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Jap Off wn Men to Balk Surrender icers Sit Columns 1 and t ' Weather Dulu for 24 hours to 7 a.m. Temperature: Maximum 62 Minimum 37 , Forecast: Clear and warmer tonight and Saturday. A Community Newspaper For Every Member of the Family UaUi i4 Williwm CiHt ESTABLISHED 189(5 LA GRANDE. OREGON FRIDAY EVENING, JUNK 15, 1915 FIVE CENTS SlavO . w ujirorts'Bafcteif Annihilation Faces Big Enemy Force in In Trap on Okinawa GUAM, June 15 ( UP) Vengeful Japanese officers mur dered hundreds of their men who tried to surrender in the southern Okinawa death trap today while triumphant American forces herded the beaten enemy toward the sea with flame throwers, fire bombs and artillery. Many despairing Japanese, their organized resistance broken by overpowering American military might, killed themselves with grenades and knives in mass suicides. Mai. Gen. Pedro Del Valle, commander of the 1st marine div ision, predicted complete con quest of Okinawa within two days to two weeks and said: "We've just reached the turning point the point where the Jops" will to iighf is broken. The enemy is begin ning to fold up through sur- renders, suicides and disorgan ized resistance." The greatest slaughter was at the Oroku peninsula, where hun dreds of milling, screaming Jap anese were killed by their own leaders for "weakness" in trying to give up, or by the murines. Many' Surrender United Press war correspond ent E. G. Valens reported several score of Nipponese succeeded in surrendering, while others were being taken alive by persuasion or force in occupied areas. The enemy garrison of 5,000 to 10,000 soldiofs "and sailors' plus thousands of civilians, is cornered on a rocky slope ap proximately four miles long Sec JAP TROOPS . . . Page 5 La Grande Women Exceed Quota in War Loan Drive ' As Union county today approached the end of the 7th war loan campaign, with a considerable amount of the $964,000 bond quota yet to be sold, it was revealed that the women's division of lho sales organization in La Grande has been in important factor in bringing 43 Are Injured in Portland Wreck . PORTLAND, Ore., June 15 (UP) Hospital attendants at St. Vincent's hospital here reported today the hospitalization of at least 43 persons injured last night when a freight train and an in lerurban passenger train of the Portland electric power company collided head-on near the south Portland city limits. The accident occurred at the height of the evening rush hour. 1 Several persons wore reported to have suffered serious injuries, .but most critically hurt in the 'accident was W. Hollingsworth, srhotorman of the intcrurban car. torho was removed to the hospital 'With multiple injuries of head, chest, arms and legs. His condi tion was reported as "fair as could be expected." -Railway officials said neither the 10-car freight train nor the single car intcrurban were de railed, but both were badly dam aged. U.S. To Swap Oils With Argentina WASHINGTON, June 15 (UP) Acting Secretary of Stale Jo seph C. Grew said today that the United States will supply Argen tina with fuel oil in return for Argentine vegetable oils needed ;by the united nations. i:. He said Argentina and the U. S. have signed a contract cover ing the program since lliey re sumed diplomatic relations. The 'Vegetable oils to be provided by Argentina arc among the "major needs at Inc united nations, Grojv said. 27 DIE TN CRASH LONDON, June 15 (UP) Twenty-seven members of the Royal Air Force were killed early today after a Liberator crashed into the side of a hill on the Dor set coast at Swanagi-. Guy Spencer Is Elected Leader Of Legion Post Members of the La Grande p o st of the American Legion eiected officers at their meeting Wednesday night and appropri ated funds for the purchase of a Sl.OOO war bond in the 7th war loan campaign. Guy Spencer was elected com mander, succeeding George Tiss, and other officers were elected as follows: Charles Elbe, first vice com mander: Axel Dahlstrom, second vice commander; Lee Thomas, adjutant; Trevc Lumsdcn, fin ance officer; S. H. Burleigh, ser vice officer; Fletcher Milton, as sistant service bfficer; William Dietrich, sergeant at arms; Executive committee members were elected as follows: Tiss, Milton, Frank Flancry, Eugene Millering and William Koethcr. , the drive to Its present level. When the campaign was launched the women's commit tee of the city was given a quota of $185,000, and when the returns were checked including sales to yesterday, it was found they had had sold bonds to the sales value of 8188,711.75. Despite this showing, W. C. Perkins, chairman of the coun ly war finance committee, an nounced that the sales are lag ging and that there is a definite prospect that the county will not erach its quota unless sales increase materially. He said $5,000 worth of bonds must be sold every business day until June 30 if the qutoa is to be reached. Sales yesterday were only $1,700, he said. The critical situation in the Un ion county campaign was dis cussed at a special meeting of the war finance committee last night in the Elks club and it was emphasized that every effort must be made to speed up sales or the county will fail to meet its quota. Woman Sets High Mark Mis. Ann Decker, chairman of the city organization, announced See LA GRANDE . . . Page 3 Eisenhower Favors Draft in Peacetime WASHINGTON, June 15 (UP) Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower joined Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson today in declaring that this country must have peacetime military training. Eisenhower asserted that "the great forces necessary in war must be produced through a cit- izon training system in time of peace; that is, with a minimum sized professional nucleus and maximum capacity for training the national power." Eisenhower, who) (' iroturn hare Monday, m.-(Qcr his v(owj known in a letter to Chairman Clinton A. Woinim,(C., Va.Pjf the house postwar military policy committee. Australians Aim Borneo Drive at Rich Oil Fields Navy Units Pave Way For Troops In New Move -MANILA, June 15 (UP) The Australians today opened a drive for the rich Scria and Miri oil fields on north Borneo, where air and naval units wore reported "paving the way for future oper ations." - United Press correspondent Richard Harris reported from Borneo that minesweepers had cleared 117 mines the last few days along the jutting piece of coastland where Miri and the town of Lutong lie. . PT boats, patrolling the waters there, exchanged fire with coastal batteries just north of Lutong. An American destroyer poured shells into caves and gun posi tions along the coast. And 13th air force planes strafed the Miri airstrip, probably destroying six planes parked there. . The Australian Ninth division, after taking Brunei, capital of the sultanate, struck out along the road to the oil fields. Their next objective was the oil refinery town of Tulong, 18 miles from Brunei and about half-way to Lutong, where the naval activ ity was reported. The Soria and Miri oilfields, which formerly produced 700,000 tons annually, are linked .with Lutong by pipeline. Ribbentrop, Last Of Top Nazis, is Caught By British WITH BRITISH 2nd ARMY, Germany, June 15 (UP) Former Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, last of the Nazi hie rarchy not. ..tentatively, accounted for, was captured ' yesterday in a Hamburg boarding house where he had lived unrecognized for more than six weeks. A . British lieutenant and two sergeants discovered him lying naked in bed. Dressed and tak en to British headquarters, he was found to be carrying a can of poison. Ribbentrop registered at the boarding house under the name of Riese April 30, but admitted his identity to his captors. A sis ter arrested today confirmed the identification. Ho had been in disguise. The foreign minister who engi neered the diplomatic phases of Adolf Hitler's European con quests told his captors that he had hoped to hide until British opinion against Germany had died down and he could surren der for a "fair trial." (A London dispatch said Rib bentrop was on the individual war criminal list of many coun tries and also was accused under the general classification group ing all members of the Nazi gov: ernment. The dispatch said he would be taken to Britain pend ing trial.) He had three letters in his pos session, one addressed to "Vin cent" presumably for Prime Minister Winston Churchill, an other to British Marshal Sir Ber nard L. Montgomery and the third to Foreign Secretary An thony Eden. U. S. Destroyer Hit By "Suicide" Plane SAN FRAN CISCO, June 15 (UP) A Japanese suicide pilot crashed his cxplosivc-laden plane into the veteran destroyer USS Haelwood off Okinawa April 20, smashing and setting afire the bridge and superstructure. Ten officers and 07 men were killed or missing, the navy revealed to day. The names were not yet re leased. Tb 1,200-ton Haze.Qood, cum misisoned June 18, 1 943, steamed into San Francisco Bay yester day, on its way to Mare Island navy yard for reconditioning. I Four officers and 35 enlisted men were wounded. U. S. SARATOGA READY TO FIGHT AGAIN A of war without suffering an enemy bomb hit, the 1 out on Feb. 21 in operations at Iwo Jima. The ph out tires on flight deck that destroyed more than 5, en direct hits, the gallant carrier the flight deck was repaired and USS Saratoga Back in Action After Terrific Mauling at Iwo Doughboys to Stage W Show Tonight Two score; veteran infan trymen from the battle front.s of the world tonight will show residents of La Grande and vicinity the weapons they use and how they use them in achieving; victory for Ameri can arms. Veterans of fighting fronts across the world from the jungle of Burma to the foxholes of Italy, these men will stage a realistic demonstration of how the Amer ican doughboy goes about tin business of war. They arc here to show how the community's! purchases of war bonds provides them with the sinews of war, and how these weapons and other equipment make the American fighting man the best soldier in the world. Equipmont Exhibit During the day they displayed their equipment on a downtown street to curious and deeply in terested citzenry, and this eve ing's program will begin wilh a formal army retreat ceremony .'it 7:.'f0 o'clock at Eastern Oregon college. Members of the Ameri can Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars, the hoy scouts and cadet nurses corps will partici pate in the ceremony, at which the army contingent's 28-piece hand will play the national an them as the colors are lowered at sunset. Observer Infantry Day The retreat ceremony will be held in observance of Infantry Day, the 170th anniversary of tin? selection of George Washington as first commander-in-ehief of the American army. At the conclusion of the ceie See INFANTRYMEN . . . Page a Draft Curb Sought On Rail Employes SEATTLE, June I ft (UP) -The Pacific northwest advisory board has called on the office of de fense transportation to intervene to prevent further drafting of badly-needed railway employes. The demand was based on grour.dtD that railroads, of the Pacific northwest now face the heaviest movements of war sup plies, passengers and freight in their history in supplying west roost embarkation ports. iY i - ' w.. '',.s ji III I fter fighting through three years and threo months uck of the navy oto shows crewmen desperately attempting to put 000-square-feet of its surface. Suffering from sev- proceeded undo r its own power the day nears wh en she can again PUGCT SOUND NAVY YAIU), r.remerton, Wash., June 1.") (UP) The USS Saratoga, queen of the flattops, was severe!;' damaged off Iwo Jima last Keb. 21 when she took sevtn direct hits from Japanese bombs and suicide .planes and suffered 315 casualties. The story of the Sara, one of the navy's luckiest ships, can bo told for the first lime today because the tough old lady is back in action. She is sending all she's got against an enemy that has hud good reason on three occasions to believe she wits tough. The Sara took her latest heating two days afler the invasion of Iwo. Heroic action by her cruw members saved the ship. She survived, hut at a cost of 12.'! men killed or missing and 1!)2 wounded. Effort to Split . "Big 3" Charged To Small Nations SAN FRAN CISCO, June 15 (UP) Soviet Ukranian foreign minister Dmitri Z. Manuilsky chatged today that some of the little nations had tried to make the big three "violate" the Yalta agreement on voting procedure for the proposed world security council. His statement created a mild sensation at a public session of a United Nations conference com mission considering the principle chapter of the world organiza tion charter. They were dirtcted primarily at Jesus M. Yrpes ol Colombia one of the two na tions which voted against adop tion of the Yalta formula. But he then sui prised the audi ence by announcing that the So viet Ukraine would support Col ombia's amendment because some powers have been kept," he continued. After an hour debate Colom bia's proposal to insert the words "in good faith" was adopted un animously. The commission got bogged down in interminable1 debate for the second time in two days, Even as debate continued, the big four of the United Nations con ference sought means of adjoin ing on June 23 a prospect that was not good. State (Suardsmen To (in To Pendleton Capt. CI. L. Gregory, comman der of the local company of the state guard, today announcd the guardsmen will leave at 7 a.m. Sunday for Pendleton for their first rifle range trials with their new equipment. He said he has obtained a school bus to transport the com pany to the rifle range, and said members must be at the armory el 6:30 a.m. to receive equipment. All are to take their own lunges, he said. " aWarlPlante , . tc aircraft carrier USS Saratoga ran to Pugel Sound navy yard whore put to sea U. S. navy photo. Twice before she had under- gone torpedo attacks Hint would have sunk a lesser ship, lint each lime she came back this time after a npair job in this navy yard that set a new speed record. On that day off Iwo it looked for many hours as though they had succeeded. The repairmen in the Pugel Sound yard said the Sara sailed in with enough dam age to sink "any other ship." Tho Saratoga had survived not only tho gaping wounds left by the I u i c i d o piano , crashes and bomb hits, but also the more dangerous damago caused by hor own burning gasoline and exploding bombs. The old carrier was providing air support for the marines at Iwo alter returning from ll--lirst large can it r strike at Tokyo. She was cruising with a cast car See CAKHIKIi . . . Page 5 Industrial Sugar Allotments Cut WASHINGTON, June l.ri (UP; Industrial users of sugar, in eluding the iee cream and soil drink manufacturers and com mercial canncrs, will be cut more than 20 per cent in their present allotments of sugar beginning July 1, the office of price ad ministration announced today. The bulk of indie. trial usVrs will have to operate 'for the ii"x; three months on 22 per cent les:. sugar than they used Irom April I to June 31). tinkers have been cut 20 per cent and drug inimu faetuiers 10 per cent. Army Ship Crashes Takiny Lives of 17 JACKSON, Miss., June 15 (UP) Army officials today investi gated tin- crash of a plane near Oak Ridge, Mi.ss,, in which 17 persons, two of Ihein women, were killed. The plane was believed to have ocen en roule from Jackson to Shrevcport, La. It was said to have been an army furry com mand (jtip. Drive fo Enemy Industries Opened With Fire GUAM, June 15 (UP) A fleet of 520 Superfortress? smashed ut Japan's great war production center of Osaka today, officially opening an offensive to wipe out Japanese industry wilh 2,0(10,000 tons of bombs in the next 12 months. The big bombers dropped ,'1,000 tons of fire bombs on steel plants and other key war factories in northern and eastern Usaka and adjacent Amagasaki. Radio Tokyo admitted a' number of fires broke out during the hour-long attack. - l Berlin Revealed As Setting For 'Big Three' Parley LONDON. Juno 15 (UP) The forthcoming conference of the Big Three will be held in Berlin, an exchange of correspondence between Prime Minister Church ill and Labor Leader Clement R. Attlee revealed today. Churchill asked Attlee, his former deputy prime minister in the coalition government, to go with him to the meeting with President Truman and Marshal Stalin. k In n letter of acceptance, Atllce disclosed the site of the meeting with a reference to the "prospec tive conference- In Berlin." Only yesterday Churchill rb'J vcaled In commons that the Big Three conference the first since the defeat of Germany and the first with Mr. Truman as a parr lieipant will be held before July 2(1. Despite the bitterness of the campaigning for the general elec tion, it appeared that Britain would be able to offer a united front at the conference. "I do not anticipate,"' Altlce said in accepting Churchill's in vitation, "that wo shall differ on the main lines of the poicy which we have discussed together so often." ; Autopsy Surgeon Tells of Death In Bowman Case The trial of Albert Forrest Bowman, on an indictment charg ing him with the murder of his father, Albert F. Bowman, at the family ranch near North Powder on April 22, went into its fifth day today willi Dr. Joseph Bee man of the University of Oregon medical school on the stand for cross examination. During direct examination con ducted by Deputy District Attor ney George Cochran, Dr. Beeman testified concerning an autopsy he conducted on the body of the elder Bowman, and said it re vealed that death was caused by heart congestion due to a large bruise on the victim's left shoul der and chest from which con gested blood worked back to the heart and caused it to stop func tioning. He testified also that a skull fracture and blow on the side ol the head could have caused Bow man to lose consciousness, but that it was not these that caused death. He said the most severe head wound, which fracturod the skull, apparently was struck from a blow from behind. Prior to. Dr. Beeman's testi mony, Karl Stigaullde, a ranch employee, who found the elder Bowman's body in a well, and Ellis Ferguson, another employi e, testified concerning the search for Bowman when it was discov ered he was missing on the night of April 22, and the discovery of the body on the following day. Palton To Return To Europe After Rest ISKVF.RLY, Mass.. June 15 (UP) Gen. George S. Palton Jr., ar rived at the airport here shortly after noon loday from Washing ton enroute to his Hamilton estate for two weeks' rest before return ing to Euiopc to resume his third army command. o Destroy J lie planes Domrjea oy insiru- ment through a heavy overcast" that obscured results. 'i' Only one superfortress wu' loit out of the 520 which dumped 3000 tons of incendi- ' ary bomba on Osaka today, tha war department announced. Tho raid inaugurated the sec ond year of B-2!) attacks on Jap an. Gen; H1. H. Arnold, com mandor of army air forces; -to vealcd at a press conference here' what is In store for tho enemy! homeland during those coming months. Superfortreuti. Flying Fort-;j rents, Liberator! and tha re-1 maining bombers In tha Anntl-" can air arsenal will drop twice, , the. tonnage of bombs on Japan . in the next year ai they did on Germany during the entire Eu-. ropean war, he aaid. r . S u o o r fortresses of the 2 1 si i.nA.l.l.w -..lv,.Ct'- ..'An..V...;itV' 'An- liver 1,300,000 tbns, he saiU Lt. Gen. James H. Dooliltle's eighth air forces, the terror of the Eu-'. ropean skies, and Gen. George C. Kcnnoy's far eastern air forces will contribute another 700,000 tons. : Complete and utter destruction of industrial Japan will he the aim, Arnold said. The program calls for an average of more than 5,000 tons of explosives a day W be heaped on the 'enemy homo-, land. "We believe we can do the same thing with industrial Jap--an that we did with industrial., Germany," he laid, "We hope it will ease tho load of the army and navy, but they aren't going to wait until we finish. "We are just starting. Before long, wo will be using more than twice as many B-2t)s us we ever have before and more than dou ble tho rule of bombs." His statement envisioned 1,000 plane, 10,000-ton Superfortresses raids, Arnold revealed he had come to the Pacific to determine how many of the 12,000 planes the United Stales used against Ger many could be accommodated at Pacific bases. He said every pos sible foot of every possible land mass would bo utilized. . Veteran Policeman ' Observes Birthday Clint Haynes of the Lu Grande police department, observed his 77th birthday yesterday. Kaynes, came to Oregon with his parents when he was two years old and has lived in eastern Oregon most of his life. He joined the police depart ment in October, 11)20, and ser ved as assistant chief and chief, and left the force October, 5, 1031. Haynes again joined the force last July. He was presented with a birth day cake with 21 candles by Mrs. Clem Wallacei mid Miss Ruth Bums, and also received many gilts. Baseball Results By United Press National Leaguo R H E Brooklyn 9 16 2 Boston 8 8 1 Pfund, King (6) and Dantonib, Andrews (7); Tobin, Hutchinson (7) and Masi. Brooklyn-Boston second game unfinished, wet grounds. " R H 5 Phiadclphia 5 10 1 New York 7 13 '0 Mauney, Karl (3), Scott (6) and Mancuso; Hansen, Emmerich (6) and Lombardi. v
