La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, June 07, 1945, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextOsaka Blocked' By Sreab O) A Community Newspaper For Every Member of the Family tVaiat od Wallow Cafiti ' . 'sr 'iii;sii!!!!!!;;iiii'5!iiiit;::TO!s;!i!i!i!!: ' &3 ESTABLISHED 1S9G Okinawa Defenders Are Trapped Lower City Tax Rate Is Indicated as Budget For Fiscal Year Is Completed A budget for operation of the city of La Grande for the fiscal year 19'l5-l(i, amounting to $179,8f7 was adopted last night by the budget committee and public hearing was set before the city commission at 7:i!0 p.m., June 27. While the sum the city plans to spend during the coming year is $39,033 higher than the overall cost of government during the current year, which ends June 30, elimination of . appropriations for various sinking funds and reserves, re tirement of bonds and economies effected, will make possible a reduction of approximately three mills in the last year's millage rate of 24.9. This rate is estimated by City Manager Ed II. Ford and is predicted upon an assessment roll paral- ' l('-linu- that of the present year. . Six Are Held For Theft of Secret U. S. Documents WASHINGTON, June 7 (UP) Six persons, including two state department officials and a navy lieutenant, were under arrest to ' iy in connection with the theft o. highly confidential government papers classified as "restricted" and "top secret." Five men and one woman are specifically charged with stealing the documents in a conspiracy to violate the "espionage act.' There ias no mention, however, of deal ings with the enemy. The arrested persons .ire not accused of transmitting infui ina ction to the enemy or to anyone ' tise. They were accused of vio- Ming a law which covers "un authorized possession" of nation al defense data as well as "trans t mittal." FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover said the data fiom confidential government files usually was turned over to Philip Jacob Jaffe, Russian-born co-editor with Kate Louise Mtichell of the New York magazine "An-.erasia." Jaffe and Miss Mitchell and Mark Julius Gayn, nationally known writer who also allegedly used some of the material. Those apprehended here are: Lt. Andrew Roth, formerly as signed to the office of naval in telligence. Emmanuel Siguard Larsen, specialist in the state depart ment's China division. John Stewart Service, state de partment foreign service oflice employe who until recently was stationed in China. Improvement of X Avenue is Sought The city commissioners last night received a prlition signed y 21 property owners in tlio 1300 and 1400 blocks on X ave nuc, askim; (ot- the grading and "'ling of the sticet and establish ment of grade so property own ers can have curbs constructed. Ci'y Manager Ed Ford inform ed the commissioner? that he has had engineers at the Beaver creek 'eservoir to inspect the dam, pre paratory to drawing plans for ra'Sing the dam. Ti e plan A-ill submitted to the slate lor ao proval. Hie payroll for May amount i"K to $64,2.24 was approved. A j Price of $500 v as sei on lot 1 and the west feet of lot 2. block 87. Chaplins addition. General receipts for the week wertv $7!ll,u0. General disburse ments were $705.42 Water re ceipts amounted to $725 !I4. wit.i disbursements in that depart ment totaling $411.2' Hopkins Completes Mission To Moscow MOSCOW, June 7 (UP) Ha," ry L. Hopkins completed his mi.; sion to Moscow lor Presid.-n! Truman todav and left -or the United States. u Behind a di sc curlain of fee- recy Hopkins has conferred for two weeks with Marshal Stalin, other Russian loader:: and allie:l envoys here. I The amount icquired for gen eral government purposes, inside the fl per cent limit is $70,450 $711,450, an increase of $12, the Jur the coming year, as comparec with $74,014 Iw the past year. The comp.e-a c:-y aucgel it published on another page of this issue of the Evening Ob server, giving complete details of all phases of the city's pro posed expenditures and com parisons with those of former years. Increase Is Offset The increase is ofisei ny lower cost of bond interest and redemp-' tion and other factors, giving an overall saving of $12,434, in the amount to be raised by luxation. Members of the budget com mittee are Michrtel C. Lynch, A. K.. Parker, J. H. Peare and the- memlrers of the city com mission, T. H. Gailher, B. A. Van Wormer and J. L. Sinden. Looking into the future, the budget committee included an item of $5,00 for the purchase of land for the erection of a new city building or expan Sce LOWER CITY . . . Page 7 Union County Is High in Salvage Of Waste Paper I Union county ranks 13th among the 36 counties of the state in ' per capita collection of waste paper since the salvage campaign opened a year and a half ago, be ing credited by the Oregon state salvage committee of the' war production board with per capita collection of 38.5 pounds. The county is credited with 310 tons, of which 70 tons was col lected in April and a total of 123 tons since Febraury 1. In point of total tonnage, the county stands sixteenth. One a per capita basis, Union entity stands considerably higher than neighboring counties, Baker county being credited with 33.3 pounds per capita, Umatilla coun ty, 23 pounds, and Wallowa coun ty, 20.6 pounds. Leading county is Benton, which has produced 70.7 pounds pir capita. Only one county, Wheeler, is reported by state salvage offi cials to have turned in no paper, and next to the bottom of the list is Curry county with 3.3 pounds per capita. The other counties above Un ion in the list and their per cap ita collections are listed as fol lows: Marion, 64.7 pounds; Clat sop, 00: Wasco, 59.3; Sherman, 5H.1: Multnomah, 49.6: Gilliam, 49.4: Deschutes, 461: Hood River, 45.5; Clackamas, 45.2: Yamhill, 41. and Klamath. 39.2. Baseball Results By United Presf American League R H Philadelphia Boston 4 6 5 8 1 7q inninss. Gassaway and Rosar; Ryba and Garbark. Wilson St. Louis ... Chicago o- Rfamor and Ffworth;,l.opITy National League Boston Philadelphia Tobin n id and IVncvk. o 3 1 7 2 1 ,lasi; Lucier LA GRANDE, If EYE WITNESS Harold Kirk Patrick, now a.i officer candi date at Cams Leo, Va is only eye-witness si Prague assassi nation of the monstrous Heyd rich the Hangman, a dreaded Nazi geslapo chief who was next i.t power only to Himm ler himself. Durham Convicted By Lo:al Jury, as Habitual Criminal George W. Durham, escaped convict a'ld jail-breaker, today faces a life sentence in the Ore gon state pr:&:in as the result of the finding of a circuit court jury that he is subject to application of the state's habitual criminal law. Judge R. J. Green set June 19 as the date for pronouncing sent ence and hearing arguments on a defense mo'.ion for a new trial. The jury deliberated four hours after hearing testimony for three days. The stale contended thai Durham, who was arrested hen; while in possession of firearms after escaping, from the stale prison, had been in prison here and in Kansas and was an habit ual criminal'. It wa the duty of the jury to dtcrmine whether or not he is the same man who served a term in a Kansas prison, and after deliberating four hours the jurors upheld the state's ac cusation. Members of the jury were: Axel Dahlslrom, Treshia Conrad, Edna Smith, Mae Dcsilet, Frank Young and Edna Whealy, all La Grande; F.arl Sager. Elgin; Wil liam E. Fickle and Ed Van Vlack, Union; Leonard Billings and Ray Wilson, Imbler, and Ruth Baker, Cove. New Irrigation Unit Carries First Water BEND, Ore., June 7 (UP) First water has coursed through the north irrigation unit of the $8,500,000 Deschutes presets, the reclamation bureau announced today. As a means of cleaning mud from the fish screen at the intake at Bend, Clyde H. Spencer, engi neer for the reclamation bureau, Tuesday pushed a button that lifted a five-ton steel gale. Tiv mud was washed out within a few hours, and the gate waj closed. The can.ll will carry Deschutes river wat.M 60 miles to land in Madras county. Col. Roosevelt to Co To War College GUA,M, June 7 (UP) Lt. Cmdr. Franklin 1). Roosevelt, jr., third son of the late president, was on his wiB back to Washington to become an instructor at ti9- wa ...: n..- r....- -.r 'D:.(5. rll.tv. He arrived here :'ard his des troyer escort after ffi straight days of ii"jn .' Okinawa, dur ing which the vessel s engines never stopped. I he ship bagged at least four Japanese planes am! rescued .'ix Afiencar. fliers. OREGON THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 7, 1915 Defeat Is Conceded By To GUAM, June 7 (UP) -Waves of American ultines to day bombed and strafed the 25 - snuare - mile dead end pocket on the southern tip of Okinawa where tile last Jap anese defenders were trapped and doomed bv the U. S. tenth army. Tokyo conceded final defeat was in sicht on Okin awa. Lund based tactical bombers, apparently scoring a lucky hit on 1 an ammunition dump, blew up i the side of a mountain where 1 remaining enemy forces were making their last major stand. The Japanese, with no line of retreat except into the sea, face annihilation. United Press war correspond ent Edward Thomas reported the seventh and U6th army divisions already were advancing through the outer defenses of the enemy stronghold. Naha Airfield Captured Naha airfield, greatest, prize of this campaign, has been captured by American troops. During the day U. S. planes flew 468 sorties against last ditch Japanese defenses. This was the largest number of sorties in any one day since the beginning of the Okiuwa campaign last Easier. Advanced American, patrols probing the plateau's rough, pine erested terrain, received supplies and ammunition from torpedo bomber pilots who made several runs at low altitude over the front lines. Tokyo said Okinawa's plight was due in part to the effective ness of American rocket; ships and planes in preventing Jap anese suicide aircraft from crash ing into American warships off the island. Coast Leaders of Red Cross Here For Conference Representatives of American Red Cross chapters in 15 north eastern counties of Oregon are expected in La Grande for a con ference wi'h officials of the Pa cific coast area whin opened to day in the local chapter head quarters w'.'h a meeting of exec utives. Mrs. T. B. Lumsdon, Union county chapter chairman, said the conference was arranged by Verne Simmons of San Francisco, Pacific area manager of the Red Cross, as a step toward planninj changes in the organization's ac tivities incident to the shift if the major war activity to the Pa cific, and to lay the groundwork Tor the cinnge to a peace-time basis and to provide greater serv ice to the increasing numbers of discharged service men and worn See COAST . .". Page 7 kyo Coege Honor Roll Is Topped By Four with Perfect Records Four La Grande slude.Hs finished the school year at Eastern Ore gon college with the highest possible scholastic records and topped the honor roll, o.i which a large number of others also are listed through achieving enviable rocords. Beverly Decker, Naomi Detrick, Eleanora Fry and Haiel Trol linger stand at the head of the honor roll with peifoct 4 point aver ages, the highest possible scores. 11 Students whose records rangf-J f. '1 ... 1 1 I iium n o... n- iiiiuuui.rti j by Re(is1rjr Lylr Johnson follows: Cl";ryf Blake. I.J Grande; Jean Biowrt, Irrigin. Evelyn Burnett, La Grande; Mai joiie Chandler, La Grande; Vivi enne Ferguson, The Dalks: J:i nette Frazier and Aiden Cjawit.i. Milton; Betiy Graven. Biehlflr.'i; melda Hjmmel, Coyd, (PutiMcn Hunt. Ui Grar.de: Mtfrilyft K.'ng. IVtullcion; Steve (Rim: iFBvli- cia McLaughlin and jbi 'ana &v.i; N 'Q'Ujrande; Patricia O 'Ojtfa. i Rode, Baker; ly StrJV., I Lexington, and Emily (s. Aon 'Oneo': Snn;p fjaen.O I, i an; Nell Schock.fjLa Grde; SrandiO Mary S(jniifr, 3j)--Dorothy Seholl, Enterie; .Or- j mi:n; (JJarria TurriA-, La ion Snider, La Grande; Betty T0 Grande;Q Irene VOi Beveren, ler, La Grande; Dorothy Wallis, ' Hillsboro, and Q'Sllis Yeater, Vale. ; Portland. O 1 ff&l wiLl4w1 MITSCHER TELLS OF DEATH ESCAPE Vice Admiral Mars A. Milscher (left), commander of famous task force 58, shows Secretary of Navy James V. Forrestal a Jap four-leaf clover em blem taken from uniform of Jap suicide pilot whose plane crash ed on the admiral's ship. Mitscher revealed that he was twice bombed off his flag ship by Jap suicide planes but did'Vi con sider them a "serious" threat to American success in the Pacific. Prospecting for Oil Will Start Soon in Region East of Hot Lake Drilling of a test well for oil in the Grande Ronde valley will start some time next week, it was announced today by a group of valley residents interested in the project. Construction, of a derrick in the prospective . oil field, slightly east of Hot Lake, will be completed this week. Drilling awaits arrival of the drill over the week-end. Most of the equipment for the rig is already on the ground, it was said. 1 ; Spokesman for the group is M. Small Fry 'Get Even When They Miss Promotions TACOMA, Wash., June 7 (UP) Ninety-four paneless windows at the Graham, Wash, schoolhouse today marked the vengence wreaked by three small boys disgruntled by their failure to pass into the next grade. Pierce county sheriff's dep uties called to investigate re ported that the trio two 8-year-olds and one age 6 recruited another 6 - year - old and embarked on the window breaking orgy. Court Dismisses Robbery Charges i Justice of the Peace George II. Currcy yesterday dismissed rob bery charges against William G. Coe and Kenneth Collins, both of Imbler. They were accused by S. A. Hybread of robbing him of ap proximately $180 in cash and checks. Justice Currey acted as com mitting magistrate and S. II. Bur leigh represented the defendants and Deputy District Attorney George Cochran represented the state. Students making a grade point ... n .. . .113 average oi ,ii 10 j. were; v-ui i Banish. Portland; Kay Buck, l-i Grande; tijiriet- Danielson, Ben.l; Sarnosrlthi Davis. John Day; Mary Fthiilge, La Grande; Mar tha Jean Jet'e. PuilUind; Mji li i Kiio-Mcs, La Grande; EliZ abolh Kr.uth, Coltnibua. Ohio; Nina MiDe- and Beita Muirev, I.nleipi (SO: JE'ili r.'tsur, CuiUrriOi Marilyn Pms. HawthorBj, Cab!; ijtav$;ry H:itpa., Vitt'itli Pnynyi (JrUu!,omm - 0 f'Bttatf: Wean FIVE CENTS R. Wallace of Union, president of the Grande Ronde Gas and Oil company, with offices at Union. Other officials are Hugh D. Ber ry, vice-president; P. II. Newman, secretary, and F. M. Gunn, treas urer, all of Union. Wallace said that the project is a test well for oil in section :2, township 3 S., Range 39 E. W. M. on the propel ty of Charles E. Davis, jr. and Richard B. Davis. The company has approximately 7,000 acres under lease in the area surrounding the derrick, which is 00 feet in height. Wallace said that the well is being financed entirely by resi dents of La Grande and Union and other sections of the valley. Only previous drilling for oil in the valley which could be as certained was a well drilled on the property of William Hutchin son, near the Union experiment station. Two wells are said to have been sunk, the deepest ap proximately 320 feet. Equipment of the present com pany will allow diilling to 7,500 feet, arcording to the officials, and it is expected by the drill rs that positive oil indications will be found between 2,00V) and 2,500 feet. Wallgi-en Protests Sugar Ration Cut OI.VMI'IA, Wash., June 7 (UP) Gov, Mon C. Wnllgren today .iitered a formal protest again-,1 the office of price administration action culling the canning sufc'av allotment In ten pounds per per son in Washington state. Wallgren, in a wire to OPA chief Chester ijowles, termed the action "alarming." lie reminded that an allotment j of at least twenty pounds ptv person must be made to farm I families of the slate which plan I to put up 125 quarts per family this year, the 1944 average was (juart per fam.ily, without including jjim, jellies and con serves. Newsies .ire Told Value of Accuracy G. I.. Giegory, local account ant, gave an inliesting and in MiUcfive 9)k (J) newspaper iQi- I riers of the Evening Obseivcr last nigjiln the Observer building. J lie ein())ia.sized the (fTjportancc ol keeping accurate records In con- 'rw.,-l) tiMh l.f.nrtlini, m .nnv -W VZJ 6 J- The talk was a part of the Evg) ning OliKt rvcr's program for busi niss instluetion of the carriers through talks bv local business men on pertinent subjects. 2,500 Tons of Fire Demolition Bombs Hit War Industries GUAM, June 7 (UP) Nearly 600 Superfortresses ami fighters smashed mile after mile of war plants with 2,500 tons of fire and demolition bombs today in the second bite raid in a week on Osaka, Japan's greatest industrial city. ' V Radio Tokyo said 40 other Thunderbolt, Lightning, Mui tang and Hellcat fighters, apparently from new American" bases on Okinawa, almost simultaneously made a two-hour leaflet raid on the Kagoshima area of Kyushu in southern Japan. ' C The broadcast indicated that the air war over Japan had entered a new phase with the completion of bases on Okinawa bringing the enemy homeland within range of all types of American planes from fighters to B-29s. a Tokyo admitted thut Light- nings had not appeurea ovei Japan before. Suicide Basts Hit Two B-29s accompanied the fighters, Tokyo 8. a Id. Enemy broadcasts . previously had re ported that ..about 30 "smaller type" allied planes attacked suicide-plane .buses on Kyushu yes terday. Some 400 to 450 Superfortresses and 150 Mustangs struck shortly after noon at Osaka arsenul, the largest in Japan, and other ma jor war plants in hitherto little damaged eastern Osaka. A Japanese announcement said the raid lasted three hours. Fires were started in the northeastern and northern sections of the city, but were "steadily being brought under control," the announce ment said. The raid marked the third stage of the 21st bomber com mand's methodical destruction of Osaka, pre-war Japan's second largest city with a population of 3,252,340. Some HVi square miles 18V4 per cent of the built-up crea of Osaka were burned out in the two previous heavy raids, the latest only lust Thursday. North of Japan, Liberators of the 1 1th air force bombed the Kutaoka naval base on Shimushu and search aircraft of fleet air wing four hit installations in the Hayuke river area of Puramu shiru yesterday. Union County Is at Half-way ; Mark in 7th War Loan Drive To Sell $741,000 in E Bonds Half-way mark in the seventh war loan campaign yesterday founjl Union county with sale aggregating almost exactly one-half of lr E bond quota of $741,000, and slightly more than 47 per cent of tha overall objective of $964,000. ' Sales reported to yesterday by W. C. Perkins, chairman of tha county war finance committee were $454,020.75, of which $373,'- 943.75 were in C bonds, With but 22 remaining in which the war bond volunteers must sell equal amount of bonds to reach the quotas set through out the nation, Ted R. Gamble, director of the treasury depart ment's war finance division, noti fied slate chairmen to review all their operations and make sine that there were no loopholes in their set-ups which might result in failure to reach their E bond quotas. He revealed thut E bond salts nationally were approximately (10 per cent of the quota. Union Sales High Mrs. T. R. Lumsden, publicity chaiiman of the Union county committee, announced thut a re port from the city of Union re vealed sales of E bonds totalling $(10,000 against :. total of $70,000. The same community has al ready oversubscribed its quota of bonds other than those of the K series, having purchased them to the amount uf $24,00(1 on a quota or $20,V)()0. Infantry Show Coming One of the highlights of the bond campaign locully is the up peiinince here on June 15 of the "Hire's Your Infantry" group of American doughboys to stage their demonstration of the smash ing of a Japanese pillbox, with bazookas, flame throwers and ether weapons of modern war fare, and their exhibits of the equipment the doughboys carry into battle. The demonstration on the high school athletic field ut 8:45 p.m., will be pieceded by a retreat ceremony on the Eastern Oregon college campus at 7:30 o'clock. The lowering of thy, Stars and Stripes at sundown to the accom paniment of the national anthem is a traditional ceremony in the army, ad will be conducted here as a part of the observance of Infantry .day. Wathe$ Data for 2-Lhc.urs ending 7 n. m(J temperance Maximum 51 Minimum 46 Precipitation .01 Forecust: Part cloudy witn showers lonight and Friday. ; ; -7 17 Gen. Bradley Is Named Head of ! Veterans' Bureau 4 . WASHINGTON, June 7 (UP)4 President Truman today an: nounced thi appointment of Geri. Omar N. Bradley us the veterans' administrator.. v : The fumad commander of Euro pean operations will succeed Brig, qan. Frank T. Hines. , . ' Resignation of Hines and ap pointment of Bradley were art' nounced at tho president's press conference. ' Bradley returned from Europ on Sunday. Hines has headed the veterans unit since 1023. ,1 The president also unnounced the appointment of Stuart Sy mington, St. Louis, to succeed Guy M.'Glllelte on July 15 as chairman nf the surplus prop erty board. . -. .' .,. Other government changes dis closed by the president today:- ;. Appointment of John B. Hut; son, now an assistant to war mo bilization director Fred M. Vin son, as undersecretary of agricul ture, succeeding Grover B. Hill, who resigned. ' . 7 1 Appointment of Paul M. Here-! og of New York as chairman , qf the national labor relations board, succeeding H. A. MUlis who asked to Rsign effective June: 3d. Truman Proposes : Boost in Salary -Of Congressmen , ; WASHINGTON, June 7 (UP) President Truman today pro' posed on increase in pay for con gressmen to somewhere between $15,000 a year and $25,000. They now get $10,000. This was by way of indirect criticism at his news conference1 of house action in voting a $2,500 annual expense allowance for its members. The president said he though; members of congress were gross ly under paid and that they should receive salaiies commen surate with their duties. lie advocated passage of an outright .salary increase and said he would sign such a bill if Sent to him. Asked whether he would veto the expense account bill, he said no; that it .vas a legislative mat ter and if congressmen wanted it that, way they could have it, but thut ho thought they ought to come itruight out and raise their salaries. Objectors' Release x Opposed liy Legion i INDIANAPOLIS, June 7 (UP) Robert J. Webb,' chairman of the national Americanism com mission of the American Legion, said tnday the Legion is opposed to the selective service plan to release approximately 900 con scientious objectors from United Slates camps i.nder a point sys tem this year. ii Webb said, "It would be a def inite uffr-jnt and needless insult to our fighting men to release even one conscientious objector while thousands of our combat veterans with many months ac tive service are required to con- Uinue serv'ng until the war witn raupan is over." MAN IS ARRESTED Henry G. Taylor, a traiQcnt, was arrested '.ate yesterday on charges of drunkenness and in-1 decent exposure, and today was ordered to leave town.