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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.
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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.