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) 1 i)HJDOOS 'UtD ODCB . BROADWAY LIMITED Just before boarding the train I heard, at the luncheon of the Chicago Rotary club, one of the finest ad ; dresses I have heard in ',' many months. It was by Congressman Walter H. Judd, who served for many years as a missionary sur- geon in China. In the period after . Japanese invasion of China he re - turned to this country and did his best in lectures over the country " to warn our people of the folly of ; helping Japan to rearm. Settling in Minneapolis he was elected to : congress in 1942, and has proven fa valuable member in discussions j dealing with the orient - Dr. Judd is no sentimentalist as - far as natiqnal policy goes. He in- feists that our national interest for bids the emergence of a strong 'power in the orient dominating China and hence Asia. Our pol Icy has been and must continue to be to preserve China's Integrity and to assist it to develop as democratic nation, avoiding - the evils of fascism, communism or 1 dictalorsmn. If we leave a vacu - urn in Asia, Russia may move in. which eventually we could hot : tolerate. ! Perhaps the-most valuable point of his address was his revela- ' tion of the contrast between Chi nese and western culture, which makes it very, very difficult for V" (Continued on editorial page) y y .i i i ii i"-1 i l i i ii i i n i i i -i i I r I ' i ii i i ii v v - v ". i ,..J !: MUNPBD 1651 1 ! " ' ! AKl-RiyiiL j 3h KIDPI?K!n mm Jrialsev w At: Your Sdrvicbl ; We want job. to have ytur STATESMAN net later than 7 a. m. If It arrlres later, we'i appreelato knewing abeat It. An4 la any eveat, please notify u be fore t 'a. m. : ! any interruption In service. Telephone fill. NINETY-FIFTH YEAR 12 PAGES . - Salem, Ortooo, Tuesday Mondng. September 18. 1945 Price 5c No. 150 (DO IBTTIL ' . - i Must' ve Been Fun Wnile It LastedV TURNER Two bojw go ing past the Crawford school after collecting their bean money apparently couldn't resist thro wing rocks. They broke every last window in the school and did about $100 damage, of ficials' said. After a consul tation of the boys, their parents, school board mem bers and Mrs. Nona White, cost of repairing the dam age was paid. Capfr. Nieflseo? TeBIs b Facing Nip Toirftuire. . . Editor's Note: This Is the second chapter In the series by three recently liberated, Doolittle flyers on their 40-month ordeal at the hands of Japanese captors. In the first chapter of the story, Capt. C. Jr Nktaen. II. of Hyronv VUh, described the crash of his plsse off the China coast Capt. Nielsen was. feond by Chinese ' . gverrtllas mnd for s time It looked like he had been saved from - the enemy. He continues his story herewith, describing his captare by the Jmpo and the Inhanunjajr torUtre to which he was : sbjeeted In a vain effort to make aim tell the Shangri-La'' take . -off point of the Doolittle raiders. Ssi. Jacob- Deshaser of Salem, among the three fliers rescued, has his own chapter later In this ; series, "j .: -: - ' - , By Captain C. Jay Nielsen .: V;. 1 ( .' . - (Chapter S) . , (Written . exclusively for .International News Special Service. - . .World copyright sod all rights reserved.) Wheat ihe, Chinese guerrillas took us under their wing after our crash on tte China coast we wprepretty much relieved. ! .But we couldn't understand why they kept us at the garrison overlooking 4he tiny village into which we'd wandered after we swam ashore from our wrecked B-25. But they fed us well eggs, pork, steak, potatoes, rice and corn.'. Capt. Hallmark, the pilot; Lt. Meder, co-pilot; and I had plenty of -time to talk. We were at the POT 3 M i ' DETROIT, Sept. 17.-(5VThe big United Automobile Workers (CIO) union, beginning $ battle for a 30 per" cent general wage increase; in the face of spreading unemployment in . tie Detroit area, was troubled tonight by rumblings of dissension within its ranks. I . : ; Workers idled by strikes and shut-downs in the area num bered approximately 82,000 n ad dition to some 220,000 reported jobless due to war contract can cellations. As union officials pro ceeded with plans for strike votes under the Smith-Connally ; set in General Motors; Chrysler corpora tion and: Ford Motor Coj they heard reports of their failure to persaude 1 4500 Kel sey -Hayes Wheel Co. strikers to end? their unauthorized walkout. f j Regarding! the wage j! issue, President rV J- Thomas of the UAW-CIO said today that or ganized labor had a postwar "commitment' from the I late President; Roosevelt that if labor "Went along for the duration of hostilities! InfEurope with the lit tle steel wage formula freeze" he would "see to If that hourly wage rates would be increased in the reconversion period. f ! ' In Washington, White ! Bouse sources offered no comment but Chairman: George W. Taylor : of the war labor board said he never had heard f such a "commit ment,'? ! -.. Capt. Nielsen out-numbered garrison three days. We "had been thoroughly briefed about what to do if we were captured and the gist of it was not to give any in formation no matter what the Japs did to us. We agreed we'd probably be exe cuted if they caught us, but deep in our hearts we did not believe it... ;"-;! v Japanese Come : Late in the morning of April 21 we knew we'd waited too long. We heard a great commotion and . a ragged, panting Chinese ran in ' and babbled: "Japanese come. Jap anese come." ' We slipped out to the gate and saw a zorce or, -about 300 Japs armed to the teeth. The Japs and the Chinese conferred a long time. Finally the - gates were open ed and the Japs marched in. The Chinese led the Jap .Captain to us. I can't blame those Chinese too vinuch. They, were . and out-gunned. : The captain was a moon-faced little Jap with a tiny mustache. .-"You now Japanese prisoner," bis interpreter told us. "You, no worry. We treat you fine.", They loaded us on collie chairs j and carried - us over a mountain i trail to "their garrison a few miles away, nearer the coast j Taken to Shanghai ; -We arrived about 5:30 p. m. and were given boiled eggs and . vegetable sandwiches. At a dock we boarded a small' diesel-powered boat and headed toward Shanghai. We changed boats at Ningpo. It was a long trip, but nobody bother ed us. We arrived at Shanghai on April 24 about 2:30 p. m. When we climbed out we were handcuffed and blindfolded and a rope was ' tied around our waists. In separate "automobiles we were taken to the Shanghai airport and put in nar row cells. That was shortly before 3 o'clock and later a guard led me to a room in which were eight Japanese; six . officers, one - enlisted man and a ' civilian.. . -r ':-:' ' " : I was still handcuffed but my blindfolds had been removed. The room was small and hot. I was ' given a cup of tea which I had to drink handcuffed. It tasted pretty -good.- - The Japs sat a long table, chat- tering. The officers seemed cocky : and arrogant One officer, through ! the civilian interpreter, wanted to Inow what I was doing ia China ' where rd C-wn froxa. ! gave my name, serial number and rank and said that's all the information I had. 'We Have Methods The questions continued and ,1 gave the same answer. Then -the officer seemed to become impat ient. The interpreter turned to me. "We have methods of making you talk," he said in his oily voice. "You understand, nobody in your country know you alive. - If we happen to torture you to death yu? people think you missing in action. You want to talk now?" That crack about my folks sort of got me, but I was so tired that my feelings didn't register. I told him Pd given him all the information I had. " Then the Jap officer gave a gut teral command. ' The door opened and four husky enlisted men walked in. They hauled me to my feet and tossed me on the floor. One held my handcuffed arms. Two other held my legs. 'The fourth put a towel over my face, arranging It In a cup-like "fashion. Then he began to pour tepid water into my mouth and' nostrils. This is the famous Japanese water tor ture and it is brutal. Every breath I took I sucked water into my lungs. ... Thought I Was Dying' I tried to move my legs and arms, but the guards were too strong. It happened so fast X didn't have tim tn vet frlwh iimtA Kofm-o I began to lose consciousness. II thought I was dying, but I felt no particular fear. Just as I yps losing consciousness the water stopped and I was jerked to a sitting posi tion.". . - I got my breath after a spell of coughing and the interpreter asked me if I had anything to say. I shook my head. The officer .snapped his fingers and I was again on the floor. With the water trickling steadily ' into my motfth and nose I began to go out-Mjuicker this time. . Just as a black cloud seemed to be settling over me I was jerked to my feet, slugged In the jaw and shoved into the chair. "Talk," the interpreter ordered. I shook my head. After a few seconds a soldier leaped toward me and kicked me with his heavy, hob-nailed boot He aimed for, my groin they always do but I saw it coming. I took the kick on my left leg. My leg went numb. I still have the scar. ; ; Then1 another soldier slapped me. It set my ears ringing. I was pretty mad. I was trying to think how I could get into action when a soldier picked up a bamboo rod and walked toward me, -' Grant Resigns Veteran Post: HuiQiargei PORTLAND, Ore, Sept j7-(P) Ethan C.I Grant, state supervisor of the state! veterans employment program unit of the federal em ployment: "service, resigned to night charging administrative "finagling and bungling" of vet erans employment in Oregon. ' He charged In a letter of resig nation that the Job of employing GI's was being "subordinated'' and that he had been advised the veterans f service division, of which veterans employment unit is a part, was being abolished. ' Grant, jwith the federal! em ployment - service since March 1941, said he and H. A. Ketterman, chief of the veterans' service di vision, were;, notified last i Mon day there Would be "no more pub licity" on veterans programs on the USES. ' Grant credited the statement ;-to E. R. Lovell, acting state director of the USES. i Weather 1"; . 1 San Irancisco Euecne .., h , ... S&Wa Mln.'. i Ram '. ss l - jOO SS ltraM S3 traee M ;j JM Willamettt river ft, l FORECAST (from U. S. weather bu reau. McNary field. Salem):. Partly cloudy with Wanner afternoon j tem perature reaching 17 degrees. M ' Portland Seattle . -73 -73 70 -St Mrs. Pullman Dies, Husband ge Ghar Nineteen-year-old Dorothy Pullman died at a Salem .hospital Monday night, and District Attor ney Miller "B. Hayden announced he would ' change to first degree murder the charge filed against her husband a Week ago. The husband, Robert Theodore Pullman, 21, discharged' service man, is said to have told officers that the shotgun which fatally wounded his young wife went off as he attempted to take it away from her after she carried it with her to bed. f The sheeting 4 occurred . early Sunday morningj September at a south Salem auto .-court ' Pull man was originally charged with assault being armed with a dan gerous weapon, j ' ' Oil, Gas Leases Rise at Turner Approximately 30 oil and gas leases from residents of the Tur ner area to .the Texas company, have been filed in the office of Herman W.' Laiike, -county re corder.; j aA Due to the fact, that so many of the leases are coming in the of fice, a new bookt for the record ing of leases only has been start ed, and they will be handled sep arately from other records. Re cording fees have jumped from the. average of about $50 to $75 per-, day to around $230 to $240, clerks said. " , . "" Residents in the area said Mon day that the oi company was leasing the lands for 50c per acre per year with the option to con tinue the leases for five years. If event oil or gas is found in the area, one-eighth of the proceeds go to the land owner. Some test drills have already been ' made, they said.!w ; ,,.;.-. The average acreage in each lease is about 100 acres, records show. ' - f US-Miles Per Hour Wind 1 f : ; f First; Day Puhljc. School Registration PRISONER RELEASED WASHINGTON, Sept. 17-(Spe-dal)-Sgt. Ray F.l Hopper, son of Henry E. Hopper of Marion, Ore has been released from a Jap prison camp, the war department announced today, f Bash Englewood Garfield . Grant Highland .l McKinley . Richmond Washington I. Total 1145 1144 412 401 411 439 1S 147 .115 215 5B5 ' 417 Jt6 269 f Spray from hage waves beating against Biseayae Bay Breakwater at Miami, FLl, Is driven across the shoreline highway by a tropical hurricane, streamlining the palm trees plctoresejaely. The 2S-mlle wide Tanrrieaa was reported' having winds well ever le miles aa hear near the center of the. horricane area. (International 8eand- Pbote) ' j : 3013 Students Appear for ; ScKool on First Day ; Rolls Down 13 from ikst Year H: Salem's public school population, down 13. from last year's first, day figure, was almost ideally distributed "among the city's 11 school buildings when first fall classes' met Monday. I More than the 3013 pupils who put in an appearance Monday will be in classes next week, Supt. Frank B. Bennett said, pointing out that weather when school opened last year was poor and (--- . - - . . . lew prune ana nop picxers re mained in orchards and yards. But the additional pupils prob ably will not tax any one build ing, Bennett i Indicated. Engle wood, Grant and Highland schools, over-crowded on ppening day last year, are large enough to handle the smaller students bod' les which are theirs now. Much of this adjustment is credited to changes in boundaries.' At Rich mond an additional teacher has been provided. ; Capitola pupils went to Washington yesterday as they will continue to do this year. Last year they went to other schools and were shifted to Wash ington where there was .more room.- i Only Four Ride East of the fairgrounds, where bus service was provided for an anticipated influx of pupils, only four accepted ( the ride Monday. Bennett suggested that parents may have taken' others to school the first day. , . Principal -Carl Aschenbrenner of Parrish junior high school, which registered 55 fewer pupils than last year, (aid that 180.regis trations made last spring had not been picked up , Monday. Junior high and high school pupils work ing in the crops have been urged to remain with their Jobs this week, so next Monday's attend ance will be a better indication of what may be expected this year. Sacred Heart j t- '' j i Forty more pupils registered at Sacred Heart j academy Monday than were listed there the first day of vschool last year. Yester day's registration was 230. At St Joseph's parochial school, 220, or 50 more than last year were reg istered. Increases are anticipated in both schools this week. . Leslie L Parrish Senior High Total 1. 251 221 175 140 ,2221 2236 .535 . 520 .895 5e .1362 1320 ...SOW S02G Word Received from .' PFC Moore in Japan PFC Andrew G. (Gerry) Moore, prisoner of the Japanese since the fall of the Philippines, ii "in good shape" and hopes to be at home soon,' he has written his mother, Mrs. Katherine ' Moore, 590 S. 22nd St - ..v : f;,..- j j The letter followed by a few hours a telegram from! the war department telling - Mrs. Moore tat he had been released from a camp at Osaka. She had, received three form postcards from him since his imprisonment When Raymond Beeves came -home he told of having' seen Moore in the -IBilbadid prison camp. . " . Florida Storm Subsides 50 RHllion ToU; New Gale Racing : In .rom North j CHARLESTON, SC, Sept 17 -C?VA ' tropical storm which left three dead and .250,000,000 prop erty, damage in Florida spent its fury "today in the swamps !of coastal South Carolina. ii : At the same time chilled North Atlantic and New England states braced against an icy ' northeast storm pointed toward them from Canada. Winds of frriY 40, to 55 mph accompany the storm. ., ' : The southern storm, its; force greatly reduced after reaching; a velocity of 143 mph, in roaring across the Florida ; Keys, moved inland near the big marine base at Parris island, near here, and whipped due northward. Red Cross Chairman B. L. Tay lor at Kingstree, an inland town 70 miles north of here, reported winds demolished a lumber camp near: there and killed three per sons. . ., : p--" ' t :. The storm caused negligible damage to Georgia seaports as it swept northward after cutting across Florida, but power serv ice and transportation were inter rupted herei by heavy rain and high tides. Council Sells Fairmoiint Hill Reservoir S ltel Return to America . A business 'deal which lias been in the public eye for more than two ! months : was consummated Monday night when the Salem city council yoted to sell the old reservior site on - Fairmount hul to Carl Hogg and 'Filing Halvor son for 113,750. v The resolution, over minute de tails of which last night's- argu ment ranged (see page 2), was opposed by Aldermen . Albert Gille, Tom Armstrong, Lloyd Rig don and Claude Jorgensen. . )l Without much discussion, ' the council opened six sets of bids on parking meters and submitted them to the committee on police, traffic and. licenses, whose mem bers: indicated they would call at least; one public hearing. The de cision to open the bids Monday night (they had been called for late (August j and their opening had been postponed so that the city's long range planning com mission could make a recommen dation) followed reading of a let ter In. which the planning com mission declared the decision as to how parking was to be regu lated was an administrative mat ter and not for its -consideration.' . Without argument . too, the council voted to have street lights turned on again in pre-war fashion, but with stronger globes. The lights will not be ready until a rewiring Job has been done In many of the "arms" at a oet of approximately. $800; . Alternative would have been cutting off the "arms' and putting an , especially bright globe in"the top socket (Additional details on page 2.) j Nip Co-operation Commended by " Allied Leader .TOKYO, Tuesday, Sept. 18 (AP) General MacAr- thur, foreseeing early and ; "complete demobilization'' f his triumphant Pacific army, ; of draftees, declared today: that 200,000 regular troops probably could rule Japan. (The state department at Wash ington, surprised by the state ment planned to investigate it One official said it was. feared the impression would spread f abroad that the United States was plan ning, to withdraw at an early date, leaving the Japanese large ' ly in charge of their own affairs.) The navy headquarters at Pearl Harbor , disclosed that Admiral Halscy would leave Japan! next Thursday for the United States. ! His Third fleet forces remaining 1 in Japanese waters will be assign ed to Adm. Raymond A. Spru- ance's Fifth fleet . i MacArthur, in his new quarters at Tokyo, said the occupation Was so smooth that plans for military rule were junked and those there by freed from duty would go horn as fast as ships could take them. .The Japanese showed their co operation by shelving militarist trained Foreign Minister Namoru Shigemitsu and replacing him with Shigeru Yoshida, veteran diplomat once jailed for oppos ing the war...' A- ' ;.- V j-.. j , Simultaneously MacArthur put into effect a drastic re-education program designed by dint of press, radio and the public schools to lead Japan's millions from mili tarism ' to the ways of democ racy. - J . ' . ' j . Twenty-nine of the 48 on !Mac Arthur's kanted hst now are in custody Tu'o ; others werej sul Lt . Gen. . Yoshito - Shinotsuka, classmate of War Dictator. Hide ki Tojb in Japan's West Point and former member of the su preme war council, committed su icide yesterday. He was not on MacArthur's list ALUMINUM SPLIT ASKED W A S H INGTON, , Sept l7-(ff) The justice department recom mended, today that Aluminum Company of America be split up to promote competition. The com pany replied that small , invest ors would be hard hit Attorney" General Tom C Clark made the recommendation in a report te. congress. ; .4 ' Animd Crscltcrs w By WARREN GOODRICH . Wi whylliki him. HSg j o dependable ntvtr 0 0 . KeifEaGal to Bve ' . i Qontoir ma uDCHTD DUGU 3; DDD Chapter 3. (Written xclatlvely for latemaUoaal News Special Service) -(War 14 copyrifht aa aU rlsbts ; -rcrve) . ;. . Maybe we don't understand the Japanese mind, but it is certain they don't' understand the, Ameri can mind, j -j After they had nearly strangled me with their water torture, in an attempt to force me to tell the base from which the Doolittle! fly ers had taken off, it apparently never dawned on them that I would also resist other torjture. So they tried the bamboo rod. .1 first thought I was to be beat en. The rod -was about as thick as a man's "wrist and perhaps five feet long ra good, stout dub. The impassive soldiers tucked the rod back of my knees. They fitted it in snugly and then they forced me back on my . haunches. .It was useless to resist They were four j against one and; they twisted my handcuffed arms until I went backv-.. ' j j:- . . As X sank to the floor the (res- sure on my kneecaps induced by the rod became terrific. X could feel darts of pain shooting through my thigh ts and it seemed that my kneecaps were coming loose.. . ' - Watch, With Smiles Cp : The officers watched me, little smiles on their faces. After a few x minutes the pain became so bad that I began to get a little panicky. I thought: 1 can't stand this too long. 1 heard a noise down, the hall and I figured Hallmark and Meder weregetting the same treatment The sweat was , pouring down my face and into my eyes. I felt dizzy and weak. Then one of the soldiers took off his shoes and began methodically to pound on my knees with the heel of his foot With each blow it felt as though my kneecap was actually coming loose, but the pain wasn't so great now because my legs had grown numb. - ::: . ".; I was on the floor for about ten minutes. Then I was Jerked to my feet, but collapsed to the floor - '1 - ". A ; because my legs wouldn't hold me. The officers roared with laughter as I scrambled around trying to get to my feetj - , j , - Officers lo -Blame Let me say right here tthat I hold no grudge against the enlist ed men who tortured me. They merely followed orders. But Td like to have a few minutes alone with some of those officers. They hoisted me to the chair. X was mad all through now. ' f ? They stared at me and I stared back and you ; can stare a Japa nese officer down. They can't keep' looking you in,the eye. ; " ' The interpreter asked me if I had anything to say. ! ;Tve given you all the "informa tion X have, X told him and the chief Jap officer made; another sign. . : ' One of the enlisted men took a ' hexagonal-shaped stick , like a pencil and put it between my fore finger and middle finger, pushing it firttuy against the thin men- brane between the fingers. . Then he grasped my fingers at the end and squeezed hard. When he had a good hold he noddedsto another man and this, fellow began to pull the stick slowly back and forth. Feel Blood: Start I could feel the edges of the pencil slowly cuttings the mem brane and the sides of my fingers. I could feel when the blood started. Nobody spoke as the soldier moved the pencil back and forth. I knew I could stand the pain. I knew they weren't getting1 any place with me. Finally they stopped.' I still have scars between my 'fingers. - Once more the interpreter asked me if I had anything to say. and again X told him Td given him all the information;! had, "Wen," he said, this is the start of. your treatment and you might be Interested to know that we have a lot more splendid devices like thlsv. Well Xet the information we want if we have to torture you to death," - " T- . . X was still looking for a chance to get hold of a sabre or a pistol. I think they suspected it because a guard hovered near me all the time 'wearing what the Japs call a.-knifertick.: ,.-V-1. ' In j a few minutes one "of the officers through the interpreter told me that I was foolish to take any more punishment because my buddies had talked and they knew the whole story. : "Tell it to toe end 111 see If you got It righf I said. The officer laughed. ... Really Go to 'Work : j Oh, no, you tell It to us he said and nooded at the enlisted men. Then they began to work me over jproperly One would twist my arms; until I went tomy .knees. Then I'd be Jerked to my feet and kicked in the shins. Lvery second or two one of the soldiers would haul off and slap me and ' the : Jap officers . would laugh, Then my arms would be twisted and the Interpreter would SGiniuGlllCO T' : " '. ''! " ' ask In his pleasant voice: To yotf wanf to say anything now?" I didn't try to resist too much because I soon found out that the soldiers were too strong and; thai if X didn't resist the blows weren't quite, as strong. , - -j p.'. v" That went on for about a hall hour and it was pretty .bad. t was wet with sweat pretty weak and boiling mad. About 420 the Jap oncers seemed to tire. One of them spoke to the interpreter and he turned to me. .j ; 4 "Well," he said, bowing a n d smiling.., "if you insist on not tell ing us anything we might as well finish the job right away. You wilt face the firing squad for execution immediately. - : T One of the soldiers put my blinJ fold back on and X was led front the room. . ' (Copyright IMS by King Features (Tomorrow Captain Kicben telle how , the Japs played : one of tbej xrutnp wnure caras ana mimwx Brake htm.) .. - ' "r