Japanese Sought Russian Intervention Last June, Diet Session Reveals
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Revealing orgies of bestial beatings. Inquisitorial regime of Jap
prisoners in Yokosuku area, suffered from concussions, malnutrition, burns are liberated. Wildly
f jubilant, these men from camp at Omori. Japan, wave American, British and Netherlands flags.
U. S. Navy radio-telephoto from U.S.S. Iowa.
Torture, Murder of Americans By Japs
Detailed In State Department Release
Washington. Sept. 5 (U.R)
The United States today laid
bare an unsavory and unbeliev
able story of Japan's "barbaric
torture and wanton murder'' of
American prisoners a story
that included a detailed account
of the decapitation of an Ameri
can aviator.
A 10.000-word state depart
ment release accused Japan of
virtually every conceivable vio
lation of the laws of civilization.
Japanese Deny Deeds
The Japanese denied starving
children internees shoes and
winter clothing in sub zero
weather . . . ordered all prison
ers of war captured in the clos
ing days of the Philippines cam
paign killed . . . tossed grenadrs
into the hold of a sinking ship
filled with 750 American pris
oners . . . made a huge gaso
line bonfire out of an air raid
shelter containing 150 American
prisoners and buried survivors
alive.
The story was told in the 19
protests the United States made
to Japan since June 21, 1 1144,
about the inhumane treatment
of Americans. The protests
were not made public until alt
er V-J day because, the state de
partment said, the Japanese
countered such publicity with
the charge that this country was
staging "atrocity campaigns ' to
discredit Japan.
The Japanese, the department
added, charged that such "cam
paigns" made conditions "unfiiv
orable" for negotiating the ship
'rnent of relief supplies to Amer
ican prisoners or the repatria
tion of Americans.
Many Protests Sent
The humane treatment of war
prisoners is prescribed in derail
in the Geneva convention to
which the U. S. is a signatory.
Japan has never signed but the
state department said she has
"repeatedly maintained" she is
applying it to the treatment of
w-ar prisoners.
Since'the beginning of the war
the United States sent a total
of 240 protests to Jnpan about
violations of the prisoners vf
war convention, but with little
effect upon Japanese authori
ties. Secretary of State James F.
Byrnes described the release as
"not a pleasant story." He prom
ised that the perpetrators of tor
ytures and massacres of Ameri
cans would be deait with by
proper: cuuy.r.utcd aulUui.'.-Cj.
MEDFORD'
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Hamilton Field. Cal., Sept.
5 (U.R) The first contin
gent of American prisoners
of war liberated from Asi
atic internment camps fol
lowing Japan's surrender,
arrived at Hamilton field
aboard a C-54 transport to
day and received a tumult
ous welcome from their joy
ous families.
They were preceded a few
minutes by Gen. Carl A.
Spaatz, whose strategic air
forces devastated the war
making industry first of
Germany, then of Japan. He
landed here in his Flying
Fortress.
The returning American
liberces included several
general officers who fought
to the last in a gallant de
laying action on Bataan in
1942.
The reports are filled with
names of Japanese responsible
for the atrocities. t
The slate department release!
said that "full account" of Jap
anese barbarities would not be
revealed until the "ien, womeji j
and children who survived cap-
tivity return home to tell their
stories. I
"Only with the deepest hor-:
ror cari the civilized people of j
the world comprehend a deliberately-thought-out
policv of
such brutality," the state depart- j
ment said.
10,000 Hidden , ,
The report revealed that near
ly 10.000 American prisoners
were hcid by the Japanese in
camps never visited by a neu-'
tral representative. Practically j
nothing, it said, was known of i
the whereabouts or welfare of
American airmen who were shot
down in action over Japan.
Charges contained in the re
port included:
1. Prisoners in the Philippines'
were deprived of their shoes
and forced to work barefooted
on sharp coral.
2. On one occasion prisoners
were forced to kneel for long
periods with their shinbones on
the sharp edi;e of railroad tracks
and afterward compelled to run
barefooted on sharp coral gravel, i
3. Latrines were located where j
they polluted wells from which I
prisoners' drinking water was
drawn.
4. Four American civilians
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MEDFORD, 0
Mcm WioTelVfirioroJ
prison campi, first of some 500
Johnson and Clifford Lawrence
Larson were "murdered" at
Santo Tomas internment camp
at Manila. They were arrested
on still unrevealed charges and
their bodies found later with
10 unidentified corpses.
Wanton Murder
5. George J. Louis was "wan
tonly murdered" at Los Banos
internment camp, Philippines.
He was shot, but not fatally,
by the Japanese when he left
camp to purchase food. Internees
appealed that Louis be moved to
the camp hospital but the camp
commandant, a Major Iwanaka,
informed them that Louis' ex
ecution must be completed since
he had ordered the guards to
shoot "until they kill" persons
violating camp boundaries.
Louis, still alive, was shot
through the head action which
the state department described
as "summary and cold-blooded
execution."
Hourly bus service for Mcd
ford with two trips daily to
Jacksonville will be inaugurated
tomorrow by the Evergreen Bus
Lines, Inc., it was announced to
day by L. P. Kelly. Mr. Kelly,
who is moving to Mcdford to
act as branch manager, said the
service here will be conducted
as a branch of the Evergreen
line whose headquarters are in
Washougal, Wash.
The busses will travel the
length of Main street from the
eastern city limits to the western
limits each hour, beginning at
6:45 a m., under a city permit
which has already been obtain
ed. Two daily trips from Jack
sonville will be made, one at
6.:i0 a.m. and the other at 6:15
p.m. Application for the Jack
sonville service permit has been
filed with the PUC.
More busses will be added and
the service increased to 18 hours
daily, as patronage warrants,
Kelly said.
HALSEY ON IOWA
Yokosuka, Japan, Sept. 5
(U.R' Admiral William F. (Bull)
Halsey transferred from the ur.t
tieship Mi.-souri to her sister
thip, U;e Iuwa, tuday.
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m, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1943.
FBSTT TOMES
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IN CITY SATURDAY
Vanguard Units of Eighth
Army Selects Buildings
Permanent Headquarters
General MacArthur's Head
quarters, Yokohama, Sept. 5
(U.R) Eighth army reconnais
sance squads entered Tokyo to
day to prepare the city for its
formal occupation by the veter
an U. S. first cavalry division
Saturday.
Vanguard units moved Into
the bomb-shattered capital to
select buildings for the perma
nent occupational headquarters
of Allied forces in Japan.
Washington, Sept. 5 (U.R)
Only three divisions will be
redeployed to the Pacific the
ater, the 86th and 97th in
fantry divisions and the 13th
airborne division, the war de
partment announced today.
Maj. Gen. William C. Chase,
Chevy Chase, MD., commander
of the famous first cavalry, will
lead his battle-seasoned men in
to Tokyo late Morning or early
afternoon Saturday.
MacArthur Coming
It was regarded as certain
that Allied Supreme Command
er Gen. Douglas MacArthur will
move into the capital with the
troops and that he will transfer
his headquarters quickly from
Yokohama to Tokyo.
Forces that will initially oc
cupy Tokyo included the seventh
and fifth regiments, a combat
reconnaissance squadron, and
artillery and service troops of
the first cavalry.
Two other first cavalry regi
ments occupying four air fields
and other territory nearby will
be relieved by the America!
division, probably Saturday, and
will move into Tokyo later to
join the vanguard elements.
The seventh regiment began
selecting an honor guard from
its ranks today to escort Gen.
MacArthur jnto the capital.
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take over the center of Tokyo.!'"1"" "'7 .i '.""""Cox. 412 Crater Lake avenue,
products for the consuming pub- to crcct residence costinc
SLATE OPENINGS
Uniontown and Pinchurst
were the only schools in the
county opening terms Tuesday.
Griffin Creek, Sams Valley,
West Side, Fern Valley, How
ard, and Bellvicw are scheduled
to start next Monday, the county
school superintendent's office
shows. Some rural schools have
postponed openings until later
in the month, due to carpenter
work and painting being unfin
ished. Ashland, Trail, Prospect, Tal
ent, Kerby, Rogue River, Gold
Hill, Oak Grove, Evans Valley
and Shady Cove are scheduled
to start Monday, September 17.
Mcdford Junior high school will
also open that date, along with
the elementary grade schools.
Jacksonville, Ruch Sterling.
Eagle Point, Appleg.ite and
Phoenix will open Monday, Sep
tember 24.
Medford senior high school,
due to many students working in
packing plants and orchards,
will not start until Monday,
October 1.
U. P. BUREAU OPENED
Nanking, Sept. 5 (U.P.J Unit
ed Press Correspondent Georce
Wang reopened the United pre.-s Office in the U. S. Employment! wagon shed and cabin were con
Nanking bureau yesterday in the service, comer 6th and Fir , stnu ted of native timber and
ilctropoliiau botcl, streets, jtvnc and given a look of age
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Purchase of Lost River and
Nansen Dairies Told By
Dairymen Organization
Purchase of the plant and
business of the Lost River Dairy.
1723 North Riverside Ave., of
the retail milk route of Nanscn's
Dairy and of land adjoining the
Lost River plant for a modern
cheese factory was announced
today by .the Southwest Oregon
Dairyman's Cooperative. Opera
tion of both the plant and the
wholesale and retail milk routes
was started Sept. 1 and con
struction of the cheese factory is ;
to start at once, accoroing to
C. A. Smith, president of the co
operative.
The cooperative will sell pas
teurized milk, butter, ice cream
and cheese, it was stated, with a
trade name to be selected later.
Smith declared organization of
the cooperative, which now has
membership of about 200 .
dairymen from all parts of the Portland news sources quoted
county, was one of the most im-1 George W. Coplen, regional rcp
portant steps ever taken by i resentativc of the national au
Jackson county farmers. thority as announcing that prl-
Bolance Supply, Demand
"Operation of the dairy and j
cnecse laciory win not only dc;
the means of obtaining the high
est possible return for rairymen,
but will also strike a balance be
tween supply and demand for
dairy products in the valley,"
Smith declared. He stated that
for many months there has been
a shortage of milk in both Mcd
ford and Ashland, even though
production might be high in out
lying districts, and that the co
operative would not only supply
regular customers and routes
but would be able to supply
other wholesale operators who
might have temporary short
ages. "Members of the cooperative,
business men and others Inter
ested believe that operation of
the cooperative will result not
only in
a higher return to the
n of the county but in a
dairyme:
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III., tZMHIUl NIIU,
$30,000 Plant
The additional land for the
rheese factory was purchased
from Mrs. Jennie V.'aldon. The
property, having approximately
150-foot frontage, joins the pres
ent Lost River dairy plant on
the south. The new factory will
cost about $30,000, according to
Smith, and will be a separate
establishment not connected di
rectly with the dairy plant.
T. L. Goodwin, formerly man
ager for the Lost River company,
has been retained by the cooper
ative in that capacity and all
other personnel will continue on
the staff, Smith slated. Officers
of the cooperative, organized
about a year ago ,in addition to
Smith, arc Jewell Ijwc, Ash
land, vice president; Roscoc Ro
berts, Eagle Point, secretary;
George Stowell, Mcdford, treas
urer; Glenn Chase, Rogue River
and Leonard Freeman, Central
Point, board members.
CAMP NAVAL HOSPITAL
HAS JOBS FOR MANY
The civil service commission
announced today that applica
tions are being received to fill
vacancies at the U. S. Naval nos-1
pital at Camp White. The follow- j
ing personnel is needed: hospiUil j
mess attendants, maids, cooks,)
meatcutters, chauffeurs a n d j
stewards.
Applicants are requested to I
call at the local Civil Service i
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PRIORITIES FOR
IE
Approval of priorities for pri
vately financed construction of
50 f:imilv dwelling units ill Mod-
fold has been announced by the county property on which the
National Housing Authority ae- new Mcdford air park Is situ
rnrriinB to n wire received todnv ated, was enacted by the city
bv Mark Goldv. executive direc-1
tor of the housing authority of
Jackson county, from James E.
Maxwell, state representative
for the National Housing An-1
iiiuriiy. luuiuuiim chhhiis are iu
be sent at once by letter, Max-
wel sa d in the w rc.
Goldy stated that the county
housing authority had negotiat
ed for the past threo months tor
permission tp construct addition
al housing units here. According
to the wire, the maximum sale
price for the units would be
$7000 and the maximum rental
would be $55
orities had been secured for nrl
vate construction of 50 dwelling
units in the Salem area and 25
in the Coos Bay district.
'HI
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Sixty building
permits,
amounting tn $79,4tj4,
greatest
amount since Sept 1944 mrc ueiui mine uiu mnm u uaium-sc raii-
issued last month from the nf-! using the system and to roads In the past year,
ficc of the city superintendent, I ''l'01 adjustment! 4- S"P losses and the Anieri-
it was reported yesterday. Per- i of rn,cs 10 bcln January 1. can blockade reduced the carry
mils for new residences and The cl,y superintendent was I ing capacity of Japanese ships
businesses accounted for S52 634 ' n,so mi,llorizca ' Purchase a to 23 per cent of the pre-war
and general repairs to buildings',, '"'H'"-'1 ,""u:l
amounted to $21,525.
Applications for building per-
mi(s wcr0 rilp(, yOS,crdi,y . tho
sporintendenfs office by K. J.
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i j,uuu aim iiiiiwii nuui, iti
fl nin tirm: n . no.
Alder street, to remodel and re -
pair a woodshed at a cost of $35.
TIME CHANGE AIM city bus line was given L. P.
Washington, Sept. 5 (U.R) j Kelly and the closing of the
Rep. Paul Brown, D . Ga., to- alley of Brohack reserve was
day introduced a bill for return held over until a special meeting
from war time to standard time, at 7:13 p, m., Oct. 2.
Filming of "Canyon Passage"
in Progress at Diamond Lake
Filming of "Canyon Passage",
Ernest llaycox novel of pioneer
Jacksonville days, is now under
way in the Diamond Lake re
gion. With the arrival earlier
this week of Susan Hayward,
Brian Donlevy, Andy Devine,
Ward Bond and Dana Andrews,
shooting of scenes was to have
started yesterday or today, wea
ther permitting.
Accompai ying the stars will
be a company of 130 extras and
technical workers. Jacques
Tourneur will be directing and
RitMiard Kioriel is art director.
Filming is expected to take
about three weeks, with the
cast and company housed at the
Diamond Lake resort lodge,
A group of buildings has been
constructed during the past
week as a setting for the film.
with Mount Thiclson in the
background. A ranchhouse.
Leased Wlrft
NO. 141.
AT
County Acquires All Fair
grounds Property; City
Deeded Land At Air Strip
An ordinance which authorizes
the deeding of city property lo
cated at the fair grounds to
Jackson county In exchange for
council at the regular meeting
j last night. With passing of the
ordinance, Jackson county will
owyi ail property ai in iuir
grounds on which buildings are
ed! tod and the city will own
all air strip land, City Superin
tendent Frank Rogers said. Dedi
cation of a strip of land at the
airport for road purposes was
also made.
L. Glenn Hall, engineer for
the planning commission of Sun
Francisco, was selected to do-
; sign the new city park and work
' is to begin at once on plans for
the park with landscaping be -
ginning as soon as possible.
Notification of J. W. Cunning-
ham and associates, of Portland,
to prepare detailed plans and
specifications for enlargement of
the city disposal plant and In-
tercepting sewer east of Bear
creek. Is to be made by Rogers anese production to 25 per cent
at once. I of 'he pre-war figure long be-
A contract with Tru-Mix Con- j fore the introduction of the,
crete company to Install curbs ; atomic bomb,
and gutters on the Intersections I 2. The coal shortage had be
of Summit avenue between come so acute In the final
Fourth and Jackson streets was months of the war that many
approved by the council. There factories were on the point ot
was a discussion of furnishing closing down for that reason
city sewer system service to alone.
those who live outside the city 3. Air raids and depreciation
limits and the superintendent of rolling stock halved the car-
board. 5, Air raids killed and wound-
Approval of a $300 appropria- ed hundreds of thousands of per
tlon to the Chamber of Com-1 sons, burned 2.200,000 houses
nicrce to defray expenses of a ard gradually destroyed great,
new booklet on Medford, the va-: medium and even small cities
eating of Gladys street, and the with "calamitous consequences."
sale of lot 6, block 3, West Wal-1 8. The ruins of Hiroshima and
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1 ', '"'""' lo, 'mJara "clas-
$100, was given.
A permit to operate an Inter-
with moss and mud.
oaroeci wire reiices were mi n
down and replaced with the
less modern rail type and since
the picture is to be In technicol
or, grass and shrubs which had
turned brown with the advance
ment of the season have been
spnyed with green paint. A
church was devised by adding a
belfry to an old C'CC camp
building.
The art director has been
quotcd to the effect that filming
will depend entirely upon wca-1 -There is little use In going
ther since the skies must havcback to the past and trying to
white, billowy clouds for beat
phitography result3. Marines
from the Klamath Falls bar
racks are to be used to portray
Rogue Indians needed for the
picture.
It is understood that the Dia
mond Lake district wis selected
for the filming rather than the
immediate vicinity of Jackson
ville due to the open type of
countryside.
READY TO QUIT
preb avers
Russia Ignored Appeal and
Declared War Aug. 8
Nips Taste Bitter Cup
Tokyo. Sept. 5 (U.R) Jap.
anese government spokesmen
admitted before n extraordi
nary session of the Imperial diet
today that they had appealed
for Russian intervention last
June in a last-minute attempt
to save Hirohito's dying empire.
ln. frank review of the dis
asters that led to Japan's down
fall, Premier Prince Naruhiko
Higashi-Kunl and his aides told
the diet that the first reply to
their peace feelers was the Pols-
dam ultimatum of July 26 de
j mandlng the empire's Immediate
ana unconditional surrender.
Overtures Ignored
Soviet Russia, they said, fg
nored the Japanese overtures
until Aug, 8 when It handed a
declaration of war to Japan
ambassador in Moscow.
"It became obvious that con
tinuation of the war would en
tail calamitous destruction and
relentless slaughter of our peo
ples' existence and annihilation
of the cause of human civiliza
tion," the spokesmen said.
"We are now tasting the bitter
cup of defeat," said Higashi
Kunl In somber appeal to the
Japanese people to admit their
downfall and accept "manfully
and faithfully and with broad
mindedness" all the allied sur
render terms.
The premier and his official
spokesmen acknowledged tacitly
they were ready te capitulate;
when the Potsdam ultimatum
was issued and before the first
! atomic bomb
fell upon Hiro-
shima.
Surrender Delayed
The actual surrender wet
withheld, however, In the hop
that Russian mediation would
enable them to preserve soma
shreds of their stolen empire.
Finally, on Aug. 10, the de
tiMun iu yiciu unconditionally
was reached at an unprecedent
; ed dawn meeting of the cabinet,
" " " Japanese Warned
Higashi-Kuni said the war hnd
I been brought to an end "solely
j through tho benevolence of our
: sovereign ana warned the Jap-
! anese people that their duty now
lay in "absolute obedience to
the imperial will,"
In tracing the factors that led
to Japan's capitulation, he re
vealed that:
i. American air raids cut Jap-
V V
. ii. , m
j "a OI ine ?"' lwo
atomic bombs dropped during
the war, were "too ghastly to
look upon."
6. Diminishing supplies of In
dustrial salt from the Asiatic
continent began to cut Into Jap
anese munitions production in
mid-1945.
Guadalcanal First
7. The war situation first turni
ed against Japan with the loss
of Guadalcanal, her downfall be
gan with the fall of the Mari
anas, and the loss of Okinawa
completed a blockade of the
home islands.
o. uy may anci June, Japan
ruaieriai ana Ilgntlng resources
I had become undermined that
ii was impossiDie to carry on a
modern war,
9. The Soviet declaration of
war forced Japan Into "the
worst International situation."
Higashi-Kunl said the causes
of Japan's defeat were so num
erous that "all we can do Is to
appeal to his imperial magnan
imity to pardon our unparnon-
aDe stupidity.'
put the blame on one person
or another," he said.
"General repentance is de
manded of the whole nation. No
doubt we committed mistakes.
Our methods were faulty In not
a few respects, nor can it be
said that our efforts were always
exerted in the right direction."
The Golden Gate Bridge inj
San Franciscp is 1 miles loofe