Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, August 31, 1945, Image 4

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Newspaper Page TextFOUR MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE Friday, Aug. 31. 1845 TOKYO AREA GAMP TALIIY TOLD BY COM STASSEN Admiral Badger's Flagship, Yokosuka, Aug. 31 U.R Fifty per cent of the 1,500 Allied war prisoners already rescued from camps In the Tokyo area were treated so brutally by the Japa nese that they need hospital care, Comdr. Harold E. Stassen revealed today. Most prisoners Bald they were beaten regularly by Japanese seeking information. Some showed torture scars on their hands, apparently the result of thumb screws or similar devices. Stassen, former governor of Minnesota and a member of Ad miral William F. Halsey's staff, said there were many rcporl of prisoners dying from beatlnRs and lack of care. No instances of deliberate executions yet have been reported, however, he said. Some prisoners told of an "In quisition center" Inland from Tokyo. Airmen and submarine crews were the main "custo mers," Stassen said. Shlrafiawa "hospital" also was among the worst places, prison ers said. "You shouldn't use the word hospital" for that place," Stas sen said. "You could only de scribe it as a hellhole. The filth was indescribable." LEND LEASE FOR RTL Portland, Ore., Aug. 31 (U.R) All lend-lease to Russia out of the Portland area will end on V-J day, George Powell, area director for the war shipping ad ministration, announced today. Some 40,000 to 45,001 tons of lend-lease cargo scheduled for the Soviet government still will be at the Portland, Vancouver and Longvicw ports when the program ends, Powell said. He indicated lhat the various gocrnmcnt agencies such as treasury department, army and navy, will dispose of the surplus each has handled. If Ml L , Sacramento, Aug. 31 (U.R)The oriental fruit moth is on the inarch In California, having been discovered In two new counties, the state department of agricul ture reported today. The deciduous fruit tree pest was found In Santa Clara and Placer counties In Peach trees in the cities of San Jose and Boseville. The Santa Clara county Infes tation is the firrt discovery of the moth in the central coast counties, the department said. Tough Beer Bottle Stumps Launchers Peoria, 111. (U.R) A stubborn bottle of beer apparently resent ed being substituted for cham pagno in the launching hero of the Army hospital plane, Lady of Peoria. It took 10 tries to crack the re calcitrant bottle, although it had been scored for easy breaking. When Mrs. I. H. Coney, Fsor in, gave up after seven attempts 1o smash the bottle, Frank Murphy, associate chairman of the Peoria Seventh War Loan drive, took over. On his third swing, the bottle yielded, and stubborn to the last, drenched Murphy In a shower of beer. WAGGISH TREASURY Jackson, Miss. (U.R) Assistant Btate Attorney General James T. Kendall received his tax re fund check recently along with a note from the Treasury De partment which said, "This re fund check Is yours, to do with as you please. " The refund check was for two cents. Klamath Falls, Ore., Aug 31 (U.R) Col. Charles Brooks, com manding officer of the Klamath Falls marine barracks, said to day that, the base will function i as a separation center for the northwest and northern Cali fornia. I Klamath Falls will be one of - about five such centers in the , United States, Col. Brooks said, j The only other Installation on the Pacific coast will be at Camp Pendleton, near San Diego. Loss Portland Dock Fire Now 3 Million Portland, Ore., Aug. 31 (U.R) Thft 2,000-foot outfitting dock of the Kaiser Oregon shipyards lay in ulns today after a $3 000. 000 fire which damaged seven unfinished war vessels. Two men were believed to have drowned as they tried to escape from one of the burning ships. The fire broke out yesterday when an acetylene lino burst un der the dock and Ignited wooden piling The flames spread rapidly to workshops and the ships tied to the dock. Firemen controlled the big blaze only after a three hour battle. Believed Alive 13 Safe After Three Years in Jap Hands Closing tlm for Sunday Too Lute tn cintnlty 4 00 Katunlay fternoon pleitbs remembar 4 Sill V' j". M $ K Mcmi letvprwto) Ms. Clreg Iliiytnglnn. Blink Shffp Coivn.r ftiilui-r Btiunurjn lender ciTdltrd wllh 40 Jap planes, believed mi'.lng for 17 months, la repuned alive by forces In Tokyo writers. Bnymmon la holder ot Congressional Medal ut Honor. Navy Cross foi dar Um exploits as Marine flier. BREAD IS AT ITS BSST FRESHNESS. ,.VMEN IT'S IF L m 7. m 6 a A i (Acme Radio-Teleihoto) Strain of the past three years while a captive of Japan plainly shows In this close-up of Lieut. Gen. Jonathan M. Wainwrlght, made when he arrived in Chungking and transmitted to San Fran Cisco by O. W. I. radlophoto. OF 150 BILLION FULL WORK NEED Washington, Aug. 31 (U.R) The United States must achieve an annual national income of $150,000,000,000 to meet its gcal of full employment, Secretary of Treasury Fred M. Vinson said today. He told a senate banking com mittee hearing on the adminis tration's full employment bill that the task of providing jobs for all who want to work can be accomplished through free en terprise "if we face it frankly." Vinson supported the pending full employment legislation but cautioned against underestimat ing the difficulty of postwar em ployment problems. "It means a national income of $150,000,000,000 as compared with $78,000,000,000 in 1940," he said. "It means assuring Jobs for approximately 6u,COO,000 people as compared with 47, 000,000 in 1940." Purchasing power must be boosted enough to increase na tional purchasing power by 50 per cent, Vinson said, and con struction and investment must be pushed 100 per cent above pri-war levels. The only explanation for the "phenomenal record' 'of em- Ma's 'Her Man' K.""'':'vF' "ri (Acme lelephoto) Betty Hutton, of the movies, hcgi "Her Man" Ted Brlskln, Chicago, as the two are reunited in New York Bhe announced engagement, said: "What's more. I m going to get mar ried. I should have done it before J went overseas." ployment and production last year was that "businessmen knew there was a demand for all that could be produced," he re marked. He pointed to the depression years, where, he said, 49 per cent of the productive resources of the nation went to waste for lack of markets. BY YWCA CHIEF Washington, Aug. 31 (U.R) Even if every single man In tne United States decided to get married, the president of the YMCA remarked gloomily today, there still would be 3.000.0U0 women "without any prospects of getting husbands. Mrs. J. Birdsall Calkins ad vised the Senate Banking com mittee to do some "simple arith metic" and see how wrong it was if it thought all women are going back to the home now that the war is over. . "There are over 12,000,000 single women over the age of 14," she calculated. "And only 9,000,000 single men." Mrs. Calkins got onto this sub ject while endorsing the )obs-for-all bill now being studied by the banking committee senalors. She said civic planners and em ployers who think women are returning to the home are, un fortunately, wrong. "It Is undoubtedly true that most young women hope to marry," Mrs. Calkins said, "and that they hope their husbands will be able to support them " However, she added, simp'e arithmetic shows they "can not all have their wish." Relatives Start Bus Company For Combat Veteran Fort Worth, Tex., (U.R) Tech. Sgt. J. I. Fisher, Jr., is sitting pretty. He has a record of 49 combat missions in the Mediterranean theater. He has 124 points. A discharge is coming up for him soon. While he's waiting, he is acting as an instructor at a Jackson, Miss.. Army air field. When the discharge comes, ha will be able to step into a new business created for him by his father and brother-in-law, S. A. Rudd. They have opened a bus line between Fort Worth, Smith field and Harmonson. Sgt. Fish ed will take over its operation as soon as the Army lets him go. Hen Plays Mother In Wholesale Way Amarillo, Tex. (U.R) It isn't & unusual for a mother hen to ' adopt a few extra chicks to go along with her own, but a Rhode Island Red belonging to W. T. Dyke'man goes in for the idea on a large scale. A mother of five of her own, this biddie lost one shortly after hatching. Then, when Dykeman bought 100 incubator chicks, she took them under her wing, and added another 100 a short while later. She spreads herself over as many of the 204 chicks as she can at night, and has fought off all attempts of other hens to pirate some of her brood. ,S.D. Wasta, S. D Aug. 31 U.R) Their once-green rangeland par adise stripped of its foliage and victory gardens, Wastanits to day peered fearfully from barri caded homes as officials fought to stem a tide of hungry "corn hoppers." Hopes of Wasta's 500 citizens to save the town from virtual annihilation rested In a powerful weapon 10 tons of slow acting poison, being spread to kill the invaders. But the counterattack was expected to take a week. Several million of the ravan ous cornhoppers, actually out sized grasshoppers which appear during Ihe corn season, descend ed on Wasta day before yester day. Soon the town's pride anci Joy, green lawns and gardens kept fertile in this arid land by irrigation, were wrecked. HORSE ADOPTS HOME Detroit (U.R) They couldn't turn a horse out in rainy weather, so Mr. and Mrs. Jamer R. Waggener of Detroit built a stall fpr a wonderer who appear ed on their property and, enjoy ing the company of their other horses, refused to leave. 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