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P AGS TWO
US Vengeful
Of Torture !
By Japanese
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. ends. Hull, who rarely authorizes
1 ' direct quotations at his press con
ferences, deviated from his prac
cftice to castigate the Japanese.. Said
I.. Hull: i
"According to: the reports ef
be necessary to assemble to
gether all the demens available
. frem anywhere aad combine the
fiendlshstes which all ef them
embodied te order to describe
" the eesdwt of those who Infllet-
' ed these anthlnkable tortares on
- Americans and Filipinos as re
. ports elte." .-. , i 1 i
- Hull also said that this govern
ment has collaborated with Brl-
"tain on the subject of war pris
'oner treatment Foreign Secretary
' 'Anthony Eden told commons in
'' London today that thousands of
'British troops have died as pris
oners of the Japanese after being
compelled to live under incredible
conditions without adequate shel
ter, clothing, food "or medical at
tention. Britain, like the US, will
'-not forget, Eden -vowed.
. The details of.i the "march of
death from Bataan and the other
subhuman acts there and at Cor
; regidor,-documented by three of
ficers who escaped, showed Japa-
nese perfidy in all its , hideous
light, :
t For the Tokyo government
gave assurance two years ago
through the Swiss government
; that it followed the international
laws on treatment of prisoners
and civilian internees.
A week after "they made the
pledge, however,! Gen. Douglas
MacArthur accused the Japanese
of mistreating the prisoners on
the Philippines and cited cases,
Including a Filipino hero wan
tonly bayoneted. ji
, The execution of the Tokyo
: air raiders, disclosed ; several
', months ago, moved Secretary. Hull
at that time to sajr that such "de
pravity" would pe remembered
. and the officers "responsible had
Just about signed their own death
warrants.
There was at least one demand
Joday for immediate punitive ac-
tion on the Pacific war front. Said
Chairman Mayj(D-NY) of the
; house military committee:
"We ought to quit fooling
! around with islands and outposts
. and steam straight into Tokyo
and blow it into Hades."
Other members of congress
were more inclined to avoid such
; references to war strategy, how
ever. In equally shocked- tones,
they commented:
Sen. Thomas (D-Utah) The
. Japanese army stooped to depths
It never has known before..
Rep. Engle (D-Calif) The Jap
anese . are "nothing but a savage,
uncivilized people and not sun
burned Yankees.;! I am glad the
army and navy have finally seen
fit to let the American people
. know what typer- of enemy they
; are fighting so we can get down
to business and get this thing over
with."
Sen. Clark (D-Mo "Hang the
Mikado" and "bomb Japan out of
: existence." ;
Sen. Hill (D-Ala) "Gut the
.. heart" of Japan with fire."
- Sen. Hatch (D-NM) Japan
has forfeited "any right : to any
association with he civilized na-
tfons of the world" and should
f be isolated forever unless she in
l stantly abandons' such barbarity.
Sen. Murdock (D-Utah) "To
f Tojo, to Hirohito, I want to say:
; some day a morning will come
when the sun will not rise on Ja-
Pan ' 1
T Sen. Chavez (D-NM) "Even at
.;, this late date our military strate
gists can r should get busy in
. the Pacific." i
To Have Operation
WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 -&)-Rep.
Lowell Stockman (R, Ore)
said today he would enter a naval
hospital February 1 for a nasal
l- operation and would return to his
i office around mid-February. He
described the operation as not se
rioua. ..
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main to be threshed out, in ad
dition to! five miscellaneous
amendments, including a propos
ed : tax : on pari-mutual betting.
Chairman George (D-Ga), of the
senate group said he hoped to
complete the bill tomorrow.
As it bow stands, experts
from the Joint taxation commit
tee staff estimate the measure
will bring la $2,315400.000 ad
ditional money, for a total gov
ernment income of more than
$4300.000,000 a year. The bill
carried $2,139,300,000 when it
passed the house. $275,600,000
when it passed the senate.
Women got a small break to
day. The conferees reversed an
action- of yesterday and decided
to make the tax on cosmetics and
toilet preparations 20 per cent in
stead of 25. The present rate is 10
per cent.
The tax on electric light bulbs,
now 5 per cent, will rise to 20.
The house voted 25 per cent, the
senate 15, and the conferees split
the difference.
They accepted a senate amend
ment to the 20 per cent jewelry
tax,! the effect of which is. to re
tain the current 10 per cent rate
on watches retailing for not more
than $65 and alarm clocks sold for
$5 or less. Other types of Jewelry,
however,: will carry the 20 per
cent rate.
The conferees voted to repeal
a "windfall" provision of the pay-as-you-go
tax law which had been
intended to recapture some of the
sudden income increases attribut
ed to the war.
This provision, hotly debated at
the ' time pay-as-you-go was en
acted, laid a special tax on the ex
cess over a "normal" year's in
come, plus $20,000, and in picking
normal years the taxpayer had
his choice of 1938, 1939, or 1940.
Senators on the joint senate-house
committee adjusting the new tax
bill contended the provision caus
ed many inequities, in addition to
the complicating tax returns.
Rotary Chief
Sees Changed
America
PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 28-(P)
The president of Rotary Interna
tional predicted today that post
war America, affected by modi
fied communism in Russian-dominated
areas, will no longer be
"democracy as we have known it
in the past."
! Charles L. Wheeler warned the
West Coast Lumbermen's associa
tion here not to expect as great
profits as they have received be
fore. "We will have two main types
of government in the postwar
world" the San Francisco man
said, "a modified communism, and
our American way of life a
modified democracy." Both, he
added, will be affected by each
other.
J. Philip Boyd, director of the
war production board lumber di
vision, warned retailers that only
a trickle of lumber can be "spared
from the increasing demand for
wood which will follow. the pro
gress of; invading American
troops.
He urged lumbermen to fill a
goal of 34.500,000.000 board feet
this year. "We must meet our re
quirements by production," he
said, asserting that lumber inven
tories are nearing the danger
mark.
Dean Johnson, Toledo and
Portland lumberman, was elected
president of the association.
George T. Gerlinger, Portland,
was named vice president for
Oregon, and C. H. Krieienbaum,
Shelton, vice president for Wash
ington. Trustees elected for five new
districts were E. A. Middleton,
Aberdeen, Wash.; E. C Dwyer,
Portland: Fred W. Powers. Leban
on, Ore.; Frank Graham, Jasper,
Ore.; and A. A. Tausman, Med
ford. Ore. 'j : "
Orville R. Miller, retirin Pres
ident, urged lumbermen to draft
immediate plans for converting
from what he termed "costly and
Inefficient . wartime production
to peacetime industry. ..
He warned operators to study
proposed "sustained yield" lecis-
lation to make sure it would not
close the lumber Industry to all
except giant-scale operators With
sufficient lands to have constant
new timber growth.
food
3 CHOPS
British Fleet ;
Bombs Berlin;
Calais Blasted
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German fighters while six aircraft
of the attacking force, of which
two were Canadian, failed to re
turn. ' ::! nit
The - joint British-American
communique said that the nazis
put up weak opposition to the
Liberators ; and Thunderbolts.
The Canadians made their, bag
of four planes in a Lightning four
minute encounter over the old ca
thedral city of Chartres, 45 miles
southwest of Paris. ! j - I
Germany's main radio system
the Deutschlandsender went : off
the air. at dusk. Indicating the
RAF might be back over the con
tinent for the second night in suc
cession. The nazi ; station came
back on in mid-evening. ' ; , '
Thirty -four British; aircraft
were.mssiog from1 the attacks on
Berlin, Helgoland, and other tar
gets ! in - western Germany and
northern France and from : mine
laying operations. i . . j
The Americana described
their trip as a "milk ran" with
no fighters and little defense
fire encountered. The most ex
cltinf Incident was the! loos by
one liberator crew of its rap
ply i of candy bars whipped
out an open bomb bay door by
a freexmg wind. -The
US announcement said on
ly that a f "military objective In
northern France" was attacked,
but the Paris radio reported the
Somme department; adjacent to
the much4pounded mystery , de
fenses of the Pas-de-Calais area,
bore the grunt of the assault I
Russians Cut
Railway Line
At Lake lime
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The line was lost to the Rus
sians in the early days of the
German invasion two and a half
years j ago,', and its return should
prove to be of great strategic
value to" the' red army along; the
entire northerns front Stalin's ref
erence to it as "the October rail
way line" f a patriotic reminder
of the soviet revolution! indi
cates ft importance to Russia.
It was laid .along the; bee-line
route connecting the former crar
ist and the present soviet capitals,
planned in 1851 when Ctar NIch
olas ruled - a line on a map be
tween the two cities and said:
"Build it here." His engineers did.
The LeningradtVitebsk railway
was cut in at least two places be
tween the junctions of Batetskaya
and Dno, said the daily Moscow
communique, recorded by the so
viet monitor. This left the Germans
the L e n i n g r a d-Pskov-Warsaw
railway as their only rail retreat
route front the north. v
The Russians captured 84 towns
on the three sectors of their north
ern offensive today, the soviet
bulletin said, i
Announcement of the - virtual
clearing of. the: Moscow-Leningrad
railway Indicated that the Ger
mans had held even a smaller
stretch of the line than! had ap
peared from recent soviet com
muniques, f
Wallace to Be !
Gue8t?in Portland!
PORTLAND,. Jan. 2&-VPy-Wee-president
Henry Wallace will be
honor guest at a public reception
in the Multnomah hotel from? 3
to S pjn. February 8, Dr. M. A.
Mime, president of the Oregon
Jackson club, announced tonight
The vice-president and Oscar
R- Ewing, vice-chairman of the
democratic national committee,
are scheduled to speak at the an
nual Jackson club dinner that eve
ning. I ,i - ! , f -A'
Irish Are Hazy j
PORTLAND,; Jan. 28 -(V The
Irish are rather hazy on United
States geography, Mayor Earl Ri
ley said today. . : , s .
'' He told the Lions club that dur
ing his recent good will tour of
the British Isles he was introduc
ed in Ireland ! as "the mayor of
Oregon in California, on the Pa
cific coast of North America." 1 :
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OH the HOME FRONT,
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. If they ever can. take another
noon ' hour . off from their office,
members of the staff of the Marion
county public . welfare organiza
tion are likely to be asked to re
peat the presentation they made
Friday noon before some 50 per
sons at the regular luncheon of
the Marion county social workers'
association. 'I
Six days of the week they in
terview the needy (and because
there are still old persons, ill per
sons, deserted mothers and handi
capped children In the world there
would still be the "needy" if
money flowed down the gutters)
and, I assume . the i seventh day
they dream of the needs and the
forms they rnust somehow fill. . ;
But along with all of this they
remember the funny things: that
happen. - I
The only reason. I can imagine
why they might not want to do
the now-prepared panel - discus
sion over again Is the fact that
once the real work of the welfare
office is generally understood not
half so many odd occurrences
could be anticipated.
Increase Due
SEATTLE, J a n . 28 The
west coast Is going to get a chance
to chop 5000 barrels from its daily
gasoline; consumption without a
ban on pleasure, driving if ridef
sharing ; is stepped ; up, George
Schwart' Welder, office of . price
administration mileage rationing
officer from Washington, DC, said
today. ;- ' i . I
. Meeting here with ration board
and transportation committee rep
resentatives, Schwartrwelder j said
further curtailment of Issuance of
B and C ration books also will
be undertaken as a conservative
step. ; : - : ; ,: .
"There Is no imminent plan for
reducing ration values," he said.
"Through ride-sharing we believe
we can take enough cars off the
road in the 5 western states cov
ered by the OPA regional, office
in San Francisco to save 5000 bar
rels a day and cut down the ra
tions issued to the reduced supply
now available." '
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Women Welders!
TestQiampionship
PASOAGOULA, Miss., JanI 28-(P)-The
women's ' welding cham
pionship of the world goes on the
block tomorrow, with a California
housewife as the challenger and a
former Mississippi cafe waitress
defending; the crown. -j j
They will meet in the mammoth
Gulf Coast yard of the Ingalls
Shipbuilding corporation, - where
champion Vera Anderson, 20, won
her title a year ago. The chal
lenger is Mrs. Edna Slocum, who
came east after 'beating 10,000
women welders on the Pacific
coast where she works for the
Moore Dry Dock company at Oakt
land, Calif.
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Juliana Predicts
Fine" Era of History
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 28-PT
Princess; Juliana of the Nether
lands predicted today "there will
be a very fine era of history after
this war," and she added "other--wise,
it 1 wouldn't be worthwhile
to fight it" ' - ;:t'00 -' '
Arriving for a five-day visit to
the San Francisco bay area,' she
told a press conference it would
be "hundreds of years" .before the
people of Holland can cease to
hate the Germans. - i
Eagles to Help Vets
PORTLAND, Jan. 28-Py-Rob
ert ' W. Hansen, . grand worthy
president -of . the Fraternal Order
of Eagles, told members here to
night the lodge will help the 104,
000 Eagles in the armed services
to get -jobs and. readjust--tbem
selves to civilian life after the war.
He win visit The Dalles tomor
row and; Salem Monday. , 4 .;
Too Late to daasify
LOST; Brown billfold with personal
papers St money. Take the money St
return thm papers to BUca HoieL
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AHies Smash
Nazis in Air, -At
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"tiger" tanks, in preparation for a
determined assault against - the
confident superbly equipped
landing troops.
American and British fighter
pilots had a field day in breaking
up the enemy's first really big
aerial onslaught against the allied
invasion fleet The Germans hurl
ed 100 fighters and fighter-bombers
Into -an attempt to halt the
flow of reinforcements and sup
plies onto the beaches, and in the
many terrific sky " tangles that
took place some; blazing nazi
planes ' fell at the very outskirts
of Rome.
So fierce was the allied resist
ance . that many German planes
jettisoned their bombs and fled.
Of the' 28 enemy craft shot down,
eight fell to the guns of a negro
P-40 Warhawk fighter squadron.
Another 22 German planes were
shot down by - American Flying
Fortresses and Liberators and
their escorting: fighters in big and
successful bombings of three nazi
airfields in . the - Marseille and
Montpellier regions of southern
France, bringing to 50 the number
of enemy craft destroyed during
the day. Seven allied planes were
missing, and the pilots of three
were, saved.
In some respects, this' was the
outstanding allied i aerial - victory
of the entire Mediterranean cam
paign.; A. greater number of en
emy planes were destroyed on a
single day during; the Tunisian
fighting. f s
But many of those were un
armed . transports, j while all 50
shot down yesterday were combat
ships.' - 4 :
'Hog' Motorists
Cause Accidents
The attempt on the part of mo
tor vehicle drivers to "hog" the
right of way at intersections ap
parently; is responsible for a
large number of traffic accidents,
Robert S. Fan-ell, jr, secretary of
state, reported here Saturday. ;
In 78 per cent of the accidents
involving angle . collisions, at in
tersections during 1943, the car
on the right struck the ear on the
left Farrell said. ;
Farrell warned j drivers that
they forfeit their' right of way
privileges in the event they ap
proach an Intersection at an un
lawful rate of speed.
Harman Files,
Representative
. Dan Harman, Newberg automo
bile dealer, Friday filed in the
state department here for the re
publican nomination for repre
sentative in congress from the
first congressional ; district at the
primary election, f -
This office . is i now held by
James W. Mott republican, of Sa
lem. ' ' . !
Harman's slogan!
, "Our postwar congress must be
composed of more honest capable
businessmen." . ! - ;
It's Major Stewart
Now, Movie Fans
A US LIBERATOR BOMB
ER BASE. England, Jan. 28-(JP)-lt'
Mai. Jimmy Stewart
new. The t former film star,
leader ef a Liberator b ember
squadron. Is exchanging the
bars ef a captain fer the golden
oak leaves.
The pre motion came throagh
the day after friend. tooted
him aa having tamed down a
majority "antil my Jaaier of fl
eers . get promoted - from Ilea
tenant" Apparently his saperlors had
arred acceptance. -
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Who Doesn't Like
The Product?
SAN DIEGO, Calif J Jan. 28
: CAVFredneers of the Balls 'ef
Moatesnma, marine corps base
radio program, know they have
a listener in Brooklyn. NY, bat -they
doobt he pays close atten
tion to the weekly broadcast
The - program publicises the
' marine corps. One Brooklyn
resident wrote:
"I have nsed the p redact ad
. vertised on year program for
many years and have been high
ly satisfied with the results.
Keep p the.
Bridges Seeks
Force FDR's
Intentions
F (Continued from' Page 1) F
the name of his candidate, or
could simply designate the party
for which he is voting.
Republicans argue that this
pattern would give a break to the
democrats should President Roos
evelt seek re-election because he
has so long been associated in the
public mind with the presidency.
r ' Bridges suggestion; for an ear
lier date for the democratic con
vention resulted frora the conten
tion by some administration sen
ators that j names of candidates
cannot be printed on the- overseas
ballots ; because f the democratic
ticket won't be picked In time.
The republican Convention -will be
held June 26. The demoratic date
hasn't "been finally fixed but it is
planned for mid-July or late
Juir. r - - .1- ' '
Sen . ' Vandenbersj (R-Mlch),
stepped away from republican op
ponents of the war ballot bill to
day, announcing he will support
the measure to assure military
voting; to the November election.
He will put in an amendment too,
however. In an effort to give state
ballots equal standing 'with the
federal 1 ballots in mailing prior
ities to and from the armed forces.
Both amendments probably will
bring renewed debate to the con
troversial measure. - Its adminis
tration Jackers already have an
nounced they will resist by Sens.
Green: (D-RI), and Lucas (D-Ill),
after a coalition " of republicans
and southern democrats beat the
first attempt at a uniform absen
tee voting law for the armed forc
es more than a month ago.
FDR in Good Shape
Despite Heavy Year,
Mclntire Reveals
WASHINGTON, Jan. , 28 -(-The
physician who makes a daily
check on President Roosevelt's
physical condition said . tonight
that the chief executive was "ba
sically in fine shape for a man of
62 surprisingly good shape." , ,
Rear Admiral Ross T. Mclntyre,
Mr. Roosevelt's personal r physi
cian, said he felt that the presi
dent was "all right" from the
health standpoint ignoring the at
tack of influenza from which, he
is just recovering. j
Mclntire remarked that Mr.
Roosevelt who will be 62 Sunday,
wait through his recent trip to
Cairo and Teheran! "in grand
style," ' although it was "a tough
physical proposition."
80 Per Cent Meat
To Go to Service
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 28-flJ)
The regional office of distribution
of ' the . war food administration
announced today t ha t effective
January SO meat packers operat
ing under federal inspection will
be required to set aside 80 per
cent of all canner ' and cutter
grades for the armed forces.
B. F. Maben, western regional
OD ' director, predicted reduced
quantities of beef for civilian con
sumers unless slaughter operations
are increased proportionately.
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Britain Riled
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At the Arizona centers guards
were tightened and evacuees for
bidden to leave their projects.
Leroy- Bennett director of the
Rivers center, said Japanese coun
cils had been called into session
to pass resolutions condemning
the acts, and commented that "we
have 200 men 'out in the Pacific;
if they fall Into - Japanese hands
the will be treated worse than
Americans." - - - -' .' . ;
' Charles Hancock . Forster of
Oakland, Calif., who was . in
charge of Red Cross activities In
the Philippines and returned re
cently on the . exchange : ship
Gripsholm, said' one report he re
ceived indicated bodies of, Amer
icans, 50 at a time, "were thrown
into trucks iand buried in com
mon burial pits."
He added; a raj of hope, how
ever, with the comment that re
cent reports indicated that "men
who survived the horor of 1942
were getting along fairly welt"
' By ROGER GREENE ,
"LONDON,; Jan. 28 -(P- Thou
sands of Britons" have- died In
prison camps in Asia, the victims.
of "unspeakable savagery" in
flicted by their Japanese captors.
And repeated - British representa
tions have brought only "evasive,
cynical or Otherwise unsatisfact
ory replies from Tokyo. Foreign
Secretary Anthony Eden gravely
told the house of commons today.
Eden, citing only a few of many
authenticated cases of torture,
drew a grim picture "of the bar
barous nature ' of our Japanese
enemies." A I shocked house heard
that - allied f soldiers with their
hands tied jwere 1 "systematically
bayoneted from behind,", and how
a British officer captured in Bur
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ma" was cluLLd across the face
with a sword and then tied to a
stake with a strangling rope noose
around his neck. ,
The Japanese "have violated
not only the principles of interna
tional law but all canons of de
cent civilized conduct" Eden said.
"The British government repeat
edly has made the strongest possi
ble representations to the Japa
nese . government through' the
"Such replies as have been re
ceived have been evasive, cynical
or otherwise unsatisfactory. .
' "Let the Japanese government
reflect in the timer to- come "that
the record of their military au
thorities in this war will, not be
forgotten." . - t i
US-Spanish
Policy Due
To Be Changed
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nancial arrangement between the
Spanish government and Germany
designed to make available: to
Germany substantial peseta cre
dits which Germany unquestion
ably expects to apply to -augmenting
espionage and sabotage
in Spanish territory and to! inten
sify opposition to the allies in the
Iberian peninsula.' ;
MADRID, Jan. 28-(;P)-Author-lzed
Spanish sources said today
the planned suspension by the
United States of oil : shipments
from the Caribbean area to Spain
during the month of February had
"no political " significance", and
was concerned rather with "ne
gotiations of a; purely commercial
character." ;
News of the embargo was - not
published In Spain. - . i
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