La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, May 31, 1945, Image 3

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Newspaper Page TextCombat Casualties Of World War II Atl,000,000-Mark WASHINGTON, May 31 (UP) -U. S. combat casualties in this war today were announced offi cially as 1,002,887, an increase of 6,798 over a week ago. !The total included 890,019 army and 112,868 navy, marine corps, and coast guard casualties. The overall total, including only those casualties which have been tabulated and announced in Washington is nearly four times the world war I total' of 269,735 for all services. The week's increase was al most evenlv divided between the 'ftilvo major branches. Tha army's r7ntal rose 3.494 while" the navv's reflecting heavy losses of Oki nawa, climbed 3,304. The casualty total for all ser vices includes 227,097 dead, 607, 468 wounded, 63,455 missing and 104,867 taken prisoner. Of the prisoners, about 90,000 were in Europe and have teen liberated. , Little Hope for Missing The missing total includes about 44,000 army missing' in Europe. Undersecretary of War Robert P. Patterson told a press conference' that there was little hope that- many of these will turn up alive. - .Patterson disclosed that five infantry divisions the third, fourth, ninth, 45th and 36th suffered a total of 133,394 casual ties. '.'' Each, he said, suffered losses greater than its total strength at any pne time. An infanliy divi sion's strength is about J5,000. With the exception of the fourth, which landed . in Norm andy on D-Day, all saw service in North Africa, Sicily or Italy before combat extended to France- and Germany. - The overall casualty table to date': Army Navy Total 1 Wiled 183,563 43,534 227,097 k' . . w w n nnn Ian unn ACO Bounded ojj,uoo ui,oou uui,wo Hissing 52,746 10,709 63,455 Prisoners 100,622 4,245 104,867 Totals 890,019 112,868 1,002,887 Patterson said 309,646 of the army wounded have returned to duty. : Doughboys Will I Stage Spectacular i War Bond Show (Continued from Page 1) ment in battle will be on hand to explain them. , The purpose' of the" show is to bring forcefully to the public the cost of this equipment iri terms of war bonds, every item having its own price tag as represented by the dollars the' public invests in bonds. The members of the various teams were selected from groups returning to replacement centers after combat duty overseas. They were sent to the famous infantry 'A 1 tsenning, ua., jVnnhere they underwent special training. The basis of selection of the men for this duty was chiefly combat experience, and the' 1,100 men who comprise the teams have an average of more than 2 years service. They col lectively hold more than 1,000 medals and other decorations. Disabled Veterans Held Employable CHICAGO, .May 31 (UP) Ninety per cent of the returning disabled servicemen are employ able, Millard W. Rice, Washing ton; D. C, national service direc tor of the Disabled American vet erans! said today. Speaking to' state veterans em ployment representatives of the United States employment serv ice, Rice predicted, however, that disabled vdterans will never con stitute more than 4 per cent of the total number of employables in the country. "All of them can be accorded the opportunity for suitable, use ful, employment without disrupt ing the entire employment situa tion;" he s'iid. The disabled prefer employ ment to pensions and more jobs for the disabled would relieve the potential burden on taxpayers, he added. Flamingoes do not have to leave' their nests to search food. WILL SWAP Red points for used kitchen fats. Our government has authorized your dealer to wp red points, which will help fret you butter, in re tarn for your used fat3 . . . 2 red points and 4 for each pound of fat. So sare every drop of used fat every day. Turn ft in promptly! THEY DO REST IN PEACE r -1 1 to w,7n5w-UT tip- 4U By M. T. SGT. GENE WARD Marine Corps Combat Corres po.ident (Written for NEA Service) After church services, I walk ed alone down the winding road toward Red Bench One, the D Day designation we had for that stretch of shore. There in a quiet glade the chaplains had laid out our marine division cemetery. Something about its solitude reminds me of Hilton's Shangri La. By some strange twist of terrain here, too, it is secluded and untouched. There is no tur moil here, only peace. Here it is cool. Here the sun's rong rays seem canted as if bent in a celestial canopy. Here is a small stream at the top of the tropical glade, reminding me, somehow, of the Little Beaverkill at the bend where we used to get those Rainbows . . . I walked between the rows of Ceiling Price of Fresh Apricots is Reduced on Coast WASHINGTON, May 31 (UP) Retail ceiling prices for fresh apricots will be about 1 23 cents n pound lower for the 1U45 crop because of reductions in whole sale ceilings, the office of price administartion announced today. The new fob country shipping point ceilings for fresh apricot;, are nine cents a pound through June 15 in California, Washing ton and Oregon, and 7.6 cents a pound from June 16 to the end of the season. For the rest of the country inter-zone sales will be 11 cents a pound through June 24 and 9.6 cents a pound from June 25 to the end of the season. The fob country shipping point ceilings for sales of fresh plums grown on the Pacific coast will be the same for the 1945 crop as last year. The avorag? ceiling price is 9.4 cents a pound. Black Marketer Gets Stiff Sentence NEW YORK, May 31 (UP) Federal Judge Francis G. Caffey sentenced Dr. Abraham Freitag, 44, to three years in prison and fined him $100,000 today for selling 3.000.0TO yards of cotton bandage on the black market. It was the heaviest black mar ket sentence ever imposed in this area. Freitag, owner of a Brooklyn. M. V.. rrimnnnv n.hir-h nmrIiir--.-.H the bandagfs, had pleaded guil- I ty to the charges. V.'.V.VJV - -:; .. Kcllogn's Com Flairs X; bring you nearly oil Ihe protective fi.-xl element of the whole grain declared essential to human nutrition. or sv , . 'S' BXitaf .fN P-.'. J 9'H IPSA it-i Em ai mv; v. 1 Wi-VW W3 white crosses, straight in their long lines and evenly spaced. The paint was fresh and white, the names plain'-lottercd. Here a major, there a private, all quiet ly resting. The foliage is strange and exotic to the eyes, but a palm frond and a bougainvillia bloom seem as peaceful here as the up thrusting oak and spring flowers in an Ohio country churchyard. And if the road leading hero is hot and dusty still this rude road over the knoll is the one they came down together. And the sky is the same. sky. The same stars come out at night. The same sun shines on these new graves as on the old at home. Names I knew and their faces come swarming back into mem ory. Call them Smith and Jones and Brown. Add a "ski" or jum ble the letters around. Men I fought with; yet, I don't feel sor row. Rather it is that I mis? their ways of kidding, or of smil ing, or the phrases and inflec tions thoy used to gripe about the chow. A man dies aid that's that. If I die, here is where I would want to be with the others, the men I fought with. In dying, these men these friends of mine made this bit of soil forever American. .They are in no strange land. They arc buried in no strange grave. As I look out over this quiet burial place and down the broad vistas of the island hills to the sea, I wish that those who loved these dead could know this place, could know amid what tranquil ity their Sons have' found their final resting places. 1 . h rr n 3 y vn jfl f FLAKES II f--vv mm? LA UKANUI5 EVENING ObSEKVEK Phone 600 News and t Engagements Social Thursday, May 31, 1945 Hail and Farewell Party To Be Held Tonight By Church Open house will be held from 7:30 to 10 o'clock tonight at the First Christian church as a fare well party for Rev. and Mrs. A, J.' Stanley and a reception to the new minister and his wife, Rov. and Mis. Eugene Chamberlain. The public is invited. Rev. Chamberlain, originally an Oregon man, his home being at Corbett, has been holding a pastorate at' Cowan, Ind., while attending Butler University at Indianapolis. Rev, and Mrs. Chamberlain arc making their home temporarily at 1303 O avenue. Rev. and Mrs. Stanley and their infant son, will leave to morrow for Portland where for the past two months Rev. Stah- Ideas for Spring Meals CM I AM tD NIW FOTATOIS Akp MAS Add cooked, peeled, new potatoes and cooked peas to meHium thick white sauce, sprinkle with paprika. RADISH SLAW' Combine thinly sliced, walhed rad ishes with salad dressing, season with salt and pepper, and garnish with parsley. ASPARAGUS WITH MOCK HOLLANDAISl SAUC1 Beat 1 egg white until stiff but not dry; fold in 1 cup mayonnaise. Pour to 1 J--inch thickness in shallow bnkt ing dish; place 4 to 5 minutes undui very hot broiler until delicately 'browned, about 1 minute. Makes 1 cup. Serve over asparagus. RHURARR CRIAM Pll . H cup sugar 1 tbsp. grated 1 tip. cinnamon orangerind 4 tsps. cornstarch 3 tbsp. 'a tip. sat t orange mar Z cups cooked un malade sweetened rhu Baked pastry omro ana juice- aneu Combine sugar, cinnamon, corn starch, and Bait; add to rhubarb; and cook about 10 minlitos, or until thickened, stirring constantly. Add orange rind and beaten egg yolks; cook 2 minutes longer, stirring con stantly. Copl; pour into bakd pastry shell. Beat egg whites until stiff and dry; fold in orange marmalade. Iile lightly, on pie;.bnkc 15 minutes, or until well browned, in slow oven (300F.J. Makes 1 9-inch pie. Serves 0. Sofetvay Homemakers' Bureau JULIA LEE VMGHT, Director ook!StampA xpxM, Red Stamps Y5 Thru D2 Blue Stamps H2 Thru M2 Sugar Stomp No. 35 Ail Expire Saturday, June 2d Clapp's Baby Food Swan Soap Camay Soap Strained, can 7C Kind to your ekln. Soap of beautiful women. Jvnlor. can O larRC bare 29" O bars 20' All advertised Parowax $'ntA?l" Kerr Jar Lids 1 doz. per pkg. 1 doi. per pkg Kerr Jar Caps Certo Deals Jels-Rife Pen Jel pr'ned Sove by O buyino v 8-oz. bottle 10 3-oz. M.C.P. Pectin Pow 3-oz. dered UgMGIobesaWo'wiriSSiU O'Cedar Furn. Polish bottle 19 Shoe Polish SizZF FrMits Cubes & 2-lb. pkg. W TO P-Ot. HfJHMU. OA TO i tSVfcflStM. eaEM . EVERTMIN6S VTTl I otop over would xj jifv 1 fft o epewsive how BUtEVE IT..I3CRVE0SAN0- Til CAN OU AFFORD TO Nl wicmesahotmin&stoovek I IsJl C ENrcerAiN J TWEHTVPE0 ffV? ff A ATAX Activities . . . Weddings Events rage 3 Social. Calendar FRIDAY. 2 p. m. Meet. Your Neighbor club, picnic, Riverside park. SATURDAY 2 p.m. Oliver :.P. Morton Woman's Relief corps, IOOF hall SUNDAY 2 p.m. L. S. to B: L. F: and E. drill team and officers, IOOF hall. MONDAY 7:30 p. m. I. A. of M. auxil iary, Mrs, Lyman Huff, 1407 X avenue. CLUB PLANS PICNIC ' The Meet Your Neighbor club will have a picnic at 2 p.m. tomorrow-at' Riverside park. The club. will, furnish the lunch. ley has been doing inter-denominational' work. Tomatoes Vine ripe local." AsparagiiV No. 1. grade lb. Rhubarb . Fine for pies . i lb. Oranges, Valencias Sweet and juicy 5 lbs. LiVc Wrmht'c .......... w .W 1. KT5Jrafc4ys. Quick or Regular Edwards' Coffee Be3-or DriP 2-lb-" 54 Nob Hill Coffee Whole Bean " Mb. bag 23 Airway Coffee Ground F,e8h M8.bag20 Hershey's Cocoa Always Good 'A-lb.pkg. 10c Borden's Hemo Ful1 oI vitamim l-ib. jar 59c Canierbury Tea 0r4n9e PekoB lb' 85 Apple Butler Libb Brand Ho' 303 i" 203 Cane Sugar 5-ib.bag 33c io-ib.bag64c (titampq 3ft A 36 Stamp No. 30 expires June 2)' Morion's Sail Plain or Iodized 2 Pk9s- 15 Sno While Sail Plain or k1 Pk9- 7 Chili Powder Cebhardt - 1-oz. bottle I50 Items subject to O.P.A. Rationing Changca 2 25c Old Dutch Cleanser Co" Water Softener Drops Bon Ami Cake C"9 Woodbury Soap BCy 3pkg,25C oka. 21 C 14 boltlet I White King pkg. 12c Soil Off vESErk quart bottle 60c Bluing s. . 10-oz. bottle 13' Gloss Starch, Argo, Mb. pkg. 8C Dry Cleaner 1 gallon 63c Window Cleaner0;". 2 for 25c Ckirei Sprayers each 15c oka. 9C imr math m oja Society Briefs Mrs. Carrie Trollinger and her daughter, Hazel' Trollinger, and Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Carter spent yesterday in Walla Walla visit ing friends. They were joined in Pendleton by Mrs. Vera Last and her daughter, Harriet Ann, who accompanied them to Walla Wal la. Miss Denece Decker will leave tomorrow morning for Chicago where she will be the guest of Claire Stoddard, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. David I. Stoddard, for mer La Grande residents. Mies Decker plans to bp away three. or; four weeks. . . Lois Hill, Marjorie Chandler-, Hazel, Trollinger and Nina Kopp. plan. to. leave Monday, for Los Angeles where they will be em ployed during the summer months. They will return to LOj Grande in time for the fall term of college. ' Mrs. Mary Ellen Ethridge will loavd. Sunday eruoute to Mis souri, where she will, await the, arrival of her husband Lt. Wil liam Ethridge, who recently was liberated from a German prison-, cr of war camp. . . Mr, and: Mrs, W, E: Wilkins spent yesterday and' today, in Condon.. i Lt; Col. and Mis. E. R. Farley were weekend guests in the home oft Mrs. Farley's parents, Mr. . 135 Si Full plump po6s CELERY Crispy- Utoh typ t1 17 2 C GREEN ONIONS Tender, mild RADISHES Fresh 'and crispy 6c Crystal RrAMfl .f'yotir favorite. You'll be well satisfied! Morning Glory Oats A notural source of Vitamin B1 and Iron. 26' 3-lb. pkg. 2 ,or 15' 24-ox. QIC pkg. ii 9'i-oi. fle Coke 7 3 bore 23c 3 bore 14 AMD T SAEy I IND SEC THIS U) VWdMITS A WOanCtMl Tin atsTo. ivtmrwwi isAve SAFEwAr It me hm eu TO eAT.. NeTTlMW7U PRICES ARe LOW ON I'M LETTING WANT TO SHOP I'U EVERV OAV. . ON 5AFCWAV 6AVE ecllg and Mrs. George H. Currey. Lt. Col.. Farley is being transferred from Dyersburg air base, Tenn., to camp Beale, Calif. Mrs. C. W. Quaintance left to day fox Washington, D. C, to be with her mother, Mrs. Regena, Bryan, who is ill in the Walter Reed hospital. . GIANT ONIONS ' Giant . Chinese green onions grow from two to two and one half feet long, two and one-half inches in diameter, and weigh more than three pounds apiece. Play shirts for the youngster, or, aprons for the housewife, can easily be made from shirts with frayed collars. Onion Salt the quick, easy way fa real onion flavor "Perk up"' wartime diihei at limply a adding ult, Sprinkle in onion flavor from the handy lhaker Schilling foi naturally fresh produce It takes delicious fresh fruits and vegetables to put pep into Spring meals . . . and Safeway is the place to find 'em. For Safeway produce is rushed from farm to store . . . naturally fresh ... so good we say: your money back in.full if you are not pleased! ib.. i4c i b 20c 15c ib.. 25c Fresh Cuban Wax 1-lb.loaf Raisin Harvest now . , Flour KilchenCralt 25-lb. Cake Flour Swaiudown Gingerbread Mix Soda Crackers Snowiiake Fancy White Rice M I B Dried Prunes Egg &$& Nectar Raisins Sjn Maid Mixed Vegetables Diced Carrots Blue Tag Brand Sliced Beets Blue T9 Brnd Sauerkraut Juice SAFEWAY GUARANTEED M6AJ Pork Sausage (6 The Following Require No Points Salt Codfish Ik Salt Herring lib. 25c Salt Mackerel Ib. 33c Spiced Herring, U-oz. jar Ms. r. Pork Shoulder Steaks (8 pts.) . . Ground Beef (6 pts.) Skinned Hams (8 pts.) Beef Tongues (2 pts.) Skinless Weiners (6 pts.) Army Will Not Cut Discharge Age WASHINGTON, May 31 (UP) Undersecretary of War Robert P. Patterson said today that the army will not lower its discharge age unless the Pacific war gets ahead of schedule. Presently the release of all men 40 or older, and of men eligible under the point system is author ized. Some members of congress have urged that the discharge age be reduced to 35. San Quentin prison was built ' to hold 300 prisoners, but has held as many as twice that num ber. Pineapple llm III 1 '"N511 I SAVOR SAII C SCASONINO I Fine for canning Ib. lyC Grapefruit, Desert, Ib. 1(5C Lmons,SunKist 5lbs. 6$Z Cracked t4c Wheat 5 White, Wheat Blossom Flour 25-lb. sack 90c 50-lb. sack $1.79 k. $1J5 50-lb. $2.25 2'-lb. pig. 26 Dromedary i4-oz.Pkg. i8c Mb. Pkg. 33c 2-lb. pkg. 25 2-Ib. pkg. 30c 15-oz. pkg. 2C No. 2 can 20c No. 303 jar 12 No. 303 jar 3c Llbby'e Fancy libbif Br4nd 16-oz.jariOc R. Pts.) Ib.39e . lb. lit ."'lfe.23r . Ib 3Ss . Mr. 35c FriJoy NSjht, 9 to 9: IS KGW, KMEO ond Network EDIURO S COFFEE fMwW tt Mm) )Wn ill ' VI ii m ! : j z 1 a r. m J i 2 I S 3 i 5 -I a 3 ! 3 C i - V z