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
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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.'-'
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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
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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.
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