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ESTABLISHED 1896
LA GRANDE. OREGON MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 18, 1915
FIVE CENTS
Cagghorosi b LvPPed Dim Fooiry Mmi
Enemy
Holdouts
Encircled
By Yanks
GUAM, Friday, June 19
(UP) Tenth army troops
encircled disorganized thirst
crazed Jupunc.sc troops on the
southeastern const or Oki
nawa today and lunged for
ward in a frontal assault
against isolated pockets of re
sistance that promised a quick
end to the 80 day old cam
paign. ,. . . .
Four American divisions ad
vanced in a co-ordinated offen
sive against crumbling opposi
tion from 3,000 beaten enemy
troops. Late battle reports said
individual groups of Japanes3
soldiers were losing contact
with ono another in a death
pocket of less than seven
square miles.
Maj. Gen. Archibald V. Arn
old's 7th division on the eastern
flank closed a trap on decimated
Japanese remnants fighting along
the coast and moved in for a
mop-up.
t Maj. Gem--Lemuel- C. Shep
herd's Gth marine division and
Maj. Gen. Pedro De Vallc's 1st
marine division, now fighting
abreast on the western flank, ex
ploded a head-long attack against
a series of ridges south of Mez
ado, scarcely two miles from the
cljff-lincd tip of the island.
Maj. Gen. James L. Bradley'?
96th division, fighting in the cen
ter of the American line, killed
115 grenade-throwing Japanese
who infiltrated its positions in a
suicidal counter-attack.
Of the original Japanese garri
son of 85,000, American troops
had killed at least 80,450 and
captured 1,680 in the first 77 days
of the campaign through Satur
day. The invasion - jittery Tokyo
radio reiterated its warning to
the Japanese people that a new
American invasion could be ex
pected soon, but admitted it did
not know in which direction the
blow would be aimed.
La Grande Soldier
Lands With 86th
Cpl. Eugene F. Grrincr, Hemic
1, La Grande, is among H,28!l
members or the 80th (BJackhawk)
division who were being proces
sed today at Camp Kilmer, N. J.,
preparatory to 30-day furloughs
before resuming their trip from
the battlefields of Europe lo thoro
of the Pacific area.
The regiment arrived in New
York harbor yesterday in four
transports after going through
the European operations with
only 800 casualties.
It was because of the compara
tively light casualty list in four
major batiks in Germany thai
the 86th was selected as the first
combat outlit to be redeployed
against Japan.
Gleincr and 03 other members
of the division from Oregon are
being sent to Fort Lewis, Wash.,
H?forc being given their fur
loughs, press dispatches from the
.east coast said.
Eugene Man Is
New VFW Leader
MEDFORD, Ore, June 18 (UP)
Paul Tharajson, Eugene, was
the new stale commander of dis
abled veterans today after being
named to the position in the clos
ing sessions of their two-day con
tention hero.
John Soummi, Oregon City,
was elected vice commander and
Clarence D. Griffith. Med ford,
only world war II veterans named
to an office, junior vie? com
mander. Pat Graham, Medford,
was elected cccutivc committee
man, and Dave King, Portland,
.-.rijiri.-int.
Remnants on
E Bond Sales of
$8645 Daily Are
Needed in County
Union county residents mult
purchase an average of $8,645
in E bonds daily between now
and June 30 lo meet tho quota
set for the county by the treas
ury department.
This was announced today
by W. C. Porkins, war finance
committee chairman, after
compilation of Saturday's sales,
which brought the total of 7th
war loan sales of E bonds to
$504,893.75. The day's sales
were $5,906.25 of Series E, and
$5,000 to corporations.
The Saturday sales bring the
sales of all types of bonds to
dale to $669,021, or 69 per cent
of the quota of $964,000.
A report from Portland today
raid sales of all types of bonds
for the state as a whole were
$75,679,923, or 62.8 per cent of
the quota.
Voters to Ballot
Friday on Two
State Propositions
Voters of Oregon will go to tho
polls Friday to express their feed
ings on two propositions designed
lo provide funds for a $10,000,000
building program for state insti
tutions, and on a 2-ccnt cigaret
tax to provide additional funds
for public schools.
Widespread support is being
given the building program pro
posal, which provides for the ex
penditure of income tax funds
without levying any additional
tax. No organized opposition has
been expressed. The cigaret tax
proposal is mctting some opposi
tion. The polling places in La
Grande where the election will
be held are as follows:
Precinct 1 Frank Cleavingcr
residence, 502 Third street.
Precinct 2City Hall.
Precinct 3 Shell Service Sta
lion, Second and Adams.
Precinct 4 Lane Chapel, First
and Crook.'
Precinct 5 Fruitdalc school.
Precinct 6 Willow school.
Precinct 7 - Lane Mbtel, 205
Hemlock street.
Precinct 8 -Court House.
Precinct 0 -Red Cross building,
!) Depot street.
Precinct 10 Methodist church.
Precinct II Gracia Hesse resi
dence, 1006 Cedar street.
Precinct 12H. W. Riley, 1400
Madison street.
Precinct 13 -North Side Im
provement club, 1311 Y avenue.
Point Values of
Fats Are Increased
WASHINGTON,, June 18 (UP)
Point values of lard, shortening
and oils arc now 12 points n
pound Instead of the 10 points
tl.ey have been. The OPA raised
the value Saturday night because
civilians' shares have been re
duced for the third quarter of
1045.
Butter and Margarine values
were left at their present high
point levels - butter 24 points a
pound and margarine 12 points.
At the same lime OPA cut
third quarter use of fats by in
dustrial users to place all con
sumers food manufacturers,
rtstauranls and householders
en the same basis.
Trial of Officer'
Slayer is Begun
VALE, Ore., June 18 (UP)
Selection of a jury began here
today in circuit court for the
trial of Kenneth Bailey, Klamath
Falls. Ore., chaiif,;d with the first
degree murder of Sgt. Ted Cham-
oers, 43, Oregon state policeman,
who we kifled in a nun hntil,.
near Weiscr, Ida., last April 29.
BalJcy was indicted by a.Jial
heur county grand jury on tho
murder charge and alio, on a
"Charger" (if - assault with, intent to
kill. (wi
"Terrorism"
Blamed Upon
London Poles
MOSCOW, June 18 (UP)
Fifteen of 16 Polish under
ground leaders charged with
terroristic acts against the
Kcd army pleaded guilty to
day to all or part of the
charges when tltey went on
trial before a Soviet military
tribunal.
Gen. Bronislaw Okulicki, lead
er of the Polish home army, was
among a group of 12 defendants
who pleaded guilty to all the
charges. Three others pleaded
guilty, in part, to tho charges and
the sixteenth, identified as Zbig
nicw Stypulkowski, declared him
self innocent.
One group of the Poles was
charged with the organization of
armed bands in White Russia and
the western Ukraine on instruc
tions from the London Polish
government for the purpose of
attacking Red army formations.
, ... .Battle Orders Given
A second group Was charged
with using ' Clandestine radio
stations.
The indictment chiirr.-rl that
Oklulicki admitted under prelim
inary examination that lie or
dered the Polish home army to
maintain Itself intact in order-
to fight the Hod army.
It said he admitted operating,
during 1944, 25 secret radio sta
tions in Poland and 10 in the
western Ukraine. Okulicki also
was acciled of espionage and
sabotage.
The indictment quoted an al
leged order from Okulicki to one
Colonel Slaboda, dated March 22,
1045, a few days before the Pnli..:h
group was arrested.
This said:
"A Soviet vietorv nuni- fine.
many will threaten not only Bri
tain's interests in Europe but
will threaten also nil nf Knnmn
Considering British interests in
Europe, uriiain will mobilize all
Europe's forces, ir.J.o an anti
Soviet block.
"It is clear that vn u-ill r,.
cupy first place in this European
anti-Soviet bloc which cannot hn
organized without the participa
tion ot Germany which will be
controlled by Britain.
"The Polish linrlet-firnimrl (un
joined this anti-Soviet bloc or
ganized by Britain."
Jan Jankowski, vice-premier of
the Polish London government,
said in reply lo a question: "I
am guilty of the main count."
The indictment Hiarwrl i !,-,
the group disseminate.! .mii.
Soviet propaganda through sec
ret radio stations and .ik. main.
tainrd constant contact with the
London regime from which it re
ceived directives.
Japanese Flee
Victorious Yanks
MANILA, June 18 (UP;
American mechanized troops
sped across the Cagayan valley
floor today in pursuit of the last
large Japanese force on Luzon,
an estimated two divisions.
American navul units mean
while pounded the beach defenses
fronting the Seria and Miri oil
fields of north Borneo. The Jap
anese, apparently fearing anoth
er invasion, put the torch to at
least 20 oil wells, and Chinese
fishermen indicated the enemy
was retreating inland.
The Philippines fighting stole
the spotlight for the moment in
the southwest Pacific as two col
umns of the 37th division raced
13 miles along the Cagayan val
ley against virtually no opposi
tion. 0
Two enemy divisions the sote
siziiaMe enemy force left on Lu
totr were believed to be some
where in the Cagayan valley, but
they showed no signs yet of mak
ing a stand.
Okinawa
&kt& tf r V c '
DESTROYER VICT'M OF JAP SUICIDE ATTAC K This was the bridge of the heroic destroyor
USS Haselwood (left before bombs oi a Jap sulci de plane exploded amidst flaming destruction of
its gasoline, left 77 Americans dead or missing in flames and explosions lhat wiped out the bridge
(right) and forward superstructure. The gallant ship limped into San Francisco harbor undor her
own power for repairs.
Gen. 'ike' Is Given Tumultous
Ovation on Return to Capital
Order Banishing
Bridges Cancelled
By Supreme Court
WASHINGTON, June 18 (UP)
The supreme couit today can
celled an order calling for the de
portation of Harry Bridges, west
coast labor leader, to Australia
as a communist. The decision
was 5 to 3.
The ruling brought lo a close
the long series of hearings over
deportation proceedings started
against Bridges in lll.'lH.
Bridges, who has remained an
alien since coming to this coun
try in 1020, turned lo the federal
courts after Attorney General
Francis Biddlc on May 28, 1042,
ordered thai he be sent back to
his native land.
Biddle held that Bridges, head
of tho powerful Longshoremen's
fiid Warehousemen's union (CIO)
was an undesirable alien as a
member of the communist parly
which taught overthrow of the
U. S. government by "force and
violence:."
Tho supremo couit reviewed
the entire "(proceedings upon
Bridges' bid for freedom through
a writ of habnes corpus. Bridges
appealed after Federal Judge
Martin I. Welsh in California lo
fused to issue the habeas eorpu
writ and his refusal was upheld
by the ninth circuit court of
appeals.
Chinese Open New
Invasion Route
CHUNGKING, June 10 (UP)
Chinese troops opened a second
invasion gate to Eastern China
today with the capture of the big
treaty port of Wenchow, 410
miles west of Okinawa.
A communique said the Chi
nese elite, d Wenchow, 210 miles
south of Shanghai, driving Ihe
Jupani.se garrison across Hn Wu
river to the north.
The cqually-importai.l seaport
of Foochow, 150 miles to the
south, fell to the Chinese svertf
weeks ago.
Deep in the interior of south
China, other Chinese forces
eioaid in on the former American
Ur base of Liuchow from th?
nuitliw!, west and southwest.
--$
WASHINGTON, June 18 (UP) (ion. Dwight 1). I0inen
howcr, a conquering hero come home, told the world's leaders
today lhat the combat soldier of this war expects them "to
preserve the peace he is winning."
The S'l-year-old Texas-born Kansan, given perhaps the
most tumultuous and hcarl-fclt homecoming reception in this
capital's history, declared in an address before congress that
"the problems of peace can and must be met."
The grief of those who mourn
New Officers Arc
Seated at Lion's
Club Meeting
Officers of the La Grande Li
ons club, headed by A. 13. Olson
iis pivsidcnt, wore installed Jit the
weekly meeting today in the
Stein cafe banquet mum, wild
Lyle Johnson serving as tin in
stalling officer.
Oilier officers arc: Marcus
Kocsch, first vice president; Jesse
Rosenbaum, Jsccoiid vice presi
dent.; I). W. Hall, seci.'tary; Mil
lard Smith, treasurer; Gordon U
Capps, lailtwister; Hay fl. ItaRs
diile, Liontainer, and Ihe follow
ing directors: II. J. Nelson, S. II
Weimer, Ilalph K. Jones, Loics
M. Ghan and Gene Delrick.
In presenting the gavel to Ol
son, ictiring president Horace J.
Nelson reviewed the accomplish
ments of the club during the past
year, including a I'M) percent in
crease in membership, success
fully staging the first annual Li
ons club talent show and unlink
ing for new street signs through
out the city of La Grande.
John Newman, member of the
club boys and girls' work com
mittee, announced that a begin
ners archcrv class will be spo:i
Sc; NEW OKKICEKS . . . Page 5
Youth Reveals Plot
To Kill Montgomery
COPENHAGEN, June If) (UP)
Authorities announced lod;iy
Unit Ihe alleg.-d lender of ii n.izi
eontrolled terrorist group con
fessed thiil he planned lo assassi
nate Marshal Sir Bernard I..
Montgomery when he visit...!
Copenhagen soon uftir the ca
pitulation of Germany."
"I actually stood with a gie
nWc in my hand, ready to
throw," the youth was quoted.
At the last moment he was dis
suaded by fear of the heavy Dan
ish police guard along the road.
Shatteredfe'S
for the dead, he said, "can he
iclieved only by Ihe faith that
all this .shall not happen again."
Congross Halls Jammod
The congress in joint session
received the general with ap
plause, shouts, and whistles in nn
ovalion lasting a full inimit".
Jammed into the Iioiijv; chamber
also were Ihe supreme court jus
tices, Die cabinet, and a host of
foreign .imhassadois, ministers
and charge d'affaires. The gal
leries were' packed.
The mudesl man whose Anglo
American ai mies whipped Hie
nai we'lirmaebl's best, went be
fore congress after a parade past
crowds of huiidi-'jds of Ihnusands
along the avenue which has le
verbratrfl in the pa:;l lo the names
of Grant, Sherman, Dvvjty, ami
Pershing.
On a vasl haulier floating high
over Pennsylvania avenue were
tin' words, providing the sbouled
refrain from the thousands who
saw him, "Welcome Ike."
The capital had gone all out
to honor him with a day-long
piogiam a parade, a tribute
Sec THOUSANDS . . . Page 5
Military Objector
Caught at Alicel ,
The ane;l Sahiiday nighl of
Harold Wcldon Rhymer, previ
ously sentenced to five years in a
federal penitentiary as a consci
entious objector and paroled on
the provision he remain in a CO
camp, treminated a year's seaieh
for Ihe offemh r by the KM.
Rhymer, who fled from a.,ron
scientious objector camp in Cali
fornia, was arrested by Maislwil
Haines nd Sgt. W. A. Fouler of
thc state pohev, ;il mi Aliee.l
ranch. Sgt. Foster said this is
the third lime Hhyiier has fated
a similar charge, o
He is being held here for the
arrivul of 11 United Styles mar
shal, who will take hini'o Port
land to be tried in the federal
&
Centers of Nippon
Targets of B-29s . j
GUAM, June 18 (UP) A fleet of 4.10 Superfortresses
burned the port of Kajfoshinta to the water's eoVe and set
fires visible up to 150 miles in three other cities along a 500
mile front in Japan today. ';,
The 21st bomber command said preliminary reports in
created "excellent results" in all four target cities KagoV
shima and Omuta on the southern island of Kyushu and Yok-'
kaichi and Ham'"""41" " thc central Island of Honshu. '
Nearly .'1,000 tons of fire bombs were dropped in the four
way assault, it marked the opening of tho second phase of
the air offensive against Japan, tho attacking of secondary
cities now lhat thc major Industrial centers of Tokyo, Osaka,
Magoya, Yokohama, .lobe and Kacasakl have been devas-
tated.
Striking in the predawn dark
ness between 2 und 3 a.m., thc
big bombers caught the Jupiinosc
defensos napping and burned out
thousands of piece-work "shadow
factories" in the cellars and bnck
yards of thc four cities.
Returning crewmen said
Kagoahima, a major port of the
southern lip of Kyushu, burn
ed to the water's edge and sent
smoke billowing 12,000 feet.
They called it one of tho most
successful B-29 raids In recent
weeks.
Street and port lights were on
when thc bombers uttacked and
even navul craft in thc harbor
wero showing lights. Meager 'to
heavy 'anti-aircraft .fire and only
a few flghlers wero encountered.
Good to excellent bombing was
reported at Omuta, a chemical
and synthetic oil center 100 miles
nm th of Kagoshima.
At Yukkaichi, a port und tex
tile center 25 miles southwest of
Nagoyu, airmen counted three
large conflagrations und 30 small
er fires. Flumes engulfed several
square miles of the city und sent
smoke up 1,000 feel, Ihoy suid.
Fire were visible 100 milci
away as the bombers turned foi
home.
The Yokkaichi raiders also
saw Ilamamalsu burning 150
miles away. Crews who attacked
Ilamamalsu, u railway and air
craft center 55 miles southwest
of Nagoya, reported huge con
flagrations, smoke rose 15,000
feel, they said.
Death Summons
Capt. John Gardner
News of I he death of Capt.
John T. Gardner, .'ill, a native of
La Grande, in an nrmy hospital
in Pasadena, Calif., Sunday was
received by friends here today.
He had been ill for several
months.
Gardner was the son of John
Gardncr'and Editli Gardner Ford,
formerly of La Grande. He was
born here April A, 11107.
He had been a resident of Wal
la Walla, Wash., since IIH4, and
was a dentist there when lie en
tered thc military service in 1 1112.
He is survivdd by his widow
and two small girls pi Walla Wal
la, and his mother, and a brother,
Dan Gardner, in Portland.
Funeral arrangements are pend
ing. W o'unded Soldier is
Expected Home Soon
Mr. and M;rs. L. P. Kinsgliy
neenlly received a telephone call
from their son, I.I. Floyd (Koscoe)
Kingsky, wlio is a patienl in an
at my hospital near Tacoma.
Wash., receiving treatment for
v, minds incurred in Germany
February 22, while serving with
the third, army.
Though Lt. Kingsley gave no
information concerning the na
ture or extent of his wounds, he
intimated that he expects to IX
home soon.
Lt. Col. Carey In
Home oiteave
Lt. Col Hubert It. Carey, V. S.
army service supply .arrived this
Morning fruryi ColumbusP Olitfl,
where he is stationed, for fl) 12
day kve in Jiartlrandc 'witii his
family.' G
Proir to entering the service
lieQ.'as conticelod wlUO Bunting
Tractor company.
Defense Attacks ;
Sfnfp Tpstimnnv
In Bowman Trial ;;
Attorneys for Albert Forrest
Bowman, on trial on a charge Of'
nn.,nn V.i rttin,. nt frini.. Nnrth
SMIJIiig Ilia lumn - n.w.. ' - -
Powder ranch in April, toaay
vigorously cross-examined state"
witnesses In an effort to develop
that a purported "confession" of
the defendant was not given vol
untarily. Captains H. W. Howard, S. A.
Mulehorn and A. G. Dunn ot tho
state police testified that the ac
euewdmnn nn-mndorjiinterrogn-lion
ul the North Powder ranch
und in thc district attorney's of
fice in La Grande from 3:30 p.m.,
to 11 p.m. without food or lost,
and it is during this questioning
that the defense contends Bow
man's willpower was broken
down and ho made damaging ad
missions of an altercation with
his father. It wus testified that
one officer offered him food but
it wus refused. .-
The officers testified under
Questioning by defense attorneys
Henry Hess and S. H. Burleigh,
that on April 22, while ho. was
milking, his father cursed him,,
accused him of stealing two guns
and some bonds, and started to
ward with a milk stool, mean
time threatening to shot him.
They lestfied that the accused
man told them ho took the stool
away from his parent, and that
they scuffled into the barnyard,
where he picked up a rock and
struck his father on thc head.
Prosect that thc trial will con
tinue throughout thc week was'
indicated.
Truman to Start
To Coast Tuesday :
WASHINGTON, Juno 18 (UP)
The While House said today
lhat President Truman still as
sumes that the United Nations
security conference will end on
Saturday, when ho is scheduled
to address the parley. r
White House Press Secretary
Charles G. Ross said that despite
published reports that thc con1
ferencc finale may be delayed
until next week, Mr. Truman still
is "assuming it wilt end on Sat
urday." "All plans are based on tha'.,"
he said.
Iloss said the president will
leave for Olympia, Wash., tomor
row nt 8 a. in. EWT in his spe
cial plane the one that brought
Gen. Dwight F,isenhow'cr to
Washington today.
Younff ililth Hiker
Faces Theft Charge.0.
A Cwilrolia, Wb., youth who
reached hi lSlh birthdy yosh
day, vas arrc.Uert in Lt Qran(v
by police, on a cliarfc of larceny
and will be takiyi before Juvc.
nile Judge Kenneth MeCormlck.
The boy, who was hitch hiking,
was given a ride hy Harry Mur
phy of Boise, Idalui, and when
lie left the car at Union Saturday
night it was discovered that be
tween $25 and $30 had boon
tuken from the purse of one of the
passengers.
Stutc police took thc you(h
from a west bound stage in Lu
Grande'.