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I. PAGE TWO . i , "- . . H . .: I 1 The OREGON STATESMAN. Salem. Oregon. Friday Morning, September T. IMS Truma n Waits JJCCIS1 u On Atom Bomb WASHINGTON, Sept 6 -P)- r President Truman told congress today that he will make recom mendation later - on what to do about the awful power revealed with atomic bombing o Japan, but two law-makers moved In ahead of him. . " Senator Vandenberf . (R-Mich) suggested in a resoleuon that a Joint committee ' of six members each from the house aad senate be authorized to conduct a "full and complete study and invest! gation with respect to the : de veloDment and . control of . the atomic bomb. . . ' ' Senator McMahon (D-Conn) 'introduced a bill providing that the use and application of atomic energy be controlled by the fed eral government for the nation's benefit, with a ban on private- exploitation. The president, in his message to the new session of-congress, prefaced his promise of later recommendations on the atomic energy problem with this com ment: w "Wi shoukl make timely prep ration for the nation's long range security, while we are still mindful of what It has cost us In this war to have been unpre pared. ! -7 Too Late to Classify IMPROVED ELBERT A PEACHES Capitol Street Grocery. Sll North Caprtol St. Ph. 977S. Open nUI t P M Bole PRESSURE Cooker, pre-war hea aluminum, ? at. canning sine, szi Ph. 4209. 3Z nowt-ida lupino Sydney GREENSTREET "Pillowlo Posl" Co-Feature IX w COLBERT IW-.U Yanks Have Difficulty Willi Jap Car X (- I 7 it - U - i ' 'If"" . ' ' J ; ' - 1 M - , J I'' I- - . J Tanks ef the 11th airborne dirtsiM have trouble trying to keep operating the tiny Jap aato provided for their transportation In Takohama, (AP Wirephoto from signal eerps v Boeing to Build Bigger Yersion Of Superf ort SEATTLE, Sept 6 -VP)- A new heavy bomber, "presumably a bigger and better version" of the B-ZS, will be built by the Boeing Aircraft company when it resumes production. Sen. Magnuson (D Wash) told the Times today by telephone. Officials at the company, which shut down suddenly last night when- its production program was cut back by the war department, said they could not comment on the senator's revelation that a new bomber, which he termed the B-44, exists. The Times quoted Magnuson as saying the army air forca "fully intends to keep Boeing going as the . only supplier of the army's large planes." The senator said the company could expect orders for at least five heavy bombers and five C-97 transport planes a month when it resumes operations, and estimated its peacetime payroll would be 7000 to 8000. The company had Help Lack Costs 10,000 Tons, ; Valley Bean Crop ! -3 - CORVALLIS, Sept I - (ff) -Willamette i valley farmers lost possibly 10,000 tons of snap beans due to lack Of harvest help, J. n. Beck, state farm labor supervisor. said today, j . ' Letdown of interest after Ja pan's surrender caused the slump in manpower supply, he said. Beck said four million pounds of hops, valued at two and a half million dollars, would be lost If more harvest help Is not found. t . : : rr - - I ; I' :.. . n Anderson Promises Completion of Plant SPRINGFIELD, Sept; 6 -P)- Secretary of? Agriculture Ander son has promised his department will complete construction of the $2,800,000 - wood . wast : alcohol plant here, Senator Cordon (R Ore) said today. ."' Officials of the operating organ ization, ! the Willamette Valley Wood Chemical company, said "details remain to be worked out."- I ; h ' 1 j ; Sale Large ai Linn-Benton 4H Club Sale ALBANY , Sept 6 A champion fat Suffolk lamb belonging to Jer ry Woody Lebanon, route 2, brought $2.60 a pound at the third annual Linn-Benton 4-H market livestock auction here tonight A Southdowq belonging to Robert Kouns, Benton county champion, briught $1.10 for second honors. The reserve champions, brought $1 and 89 cents respectively and the low price paid for the, 50 lots of lambs sold was 20 cents.' Top Steer rrieeV -'.-,' Top price paid for, the - grand champion Hereford steer, Benton entry, was 55 cents and most" of the prices paid for the 25 other ots of steers was around 25 to 30 cents. , S ,:V ' " Top hog price was 55 cents for the linn county champion Duroq belonging to Wally Schmidt of Lebanon. The price paid for the other fat hog lots were above 25 cents but the other 30 lota of at hogs ranged from 50 to 18 cents a poundl 1 Purehssers The sale started at 8 o'clock and lasted unUl 10:40. While no count was announced tonight, it was unofficially estimated that the number of purchasers was in excess of 70. It was the aim of the auction sponsors, I Albany Kiwania club and Corvallis Lions club, to better the previous year's high record number of 61 individual buyers set at the Baker county auction. . . i - - x !-' ; . - i Several Thousand Japanese Face War Criminal ges as List o trow Atrocitybto ' 1 . .. ... ..! nes 29,300 workers when the sudden shutdown -was announced. sii .1 i s ill m lit; i. V" 0 Lev paw. op . By the AsaociaUd Pntas . Incense ' was burned on the stomachs of prostrate prisoners of war by vicious Japanese guards,! an American officer, revealed yes terday (Thursday) as CoL Alva Carpenter announced at Manila that several thousand Japanese have been named in 1000 atrocity cases already prepared for trial. ; Colonel -Carpenter, head f the war " crimes. , branch of General MacArthur's staff, said some of th Japanese atrocities w e r "masterpiece of hideousness." He said the crimes were m three , categories those against peace by persons who planned the war; violations .of the rules of war, .Including slaughter of hos tages and mistreatment of prison ers, and crimes against humanity, covering slave labor, deportation"! of civilians and rape. Tokyo to Be Scene . - Carpenter did not say . when the trials would be held, but stated Airlines File For Pacific Run PORTLAND, Ore- Sept 6-W) individual Northwest Air Linestoday filed;. trnet wiux in civu aeronauues administration ia Washington, DC, citing reasons ' why service from the Pacific northwest to Hawaii should be initiated, the local of fice announced. The board's examiners recently recommended the airline be. de nied a Seattle-Tacoma-Porttland- Honolulu route. z Northwest officials said that in 1940 and 1941 between 7000 and 8000 persons went from the north west to Hawaii and predicted an Simpson Appointed to Lumberman's Post PORTLAND, Ore, Sept Appointment of Harold V. Simp son to succeed CoL W. B. Creelev as secreiary-manager of the west increase in travel over that route coast lumbermen's association wsa witn too relaxing oi restneuons. announced today -by President Dean Johnson. Manager of the association since 1928,' Greeley-will remain with the group in an advisory capacity. V3 n X1 1 i1 r.5 ' CZTZZfCkMO J. i. SAKAU ROSEXT SHAYiEKftcta4 by PETER CG5FRCY vi1 jf iislITttIt. ' IMaisLAele CtwwwwSiwi N s ristael $ sv ASm.HmSIM Co-Feature "Midnight Manhunt" with Wnu Garg&n 'Awful Counterfeiting Discovered in IMilan WASHINGTON, Sept ftVP) The secret service reported to day the army1 had uncovered an "awful" j job of i counterfeiting $50 federal reserve notes in Mi lan, Italy. The fake bills were seized along with seven Italians and three print shops. ' . Evidencing their crudity, the bills bore the words 'redeem able in awful currency of the -United States . treasury. Hess Said Recommended For U.S. Dist. Attorney TORTLAND, Ure., Sept. BVP) A . report that Henry .Hess, La Grande, has been recommended to President Truman by the attorney general as U. S. district attorney. ffor Oregon waif received today by Lew Wallace. , j Wallace, Oregon national demo cratic committeeman, said he was informed by the democratic na tional committee's vice-chairman, Dick Macy, that the recommenda tion was "understood" to have been made. LAST ESCAPEE FOUND PORTLAND. Ore.. Sept 3 Howard Hogwood, 19. last of 12 youths who broke out of the county jail here Sunday, wai re captured here today. Tokyo. probably would be the Our depositions . and' photo graphic evidence are so complete that I dont think we wiU need witnesses in most cases," he com mented. - vw; Meanwhile . headquarters of the Eighth army in Yokohama an-. nounced that about one-fourth of the; 32,500 prisoners in - Japan's homo islands had been liberated. Starvation, Beating U . ' ( The near starvation of more than . 2800 allied prisoners, the beating of a hero of Bataan, and the weird banqueting of Wake island prisoners in efforts to ob- lam military inxormauon were Other instances of Japanese cruel ty revealed in dispatches. Some Japanese officials had complained, to the Eighth army about an "atrocity campaign' by the American' press, but an American officer promptly told correspondents the camp picture was not "nice. I Lt Norman Churchill oiToledo, 04 who had visited the camps to arrange release oi the prisoners, told of- brutal mistreatment by Japanese guards. The Japs had accused the pris oners, Churchill related, of steal in Red Cross packages which were intended for the prisoners.. "I "saw 20 men- with ugly scars made by the Japa bx burning in cense on their lists as they held their arms out before, them. If they . dropped the- incense they were badly beaten. ' 1 Three prisoners were placed on their backs . and held down by guards standing on their arms and legswhile incense was burned on their stomachs. Food Dropped 1 Associated Press Correspondent Hamilton Faron, with the Third fleet in Tokyo bay, reported Ad miral Halsey disclosed that more than 2300 allied prisoners were on the verge of starvation on west ern Honshu island before planes began dropping food to them. I Ma). Gen. Albert N. .Jones ar rived home at San Francisco arid told a grim story of how Gen. the tide of military fortunes turn ed the official bearing of the Jp-; anese softened." v-.r-. onathan Wainwright, hero of Ba taan and Corregidor. and-Briush General Arthur Perdval;; naa been slapped and beaten by the Japanese. - 'J-1"-; T" V:: "Weworked and starved," Jones said In relating hii camp .exper iences. We were stripped on pa rade We were slapped in public. We were forced to pray j three times' a day to the emperor. We were made to bow to Jap privates and, Jap civilians. There was no food. There was nothing, j "Dent like Ntos" ? : 1 don't like Nips," Jones said. "I don't like them at aM." Liberated marine and civilian prisoners from Wake, Island re lated how the Jaoanese victors had - bayonetted to death all wounded prisoners, then banquet ed the survivors for two weeks m futile efforts, to obtain military in formation, i After the feasting was over the baffled Japanese shipped . the prisoners off to camps. I. ¬ American officers said that when trroup Jrlans to Improve Street About 40 property owners on Commercial street met- at ' the chamber of commerce Thursday night to discuss development of the street particularly the area from Ferry to Center streets. . I A program for further im provement , of Commercial was endorsed, and a aeries of pictures. plans and designs were approved and placed on display in the chamber of commerce for the in spection of other property own era on the street and Salem bus! ness men. , ' 1 j !' The group urged that not 'only new buildings be constructed but that others be repaired and im proved. A plan to contact indi viduals in each block to develop their particular section was ap proved. The work is to be done under the direction of the Sinns company of Portland. . ENDS TODAT1 (rKIDAT) . . JIary Ceth IXMhes . i ACCUSE MY LAMENTS EHen Drew 'I f . v DAIX MOUNTAIN . TTT OPENS ;f M F. M. MOMORROWf , Xoti coked to see It agoia. 0x0 hit that toad him a.atarr "V. ..rf-w- ' a---. Sylvia Sidney . Ioel McCrea r Claire Trevor and original Dead End Ed In ' "DEAD EIID" CO-HIT! J ' r OFENS :45 TJHL NOW PLAYING! (AND THXU SAT.) a uaie os Elaxttyl DHEAIHIIG OUT LOUD" Francis Langf ord Co-Hit! J v: - V. rteTzra ('" turner h mm Extra! Final dtapter . "Cap!. Ancrica" And i First Episode . Of New Serial "BLACK ARROW" i i STARTS TOIlOimOU! - Phone 3487 Coatfnuoua Shows Dcdly From 1 p. m Uiih ConpIiJla Oul Shou differ tlidnile! ENDS TODAY! 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