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LA GRANDE. OREGON THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE II. 191.")
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Japs
Thousands of Japs
Taken Prisoner by
Victorious Yanks
GUAM, June 14 (UP) Tenth army troops, supported
by a tremendous rocket and artillery barrage, broke through
the last Japanese defense. line on three fronts today and
pushed the slowly-retreating enemy garrison toward the sea
in a knock-out offensive.
Front dispatches said captured fortifications were yielding
scores of Japanese military prisoners and thousands of civil
ians to the advancing, victory-bound Americans.
Anderson Predicts
Long Continuance
Of Meat Shortage
SEATTLE, June 14 (UP)
Newly-appointed U. S. seeretaiy
of agriculture Clinton P. Ander
son, D., New Mexico, said cur
rent meat shortages "cannot pos
sibly" be alleviated until the
spring of 1946.
Anderson, chairman of the
house investigating committee
surveying the national food short
ages, predicted that pork, "the
shortest meat of all, probably
will not appear on American
markets until the late summer
of 1946. Anderson will assume
his post In President Truman's
eabineton July 1; and. also will
take over as head of the war food
administration on that date.
"As far as butter goes, I
wouldn't worry about getting any
there is none," he said, prior to
opening a hearing here into poul
try and eggs conditions in the
Puget Sound area.
Only abundant production ot
meat, poultry, butter and other
rationed foods, Anderson said,
will cure the nation's black mar
kets. "The OPA will never suc
ceed in rationing a scarce com
modity." New Cut Ordered
In Sugar Supply
WASHINGTON, June 14 (UP)
Civilians faced a new cut in
sugar supplies today as the gov
ernment acted to plug leaks
which threatened to deplete im
portant sugar reserves.
Announcing sugar allocations
for the next three months, the
war food administration told ci
vilians they will get 1,380,000 ton;
10,000 tons less than in April.
May and June. This is 453,000
tons less than was available dur
ing the same period last year.
To make certain that quarter
ly allocations are not exceeced
the agency limited the amount
each distributor can sell to civil
ians, the government, armed
forces and special authorized
buyers.
Elgin Soldier's Aid to Freed
Prisoners of Japs Is Praised
High praise for the work of James A. Scott of Elgin, member of
the army medical corps in the Philippines, expressed by women to
whom he ministered after the recapture of Manila from the Japa
nese, was conveyed to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John B. Scott of F.l
Jjin in a letter from a missionary who met the soldier after being
liberated from Bilibid by American forces.
The missionary. Susie M. Thomas, had been serving in China and
was attending a Chinese school at Baguio when it was captured by
the Japs
It was after her liberation from
Bilibid that she met the Elgin
soldier when internees were sen!
to Santo Tomas for medical and
dental attention.
Scott was working in one of
the wards at the hospital tak
ing care, of civilian women,
some of whom. Miss Thomas
said in her letter to his parents,
"said that he was as good as
a doctor. He works 12 hours a
day."
Miss Thomas gave the soldier's ;
parents some of the details oi me
fighting which resulted in the
liberation of the internees. She
saKl in part:
"Old Bilibid prison was in de
plorable condition and we hat!
very little to rat. The old pri.:
on had been abandoned seveial
Flee
United Press war correspond-
end E. G. Valens reported that
the 96th division, on the north
rim of Yaeju - Dake plateau,
crushed moderate resistance and
.smashed f inward toward the only
high peaks bailing the way to
the southern shore of Okinawa.
A column of 1st division
marines on the west flank
pushed across shell-swept rice
paddies to Hie stronghold of
Mezadao, south of Kunishi
lidge. Mezado lies .within 2
miles of southern shoreline
cliffr, which Maj. Gen. John Ft.
Hodge described as ideal for
Japanese suicide jumping.
The 7th division on the east
flank cracked stout Japanese de
fenses, reinforced its spearhead,
and seized considerable plateau
territory in dominating hig h
ground, Valens said.
The Japanese garrison of about
10,000 troops was compressed into
a diminishing pocket ol possible
less than 13 square miles. It gave
ground slowly, leaving the battle
field strewn withdead.
Victory was at hand for the
Japanese garrison of 80,000
troops, an average of nearly 1,000
a day for the 74-day campaign.
American dead, wounded and
missing were believed well over
40.000, but the cost rapidly was
being offset by the swift utiliza
tion of new air bases for the air
offensive against Japan.
Nazarenes to Meet
Here Tomorrow
Conference officials of the
Nazarenc church and represenl-
i atives of churches from four
counties in eastern Oregon will
assemble in the La Grande church
tomorrow for a district conven
tion. Churches of Union, Baker,
Wallowa and Malheur will par
ticipate. Rev. O. A. Crofford, host pas
tor, announced that sessions will
open at 10 a. m., and the closing
meeting at 7 p. m. He said the
latter meeting will be concluded
in time to permit those in attend
ance to attend the "Here's Your
Infantry" demonstration at the
high school.
Heading the officials of the
church who will attend the meet
ings is Rev. J. A. McNatt of Nam
pa, Ida., new district superin
tendent. years before, until the Japanese
started using it for American
military prisoners in 1942 . . . .
Before th? Americans came we
were getting a little coarse corn
meal mdsh twice a day and in
the evening sometime a small
spoonful of camote greens and a
little bean cuid residue.
"On the night of February 3,
I: .-fore I knew what was happen
ing, bullets were flying over our
part of the prison thick and fasi
Some of the people on the second
floor had seen American boy
tanks. The Filipinos cheered. We
were on the battle front for ex
actly 20 days with shells going
ov?r our compound on two sides.
Rev. Eschbach, our chairman,
went to the Japanese general and
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Before Brunei Invaders
Cigarets Stage
Comeback; They're
On Store Shelves
NEW YORK, June 14 (UP)
Popular brand cigarets were
displayed openly on many re
tail counters in the New York
area lor the first lime in many
monthc, and tobacconists said
today there probably will be an
easing of the nationwide short
age soon.
-. Retailers reported almost nor
mal deliveries of 5 big brands.
But spokesmen for the manu
facturers said there may still
be some hoarding by dealers
because of the widespread
black market. However, they
said because of lessened mili
tary demand the cigaret situa
tion will probably be normal
by January.
Teachers Approve
Cigaret Tax To
Support Schools
PORTLAND, June 14 (UP)
A "positive stand" for a state
cigarette tax proposal to be voted
on June 22, has been taken by
trustees of the Oregon State
Teachers' association, association
executive secretary Dr. Frank W.
Fair disclosed today
Meeting in Portland in oxecu
tive session, the trustees author
ized the secretary to campaign
for the measure on five basic
points: '
That the schools must have
permanent state support to give
proper educational opportunities:
thai support must not rest sole
ly on either property tax or in
come tax; that 32 other states,
including Washington and Idaho,
have such a tax; that the plan
taps a ne wsouree of revenue toi
state purposes which will prove
to be a safeguard against antici
pated diminishing income tax
revenues; that It will l-uach many
persons who now pay little or
nothing for school support.
Police School is
Arranged for Next
Week in Pendleton
Arrangements tor a police
school in Pendleton next week
have been announced by Police
Chief Charles E. Lemons, who is
handling the arrangements.
He has arranged for two ses
sions daily at which each officer
will have an opportunity to at
tend at least one session each
day. The sessions will be in the
mornings and evenings. The city
coucil has made th-3 council
chambers in the city hall avail
able for the school.
W. C. Perry, Pendleton city at
torney, will lecture at the Tues
day sessions on "Oregon Law of
A n est." Chi ef Lemons announced
he has obtained the cooperation
of the Federal Bureau of Inves
tigation and will have the fol
lowing FBI representatives on
the program during the week:
Special agent in charge Joseph
E. Thornton, and special agents
Kelly D. Deaderiek, John R. Mc-
Culloch and Max Taylor, all of
Portland. ;
The subjects to be discussed in
clude testifying in court, police
couitosy, law of arrest, technique
of arrest, defensive tactics,
searches of persons and places,
raids, glass fractures, intei views,
reort writing, tool marks, and
latent fingerprints.
Chief of Police C. C. Lund of
La Grande will be the guest of
Chief Lemons at the opening
session Monday evening and the
Tuesday morning session.
Young People Will
Guide Grange Session
Proceedings of the Blue Moun
tain grange will be in the hands
of the younger members Satur
day evening, when the young
people will have charge of the
lecture hour.
They will fill all of the officers'
positions and will conduct the
prugl'am which will follow a pol
itick supper in Grange hall.
About 40 members were pres
ent for a social evening which
maiked the last meeting.
Early Fall
OfCapital
Predicted
SAN FRANCISCO. June 14
(UP) Tokyo today admitted
the fall of the oil-ring Island
of Tarakan to invading Austra
lian and Netherlands troops.
Tokyo said the charge fol
lowed a two-day bombing of
allied forces by Japanese
planes.
MANILA, June 14 (UP) Aus
tralian troops today drove into
the outskirts of, Brunei, capital
of the Borneo sultante of the
same name. Field reports said
the city apparently had been
abandoned by the Japanese.
Aussies of the famed "fighting
Ninth" division thrust across the
city line from the east after seiz
ing high ground only 200 yards
away in an amphibious landing
up Brunei river. '
Another Australian column
captured Brunei airstrip and
rolled on unopposed within two
miles north of the city in an
eight-mile advance along the
Brooketon-Biunei road.
City's Capture Imminent .
Brunei probably will fall with
in the next 24 hours or so. A
front dispatch .said, the enemy
garrison appeared to have fled
along the coast to the southwest,
firing oil wells and tanks as the-y
withdrew. Flames from the burn
ing oil were visible 40 miles at
sea.
The lightness of enemy opposi
tion was shown by disclosure
that only Gl Japanese were kill
ed and one captured in the ini
tial landing Sunday.
On Labuan island in the mouth
of Brunei bay, other Ninth divi
sion troops cleared the southeast1
ern half of the island and chased
the remainin Japanese into the
northwestern hinterlands.
On Luzon, Americans of the
37th division blasted their way
through strongly-held Orioung
pass seven miles northeast of
Bagabag and pressed on to' the
north along the Cagayan valley
road.
Churchill Reveals
"Big Three" to Get
Together Soon
LONDON, June 14 (UP)
Prime Minister Churchill con
firmed in commons today that he
will meet with President Truman
and Premier Stalin before July
26, and informed quarters guessed
the Big Three leaders will con
fer in Berlin.
Churchill declined to comment
on rumors that the occupied Na.i
capital had been chosen for the
meeting place or that the dale
had been fixed for some lime be
tween July 5 and 18.
"Mr. Stalin has agreed," he
said, "and the meeting will be
held I am not entitled to say
where qr exactly when, but be
fore the results of the impending
election here, including the re
ceipt of soldiers' votes from
abroad, are announced."
The election results are sched
uled to be announced on July 26.
WASHINGTON, June 14 (UP)
The impending meeting of the
Big Three will map Europe's fu
ture for many years to come, au
thoritative sources indicated to
day. A White House source said that
for all practical purposes Presi
dent Truman's imminent confer
ence with British Prime Minister
Winston Churchill and Sovut
Premer Josef Stalin will be "tin
real peace conference of Europe."
LIQUOR BODUCTIOH LOOMS
WASHINGTON, June 14 (UP)
Americans were offered the
prospect today of uninterrupted
liquor production beginning July
1.
Up to now distillers have been
required to use their entire facil
ities to make industrial alcohol,
needed in munitions and syn- )
thetic rubber manufacture.
' '
JAP SHIP AWAITS CERTAIN DEATH Its stern blom away by
a direct hit from a Mitchell bomber, this 2,500-ton Jap cargo ship
is dead in the water awaiting attack from a second approaching
bomber whih will send it to the bottom. This ship was one of six
enemy cargo and escort craft sunk or damaged by Aleutian-based
Mitchells and Liberators in surprise raid cm convoy off extreme
northern Kuriles. Air Force photo.
La Grande Is "Captured"
By Doughboy Invaders
American doughboys today staged a new conquest, but it was not
achieved by force of arms they scored their latest victory in a
peaceful invasion of La Grande which will culminate tomorrow
night in one of the most spectacular demonstrations ever staged by
a military force.
Eighty infantrymen arrived in the city at mid-morning and went
to the high school stadium to start preparations for their demon
strations which are being presented under the auspices of the La
Grande lodge of Elks as a part of the 7th war loan campaign.
Electronics Course
Is Authorized for
Students at EOC
Inauguration of a new two-yeur
cuiriculum in radio electric ser
vice and management at Eastern
Oregon college with the opening
of the new scheiol year September
24, was announced today by
President Roben J. Maaske. He
said the new course was ap
proved this w eek by I he state
board of education. .
He announced that Carlos E.
Easlev nas been annointed in
structor in radio and electric ser
vice. Easley foimcrly taught in
the army air force program at th-.-college
and more recently has
been an instructor in nhvsics and
chemistry at Pendleton high
school.
The class is designed to equip
stutlonts lor employment in elec
tric appliance stores, department
and furniture stores, power com
panies, radio stations and radio
manufacturing nlants and as man
agers of radio store or head of
radio or appliance departments,
as, well as for employment along
elated linfs.
Baseball Results
By United Press
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Philadelphia 13 13 tl
Boston 8 14 0
Sproul, Coffman, Judd and
Mancuso; Early, Fette, Cozart,
Shtcker, Hutchinson and Masi.
First Game
Chicago 2 0 0
Pittsburgh : 5 4 1
Chipman, Prim and Gillespie;
Butcher and Lopez.
New York 4 11 1
Brooklyn 5 10 0
VoiM-lle and E. Lombardi;
Davis, King and Dantanio.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
St. Louis ,i 9 0
Detroit 2 0 0
Jakueki and Manciho, Trout
and Swift.
Cleveland . 3 10 2
Chicago 4,8 2
Baf.liy.and Hayes; Glove and
Tresh.
Thirty-nine men comprise a com-
bat patrol which will fco seen in
various phases of modern war
fare. Accompanying them is a band
of 28 pieces which will play at
the retreat ceremony ut Eastern
Oregon college at 7:30 p. m., and
at the high sehol from 8:15 to
8:45 p.m., preceding the demon
strations. I hey also will play
tomorrow during the exhibit of
infantry weapons and other
eouipment on the street in fiont
of the post (office between II)
a.m. and 2 p.m.
Tell Use of Weapons
The first phase of the demon
stration tomorrow night will
show how the infantrymen use
the weapons in combat. All
equipment and demonstrations
will be described over the public
address system by Lt. George
Mooney, a former ra d i o an
nouncer, and public relations of
ficer for the unit. Similar ex
planation will be given of the
weapons eluring the exhibit to-
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Graft, Corruption
Probe Demanded
WASHINGTON, June 14 (UP)
Republican members demand
ed today that the senate invest!
gate leports of "graft and enrrup
lion" by high oflicials of the gov
eminent carried on "itneler tin
cloak of military security."
They mentioned reports of
"fantastic waste and graft in
connection with such projects as
construction of the Alcan and Lat
in - American highways and
charges of "corruption" in the U.
S. maritime commission.
Sen. Edward V. Robertson, R
Wyo., started it with a speech
demanding that the senate in
vesligate the two highway pro
jects.
Sen. Homer Ferguson, R Mich.,
interrupted to express the hope
that the senate war investigat
ing committee, of which he ij a
member, could begin heatings on
this subject shortly.
SENATE CONFIRMS CLARK
WASHINGTON, June 14 (UP)
The senate today confirmed the
nomination of Tom C. Clarfr, of
Texas, to be attorney general.
Clark is scheduled 1ft take the
olfiee Jnlv 1, succeeding Francis
Diddle.
Bumper Crop of Cherries
Is In Prospect in Orchards
Of Grande Ronde Valley
Grande Rondo valley cherry orchardists today were view
ing jubilantly prospects of a 1945 crop nearly equaling the
record breaking 1,000-ton harvest of last year.
Estimates at this time indicate that the crop will approach
within 10 to 20 per cent last year's cherry production, Chase
Kohnenkamp, president of the Pumpkin Ridge Cherry Grow
ers' association, said today, and the quality is higher.
The entire production of the valley, so far as is known at
this time, hus been sold to the Paulus Bros, canning company
of Salem and no fresh fruit will be packed for eastern mar
kets, Hohnenkamp said.
Priceu received were 1314
cents per pound for No. 1 black
cherries; 13 cents for No, 1 Royal
Anns, and 25 per cent less for
No. 2's.
Prices Are Unchanged
The price is the same as last
year, when the total Income
realized was more than $300,000.
It is expected that on the basis
of the slightly reduced yield,
this year's crop will bring a to
tal of $275,000 to locul cherry
growers.
The Pumpkin Ridge coopera
tive will handle all cherries for
the Imbler and Elgin districts.
Cherries from the La Grande dis
partially in Imbler und partially
trict probably will bo handled
in Union. Cove is expected to
ship directly from its own asso
ciation facilities.
Quality U High
Although areas which showed
unusually heavy yield last year
are thinner at this time, all sec
tions show high quality, Bohnen
kamp said. The growing season,
especially during the polleniza
tion periocr ha been 'very " good
and there has beeh relatively no
fiost damage.'
Grande Ronde valley cherry
quality has attracted the Paulus
Bros, canneiy for many years and
last year the Salem company
signed a five-ear contract for the
entire valley crop, agreeing to of
Sec BUMPER . . . Pago 7
Kisselburgh Back
After Long Time in
Nazi Prison Camp
Capt. Jim Kisselburgh, former
Oregon slate football star of pre-,
war days, was busy greeting his
old friends today in Portland af
ter returning from the European
war via a German prison camp.
The former all-coast conference
fullback who packed the pigskin
for Oregon State in 1038, 1B30 and
1040, was interned in Moosburg,
Germany, about 30 miles north,
east of Munich. He was . shot
down over Germany in Feb. 1044,
during his 35th mission over the
reich.
Friends of the ex-Oregon State
football ace suld he looked fine
and was none the worse for wco'.'
and leav, weighing in at a com
fortable 190 pounds.
Kisselburgh and his wife, who
met him in Portland during the
week-end, plan to return to La
Grande in a day or two, to spend
several days before he goes to
Santa Monica for reassignment.
It was also learned that Lt.
Stanley Czech, another Oregon
State gridder, was a prisoner of
war in the same camp with Kis
selburgh, having been caught in
the Belgium "bulge" last Christ-
Bombing of Atlantic Coast by
Nazis Balked by Ending of War
PARIS, June 14 (UP) It the European war had lasted another,
six months, Germany might have bombarded New York, Washing
ton, Philadelphia and Boston with giant rocket bombs.
Ordnance intelligence exports attached to supreme headquarters
said German scientists were within a half year of perfecting the
mass production of rocket bombs capable of pin-point bombing at O
range of 3.00U miles
The allied experts based their
statement on the results of a
mimth-loni; survev of a huge
I rocket assembly plant 800 ft-.'l
under the Kohn-siein mountains
near Nordhausen in Germany.
Blue prints fur the long - range
rockets were found and German
scientists said they were prep
paied to turn out the missiles in
sufficient numbers to neutralize
American air superiority.
Maj. William J. Bromley of
Grants Pass, Ore., said the pro
posed rockets obviously were In
tended to subject American east
coast cities to the same robol-
Oregon Outlook 1
For Field, Tree ?
Crops Improves ;
PORTLAND, Ore., June 14
(UP) Crop prospects In Oregon
Improved In May with the out
look now for another year - of
above-average production, . the
crop reporting service - of the
United States department of ag
riculture indicated today. .
While rains . delayed spring
planting, especially of barley and
corn, and damaged lowland crops
limitedly, they benefitted grain,
hay, truck crops, pastures, and
range grasses, Oregon wild hay,
in fact, is in better condition than .
it has been in 20 years. f
Sweet cherries and fall and
winter pears will be less abun
dant than was expected earlier
in the year. However compared
with 1944, larger crops of Harr
ietts, sweet cherries and prunes
are due.. - t :..
M Shlallor crops of peaches,' apri
cots and apples in commercial
counties are predicted.
Wheat Yield Heavy
11 the present outlook for Ore
gon wheat materializes, the state
will have 24,462,000 bushels, sec
ond largest crop on record ex
ceeded only In 1927. For Oregon,
Washington and Idaho, 129,291,'
000 bushels a crop 10 per cent
under 1044's is expected.
Milk production in Oregon av
eraged 21.9 per cow, June 1; In
Washington, 24.5; in Idaho 22.).
Oregon's figure was under 1044's,
but above the 10-year (1934-43)
average.
Oregon's egg production for
May is placed at 51,000,000 or 11
per cent under a year ago.
Apples In commercial counties
are 69 per cent of normal and
smaller than last year's. Small
er crops are in prospect in the
Hood River valley, Umatilla and
Jackson counties.
Truman To Attend
'Homecoming' Fetes
WASHINGTON, June 14 (UP)
The White House today an
nounced plans of President Tru
man to ottend homecoming cele
brutiois at' Independence, Mo.,
and Kansas City later this month.
The president will be in Inde
pendence, his home town, on
June 27 and in Kansas City on
June 28.
While House Press Secretary
Charles G. Ross said it was pos
sible that the president's home
coming trip might become a part
of his journey to the United Na
tions conference at San Francis-,
co and a visit to Olympia, Wash.
bomb ordeal London suffered be
ginning last summer. "
The Germans might have be
gun their bombardment of the
United States even before the
end of the European war had it
not been for an RAF raid that
smashed the enemy experimental
plant at Peenomuende.
"That raid was n life-saver for
us," Bromley said. "It set the
German scientists back just about
six months in theit' experiments.
They told me it caur.'d great
damage to their installations and
killed 800 of their foremost au
thorities." 1