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Salem, Ore., Friday, December 21, 1955 THE CAPITAL" JOURNAL' Section 1 Page 3 Japan Prince Said Dead of Red Brutality Konoye Refused to Spy For Russia, Senate Probers Told By G. MILTON' KELLY WASHINGTON in- A former Soviet secret police official says tH Russians may have caused the death of Japanese Prince Fumtta' ka Konoye after he refused to spy lor them.- Senate investigators today made public this testimony of Yuri Rast- vorov, who defected to the West in 1954 while stationed with the So viet mission in Tokyo. He also charged that Gen. Ivan A. Serov, chief of the Soviet secret police, is a "master of deporta tionM who perhaps has been sent to Hungary to liquidate revolu tionary resistance." Rastvorov's sworn statements were taken behind closed doors Tuesday by the Senate Internal Security subcommittee. The Japanese Foreign Office an- nounced Dec. 10 it had 'onfirmed that Prince Fumitaka died in a prison camp near Moscow Oct. 20, reportedly from an acute kidney ailment. He was the eldest son of Prince Fumimaro Konoye, former prime minister of Japan, who com mitted suicide hi 1945. Rastvorov testified the Russians seized Prince Fumitaka after World War II and tried to get him to spy in Japan In exchange (or hit freedom. But the witness said the prince refused. Rastvorov said he got the story from a Col. Vashkin of the secret police who Rastvorov said had helped try to induce Prince Fumitaka to turn spy. "I learned from Vashkin and others that the Soviet government . . . decided to keep him (Fumita ka Konoye) in the Soviet Union in order to avoid revelation of all that had happened to him in con nection with attempts to recruit him, Rastvorov said. "The Soviets realized the reac tion of the Japanese people and people of the free world if Prince Konoye revealed his experiences, so he was sentenced as a war criminal and, I assume, reduced tn living conditions which would shorten his life, following the prin ciple that dead men tell no tales. "That is my assumption . y . based on my experience with the MVD (secret police)." Baits Restive, Troops Booted STOCKHOLM (ft Auguitt Ret. former president of Estonia, said Friday the Soviet Union has booted all Estonian soldiers out of that former independent coun try to "prevent a repetition of the Hungarian revolt among the restive Baits." Rei's statement was the newest Indication of unrest in the Baltic slates, now under Soviet domina tion. There have also been reports or discontent among students and workers in the Soviet Union it selfbut nothing like that which sparked the Hungarian revolt. Hoi was president of Estonia In 1928-29. The country was annexed by the Soviet Union along with Latvia and Luthuania in 1940. The United States has never recog nized the legality of the Sovic action. Rei is now head of It exiled Estonian National Counci Pravda Lashes NATO's Spaak MOSCOW (fl Pravda pub lished Friday a bitter attack on Paul Spaak. the new NATO sec retary general. It said the Bel gian leader was giving up his foreign minister's post to become NATO'S "head butler." Spaak was named secretary gen eral at a recent meeting of the NATO Council in Paris, to suc ceed Lord Ismay, a Briton, next April. D. Zaslavasky, the author of the article in the Communist Party newspaper, said Spaak accepted the NATO post to satisfy his am bitions to become a "world scale politician." Pravda had previously assailed Spaak for his position defending France and Britain in the Suez action. DFWKY SPEAKS FOR ISRAEL NEW YORK Former New York Gov. Thomas E. Dewey says that if the existence of Israel "were acknowledeed by all na tions in the Middle East." much of the tension in that area of the world "would certainly subside." Dewey made the statement last night in a message to a state of Israel bond dinner. 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Bonn Stamps Final OK on 1-Year Draft BONN, Germany Wl Parlia ment gave final approval Friday to a one-year draft period to speed the arming of 500,000 West Ger man troops in the Atlantic al liance. But it will be after 1958 before that many get in uniform if then. The Bundesrat (upper house) passed the unpopular draft bill by a vote of 26-12. The antirearm ament Socialists voted no. The lower house approved the bill Dec. 5. This clears the way for the first draftees to be called up in April, 1957. Only 10.000 to 15.000 can be taken into service then due to a shortage of barracks and other military accommodations. About 90,000 volunteer! for pro fessional service will be enlisted by April, pushing the total strength of the three armed forces to around 100.000. About 60,000 now are in uniform. By 1958, several hundred thous and draftees are scheduled to be in training if Chancellor Ado naur's government continues in power after the 1957 autumn elec tion. The Socialists have vowed to end the draft if they win the election. YM Will Give Adult Glasses Variety of Subjects On Recreational Activity Set In an effort to stimulate more constructive use of leisure time and to broaden individual recrea tional possibilities, the Adult Pro YMCA is making 'available to all Willamette Valley folk a number ot special courses. They include: i January 8 Drawing and paint ing (beginners). Meets twice week ly, 10-11:30 a.m., 14 weeks; Roy Horine, teacher. January 9 Archery. Meets at 8 p.m. each Wednesday for 12 weeks. February 11 YMCA Speech Re treat. Meets 8:30 p.m. each Mon day for 14 weeks. January 15 Wilderness Camp ing. Meets each Wednesday for three sessions and will be followed by mountaineering Feb. 5 for four weeks. January 16 Beginning Square Dancing. Meets 8 p.m. each Wed nesday for 14 weeks. January 13 Rock Collecting and Mineralogy. Meets 8 p.m. each Wednesday. Dr. Harold Jory tea cher. All courses will be available to adult men and women and to high school boys and girls. Fees are nominal. Portland Ups Its UF Goal PORTLAND m Tile 1957 Portland area United Fund budget will be a little higher than - this year's! despite the failure to reach the goal in the recent fund-raising campaign. Thursday, directors approved a budget of $3,098,159, which allo cated (2.903.691 to Multnomah County, $104,000 to Clackamas County and (89,000 to Washington County. The amounls going to member agencies will be about 4'i per cent less than had been recom mended before the fund drive. The largest allocation, $727,896, will go to five member agencies, Red Cross, American Cancer So ciety, USO, Heart Assn. and the Oregon Chest. Today we have "hot rods" on the highway. But, in the gay 90 s speedsters on bicycles were known as "scorchers." Arbuckle Will Chairman City Heart Drive George Arbuckle, Jr., has been named chairman of the Oregon Heart association's 1957 Heart Fund campaign in Salem, accord ing to H. G. Horn, Portland, state chairman. t The campaign will be held dur ing the month of February. Arbuckle has been active in various community activities, in cluding the YMCA, Masonic lodge, , Rotary club, Polio Foundation, and '.he American Legion. j Oregon Heart association carries on a y ear-around professional and public education program and sponsors research at the Univer sity of Oregon Medical school. Reed College and University of Portland. It also participates in national research projects through the American Heart Association. The Oregon Heart association re search budget for the coming year totals $30,000. boosting to $97,000 the amount of Heart Fund money which has been allocated to re search since the association's in ception. Arbuckle plans to set up a cam paign organiation for Salem im mediately and has appealed for volunteers to assist in the job. JEWISH LEADER DIES NEW YORK m Dr. Elias L. Solomon, 77, of New York, one of the founders and a former pres ident of the United Synagogue of America, which represents the conservative branch of American Judaism, died Thursday. Bundesrat OKs Saar Treaties BONN, Germany Ifl The West German Parliament Friday rati fied the treaties returning the Saarland and its right to coal mines and steel mills to Germany en Jan. 1. The Bundesrat, upper house of Parliament, unanimously ap proved the French - German pacts ratified by the lower house Dec. 14. Only the signature of President Theodor Heuss now is required to complete West Ger man action on the agreement re turn rig the industrial region and its one million German-speaking citizens, taken from Germany aft er World War II. The French National Assembly already has approved the treaties. 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