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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Bids Rejected
OnPHALand
SAN FRANCISCO If) The Pub
lic Housing Administration an
nounced Thursday acceptance of
a $380,500 bid by the Portland
Traction Co., for eight parcels of
land west of U. S. Highway 99 in
Kellogg Park, Milwaukie, Ore.
But J. G. Melville, PHA region
al director, said all bids on six
parcels of land east of the high
way were rejected as insufficient.
New bids will be held about Feb.
1.
Kellogg Park is the site of a
former emergency housing proj
ect. 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.
France's Senate opens debate on
the pacts Dec. 26.
The village of Corner Brook,
Newfoundland is now incorporated
as a city. Under its new metro
politan status it now has to keep
its street lights on at night, an
added cost of $27,000 annually.
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East Germans
Crash Border
HELMSTEDT, Germany l
Five East Germans made a daring
dash to Western freedom last night
crashing their truck through
barbed wire and a wooden border
gate near here in a hail of Com
munist submachinegun bullets.
West German police said no one
was wounded. The heavy truck'
ran into a ditch immediately after
crossing the border. West Ger
mans helped the refugees to get it
running again as the Soviet zone
border guards continued firing.
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