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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.
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1 7 2 1
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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.