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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 17, 1944)
i a:; if .!?.: i III i PACE TWO HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON WORLD NEWS NTERESTSU IN IN PR SDN f" SALEM - News concerning "the world situation, insofar as German censorship permits its dissemination, is the subject o "keen interest to American pris Loners of war in German prison camps, according to information received by unanes a. aprague, president of the Oregon War chest, from war prisoners aid 01 Fine VMCA, through the national HVar fund of which war prisoners r aid is a member agency. , ... Contributions made by resi dents of Klamath county to the ' local war chest help the national lwar fund finance the work of .war prisoners aid, aprague ex i .Dlained. ' A wireless message received '"by war prisoners aid from -its Geneva headquarters states that ft .''so-called newsrooms" made 'available at various prison - camps are greatly appreciated iand are visited dally by hun dreds of prisoners eager to learn whatever news is released con .terning world affairs, said the r report 10 aprague. i About 50 per cent of the pris oners at the largest German - prison camp are engages in f studies and preparing for exam -inations, the report stated. In i.Hhe language classes, - German, r French, Russian, Spanish- and even Norwegian and Japanese f are being studied, and the camp jjreference library, stocked-: with Dooks provided by war prisoners F aid, is usually crowded with ' young officers engaged in study. . Most of the men at Stalae r-Luft III are "very young, cul- lured and ieei most Keenly the J influence of captivity, with the t- first . two or three months the. most trying, owing to the sudden change from free living to bore fTdom and confinement." said the v, report Among the articles sup-4 ?-piiea Dy war prisoners aid, those J' rnost appreciated are electric f light bulbs for theatre and study y. rooms, oooks ana pnonograpns 1"l E SEATTLE, Aug. 17 V-The f.u. S. immigration service has 1 refused to surrender to Russian authorities - two - Russian mer chant marine officers and two seamen being held for desertion fW-their ship, the Post-IntelU-liencer reported today. The paper said Russian Con.-J- "kul General Andrei E., Vassiliev t and his vice consul came here trom San Francisco to attempt 'to get theVmen early this month. JThe soviet officials appealed to the men to return to their ship "kfter learning they were in cus f tody, but failed. - - '. Raphael P.- Bonham of the Immigration service, explained ,At is .customary to allow desert ing seamerr, regardless of na-i tionality to ship out on vessels J 'of their own choice. x': oonnam, the paper said, de J nied any demand for return of 5 "the deserters had been made t and said the case was. before. I the immigration headquarters fin Washington, D. C, for rou tine treatment. t-i The case involved the disan- jearance of a political "commis- sar from a Russian "ship- and t the feeling of the deserters they i, '-- T r were unjustly unaer suspicion, ;.ne paper reported. j In Washington, Thomas G. t 'Finueanp. rhntrmnn nf tho immt. 'gration board of appeals, said to , ;day two Russian seamen were in custody of immigration authori- ties on charges of failing to re journ to their ship docked in Se- . Finucane said his information was that the two men had been 'refused permission by . their l nip s master to go ashore, but went any way. and then . were ; airaia to return. - Subsequently, , he reported,- they., were picked &.--UP as deserters. ' i. He said the board has - not f reached a decision in the case 'but probably will do so within V A week, . Told 'that the Seattle PosMii . telligencer mentioned two Rus- t uLii;cia us wen as me sea men, Finucane said he had heard v-only of the two seamen but that f additional reports might be re- rwcivcu. J i He added that "to date" his J board hag received no request t from the Russian government i tor return or tne men. VOCATIONAL AILMENT I, Most eleDhant trainers nro nor. rflally deaf. The shrill trumpet- r nig ui uih animais during tne I training period, is injurious to f',iiB iiiuiiaii ear. . Monday Comes Every Day IMIIIliKKIS bis' a v - sr r-- f--x .- -rjWa 3f x --"x-fiSx" v, n everyaay Is Mon day and washday at the WAVE barracks on the naval air station. Shown above performing "housewife duties" are Mary Bracken, SC3c, and Emma Deal. Sic. It -Is noted that even with govern ment priorities, the WAVES must use synthetic clothes pins. x r-xw- Although the calendar may say otherwise, Kaiser Predicts Permanent Program PORTLAND, Aug. 17 W Portland's Tinhatters were en- couraged today Dy a hint irom Edgar F. Kaiser that shipbuild ing is at Swan island to stay. . The general manager of this area's Kaiser yards said at yes terday's launching of the Tanker Swan Island that the yard "never again will be an airpoct. It will stay what it is." I ION OF TREATMENT OF VETS EYED WASHINGTON. Auff. 17 (Jf Full investigation of reports of uiconsiacraie treatment ol war veterans returned from overseas was promised Senator Cordon (R-Ore.) by the war and navy departments in letters the sena tor made public today. Cordon asked for the investi gation when he received reports tiiut service men upon return to this country had been assimicd menial tasks at camps and hnd not been granted leave or treat ment their war records warrant ed. Acting Secretary of War Pat terson said investigation of the charges had failed to substanti ate tuein and only one instance was found where soldiers were asked to assist in menial tasks. This, he said, was in a port where a short -se of Dcrsonnei caused the returned veterans to De askea to assist with the work for a short time to expedite their assignments to reception sta tions. . Navy Secretary Forrcstal snIH the only specific place where re ports of harsh treatment of re turned naval men could be traced by the complainants was' at tne naval construction bat talion replacement depot, Camp Parks. Shoemaker. Calif. He added that the commandant of the twelfth naval district had been directed to conduct an in vestigation. Patterson said returned sol diers were given 21 days' leave upon arrival at reception stations in this country, exclusive of travel time, after which they re turn to a persnnner reassignment center for a thorough physical examination, reconditioning and assignment to' new stations. ekes Proposes Surplus Properiy Disposal Law9 WASHINGTON, Aug. 17 (VI Calling upon congress to enact a surplus property disposal Inw that would prevent a repetition of "the- speculators paradise that followed World War 1," In terior Secretary lckcs proposed today that his own department bo given the job of handling government land disposition. lekes endorsed the pending raurrny-iact-aiewnrt oil! In test imony before the senate military affairs committee, saying ho thought it set up the necessary safeguards for thwarting "the cheats and cliiselers" in sales of billions of dollars worth of unneeded war goods. The interior department, with long experience in administering 13,000,000 acres of publicly owned lands, should be desig- '7-1E v DON P.M LEE-MUTUAL -4 LOWELL 1 I '', Box Office Opens - .j J 1:30 6:45 starts to r Ay 1 hi ETJF? ms vhxi mmrmr . r i i rsc-J- saifca'n(isci"7j rn nit mi lit i m mmtrt i m i m win i i SS HUNTER RIP.HflRnlANE ; I i .... I nnled to handle the lack of dis posing of additional thousands of acres that were acquired for war purposes, lckcs said. lie proposed an iiineiiilmenl to the Munav-Taft Stewart hill to give it that authority, rullior than leaving land disposition un der control of the- uvet'-iill ad ministrator and various agencies which now hold title lo the land. k-kes suggested that some large tracts he cut up into small owner-operated farms, or used as Rrazing lands. He mentioned thai 13,000 acres of irrigable land in the Columbia basin project, acquired by the army for an airport, could bo converted lo small fiinns under tho reclamation laws. 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