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About La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959 | View Entire Issue (June 20, 1945)
Fomia Ok U mm m oifiiQwa Japanese t A Community Newspaper For Every Member of the 1 Family ran 00 Surrender mm 1lllii!li!ll!!l!liff?i!lilK,!l!!ll!!l!!!llllll " , In Droves? GbAM. June 20 (UP) ESTABLISHED 1896 N ew County Lags Far Behind War Loan Quota as End of Bond Campaign Approaches Emergency efforts to beat the June 30 deadline on the seventh war lonn campaign E bond quota of $741,000 were launched today by the Union county war finance committee, after appraisal of the situation indicated that $150,500 is yet to be sold. "We have still $150,500 of bonds to sell in the 10 days re maining," W. C. Perkins, committee chairman said. "If every citizen does his part in payroll savings and individual pur chases pledged, we will seH $50,000 by June 30. Mother Defends Son on Charge He Murdered Father Mrs. Helen G. Bowman, widow of Alljcrt (Bert) Bowman and mother of Albert Forrest Bow man, was today called as a de fense witness in the trial of the son who is accused of the mur der of his father at their North Powder district ranch last April 22. Because of limitations imposed by law, Mrs. Bowman was nut permitted to give testimony on many phases of the family af fairs which the defense has indi cated il will attempt to bring in to the case. She testified, however, that her husbancL against whom she filed divorce procccdlng9--btll-' a -few days before his death, had been given to excessive drinking since the middle 1030's, and when un der the influence of liquor was abusive, threatening and on some occasions attempted physical vio lence against her and other mem bers of the family. She testified that the elder Bowman blamed the accused son for his parents' separation which she denied, asserting that "For rest" had nothing to do with it. She said that because of an at tack her husband made on a younger son, Howard, in J!)42 and other acts while under the influ ence of kUoi she induced For rest to move to the ranch and make his home there while (wo of his brothers, Eugene and Clin ton, were in the armed forces. She indicated this was sough', both to provide proper care to. the ranch - and as protection against his father. Defense Attorneys Henry Hess and S. H. Burleigh indicalcd to day they will attempt to intro duce into evidence Mrs. Bow man's divorce complaint, which they said includes considerable elaboration of her statements on the witness stand. Polish Leaders May Escape Death LONDON, June 20 (UP) Mos cow announced today that the Soviet prosecution is not asking the death penalty for IB Polish underground leaders being tried on charges of subversive activ ity against the Red army. Maj. Gen. Asansiev, chief pros ecutor, said in summing up the Red army's case against the Poles that he would insist they be im prisoned but would not demand the extreme penalty. An earlier Moscow dispatch said it appeared that several ol the Poles would be acquitted or at most get light prison sentences. Word that the death sentence apparently had been excluded came at the outset of the third day of the -trial. The testimony was completed and final plead ings were under way. Former Prisoner of Nazis Tp Return Mrs. Lthel SahnR received a telegram from the office of the adjutant general informing h' ' i that Ser son, Staff Sgt. James fJ.'jto be cleaning solvent, held by Saling. held prisoner by the Gei - another boy, exploded and the man army for a number of burning fluid burned the Rahn months, is being returned to tile i boy's face. United States and will be able-to ! Hospital altendants said that communicate with his family as the boy today is recovering sot suon ar he arrives. , i.;facl'jrily. Allied "Simple arithmetic indicates that we will still be $100,5000 short of the quota. "We are therefore appealing to 134 citizens of this county, many of whom have already purchased nearly to the limit, to buy one more $1,000 bond each. We know this is an unusually heavy rc ouest. This, however, is a cri tical time. This county has never failed to back our country and our a link's. We must not fail now. Call any member of the war finance committee and tell him immediately what you can do to keep our county from fall ing down in this final test." Members of this committee stressed, that many persons who intend to buy bonds have not yet done so, perhaps waiting for this final appeal. Their help is need ed now, they said, or the county will not go over the top. . -. Those areas and individuals who ha(j" aiready met 'their quotas are being asked for a final spurt of additional buying to meet the situation, Perkins said. Bond sales in the county yes terday aggregated $10,055.50, of which $0,900 represents E bonds and $1,055.50 other types of bonds sold to individuals. These sales bring the county total of bonds to $520,700, and sales of all types of bonds to in dividuals to $004,631.50. Truman Bestows Highest Military Honor Qn Hero OLYMPIA, Wash. June 20 (UP) Sgt. John D. Hawk, who car ried on the tradition of his fam ily of righting men, today re ceived the congressional medal of honor from President Truman for his valorous performance as "a human aiming slake" for Ameri can tank destroyers in the Arden nes battle. The 21 -year -old Bremerton, Wash., hero squared liis chest proudly when the president told him what he has told other con gressional modal winners of Ahis war that he would rather have the award than be chief execu tive. The president, standing with Hawk and Gov, Mon Wallgren on the steps of Washington's cap ital building, cited 'the young sergeant for "fearless initiative and hrroic conduct, even while suffering from a painful wound." What Hawk did was direct the fire of American tank destroyers after his own machine gun had been put out of action in fight ing near Tambois, France, a key point in the encirclement whoch rrcatcd the deadly Falaiie pocket. Wounded four times in this war, young Hawk was given ei edit for being "in a large meas ure responsible for crushing two desperate attempts of the enemy lo i scape from the Falaise pocket and for taking more than 500 prisoners." Cleaner Explosion Burns Small Boy Gary Rahn, 8, the son of Ray S. Rahn of La Grande, is a patient in Grande Ronde hospital, where he is recovering Krom isrvtrc hums received shortly bc- : (ore noon yesterday while play ing near a bonfire. A can of what wet; nresumeel nvasion or Borneo Wallowa Soldier With 130 Points Declines Discharge While moil members of ihe United States army are figur ing how long it will be before lhey have enough points for discharge, at least two of their number have refused to accept ruch discharge and' want lo continue in the service until 'the job is done," A report from Fort Lewis, Wash., says Staff Sgt, Leonard J, Riggle of Wallowa and Mas ter Sergeant Robert M. Wall ing of Salem, whoEo points average 130, and who have been overseas 34 months and wear ihe ' European theater ribbon with nine battle, Slavs each, along with several decorations, want to continue as crew chiefs of B-17s, roles in which they served in Europe. School District Tax Levy is Cut By Court Ruling Decision of the Oregon supreme court recently that Oregon school districts can not carry a cash working account on their budget necessitated revision of the bud gel of La Grande school district. All budgetary figures remained the same in the budget recently approved by the school board and budget committee. However, a fund of $3,500, set up as a cash working account, has been added to cash, on hand, increasing that fund from $14,000 to $17,500. R. O. Williams, clerk of the school board, today staled that the shifting of funds will result in A school district lax levy de crease of $3,500, thereby still lu. thcr decreasing the anticipated school district tax millagc. Episcopal Leader Is Speaker at Rotary Meeting Rt. Rev. W. P. Remington, Episcopal bishop at Pcncjficlon, guest speaker at the Rotary club luncheon today noon in the Stein cafe, impressed the importance of sharing in the expanding world. W. C. Perkins, county war fi nance committee chairman, des cribed the final effort which will be necessary for Union county to roach the quota in bond sales during the current campaigns. A previously appointed com mittee including Judge R. J. Green, Ed Ford, Martin Fitzger ald, Elmer McManus, George Cochran and Harry Zurbric:t, agreed to sell a minimum of five $1000 war bonds each before the end of the campaign. Each of the other members pledged to sell as many bonds as possible. Guests were Paul Goddard, re cent arrival from Lakcview who will be an instructor in the local schools, Postmaster Leo Adler of Baker, Rev. Fred Wissenbaeh. Klamath Falls, Rev. A. Val-Spi- j nosa, Walla Walla, Rev. Thomas, ; Hood River, Rev. J. M. B. Gill, Lakcview, Rev. C. E. Taylor, The Dalles and Rev. V. R. Bolster, Bend. Wage Boost Urged For Timber Workers WASHINGTON, June 20 (UP) ! Rep. Charles Savage, D., Wash., ' appealed today lo three- govern- ment agencies to accede to wage I inert ases demands of Pacific northwest timber workers. "I am quite certain that the workers in this industry will, if the situation Is not taken care of, very soon, request a Smith-Con-nally strike vote," Savage said. He addressed his letter to the chairman of the war manpower commission, war labor board and war production board. rORttT AIJ? INIUFED Kenneth MeKcnzio of Pendle ton, an employe of the United Stales forest service, cut a tendon in his foot when he stepped on ; an axe yesterday at the lookout j station where he was on duty. He is under treatment in the I Grande Ronde hospital. LA GRANDE, OREGON WEDNESDAY MSSE -n FROM EUROPE TO TOKYO Veterans of the fighting la European theator of operations, members of the 86th (Blackhawk) division ate shown on one of the transports which brought 21.000 of them back to the United Stales en route to the Pacific war tone. They are the first complete unit to be re turned from Europe in the redeployment program. Approval of State Building Fund Plan is Urged Urging the voters of Eastern Oregon to go to the polls Friday and cast their ballots for the stale building fund pioposal, Charles H. Reynolds, local member of a statewide committee supporting the proposal, today called atten tion to the fact that approval of he proposition al this time will relieve taxpayers of a properly levy in Ihe future. In addition to the proposal thai $10,000,1)00 in surplus income taxes be made available for erec tion of much needed buildings for stale educational and other institutions, the volcrs will bal lot on a proposal to lew a 2-cent tax on cigarcls to support public schools. Banks and city end county offices will be closed ell day booauso of the election, and lho polls will be open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. "Oregon taxpayers have at the Friday election an opportunity to relieve themselves of a future property tax," Reynolds said, "by voicing approval of the slate building fund unused money now on hand can be used for the construction of buildings by the board of higher education and the board of control. People of La Grande have a decided interest in the election since a favorable vote will per mit the early construction of needed buildings at the Eastern Oregon college. Our people muM also leali.e that the return ot the service men and their oppor tunists of attending college un der the Gt bill will present seri ous problems to all educational institutions. We must keep faith with these men and also must re tain and increase the educational advantages of the state of Ore gon. Teen-A ge Hog Sought For flank Robbery PORTLAND, June 20 (UP) A 17-y car-old youth was .sought loday by FBI operatives and city police after a flaring "snatch robb' iy of $1000 from a down town branch of the First Nation al Bank of Portland. The youthful thief snatched the mnney, which was in $10 bills, from a bank cashier late yester day before closing time, just after the cashier had finished counting the money and turned to an ad joining cage lo gel a rubbe r band with which to fa:en the bills. Hoard of Junior Chamber lo Mejl The La Grantic junior chamber of commerce directors will nuet at 7:30 p. m. tomorrow in the chamber of commerce office, to discuss plans for a stay-at-home fourth of July. EVENING, JUNE 20, 1945 r r Junior Chamber Has Plan to Relieve Manpower Shortage ! La Grande junior chamber of commerce will sell the senior chamber of commerce down the creek, so to speak, when they auction Raymond Gray, the ringleader of the older elan,, and others, al a war bond saie at 8 p. m. Saturday, at Adams and Depot .streets. Gray's services, along with those of Postmaster Victor Eck ley, Harry McCarthy, clothing merchant, W. E. Wilkins, real estate man, and Ed Ford, city manager, will be granted to those persons making the larg est purchases of bonds al tho auction. The purchaser may dcsignali; La Grande Men To Be Graduated At Medical School Howard Watson Lyman and David Howell Stoddard of La Grande, and Vance Lewis Ter lall. Union, will be among 75 graduates who will receive doc tor of medicine degrees in com mencement exercises of the Uni versity of Oregon mdical school June 22, in the school auditorium or Marquam hill. Lyman is the son of Mr. and Mrs. George Lyman, La Grande, and Stoddard is the son of Mr. and Mrs. David I. Stoddard, for merly of La Grande, and now of Chicago. The graduating class is the first to complete a normal four-year course in three years of constant study under' the accr lerated war lime program of four nine-month terms without the customary in tervening tl ice-month vacation period. Lyman, a graduate of La Grande high school in the class of 1033, attended Eastern Ore gon college, will inlern at Good Samaritan hospital. Stoddard will intern in a Chi cago hospital. Summer Enrolment At College Jumps An increase of 30 percent In enroHmenl for the first summer icssioit of Eastern Oregon college was announced today by Regis trar l.yle Johnson, There are M0 students enrolled as compared with lOfl at the same time hut year. Johnson announced 28 are do ing work toward bachelor of sci ence degrees in elementary edu cation anil 2(1 are juniors in teach er training, together0 with III sophomores and 14 freshiuon! Twenty students are classified as specials and 34 are in ihe cadet nurses corps. The present session will close July 18 and enrollment fvr; the second session will lake place the following day. 0 St the tasks lo be performed by the man whose services ho ob-, tains through the auction. Ru .rpor has il that Ed Ford may be asked lo clean his own streets while the crowd looks on. Simon Legrce Claude Berry will officiate al the auction block! Prior to the auction, l.eroy Darling and his junior band will be transported about town on a motorized hayrack while their music reminds the towns people of the evening's events. A gay lime is anticipated, and Ihe entire county has been invited lo attend. , Outbreak of Parrot Fever Is Feared I'll I LAD EL PIMA, June 20 run rubric realm department and humane society officials to day mapped plans lo exterminate nil, i fiim rt-om ritv narks and squares lo forestall a possible out break of psittacosis, or parrot fever. Public Health Director Rufus S. Reeves oldorod the birds elc slroyed alter tests disclosed that the 35 lo 411 per cent carried a virus resembling that of the highly communicable p a r r o t fever. Careful Scrutiny Of Local Taxation Urged By Governor SALEM, Ore., June 20 (UP) -Stressing the advisability of em ploying a "nalionaly recognized oul-slat- firm" of tax experts in overhauling Oregon's tax struc ture, Governor Earl Snell opened the initial session of the newly created tax study committee here today. 'There is important work lo be done bv this committee," the governor declared in op 'ning the session. "You have a great op portunity to perform a real ser vice fur the slate." Pointing to the tri'iul toward ;-lal( supporl of political sub divi.'.iniis such as school districts, cities anil counties, the governor told Ihe committac that Ibis phase of the over-all lax picture should receive their can ful con sideration. "Some of there subdivisions are faced with a real i.nitleiil situation in their effoil to finance their activities find insist that they must have ,niore slate air,, "Ihe governor declared. o Weather U.ila for 24 hours to 7 a. in Maximum 87 Minimum Forecast: Increasing: i'lnudinfs tonight, and tomorrow; probable sliuvcrs. FIVE CENTS Loom s Great Oil Center Is Assaulted MANILA, June 20 (UP) Radio Tokvo reported today that allied in i n e sweepers have begun work in the bay of Kalikpnpan, the great lior neo oil center which lias beon pounded from sett aim air lor the past week. The Japanese ' broadcast said that four mine sweepers began their work yesterday, a neces sary preliminary to any invasion of Ihe rich oil area ol uornoos east coast. Tokyo claimed that shore bat teries sank one of tho sweepers and the olhcr three withdrew. (A Domoi dispatch said that the sweeper sank after it struck u initio.) ' Previous Japanese broadcasts have reported tho bombardment of Balikpapan by an allied fleet, said to include an aircraft car rier, three battleships, 18 de stroyers and other warships. Communiques from Gen. Doug las MacArthur's head quarter s have not confirmed the nuvul bombardments, but hnve report ed daily air attacks on gun posi tions and airfields in the Balik papan urea also u pre-invuslon pattern of assault. . ' Bombers Blast Enemy Today's communique repoi'tnd that heavy 'botilbors drimpu-106 tons of explosives on Bulikpupiin and the ship-building center of Samarinda to the north. On Borneo's northwest coast, the Austinliuns made more pro gress In all directions, their ad vances apparently slowed only by the thick jungle country. The force which landed at Wcslon, on the cast shore of Brunei Bay, gained two of the 111 miles lo the rubber center of Beaufort. Amphibious patrols made an other new landing unopposed like the othois 10 miles south east of Brunei town. On the west coast, other units pushed four miles beyond the town of Tutting through almost ImpasS' able mangrove swamps. They apparently were attempting lo drive overland Inward the Seriu and Miri oilfields, where persis tent mineswreping activity has indicated new landings might be rnaele soon. '1 he American advance in northern Luzon continued un checked wilh the 37lh division driving across the Cagayan river, where the Japanese might have been expected to make a stand. Goose Lake Plunge Kills Navy Airmen KLAMATH KALLS, Ore, June 20 (UP) Two navy airmen wire killed today when their bomber er-asheel into Goose Lake, east of the Klamath Fulls naval air station, the l.'lth naval district in Seattle announced today. Names of the victims, a pilot and a radioman, were withheld pending notification of next of kin. Aide Says Hitler Took Own Life A Reds Closed in on Hideout BERCHTESGADEN, June 20 (UP) Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun shot and killed ikomeelves in an underground bunker behind the Berlin retchschancollery on April 30, a ma wke saM ke ew their tsoliiW'Soakod, burning bodios reported' lorfay. Hitler and Eva, who long had beon his mistress, were married two days bolero thoy committed suicide as naaWean was crashing about them in lho midr,I of the Flvnsiaa sioge of Berlia, ike witness said. Hitler's personal chauffeur. Eric Kcmpki-, gave the first eye wilni.SiS ae.'courit bearing oul na.i reports that Hitler died in Berlin shortly before it fell lo the Red army. Kempke said he currieej,, fiva IllUnn's body from the bunker afbr she and Hitler shot them selves with pistols. G Piopogunlta1 Mini.tWr5 Jflteph Goebbels fltid his wife killed themselves in an unknown man nrr in a bunker on the night of May 1 the day bcfoie Berlin fell Kempke said. Tho 10th army hacked tho mat z.uuu or more Japanese into tiny, isolated pockets on tho Knnl)i0in tin nf DkinnwH today. Final victory was: at hand. . Scores oi the trapped enemy -leaped to their deaths irom the... southern cliffs. Others weiee surrendering In such numbers that no accurate count could be., kepi. Even more were being rlain in their caves and fox-", holes, he Sixty five hundred Okinawa nlifilttma nnrl JS .lannnnoa nmu and navy personnel streamed in-, to the 7th division lines on the southeastern front in a 24-hour period starting at noon Tuesday., ITniitwl ........ nr....! wuitii i i uoo wai tui i l-oijiiu? .ml nnwenlt Annnhnl rnnnrtort. many half-nuked civilians at-, tempted to descend the cliffs on ropes to escape American gun fire, but that vengeful Japanese soldiers cut the ropes and let the.. Okinawans drop onto the rocks below. "' "We've got them on the run, now," said Lt, Col. John G. John son of Champaign, 111., command-, cr of the 22nd marine regiment, "and we Intend to keep them on the run." Ihe mopup stage yesterday wtttr a marine break-through to tho south coast on a wide front. Marl ines and doughboys then knifed.' out in all directions, carving up tho enemy survivors into helpless: groups of only 10 to 100 soldiers, each. - - " Admiral Chester W. Nimitz an,, nounccd in a communique that tha enemv'll last defenses - weri collapsing and resistance steadily was weakening. But even as the bloody cam-, apign was nearing a triumphant end, American forces were pre-; paring for ihe next amphibious . leap toward Japan, , , Radio Tokyo reported more than 100 American transports were riding at anchor in the Amerlcan.held Kerama islands 20 miles southwest of Okinawa. leaoy jor new operations. r Two allied task forces also were Righted near MJyako island, 200 miles southwest of Okinawa, Tokyo said. One was built around five aircraft carriers and a battle ship, whilo the other Included three battleships, the onemy ac count said. Tho Americans were advancing so rapidly on the southern tip of Okinawa that there were as many Japanese behind them as in front a field dispatch said. Land artillery and naval gunj,, orfshoro were ordered to ceass fire for four of hitting maines and doughboys in the liny remaining battlefield. Gen. 'Ike' Reviews Iff j -V i m wesiroint Laaets: WEST POINT, N. Y., June 20 (UP) General of the - army IJwight D. Eisenhower, in battle jacket and overseas cap, returned, today to the U. S. military acad emy where he was just another unknown graduate 30 years ago. He arrived by car from New York and a 17-gun salute boomed' out a welcome. With the gen eral was his son, Lt. John EisenJ hower, a recent graduate at West Point, his parents-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. John Doutl of Abilene, Kans., and some members of his staff. Eisenhower will stay at the academy overnight. He will fly to Kansas City, Mo., tomorrovv from Stewart Field. After a re ception in Kansas City, the for mer Kansas farm boy will leave for his home town of Abilene; Kan., for another welcome. The, bunker was saturated with gasoline and set on fire after this suicide of Goebbels and his wifef' the chauffeur reported. Kempke said that between 3 and 4 a.m. on May 2 he saw three other topflight nazis woundcdi probably fatally, while trying to flee Berlin. They were Martin Bormann, nuzi party leader: Werner Nau mann, sftlle secretary in the pror fwganda ministry who married Hitler and Evi and Dr. Stump? fecker, CHitler's personal physi ciari In tho last days of nazi re- slsSJH'C.
