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3,200 Tons of Fire
Bombs Hurled On
Industrial Center
GUAM, . June 1 (UP) Japan's three greatest cities lay
scorched by 'Superfortress fire bombs today as the I5-2!)'s
followed tip their demolition of Tokyo and Yokohama by
starling' raging conf.'agralions in Osaka, Japan's greatest
industrial center, and second largest city, with a 3,200-ton
incendiary attack.
Returning airmen reported that smoke from burning Osakn
billowed five miles into the air and radio Tokyo admitted
flames still were scourging the city many hours after the
l bombers had left.
Highlights of
Truman Message
WASHINGTON, June 1 (UP;
Salient quotations from Presi
dent Truman's message to con
gress: "There can be no peace in
the world until the military
power of Japap is destroyed
with the tame completeness as
was lhe power of the Euro
pean dictators."
"No one can recount the' suc
cess of the forces of decency in
this war without thinking of the
one man who was rtiore respon
sible for victory than any other
single human being-Franklin D.
Roosevelt."
"The damage to our ships
and the loss of our men (from
Japanese suicide attacks) are
becoming more severe. In lhe
future we shall have to expect
more damage rather than less.
There ca.inot be evon a partial
naval demobilization until the
Japanese are defeated."
"The Japanese surface navy
has been reduced to a fraction
of its former self ... A large part
of this success is due to our pres
ent carrier-based airpowor . . . .
(these carriers) were laid down
in 1940 a year and a half be-
foiv; we entered the war. Had
they not been started then, our
fast advances in the Pacific could
not have occurred until much
later."
j
"The Japanese air force will
bo shattered by our army and :
navy fliers as surely and relent-;
lessly as the luftwaffe. The con
centration of Japanese industry,
so long an advantage, will now
contribute materially to Japan's i
downfall."
"All our experience indicates
that no matter how hard we hit
the enemy from the air or from
the sea., the foot soldier still
will have to adva ice against
strongly entrenched fanatical
troops. There is no easy way
to win."
"War production remains the
paramount consideration of out
national effort . . . We must not
slacken our support of the men , 1:
who arc now preparing for the i
final assault on Japan. '
U. S. Submarines Sink 14 More
Jap Ships in Homeland Waters
WASHINGTON. June 1 (UP)
U. S. subamirnes in Japa
nese waters have sunk 14 more
enemy ships, including five
combat : vessels, the navy an
nounced today.
The late.it submarine bag in
cluded one destroyer, three
small patrol vsscls. one coast
al mine Iruvr. one large tank
er, five medium merchant ves
sels, two medium fielghtcrs,
and one small merchant vessel.
These sinkings binught to
1,142 the number of enemy
ships sunk by I'. S. subs in this
war.
In anoth-r announcement, the
navy for the fiist time icccal
ed details of an action by an
I ra:i. ... ... :nj:.tnJ nnl.ln
had suffered the same fate as the
port and industrial center of
Yokohama, attacked Tuesday.
Intelligence reports of 21st bom
l;er command revealed today that
nearly nine square miles of Yoko
hama have been burned or dam
aged just under seven square
miles being attributed to the
Tuesday attack.
Fires Burn for Hours
A joint communique issued by
the headquarters of the J-rpanese
central army district and the
Osaka gartison five and a half
hours after Tokyo said the raid
started, reported that tiros "grad
ually were being brought under
control."
The announcement said the
fires centered in noilhwost Osaka
and in the neighboring city of
vimagasaki. ' It claimed that 47
U-2!)s had been shot down- and
li.i others damaged.
Port is Attacked
Another Tokyo broadcast said
1! Mustang fighters, possibly
from the bombers' escort, strafed
the port of Shingu, 00 miles
southeast of Osaka, and the
southern tip of Kii peninsula be
low Shingu.
Because of overcast skies, bom
ber pilots returning to the Mari
anas said tho assault on Osaka
was almost a "milk run" com
pared with previous big attacks
on the enemy homeland.
Hundreds of thousands of a
new type of fire bomb packed
with jellied gasoline were drop
ped into the densest concentra
tion of war factories in Japan in
the methodical parade of destruc
tion. Fires took hold at widely-scal-
Icred points at first, then mer-
fccd into great conflagrations that
consumed everything in their
paths. It looked as Ihough it
v.-ould be Tokyo and Yokohama
all over again.
Irn-lir SpsSlftll fit
J- 1 1 J OCBB1U11 Ul
'Big Three' Looms
W A CM I Nf: TON lone 1 (UP)
prcs;tlcnt Truman told his news
conference today he could now
say definitely that a oig three
conference will take place in the
not-too-distanl future.
Mr. Truman also said he has
: been in daily communication
; with Prime Minister Winston
Churchill regarding the crisis in
the Levant.
He said, too, that he expected
the San Francisco conference to
end within 10 days.
He still rejected any suggestion
I that tho big three meeting might
expanded into a big four or
big live conference,
including
France or China
American submarine on patrol
in Japanese waters.
It toid how the IV S. S.
Salmon was pounced upon by
four enemy escort vessels af
ter it hod helped another sub
marine sink a Japanese tanker.
Badly damaged in the resulting
barrage of depth charges, ihe
Snlmon ro.;e to the surface and
duelled with the Japaner-e con
voy at ranges as close as 50
(yards.
At one(piiint( it the running
Iflljle, the Japanese convoy be
came confused and started fir
ing on '.heir own ships. The
sub forced two of the enemy
craft to (lee before a rain squall
broke off the battle.
Main Jap Defense
Line On Okinawa
Rent By Yankees
Final Conquest
Of Island Seen
In Two Weeks
GUAM, June 1 (UP) The 10th
ni my smashed the last vestiges of
the main Japanese defense line
on Okinawa today and by Tok
yo accounts threw two more di
visions into a battle for speedy
conquest of the southern tip of
the island.
Radio Tokyo said eight Ameri
can divisions possibly 120,000
men in all were attacking the
last 20,000-odd Japanese holding
the southern end of Okinawa.
American forces on the east
coast already were within two
miles of the south coast and hud
outflanked deeply new enemy
defenses in the inland hills.
American front reports indi
cated the complete conquest of
Okinawa may take another two
weeks or more, but told of only
five army and marine divisions
in line.
The collapse of the main Jap
anese defense line was completed
with the encirclement of its last
1,000 diehard defenders in the
Shuri area.
A Pacific fleet communique re
vealed that tho 10th army was
killing the Japanese defenders at
the rate of more-than 1,000 a day.
Church Leaders
To Assemble Here
For Conference
Members of the Union stake
of the Latter Day Saints church
will assemble in La Grande to
morrow for the quarterly con
ference, which is expected to at
tract more than 500 memheis
from northeastern Oregon and
southeastern Washington.
Sessions will b-3 held in the
LDS tabernacle beginning at 7:.'i0
p.m. tomorrow, when the wel
fare of the church and returning
veterans will be the piincipul
subject.
A priesthood meeting is set for
9 a.m. Sunday; and a women
and girls meeting will be held
simultaneously.
General sessions will be at
10:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m.
Dr. Joseph F, Merrill, a mem
ber of the council of twelve, and
Fenno B. Casto. n leader of wel
fare work in the church, both of
Salt Lake City, will attend the
conference.
Dr. Merrill is widely known as
an electrical engineer and edu
cator, having been active in these
fields for many years in addition
to being one of the leaders ol
the church.
County Receives
Funds for Fairs
Apportionment of $938.84 tc
Union county from the millag?
tax for county fairs was an
nounced today in Salem. A to
tal of $52,430.50 was allotted to
Union and ten other counties
through the secretary of stale's
office.
The money was collected on
the basis of all taxable properly
amounting to more than a billion
dollars, as equalized by the stale
lax commission last year, and
comes from the twentieth of a
mill tax.
Baseball Results
By United Press
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Philadelphia 5 15 5
Pittsburgh G 7 1
Barrett, Karl olid Mancuso;
Roe, Butcher and Lopez. O
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Diftrnit . 4 8 0
Boston . -. . .. 0 9 0
Wilson, Pierce and Richards,
Swift, Oneill, Barrett and Gar
bark. Cleveland 2 5 1
New York 14 0
Smith and Hayes: lievens,
Kleine and Garbark. Q
(at Oflrf
LA GRANDE. OREGON FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 1,
A n tp n n n f
u u -
WANTS SUGAR CZAH Rep.
Clinton P. Anderson, chairman
of the house food committee
and secretary of agriculture
elect, who recently warned
that a serious sugar shortage
confronts the nation unless a
sugar "czar" is appointed. His
appointment to ihe cabinet was
approved today by the United
Stales senate.
Jap Massacre of
Baptist Mission
Group Revealed
NEW YORK, June 1 (UP)
Eleven Baptist missionaries and
a nine-year-old missionary's son
were beheaded by the Japanese,
in lhe Panay hills in the Philip
pines on Dec. 1!) and 20, 1943, tho
American Baptist foreign mission
society disclosed today.
The society said the deaths
were documented, officially, but
the news Ind been withheld un
til now by the war and nivy de
partments for security reasons.
Torture Reaveals Hideaway
Dr. Jesse Wilson, secretary of
the society, said the missionaries
fled into the hills when the Jap
anese invjd-.d the Philippines.
There they established a settle
ment callc-;i "Hopevale," which
ministred to Filipino guerrillas.
The secret of their hideaway
redoubt finally was believed to
have been learned by the Jap
anese by torturing a Filipino
guerrilla, Dr. Wilson said.
The war dejartment notified
the society of the beheadings in
1944, Wilson said. He said that
those beheaded were:
Miss Jennie C. Adams, nurse,
of Page, N?b.
James H. Covell, a professor of
Athens, Pa., and Le Roy, N. Y.,
and his wile.
Mrs. Dorothy A. Dowel!, evan
gelist, Denver, Col.
Miss Signe A. Erickson, teach
er. Warren, Pa.
Dr. Frederick W. Meyer, phy
sician, New Haven, Conn., and
his wife.
Rev. and Mrs. Francis H. Rose,
Norwich, Conn., and Lowell,
Mass.
Rev. and Mrs. Erie F. Rounds,
Eau Claire, Wis., and Richmond,
Calif., and their son, Eric.
In addition to the missionaries,
Wilson said he had received re
ports from other missionaries
that an unknown number of lay
civilians had been beheaded or
tortured at the same time.
Jap Atrocities Are .
Declared Worse Than
Those of Germans
SEATTLE, June 1 (UP) Atroc
ities committed in Japanese pris
on camps are far worse than
those in Germany, Col. K. S. Min
atsinjhi, attached to the agency
general for India in Washington,
said today.
"We must not treat the Jap
anese kindly," he declared. "We
must finish them as a military
power."
The Indian officer was in To
kyo on Pearl Harbor day as a
military attache to the British
embassy. He was released from
thj Jap prison camp in a diplo
matic exchange.
The IJ-J!!I raids on Tokyo prob
ably will hasten the end of the
v.(a$. he said.
"The Japs cannot take tho-.o
raids." he said. "They will think
very hard in tin- fate of thi'-rh
whether or not they want to fight
to the end."
Wallow Covafci
1915
Russ Stand On
Trusteeships Is
Opposed By U. S.
Abridgement Of
Rights At Issue
Between Powers
SAN FRANCISCO, June 1 (UP)
The United States delegation
to thu United Nations conference
today agreed to stand firm
against Russian efforts to elimi
nate from the trusteeship form
ula a section which the Russians
say would freeze the present
status of mandated peoples.
Cmdr. Harold F. Stussen, who
prepared the working paper on
international trusteeships which
is now Ihe basis for conference
consideration of the subject, met
with the delegation for nearly
three hours to be certain it would
back him in his determination to
retain the principles of the dis
puted section.
The trusteeship paragraph
which Stassen is determined to
defend provides:
"Except as may be agreed upon
in individual trusteeship arrange
ments placing each territory un
der the trusteeship system, noth
ing in this chapter should be con
strued in and of itself to alter in
any manner the rights of any
state or any peoples in any terri
lory."
Soviet Russia contends that
this paragraph has tho effect of
"freezing" the status of mandat
ed peoples.
Labor Endorses
Building Measure,
Hits Foreign Labor
PORTLAND, Ore., June 1 (UP)
The Oregon state federation of
labor executive board objects to
the importaiion of Mexican labor
and to use of German prisoners,
in agriculture and industry.
J. T. Marr, secretary, was in
structed in a meeting yesterday
to request government officials to
return German prisoners to their
own country at the earliest prac
tical time, since hostilities with
that country are ended and use
of the PWS "borders on enslave
ment," according to the board.
The group recorded support of
the state building fund measure
coming up on the June 22 ballot,
and endorsed state support for
public schools, with equitable
distribution of the Oregon sup
port fund.
It opposed earmarking of reve
nues, except gasoline or other lax
used wholly for benefit of those
paying the tax.
Marr .vas told to take steps
toward initiation of a bill lo re
peal the ciaret sales lax on the
November 1940 ballot, if the cig
aret sales tax bill is not approved
in the election this month.
Masonic Croup To
Attend liaker Rites
Members of Eastern Oregon
commandery. Knights Templar of
La Grande were completing de
tails for car pools for the drive
to Baker Saturday evening lo
participate in the Kniglrls Temp
lar ceremonies, beginning with
dinner at G:30 p. m.
Dewev Accepts
Bid to White House
ALBANY, N. Y., June 1 (UP)
Governor Thomas E. Dewey,
1944 Republican presidential can
didate, has accepted an invita
tion from President Truman lo
confer at the White House, it
was learned today.
Dewey, it was understood,
wrote the president a letter ac
cepting the invitation. Dewey's
office declined to make the letter
public.
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RESIGNATION REJECTED
President Truman today an
nounced he has declined to ac
cept the resignation of Judge
Samuel I. Rosenman, above,
special counsel to the late Pres
ident Roosevelt, who recently
expressed a desire io leave lhe
administration June 15. Tru
man said Rosenman will ro
main at his post at least until
victory over Japan.
Rosenman Will
Remain Advisor
To Chief Executive
WASHINGTON, June 1 (UP)
President Truman nnnuunced to
day that, he had declined to ac
cept the resignation of Judge
Samuel I. Rosenman, special
counsel to the chief executive.
He said that ' Rosenman. would
remain at his post at least until
victory over Japan.
Rosenman, an old and trusted
friend of the late President Hoos
evell, loft a supreme court Julge
ship in New Yory City lo become
an important and hard-working
member of Mr. Roosevelt's White
House organization.
Mr. Truman praised Rosen-
man's "self-effacing zeal and pa
Iriotic devotion" and asked him
"to stay at your post at least un
til V-J day."
Rosenman, who had completed
arrangements to return to pnv
ale life, cancelled them and re
plied lo Mr. Truman's letter with
"Aye, aye, sir."
French Halt Firing
On Levantines On
Order From Britain
PARIS, June 1 (UP)--Fiance
oidered her troops in Levant to
cease fire and retire into their
barracks today, presumably end
ing an undeclared miniature war
that had entlamed the midellc
easl. Syrian sou ices estimated thai
at least 400 persons had been
killed in lighting between French
troops and Syrian irregulars in
Damascus and JIama alone.
The cease fife order complied
lo thi- lelk-r with Prime Minis
ter Churchill's virtual ultimatum
of yesterday to President Gen.
Charles De Gaulle. Churchill had
ordered British forces in Ltvant
io intervene to prevent further
l.loodshed.
A spokesman for De Gaulle'
peisonul advisory cabinet con
firmed that the order had been
dispatched lo Levant. A Bey
routh dispatch said the French
had instructed their commander
to "play ball with the British."
The French cabinet met this
morning to consirler the situation.
Tin re was a possibility that il
might decide lo withdraw all
French lioops from the country.
The strong tone of Churchill's
message shocked members of the
government. De Gaulle was said
io have been "furious."
High School Croup
To Flay For Elks
C. M. Shenill and M. C. Lynch,
co-chairmen of the EIk's ball
Mhcduled for Saturday night, lo
ony announced that the Aristo
crats, the high school dunce Kind,
has hern engaged to play for the
efeiision,
Dancinjf will comnu nee at i)
p.m. Th.t)will be the last dunce
i f the season, Ihe next to 1m- held
in the fall.
divide and Conquer!
Policy Told Nation in;
Presidential Speech:
WASHINGTON, June 1 (UP) President Truman today
culled for renewed national effort iti tho war against Japan.
He said the American force to be used there will bo morrt
than double the size of the present army in the Pacific. This
apparently meant that an army of nearly 4,000,000 will be
used to subdue Japan. . . :l
He threatened Japan with a steadily-increasing; air war '
and urged Japanese civilians to leave their cities "if they
wish lo save their lives." r.;
Mr. Truman set forth his views in a 9,000-word special
message to congress on the status of the war.
It was an appeal not only to congress but to all of the "
nation against any letdown from a false sense of feeling '.
that the job Is just about done.
While telling in great detail ol
elaborate plans, for intensifying
the war against Japan, the presi
dent noted that the strength of
the army would be reduced from
t!,300,000 to 0,'.IU8,000 in the next
year.
Forces to be Doubled
"By maintaining our army at
I li Is size," he said, "we shall be
able to more than double the
force we now have in the Pacific
and hurl against the Japanese
and overseas force larger than
the 3,500,000 men who united
with our ultics to crush the Wehr.
macht and the luftwaffe "
The president said our milituiy
policy for the defeat of Japan
calls for:
"Pinning down lhe Japanese
forces where they now are and
keeping them divided so thoy
can be destroyed piece by
piece."
"Concentrating overwhelming
power on each segment which we
attack."
"Using ships, aircraft, armor,
artillery and other mateiiel in
massive concentrations to gain
victory with the smallest possible
loss of life."
"Applying relentless and in
creasing pressure to the enemy
by sea, air and on the land, so
I hat he cannot rest, reorganize or
regroup his battered forces or
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Drive Opens To
Crush Last Japs
In Trap On Luzon
MANILA, June 1 (UP) Amer
ican and Filipino forces opened
u drive today to annihilate 20 000
to 1)0.000 Japanese troops trapped
between them in the Cagayan
valley of northern Luzon.
A spokesmun at Gen. Douglas
MacArthur's headquarters an
nounced thut all hope of escape
fur the Japanese the biggest
remaining enemy force on Luzon
had been cut off by Filipino
forces moving down from the
northern coast.
Several hundred Japanese who
attempted to fight their way
across a river between Apinii
and Tuguegarao on May 20th
were turned back with heavy
losses by the Filipino fighlers.
the spokesman disclosed.
Merciless Slaying of American
Airman Told at Germansr Trial
' AHRWEILER, Germany.
June 1 (UP) A witness tesli
fied at the murder trial of three
Germans today that he saw
German civilians shoot and
beat an American airman lo
death when he parachuted into
lire rercn irorn a cripprcu oom
ber last August.
The first trial in American
occupied territory of German
civilians accused of war 'crim
inality openid before a mili
tary commission in a tiny
courtroom of the Ahieweih-r
city hall. a
Peter Kohn, a crane operator
from the town of Priest; Mat
thias Gieiens, a Priest railway
worker; and Untthias Drein,
blacksmith anir ruial police
man, were-cused of (WiurTlcr
ing the flyer whose identity
never was established. The
Gi rmans pleaded not guilty.
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College Graduates
Are Bid Godspeed1
At Evensong Rites
As a prelude to their gradua
tion today from Eastern Oregon
college, members of the senior
class last evening participated (n
the traditional Evensong on the
stairway lo the institution in the
presence of a large crowd. Com'
mencement exercises were oon-,
ducted this afternoon in the col
lege auditorium with Dr. Wins
low S. Anderson, president of
Whitman college at Walla Walla
as the principal speaker.
Evensong presented an impres;
sive spectacle of the young men
and women, guided by the tor
ches of education, departing upon
tho path of life.
Graduates who today received
degrees in various phases of their
academic studies were attired "ft
cup and gown, while the cndt
nurses whose courses have been
completed wore the white uni
forms of the profession into
which they soon will become full
Hedged members. n
The dresses of undergraduate
girls gave a colorful touch to the
striking picture of the partici
pants on the stairway to tho In
stitution. ;
Queen Kay Andrews Buck of
La Grande presided over the
ceremony, attended by her court,
consisting of six prince3es and
two chroniclers, und nccompani
merit for songs typical of the
school, the region and the sea
son was provided by an aug
mented college orchestra.
Northwest to Get
No Fuel Increase:
WASHINGTON, June 1 (UP)
Civilians in the Pacific norffl
west can expect no increase In
fuel oil supplies until V-J day,
Ralph K. Davies, deputy petro
leum administrator, said today.-
The end of the war in Europe
has not relieved the problem of
either home - healing iuel oil
consumers or industrial fuel oil
users in Washington, Oregon af)d
western Idaho," Davis said.
The chief witness for tlte
prosecution was Nicholas Nos
pes, 74. He said he saw th
airman shot in cold blood, then
clubbed mercilessly while he
still bled from the bullet
wounds. " "
Nospes said he was cutting
wheat in a field near Preist,
60 miles south of Coblenz,
when the American parachuted
down from the crippled bom
bcr.. Townsfolk rushed to the
scene of the landing, Nospes
said. Peter Back, a semi-c.VP-ple,
hobbled from a motorcycle,
dnw a pistol, and shot the
airman in the head. Back has
not been found.
Gieiens trembled violently
f-M'hen Nospes testified that he
ierens and Kohn, who ha
only one arm, beat the airman
with a club and a humiv.er after
Hack wounded him.