PAGE TWO i- Cold and Hunger Harmed Jap-Interned Americans (Continued from Page 1) , unheated cells - and houses with temperature below zero. ; Hongkong reports said that the Japanese boasted they had driven 800,00a Chinese from the city. Those fleeing, in addition to those remaining, feared starvation. A score of American priests In Hongkong described their capture Christmas day, fol lowing (which they were marched lute a ravine for exe cution and reprieved enly at the Hast minute. Then they were imprisoned in garage for three days, tied in groups with insufficient water and food. A disnatch. received' by he United Press In New York from Its . Robert Bellaire told how he and Joseph Dynan of the Associ- Bone Hearings Here Unlikely Senator Declines to Predict Bill's Fate, Decries News Critics .t f - - . . T PORTLAND, Ore., July ' -Hearings in the Pacific north I west on the Columbia river pow er authority bill are unlikely. Sen. ; Mon. C Wallgren of Washington said Friday. Congress is too busy with war business to extend the hearings beyond the capital, he said, de clining to predict the fate of the ' bill. -. "It has not yet reached the point where you can tell what will happen," Wallgren said. "I don't know- if it win be a one man or a three-man authority. The hearings are turning up new evidence and on the basis of these the senate will act." Wallgren and other memebrsof . the Truman committee investiga ting war production, Sens. Harold Burton of Ohio and Carl Hatch of New Mexico, were here tour ing shipyards - in the Portland Vancouver area. Wallgren decried newspaper critics of congress with, "I'd like to invite some of these editors to get into politics themselves. They would surely find out they are not as good at getting votes as throwing bricks." He condemned the Spokane round table's bundles - for - con gress campaign which ridiculed retirement pay for congressmen. Woman Moves Onto Sidewalk PORTLAND, Ore., July U-(JP) Evicted from an apartment by court action, Mrs. Ella Delaney and her dog,. Trudy, moved out to the sidewalk Friday and de clared she would camp there un til Portland's housing shortage eased enough to give her a new borne. "I don't know where else to go, so I'm going to stay right here," she said firmly enthroned on an upended grocery box. "I ll eat my dinner right here and I guess IH have to put up my bed and sleep here, too." Trudy was making certain that passersby did not venture too close to Mrs. .Delaney, who was evicted on complaint of noise, and her household belongings. Portland's acute housing short age has resulted from an influx of wartime industrial workers. ; Show Rehearsals Begin Next Week I Rehearsals for initial produc '. tions of "Amateur Shows- for Sol " diers" will be started -within the ' next : week, it was Indicated fol lowing a signup meeting at the ' Salem chamber of commerce Fri day night Mrs.' Jessie Bush Mick" elson, general chairman, said one ' or more show units would be ready by - mid-August when Camp Adair's population begins to ex pand, rapidly, .. There was a good turnout of prospective actors and actresses at the Friday night meeting but more volunteers are wanted. They may register by calling Mrs. 0. K. De- . Witt at the USO office, dial 8854. The entertainment program is to be carried on under USO auspices. Heroic Red Ta Man's Land" This dramatic sonndphoto from Mattcew shows Nurse Nina Kuranova treatlag a fall eii Red army soldier somewhere on the vast Rnsslan-German battlef rent. Hiss Kuranova, a first aid tostructor, has been decorated for bravery by the soviet geTtrnment. - - Iated Press had been beaten and choked by the Japanese when they refused to write certain statements. Several of-Dynan's teeth were knocked out, Bellaire reported. The dispatch said in part: "Officials of the home office questioned me repeatedly and at great length in an effort to get me to admit that my activity as a press association reporter had in cluded illegal espionage. Since I had done nothing which I con sidered illegal I made no admis sions. "An official who was super intending the questioning then demanded that I write a state ment to the effect that I had been well-treated. This I re fused to do until I had been badly choked. The officer seised my necktie, pulled It constant ly tlrhter and tighter until it was impossible to breathe. X then was farced to write a statement along lines he dicta-' ted. "Dynan told me that he had much the same experience. A home office official demanded that he write a statement on the subject, The good treatment I re ceived from the Japanese during wartime. When he refused he was beaten. He was hit in the face and several teeth, in a bridge, were knocked out" - Bellaire said that Otto Tolis chus, chief4correspondent of the New York Times in Tokyo, was taken in custody about the same time as other American newspa permen and charged with espion age and violation of the national defense act His dispatch contin ued: "He was forced to sit, Japanese style, with his heels against hips, until wounds opened on his legs. He was slapped repeatedly during questioning by police and once was partly strangled. Police threatened him with a court mar tial and a firing squad. "Max Hill, chief correspond ent of the Associated Press in Tokyo, was threatened with similar treatment unless he rave information about an 'al leged spy ring.' " (Advices received by the Asso ciated Press stated that Hill was not actually mistreated.) Rickreall Girl Dies, Hospital DALLAS, July 24. Florence Linville, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Linville of Rickreall, died Wednesday at the Dallas hos pital. Funeral services will be held Sunday at the Henkle and Boll man chapel with I. S. Nazarenous of Dallas, officiating. Miss Linville was born 18 years ago, August 18, 1925, at Wapello, Iowa, and came with her parents to Rickreall. She was a Rickreall high school graduate in 1941. Prior to her illness, Miss Lin ville was employed as bookkeep er for a small sawmill at Tim ber. She Is survived by her parents and three sisters, Mrs. Walter Smith, Edith and Elsie Linville, all of Rickreall. Shortage Caused By Hard Workers PORTLAND, July 24WVPort- land's meet shortage is caused by more people who are working harder and demand choice cuts of beef and pork, packers said Fri day. Theodore T. Swenson of the ag riculture market administration gave credence to the packers opinion by reporting an increase in receipts of salable hogs and cattle at the Portland stockyards compared with last year. - Identity of Auto Victims Learned PORTLAND, July 24-jp Three persons burned to death as an automobile burst into flame after a downtown collision last midnight were identified Friday as Ruth Winters, 15, and Muriel Parker, 15, both Portland, and Joe W. Witt, 22, Milwaukie, the driver. Burton Salvog. IT. Portland, a fourth occupant, suffered severe lacerations. Three persons in the other car were injured alishtlv Army Nurse Braves - v. " USS Oregon May Fight Again as Steel in Air Carrier r , The battleship Oregon, the pride of the United States fleet during the Spanish-American war. may tight again! Kut not it was revealed, as the trim ship she was when she made the dash around the Horn In the mrarecedentedtlme of 57 days, to arrive off Cuba la time te Join In pounding the Spanish fleet to bits at Santiago. The Oregon, now berthed near Portland as a state park museum piece, may be Ip5! pr?v.We. iteel tor dern aircraft carrier. It was disclosed by Gov. Charles A. Sprague. Te will certainly interpose no objection If the Oregon fa needed to help meet the war emergency of the nation, Sprague said. He declared a war production board survey showed some of the best steel ever forged in the United States went into the old ship. Members of the Battleship Oregon eom- T-"1 uu cusvouj oi tne snip, expressed the hope that al would be converted In one piece into a carrier Instead of being nets. The Oregon Is pictured above on her last cruise. A Kiss tor a 1 " , " J . s" ; ' : ; ; , -1 ' v' 'r . " I - "," ' - -T s : -".'Si t "vif - ' - x : i V- - . : ; - - J I x s , v , v.v...: -s ,- : -r J tt , I "-v ' ' v, j " v (' V -i 1 - V - j v t y ' mm r ..jr. I i C 1 ::: U :- " . t-.r -m Motion Picture Actress Gene Tlerney, In Los Anseles, proudly kisses her husband. Count Oleg Cassinl, just after he became a citizen of the United States, renouncing the title which he said that he inher ited from his parents, of the Russian nability. Cassinl was born In France while his parents were living- there in exile. (Associated Press Telemat) ED ID H in thm COLUMBIA, SC-tfP)-Hopes of a new order for men at Columbia air base were high for a few moments when this official bul letin was posted: "From this date first call will be at 6 a. m., and reville will be at 8:15 p. m." Hopes vanished when the no tice was corrected to read "a. m." throughout.. DETROIT-(P-Mrs. Alice Well ington Wallace, 33-year-old Sag inaw, Mien., school teacher, was sworn in as an officer candidate for the women's -auxiliary army corps and thereby hangs this sit uation: The army prohibits association between officers and men of low er rank. Mrs. Wallace's husband is Pvt. Richard Wallace, Fort Riley, Kas. OMAHA-W Orville Johnson, 20, Council Bluffs, la., chief ba ton twirler for the Union Pacific railroad bend at Omaha, was re jected by the army after his In duction. He holds district, state and re gional honors for his baton twirl ing. And why was he rejected? The army says his wrists aren't flexible. W ASHING TON-MV Even Christmas cards will be under price ceilings this. year. The office of price- administra tion auvLseu ue uxuisirj inai reg ulations would bt issued before fall establishing a method under Enemy Fire ; - .!!UTT'; it f 1 ( New Citizen T H Neu$ which manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers can compute maxi mum prices. WASHINGTON-vD-A man in Albany, NY, tried to deduct $50 from his income tax return as the value of a pint of blood he gave to the Red Cross, the treasury disclosed. The deduction was disallowed. The treasury ruled that a blood donation constituted a gift of uae vices - rainer in an "money or property.". MAPLEWOOD, NJ-P)-Some- one telephoned police headquart era to report an army car had been parked near his house, but "the driver doesn't look like a soldier." Two patrolmen investigated, re ported the driver was a brigadier general on a visit. Stumbo Speaker at Credit Bureau Meet Ray Stumbo, chairman of the Salem selective service' board, was the speaker at the Friday luncheon of the Salem Retail Credit bureau. Many members of other local service clubs were present f Stumbo outlined general prin ciples followed by the board In making selections and answered the questions of employers. New Range Fires Rage Near Baker BAKER, July 24-)-Forest service men and farmers Joined forces Friday to combat two new range fires one near North Pow der, the other between Quartz and Encina. . A blaze which raced over craz ing land in Thief valley Thursday night was reported under control but damage had not been deter mined. .-. - - Moslems Avoid Act BHOPAL, India. -July; 24-OP) Mohammed All Jinnah, president of the All-India- Moslem league, Friday urged- Moslems- to avoid participation in the dvil disobe dience movement as proposed in all-India congress Circles, -. Reds Bomb Prussia MOSCOW. Saturday. Julr 2S-,W The Moscow radio said Saturday soviet planes bombed , the east Prussian city of Koenissburc and started twelve fires on the night oi July Z3-Z4. r X --4 If she most be broken up. her met scattered into miscellaneous prod Legion Head Calls For Total Draft PORTLAND, July 24 -JPy- The United States must maintain pow erful armed forces for policing the post-war world, National Commander Lynn U. Stambaugh told the American Legion's 24th Oregon department convention Friday. He proposed that the future peace be kept by an alliance of nations so militarily strong that "when a person like Hitler sticks up his head we can tell him to pull it in or well knock it off!" The veteran leader from Fargo, ND, told delegates that the war should be the only business for Americans until it is won. He proposed universal service as means of equalizing the burden of the war effort. In an interview, Stambaugh ex plained that the Legion's univer sal service proposal calls ' for drafting manpower, property, la oor ana capital witn labor re ceiving the same pay as those in the armed forces and the sar allotments for dependents. le Legion, he said, does not condemn labor, capital or the war effort, but desires to make the burden uniform and prevent sel fish mmorities from Interfering with the conduct of the "War. Under the plan wages would be controlled, and this necessary, Stambaugh said, to avoid infla tion. Hatch Sees More Taxes PORTLAND, July 24-P)-If you uunic you re paying heavy taxes now, brace yourself because Sen. Carl A. Hatch of New Mex ico said Friday, "I don't think we've even been touched yet in the way of taxes. The author of the Hatch anti politics act, here investigating war. production as a member of the Truman senate committee, said in an interview: "This is a total war and what ever it may cost, we will have to meet that cost. I am in favor of taxation that will bring: us funds so we can pay as we go as much as possible. Non-Members of Group Kept Out PORTLAND, July 14-HP)-The Oregon association- of chiroprac tic physicians- voted Friday- to close the doors-of state and dis tnct meetings to non-member chiropractors. Almost three-fourths of the state's 450 chiropractors are reap ing benefits because the faithful fourth are keeping the association alive and fighting all chiroprac tor battles," said Dr. H. R, Dew ey, membership chairman. Parachutist Scare Strikes at Baker BAKER, Ore, July 24.-V-An- otner parachutist scare gripped an Oregon community Friday, and a sheriffs posse made a fruitless search of the foothills near En cina, IS miles southeast of here. Sheriff Fred V. Spence said two men reported seeing a para chutist last there Thursday; al though they could not sight a plane from which the Jump sup posedly was made. Fire in Cannery jpauiur cannery was the scene of a minor fire Friday night, ac cording to the city fire depart ment. The : trouble resulted from a broken steam pipe in the boiler room. , Fire equipment was sent out at about 8;30 p. m but no water was(necessary to extinguish the fire, -i : Time Bombs Blast LONDON, July 1 24-MVThe Vichy radio reported Friday night that tremendous explosions in' which whole blocks - are being blown up by delayed action bombs are hindering the German occupa tion of the dry of Rostov. Smith, Cannon Out-Swim Gty ntries Leah Smith copped six events. including a sparkling 200 meter free style victory over Save Su ing in a special exhibition race to pace swimmers in the city play ground swimming and diving championships Friday afternoon at Leslie" ' '"' : Allen Cannon, a newcomer te the pool title races this - year, topped the second place comers with five firsts. Results: Beys 12 Under 50 meter free style Michael Glenn, first Time :42.1. 50 meter back stroke Don Moorman, first Time :43.4. " .50 meter breast stroke Don Moorman, first Time :58.4. Girls 12 St Under 50 meter free style Donna Lou Lambert, first Time :43.2. 50 meter back stroke Donna Lou Lambert, first, in :62.2. 50 meter breast stroke Donna Lou Lamber, first in 1:21. Boys 14 Under 50 meter free style Jack Fitz maurice, first Time :35.2. 50 meter back stroke Jack Fitzmaurice, first Time :46.9. 50 meter breast stroke Milton Thompson, first. Time :55.1. Girls 14 and Under 50 meter free style Suzie Small, 1st Time :35.8. ; 50 meter back stroke Suzle Small, 1st Time :46.7. ' 50 meter breast stroke Marian Bauer, 1st Time :63.8. Boys IS and Under 50 meter free style Allen Can non, 1st Time :34.2. 100 meter back stroke Allen Cannon, 1st in 1:44.4. 100 meter breast stroke Allen Cannon, 1st in 1:49.2. Girls 16 and Under 50 meter free style Leah Smith, 1st, In :32.4. 50 meter back stroke Leah Smith, 1st in :54.9. ' 50 meter breast stroke Leah Smith, 1st, in :50.0. Boys Over 16 50 meter free style Allen Can non, 1st Time :32.8. 100 meter free style Dave Suing, 1st. Time 1:24.2. 100 meter breast stroke Dave Suing, 1st. Time 1:55.4. Mixed Over 16 200 meter free style Leah Smith, 1st. Time 3:14.7. Girls Over 16 50 meter free style Leah Smith, 1st Time :32.6. 100 meter free style Leah Smith, 1st in 1:16.4. Diving Boys 12 and under Don Moor man. Boys 14 and under Bert Kep- hart. Boys 16 and under Dave Su ing. Girls 12 and under Donna Lou Lambert Girls 16 and over Loretta Dea con. Tiges Finally Conquer Caps VANCOUVER, July 24-(CP) -Tacoma Tigers finally found the measure of Vancouver Capilanos and nosed out a 5-4 win over the Western International baseball leaeue leaders here Fridav nhrht. I" 1 1. 1 n fri i I perfect night with four for four- three singles and double scoring a run in the second and another in the third. Tacoma 022 010 0005 11 0 Vancouver -100 002 0104 12 1 Johnson and Staggs; Jonas and Sueme. , Animal Hides Use Proposed KLAMATH FALLS, July 24.- (JP-The Klamath County Sports men's association proposed today that. the. state game commission collect hides of game animals killed this fall and sell them to firms making aviation jackets. The association estimated that the state would net $1 per hide on an estimated kill of 40,000 deer, elk. and antelope besides making an important contribution to the war effort Coaches to Taste Navy Toughening SEATTLE, July 24H)-Coach i.Hec Edmundson of Washing ton, Jim P h e 1 a n, now of St Mary's, and Bob Mathews of Port land were . listed - Friday among the civilians who will take a 12 day taste of the . routine - that young naval fliers will get at the west coast "toughening school." They will be enrolled in a course August 3-15 in the" navy school on the St Mary's campus. Chisox 2, A's 1 CHICAGO,r July .S-fgWke Wade bested Dick Fowler Friday night in: a pitching duel and gave the Chicago' White Sox a 2 to 1 victory J, over the Philadelphia Athletics before a crowd of 7492 persons.! Both-White, Sox runs were scored on ' errors by Billy Knickerbocker and Bob Swift Philadelphia 000 000 001-1 7 3 Chicago 1 000 001 10-2 7 1 Fowler and Swift; Wade and Turner. r Meet E By KIRKE L. SIMPSON Wide World War Analyst tor The Statesman Bv KIRKE . Wide World War Analyst for The Statesman : ' Even if Rostov-on-Don is again in German hands, as Berlin announces, Hitler's surging armies still face the sturdiest bar rier they have yet confronted In their sweep down the Donest Don basin toward the Caucasus. There is small reason to doubt , that Rostov, north bank city of the Don, has fallen. London : authorities do not donbt It They share the belief, however, that It was not taken by storm bat was evacuated for a Russian stand behind the water hazards that still guard the Caucasus from the Russian-Turkish border on the Black sea te the 45-mile wide Don-Volga land corridor west of Stalingrad. The city of Rostov, itself, as British spokesmen point out, is of small military value to the enemy. Its capture does not free Bus sia's foes to turn the Rostov cor ner into the Caucasus. They are still 300 miles from the nearest Caucasian oil wells, more than 800 miles from the great pools that underlie the Caspian shore line. And between them and those precious oil sources lies the whole length of the lower Don, the Sea of Azov, Kerch strait and the Black sea like a vast moat The weakest point for the Rus sian defenders of that water front is a narrow span east of the Donets-Don confluence. Ger man claims three days ago to have crossed the Don there on a wide front remain not only un confirmed but have not been re peated. West of the Donets confluence, the Don is of formidable width clear to its Sea of Azov outlet 25 miles below Rostov. The whole drainage of the Don and Donets watershed concentrates there. The river is fringed with marshes that become quagmires with every rain. There are vir tually no bridges spanning the JDon east of Rostov, and few roads that' lead down to either bank of the stream. West of Rostov to the sea, the Don barrier Is even mere forbidding to mass military action or mechanized warfare. Its left or Caucasian bank Is seamed with winding water ways, the multiple mouths of the Den. And beyond that to the narrows of Kerch strait that separates the Crimea from tbe Caucasus lies the width of the sea of Azov. Beyond the Don. also, is Rus sia's army of the Caucasus. It is composed largely of the fighting Cossack tribes, proven warriors defending their homeland. There is little to indicate that Marshal Timoshenko has called heavily upon it up to now, holding it in reserve for a stand along the Don. and to bar the Kerch strait route. The decisive battle for the Caucasus is only now berinnin. and beginning with all the na tional advantages in Russia's favor. Frisco, Seattle Men Emerge in Net Semis SEATTLE. Julv 24-UPWTW ban Francisco and two Seattle players emerged Fridav into th men's semi-finals of the Washing- ion state amateur tennis tourna ment with Defending Chamninn Nick Carter having the toughest battle of the four. Carter, of San Francisco. mA. ed No. 1, defeated Ken McCar thy of Fresno, 6-2. 8-8. His semi. final opponent will be vouthful Jim Brink of Seattle, who elim inated Don Lewis, Portland, 8-1, 6-0. Brink became the tourna ment's first champion by taking ine junior uue Friday. . Harry Roche defeated Jim TJw ingstone in an all-San Francisco match, and will meet Ken rw Seattle's unseeded . aurarW nt tk. xourney. Brink won the Junior titl f defeating Henry Pflster of rw land, 7-5, 6-2, 6-2. - Stork Visits Yanks Twice This Week NEW - YORK.' July 24.-hNP-A eight pound, six ounce son was bora to Mrs. Joe Gordon, wife of thjs . New York Yankee- second baseman, Friday. He Is their sec ond child. -. - - 1 : -;r---- Mrs. Buddy Rosar. .wif of Yankee catcher, gave birth to a son Monday. ., B2UICE KcLzer J EVERY SATURDAY Rowland's Band t Miles North on River Road L. SIMPSON Jap Landing Force Bombed (Continued From Page 1) Japanese convoy last Monday, one of them being Second Lieut Robert M. Debord of 1 Paso, Tex. Sgt R. H. Olson of Minneapolis, a bombardier, was with Debord. "We picked up the convoy on Monday, then sighted it again the next day, Debord said. "When we got bosnbed op' early Wednesday we made a run ever the target ares and scored near misses. A second ran and . we saw two bombs hit a ship. Three others fell close by. The second bomb most have hit am munition because there was a tremendous explosion. Debord and his crew said that when they left the stricken trans port was listing heavily and smoke pouring from her decks. Nevertheless the Japanese were ucucvcu iwvc put KVCIU UMJU sana men ashore at the new points. RAF. Cap Goes Into Souvenirs; Return Sought - An "international Incident" oc curring in Salem this Week may have serious results for one of the United States Individual "allies- if It isn't corrected. J. H. Eckman, a sergeant in the RAF though an American by birth, was in this city on his way from Manitoba to California to visit relatives. In a Salem res taurant he hung up his cap. Some one took it for a souvenir. That's serious, because here in the United States he cannot get another and before he gets back to bis unit he may run into dis ciplinary action. If the person who took that cap will turn it in at the Salem YMCA, it will be returned to its owner and no questions asked. Fewer Nursery Tags Required OreffOn TlllfaM inw V - wvjm eMUllUJg . stock Into the state of Virginia will no longer be required to use the old TMMrmit tn K..I " w uia liuw ship solely on the Oregon certi ficate, the state department of agriculture announces, followinc word that Virginia has modified its crop pest laws. Virginia has alio provided for reciprocal agreement whereby Oregon nurserv ctvV , t. u - 'J w JUIU l ,Ut WIthout P Of , a Virginia registration fee. 1 I V.. AM vi wougn accompanied by a valid inspection certificate, stock found to t-i . upon arrival m Virginia may be seized and returned to point of a1. a. am . . "ism ai m owners expense. Sought on Charge Of Selling Tires PORTLAMfl T..1- A ym Morris- E. Barhan, Westport, was uu7 on a reaeral charge of seDina tires and H 4 onj who had no ration certffl- UW9, Th COtBDlllnt -k. r4 nt US Attorney Mason Dillard, charged .that Barhan, a general awe proprietor, reported the theft of 281 tfr-M in June 14 whereas he actually sold . 111 M ' W1B wiwoui autnorization of the tire rationing board at Astoria. ii - Heroakel Conard Wins Longacres SEATTLE. inW 5iaM-: year-Old Heroakel Cnnrarl by Hadden and Barton, uma from behind far th ctrt.K vu.. night to win the featured mile race at 'Lmnpm lr t-r tin. Gus Dye rode a good race on the wmner Dut yielded top honors of uie uay to jynn Josephson, who booted home three winners. Always A Good Time When Yoa L at ' 1 . Hazel Grcca ; Ererr Saturday Night 1 y Adra. 53c Couple ' mum