi gation." ' although conditions 17 have Iniproed slightly by In the House of Lords the col- onial secretary. Lord Cranborne, agreed to look into a suggestion! that Russia be asked to exert its good offices at Tokyo for the re- lief of HongKong's helpless peo- pie. Russia and Japan still are at peace. Reveals OTTAWA. March 10-(an-Bothvoy carrying United states tech- Prime Minister W. L. MacKenzie King and Opposition Leader R. B. J land, reinforcements for the Can Hansor? cautioned Canadians 1 adian army In Britain and Can- Tuesday against acts of vengeance against Japanese in Canada as a result of the Japanese barbarities at Hongkong. . . They said such acts would be used by the enemy as grounds for retaliation against the Canadians Imprisoned at Hongkong. f ' '- Tug. Rescues Plane HOQUIAM. March lM-A tugboat late tonight palled a military pursmlt-type - plane ' from the mod of Grays harbor. Into which it had plowed nose -first ta mid-afternoon In an ua explained accident. Tugboat Operator Fred Ttaur ber, who hauled It -free, said two men were aboard when the plane came down, but neither . was hurt and the plane not damaged badly. The accident occurred about four miles west of ..here. Former Press Manager Dies PALM SPRINGS Calif, Man 10-tP-Jackson S.illiott, 68, for mer assistant general . manager of The Associated Press,; died suddenly : at his , winter home here today., ..t t With his,; Wife,-. Mrs. Frances Savase Elliott, be was , walking In the garden of his newly com pleted winter home when he was stricken with a heart attack. ; . mm u V;rx.c-i j:ZZD 7UI3 adviceii Tf vviT tf'm, res'ieas, rt"r hot -use i i 1 1 r!ri--i I) woismall j I - E. i-"k ham's V- ; ' ) t z i. -4io eecul9 r i ; "odj vh; tou- Army Hero Returns -- "-. , dorrs. Joseph L. Loekar . En route to an officers' training school in the east, Sergt Joseph Lv Locxard, unsung: hero of that surprise Japanese raid on Pearl Harbor Dec. 7, waves a greeting; after arrival In San Francisco. Sergeant Lockwood, a radio, man at Pearl Harbor, detected strange planes over the area almost aa hour before the attack but Ua alarm was disregarded. '- FDR Flays Merger Talk WASHINGTON, March 10-CP) President Roosevelt dismissed proposals for a merger of army and navy under one department Tuesday with a remark that the services seemed to be working well together under the present system. At the same time. Chairman May ' D-Ky) of the house mil itary affairs committee arged that agitation for a unified com mand cease. He said that, pro ponents of saeh a consolidation should not "reek the boat m time of storm. During the day, Senator Clark (D-Mo), long an advocate of com bining the war and navy depart ments in a "department of nation al defense," introduced a bill to carry his plan into effect Under his measure, the head of the new department would, un der the president, be in command of the land, sea and air forces. The present posts of secretary i of war and secretary of the navy would be abolished. I f jTtTf'T mi TVaTrl Vy-f "J.. V"; 1 - 'O meiT.Ca OUie ; " ' 11 Vvi train J-A1 MJM.M.14XMAM. LONDON, March 10-t)-A con- nidans for the bases in North Ire- adian trained troops of Norwegian, Belgian and Polish armed forces has arrived at a British port I Incidents to enliven the eross lng were a brush with U-boats and aa emergency operation for appendicitis. Depth eharges dropped from escorting destroy ers apparently disposed of the i submarines since there were ao further alarms. A' Canadian alr- , maa was the victim of aa ap pendicitis attack and the opera tion was performed hy a Toron to surgeon. : . .A number' of Canadian nurses were aboard the transports along with the fighting men, who were in uniforms representing infantry, ordnance, engineers, artillery, for- estry and medical and dental units.. . -.: - ' : ; . ? .--;. . Army to Bmld Alaskan Road EDMONTON, March 10-(CP) The Edmonton Journal in a front page story said construction of the Alaska highway will be "a job en tirely produced by the United States army, and civilian work era will not be needed, at least this year." The 'Journal said .these - facts "became apparent in dispatches from their correspondents at Daw son Creek, ; BC, where a number of United States engineers arriv- vf art- ltTrinHav - . - 1 1 The correspondent t said more than 200 American engineers ar rived Tuesday I but that further details were not available. ' ' The Journal . said r "the pioneer road will be nine feet wide and capable of handling" heavy trucks. Eventually it will be 24 feet wide- Cuba OrdersDraft HAVANA, March 10-()-Pres-ident Fulgencio Batista Tuesday night .signed a decree providing for compulsory military service of all men between 18 and 59 , to serve throughout! the .war with demobilization occurring within a yearafter peace- .-. . Army Navy .Tks Churchill to Talk on India ': . . 'sff;. .;,..:--';.... j Imperial Troops to Join Chinese Ally; Revolt Threatened (Continued from Page 1) drome at . Moulmein, dropping sticks of bombs among ' 14 scat tered nlanes and settinsf two fires. Fighting planes, too, lifted a sWeldjre pending, awaiting word from over the retreating troops. - A 1 Japanese air raid" upon Tharra- sddy was admitted to have killed some Burmese civilians. Signaling the total loss, for the time being, of extreme southern Burma, American "engineers and drillers ' were carrying out great demolitions at Bassein, the import ant port 90 miles west of Rangoon, Which --itself . already had- been evacuated of military forces and stripped of all of military value.' Afield, Lieutenant General Harold X. L. Q. Alexander's f orees were declared officially to have made a sneeessf ul with drawal northward toward eent- ' ral Burma, - thus cxtrleattng ; themselves from what had been a moot grave position., - ',"-'.. This was made possible in heavy separate actions, a subsidiary Brit ish force previously isolated around Pegu, 40 miles north of Rangoon, smashing its way through the Japanese toward ' i Junction with the main British bodies, which jn. turn broke through the Japanese astride the Rangoon-Prome road in two vio let and bloody tank and infantry assaults. Rangoon, according to delayed advices, was left a spectacular area of waste by. the British scorched earth policy. The great Syrian oil refineries 20 miles down-river were smashed and the pipeline 300 miles northward was cut, these dispatches stated. "Great warehouses, docks, quays. Jetties everything of any possible valae to the Japanese were ruthlessly blown p or set on fire," it was added. The new British-Chinese front now being projected across cent ral Burma from the Chittagong area east of Calcutta to the upper Thailand border is intended to form a constant threat to the right flank of the enemy movement to ward India. Admittedly there is little pres ent chance of reinforcing the Brit ish troops in Burma and it. was evident that the existing forces and the Chinese were counted on to halt the Japanese until India's own resistance can be fully or ganized.' US, Canada On Newsprint . WASHINGTON, March 10-flP) The United States and Canada will impose price ceilings on news print simultaneously in the near future, it was learned Tuesday, as the result of current -negotia tions. - . . . '. The price administration W dined to comment on the pend ing celling, which would be the first to be ordered by the two governments, but ether sources said It was intended to be ef fective for the second smarter of the year, starting April L .Whether the orders would be ready for announcement by that date appeared to depend on the completion of complex cost inves tigations under way here and In i Canada. ' There was no indication what the price maximum would be. The American quotation now Is $50 a ton. Canadian mills have an nounced a $3 increase to $53 a ton, to become effective for American purchasers April 1. Braztt Ship Sunk by Sub; 26 Survivors NEW YORK, March 10-P)-The torpedo-sinking of the Brazilian cargo-passenger liner Cayru, the fourth . Brazilian ahip sunk in 11 days, was - announced ' Tuesday night by the third naval district following the arrival here of 26 survivors. Fifty nine others are missing in three lifeboats. The navy said the 5152-ton liner was sank betweea 7 aad 7at pjsu (EWT) Sunday alsht about 139 miles 'e f f Ambrose Ilfht at the entrance to New York harbor. . a, - - The survivors included 22 sea men and four passengers. Six oth er passengers and S3 crew mem bers are missing. Brazils tonnage loss rose to 22,- to sinkinga serious Inroad in- the marine life lines between . the United States and Brazil. Daughter of First UO President Dies OAKLAND, Calif, March 10 (iTVThe death of Mrs. Esther Jak way, 62, daughter of John Wesley Johnson, founder and first pres ident of the University of Oregon, was disclosed Tuesday. . ; She died at her home here Sun day aiter a two-day illness. Fu neral arrangements still are pend Plan: Ceiling ing. OrXSCri CTATCMA2I, Cclen, Sttverton Man Taken by Death SILVERTON Robert Edmund Dunagan, 28, died at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ben nett Dunagan, 343 Mill street He was born in Sihrerton July 20, 1918. Besides his parents, he Is survived by. one brother, Vernon, at Fort Randolph, Panama. ',. Funeral arrangements in charge of Larson and Son funeral home Panama States Public DemandsSpeed Double Output Seen If All Machines Put On Erery Hour Basis . (Continued from Page 1) two ways of arriving at the neces sary production level "the Ameri can way" sand "the way of bond age, of force, ' - . J "If, : therefore, s we are to achieve victory for the-Ideals - we free men have always loved," he continued, "then we ea the production ' ones must abandon Very other' consideration except Increasing production and bv creasing it every day. If we fail in . that, we shall burn la the flames of a public wrath so In tense that la lta heat it anight 'consume the very standards 4we have set for free neea to live by." 'V-.r. I; . "When I say we can Increase production substantially by great er use of rietfa machinery." the WPB chairman said, I am think ing of the 20 per cent ol war plants operating only 9 or 5 days a week. I am thinking of the many plants closed Sundays. have in mind the second shifts using only 40 per cent of plant capacity and the third shifts using only 20 per cent. This, as yen can readily un derstand, means that thousands of machines needed for war pro duction new stand Idle part or all of every weekend and from eight to 18 hours every day. And. I might add. Idle tools work for Hitler." ' ; Nelson named as two industries having considerable unused fa cilities the 31 aircraft engine and propeller plants and the 153 plants manufacturing machine tools. If all the facilities of the air craft engine and propeller, plants were utilized to the same extent as the three with the best records, the , total output of the industry could be boosted 23 per cent, Nel son estimated." And if all 153 ma chine tool plants were operating at the same utilization level the best three, "we could increase machine tool output 43 per cent immediately." . TLere's tatuf action in knowing that the 6Va revenue tax you pay on every pack of twenty cigarettes b doing its bit for Uncle Sam And, when ' you buy Chesterfields, you have the satisfaction of know ing you are getting a superior blend of the world's best cigarette tobaccos. This famous blend gives you a smoke that is definitely MILDER; far COOLER , and ;' lots BETTERyTASTWa Make your next pack Chesterfields. You can't buy a better cigarette. v. 4:. SAFELY tACK from o raid or doo-flaMr V trappy iondiog for our air fighters whoa they light vp end enov the cigarette that Satisfies. '-fl (: rflijl:; "I I PATxior.c v:c.7.srs csaAKfiATicra ' ' (C 1 I A S ft 1 K 7TVV?" H1 Vv f - ore doing o root ob on the homo front ' (y(y ' ' Jl. Vtjs I j J I f VV-y eur fight for the American woy of Cfo. Cofrrila 19U. Lteenr a MnnToMeca Ca Oregon. 7daidor Mernir llsrca II. lStt. Australia Set For Invasion Counter-Blows Seen As Delaying Action ;: While Defense Laid ' ; (Continued from Page 1) made at Salamaua and Lae in the same area.-: - : . .'v-: These inroads and a tenth air raid on Port Moresby, principal city of New Guinea, erased any lingering official doubts of an in vasion attempt against this com monwealth. The RAF counter-blows, for all their success, were regarded as likely to be primarily of a delaying nature, Australiaa au thorities holding the belief that the Japanese would strike at the mainland as soon as they could consolidate New Guinea posi tions. While heads of the Australian fighting forces discussed with cabinet members in detail the most likely points of invasion and methods to meet the threat, Lieut Gen. Sir Iven Mackay, command er of the home forces, warned the public not to sit back and wait for others to defend this country., A large-scale Invasion by the Japanese "would be difficult but not beyond their capacity" he-said at Adelaide. .vi-y Prime Minister John Curtin, commenting on the arrival in this country of officials from the Dutch East ladles, described Australia not only as a base from which to attack the but "a sanctuary for all allies." : Curtin suggested that next Saturday be set aside as a day of national prayer, noting that it was the anniversary of the German In vasion of Czechoslovakia. In the state of Victor, liquor restrictions were tightened, with cancellation of late night sales permits, sale of bottles prohibited after S20 p. itl, and all public functions ordered to be bone-dry. LONDON, March 10-ff)-A quiet, strategic race was report ed to be either underway or im minent tonight between the axis powers and the United Nations for control of the big French isl and of Madagascar. In the hands of the Japanese, who are reported to have had pressure mission there for the last six weeks, the island Would give the axis a vital naval base on the western end of the Indian ocean littoral and , multiply the complications of getting allied ar mies and material to both the middle east and the orient Adding to a growing list of reported asaaeavers aimed at the Island flanking the east coast of Africa, the Turkish radio said todasf that atx light naval aaits of the Vichy French fleet had been dispatched from Dakar to This reported Vichy gesture Ofj THE ifirov's came in the midst of discussion in unofficial London quarters on toe possibility that allied troops might soon move on Madagascar with the intent of. beating the axis to the Jump in order- to hold the western Indian ocean from the enemy which has sealed its east ern end with the conquest of Ma laya and the Indies. I - . I H6iCup IGlls Aid For WASHINGTON, March JO-iff) President Roosevelt's request for federal aid to help w a r-dis- placed workers was refused by a house committee form second time Tuesday and two sponsdrs conceded that If a dead" now By a vote of 7 to 4. the de ficiency appropriation which re fused to approve a special $16e 000,009 WPA appropiiatioa which the president recom mended last Wednesday to pro vide Jobs for persons temporar ily unemployed while factories are converted from peacetime -to arms prodactioa. The majority of the subcom mittee was understood to have taken- the view that the problem is localized In an area' surround ing Detroit, that federal aid would Involve special treatment for one class of workers and that state un employment compensation . funds are adequate to meet the situation. The ways and means commit tee three weeks ago refused, 18 to 8, to authorize a 300,000,000 fund for the same purpose in the form of supplementation to the usual state unemployment com pensation benefit payments." Rep resentatives of many states op posed the plan. ' Construction Worker Hurt When L. D. Scott, 28-year-old construction worker of 1177 North Commercial street fell 18 feet at the Oregon Pulp and Paper com pany mill Tuesday afternoon, Sa lem first aid men rushed to the scene. He was removed to the Deaconess hosmtal, where late Tuesday nighthis condition was reported as y'lair." Full extent of his injury was still unknown al though he Is said to have sus tained bruises, abrasions, several lacerations, some concussion and possible fracture of the skulL . Airport Voted At McMinnville McMINNVTLLE, Ore., March 10-iP-McMinnville 'voters ap proved Tuesday , night, 82S to 134. a $30,000 bond issue for purchase of a CAA airport site. Once title to the land is ob tained, the CAA will begin con struction of a 8367,000 emergency field. Promt Unemployed K W ST . ; OO.hlaa ' lor M8olfor.Toaf. $ tASOn " I M I V vv.....rA .. r - I - . , . . J : J cdard Extends School Leaves Teacher Absences Are Lengthened for War; . Probation Finish Seen (Continued from Page 1) district be protected with guar antees that tires, maintenance, repairs and replacements if nec essary would be made available. The board in its resolution also requested that the license be ar ranged satisfactorily with the pub lic utilities commission and that operation - for other- than school uses.be arranged not to Interfere with the school "schedule. Resignations accepted - were from Earle -Stewart, Mrs. Mildred Samuelson, Mrs. Sylvia Russell, Mrs. Elva lisle, E. D. Roseman and Mrs, Myrtle Beaver. Military leaves of Floyd Sleg mund and George Sargeaat were extended; Miss Esther Ar nold, Mrs. Carolyn Parker, Mrs. Sally Jackson and Mrs. Grace Schmidt were created leaves. . , , New contracts' were . extended under the tenure plan to M 1 s s Jennie Rinehard, Leslie Carson and Miss Esther Wilcox for Par rish junior high school; to Miss Valborg Bancroft, Grant, and Miss Elizabeth Lewis, Englewood. All were previously substitutes. Federal" B&ak To Aid Aliens Protection Program-? Would Smooth Moving From. Coastal f Ajfeas (Continued from Page 1) 8. Four subcommittees of the Faeifle coast congressional dele ration went to work to investi gate the defense of the coast. Morgenthau, in a "message to Congressman job. n H. Tolan, chairman of the house committee investigating defense migration, said the broad problem of evacu ation calls for the protection of the property of such persons "against fraud, forced sales and unscrupu lous creditors." The reserve bank, with branch es in Los Angeletv Seattle and Portland, will work in close lia ison with the federal security agency, the US department of ag riculture and other federal and state agencies In dealing with pro perty in the course of liquidation. As to agricultural properties, an attempt will be made to arrange for the leasing or sale or, if there Is need, for the growing of crops with viewrto preventing their loss ttirough inattention. SEATTLE, March lO-VTo keep Japanese families and mends together wherever possible, Se attle's American-born .Nipponese have launched a comprehensive registration campaign in prepara tion for the evacuation order which they feel 14 imminent "We dont know where we're going, or when we're going,w,ex plained. Bill Hosokawa, secretary of the Japanese-iAmerican Citi zens' league, which Is sponsoring the regisration, "but we do know we re going. , Tne united otates- government has .completed infor- mmMm. aKm mm Ktit w want HI, data, too." : . : The evacuation's Imminence was cusciosea waay as pruuucr u cupid. A young Japanese couple from Auburn, applying for a mar riage license, explained that tiaey had planned to wait several years but decided to wed Immediately to insure against their separation in the-evacuation.' . . , X Alaska Road To Be Built In One Year r I WASHINGTON,, March' 1HJP) The ' interior " department an nounced Tuesday , that present plans called for completion ; of the contemplated highway be tween the United States and Alaska within one year. - . I In a statement J accompanying the announcement. Secretary Xckes, head of a cabinet commit tee studying the highway plans, declared -the highway "must be constructed in a hurry." I "In the first few months of the war, I ekes said, "we already have seen that we should not .de pend exclusively on the' mainte nance of protected ocean ship ping lanes to carry either civil ian supplies or fighting . equip ment When this road is complet ed, we will be able to use any or all of the faculties, of the land, sea anc air to ahip toough of everything on timevM i A department spokesman said Tuesday night no official an nouncement ' was r ready yet re garding starting points or routes below the Canadian ' border. ; Seattle Has New Mayor ! . SEATTLE, March IQ-iJfy-Vo-lice Judge William F. Devin, who rose to political prominence for the first time a? runner-up .for mayor a year ago, won the posi tion Tuesday night by an almost three-to-two lead over Mayor Earl Millikin after a bitterly-contested campaign. 'rjft ; ,; Millikin, former democratic county auditor wha'Jhad the ag gressive support of Teamsters' Un ion Leader Dave Beck, conceded the election after the count in 459 of the city's 510- precincts stood: mvui uut, WHUUB i A Devin- was 'appointed to Iho judgeship by Governor Arthur' B. Langlie, republican. : during !his two terms as mayor. Millikin was elected a year ago. to ; serve , out Langlie's unexpired term. .V -