FOUR 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.
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, 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.
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alive by forces In Tokyo writers.
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(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-
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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.
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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. Thr
sheriff and police departmen
have been able to find nobody
who has lost a horse, so th
Waggencrs are stuck with him
Use Mall Trlhune Want Ada.
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