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If fage Two Murder Ring Is Suspected in War Of Black Market EDGEWATER, N. J., May 23 (UP) Police today expressed the. belief thut n murder ring, skilled 1 1 in the dissection of victims, may W be operating in metropolitan ' areas of New Jersey and New i York in onnectiop with a black market war. I P As New Jersey police author Lj! ities drew aid from the federal ' bureau of investigation in an at tempt to solve the murders of four and possibly five persons, nil, police fished another lump of lull flesh from the Hudson river. (i Dr. Raphael Gilndy, Bergen county physician, said 60 pieces ' of flesh found Monduy night ,:l floating in a bag in the Hudson y indicated that at least three and j possibly four persons had been ",, murdered and dissected by a pro i"'1 fessional hand. Bergen county In police linked the discoveries to 11 the death of Joseph (Gunboat) Mastropolo, 33, Fairlawn, N. J., ill gambler and black marketeer, I'; , the lower half of whose body was if1 found floating in the Hudson on ' May 8. i J" Police reported that six New g, Jersey racketeers have been ": missing recently from their usu if al haunts and theorized that they I mny have been killed in a black i market war reminiscent of ths i prohibition era killings, f Hohenzollern Scion t Irked at Having to j1 Return to Germany WITH FIRST FRENCH ARMY IN AUSTRIA, May 23 (UP) I Former Crown Prince Frederick Wilhelm, oldest son of the late kaiser, complained that "there are hardly any decent houses left" when told he would be sent back to Germany. The head of the house of Ho- I henzollern spent the war in a comfortable chalet, complete with a pretty mistress, on Lake j Constance. The French removed him to a small hotel room. He Immediately demanded to see Gen. De I.attre De Tassigny, j commanding officer. I "I simply want authorization to return to my little chalet," Fred- t erick told the general. The general told him he was , lucky he had not been shot, and j said he is being returned to Gcr- ' many to await the French gov- ' ernment's decision on his fate. "Wish my Daddy was home to wear it! f" 'JpHAT'S a wish your mother shares with you, little lady. She knows, however, your Daddy still has to finish the job thut took him so fur away from you. Hut you may be sure he is counting on you anil mother to keep things ut home just as lie left them his civilian clothes brushed and fresh the pup healthy and frisky a smile on your lips and a song in your hearts. And remember, there's one thing the Daddy you're lonesome for would especially like to have someone tell him soon in a letter. It's thut every one in your neighborhood really did something handsome this time in buying War llonds. Yes, we can all make it easier mentally as well us physically for our men and women in uniform, if we prove to them now, with extra War Honds, that we're with them every step of the lust hard miles ohead. Conlributii to On Jlh War Loan Drive ly STUDK HAKHK iWt of AiiieruVi life ami trlditionv utu-e IS52 '"m aim HELPING HAND When the native "underground telegraph" on Okinawa island passed the word that Yanks were not the cruel ogres Jap propagandists had painted them, Okinawanj who had fled to the hills began to come back. Above, a marine gives a helping hand to a mother and ber baby, who were among II ci vilians hiding In a cave. Hitler Listed First As War Criminal 4 ? Nazi, Jap Indictments May Reach 100,000 LONDON, May 23 (UP) The mission has Indicted 2,000 nazl and Adolf Hitler and members of the sources reported today. The names of the indicted criminals have been turned over to military authorities, who are charged with arresting and holding Aussie Victory At We.wak Near By United Press The Australian army announc ed today that the battle for the Wewak area of New Guinea has virtually been concluded with the capture of Cape Moon, bust stronghold of the by-passed Jap anese forces in the bitterly con tested region. Melbourne broadcasts recorded by Uniteil Press in San Francisco said only a few isolated enemy positions s'tand between a junc tion of Australian troops advanc ing from the east and west, now 2,000 yards apart. The Australian command said, however, that several thousand Japanese who retreated into the mountain? remain to be elimi nated. vixia fun,;0 ' THE United Nations war crimes' com Japanese war criminals led by German government, reliable them for trial. The indictments were returned after the commission had sifted through literally tons of written evidence. The list of suspects probably included close to 100, 000 names. Probably less than 100 Jap anese have been indicted. How -ver, there is a sub-commission working in Chungking to collect evidence against Japanese war criminals. The task here still was far from completed. The Polish government alone has submitted charges against 15,000 persons. The Poles have the names of gauleiters of every district in occupied Poland and those of officials and personnel of concentration camps where an estimated 5,000,000 persons were exterminated by the nazis. The czech government was listed 0,000 nazi war criminals and is expected to double that number before its list is com plete. In their determination to avenge Lidice, the Czechs have secured an indictment of the en tire SS regiment which cairied out the massacre. ' . .' Radio Paris announced the French government has sent the commission a list of 2,000 Ger man war criminals it wants brought to trial. 4-H Club Session Set at Corvalus COR VALLIS, Ore.,' May 23 (UP) H.-C. Seymour, Oregon slate 4-11 club leader, today an nounced tile annual 4-H flub summer session will be resumed at Oregon Stale college after a lapse of a year. The new dates are June l!)-2!l. The school will be limited to a maximum of 1,000, with county quotas being detei mined on the basis of percentage of completed club projects. rust preference will be to those winning scholarships pre vious to this year but unable to use them. , Hopkins Named On Mission To Russia WASHINGTON, May 23 (UP) President Truman today ap pointed Harry Hopkins, White House advisur, and Joseph E. Da- vies for special diplomatic mis sions to London and Moscow. Hopkins, who accompanied the late President Roosevelt on many of his big three meetings, was assigned to go to Moscow. The announcement said that Hopkins left today with W. Aver ill llarriman, U. S. ambassador to Russia. At Moscow lie will meet with Premier Josef Stalin "upon mat ters now in discussion between tlie Soviet government and the government of the United States." Army Seizure of Truck Lines Looms CHICAGO, May 23 (UP) Army troops camped on the shores of Lake Michigan today as stiikebound trucking companies tKptctcd to hear momentarily that President Truman had or dered si-unit of the truck lines. The soldiers presumably had been ordered hue to take over the truck companies. They moved into Chicago in a SO-truck con voy. The stiikc of 6.500 ihdcpsmk'nt truck' drivers union , iueivt!iet had cnpplJ-d some war plants mid left fi'iod shelves hare in Na'.iy Chicly .-.tores. Thc drivers uetu-d a win labor boai'eV cider to; go back to work. C LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER, LA CRANUE, OREGON WRA Laudation of Jap-Americans Ires House Group WASHINGTON, May 23 (UP) A house appropriations sub committee had before it today statements by three California congressmen opposing use of funds by the war relocation au thority to circulate "propaganda favoring the Japanese people.1 Reps. Clair Engle, D., Deroy Johnson, K., and Jack Z. Ander son, R., exhibited brochures and publicity releases which they said were sent by WRA ;n franked envelopes. "Tax funds should not be used to propagandize fof any racial group," ngle said. "WRA was never sot up for the purpose of convincing tne American peopw that the Japanese arc a superior or better race, but that seems to be their concept of their mission." Violence Flares Anew Meanwhile the WRA reported the 18th occurrence' of violence in California against Janunese since they were permitted to re turn to the Pacific Coast in Janu ary! Two shootlngs'ccurred In Fresno county. Secretary of the-Interior Har old L. Ickcs has termed the situ ation one of "national concern." Engle said these incidents could not be prevented by WiRA's tac tics of praising heroic Japanese combat units serving In the Unit ed States armed forces. "Other units with equal or bet ter records are scarcely ever heard of and no government bu reau is writing up their exploits," Johnson said. Engle declared that part of the resentment in California against the Japanese-Americans stemmed from pre-war activities of their compatriots, many of them dis loyal. Another cause of antag onism against them was their low-scale living conditions which gave them an advantage in agri cultural production, he said. Hospital Notes St. Joseph's Hospital: Amitted: Alexander MacFar- land, Walla Walla, Mrs. Burcn Witherspoon, Mrs. Charles Bean, Elgin, Miss L. V. McGraw, Dorian Hall, Sandra Baud,-Mrs. Ford Hawley, Fred Jordan, Robert Masterton, Seth Zigler, Fritz Ott, La Grande, medical; Eleanor Kennedy, Joseph, Norman Me- Crae, Wallowa, Mrs. Lydia Lee, Bobby Rains, Mrs. Harry Coch ran, La Grande, surgery; Will Anderson, William Quinn, La Grande, Mis. RosaUe O'Mohun- dro, Imbler, x-ray; Vern Ander son, Joseph, Minnie Jackson, Elgin, laboratory, Discharged: Robert iWillpv. Paul Sedar, Don Bradshaw, Mrs. Laurence Ifa'weS,' "Mrs. Oliver Hamman and son, Mrs. Ray Ga- wlth and son, La Grando; Lloyd McCrae, Frank Berry, Union, Mrs. Leonard Barnett, Cove, John Glavey, Heppner, Edward Rees. Cove, Mrs. William Burritt, Wal lowa, Mrs. Hugh Cole and son, Joseph. . - Grande Ronde Hospital Admitted: Mrs. Silas Hoyt, Mis. Enid McArthur, Ms. James Carter, La Grande, Mrs. Joseph Scott, Elgin, Everett Dague, Ken- newlck, Wash., Mary Ann Hol land, Mt. Vernon, Mrs. Alton Howell, Alicel, surgery; William Whitmore, La Grando, Edith Johnson, Lucian Case, Mrs. Irene Adams, Elgin, Rachael Bidwell, Union, medical. Discharged . Jamus Cash. Pendleton, Don Wagner, Sum- merville, Mrs. Bertie Irwin, Un ion, Mrs. William Palmer, Bob Pureel, Mrs. Robert McMillan and son, Gerald Motz, Elmo Hendrick- son, Mrs. Frank Wolfe, Angel Rudi, Mrs. Claude Baily, La Grande. Magazine Relates Novel Teaching Idea Of Starkey Woman A synopsis by Mrs. Ruth Hagey of Starkey, a former elementary school teacher, on how one of her classes studied European nations is given in the May number of "The Insti uctor," e 1 e in e n tary teachers' magazine published in Dunsville. N. Y. Tilled "Peace Conference," the item says; "As a final review of the study of the European nations we de cided to hold a conference for planning post-war peace. Each child chose the nation he wanted lo represent and made out a careful report on its boundary lines, natural rosouices, govern ment, customs, and anything else important enough to be empha sized. "Then each of these rrpoiU. together with the child's rocom mendation for peace term, was offered to the class.'-' HEALTH TO YOU! Corrt tactot Colbo AImrtfa BtBorrhoi4 (Mm), fW- u, rutMia. HrM (Ihi-j lurtt) ditnlroT booitb-lWVw I to. atn-btJttv to ty IU. I Vr itMitoa oi Uoatntnil f wtlhaut bwiltal eptttla ButnmitfviUjr "Mpioyvd lot ynani, lit imJ dBit ttitn. CQ lei .iMiTiofl4 m4 TUC bocurt. CM fr. Woo., Wod., 9ri, 7 to tSO On & J DEAN CLINIC t Cot 8. Vtrf,nd OF 'T)f 94.cn rA Portland It Ortft E2J Pi 1 Tv-.-r New Road Spans Xanada to Open Up Huge "Treasure Chest" of Precious Mineral Deposits mi' Milt! rt,V, ,.,. f. w. milium I W,-WT Hfe'L:VN , KW.if.'M iV.rSfc JC3W 1. - 1 Cut through rock, virgin forsls and deep muskeg, the trans-Canada highway provides a traffic art ery through 300.000 square miles of undeveloped area. Post-war improvements are expected to provide a new basis lit Canadian prosperity. By ROSELLEN CALLAHAN OTTAWA, (NEA) A 153-mile stretch of road, cut through the wilderness of northern Ontario, has forged the final link in the 4244 - mile - long Trans - Canada highway, and opened up a 300, 000 square mile "Treasure Chest" which is expected to play a vital part in Canada's post-war pros perity. The "road to nowhere" as it was dubbed by those opposing the building program of former Minister of Highways Thomas B. McQuesten connects the north ern frontier cities of Hearst and Geraldton. It has made accessible an in calculable wealth of precious and industrial metals, millions of acres of rich lands, miles on end of hard and soft wood forest and fast-flowing waters to provide power. Rushed to Completion : Completion of the highway was pushed through, despite wartime manpower shortages and diver sions of materials, so that these resources w-julcL.be available for immediate post-war conversion into vitally needed home-front products. Thus, says McQuesten, Canadian labor and industry will be able to maintain the Important economic gains they have made during the war. The new territory opens up a post-war paradise to sportsmen, too. The country is laced with thousands of lakes and streams loaded with game fish that have never scon a fisherman's lure. The forests are alive witii game. Trans-Canada was started more in 30 years ago. This last link cut through outcropping rock, virgin forests, deep muskeg rock, temperatures winch oflen dropped to 50 below zero took two years to finish. In building the highway over miles of muskeg flats, engineers developed a method of laying foundation which later was used mceessfully on the Alaskan high way. When crossing muskeg, foundation and fill were laid on top of the soft ground. Previ ously placed dynamite charges were then exploded, which blew the soft mud out from under the foundation and allowed the com ... field day for fun wider the Big Top Everybody loves a circus. ETryrxly comes for fun. From big city to small town it's a red lener day diy when everyone wears a smile and joins in with friendly good nature aod oeighborliness. Have a Coke are words heard all around, for the circus is thc time to relax and enjoy yourself. And nothing was ever invented to help yott Jo just that( better than ice-col j Coca-Cob. Enjoy one now. O , COtrilO UN0r,AUTHOIIT )OF THe coca-coia comfant If .") -' , i . i mmm plete road to settle into place in a firm bottom. -Though some sparse traffic is Give generously BECAUSE it tells guys like me t'J that the people we know back f&r 'wfc!rf i!rti& home will not forget us when we tffifi- become civilians again. ' C .-H Wi I f - This Buddy Poppy is a symbol of I the American spirit of fair play. " -"M(itStvfi?'Mf H It stands for all those things in - 0jk P America that are worth fighting JA 5 ti It makes fellows like myself feel M$ 4 1 J''" ' Jfffll that you folks really appreciate jWM $p IT J yC''' If what we've tried to do and that If JF y s. 6jjBf(. ; : a lff l fll you'll never let us down when the ISf fc l,! IfSfj J II tBI bands stop playing and the vie- W " ,! V fifti fyX'l 'MV'MM tory parades are forgotten. M f BU r V r9 Peanuts 'n popcorn p (tH-(l.A';0'r.I).lN(; CO.. La Cninde, A-7----A. -ffl traveling over the new highway Trans-Canada won't be officially dedicated until after the war. when Buddy Poppies go on sale, May 2.")th and 26lh This Advertisement is Conlrihiiled by PAYLESS DRUG STORE ' 'n... Have a BiSjJfa ajiA Tl SSA k ;i a. fXJ Ore -Q. O l"5 TV. C C Disorders Spread ' Among Syrians BEYROUTH, May .23 (UP)- ! French troops in Syria. were con fined to t.ioir barracks-. todav as - strikes ami riots protesting their presence spread through. thi country, Damascus dispatches re ported. ; ,u. Strike paralyzed business .'n Damascus, the Syrian capital, and other towns. t O Lebanon was quieter. How ever, in Beyrouth, students held an orderly demonstration during which they visited parliament and tho premier's .office. The students, including spme from . : Beyrouth's American university, i proclaimed their willingness to ! join the Lebanese national army. limlli-ht.-il linnl.l P .1I..J ' KLEfcR ,,vi,iil-i:ii.isU SU i-lc iliti-t-tiuim ( r.-litiiiK wi-n-am: KLRX thut diiw U uliuplei i It tici , to luosrfn :im! n-muve -uilri. Tliost: ".v'ty fulluivril aim. m mill niititK-tf HlMTM mum n- iimailiittly mjiiiHkiI when tfiry lounil tin mjiii-iiiitiii in.-!- Knfuaanaa Disappeared. cntltuai.titKally piai; KlMrai and claim un-y aie no iohjici cmu.irnisjru ana are now h.ippy with lln-i, rlrar ooniih-ionj. Uaa KlMnc. II on.- Jiiphratlon U01-, not -tiify, yon get uoubk, you, tuoucy back. A,k for K't today, aart. Puylc&s Drug Store Coke sum 'Coke Coca-Cola naturjlly hcjr CocS'CalS' raRrf i-itnJly aUmvMion . l-ke . Both mehii the quality prod uct cf The Coca-Cola Company, Co.. U r P
