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Borneo Oil Fields Put to Torch
Court Packed
For Bowman
Slaying Trial
Coronor L. L. Snodgrass was
called today as the first state
witness in the trial of Albert For
rest Bowman, 28, who is accused
in the circuit court of slaying his
father, Albeit F. Bowman, at
their North Powder ranch several
weeks ago.
Taking of testimony was begun
toduy following the completion of
jury selection before Judge R. J.
Green and opening statements of
the prosecution and defense.. late
yesterday.
Snodgrass testified concerning
the recovery' of the body of the
elder Bowman from a well on the
ranch, where, the state contends,
it was thrown after fatal blows
had been administered by the
son. 1
Skull Fracture Told
He said there were numerous
bruises and abrasions on the head
and shoulders of the victim, one
of- which was a skull fracture.
He testified that it is his opin
ion that the wounds were inflict
ed before death.
Further testimony concerning
the extent of the injuries in
curred by the elder Bowman will
be presented by Dr. Joe Beeman,
state autopsy surgeon, who was
called hero . to assist the state po
lice in the investigation.
Stale Police Testify
State police officer Robert
Trout and Sgt. W. A. Foster also
testified today concerning cir
cumstances surrounding the find
ing of the body. This testimony
included statements that the
body was lying across a 2 by B
inch timber about 8 feet down
in the well, and a few inches
above the water, which was about
3 feet deep.
The courtroom was packed
with spectators and witnesses as
the taking of testimony was bo
gun, and with approximately 25
Sec CORONER . . . Page 7
RotariansIIear of
Red Cross Work
At Home, Abroad
The work of the Red Cross in
Europe, . particularly among
wounded and convalescent sl
diers, was discussed at the meet
ing of the La Grande Rotary club
today noon in the Stein cafe by
Miss Jean Williams, who return
ed recently after rerving abroad
and in the United States.
A group of ministers who are
attending the Episcopal summer
school in Cove were guests. Tl ''
are: Rev. Fred Wissenbach, Kla
math Falls, Rev. A. Val-Spinnsa.
Walla Walla, Rev. Flovd Thomas,
Hood River, Rev. J. M. 13. Gill.
Lakevicw, Rev. C. K. Taylor, The
Dalles, and Rev. V. R. Bolster,
Bend. .
Dr. Joseph Beeman of the
. University of Oregon medical
school in Portland, who is here
as a witness in the Bowman mur
der trial, also was a guest
rl-itirln B. nvmlini- ..I I hi.
schol board, spoke on the pro- i
posed $10,000 bond issue to pur-
chase additional property for j
schol expansion
Fred Patton was chairman and .
resident T R t.nnwlnn nr. . .
sidcd j
rormer La uranae
Marine is Killed
News of the death in action of
Leon Pcavey, former La Grande
athlete, has been received by
friends here.
It was announced that his par
ents, who now live in Sakm,
have been advised by the navy
department that their son, a
member of the marine corps, re
ceived latal wounds in the fight
ing of Okinawa.
Peavey attended La Grand?
high school and Eastern Ort-c -n
college and was a member of the
championship basketball team
that was sent to the national
contest in Kantax City.
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COMMANDS 7th Lt.-Gen.
Wade H. Haislip, above, former
chief of personnel of the army
general staff, is the new com
mander of the U. S. Seventh
army in Europe, succeeding Lt.
Gen. Alexander M. Patch.
Stockman Urges
Quick Shipment of
Wheat to Europe
WASHINGTON, June 13 (UP)
Rep. Lowell Stockman, R., Ore.
today urged speedy shipment of
United States surplus wheat to
starving peoples of liberated
European countries. .
"We will have on hand in this
country as of the first of next
month a wheat carry-over of be
tween 350 and 375 million
bushels . . . from 115 to 140 mil
lion bushels more than our nor
mal annual pre-war carry-over,"
he said in a speech prepared for
the house.
Stockman said the bulk of this
surplus is stacked on farms and
in country elevators, taking up
space desperately needed for the
1H45 crop. He conceded that the
transpoitation bottleneck, respon
sible for the overflowing- store
houses, also would be the great
est barrier to overseas shipment.
"But I sec no reason why cars
moving war supplies from east
to west could not be loaded with
wheat on the return trip," he
said, "thus putting this wheat in
to Great Lakes and Atlantic sea
board terminals for lator ship
ment across the ocean."
State Income Tax
Payments Increase
SALEM. Ore., June 13 (UP)
State income lax commissioner
Earl Fisher today reported the
total funds from income taxes
during the first five months of
l!)45. after refunds, totalled $13,
221,1)83.21. Of this amount, individuals
paid $10,275,401.7!), while cor
porations paid $2,001,002.25.
This compares with $2,340,832.
83 paid by corporations during
the first five months of last year,
land $4,473,035.11 paid by individ
uals. About 300,000 taxable returns
1 have been filed so far in 1045.
! Fisher said, or slightly more than
were filed during the same per
! iod of 1044.
Unpaid current installments on
n"av llH;- amOUniCd lO .),-
1 '2,18.-80, Fisher reported,, as
compared to? 1,311,130.42 on the
s:ime (latc last 'car-
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New Scholarships
Receipt of a new $100 scholar
ship and award of two others at
Eastern Oregon college was an
nounced today by President
Robcn J. Maaske.
The new scholarship was re
ceived fiom Dr. C. L. Gilstrap
and Dr. E. C. Miller, tl was an
nounced that it probably will go
to a bachelor of science student
or one pursuing the medical and
dental assistant's curriculum
which starts at Ihe college in the
Missfall.
Miss Helen Culp of Vale, ana
Miss Eleanor Seaman of Stanficld
w-ere announced as the recipients
of two scholarships donated by
the Masimic lodge of La Grande.
Both plan to enter th; college
netx fall in the junior college
progiam. i.
LA GRANDE,
Big Nations Win
Victory in Test
On Veto Power
Yalta Formula
Approved In
Committee Poll
SAN FRANCISCO, Juno 13
(UP) A technical committee of
the United Nations security con
ference today approved the Yalta
voting formula for the proposed
world security council, Including
the widely-attacked veto power
for the Big Five nations.
Committee numbers sajid on
leaving the meeting that the vole
showed 30 countries voting to
approve the formula, two again.it,
15 abstaining from voting and
three absent.
Australian Foreign Minister
Herbert V. Evatt, who led the
fight to modify the formula, serv
ed notice that defeat at this con
ference did not mean the end of
his battle.
"It will go on until liberaliza
tion or improvement takes place,"
he said.
Evatt and his supporters here
claimcda moral victory. They
contended that the vote showed
that half of the 50 nations at this
conference, cither by supporting
Australia or by abstaining from
the roll call, could not defend the
formula.
The Australian amendment
would have taken away from the
Big Five the right given them
under5 the Yalta formula to veto
security council acttlon in the
peaceful settlement of disputes.
Many other pending amendments
now are expected to be with
drawn or defeated easily.
Registration For
College Summer
School increases
An' increase of 30 per cent in
the summer school enrollment at
Eastern Oregon college over the
first day last year was announced
today by Lyle H. Johnson, regis
trar. Eighty-two students registered,
72 in teacher training and 10 for
the junior college curriculum.
There arc 69 women and 13 men.
Twenly-cight students ar-e do
ing work toward the bachelor of
science degree in elementary edu
cation, 23 are third-year students,
12 arc second-year students and
12 ar first-year students. Seven
are classified as special students.
Approimalcly 15 students u re
taking work to qualify for emer
gency teaching certificates and
will teach in Oregon schools next
year.
Cordon Raps OPA
Meat, Sugar Policy
BEND, June 13 (UP) En route
to his home in Roseburg from
hearimn by the senate' public
land committee held in Idaho and
Oregon, U. S. Senator Guy Cor
don stopped in Bend today lone,
enough to lake a blast at the of
fice of price administration, call
ing that agency's work "the most
miserable failure that has been
made in the control problem in
the field of food, and particularly
meat."
After remarking how he had
seen "animated T-bone-s all the
way from Omaha to Bend." Cor
don said there arc "80,000,000
fine cattle in this country and we
can't get meat.-' He said that the
conditions insofar as sugar is
concerned "is almost as bad."
Patton in Capital
For Reassignment
WASHINGTON, June 13 (UP)
Gen. George S. Patton, Jr., flew
George S. Marshall, army chief
here today to report to Gen.
of staff, for a new assignment.
The hard-hitting third army
commander said he did not know
w hat his next job will be.
Patton flew here in an army
transport plane from the Pacific
coast, accompanied by his wife.
Asked whether he would like,
to be sent to the Pacific, he said,
"f guess wc all would, wouldn't
wt?"
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OREGON WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 13, 1945
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SPELLS TROUBLE FOR ENEMY The rocket launcher, common
ly called "bazooka" it one of the moil talked of weapon! of World
War II. It is extensively used by American infantrymen and plays
an important part in conquest of enemy pillboxes and tanks. It
will be one of the infantry weapons demonstrated at ihe "Here's
Your Infantry" presentation in the high school stadium Friday
night. .
War Bond Sales in County Pass
60 Percent of Quota; Increase
Expected After Infantry Show
War bond sales in Union county yesterday passed in 60 percent
mark in the 7th war loan campaign, with two weeks to go to reach
the over-all objective of $964,000.
Whil-.- the "Here's Your Infantry" show Friday niyht is expected
to have a speed-up effect on sales, particularly among those poten
tial buyers who have not yet bought bonds to the limit of thoir abil
ity, W. C. Perkins, county war finance committee chairman, urged
each community committee to exert extra efforts toward additional
sales to avoid the possibility that the county quota may not bo
reached by the appointed closing date of the campaign.
Deserter, Deserted
By Girl Friend,
Caught By Posse
SEATTLE, June 13 (UP)
Deserted by the 10-year-old
blonde farmer's daughter with
whom he dodged sheriff's dep
uties for three months in the
wilds of the Cascade mountain
foothills, 25-ycar-old Pvt. How
ard EnniSi of Denver, Colo.,
was captured .by armed posse
nun today, asleep in a stolen
car.
Sheriff's deputies said tin;
husky, blond 152-pound army
deserter crept back to his hide
out last night after his com
panion, Mary Jane Young,
sickened of love under the
stars, changed her mind about
marrying him, and gave her
self up.
Fall Causes Death
Of Local Matron
Mrs. Luella Castle, 77, a resi
dent of La Grande for 41 years,
died yesterday in her home at
1000 K avenue- after a brief ill
ness. Dc-ath was attributed to a
fall in which her hip was broken.
Funeral services are being ar
ranged by the Snodgrass funeral
home.
Mrs. Castle was born in Wis
consin. She is survived by two
daughters, Mrs. Teresa Patten
and Mrs. Irene England, both of
La Grande; a sister, Mrs. Beulah
Smith, in Wisconsin, four grand
children, and four greatgrand
children. Former Prisoner
Of Japs Returns
Richard C. Busch of the Unit
ed States navy is home on a fur
lough visiting his wife, the for
mer Violet Day. of Enterprise,
and three children, Le Roy, Rich
ard, and Joan.
Busch has been in a Japunesc
prison camp for three years.
Busch will return to Camp Adair
after June 30, where he will re
main In the hospital for over a
year. Due to malnutrition he
has only 10-20 vision.
He reported sales to noon yes
terday aggregated $010,0110.75
(sale price), of which $474,608.75
is in E bonds and $53,737.50 in
other than E bonds to individ
uals. This is 04 per cent of the
county quota of E bonds and 03
percent of the obe-ctivo for all
types of securities offered in ttic
current campaign.
Sales of bonds to corporations
thus far amount to $I,0!I3.5U,
Perkins reported.
Infantry Due Tomorrow
While no bond purchase will
be required to admit spectators
to the thrilling demonstrations
to be staged on the high school
athletic field by the infantry
troop and none will be sold at
the school the demonstration of
how the money is spent to pro
vide the doughboys, and olhei
fighting men as well, with the
munitions and supplies necessary
to victory is expected to result
in a substantial boost in bond
sales durini! the ensuing days.
The 80 infantrymen, . all vet
erans of the various fighting
fronls, ale- due to arrive in La
Grande tomorrow morning and
will spend the day in prepara
tions for the demonstration Fri
day night.
Tomorrow evening they will he
the guests of the Elks lodge at a
Dutch lunch and donee.
Street Exhibit Slated
The public's first chance to in
spect the- infantry equipment will
be at an exhibit on Adams ave-
See INFANTRY . . . Page 7
Chinese Force Japs
To Flee Wenchow
CHUNGKING, June 13 (UP)
Chinese forces aided by local
militia today were reported clos
ing in on the Chekiang port of
Wenchow with the Japanese in
rapid retreat before them.
A government communique re
ported the capture of Pingyang,
28 miles south of Wenchow, and
of nrarby Juian. " ' '
These gains were reported as
official confirmation came of
Chinese- evacuation of Ishan, 43
miles west of Liuchow.
In southern Kjangsi province,
Chinese troops reached an aiea
between Nankang and Sinfeng,
ISO miles iwrthwost of Canton,
tutting off the escape route of a
Japnnt-tt force.
FIVE CENTS
Starving
Civilians
Liberated
MANILA, Juno 13 (UP)
The Japanese put tho torch to
rich oil installations on north
Borneo today as Australian
troops advanced slowly to
ward Brunei! through thick
jungle.''
Reports from the front said
that columns of smoke were seen
and explosion echoed from the
direction of Brunei, capital of the
Sultanate of the same name. The
Japanese troops were believed
firing both the town and nearby
oil installations.
There still was no enemy op
position to speak of, but the ninth
Australian division found it
tough going along the bad, nar
row road through tho jungle from
captured Brookoton to Brunei.
After another two-mile gain, the
Australians were 10 airline miles,
or 14 miles by road, from Brunei.
Many Are Liberated
Other reports said that 1,500
civilians, many of them hungry
and sick, had been liberated so
far. They included Chinese, Ma
lays, Indians and Javanese.
The small island of Muara, off
Brooketon in Bruenei Bay, was
completely cleared by the in
vaders. , .Oi"tWBB6,T Australian " crP
gincers went to work to clear the
long unused airstrip, which was
captured in the early singes of
the landing. The strip was re
ported overgrown with grass and
pocked with bomb crateis, but it
was expected to be cleared soon.
Vacation BiMe! :
School Attendance
Shows Big Increase
Attendance of 540 La Grande
children at the inter-church vaca
tion Bible school conducted re
cently under the direction of the
La Grande Ministerial association
was announced today by Rev.
Stanley Hunt, upon completion
of the records.
Rev. Hunt, who was chairman
of the Ministeiial association in
charge of the school program,
expressed gratification at the in
crease of more than 13 per cent
over last year, when 470 children
participated.
Classes were held for nine dayi;
in four public school buildings
witli attendance, and under the
direction of various ministers an
follows: Riveria, Rev. O. A. Clif
ford, 131, overage attendance, 88;
Greenwood, Rev. Floyd While.
100, average attendance, 122:
Willow, directed by Salvation
ai my, 05, . average attendance.
00, and Central, Rev. Hunt, 154,
average attendance, I OS.
Serving will' Rev. Hunt on the
committee were Rev. Mark Tal
! ney, publicity; Mrs. R. W. Tom-
i raasen, secretary, and Rev. Toin-
eraasen, treasurer. Other minis
; ters also assisted, and the faculty
j was coinposaed of volunteel
(workers from various churches.
Crewman Missing
In Bomber Crash
WALLA WALLA', Wash., June
13 (UP) Seven men parachute !
to safety when a B-24 Liberator
bomber crashed near the Walla
Walla air field last night but the
eighth crew member is missing,
it was announced tndayi,
A rescue party from the field
launched a search for the miss
ing airman. His name was not
disclosed.
The plane crashed at 1 1 :45 p.
in. 15 miles northwest of the field
while on a combat training mis
sion. ,
COLOMBIANS RIOT
CARACAS, Venezuela, June
13 (UP) President Alfonso Lo
pez of Colombia imposed a state
of siege in Bogota today and es
tablished press and communica
lions censorship following a day
Jof riots in the Colombian capital.
"Banzai"
Fail to Halt Yank
f -
infantry, marines
GUAM, June 13 (UP) Mountain - climbing Amcricni.
troops, armed with special flame-throwers, burned a fierjr'
path through Japanese fortifications atop Yaeju-Dake pla
teau on Okinawa today and smashed desperate "Banzai1
charges by doomed enemy survivors.
One of the greatest artillery barrages of the Pacific war;
shattered several enemy troop concentrations on the summit
of the sheer cliffs, where trapped Japanese wore making a'
suicide stand. - '-'
Marines and infantrymen sealed to the top of the plateaii
an rope ladders, then used the same ropes to haul up other
troops and their supplies. ' v,t
The defenders virtually were surrounded. The 1st ''
marine division on the west, the 86th nrmy division on ''
the north and the 7th army division on the eattt cracked
through primary defenses and stormed across the pla: V
teau from three sides. It may be the final battle of
Okinawa.
. United Press War Correspond
ent E. G. Valens reported from
10th army headquarters that cor
nered Japanese troopii hurled
themselves at advancing Ameri
cans in familiar last-ditch sui
cide assaults.
In one of the larger! coun-ler-aiiecki,
approximately 300
Japanese carrying dynamite
"satchel charges" charged lit
marine division positions on
the western front. The leather
neck! killed 64, including one
woman,
On the strategic southeastern
coast near Hanagusuku, Ameri
can tanks cleaned out 105 Jap
anese caves along the escarp
ment, Foot soldiers swept caves
and brcastwoiks with blasts of
flame sprayed from 200-foot long
firehoses. OtrJ.rs rooted out
Japanese with g re n a d e s and
rifles.
It was a battle to the death
with no quarter aikad or
given, . Gains of up to 1,000
yards were reported in the past
24 hours. -Marines
of the first division
cracked the western end of the
Yaeju-Dake position in a pro-
dawn attack yesterday morning.
They clambered up 150-foot Kun
ishi ridge at 3:30 a.m. under
cover of darkness with compara
tive ease.
Truman Optimistic
For Success Of
Big Three Parley
WASHINGTON, June 13 (UP)
President Tiuman announced
today that a definite time and
place has been set for the big
three meeting.
He said the trips of Harry L.
Hopkins and Joseph E. Davies to
Moscow and London produced
numerous encouraging results in
preparation for the meeting.
He did not say whon the ses
sion will lake place, but it appar
i ntly will be held somewhere
overseas in July, according to
previous indications.
Russian Situation Eased
He appealed to American re
porters not to muddy the waters
in regard to the Polish situation,
saying that tho efforts of Hop
kins in Moscow had produced a
very pleasant yielding by Russia
on the long deadlock and that
d:-finile progress had been made.
Mr. Tiuman siiid the efforts of
Hopkins r suited categorically In
a change in the Russian position
on veto power in the United Na
tions organizations. That ended
another deadlock Unit had de
layed the San Francisco confer
ence. Talking about the lorlhcommg
meeting of the big three, the
president said it was impoitanl
that the unity, mutual confidence
and respect which resulted in
military victory by tho three big
powers should be continued to
make secure a just and durable
peace. . 1
He said that he will be accom
panied to the big three meeting
by Hopkins, James F. Byrnes and
Secretary of State E. It. Steltinl
us, jr., as well as the American
chiefs of staff. All of those men
went with President Roosevelt to
the last big three meeting at Yal
ta. Clark Gets Senate
Commit lee Okeh
WASHINGTON, June 13 (UP)
The senate- judiciary committee
today approved the nomination
Df Tom C. Clark of Texas to be
attorney general. C o m m 1 1 tec
chairman Pat McCarran, D., Ncv.,
laid the vote was unanimous. Hd
expected the senate will confirm
the appointment tomorrow. Clark
is to take office July 1,
W eather
Data fur 24 hours to 7 a. m.
Tcmpcrture:
Maximum 62
MiAimum 39
Fofitcast: Partly cloudy with
showers tonight and Thursday.
Charges
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Rev. I. T. Motz To
Go To Idaho; New
Pastor Comes Here,'
Assignment of Rev. Irwin T.
Motz, pastor of the First Mctho.-,
dist church of La Grande for the'
past five years, to a pastorate in
Gooding, Idaho, was announced
today. .
C o 1 n c 1 dentally, It was an,
nounced that the Methodist con-
ferenco has assigned to the loca
pastorate Rev. Logan PruiU,
formerly of Mingo Junction,,'
Ohio.
Rev. Motz and his family plan
to leave La Grande for their new
homo late next week, and the
new pastor Is-expected to arrive
about tho same time with his
wife and daughter. Mrs. Pruitt
is the daughter of Rev; George
W. Barnes , of Boise, a former,
minister in tho Idaho conference'
of the church. The Prultts form.
erly were in the church service
in Hawaii.
.. Hjrn,i t i . i -ii .
ivi'v. muifi iiiuuiiiuejicy .in 'inu
local pastorate is the longest' In.
tho history of the church here
on Juno 15th he will have corn?,
plctcd his fifth year in tho local
church. During that period a sub
stantial increase has been made
In the membership of the church,
the-past yoar showing an addi
tion of 61 members to tho congre
gation. . . .. ,(,... : :
Bid To Moscow :
Parley Rejected ";,'
By London Pole 7
LONDON, June 13 (UP),
Julian Zakowski, ono of three.
London Polish leaders invited by
the big three to a conference Qn
tho Polish question In Moscow,
rejected the Invitation today, f
Zakowski's action was an
nounced by a spokesman for,the;
Polish exile government In Lon
don, none of whose members was
invited to1 the Moscow confer-'
enco.-
Exclusion of the exile- regime
generally was regarded as the
signing of its death warrant, so
far as the United States and Brit
ain arc concerned. Russia broke
relations with the London Poles
in 1943.
Prime Minister Tomasz Arcls
zewski called a special session of
tho London cabinet today to corj
sidor future action.
Othors May Accept
The other two London Polish
leaders invited to Moscow, form
er Premier Stanlslow Mikolajc
zyk of the exile regime and so
cialist party leader Jan Slanczyk,
arc expected to accept the big
three's bid and leave by plane to
morrow. ..
Tho spokesman expressed con
viction that Mikolujczyk will in
sist upon the release of 16 Polish
leaders held by the Red army for
"diversionist" activity as a pre
liminary requirement for the
forthcoming conference. , .
A joint big three statement is
sued simultaneously In London,
Washington and Moscow last
night said the conference will be
gin Friday.
Baseball Results
By United Preta
National Leaguo
i . le
1st game
R HE
Philadelphia 3 6 ;3
Boston 8 10 2
Barrett, Lucicr 4, and Peacock;
Cooper and Masi.
HHR Philadelphia, Flagr,
3rd, (none on).
American Leaguo .
1st game . '
Cleveland ...3 14 .2
Chicago 5 7.0
G romek and Hayes; Hayiies
and Tresh. HHR Chicago, Me
diates, 8th (none on).
St. Louis 4 8 -1
Detroit 6 9 X
Potter, Shirley (7) Mfti
cuso; Orrell, Enlog (7), Mueller
(0) and Swift.