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' i )0 PAGES j AIDiGdl Msomieirs War j TOKYO BAY, Tuesday, Sept.; 4.-W-Hundreds of allied pris- oners from northern Japan streamed toward Yokohama today, where army authorities drew up lists of Japanese war criminals based on jtories of the liberated that their prison camps were 'a living hell." The problem -of releasing allied prisoners of war in camps r outside the immediate zone of oc cupation grew more l acute, and many internees were reported growing restless now that they know' freedom is near. A party of 462 prisoners re leased from Ashio prison camp, about 90 miles north of Tokyo, was expected, to arrive at the Yoko hama railway station this aiter- 4 I The state 'public welfare com mission last week offered criti cism of some convalescent homes which care for elderly people. They provide poor food, inade quate care and charge high rates. Undoubtedly , the 'commission did not want to brand all convales cent, homes as inferior; but their complaint should put relatives of elderly fQlkf'Wt notice to mike sure that the homes, in which they put these aged persons do measure up to good standards of comfort and accommodation. t - There is justification for this criticism. The old-age assistance, system has developed a "market" for these convalescent homes and many over the country have con verted, huge old houses into, homes for the aged. Charges often take about the maximum assistance grant, being moved up with each increase in allowance. Sometimes little is left either for tobacco money, or, postage stamps. . When the bid age pension plan was being advocated its sponsors Waxed oratorical In saying that it .would abolish the poorhouse with its odor of ' boiling cabbage, its! neglect and harshness. It can hardly be said that the successor system of convalescent homes is a great improvement understand of course, that this , is no general indictment. There is this differ ence, that the private homes are exempt from public - responsibil ity save as they get a rare visit from an inspector of the public welfare commission. Relatives may not like to hear this. In many cases it is "out of sight, out of mind." The old-age grant gave them an escape from care of their own elderly rela tives and the convalescent home was jusi the . ! (Continued on editorial page) noon. The army estimated that 2000 prisoners have been released so far, and another 11,500 are await ing their freedom in north Honshu and the northernmost home island of Hokkaido. CoadlUono Bad Eighty per cent of the liberees are in a serious condition and 411 will require long periods 'in bed, medical officers said. Some were so shocked they were unable to express themselves. Cmdr. Harold E. Stassen, direct ing FdWrecoveries, said that air men and submarine personnel definitely were tortured." r" A naval task force commanded by Commodore Roger Simpson of SanTrantiscso anchored off Hama matsu, ' 159 miles southwest of Tokyo, and prepared to release 1000 prisoners held in three camps, two near Nagoya and one near Hama matsu itself. ; 3000 More POWs Cmdr. Stassen, assistant chief of staff to Admiral Halsey, flew with MaJ. Lyman B. Sutter of Long Beach, Calif to the west coast port of Niigata, 160 imiles north-, west of Tokyo, to arrange for the release of 3000 more prisoners held there. At least a score of prisoners have walked out of their camps and re ported to American authorities at Yokohama in the last 'four days. Four - military inquiry teams were questioning the liberated prisoners, many of them free for POUNDQD NDHTY-rrJTH YEAB Salem, Oregon, Tuesday Morrjng, SptomberXl945 Prict 5c NO. 138 . . y oL ft- Etraftdir Tote FirDdliiw Nip Docks or ted Reb . Is I ! Operable the first time jwar. BILUON IN ADS GIVEN ; , NEW YORK, Sept. 3-)-AmeT-ican business ; contributed ' more than one billion dollars worth of advertising space and time dur ing the war. to. "support the job of telling our people what needed to be done to speed victory, James W. Young, chairman of the War advertising council, said to day. - ' . " Animal CrocItcM By WARREN GOODRICH 3 Hit v:zTiizsit his moth cr tld tor a minute." since early in the EISENHOWER GETS AWARD i NEW YORK, Sept 3 -(fl)-rree- dom House, an organization! de voted to promotion of world! lib erty, announced today its annual freedom award had been Voted unanimously to General of) the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower. It said the award would be pre sented at its fourth, anniversary dinner here in October. ' MacARTHUR ,H E A D Q U A R TERS, Yokohama, . Sept. 1. -jDe-layed)-)-Tokyo and Yokohama, although both heavily damaged by Americani Superfortresses, will re quire less reconstruction by army engineers than was expected. Maj. Gfen Hush J. Casey, Gen eral MacArthur'S chief engineer. reported today-after an inspection tour of tee! two cities that Yoko- hatna port is in operable condition, railroad tn Reasonably good shape and that highways can easily, be made serviceable. f Casey said the port of Yokohama is capable of handling all shipping originally .planned by American occupation chiefs. He added hat adequate port capacity is already available to handle armadas of freighters! carrying several months of supplies' of food and equipment. Most Japanese utilities can be put into jimmedate use. Electric, power and water systems are fnc1 tioning but may require additional servicing and reconditioning for greater military 'advantage, f Labor Day Weekend Toll Of Accidents Rises to 341: Death List in Oreeon Hits 5 j The nation's first peace-time Labor day holiday brought death to at least 341 persons as the last of the travelers headed for home today (Tues), J Automobile accidents brought' death to 198, the greatest number since Pearl Harbor and the subsequent rationing of gasoline. r There Were fatalities $300,000 Fire Razes! Dundee Packi long i Sgt.jDeshazeii In Washington Staff Sgt J. t). Deshazer, son of Mrs. Hulda Andrus, 1063 Oak st, with two other rescued Doo little fliers reached Washington, D.C, by j plane early today, Jthe Associated Press reported. LL Robert L. Kite, Earth, Tex.; Lt a J. Nielsen of Hyrum, Utah, and Deshazer were taken imme diately to Walter Reed hospital ipr a check bn their; physical con dition. Creed by, a rescue team which parachuted j to Piepjng, China, the trie left! Karachi, Jn dia on Sept 1. , :' . i w-- , - m- V - ( Tire which leveled the Hudson-i puncan company's packing plant Here today wrought damage est!-' mated unofficiaUy .at $300,000. An estimated 240.0.Q0 pounds of: sugar and 1100 cases of peaches were destroyed by the blaze, of Unknown origin. 4 j President i Robert A. Hudson praised men j of the Dundee and, lewberg .fire departments for don mg , a "grand Job." They used: doors for shields to approach the flame at its base, he said. . The three-story frame structure,' about 120 fay 250 feet, burned; rapidly, sending flames 200 to 300f feet in the lair. The plant had: been readied ; for processing of walnuts and filberts, scheduled to start about the middle of Octo ber. Hudson said he did not know! yet what would be done with crops the- plant had planned to process. pom miscellaneous causes' and 55 drownings were. reported. Death toU In Oregon recorded three highway fatalities, .one worker crushed under-a-road ma chine and a Negro celebrant stab bed in an argument about where to , celebrate Labor day-Victory day doubleheader. ; Illinois ' led in the, number of deaths "during the three day holi dayTobservance, with 18 persons losing their lives in automobile accidents,, 11 from miscellaneous causes and live irom drowning, for an over-all. total of 34. Last year's .death toll was 245, of which 137 were traffic fatatt- A bright spot in the heavy fa tality toll-was that it had not approached the 626 total of 1941,' the last Labor day before Pearl Harbor. ' - I . ' r- : I 14 JAPS KILLED IS BURMA RANGOON; Burma, Sept. 2-(JP) Fourteen. Japanese soldiers, in cluding three officers, have been killed In two clashes with Bur mese patriots I at a village 35 miles north t of here since . the Japanese surrender, southeast Asia headquarters said today. MdcArihur Signs Surrender 1 n General MacArthar signs the Japanese unconditional surrender as the Allied delegation looks en at the back; Standing behind him are: Lt. Gen. Jonathan VL WalnwrUM ef Bataan (kit) and Lt Xlen Sir Artbav Percival (right) el Slngaper. (AP wlrephote via raI from .TJSS Iowa in.Tokye bsyj .. 500 Workers Needed to Man congress Uncertain Of Draft WASHINGTON, Sept 3-(ff)-An avalanche of letters and telegrams from constituents wanting some body let out or kept out of the army prut congress members In a quandry today as they prepared for the first postwar session of the national legislature. ; With: the reconvening of the two houses after the summer re- cess due Wednesday, . lawmakers at both -ends of the capitol ad mitted frankly that they Were un decided what to do about the everrtightening , issue: Who shall be taken Into the service or kept tbere? ; -". ,'t ' j ' . n cw oran jegisiauon aesignea to reduce selective service indus tions may be ready for house consideration: this week. Until the returning legislators began to compare notes oh how the people are reacting to peace time armed service, Job and pay check issues had had the spot light in preliminary ! committee meetings,, these issues centered around the proposal to boost un employment pay, with federal funds to a level of $25 a week for 28 weeks, and the so-called t full employment bill. Victory . Five hundred men and-women from business establishments and professional' offices and institu tions of Salem are needed tonight to man new 'Victory' shifts open ing at six canneries: Climax to the weekend peace and Labor day celebrations was the announcement by the Salem Canners' committee Monday night that peaches and pears, ripening rapidly must be processed u-increasing number this week. " ' At Hunt Foods, Inc., Starr, Reid Murdoch and United Grower plants the new shift will operate from 7 to 11 pjn. California Pack ing plant will run a 7-12 shift and Blue Lake in West Salem will op erate the Victory shift, from 7:30 to 12 pjn. Persons who will help to save the fruit, whether or not employed elsewhere during - the day," may1 report for work with out employment office assignment at any of the canneries, Egbert S. Oliver, coordinator for the com mittee, said.' ( 10,000 Servicemen Visit USO Over Weekend More than 10,000 servicemen found food In an otherwise short rationed city and haven from .the rain at the Salem USO over the past weekend . biggest three-day, period fi the center : has known since re-activation of Camp Adair: Because many of the capital city's restaurants were dosed over the holidays, the USO canteen, always well patronized on week' ends, was thronged with hungry visitors in uniform. It was forced to dose early Sunday ' night and to open late Monday because of shortage ct supplies. Wealher San fran Cisco Eufene Salem Portland -Willamette river -4 ft. PO RECAST (from S. wetthw bu- rau. UcNarr field. Saifm : uouay wittx iccfrional showers. Highest tem- swratur. M Max. Via. Bam . : i so ' - -joo 17 '1 AS t traco f3 v . 61 7 , 1J3 4S. JM Jefferson Man IQllerf in Crash ALBANY, Ore, Sept 3-AV ciyde Evans Dye, 42, Jefferson, father of 11 children, was killed i - a as: msianuy , toaay wnen ins . car struck 5 and was. dragged four blocks I by a Southern Pacific freight train. I , Chief of Pohce R. L. Chandler reported the victim's body' was still in the driver's seat although crushed and mangled, when the train was halted at the Pine street crossing after striking the car at the Salem " road crossing four blocks north. Cv . - . The widow and U children isurvive,..,.. r k , ; i - i ' I iCPL. nOBLTTT AT GUAM, r :V.. ! 'GUAM, Sept 4 -UPt First lib erated prisoners of .war. reaching Guam from Japan ' included I CpL Frederick M. HobUtt, 503 Water street Silverton, Ore. ; i i .ccoopawini Soirae 720 Spread Goyernor Says No Special Session Needed " Governor Earl Snell told The Statesman Monday night he knew of "no reason now 'for calling the legislature into special session. "It-has been my observation that following the regular session of the legislature rumors persist that a special session Is likely soon to be called," he said. "Things are happening these dayswith great rapidity yet I know ot no reason now for calling the legls- -lature into special session." r ; Veteraiis vs- HJonioBiis Neairs m. Hob . dtasift i By Arthur Edsen .1 , WASHINGTON, Sept , 3-P- Labor : unions and veterans'; orJ specifically endorsing the Knutson ganizations appear headed for a clash over peacetime jobs. -I That opinion was expressed to day by many persons in Washing ton; Who i have .worried over the employment problems 1 that i will come with the eventual return of 15,000,000 veterans. They don't want to be quoted bl name, but they all say that: ! I l.-i Legislation demanded; by veterans' groups never will be ac ceptedwillingly by organized la bor.. ' - ', - ' . 2. 1 So far . no acceptable com promise has been' found. tx 7 When the showdown will) come, no ' one can say. But it nfar be fairly soon, over bill br Rep. Knutson (R-Minn). i - This bill ba the support ol the Veterans of Foreign Wars. And the American Legion, while not bill, has agreed with its principles. These two service organizations have; a combined membership of almost 3,000,000, and are grow ing so rapidly they soon may dou ble In size. On the other hand, organized labor, with its 15,300,000 mem bers, Is opposed to the measure. The Knutson . bill Would give veterans seniority credit for time spent in service (with time and a half for the sixth day and double timeTfor -Sundays); A veteran, could usv this credit in going back to his old job, or he could be credited with ' this much' seniority in his attempt to get a new one. The bill adds that the veteran must be "Qualified" to hold the Job, Surrenders SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 4 (AP) American ccupa tion troops will titter Tokyo's metropolitan district Friday, the Japanese government reported .today in a special com- i mtmique broadcast by Domei agency. ' 1 j , i The communique said more than 15,000 troops would ' be involved in occupation movements into Kanasawa and Shizooka prefect ores, beginning today, and extending; inte Tokyo Friday, )..;; i ;' YOKOHAMA, Tuesday, Sept. 4l-(APWUS.! troope. crossing tho Tama river i just outside tokyev, spread theif . occupation zone over 720 square I miles today and took over four air fields, one of them only two miles from the ruined capital j of the wrecked empire. j j v While the VS. eighth army crossed the Tama hitherto. a de markation line between victor and vanquished the first cavalry i di vision set up headquarters in Ha-ra-Machida, a road junction mid way: between Tokyo and Atsugi air field commanding , three en trances into the capital. j I In an order to his troops, Mac Arthur warned' them not to molest Japanese : soldiers, saying they would be disarmed by their own police. Under the stern occupa tion rules, only police among the Japanese may possess or bear arms. . -. : ' !,- j The . Japanese said that in ad dition to the new landings in the bay area, advance airborne units of the U.S. sixth army had be gun ii arriving at Kanoya on southern Kyushu, but there was no confirmation. Gen. Yamashita to 'BataanHero' BAGUIO, Philippines,' Sept. S- (JP)-Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita, who once boasted he would force . General MacArthur to surrender unconditionally .and shatter Ame- ' rican power in the Pacific, wae behind bars in new Bipbid prison tonight, with : the Manila pres4 urging that he be executed as a war criminal. - ! The six-foot ' Japanese general was locked up after he surrender ed his last 40,000 troops in the. Philippines to'Lt Gen. Jonathan M. Wainwright Wain wright, hero of Bataan and Corregidor, flew here irom Ja pan after witnessing the general surrender' ceremony aboard the battleship Missouri yesterday, to accept Yamashita's surrender to- -day.' : ' y : - The tense ceremony lasted five minutes. Yamashita, who was boastful and arrogant at the time , he accepted the surrender of Sin- gapore in February, 1942, started to sit down when he entered the - UJS." high commissioner's office. for the ceremony. . j He was ordered to remain standing, but later was permitted to be seated for the signing. , . ?The war in the Philippines is now over," Wainwright remarked when the ceremony ended. Slinister Selected for Congregational Qidrch Dr. Seth R. Huntington, for the past two years pastor of the First Congregational church ; of , The Dalles, has accepted (he call, of the Salem First ' Congregational church and will come to Oregon's capital' city next month to take over the pastorate here. R. D. . Slater, chairman of the commit tee which recommended Dr. Hun Ington as successor to the Rev. David Nielsen, now a navy chap lain, made the anouncement Mon day. . : .;; ... : ., ;. I For. 11 years Dr. Huntington was pastor of the Community church of Berea, Ky a congrega tion of more man 100 members' closely associated with Berea college,-, which. Huniington served during that period as ."religious advisor. J TYPHOON KTARIXa KYUSnU SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. Kyushu island is taking precau tions against arrival ot &e most severe typhoon of the year " radio Tokyo said, tonight. - V 7