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SHOOTINO cease In Chin
after n apparently pc,
Ocular mooting last night be
tween Chiang Kjil-shck and Qon
tral MnriihuTl. (At litis moot
Ing, Chtung announces crypti
cally, "seemingly unaurmount
abl obstacles wort a'Ciod
way.) ...
t h a shooting finally
topped, evonti mov iwlIU
Chiang thl morning openi the
long-pending Chlnoso political
consultation conference, and an
nounce that Uio government
. (hia government) will:
V 1. Grant the pcoplo freedom
Of apoech, conscience, poraon,
publication (froo press) and as
sociation (free assembly) and will
aafoguard them against illegal
arrest and trial.
2. Thut ALL political parties
J will hnreaftor bo equal before
. the law and may hereafter oper-
ate openly within tlio law. .
3. That local self-government
will bo actively promoted in all
? luces and that free popular dec
lona will bo held. ' .
4. That political prisoner, ex
cept traitors and those commit
ting definitely Injurious acts
against tho government, will be
released.
GENERAL CHOU EN-LAI, tha
No. 2 communist loader, ap
prove these four point and
aays they are basic for achieving
constitutional government.
Experience bus taught us to
keep our fingers crossed, but It
really begins to look aa If China
might bo getting started on a
program of peace and reconstruc
tion. That would ba definitely
BIO development from our
standpoint. ...
WHAT of Russia1 part In th
Chinese settlement?
Well, a few straws are begin
ning to appear In tha winds. It
was announced Inconspicuously
a few days ago that Outer Mon
golia (which borders Russian
Siberia) la to become an inde
pendent people' republic (prob
ably with Russia' blessing.)
Thl morning' dispatches ay
ft Is "believed" that at last
night' meeting witli Ccnoral
. 1 11 rU.f 1 .... 1 I. .fl.lt
J1IMI BIIMII, V,lIWg
to "modify hi prevlou insist
ence tnat me nationalist limine,.
king government) should occupy
certain specified STRATEGIC
provinces of Chnhar and Jehol."
YOUR map will make It clear
to you that Outer Mongolia
and Inner Mongolia, IF under
Russian influence, will provide
. for Russia on the east tho same
kind of PROTECTIVE BAND of
friondly government she teems
to bo determined to build up
clear around her borders.
'ANOTHER straw:
Th riisnntclie state today
that U. S. Ambassador Lane has
informed tho Polish provisional
government that he will oppose
the grunting of ANY U. S. funds
to Poland as long as "present
conditions" prevail there.
Tho "present condition" to
which he objects seems to bo a
Polish decree NATIONALIZING
all basic Polish industries em
ploying more than SO persons
per shift. (Nationalizing means
taking over by the government.)
Tho Polish government Is un
dor Russia's thumb.
. '
STILL another straw:
Five American correspond
ents were permitted recently to
visit tho Russian-occupied zono
of Germany. They reported
cautiously upon their return that
a "PLANNED ECONOMY for
Industry and business nnd wide
spread revision of land owner,
ship aro the basis of tho Soviet
program In Russian-occupied
finrmanv "
That Is to say, all of eastern
Germany la to bo added to the
ring of "friendly" governments
by which Russia Is surrounding
herself.
TT is bocomlng slowly apparent
that in the new world that is
being carpentered together two
basically opposed systems of gov
ernment will face each other
throughout a great part of the
world the Russian system in
which the STATE IS EVERY
THING and the Anglo-American
(Continued n Pas 8, Column S)
Telephone
Tie-Up Near
In Oregon
Phone Workers Vote
To Respecr Union
Picket- Lines
PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 10 (P)
A tlc-up of long distance calls
from Portland and many west
ern Oregon cities loomed today
after phone worker voted to
respect picketing scheduled to
morrow by striking equipment
technicians.
Members of the 3000 United
Telupliono Employes of Oregon
voted lust nlglit to stay away
from offices of the Pacific Tele
phono and Telegraph company
throughout the statu If pickets
apneur.
Workers of the independent
Association of Communication
Equipment Workers, who instull
and maintain Weatorn Electric
equipment of the company, loft
their Jobs yesterday morning.
Their pickets were expected to
appear shortly after midnight
tonight.
Company officials reported
dial phone service here would
contlnuo unless disrupted by
equipment failure. Supervisory
workers will handle emergency
long distance calls and attempt
to mulntain leased wiro service
to newspaper and radio sta
tion. F. D. Tellwright, general man
ager of tho company'a Oregon
system, yesterday asked all
phono employes to continue
working.
Pickets wcra expected to ap
pear at Portland exchange of
fices shortly after midnight
Thursday.
SEATTLE. Jon. 10 (P) Dis
ruption of the state's telephone
service tomorrow appeared Im
minent with announcement to
day of plans by tho striking
Association of Communication
Equipment Workers to place
picket before most exchanges
before the main day shift ar
rives for work.
Fred A. Fedden, secretary
treasurer here of tho ACEW
local, said that provided no lost
mlnulo ' settlement is readied
today in the east In the strike
against Western Electric, the
piciteis wnt appear irortv o:au
.m. on in front or most ex
chunaea here, at Snokane. Ta.
coma, Bellingham, Yakima , and
perhaps Lcwlston, Ida.
Truce Reached
In China War
CHUNGKING, Jan. 10 OP)
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek
announced today, shortly after
a truce nad Drought an immedi
ate end to China's civil war,
that tha government had decid
ed to legalize all political
parties,.
Ho said tha government
would free all purely political
prisoners, grant tho people
irecaom or speccn ana promote
meat sen government.
Chiang, opening the nolltlcal
consultation conference almost
simultaneously with the conclu
sion of tho ceaso fire agree
ment, announced the govern
mcnt had decided to:
1. Grant the people freedom
of person, conscience, speech,
publication, and association and
to safeguard them against il
legal arrest and trial.
2. All political parties shall
bo equal before the law and
may operate openly within the
law.
3. Local self-government will
activoly be promoted in all
places and popular elections
will be held.
4. Political prisoners, except
traitors' and those found to have
committed definite acts injuri
ous to the republic, would be
released .
Gen. Chou En-Ial. No. 2 conv
munist leader, approved the
four points and said they wero
Dasic lor acnicving conatitu
tlonnl government.
Gen. George Marshall, spe
cial u. s. envoy to China, broke
the deadlock In Chinese negoti
ations for a truce last night by
visiting Generalissimo Chiang
Kai-shek. .
Clothes Of Missing Kelso
Man Found; 2 Men Quizzed
ALBANY. Ore.. Jan. 10 m
Two men who Sheriff Mike
Southard said confessed to tak
ing a Kelso, Wash., logger for a
fatal ride December 16 were be
ing questioned today about still
another missing: Kelso man.
Clothes belonging to Frank
Anderson, a vanished Kelso log
dna camD cook, wero found in
suitcase carried by tho pair
now in Jail here. , -
Tha tw.o S. D. McClaln, 67,
and Jack Mann, 27 confessed
last month, tho sheriff said, that
they dumped tho body of Ernest
Bowman, 45-yoor-old Kelso log
ger, into a, stream after he was
shot by McClaln. Bowman's
body hag not been found. , .
McClaln refused, Ilia ahcrllt
said, to give any Information
about Anderson, . who disap
peared from Kelso Nov. IB while
carrying $5000 in cash and $3500
in Donas,
Doputy Sheriff B. D. Jacobs,
who came here yesterday from
Kelso, identified clothing and a
watch found in a suitcase in
Mann's home as belonging to
Anacrson. xne suitcase also con
tained some of Bowman's ef
fects, ho said.
McClaln stated he' had given
tho sultcaso to Mann, Sheriff
Southard said. Ha was quoted as
saying that ho and Mann drove
from Kelso to Portland in An
derson's car Nov. 19 tha date
of Anderson's disappearance, and
that the suitcase was in the car.
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Scene Of Chicago Kidnopin t$s& 1" Degnan Ransom Note
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Map locates (1) north side Chicago home from which (-year-old
Susanna Dagnan was kidnaped, (2) catch basin in araaway of
apartment building whin child's hand was recovered, (3) an
other catch basin whin loft lag was found. (4) third catch basin
whin right lag was found in brown shopping bag and (S)
sawar whin torso, minus arms .and legs was recovered. (AP
Wlnphoto Map).
Hare an both sides of th ransom note lift In th bedroom
of Susanna Dagnan, 6-yiar-old daughter of an OPA official
whoti dismembered body was found In Chicago naax bar home.
Th oll-stalnad paper bora this legend: (lift) cat 120.000 raddy
and waita for word. Do NOT notify FBI or police bills in 5'a
and 10's; (right) burn this for har safety. Similarity to th Lind
bergh crime baa bun noted In th cas. (AP wirephoto).
Gl Demonstrations Overseas Protesting
Discharge Delay Branded "Near Mutiny
WASHINGTON, Jan. 10 (P)
Son. Edwin C. Johnson (D
Colo.) who has declared condi
tions in the army to be "near
mutiny." was named chairman
of a special senate military sub
committee today to explore tho
whole demobilization situation.
Chairman Elbert Thomas (D-
Utah) of the senate military af
fairs committee, also named
Senators Briggs (D-Mo.) and
Itovercomb
group,
W. Va.) to the
Johnson said BrigKs was out
of the city, but he got in touch
with KevercomD ana arranged
for expedited action.
He wrote Gen. Dwight D.
Eisenhower, chief of staff, and
Acting Secretary of War Ken
neth C. Royall asking them to
appear before the subcommittee
at their earliest convenience "to
explain the whole situation."
"Our hope Is that we can
stabilize the situation and clar
ify it," Johnson told a reporter.
"We want to do it as fast as we
can. Congress must determine
the military policy of this coun
try." Johason earlier called GI dem
onstrations overseas in connec
tion with the demobilization
slowdown "near mutiny" and
"distressing and humiliating to
all Americans."
Johnson formally called upon
the senate military committee to
Bowles Fights
Price Boosts
By MARVIN L. ARHOWSMITH
WASHINGTON, Jan. 10 (fl
OPA Administrator Chester
Bowles, flatly opposed to food
Drlce increases recommended by
Secretary of Agriculture Ander
son, nas appealed lor a slower
removal of government sub
sidies. Officials who know his views
say the price boss has written to
Stabilization Director John C.
Collet asking that food subsidies
be continued beyond dates tenta
tively set In, a program drafted
in November.
At that time Collet announced
the government hoped to end by
next June 30 virtually all such
food payments. Purpose of the
$1,785,000,000 a year war-born
program, is to keep retail prices
from rising.
. Bowles took up the fight for
extended subsidies against a
background of blunt OPA oppo
sition to Anderson's recommen
dation for an 18-cent-a-pound
butter price increase by next
spring.
OPA also has fought auietly
Anderson's proposal for higher
meat prices.
Officials who asked that tliev
not be named said Bowles takes
the Dosition that since food
prices have not declined as ex
pected and actually nave risen in
some instances, subsidies pro
vide the only way to prevent a
general increase in the cost of
Weather
(January 10)
Max. (Jan. 9) ... 29 Min 21.
Precipitation last 24 hours 00.
Stream yar to date 8.38.
Normal ....5.18. Last year ....4.35.
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summon Gen. Dwight D. Eisen
hower "at the earliest possible
moment" for a full investigation.
Johnson, a member of the
committee, asked congress to
t:ikc a hand in the situation
after the war department dis
closed It was undertaking to re
cast its entire demobilization
program. -
Pressure
The Increnslng pressure from
disgruntled Gl's demonstrating
overseas obviously was a factor
affecting both the congressional
and army approach to the prob
lem: Eisenhower, army chief of
staff, authorized theater com
manders, pending issuance of
the new demobilization program,
to return home all surplus per
sonnel regardless of their point
scores.
In a letter to Chairman Thom
as of the senate military commit
tee, Johnson declared that "no
American army t must ever be
oermitted bv congress to degen-
Lerate,Uftto airibb. What must
our . neighbor natlonarthlnkr of
such an outrageous display of Ir
responsibility?
Johnson also asserted that the
war department was repudiating
"solemn pledges aDOUt aemuui
'Overseas Nerves' Blamed
By 'Pappy' For Endearing
Terms Of Letters To Lucy
By JAMES S. LINDSLEY
HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 10 W)
Rugged, stocky "Pappy" Boy
ington was honeymooning today
with blonde former Frances
Baker, after a fast-breaking ro
mance which left his attractive
bride "happier than I can tell"
and "stunned" the brunette who
asserts he jilted her.
Pappy, otherwise Lt. Col.
Gregory Boyington, marine
corps air ace who spent 20
months as a prisoner of the
Japanese, said the affectionate
terms of a series of telegrams
and letters he had sent Mrs.
Lucy Malcolmson were the re
sult of "overseas nerves."
"Remember, I'd been out of
the country a long, long time,"
he remarked, a little sheepish
ly. The colonel, at a press con
ference, gave his version of the
romantic mixup which in the
past few days may have made
him wish he was back fighting
the Japanese over Rabaul,
where he was shot down Janu
ary 3, 1944, and subsequently
taken captive.
He said he met Mrs. Mal
colmson about June, 1942, on
the SS Brazil as he was return
ing to the states from Bombay.
In December, 1942, before
he returned to combat, he con
tinued, he entered into a legal
trusteeship which made her
guardian of his children by a
previous marriage, Gregory Jr.,
10, Janet Sue. 8, and Gloria, 6.
They are now with his parents
in Brewster, Wash.
The flier said he went to
Reno New Year's Eve to dis
cuss dissolving the trusteeship,
under which, he declared, she
had received between $16,000
and $18,000 in salary and allot
ments while he was overseas.
But he wound up giving her
a "sort of engagement ring.
However,- he added, he told her
there would be no marriage be
tween them.
"Mrs. Malcolmson had no
reason to announce we would
be married," he declared.
In Reno, Mrs. Malcolmson
her divorce suit from Stewart
Malcolmson, Australian produc
tion manager for General Mo
tors, marked "off calendar"
went into seclusion. Her attor
ney said she told him she would
return some of Boylngton's per
sonal effects and quoted her:
"I am so stunned I have noth
ing more to say. I have no rea
son to see him further."
Board Favors 19.5 Cents
An Hour Wage Hike For GM
WASHINGTON, Jan. 10 (P) A presidential fact-finding
board recommended today a general wage increase of 19 H '
cents an hour for General Motors production workers. .
President Truman mad public a summary of the board'
report shortly after lt was presented to the Whit House.
He called it "thorough and reasoned" and said it "will com
mend itself to tha good judgement of th American public."
Mr. Truman expressed hop that tha corporation and th
CIO United Automobile Workers, who have been on strike
for 50 days in a demand for a 30 per cent wage boost, will
follow the recommendations and speedily end "thl most
costly conflict."
Lloyd Garrison, chairman of th fact-finding board, esti
mated the 19 H -cent hourly raise recommended would b
around 17 !4 per cant as compared with th 30 per cent de
manded by the workers. '
Tho company had offered slightly over 10 per cant or
about 13 cents an hour.
Th board recommended th strike be called off and that '
the employes be permitted to return to work without dis
crimination. The summary said that a large part of the 19 M cent
hourly recommended wage increase is for cost of living ad-
justment to the workers, who have received no general in
crease sine 1942.
The balance, it said, is to compensate for loss of earnings
as result of shortr work wek and other factors.
lizatlon made to congress last
September by Gen. George C.
Marshall, then chief of staff.
However. Gen. Jacob L.
Devers, chief of army ground
forces, contended in a speech
that public clamor for bringing
I he hnv back immediately is
"jeopardizing our security and
wrecking: the. morale.- of men
needed to maintain the peace,
,.The announcement ' that 'the
army was redrafting Its, demo
bilization program came less
than a week after the war de
partment ordered its demobiliza
tion slow-down which touched
off the series of GI demonstra
tions, in the Pacific and Europe.
: First Chang r
This slow-down order was the
first drastic change in demobili
zation policy since the . broad
general program was announced
after V-E Day.
There was no hint what lines
the new demobilization program
would follow, but the army
promised that the revised plan
would be forthcoming "shortly."
Despite Eisenhower's order
and the promise of a new demo
bilization program, increasing
dissatisfaction with the entire
situation was voiced on Capitol
Hill by some lawmakers return
ing for the opening session of
congress next week.
Iran Seethes
With Unrest
TEHRAN, Jan. 10 (Jf) A gov
ernment announcement said to-
in 4t.nl flcKtino Vinrl hrnken out
in two Russian occupied prov
inces in northern Iran.
A ministry of Interior official
said the outbreaks occurred in
Chalus, on the Caspian sea in
Mazandaran province, and at
Kazvin.
killed and two others wounded
at Kazvin, in rvazvin province,
where the government said
"groups of immigrants and
strangers" fired upon voters dur
ing a provincial election.
The ministry said the attacks
occurred Tuesday after "at
lAmnh to intimidate the voters"
failed.
Kazvin, 90 miles northwest of
Tehran, is the southernmost out.
nit iho Riicainn 7nne nt in
fluence in Iran and may be en
tered only wun me permissiou
of the Russian commandant. ,
Dorris Pioneer
Taken By Death
Herbert Lang, for more than
40 years a prominent resident of
the Dorris, Calif., community,
died at the family home in Dor
ris Tuesday following a brief ill
ness. Mr. Lang, 73 at the time
of his passing, at one time oper
ated the Dorris Mercantile com
pany. He owned considerable
property in that neighborhood
and was a director in the Butte
Valley State bank at his death. '
Mrs. Jennie Lang survives her
husband. Final rites will be held
from the chapel of the Whitlock
Funeral home Friday at 1:30
p. m., with commitment and in
terment in the family plot at the
Picard cemetery, Dorris. - .
Police Seek
Two AAen.DrD
ECidn aping
CHICAGO, Jan. 10 (P) A man once employed at a nursery
ituatad within two block of the horn of Susann Dagnan, ,
kidnap-killing victim, was th object of a police search today.
Mrs. Margaret Perry, operator of th nursery horn, told th
police this man was discharged because of "questionable habits."
Investigators also learned he formerly was a mental patient at
Manteno stati hospital but had bun discharged as curid. Thiy
laid hi formerly was a practicing North Sid dentist.
Inquiry into th identity and background of former employe
of the nursery cam about when Mrs. Parry Identified a ladder
found in an allay at th rear of th Degnan home as on which
had been left at th nursery two years ago by roofing company
employes. .
Th police believe th fiendish kidnap-klller used th ladder
to enter little Susanna's bedroom early Monday when he took
her from her bed, left a 120,000 ransom not, killed her and
dismembered her body. Th child's father, James E. Degnan,
Chicago OPA official, told reporters, however, he had seen the
ladder in th same location in th alley th day before th crime.
Another man (ought, th police disclosed, was an ax-convict
with a record of sex of fans (gainst young girls.
Intensive search for the arm of Susann' body continued,
; all other -parts of the body hav-
llf ing been 'ound in four sewer
Aniee warns
Fate Of Yorld
In UNO Hands
By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER
LONDON, Jan. 10 JP) Tha
United Nations assembly, carry-f
irig forward the world's hopes
for prevention of an atomic
age war, came, into being in
battle-scarred London today and
heard a bald warning that it
holds in its hands the choice of
"life or death" for mankind.
The warning came from Brit
ain's Prime Minister Clement
Attlee after Dr. Eduardo Zuleta
of Colombia had called the dele
gates of the 51 United Nations
to order at 4:03 p. m. (8:03 a. m.
PST.)
"It is for the peoples of the
world, through their representa
tives, to make their choice be
tween life and death,". Attlee
declared in his blunt speech.
Dr. Zuleta, temporary presi
dent of the assembly, told the
delegates in the cream and
gold central hall of Westmins
ter palace on Parliament Square
tnat all must give their unquali
fied and unhesitating . support
from the scourge of war."
The American delegation took
seats long before the last of the
delegates had entered the hall.
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt sat
on the left of Senator Connally
(D-Tex.). Secretary of . State
James F. Byrnes sat on Con
nally's right. They chatted and
laughed during the last min
utes before the two raps from
Dr. Zuleta' gavel threw open
the session.
The galleries overflowed and
many persons stood in the cor
ridors, unable to get in. Curious
citizens began gathering early
in the streets outside, under the
rainbow of the 51 flags of the
nations assembled within. By
noon a crowd of 100 had lined
up for admittance to the public
gallery.
Dx. Paul Henri Spaak, social
ist foreign minister of Belgium,
who was supported by Britain,
was elected president of the
assembly for the London meet
ing. Trygve Lie, Norwegian for
eign minister, was the only
candidate nominated from the
floor. Lie's name was offered
by Russia, who with the United
States, supported him. On a
secret - ballot, the tally was
Spaak 28, Lie 23.
Porff and Lumber
Head Dies Here
Frank H. Ransom. 75. Port
land lumberman who suffered a
heart attack while visiting here
several days ago, died today in
riillside Hospital.
Ransom recently resigned the
presidency of the Eastern and
Western Lumber company, Port
land, to become chairman of its
board He was' president of the
Pacific lumber inspection bureau
last year.
Born in ' San Francisco, he
came to Oregon in 1899. The
widow, two sons, a stepson, a
daughter and two sisters survive.
catch basins Monday night.
Policemen carrying ladder
looked on garage roof and
every other conceivable spot in
the neighborhood where th
killer might have tossed tha
arms.
Although several clues, pre
viously regarded as important,
collapsed during the last 24
hours, police still held for ques
tioning today two janitors and
hunted for a third party they
Two janitors. Hector Vr
burg, 65, and Desire Smet, 35,
held for 48 hour for question- ''
Ing about th kidnap-killine
dismimbermint of Susanna '
Dagnan, 6, war released to
day under habeas corpus -writ.
wanted to Interrogate In con
nection with, the kidnaping and
killing-dismemberment of tha
child.
Under ruling by a criminal
court judge at a habeas corpus
hearing yesterday, the two jan
itors, both of whom underwent
so-called "lie detector'? testa
last night, will be released at
4 p. m. today unless they ara
charged with an offense.
Chief Justice Harold G. Ward
ordered the men retained by
p o 1 i c e for another 24 hour
after Police Sergeant Jack Han,
rahan. and ..state's attorney ' of-
ficials pleaded for more time to
question the two janitors. Both
are employed in apartment
buildings near the Degnan
home in the Edgewater Beach
district on the North Side.
Cas Hotter
: "The case is getting hotter
and hotter all the time," Han
rahan told Judge Ward. "In 24
hours we will know the an. .
swer. '
The Immediate releaaa nf tha
two janitors, . Hector Verburgh,
65, and Desere Smet, 35, and
Verburgh's .wife, Mary, 64, had
been asked by their attorney,
James A. Ricker.
Meanwhile, as notice nrpsanil
for a break in solution of tha
crime which has been described
by officials as "shocking to tha
nation," an additional $10,000
reward for arrest and convic
tion of the killer was posted.
The Chicago Tribune an
nounced it would pay $10,000
for information leading to tha
apprehension and conviction of
the slayer. This brought to $21,.
000 the total rewards offered.
Henley Woman
Severely Burned
Mrs. Fid (Ruby) Ralston. 28-
year-old Henley farm wife, suf-
lerea second and mira degree
burns this morning when a wood
stove she was polishing explod
ed covering Mrs. Ralston with
flames.
The voune woman received
severe burns to both hands and
arms and lesser burns on tha
legs. ' Her clothing was also
burned. Mrs. Ralston attempt
ed to pull a burning overstuffed
chair out of doors in an effort '
to prevent the house from being
destroyed and in so doing added
to the hurts on her hands. Men
working in a nearby potato cel
lar responded to her calls and .
aided in extinguishing the
flames.
Mrs. Ralston was admitted to
Klamath Valley hospital at 10:30
a. m. and her condition late this
afternoon was said fair.
Loyalty Hearings At Tule
Delay Nisei Court Action
cjnmiiwriscn .inn. 1 n tJPi
Because loyalty hearings are be
ing conauciea hi me a uiemivtr
relocation center, a continuance
to February 11 was asked and
arnnforl In foHornl pnurt tndav
for about 1000 Nisei who re
nounced tneir American citizen
ship but now wish to regain it
and avoid deportation to Japan.
Judge A. F. St. Sure granted
the continuance asked by Wayne
Collins, American Civil Liber-
4Iao unlnn nHnrnav rpnrpspnt.ini-
the second generation Japanese
Americans, aner l.uuius ex
plained that "mitigation" hear
ings at Tulelake are. in progress
and many are resulting In re
moval of disloyalty charges.
The Nisei petitions filed last
November 13 contended that in
dividuals had renounced Amer
ican citizenship under strong
pressure from "fanatically pro
Japanese" in the relocation
camps, who often administered
beatings and other violence to
those who opposed them. They
asked habeas corpus writs to halt
deportation and in separate suits
for a cancellation of their citizen
ship renunciations.
Deportations of those who
asked for return to Japan al
ready are underway.