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ESTABLISHED 1896
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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.,
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.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.