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Jap Stronghold
Allied Sea and Air Forces
Smash Enemy Outpost; New
Landing on Borneo Looms
SAN FRANCISCO, June lfi (UP) Tokyo radio re
ported another carrier-based raid today on Truk island,
in the Carolines, forming two days of air and naval
attacks.
The. broadcast reported that carrier-based planes
attacked for five hours this morning.
Yesterday, Tokyo said, a force of two cruisers and
four destroyers shelled the island for an hour. On
Thursday! and again yesterday there were also air raids.
The Japanese broadcast said that the naval force at
tacking Truk was "presumably" British.
$10,000 Issue of
School Bonds is
Approved 4 to 1
Electors- of the La Grande
school district, in an extremely
light vote, yesterday authorized
the issuance of $10,000 in bond.s
for the acquisition of additional
land for the high school athletic
field.
The vote was 40 for the bonds
and 11 against, 36 for and 7
against being cast at the Central
school, and 10 for and four
against at the Greenwood school.
The bond authorization was
asked by the school board to ac
quire approximately three city
lots at nHi" corner- of Hie' high
school stadium.
The addition!,! land will permit
the enlargement of the athletic
track to a full quarter-mile
through squaring off of the field,
into which the privately owned
property now cuts at the corner.
School officials announced they
'have an option on property own
ed by the estate of the late Fred
Spaeth, and are negotiating with
R. E. O'Leary for acquisition of
the other property.
Peacetime Draft
Is Held Key To
Nation's Security
. WASHINGTON, June 10 (UP)
The heads of the army, navy
and marine corps today told con
gress that compulsory peacetime
military training is essential !o
the nation's security.
Chief of Staff Gen. George C.
Marshall, chief of naval opera
tions Adm. Ernest C. King and
marine corps commandant Gen.
A. A. Vandcgrift added their
voices to those of Secretary of
Navy James V. Forrcstal an 1
high ranking field commanders
to urge prompt congressional ac
tion. Testifying before the hou.c
post-war military policy commit
tee, Marshall said that after the
war the United Stales either
must maintain a large standing
army or must have a supply of
trained reserves.
The cost of a large army wou'd
be prohibitive, Marshall said.
"It is clear to me that what
ever the terms of peace, the
fundamental basis of our defense
must be universal military train
ing," he told the committee. "No
other practical solution has been
offered."
Vandcgrift pointed out that
Wake, Guam and the Philippines
were lost because of unpreparcd
ness and "not until August ci
1942 were we able to launch a i
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Boys Get Awards
For Scout Work
A special hoard of review was
held in the Presbyterian church
early this week for the Scouts
who were at the annual cam
porce the previous week. Ex
aminers present were Lee Rey
nolds and Leslie Smith.
Gerald Motz, troop 111. I ?
ceived credit for painting, Itesh
Fitzgerald, troop 122. for civics,
and Larry Veal, troop 113, for
bird study.
By rectiving the civics merit
badge, fiosh Fitzgerald complet Ml
all the requirements for the Eagle
rank.
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MANILA, June 16 (UP) To
kyo reported today that a strong
allied licet was neuring the great
oil port of Balikpapan, on the
entt coast of Borneo. indi'"''ir"
another invasion of the island
may be imminent.
A Japanece broadcast said that
the licet included an aircraft
carrier, three battleships, 16 de
s.royers and other warships. Any
'other" warships in a Heet ol
that makeup could very well be
landing ciafl.
Today's communique from Gen.
Douglas MacArthur's headquar
ters reported a heavy bomber
I attack, on Balikpapan gun posi
tions, and nearby airdromes at
Manggar and Sepinggan.
Balikpapan, with u , pre-war
population of 30,000, was one of
Botneo's greatest . oil producing
centers. The combined produc
tion of its refineries and those of
captured Tarakan island, 310
miles to the north, was 1,080,377
tons of crude oil in 1339.,
More than 400 miles to the
northwest of Balikpapan, on the
cpposite coast of Borneo, Austra
lian troops completed clearing
I the Brunei peninsula and Labuan
island in the mouth of Brunei
Buy.
Australian troops advancing
r.orth of Brunei town were with
in 16 miles of the oil refinery
renter of Tutong, on the road to
the Seria and Miri oil fields.
! Adult Classes are
Offered at College
Lyle Johnson, registrar of
Eastern Oregon college, today an
nounced that Monday is the final
day for registration for summer
school classes at the institution,
which is offering several spcci;l
classes of interest to adults of
the community.
He said these classes are
"World Problems in Political
Geography" with Dr. Joseph Gai
ser as instructor; "Creative Writ
ing." Miss Amanda Zabel; "Orni
thology" with field trips, Dr. C.
W. Quaintance, and "Outdoor
Sketching," George Nightingale.
Ho also announced a special class
in elementary Red Cross first aid
will be conducted by Mrs. Night
ingale. Japanese Home
Waters Are Mined
GUAM, June 16 (UP) Super
fortresses mined waters off Nii
gata, 160 miles north of Tokyo,
early today in perhaps their deep
est penetration of J a p a n, an
enemy broadcast reported.
Niigata lies on the north coast
of Honshu, the main Japanese
home island, and is 1,650 miles
fiom the nearest B-29 base on
Saipan. A round trip flight to
Niigata would be 3.300 miles.
Ten other B-29s mined the
western tip of Honshu, Kanmon
Strait between Honshu and Kyu
shu and the nearby Suwo Sea,
Tokyo said.
Peare Reappointed
To Aviation Board
Dr. W. M. Peare of La Grande j
has been reappointed to the Ore-!
gon state board of aeronautics by j
Gov. Earl Snell, to serve a five I
year term.
With the notification of the re
appointment, Governor Snell sent
his thanks for "the splendid serv
ice you hae rendered in the
pabt." . ,
LEADS IN BORNEO Li.-Gon.
Sir Leslie Morshead, above,
Anxac hero of Tobruk, com
mands Australian forces that
swept ashore on Borneo in the
first major invasion looking to
recapture of the vital island.
Workers Will Be
Enlisted Here
For Ship Repair
As part of a campaign to re
cruit 30,000 workers for ship re
pairs in Pacific coast yards, a
representative of the United
States employment service wili
be in La Grande all next week.
... Fletcher Milton, local USES
representative, announced, H. C.
Nelson will pp at the USES office,
111 Fir street, to interview men
who are not now engaged in es
sential industries.
The manpower shortage in the
yards that arc repairing battle
damaged ships, was the subject
of a conference today in Port
land between manpower directors
of Pacific coast states with F. W.
Hunter of San Francisco, region
al director.
He said the repair yards had
130,000 workers last month, and
that it Is the aim to increase their
strength to 160,000 in this cam
paign. It was reported that in Port
land yards alone 5.000 workers
can be used to repair the vessels
needed to keep mn and supplies
going to the Pacific war area.
The conferees also studied crit
ical manpower requirements of
other essential industries, and it
was reported that discharged vet
erans are being interviewed at
separation centers and many are
going directly into critical occu
pations. '
More Butter Is
Promised Civilians
WASHINGTON, June. 16 (UP)
Civilians could look forward
today to slightly more butter
but somewhat less cheese in the
net three months. And no more
Bourbon whiskey production for
a while.
The WRA food administration's
third quarter dairy allocations
gave civilians 7,000.000 pounds
more butter than the 329,000,000
pounds consumed during April.
May and June.
The cheese quota of 92,000,000
pounds will be 20,000,000 pounds
shorter than during the current
thre-month period.
Meantime WFA scotched hopes
for any Bourbon production dur
ing the July liquor-making "holi
day." Quota Passed in
Cancer Fund Drive
Harvey Carter, chairman of the
local campaign for the cancer
funds, todav announced that the
$571 quota has been surpassed I
by a substantial margin, with
contributions to date totaling
$621.09.
He announced the following
final list of contributors: Clara
Wilkerson, Fred Spaeth, town of
Imbler, Eagles lodge and E. E.
Swiger.
Other members of the commit
tee which handled the fu'OJ cam
paign were: Bert Worley, T. B. j
Lumsdcn. Helen Manning. Edna
Mac Burress, Mervin Mortr nson,
Mrs Thelma Freisinger and Mrs.
Carrie Trollinger.
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LA GRANDE, OREGON SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE lfi, 1915
of Truk Battered
Union County
Sales of War
Bonds Lag
W. C. Perkins, Union coun
ty w a r finance committee
chairman, announced today
that tlie county is running
behind schedule on purchases
of K Honda in the 7th war
loan campaign, and if the
quota of $741,0(10 is to. -be
reached by the end of the
campaign, June 3(1, daily sales
must not be less than
$8,l3f.10.
This figure was arrived at nf
tir reports of the selling agencies
showed a total of $14,606.25 in
E bonds weie sold yesterday,
bringing the total of this type
of bond sales to $498,987.50. Sales
of other type bonds to individuals
yesterday were $4,128, making
the total to date in these bonds
$70,306.
Sales of all types of securities
in the 7lh war loan drive now
amount to $658,112, leaving a to
tal of all types of bonds to be
sold in the next two weeks $305,
888. Ribbentrop Goes
Under Quiz About
Nazi War Secrets .
LONDON, June 16 (UP)
Supreme headquarters investi
gators questioned former German
foreign minister Joachim von
Ribbentrop today for clues to the
nazi underground if any and
the extent to which Germany
shared her "V" weapon secrets
with Japan.
Ribbentrop told his T3ritisl) cap
tors originally that he was on a
"mission for Hitler," but it later
developed the mission was to tell
Britain and Germany that the
luehrer always had hoped to
avoid war with Britain,
A dispatch from British army
headquarters said Ribbentrop
was on no other special mission
when captured Thursday in Ham
burg. Questioning of Ribbentrop was
believed c-entuiing around four
main topics on which may hinge
future war plans of the United
Nations:
1. Did the Germans delect a
sizeable anti-war bloc in Japan.
2. Did Germany pass on to
Japan scientific data for the lat
est terror weapons, as for in
stance the trans' - Atlantic V
rockets? 3. How strong and closely knit
Is the nazi underground in Ger
many, who are its potential lead
ers and where is it based?
4. Do secret nazi outposts exist
in neutral or other countries?
Polynesian Wins
Pimlico Classic
BALTIMORE, June 10 (UP)
Hoop Jr., the Kentucky Derby
winner, was derailed from rac
ing's golden highway today when
he was defeated by Mrs. P. A. B.
Sicli ner's Polynesian in the 55lh
running of the Preakness stakes.
Polynesian led from the start
and won going away, two and a
half lengths ahead of Hoop Jr.
The latter beat out Darby Dieppe,
which came up fast, in a photo
finish for place.
An outsider in the betting,
Polynesian paid $26.00, $6.70 and
$3 80. Hoop Jr., the favorite, re
turned $3.20 toplace and $2.00 to
sluw. D a.r b y . Di.eppe's show
pr ice was $4.30.
Mrs. Harry Fulton
Is Accident Victim
Mrs. Harry Fulton is in St.
Joseph's hospital where she re
ceived treatment for a broken
ankle received in an accident
last night at her home.
Mrs. Fulton had stepped from
the car, driven by her husband,
and he. not knowing she had
walked behind the car, backed
the auto, knocking her down. She
expects to leave the hospital
within a few days.
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GET IT UP, SON1 As the color guard passes during a 44th infan
try division parade at Langenfeld, Austria, youngsters at the road
side salute all except the recalcitrant lad at left, whose girl friend,
whilo holding her own salute, Is trying to make him pay his re
spects to the Stars and Stripes,
Capacity Crowd
Knockout Enemy in Bond Show
A thrilling and at the same lime somewhat terrifying picture
of how American boys fight and die in the jungles and volcanic
islands of the Pacific attracted a record crowd to the high school
stadium last night when two-score veterans of infantry fighting on
the world's battlefields vividly illustrated how monoy invested
in war bonds equips them to uphold their roputation of being the
President Truman
To Visit Coast,
Then Go To Berlin
WASHINGTON, June 16 (UP)
President Truman takes to the
airways next week lor a wniri-
wind month of continent-hopping
that will challenge the late Presi
dent Roosevelt's travel and wind
up in Berlin by July 17.
The White House announced
late yesterday that the president
hopes to address the closing ses
sion of the San Francisco confer
ence next Saturday. It was also
announced that the big three will
meet "in the vicinity of Berlin.
From Mr. Truman's press con
ference statements in the past
two weeks it seems eel tain that
he will be greeting Soviet Pi--mier
Josef Stalin and British
Prime Minister Winston Churchill
somewhere in the vicinity of the
wrecked German capital n o t
later than July 17.
In between these jumps the
president is to visit Olympia,
Wash., his native Missouri and
possibly the governors coher
ence at Mackinac Island, Mich.,
during the first week in July.
The president's schedule, map
ped out for reporters by White
House press secretary Charles G.
Ross, left observers gasping. It
livaled anything the late Presi
dent Roe.nevelt ever alle'.npt'd
when he was a champion world
traveler.
10 Crewmen Die
In Bomber Crash
WALLA WALLA, Wash., June
10 (UP)--A B-24 Liberator bomb
er crashed near the Walla Walla
army air field at 5:52 p. m. yes
terday, killing all nine crewmen
aboard, it was announced today.
The bomber was returning
from a combat training mission
when it crashed and burned just
north of the field. Names of the
victims were withheld pending
notification of next of kin.
Weather
Data for 24 hours to 7 a. m.
Temperature:
Maximum 71
Minimum 42
Forecast: Partly cloudy tonight
and Sunday.
FIVE CENTS
Thrills as Gs
best fighting men in the world.
Thousands of residents of La
Grande and nearby communities
packed the stands and hundreds
more stood through the long pro
gram to witness a spectacular
"show" such as is seen nowhere
else except on the battlefield,
While they were entertained
such as they never were before,
they could not but have been
impressed with the illustration
of the high cost of war and the
pressing necessity for loaning
their money (through bond pur
chases) to provide the where
withal to maintain the drive into
Tokyo.
Concert is Presonted
The demonstrations followed
an impressive retreat ceremony
at the Eastern Oregon college,
and a fine concert at the stadium
by the 28-pie-ce band, which I-.'a-tured
the saga or Roger Young,
the infantiyman who gave hi.s
life that his buddies might con
tinue their victorious march
against the enemy.
Opening with a demonstration
ef infantry equipment, the pro
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Mercy is Asked By
Nazi Murderer
AI1KWKILEH, Germany, June
16 (UP) Peter Back, 37-year-old
crippled nazi ward heeler,
threw himself on the mercy of a
U. S. army court today alter
calmly confessing the atrocity
murder of an American flier who
parachuted into Germany last
August.
Hack related in cold, unemo
tional tours how he filed two
shuts into the head of the help
less flier after the American had
be n clubbed almost unconscious
by a nazi mob.
Hi' offered the excuse that he
was acting on orders from the
nazi party overlords to kill on
sight any allied fliers who para
chuted into his native village of
Priest, in the Cologne area.
Kisen h o wer Lea ves
On Return to U. S.
PARIS, June 16 (UP) Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower left for
the United States today in the
late President Roosevelt's private
plane.
The plane was specially sent
by Gen. George C. Mai shall to
bring Eisenhower back.
He expects to reach Washing
ton at 1 1 .10 a in. Monday.
New Assault Seen
As Aftermath of A
Okinawa Victory
GUAM, June 1C (UP) American artillery and flame
throwing tanks annihilated hundreds of disorganized Jap
anese in a 10-square mile dead end pocket of southern Oki
nawa today and Tokyo reported U. S. forces appeared to be
preparing' for possible new landings in the Ryukyus. -
Beaten enemy troops acknowledge defeat with sporadic,
suicidal Banzai charges into withering fire from 10th army
troops,
"There are so many targets that we cannot kill all tlk6
enemy we find exposed," u 7th division staff officer told
United Press war correspondent E. G. Valens. ,..
Radio Tokyo said American i
naval units already have extend
ed patrols 110 miles northeast of
Okinawa to Amnmi island, only
185 miles south of Japan proper,
in preparation for possible fresh
operations against the "Japanese
homeland."
U. S. artillery has dug in for
tha lust time on southern .Oki
nawa. Big guns raked the en
tire Japanese death fortress, now
approximately three miles wide
und three miles long.
Officers estimated there are
probably thousands of enemy
soldiers dead or dying in iheir
own territory victims of
artillery bombardment, aerial
rocket firing and incendiaries,
oil bombs, naval shelling, mor
tars and riile fire.
Final victory on Okinawa may
come this weekend, certainly
within a week, U. S. officers said.
The 10th army has captured
nearly half the southern plateau.
Flume-throwing tunks advanced
nheud of the infantrymen, crush
ing diehurd Japanese in foxholes
beneath their treads.
Enemy broadcasts reported
what . were described as "signi
ficant developments" in the Oki
nawa area.
The Jupanose regard Amami.
like Okinawa and the remainder
ef the Ryukyu islund chain, as
part of their homeland.
Tokyo suid it also wus "espe
cially noteworthy" that the num
ber of fully-laden American car
go ships and landing craft in the
American-held Kerama islands
Hist west of Okinawa had in
creased suddenly. , "
French Attack
Spaniards Who
Fought for Nazis
CHAMBERY, France, June 16
(UP) French resistance mem
bers fought on hour-long pitched
bntte here late yesterday with
troops of the Spanish blue divi
sion, which fought the Russians
on the eastern front, and killed
I"! Spaniards.
'Approximately 100 Spaniards
and sevcrul Frenchman were
wounded.
A sealed train brought the
Spaniards here on their way
home to Spain from Switzerland,
where they had been interned
after fighting as volunteers with
I me wenimociu on ine eastern
I front.
The French smashed windows
and ripped off doors to get at the
Spaniards inside.
The battle raged an hour be
fore railroad officials could get
the train moving again.
The blue division was officially
dissolved by Generalissimo Fran
cisco Franco over a year ago.
But members who wanted to re
main on the eastern front as vol
unteers in the wehrmucht were
allowed to do so.
Proposed Laws
To Go To Vote
SALEM, Ore., June 10 (UP)
Petitions which will cause two
laws enacti'd by the 1945 legisla
ture to be referred to a vote of
the people were filed with the
secretary of state here late yes
terday. The laws were the "fish bill,"
which would have limited com
mercial fishing in some coastal
streams, and the Multnomah
county registrar of elections bill,
which would have created that
appointive office.
The petitions were filed on the
last possible day, as all other new
laws passed, which did not have
the? emergency clause, went into
effect ul 12:01 u. m. today,
Auto Tire Output
Will Be Increased
WASHINGTON, June 10 (UP)
A total of 800,000 more pas
senger and motorcycle tires will
be produced in the July-September
quarter than were produced
in the second quarter of 1945,
the war production board has
announced.
The schedule reflects a sharp
drop in requirements for air
plane and military combat tires
during the redeployment period.
Heavy truck und bus lire pro
duction will be ubout the same.
Court Rules for '
State in Tilt ;l
In Bowman Trial
The state won an Important
victory in the trial of Albert For
rest Bowman on a murder charge
today, when Circuit Judge R, J,
Green overruled a defense mo
tion aimed at counteracting Bos
nian's asserted admission that ha
struck the blows that might have
killed his father, Albert F. Bow
man, Defense Attorneys Henry Hess
and S. H. Burleigh petitioned the
court yesterday afternoon for the
right to question state witnesses
who were scheduled to testify
concerning Bowman's asserted
confession. '
Jury Is Excused 'i
The jury was excused at 4 p'.
m. yesterday and the remainder
of tho court session and most oil
the half day session today were
devoted to arguments of attor
neys on the . defense effort to
show the admissions concerning
the homicide were made by
young Bowman under compul
sion. -i
C.'H. Eberhard, district attots
ney pro tern, and George Cochran;
deputy, vigorously opposed tho
defense motion, and were sus
tained by Judge Green, who
ruled that the state had made ' a
prima facie showing of homicide.
' Police Testify ,
Following the ruling, the jury
was recalled, and Captains H. W.
Howard and S. A. Malehorn at
the state police arson squad, who
assisted in the investigation of
the Bowman case, were called as
state witnesses.
Capt. Howard testified that
when young Bowman was ques
tioned he admitted engaging jh
physical combat with his father,
whom, the witness testified, said
ho struck on the head with a rock
after his parent! threatened to
shoot him and started toward
him with a milk stool. Howard
quoted Bowman as saying he
took the stool away from hu
father and they engaged in a
scuffle in the barnyard, during
which he picked up a rock and
struck, his father on the head,
Believing he had killed his
parent, young Bowman threw the
body into a nearby well, Howard
again quoted the accused man.
With the completion of the
testimony of Cupt. Howard court
was adjourned until 9:30 a. m.
Monday.
American May Get -High
Vatican Post
ROME, June 10 (UP) Popa
Pius XII intends to name arch
bishop Fruncrs J. Spellman of
New York as the new papal sec
retary of state, an unimpeachable
Vatican source suid today. :i
The Vatican informant said
that Archbishop Spellman would
te named u cardinal during a
consistory sometime lute in the
full, possibly a few days before
Christmas. His uppointment as
secretary of state will follow.
"Lord Haw Haw" to
Face Treason Charge
LONDON, June 16 (UP) Wil
liam "Lord Haw Haw" Joyce
was flown here from Brussels to
day und taken immediately to
London's Bow street police sta
tion to face u charge of high
treason.
The renegade English fascist,
who fled to Germany before the
outbreak of the war and broad
east for the nazi propaganda min
istry, was brought back by allied
military agents who captured him
near Flensbur g last month..
Baseball Results
By Untied Press
American League
R H E
Detroit 7 14 t
Chicago 5 13 2
Overmire, Rout (8) and Swift,
Richards (8); Lopat and Tresh. '
Boston 0 5 2
Washington 4 9 0
Terry, Johnson (8) and Wat?
ters; Haefner and Ferrell.