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Th OESGOIt STATESMAN. Salem, Oregon, Sunday Morning. July I. 1945
'No Favor Sitays Us; No Fear Shall Awt
From Firsf Statesman, March 23, 1831
THE STATESMAN PUBLISHINQ COMPANY
! i CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, ..Editor and Publisher
Membelof th Associated Press
The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all ;
news dispatches credited to i or not otherwise credited in this newspaper.
be -a
WnrH
the
Few Unknown Dead f
One major reason why there will
ninSmtim nnivtKAr r$ itnlrriAurn tftoasi in
War II is the identification division of
FBI in Washington. - The division this year
completes 21 years of service, during fwhich
time the file of .fingerprints has grown to
07,200,000 cards. All these are drawn into
4ise to aid In service and civilian identification.
There have been many , arguments pro and
con regarding the federal Bureau of Inv$tiga
tion and its methods. That it serves svital
purpose is unquestioned. That it might! have
served even more! had it been allowed free
rein to combat the "underground" in Hawaii
with wire tapping : and other means 'prior to
Tearl Harbor also is claimed. j
.Its fingerprint division Is the largest of its
kind in the world Through it, nearly (15,000
fugitives are located each year, and I many
amnesia victims are identified. Past criminal
records of persons seeking responsible jobs
also are" discovered through its use.
Working in the national field and in coopera
tion with local enforcement agencies the FBI
fills an indispenable place in the police system
; or the country.
Life Isn't Cheap j
There is cheer, hope,
just cause for pride,
in the skill and courage which found their
fruition in the saving of
survivors in the jungles
So great an effort in
may seem anomalous, in some ways, to these
days when thousands
the three pline-crash
of New Guinea. , V
the saving of so few
are being killed or
Final Drive in Minlitv Seventh
. 1 C7 ft
Today we swing into July and the closing
days of the Mighty Seventh War Loan.While
the county has subscribed its total of corpora
tiorr and" Individual bonds it still lags by half
a . million dollars on its E bond quota. The
war finance committee is exerting every effort
maimed. But in this spirit of mercy lies the
secret of strength.
The winning of the rar, with I all its cost,
could not be -worth while if in winning we
lost sight of the value of human lives. It's
a long way, in thought as well ? as distance,'
from the lime-eaten, bodies.' of. Nazi murder
camps to the daring rescue in New Guinea..
Death in inevitable in war. Life at times
seems cheap.1 But is should not' be thrown
away. And we- see many, many signs of the
continuing recognition j of that fact on the
part of the nation for jwhich our men fight.
It is no secret that oui ships have dared to
halt and help, in the most submarine-infested
waters of the Pacific, when "man overboard"
is sounded. Destroyers follow aircraft carriers Goocl-Bye to Ul That
just so they can pick up survivor of the in- ' ;
evitable crashes incident to the takeoffs and
landings of the flat-top crews. 1 1 f
. It is that way because Americans would have
it no other way. " I ' i is, .
Men must die for their country; they also
must be kept alive for it. I i' v
Tho Literary
Guidcpost
By W. G. Sogers
LEFT TUN. CANADA." y tt. J.
' CtMwiD DaeU, Slaaa at Fearca:
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Nevo Behind the News
: . i . ," ' .: By PAUL MALLON , 'A I V ' . y . '
(Distribution by King Features Syndicate, Inc. Reproduction in whole
I or in part strictly prohibited.)
Bound in blue, with red i and
Our evening contemporary scolds over the
use of an army transport plane for a jpyride
to sell the remaining block of bonds ly the for army personnel stationed in New' Guinea, white Jackets stamped with, the
ef)U 01 inr Dig veicuraiiuu uii rfiujr una iiibi winvir iusi iuc itves wum uw , t'loui
is the day Americans traditionally make the . crashed against a mountain. Perhaps if the
eagle scream. This year they have a chance 'critic had spent month in the fetid heat of
to make the eagle on their dollars scream as. New Guinea he would. be less critical of those
the'y hand them over in exchange ,for E bonds, who sought some reliei from the heai and
There is no hesitancy in urging the purchase routines of army life byja flight over the high
of E bonds because bank reports show! that and cool mountains of that great island. That
savings accounts are bilging with money learn
ing only about one per cent. Banks urge cus
tomers to convert substantial portions of, their
savings into E bonds. . ' I
Don't wait for a solicitor; don't wait to be .
bribed with side attractions. Step up tomorrow
or Tuesday and invest as heavily as your ifunds
permit in E bonds of the USA. 1
Unique display of frankness: The Pennsyl
vania railroad's dining car menu reads: tMeat
entree, if available; poultry entree, if avail
able.'-'
the flight ended in tragedy does not ; give
ground to condemn it i warranted recreation,
assuming that the trip : had the necessary of
ficial sanction. The wreck was a tragedy; the
rescue otthe three survivors a thrilling episode
of the war. The experience should teach cau
tion, but we hope it does not condemn those
stationed in places with abominable climate
from some taste of variation and wholesome
change. . . ; '-! t .
1 j Three hundred and fifty-eight new laws now
J are effective in Oregon, we're told. If you can
name just the eight, you're at the head of the
- i class. !. - . I '
The Aussies are doing a good job of cleaning
up the J aps on Borneo. Just - give them 1 time
and some equipment and
Asiatic islands of the Nips.
they will rid the
No one has questioned the intrinsic ability
of the personnel in charge of Salem's outdoor
swimming pools, but it j appears that a ; more
strict surveillance is mandatory if serious in
jury is to be averted. Too many reports pf
roughness, discourtesy and minor j injuries . al
. ready have been received. Unless older children
can be kept somewhat in line, it may be es
sential to set special hours by ages. The danger
of tragedy should be cut to a minimum.
Interpreting
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Plenty of news pictures of returning generals
lrl atfln a 4KSr urivoa Tnn Yin A ikaw zion't iVinua
privacy in these intimate greetings. Maybe the TflA
to live in the background for a long time. ,
By KIRKE Li SIMPSON
AMoclated rrm War Analyst
Nevo
Poultry breeders are ' going to . compete in
developing a strain of broad -breasted chickens.
If successful they then might try putting pore
meat on a White Leghorn drumstick. I
Editorial Comment
1C90 YEAKS OF IT
A Belgrade dispatch -reports Increasing tension
between Yugoslavia and Greece over Macedonia.
- That bit of territory, which could be comfortably
' lost in California; has been the cause of plenty
ot tension. Nothing the modem propaganda! mills
: can pour forth has anything, in heat or eloquence
n the Philippics Demosthenes delivered nearly
1200 years ago in Athens. J
! Philip of Macedon was finding his opportunity
1 tn the clash between the Persian and Greek phi
' loaophies of Oriental empire' and the city tate.
i Phillip's first move was absorption of the Greek
; city-states, by '. ceoquest and propaganda. Accord
ing to the warnings of Demosthenes, Philipl em
I ployed the tactic of infiltratien. We recogniiej that
4 now as Hitler ten. Maybe that is where Hitler got
. the idea. " We know-Philip didn't get it "from
. Hitter.-' ' j ' .. '
. Philip's son Alexander on the glory road to
u eighs .because he had ne more worlds to conquer
invented, the encircling . attack on the enemy's
First American fleet penetration of the sea of
Okhotsk, Japan's far northeastern water frontier,
has stirred apprehension in Tokyo that the In
vasion of the home Islands when it comes will be
from the north as well as! the south.
Other things being equal, that is sound strategy
as a diversionary measure if nothing else, fit!
also is true that prevailing fogs in north Pacifie '
latitudes would provide : good cover for an am- f
phibious approach to desirable sites in the Kurile
for advance air bases in (the north to match Oki-j
nawa's busy air strips in pie southwest. f j
For the present, however, operations in the
Oksotsk sea look more like - the completion of
another segment of the blockade ring being tightly
woven around the Japanese home islands by air
and sea than an Invasion! preliminary, it matches
up with American search plane forays into the
sea of Japan itself whittling at-enemy shop com
munications with the Korean peninsula.,
t Actually none of the .seas- that wash Japanese
shores north, south, east or west is now forbidden
ground to American navaj or air foreea. Even the
Yellow sea that lies between Korea and" the
Chinese mainland .north of the east China at
. is subject to American ; penetration at will but
it is of relatively small value. to Japan in main
taining contact between the home Islands and
armies in northern' China. There is little doubt
symbolic maple leaf, these; two
volumes look as much alike as
Ike and Mike, but they're about
as different Inside as black and
- .white.- - j i ' ' H .
Mrs. Peat, wearing rosercplor
ed jspectacles, traveled through
Canada and she's all for it
Though she writes carelessly, she
Is chatty land Informative : and
above all enthusiastic. She sees
.trouble spots, for instance, in an
un wieldly form of federation, in
religion, in political matters and
in labor questions, but she's con
fident they'll be solved. Canada,
she, declares happily, "is at a be
ginning f , -1 -. ;
Coldwel writes without bene
fit of spectacles. "It is impossible r
not, to view with grave misgiv
ing the future of Canada"!, as
serts this leader of our northern
. neighbor's Cooperative Common-:
wealth "Federation, the political
party which has been growing
rapidly despite severe attacks
. from left and right. j ! !i
Coldwell, one of Canada's rep
sentatives at San Francisco, de
scribes the beginning of CCF in j
the early years of ;the depres
sion, (Lscusses the conditions' out
of which it grew and defines its
program. It's a kind of New Deal
plus; it is precisely what It claims
to be, both democratic and so
cialist; it aims frankly to replace;
the capitalist system. ! li
Both writers note Canada's ex-'
traordinary war contribution;
both appreciate the fact that the
U. S. could help but might ham
per; Canada's development, i '
raaJ iltallee
TKACTICAL MABKSM ANSHIPl
Tii TCCHMiqea or noD rnu
WO," r Cae. -f . kfl. ruiana, ir,
Uv S. Marts cr Btaerve, satre
eacttoe ay MaJ. Geo. XmUaa C
Snuth, V. S. Marine Cerpt (Mar.
, fw;' fSJS). j. . . :.
A manual about shoulder
weapons, for sportsmen and sol-
, ' ... I ..- ;!
"CINCSONA TS AVA: Til 8TOBT
or QUININE- ay Naranut Tayler
.Caretakers; $tM). - v ,
i This Is the story of malaria. . . I
"no disease has killed so many L
says the author . .f. and anti
malarial quinine; illustrated with
drawings, and photographs, j
DES MAmES-Vey-VrvL Allen:
Csaf ton of the University of
Kansas described his home state
at an .-ad club aaeeting today. He I
aeld: I give you Kansas,-The .. .. . v . .. .. - - ; . '
-state where there are more-riv-' where you can look farther and
ersfnd less water,; moreHUy tee. less i than any .place in the
voting and leas dry living . . . world except Texas." ' i S
WASHINGTON, June SO.
Two senators were talking over
the San! Francisco peace j form
ula., j " V . . f !
One wondered what steps the
i d m 1 n i i-
tration would
take to sell it
to the people,
observing that
if Mr. Roose- .
velt were alive
there would no
doubt be a
great pressure
p r opaganda
drivel organ
ized to herald
t h e : document r
as the greatest advancement, of
man since the ten command--mens
-J -and perhaps even
greater, j . f j
The second senator correctly
concluded that Messrs. Truman
and Stettmiust are modestly put- -ting
forward' their program,
laying no great claims for it,
and allowing fl to speak for it-,
selL' ! ' i
' Indeed, the inner congression
al sentiment seems generally- to
run to the theory that i while
this formula certainly does not
guaranteed either peace or se
curity, no alternative improve
ment is possible now. Thus, the
' majority opinion concludes the
document might as well be rat- .
ified to seevwhat Mr. Stettinius
and the other world organiza
tion leaders can work out of it.
The San Francisco conference
did not; materially, alter the
Dumbarton Oaks scheme. ' Its
main work was the building up
of the economic and social' coun
cil and adoption of the trustee- -ship
system. Basically the peace-
keeping i project was left with
out change,, to wit ,
The security council.) backed
by the chiefs ot staff of the five
big United Nations, will not
have an international police
force. , To stop , an" aggressor, it
will -order nations, te take mil
' Itary measunas.. . i " : .
The council itself may take
economic stepsjto isolate an of-
fender, but' the big flve nations
specifically retain the , right to '
veto any action rand an objec
tion by any one of them can
break down the whole ; peace
foraaula. . . v'
This veto tight was. retained 7
at San Francisco over the pro
test rof small' nations, because
the big; three (Russia, fBrHain
and the United States) have the
only formidable sea, air and
land forces and they did not
want the other eight smaller na
tions on the council ordering
their armies around.
The formula, then, is purely
tentative, and how much it will
amount to remains for future
events to determine. , Surely, it
should stop little wars, but it
does not" even pretend anything
more than hope for avoiding big
ones.
Indeed,1 it recognizes realistic
ally the facts of international
life and is far away from the
fancy projects advanced earlier
in the war by some officials of
this goyernment to promote
"one world," a-quart-ol-milk-a-day,
etc. . j
The idealism of the document
is centered largely, In the econ
omic and social council, but even
there, restraint is noticeable.
The. charter gives 'this council
the obligation - of promoting
"human rights and fundamen
tal freedoms for, and without
distinction as to race, sex, lan
guage or religion.' I
It does not mention freedom
of: press, which certainly is a
fundamental freedom; Of what
good is - freedom of language
without freedom to use it? .It
seems a full pledge for our con
stitutional liberties was avoided,
Eric W. Allen
Memorial Fund
Set Up, ONPA
EUGENE, June .30-WVA. me-
. :.i hMiorini we xaie
mm
Eric W. Allen, founder andj dean
6f the University of Oregon
journalism school, was set up by
the Oregon i Newspaper - Publish
ers association j today at closing
of the 58th i annual convention.
Research in newspaper prac
tices, scholarships, and purchase
of equipment for the School of
Journalism will be financed
through an; endowment fund to
be known as tfte'Eric W. Allen
memorial. 1 V'-- t
A board which will accept
voluntary contributions to the
fund will i include - the ONPA
president, the university's presi
dent, Oregon press conference s
president, dean pf the journalism
school, editor of the tMtMAiu,
student newspaper, and one
trustee each from the OPC and
ONPA. ONPA j trustee will be
William M. Tugman of the Eu
gene Register-Guard.
I Tom Purcell,! editor of the
Gresham Outlook, "was elected
ONPA president succeeding E.
Palmer Hovt publisher of the
Oregonian. Other officers: Charles
A. Sprague, Salem Statesman,
vice-president; E. G. Crawford,
Heppner Gazette-Times, treasure
er; Carl C. ' Webb, Eugene,- re
elected secretary-manager. Di
rectors: Merle Chessman, Astoria;
Walter W. R. May, Oregon City;
Giles French, Moro; R. IIL Hay
den1 Lebanon; ! Frank Jenkins,
Klamath Falls, and Frank "Schiro,
La Grande.
. Hoyt and George Turnbull, act
ingdean of the university's jour
nalism school, were named ex of
ficio directors. . I
! Admiral H. M. Miller, head of
navy public relations, told dele
gates last night Oregon publish
ers can expect a not-tqo-far-diS'
tant day when jail news of Pa
cific theatre - operations will , be
released for publication. Although
Douglas Warns
Young Democrats
Of Depressions .
PORTLAND. Ore- June tHJP
America's foreign policy of dis
dain for conquest and belief in
freedom for the rest of the world
offers the greatest hope for peace i
in future years, Justice William
O. Douglas said here today. .
The U.S. supreme court justice
told the annual convention of the
Young Democrats of Oregon that
"our oceans are no longer bar
riers against a possible enemy.
He warned America's only pro
tection is the wisdom and.imagi- it
nation with which we meet the
"inevitable problems that : will
plague us." ..---... -.v. - t V--'
."We cannot be strong abroad
if our "economy is weakened ; by
depression and unemployment,
he said. "Equally, , we cannot be
strong abroad! if : our ideals of
justice ' and understanding are
absent ' from ojjr national life."
New Zealand Pays .
Back "Lend-Leasc"
; WASHINGTON, Junt 80-()-:
The United SUtes has provided
$204,693,000 to New Zealand in
lend-lease aid and that country
has reciprocated with about the
same amount of help to American
troops.-!. -., 1 '-j
Stockman Vote
To Discontinue OPA
WASHINGTON, June 3H&)
The roll call vote by ' which the
house passed legislation extending
fprice control for another year in- -
eluded: ; for. Angel, Ellsworth,
Mott; against, Stockman.
a. blanket of absolute secrecy was
required early in the war, the al- .
lies are now so strong that the
Japanese could do little even
though they knew about a plan of
attack, he
rjt&vt4Ui & v -----1 ' IV
By Robert N. Stardevant
(Substituting j for Kenneth L.
.. Dixon)e ,'f
j - BODOE, NorwayrA-ln this ;
I community 60 miles north pf the
arctic circle, a! handful of Nor-
wegian members of the British '
: liberation a r in y, assisted by
home guardsmen and police, are
; disanning the j entire- 14th luft-
waffe division of 12,000 men. ;
? ' Some 60,000 rifles, pistols, ma
l chineguns and Ismail arms of all
descriptions lie in a Norwegian
j weapon depot at Fau-ske, 20
1 miles east of Bodoe on a mag
I nificent salt water fjord. : ' ;
German camps speckle this
' rugged countryside. .From this
" area the Germans based their
offensive against the allied con-
possibly for fear of embarrass- ; voys bound around the north
rear which, wiw modern attachments, Hitler used .that American submarines prowl in waters and GlillH AND BEAR IT
pihoi wti rooguivt Trail. "I
The seat of the world-empire Alexander 'created,
Macedonia gradually decayed into a . provinee - as
ft passed through the rise and fall of Greek
'and Roman 'imperial power; then the Byzantine
land Ottoman eras and now. modern Greet by
World War I title to Macedonia except that part
designated as South Serbia. Whatever . its title,
Macedonia still, has a status for tensions. It Us a
sort of Sudetenland for either Greece or Yugo
slavia, with the Bulgarians wistfufly eying ft as
gome time theirs. San Francisco Chronicle.
HOME FROM WARS ON .DISEASE
The Klamath Falls marine barracks, in contribut
ing mightily to the defeat of malaria and "miimu" j
bugs among the veterans of the Pacific fighting,
has steadily shed its personnel to the point where
there are now approximately 1500 officers! and "
men on the post ' j
The great success -of the program is shown by
the fact that total personnel stationed here since
activation is 4851. , ' I -
Most of these men came here with what were
widely supposed to be incurable tropical diseases. ;
Virtually all who have gone out have returned
to full duty status. ' .. . .
In the midst of a bitter war, where every I: man ;
eounts and where the marine corps is playipg met
vital part in the fighting, this is a significant -achievement
for the Klamath installation anc!. all...
woo nare naa a part ta its program.'
or that any sign of important sea traffic between
Korea and Chine would j bring American Manes
down upon .it. i J ;
Far to the south isolation of the great oil rich
island of Borneo is in progress. Official con
firmation from General MacArthur of the pres
ence of aa American fleet ' in Makassar strait
confirms similar Japanese reports of the last week
or two. Borneo is being cut off from by-passed
Japanese garrisons in other Dutch island as well
as mopped up in the north by Australian elements
of MacArthur's armies, ) I
British sources estimate the total enemy strength
on Borneo at 30,000 men or less. It is spread
"too thin" in so vast a space to offer effective"
resistance in the" opinion of General Sewell, of
ficial British war commentator. Since Australian
troops took over from American forces in Me
lanesia, he said, they have killed some 10,000
Japanese. : - : j ' .
General ' Sewell also notes, hwever, that in
recent Derations between Burma and Singapore
British East Indies fleet elements have raided air
fields and rolling stock on Sumatra and stabbed I
at Japanese shipping deep in - Malacca strait be
tween ; Sumatra and ; the Malay peninsula "un
challenged by the Japanese." Enemy failure
react against -these incursions "is an admission
of weakness he said, adding:
"It amounts of virtual surrender of the western
sea -approaches to Singapore.' j
Oviously 4ighteniag allied net is 'bein wqvr, 1 ,
It has won deserved recognition throughout the about the Malay peninsula as about Japan's home
untry. Medical authorities, military ieaders,;iedur islands in the north. Meanwhile Br
country.
cational leaders, and public officials bave landed
the outstanding training and medical program
headed by Colonel George O. Van Qrden ofj the
marines end Captain Lowell T. Coggeshail of the
navy. ITalccIui Epley. in Klamath ' Falls Herald
1
.fV,
British redeploy
ment in the - Bay of Bengal : theater of action
proceeds with every indication that the end of
the wet monsoon season there will see the trap
finally closed on Tokyo abandoned Japanese garri
sons in Malaya and the great Dutch islands to
me soum. m ,
to , : LS-"
'f " h' J A;S f ' '
ing contrasts;, with the Russian
system of ' political use of its
press under dictatorship.
The navy seems to have caus
ed . Mr. Stettinius to moderate
his trusteeship notions to some
vague extent not clear in the
text. It; appears a special cate
gory for bases in "strategic
areas' has been created, -but
whether he will get ownership
of the Jap islands for ourselves
is not plainly settled. There are
many other apparent defects in
the scheme which may lead to
fyture troubles !
A" possibility of conflict be
tween the general assembly of
all the nations and. the security
I council is apparent, although the
council will dominate - and can
force any important action. Most
of the voting is to be done by
two-thirds, which raises the
prospect that action desired by
the majority conceivably could
fait and no decision may be
reached in some cases. Certain
ly action is likely to be .limited
to .what everyone wants.
This Is not a particularly new
world envisioned by the . char
ter. It Is merely a continuance'
of the - war world .' cooperation
w i " Policy -of the United Nations Into
By Ijicllty Ptc providing them with
J .a very loose working arrange
ment.' .
The really Important : influ
ence for peace or war will be
wielded by the big three in the
development of their future for
eign policies. Inside or outside
this organization.
- cape to Murmansk. The huge
airfield at Bodoe, with superb
runways of timber, served, as
' headquarters. j I .
Today this -airfield Is being
-used by American transport
; planes which- daily ferry medi
cal supplies -and other needed
materials from Sweden! to suc-
cor an estimated 80,000 Russian
: prisoners of war who were used
by the nazis as slave laborers
(Continued : From
Page
Practical
Rclision
by Rev. foha L Knight. trm
Counaelor ee Bcllrlnus Ufa.
WMlarmetfe mHrrrnitv :
One night last week I waa set
ting in some new plants in my
small garden. The following
morning when I looked over the
dozen or so plants, I found that
, two or three of them were bent
and wilted and should be prop- .
- ped up by- a small stake. With
: the help of these "crutches', I
now find that the flowers are
standing as strongly" as any of
the others in the garden. If they
. had not had the support of those
putting up hay by hand meth
i ods must be excessive. Dairy
men cannot Justify operating
cost based on antiquated sneth-
ods, and milk prices should not
bav fixed on- a . basis of extra
; costs due to such methods.
; This feed cost is a limiting
factor in the.expansicn of dairy
production in western Oregon.
Our summers are long and gen
1 erally dry after the last of June.
'Pastures dry up and dry-feed
must be used.;. Hence the ne
cessity of low cost hay, and the
; great value of irrigation to keep
jup green pasture. (Grazing is
still the cheapest means of pro
ducing meat and milk).
There is more to the hay prob
' lem than machinery for har-
vestingV however. The state ol
' lege has done some experiment?
Jing wilth artificial drying. This
does away with the risk of
showers when the hay is down.
.It alsaj offers the possibility of
'controls which will improve the
quality of the Cured hay. - Feed
ers know there is a big differ
ence in feed value of hay de
; pending on when it was cut and
show well , it was cured, and
whether it got' rained on after
"being cut The experiments made
, so far are . not very satisfac
tory from a cost standpoint, but
' they have not been abandoned
by any means. : "T Y " j
- Looking ahead to postwar ag
riculture I believe farmers' will
have to sharpen their wits and
small stakes, ho we verv they
Would have been ties ton info the
sand and would have ' disap- itheir pencils in order "to bring
r,T "'dawn production costs. Use ot
"And with the -shortage easing, shall we continue te bock' the
tig name branv er ge-bacCte rtl!i r''-Wy r'-xV -
pea red.
life is somewhat like that
Circumstances sometimes bend
peoples: spirits and wilt their
aspirations, but if through us a
helpful-word of encouragement
or act of assistance is offered
we, find tvat ti rm people
power machinery to substitute
for so much hand labor in hay
ing presents plainly visible op
portunity for cost-cutting.
can then go on to effective and
triurrrrit livfrj.-
m northern Norway.
The huge labor force was a
measure of the' ambitious nazl
scheme" to extend Norway's sin-
gle west coast railway from its)
present terminus at Mo to Narvik-
and eventually all the way
to Kirkenes on the Barents sea.
The primary purpose was mil
itary, but such an extension also
would have Increased the Ger
mans ability to loot the rich
sulphur deposits, iron ore and
coal fields in northern Norway.
Norwegian ' authorities said
that thousands of Russian slave
laborers died of starvation and
other privations as -a result of
the brutal nazi treatment Mass
Whom were shot after digging
their own graves, are liberally
sprinkled throughout the coun
tryside, (-. j
Norwegian and Russian auth
orities, assisted by tho Swedish
Red Cross under Count Folk
Bernadotte, are,' ministering to
the sick In numerous small hospitals.-
.
A Swedish doctor said that 40
per cent of the Russians are suf
fering from tuberculosis and re- i
ported that he had encountered
many hopeless cases. Others
were-recovering from malnu
trition and beri beri. ,
Meanwhile the transfer of
Russians homeward by way of
Sweden was reported to be pro
gressing rapidly.' One shipload
of L500 singing, happy former
prisoners sailed from Fauske for
Narvik June 28 aboard a Ger
man vessel with m Germa n
crew. They will travel by train
from Narvik r through Sweden
and . Finland to Russia, tf .
. Norwegian civilians- are. very
friendly with the released pris
oners and attend Russian camp '
shows with: greet delight J ,
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