La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, June 08, 1945, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Textn Pack si on Ik Dim aw n n o Dfei7Di 4 Community pmewspaper ! J I. tmuy ESTABLISHED PI 1896 Caifrier Planes Batter Jap Big Five Defend Right to Veto Coiinci Proposals; Soviets Crop 'Gag' Demand VA , i,i Viu.fjO. June 8 UHi.i.v fflir right to world seem n.v w Mfcii but jrtuminteed freedom for the coun cil to (iihcuoh ... misnute bfol.e tniinff act on. The biff five int ' fllerpretation uiis nresented to the United miotic a few hour: Prpmier Josei Maiiit ,,ifu,.v ouon nvnv disc W. . i- .ussion of Voters Will ?fcame Member 01 fed chool Board June T 8 La Grande school cis will ballot to fill on the school board istrict vot- bne vacancy on Monday, June 18, it was annfiJ nccd lod Last filing for cJT(ndidaU,s wiM be Monday, J"M?'.n. Declara tion of candidnI9must be filed with the cUfffi; of the school board, R. QAvMiams, before .0 o'c.'pck tyrjndny evening, when the offj closes. tr-fjflaude Berry, real estate and insurance man, whose term ex pires, has announced his candi dacy for reelection to the posi tion. He has served two terms on the board, since ,1937. "I am very much interested in school affairs and associated work)" he said, in announcing his candidacy. "I will continue to servo as diligently as in the pas!, if the public wishes me to do so." Election will be held at the Greenwood and Central schools from 2 p. m. to 7 p. m. on June ia. The term is for five years. Japs Weaken On Luzon; Mindanao Defense Stiffens MANILA, June 8 (UP) The 37th division advanced almost at will today through broken Jap anese lines in the Cagayan cal ley of northern Luzon. The 37thvhad dashed 13 miles in two days from Aritao to a point three miles beyond the captured town of Bambang. That put them within about five miles of Bayombong, capital of Nueva Vizeaya province. Resistance in tlx; past few days has been described as light or sporadic. On Mindanao the situation war different with today's communi que from Gin. Douglas Mac Arthur's headquarters reporting stiffening resistance in the Davac sector. Gains were limited. Dive bombers hammered the stubborn Japanese positions. Gen. Patton Back, Enroute Westward BOSTON, June 8 (UP) Gen. George S. Patton Jr., accom panied by his wife and 45 bc medaled officers and men of his third army, took off from the army airbase at Bedford today enroute to his naitve California. Somewhat weaty after a gala civic celebration here yesterday and last night, Patton was in the first of three C-54 transports that loared out over the Middlesex valley and headed west. The general, still wearing his shiny battle helmet, carrying his riding crop and with his two black-handed pistols on his hip, posed for army photographers. Truman Rebuffed On Tariff Cuts WASHINGTON. June R (UP The senate finance committee, to day voted 10 to0!) against the ad ministration's request for author ity to cut tariff nitos 511 tier cent below present, levels. I The committee struck the t:u- iff rnllln., I : i .,f .. ijil uuilHJl UV Ulll UI ,l mi' rin-iK"0""1" to extend the reciprocal trade i Forecast: Partly cloudy, prob- agteements program for thre.' able showtis tonight and Satur 'pars. i(!;,v. up) A united bitr five veto action by the proposed of the Yalta voting formula Nations conlerence and made after Soviet Russia on direction of - i; i ' disputes in the council The big five memorandum was presented to a conference sub committee which three weeks ago asked 22 specific questions about the voting formula where and when the lule of unanimity among the big five would be applied. Early Conclusion Sought The break in the big five cV'ad lock over the veto issue which had held up most conference work for nearly two weeks, was the signal for another speed-up to complete the world charter within two weeks. John Sofianopoulos, chairman of the conference committee con sidering the voting formula, re leased the memorandum of the big five to his committeemen and to the press "in view of the great interest which has been shown in the question." - ' The memorandum was princi pally a defense of the right of a permanent member of the secur ity council to veto virtually all decisions or actions by the coun cil. But of principal interest was its guarantee of freedom of hear ing and discussion the issue on which the big five were split 4 to 1 for six days. "No individual member of the council can alone prevent con sideration and discussion by the council of a dispute or situation brought to its attention," the memorandum said. "Nor can parties to such dispute be pie vented by those means from be ing heard by the council." It further guaranteed that re ouircment of big five unanimity could not prevent any member of the council from reminding members of their general obliga tions to settle international dis putes peacefully. 20 Die in Jungle Crash of Transport MANILA, June 8 (UP) Twenty persons were killed when a C-47 transport plans crashed into a New Guinea "shangri la" last month, the army revealed to day, but three aboard survived and soon will be brought out of the lost world. An officer, an enlisted man and a WAC the only survivors of the big transpoit plane crash are under medical care while awaiting completion of an emer gency air strip from which they can be flown out of the hidden valley in the Oranje mountains of Dutch New Guinea. They are 1st Lt. John S. McCol lom, Trenton, Mo.; T. Sgt. Ken lith W. Decker, 111 Main St., Kelso, Wash., land Corp. Mar gaict J. Hastings, Oswego, N. Y. Laval Must Face Trial as Traitor PARIS, June 8 (UP) The gov ernmert announced today that a French plane now is at Barcelona to return Pierre Laval to France to face charges as a traitor in his collaboration with the Nazis. The Spanish government agreed l turn Laval over to the French ard asked that a plane be dis patched to take him away from Barcelona, where he landed after a flight from Switzerland in the la.-st davs of the European war. Weather Data for 24 hours to June 8: T.-mpe rat ure: Maximum Minimum 7 a.m., C9 42 Precipitation. trace. mm CABINET BOUND? Wash ington observers predict thai Judge Sherman Minton, above, of the U. S, court of apFaals, Chicago, will be President Tru ma.i'i next cabinet selection, either as secretary of war or secretary of the interior. Min ton is a former New Deal sena tor from Indiana and has a military background. Salary Increases Are Proposed For Congress, Cabinet WASHINGTON, June 8 (UP) A bill was introduced in the sen ate today to boost the salaries of congressmen and the vice presi dent by $10,000 a year and the pay of cabinet officers, by $5,000. ' The ' house voted its members a $2,500-a-yenx expense allow ance yesterday. President Tru man said he thought congressmen ought to give themselves an out-and-out pay boost to somewhere between $15,000 and $25,000 a year. The senate rejected a sim ilar expense proposal. The senate bill was sponsored by Sens. Styles Bridges, R., N. H., and John H. Overton, D., La., who said they were acting as a result of Mr. Truman's statement that congressmen are grossly underpaid. Their bill would provide Hie following increases: Vice president and speaker of the house, from $15,000 to $25,000 a year. Members of the senate, house, territorial delegates and resident commission of Puerto Rico, from $10,000 to $20,000. , Cabinet officers, frfom $15,000 to $20,000. Overton said he and Bridges were acting in response not only to the president's statement but also to views expressed by many senators in recent debate on a proposed $2,500-a-y ad tax-free expense allowance for members of congress. War Casualties Reach 1,012,049 WASHINGTON, June 8 (UP) V. S. combat casualties an nounced here reached 1,012,04!) today. This was an increase of 9,102 over the total announced last Thursday. The new total included 8!)5.834 army and 118,215 navy, marine corps, and coast guard casualties as follows: Army Killed 185,670 W'nded. 556.844 Missing 40J17 Pris'nr. 1UU.573 Navy 44.508 5G.707 10,705 4,240 To'.al 230.173 GI3.S11 57.452 110.813 Totals 835,834 1 16.215 1.012.04!) Of the army wounded 317,626 have returned to duty. Pine Production, Shipments Decline PORTLAND, June 8 (UP) Orders for western pine lumber for the week ending June 2 total ed 56,435.000 feet, compared with 5n,46G,000 feet for the previous week and 68,478,000 feel for the corresponding week a year ago, the Western Pine association re ported here today. Similar compaiisons of ship ments were 60,076.001! feet, 03,-1 806.000 ftet and 77.304.000 feet, j Similar comparisons of pioduc-i tion wire 64,612.000 feet, 70.5U8, (I0U feet and 77,242,000 fut. ( LA GRANDE, OREGON FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 200 Naval Raiders Blast Kyushu Bases GUAM, June 8 (UP) Two hundred or more American carrier planes raided Kanoya and other suicide-plane bases on Kvushu in southern Japan shortly after noon today, radio Tokyo reported. - Tokyo said the planes attacked in waves of 30 to 40. They pre sumably came from fast carrier task forces attached to Admiral William F. Halsey's famed third fleet, but there was no imme diate confirmation from Pacific fleet headquarters. Kanoya lies on the eastern shore of Kagoshimu Bay on southern Kyushu. It was the third straight day that American bombers or fighters have been reported over southern Kyushu. Another Tokyo broadcast said eight B-29s mined waters off the southwest coast of Honshu and the northern cellist of Kyushu shortly after last midnight. A single Superfortress laid mines along the east and north west coasts of Kyushu during the night, the broadcast said. Radio Tokyo also said Amer ican Superior! resses were "minutely reconnoitering" even . medium and - small cities in"' Japan preparatory to stepping up their aerial bombardment of the home islands. The broadcast came while the 21st bomber command was await ing reconnaissance photographs to assess the damage caused to nisenals and other targets in Osaka, Japan's biggest war pro duction center, in yesterday's 2,500-ton B-2!) raid. Doughboys Will Exhibit Equipment On Adams Avenue A street exhibition of the uuns and other equipment used by American infantry will be a part of the "Infnntrv n;1u" .r!,v,,.n- stration to be staged in La Grande next Friday. Foster Sims, ehaiinmn nf the committee of the Elks' lodge. sponsors of the program, an nounced that Adams avenue will bo closed between the postoffice and Liberty theater from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. for the exhibition. Concert is Spheduled Another added feature of the war program to be staged in the high school alhletic field at 8:45 p.m. will be a concert by the 28 piece band which is a part of the group to come to the city next week. Following a formal retreat ceiemony on the campus of East ern Oregon college at 7:30 p.m., in which the local posts of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and American Legion will participate, the band and infantrymen will parade to the high school. Sims also announced that spec tators will be permitted to enter the high school grounds only through the Second sticet en trance, as the north end of the athletic field will be used for setting up the equipment used in the simulated warfare. Sims announced that Eastern Oregon light and power company and Hart construction company, respectively, have volunteered to provide two truck loads of brush and a load of sand required by the infantrymen in the staging of tht'ir show. Jury Is Called For Bowman Trial Union county residents who have been called for jury duly, have been notified the circuit court will be convened at 10 a. m. Monday by Judge R. J. Green. The on(v criminal action to come before the court at this time is that of Albert Forrest Bowman, 28, who is under in dictment on a chaige of slaying his father, Albert F. Bowman, at their ranch near North Powder several weeks ago. illlM-'Slil'lTillill&'M'i'"1''!!1""1! iiiniuiiHunHiniTTm rVgowo Couafiai B-29 FIRE BOMBS RAIN ON OSAKA Fire bom bs rain on Osaka, largest industrial center during early stage of June 1st devastating at left as thousands of bombs descend to add to conflagration. 21st Men Who Killed Woman by Fire Sought in Doukhobor County NELSON, B. C, June 8 (UP) Provincial' police were hunt ing ihroush ; the turliulent Doukhobor country near here today for two men who mur dered a woman with fire. The woman, Mrs. Mary Naz aroff, died iu agony in a Nel so.i hospital several hours af ter the assailants hurled in flammable liquid o'er her as she stood in the doorway of her home at Crestova. Crestova is a villago near Nelson, in the heart of the Chinese Predict Jap Abandonment Of Menaced Bases CHUNGKING, June 8 (UP) Chinese military sources predic ted today Japanese troops will abandon both Lichow and Kwei lin, former American air base towns in Kwangsi piovince, to escape threatened encirclement by Chinese ground troops. It was disclosed the enemy already has withdrawn from areas north of embattled Lichow to K e i 1 i n, 100 mill's distant. Chungking sources said the mili tary value of both cities has been lost to the Japanese because of heavy daily bombings by the 14th air force and severance of the tians-China corridor. Coastal Control Spreads On the east coast, Chinese troops battled into the southern suburbs of F u t i n g, extending their control of the east China coast opposite Okinawa to ap proximately 120 miles. Chinese advancing of Lichow from three siilis captured Tat; ng, 35 miles southwest i ? Liucliow, and Locheng and ui. glisten, 50 miles to the north. A Chinese communique report ed savage battling raging in the northern suburbs of Lichow, but here it was believed the de fense of the city was in its final stages. Earlier frontline dispatches leported the city's capture were premature. Guard Company to Shoot at Pendleton Capt. G. L. Gregory of the local state guard unit, announced to day that anangiments have been made for ihe company to use the nfle range at Pendleton on June 17, when the guardsmen will shot the qualification course. He ui'Ked that .iery memb-r attend the company meeting at 8 p in. r.-xl Monday to plan for the tiip to Pendleton and to gel eouipment in shape for the occa sion, lie siuigisted that each man wear old clothing and take rags with w hich to clean the gi -ase fi uiu his nfle. enter 8. I9ir, ; Homeland Doukhobor community. Mra, Nazoroff heard a noise outside her homo yesterday and went to investigate. As she opened the doer, she was drenched by a liquid that set her clothing a' id the house afire. Her husband, Kuzman, was also burned when he wont to her aid, but other membars of the family, thrtta mfiried daughters and two grandchil dren, escaoed. Police said they had not yet been able to establish a molivo for the crimo. A ckerman Training School Classes -Will Open Monday Aekerman training school will operate a special summer ses sion starting next Monday, June II, it was announced today by John M. Miller, Eastern Oregon college training school adminis trator. Children will be enrolieti in all grades from 1 to 8, inclusively and sessions will be from 0 lo 12 each morning. In atklition, a be ginners' class will be opened for those children who will be six years old on or b.'fore November 15, he said. Special opportunity will be giv en children for individual instruc tion in subjects in which they wish to be .strengthened. Spe cial topics of particular interest to individuals will also be stu died. Seizure ol Wards Is Held Lawful CHICAGO, June 8 (Ui1) The U. S. circuit court of appeals to ilay reversed the decision of fed eral district judge Philip Sulli van who last January held the government was without author ity to seize certain properties of Montgomery Ward and company. The eouit's decision was 3 tn '. Thj higher court ordered that the "government be given tne re lief it sought." Judge Sullivan had denied a government peti tion for a restraining injunction against the company. The court of appeals held that Judge Sullivan's ruling of Jan. 27. 1045. should be reversed. The army has continued oper ating Wards pending the apj:.Ml to the higher court. FORMER OlriCLH NABBED PORTLAND, Ole., June K (UP) The FHI today announced the arrest at Kensett, Ark., of Thom as Lester Van Den Heuvel, form er Klamath Falls police ehii f sought since February, lie was sought by federal authorities on a charge of unlawful flight to avoid prosecution after being twice indicted on morals chaiges. FIVE CENTS .-Jf cur Japan's second largest city and raid. Large fires ce.i be seen Bomber Command photo. Some Housewives May Receive No Canning Sugar , Prospect tliut. some housewives., served tnrougn tne La urancto rationing board may receive no canning soger this year was re vealed today by Miss Nolle Grim mtlt, chief clerk of the board, because of a reduction to the al lot ment to 50 per cent of the amount granted last year. After a survey of the situation at joint meeting of the commun ity service and food panels of the board, a request was made that persons who have received coupons for more than IV) pounds per person return stamps for five pounds to make it possible for the board lo distribute Hum to applicants who might otherwise gel none. It was explained that the al lotment of sugar was originally set at 70 per cent of the amount granted last year. Later it was reduced to 50 per cent, but not until after a considerable num ber of applications hud been granted on the original bais of 15 pounds per person. At the rate applications were being received by till' ration board, the total allotment of sugar for canning would have been exhausted in eight days, Miss Grimmett said. As a result, the OPA asked those who received stamps for 15 pounds each to return the stamps for the additional five pounds, that the board may dis tribute them to applicants who olherwise would gel none. Miss Grimmett said anyone who returns the stamps will be credited on the board's books, and should more sugar be allotted they will receive additional ra tion stamps. Bowles Objects To OPA Changes WASHINGTON, June 8 (UP) Price Chief Chester Bowles said today that proposed con gressional changes in the OPA law would "lead to a complete biiakdown of price controls." He referred specifically to the amendments by Sen. Robert Taft, I!., O., and Sen. Elmer Thomas, D Okla. Bowles said enact ment of either would cause im mediate and substantial increases in the cost of food, clothing and other necessities of life. This, he said, would "lead to a complete breakdown of price controls." The Thomas amendment, Bowles said, would mean food processors could write their own price ticket?.. SLAYER TO BE HANGED SEATTLE, June 8 (UP) Con victed slayer of five-year-old lima Irene McGough, Joe Bill, 33-year-old Eskimo was back in King county jail today after hearing a jury which had delib erated less than four hours spec ify I hat he be hanged. Plateau Bastion Flanked GUAM, Saturday. June 8 (UP) -"-.Okinawa front dis- niltpnaa unirl tnrlfiv tha Amapli' can 10th army captured tile, fortified villages of Shinda-!. wHiui aim liumiican, nanKing, flirt .TimmiAUU rlafrtnaao rn tka southeast and breaking open,. me center oi tne last major pocket on the Island. . Let. Gen. Simon B. Buckneis troops advanced through Shinda waku, three miles northwest of Gushican, They pushed 500 yards' beyond the village, scaling the steep slopes of the Vaeju-Dake' escarpment on which the Jap anese were making their last stand." . Maj. Con. Archlbold V. Arn old's seventh division seised, Gushican, one of the four an chors of the Yoeju-Dak es carpment where an estimated"' 10,000 to 15,000 doomed Jap" anei are dug in for a final'" battle of annihilation, Gushican may prove to be .31 valuable "back door" to the pla teau fortress, which now was hp-' sieged by four American divi sions. . naarines ana doughboys, moved relentlessly forward, herding the enemv slowlv toward Ihe sea under a furious assault with tanks, iflame - throwers, rockets and artillery. United Press war curresnnnri- ent E. G. Valcns reported army patrols captured Shin dawaku, three miles northwest of Gushi can. and Dushed ahead fivp him.' died yards in an advance up the' steep side1 or tne escarpment. X; Radio Tokyo gloomily con ceded thai the impending loss of Okinawa has plunged Japan into a "vary difficult stage" of the war, Reversing an earlier nraiu. ganda stand, however, Tokyo inr. sistea tne battle of Okinawa "never was intended to decide the fats' of our nations." : ' The Okinawa campaign was naarlng Its end, but American ' eommandari acknowledged' there would be lough fighting ahead boion the island m bm called secure. , ' Japanese, falling back slowly in two shrinking pockets, con verted every hillock and cave of the plateau into a defense posi tion. Yanks advancing uphill were SWODt bv enemv mnehK nit atm fire from hill-lop emplacements. Advance units of Mnl nan Jumcs L. Brudley's 08th division siasnea into the outsk rts 'of Tomui, a second anchor town rat the base of the plateau. Boys' Conclave at v Corvallis Cancelled Cancellation of the anniml Beaver Boys' Stule, conducted annually by the Oregon depart ment of the American Legion, was announced toduv liv r...nra Tiss, commander of the La Grande post. The event wus to have been held in Corvallis July 1 to 7, with John Duffin, Donald Smith and Doug Talney as La Grande rep resentatives, sponsored respec tively by the Legion, Elks' lodge and Lions club. . Tiss said tint eanenllnti due to the travel restrictions im posed by the office of defense transportation. The event is held to bring to. gether outstanding high school boys from all parts of the state in a conclave in which they set up a slate government, filling the various state offices. ' Railroad Man Is r Given Promotion Appointment of H. W. Belden us road foreman of engines on the Union Pueific lines between Huntington und La Grande was announced today by officials of the road. His headquarters will be in Lo Grande. Belden has been an engineer on the Oregon division of the railroad since August, 1941, and has been employed by the com pany sinco January, 1923, when he started us a fireman on the Oivgnn division. Baseball Results By United Praia Cincinnati 3 7 0 Chicago 7 14 2 Llsenbee, Bosser (7), Fox (8) and Unser; derringer and Liv ingston. Losing pitcher: Llsen bee; home run for Cincinnati Unser, 7th, one on, , Boston 6 8-1 New York 4 8.1 Hausmann, Barrett (0), John son () und Unser; Bonham, Get tel (U) and Garbark. Loiing pitcher: Bonham; winning pitch er, Hausmann. Home runs for Boston Metkovich, 7th, one on.