Miller
Men With Rifles
Bear Brunt of
Winning War
j 'j LEE G. MILLER
WITH' THE 25th DIVISION AT
BALETB PASS, Luzon (By
Wireless) "1 firmly believe ho
would tave been diead of the
urmy , someday." suid Muj. Gen.
Charles L. Mullins, jr., cotnmund
ing general of this division,
He was talking about his os
sistunj division commander, Brig
Clcn. :"PiKty" Dulton who wus
kitlccf by a Jap sniper.
"I' Wm planning to recom
mend that he be given a divi
.lon," : h general ald. "I
don't' linPW ot ny man In ser
vice; with more tactical brilli
ance gr admintttratlve acu
men,
Gehei-nl Dulton won a silver
tnr ulth nn oukk-uf cluster, and
n lironvn star.
He. had been a general only
biiejly. Until March he was o
colonel, commanding the lfllst
reelmnnt. which he took over
riurlhif, the Guadalcanal cam
paignT and General Mullins said
he had made it a regiment as
gouc"pji any in tho army.
General' Dalton was 38. He
vias'irjulue'ed from Went Point
in JIW3. . His wifo who writes
poetry' vundpr her maiden nume,
Kathfrlne.Starblid, Is (ho daugh-er-.br
Brig. Gen. and Mrs. A. A.
SlrbjH.:: She lives In Burling
fon,,'yte'.V ; ". ,
' I Wo long. talk with General
Dqlton !) his tenl "e day before
he w0s' Killed, and I was impres
sed .with' his keenness. He obvi
v 'rfia a lot of thinking.
' . Ha' s talking about the
doiighfpots, and he was full of
praise fur them. .,
' "Th'u 'dozer operators and the
rmJle Vnd u ot of others do a
ijiugiiificllfilt job,"., he said. "But
it's.' tlis'. rifleman who has to go
in against the machine
giins'.V..? .'"'
"A 'dpzer operator has nn nn
rnediutip sense of accomplishment.
So cjbci) 'the medic who helps a
v.ouridud man. A rifleman has to
take' fllll just whvi hu hurdly
knows""- and when it's .taken
what's 'he got? Just another hill
ahead of him. ' . .-
"Ernie Pyle was dead right
when tie seld a soldier's war Is
Juit hundred yards or to on
each side of him. He doesn't
see .'the , big picture. And he
went to go home.
' "A man who has been fighting
this long lias seen friends killed
and he is tired and he figures
he has about run out his chan
ces.' But he has to take another
hill. And he takes It."
i! The general thought the cor
respondents had a great respon
sibility to try to muku people
back home understand how
things are out here.
', He mentioned the phruste "niup
ping up" which sometimes gives
Jptople the wrong idea of a rough
operation like this at Balete Puss.
"If a correct phrase mill
I Urily,". he said, ' "You break
i the enemy strategically and the
J decision is won. but the job
, remains of defeating strong
enemy remnants. Thais mop
! ping up. and in using the terms
.; the army doesn't mean to imply
any lack of ruggedneas."
General Dulton was a discip
linarian. He discouraged officers
Irom addressing men by their
first names.
' "When an officer gets ioo fam
iliar with his men," he said, "he
become hesitunt about ordering
a dangerous mission. He is like
ly to muke a ruquost instead of
issuing an order. But a soldier
doesn't like that. He doesn't
want to take the responsibility
of sending himself into danger.
For one tiling he feels it's throw
ing down his family back home.
Hi wants an officer to muke the
decision. There's; not much vol
unteering in the urmy, and I'm
against it. Men want to be told
what to do."
General Dalton was able am;
willing to do anything he asked
his men to do, General Mullins
said. "And he could do it brt
'ter than any of them," he added.
General Dulton liked the troops
nnd they liked him. He told me:
"When I need a little bulking
up I go up there" he pointed
off through tin; rain and mist to
the front lines "and talk to tin
inert with the rifles."
Fag Purchase from
Sailor livings Fine
SEATTLE, June 1 (UP) Stage
and screen actor David Hodman
today wus fined $50 and costs for
purchasing 15 cartons of ora-etnrc
cigarettes trom a sailor.
The .IB-year-old actor was ar
rested Tuesday by a federal tax
agent. He came here from Holly
wood two months ago utter he
coming involved in studio labor
troubles.
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Portland Beavers
Widen Leadership
By Beating Seattle
By United Press
The Portland Beavers increased
their Pacific Coast league lead
to two and one-half games last
night by downing the second
place Seattle Rainiers, 0-0, be
hind the effective mound work
of veteran Sid Cohen.
The Oakland Acorns pinned
back the ears of the Sun Fran
cisco Seals, 11-7, as Bob Joyce,
ace of Lefty O'Doul's hurling
corps, went down to his fifth loss
uguinst 1U wins. The improving
Hollywood Stars mude it two out
of three against Los Angeles by
a II t) count in 10 innings, while
tl,u Sacramento Solons stopped
Sun Diego, 4-11. ' 1
Batting Spreo Wins
Portland scored four runs in
wild fourth inning to hasten
Seattle's downfall. The offense
was paced by singles off the bats
of Mel Nuncs, Larry Barton and
John O'NeiJ.
Oakland couldn't touch Joyce
for five frames, then hopped on
him for four runs in the sixth
and three more in the seeenth.
Chet Rosenlund, Noun Dewcose
and Tom Hufey collected four
hits each.
Guy Hotelier scattered seven
Sun Diego li its as Sacramento
rapped Frunk Tincup, Jim Brill
heart and Curl Dumler for 1 1
sufetics. It was Fletcher's 10th
victory and he had solid support
from Jess Londium, who swat
ted a triple and single in four
tries.
Joe Mishasek of Hollywood
outlasted five Los Angeles twir
lers. He also scored the winning
run in the 10th inning.
Fishing Prospects
For Week-end Are
'Fair' to 'Poor'
PORTLAND, Ore., June 1 (UP)
Lane, Columbia. Curry, Jose
phine, Jefferson, Deschutes and
Malheur counties offer best Ore
gon fishing possibilities for this
coming weekend, according to
the angling bulletin of the Ore
gon state g:ime commission today.
Angling is reported "poor" or
very poor" in Douglas, Jose
phine, Jackson, Lake, Crook,
Morrow, Gilliam, Wheeler and
Wallowa ?ountics.
In Lane, streams are reported
right for angling, with good
catches coming from upper Luke
creek, and perch fishing in Silt
Coos lake "fair." Benton county
conditions ire only fair.
In' Columbia, good catches of
trout arc expected with possibili
ties of bag limits this weekend
for catfish perch and criippies
Over the entire diked district.
Tillamook and Coos counties
report only fair angling condi
tions but in Coos calfishing in
the Cociui'le and in drainage
ditches has brought limit catches.
Perch fishing is good at Ten Mile
lake, and the inlet and buy are
good for striued bass, best by
trolling.
In Josephine, angling is poor,
but salmon fishing good in the
Rogue and promise is for excep
tionally good fishing there as
soon us the water settles. Roads
to Tannen and Uolen lakes are
snow-blocked.
RESUMES DUTIES
Mrs. C urie Trollinger has re
sumed Ivt'i' duties us secretary of
the La Grande chamber of com
merce, alter having been em
ployed by another firm 11 few
weeks. :.. ",. v.. ...
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Complete
Friday, June 1, 1945
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COOPER THE BRAVE Manager Bob Coleman is pleased with
conditions of Mort Cooper's $100,000 arm. Following salary squab
ble, Sf. Louis Cardinal ace wont to Boston Braves for cash and
pitcher Charley Barrett.
Baseball Standings
By United Press
AMERICAN LEAGUE
W. L.
Pet.
.02!)
.010
.51b
.500
.457
.452
.441
.4110
New York 22
1:1
12
10
10
111
17
10
21
Detroit 19
Chicago 17
St. Louis 10
Boston 18
Cleveland 14
Washington 15
Philadelphia 14
NATfONAL LEAGUE
New York 20 1 1 .70.1
Brooklyn 21 HI .508
Pittsburgh I!) 10 .54:1
St. Louis 20 17 .541
Chicago 18 10 .521)
Cincinnati 15 111 .455
Boston Ill 20 ..to
Philadelphia 10 211 .20.1
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Portland
.37
.32
.32
. 2!)
. 30
21)
27
.21
.027
.580
.525
.402
.401
,4;i
.450
.450
Sivattlu
Oakland
San Francisco
Sun Diego
Sucranitnto ....
Los Angeles ....
Hollywood
Sharp Reductions
Made in Funds
Of War Agencies
WASHINGTON, June 1 (UP)
The house appropriations com
mittee today slushed more than
$111.0011,000 from funds for 10
war agenci-.'s for the year begin
ning July 1. It proclaimed thai
the reduction marked "the begin
ning of the end" for most of lliem.
The coinniitlec approved legis
lation providing $700,704,850 to
operate the I!) agencies. This was
$111,812,050 less than budget bu
reau recommendations and $21)0.
1148,8110 less than current year
funds.
Two Years of War Seen
During hearings on the legis
lation, however, the committee
heard Krp. J. Bnel Snyder. D.,
Pa., chairman of the subcommit
tee on war department appropri
ations, estimate that the war
against Japan would last at least
another two years.
As the 11)40 war production
board appropriation was being
...i.wwl... ...I I.I .1
niittee:
"Japan still has about 8.000.OOO
soldiers, about 2.50(1,000 in the
islands and about 5,((l).00( in
Manchuria. I would say that I
can see possibly a war of two or
more years with Japan."
As reported by the committee,
the appropriation measure marks
a reduction for every agency ex
cept the newly created office of
war niobiliation and reconver
sion and the office of economic
stabilization.
The office of war mobilization
had only jl.itm.488 for Its short
life during the current year. For
1040. the committee recommend
ed $4:1.055,400, which was $20,
041.000 Mow budget bureau rec
ommendations. For OKS, tin' committee recom
mended sitiio.250 compared to the
$1011,0011 it received this vear.
PRICE CONTROL DROPPED
WASHINGTON. June 1 (UI'l
Cabbago will 1h lemoved from
retail price control on June 0,
he office of price administration
onnmincfd too.iv.
Tin l.a (Jiitnde
.Masonic l.otge
Will .Meet
:il the
ej
!inittjgtass I'uneiul llimie
-:IH1 p.m. Sa
To attend and conduct the
fin.,! of George W. Hill
man. tic mdtr of W M.
C. M. Humphreys Ql
SPORTS
Local Reports
Page 6
Veteran Hurler
Leads Reds to
Win Over Phillies
By United Press
Walter Beck, 42-ycar-old veter
an of seven' big league seasons,
and former Philadelphia Philly
hurler, sot his former team mates
down with five hits yesterday
and gave the Cincinnati Reds an
8 to 1 victory, Beck's second of
the year.
The Reds gave him 13-hit sup
port, every membor of the team
lulling sufr.ly at least once, and
seven scoring the runs.
Rookie Dave Ferriss of the Red
Sox had everything necossary to
win, beating the Indians, 6 to 2,
but this lime he had to share the
American league honors with
another ex-G.I. Joe, Les Mjiel
k'l- of the Detroit Tigers.
Tigers Blank Yanks
Mueller, storting his first big
league game after several relief
stints blanked the Yankees with
just two hits for a 2 to 0 victoiy
at New York.
Beating live Indians left Fer
riss. Willi only one league team,
the Senators, to conquer. Hu has
beaten the others once and the
White So.x twice.
Relief pitcher Joe Berry, who
took over when Don Black wren
ched his back, gave the Phila
delphia A's the rubber game, 3
to 2, Bobby Kstallelu singling
home the winning run for him
in tile eighth.
Milt Byrnes cleared the right
field barrier at Washington with
a homer for the first time this
season to highlight the Browns'
5 to 2 victory over tho Senators,
which ended a five-game losing
streak. L.'fty Al Hollingswotth
won his first game, taking it
easy after tile Browns mude four
runs in the second.
Dodgers Take Long One
Cloodwin Rosen tripled home
two runs in the 13th lo give
Brooklyn the rubbor game in a
series of three at Pittsburgh. 0
to 4. Relief Pitcher Clyde King
allowed one hit for seven innings
until the 13th when he loaded tha
basf s on three short singles, then
caused the last batter to ground
out.
Rookie Jack Kreel won his
third game for the Cardinals at
St. Loins, scattered 10 hits to
beat tlu1 Braves. !) to 4. A five
run Cardinal rally in tho first
inning gave him plenty of wink
ing margin. Tommy Holmes hit
a homer for the Braves.
Stamp taxes were paid on
more than 125,(100,000.000 cigarets
in the United States in a single
vear.
Granada
COMPANION
Mexociie naum
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f GILBERT HOWARD
Army Prisoners
Riot, Slay Guard.
Destroy Barracks
INDIANAPOLIS, June 1 (UP)
A guard was killed and three
soldier-piisoncrs wounded during
a riot which broke out last night
during an incendiary fire in the
disciplinary compound at Fort
Benjamin Harrison, fifth service
command headquarters said to
day. The riot started with the ston
ing of guards by tho prisoners,
all soldiers serving courts-martial
sentences. The prisoners
broke lights al the same time.
A slant time later fire broke
out in u barracks and the in
firmary. Tlio two buildings weie
at opposite ends of the disciplin
ary compound.
"Except for the fire the riot
was soon quelled, but hot before
me guard wus killed," the state
ment said. The compound held
some 3,000 soldier-prisoners, it
was reported.
Fire Fighter Dies
A fireman was a fifth casually.
Everett Jackson, 40, died thij
morning of a stroke he suffered
while fighting the flames.
"Immediate, cause of the riot
was believed due to extra duty
for infraction of prison rules,"
said u statement issued under
authority of Major-Gen. James 1..
Collins, commanding generul of
the fifth service command at Col
umbus, O.
One prisoner was wounded
seriously and two others only
slightly, the Btutitncnt auid.
Names of the casualties were not
announced.
Nine barracks buildings were
destroyed, the statement said.
Salmon Canning
To Be Concentrated
WASHINGTON, June 1 (UP)
Concentration of the salmon cun
ning industry of Puget Sound,
Wash., started lust year to save
manpower and equipment, will
be continued during the 1945
season, Harold L. Ickes, secretary
of interior and coordinator of
fisheries, announced today.
Although the general theory of
operating a few firms at top pro
duction will apply this season,
four instead of three plants will
be authorized to pack salmon for
1 1 firms. ,
Ickes maintained the plan will
save 450 cannery workers for the
mainland, employing 100 in the
San Juan islands where labor is
available. About 20 cannery tend
ers will be released for use in
Alaska, he said.
Famed Musician is
Co-starred in Film
Jose Iturbi, famous pianist and
symphony conductor, appears as
a conductor with a problem ill
the motion picture, "Music For
Millions," now showing at the
Liberty theater.
His problem is one ol man
power, as the war causes women
to leplace men in his orchestra.
Co-starred ate Margaret
O'Brien. Jimmy Durante and
June Allyson, who plays the p ill
of a bass fiddle player in the
symphony orchestra.
TODAY and SATURDAY
T O N I G II T
AND SATURDAY
FEATURE
Cantrell Bags Two Japs Tn One Minute
$ 4 4 i
Marine Pilot Wounded, Plane Is Riddled
ABOARD AN AIRCHAFT CARRIER IN THE PACIFIC (De
layed) A blazing 30 minutes over Japan won a hero's place for
Marine Captain William A. Cantrell, a fighter pilot from La Grande.
Oregon,
Captain Cantrell, a member of the "Eightball" squadron on this
carrier, destroyed two and damaged two Jap planes as his plane
was riddled with gunfire and his right foot became numb from
shell fragment wounds.
When his squadron leader's
compass failed to function, Can
trell was ordered to lead the out
fit back to the carrier. Until he
landed on one knew he had been
wounded, or that his' plane was
damaged.
Cantrell scored his kills over
the north of Kure in southwest
Honshu when the marine's wen:
lo the aid of a group of navy
pilots. As the Japs attacked from
tho rear, Cantrell went to the
lescue of a Corsair with1 two
Japs on its tail. Firing until he
was about 100 feet from one
Jap, Cantrell evidently killed
the pilot, and the plane turned
en its back and "screeched" for
each.
He bagged his next plane in
less than a minute when he hit
one of three Japs attacking a
Corsair. Flames poured out of
the engine, as the enemy went
down.
While attacking a third Jap,
Cantrell'g plane was hit und lie
was wounded in the foot. His
plane jolted, and there was e
small explosion as black smoke
leaked into the cockpit and hy
diaulic fluid splattered over him.
He took a quick look and found
a large hole in his left wing. His
right foot had become numb, and
he found shell fragments in his
shoe.
Hearing a shout for help over
his intercom, he pulled his Cor
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sair into a sharp turn, and spoi
led a Jap making a high run on
another Corsair. He damage'd the
Jap plane with u blast of , gun
fire.
' Whe'n the leader of the slrikv
ti.und his compass damaged, he
turned the lead to Cantrell. After
three planes landed and brfoi
Cunlrelll could land, enemy
planeV attacked. They we re
driven off by unti-uircrafl fire,
but it was u half hour before
Cantrell, whose gas was running
low, could land.
Five pieces of shell fragment
were removed from CantreU's
foot.
For every five tons of steel
used by railroads, four tons of
iron and steel scrap are returned
to tho mills by them.
House fur Sale
A modern 2-ledroom house with basement,
including 2 Ions of coal. On Mth street, 2
blocks from stale highway shops. Total price
$2K.r.). Only $700 down. See II. W. Smith in
The Log Cabin Store
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verythiogD
LET'S PUSH UNION COUNTY'S
QUOTA OVER THE TOP NOW!
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Teacher Wins Room
Rent Charge Suit
OLYMPIA, Wash., June 1 (UP)
Tho Washington state supreme
court held in a seven-to-two de.
cision yesterday that Letha Mai
com is entitled to recover a sum
from Black Rock school in Yaki
ma county. ,,y
The district agreed-'to pay Ivr
$1,200 a year but withheld $40
for rent of a room adjoining the
school building. ThVcourt ruled
that the monthly room rent wa
subterfuge to avoid paying the
full annual salary.
One hundred pounds of apples
are reduced to 13 pounds of de
hydrated fruit for military eon-sumption.
A New Shipment of
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