La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, June 23, 1945, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextIk asfcJ 6) Dim aw So Columns 1-1 Weather Dula tor 24 houra to 7 a. m. Temperature: Maximum 84 Minimum 49 Forecast: Scattered cloudiness tonight and Sunday. A Community Newspaper For Every Member of the Family ili!lM!!Bi;!!!!!ll! ESTABLISHED 189G LA ORANDE. OREGON SATURDAY KVEN1NC, JUNE 2.1, 1915 FIVE CENTS amies c9 Building Proposal Carries; Suicide Base Raids Are Foretaste of Big Battering to Come PEARL HARBOR, June 23 ment was paying' off today as planes based on the bitterly won island raided Japan proper. Twenty-eight fighters from Okinawa bombed and strafed Japanese suicide plane 'bases near Fukuoka on the southern home island of Kyushu. Seventy-five Mustangs based on Iwo Jima attacked airfields around Mi to, 65 miles north of Tokyo. The 28-plane raid was only a teaser of what will happen when Okinawa becomes the base it is in the blueprints. Hut dispatches from the field revealed six airfields already is in operation on the island, and the steady development of Okinawa was enough to keep the Japanese on edge. Tokyo Boasts of Defense Moves to Annihilate Enemy GUAM, June 23 (UP) Tokyo said today that Japan has per fected her defenses against an American invasion and specu lated that Emperior Hirohito per sonally may take over direction of the homeland in its hour of supreme peril. Radio Tokyo said a military spokesman for the southern le sions had reported at a press con ference that defenses throughout Japari hacf-tocen perfected in an ticipation of an invasion. "The entire nation, including even children of the primary tchools, are fully prepared to deal with any situation and fully confident they are able to crush the enemy at any time and any where he chooses to strike," the spokesman said. "All Japanese are today wait ing anxiously and impatiently for the enemy to strike the home land so that the nation can deal a final annihilative blow that will finish the enemies of East Asia once and for all. ' "The fighting spirit and will to fight of the Japanese people today is at its peak." Year's Traffic Toll In Oregon is 116 SALEM, Ore., June 23 (UP) Traffic accidents claimed a toll of 116 lives in Oregon during the first five months of 1945, it was reported today by Secretary of Slate Robert S. Farrell. Of the 118 fatalities 61 occurred in rural areas, 35 in the city of Portlind and 20 in other urban areas. Farrell today urged Oregon motorists to exercise extra pre cautions over the Fourth of July Jioliday, suggesting short trips, if any, in the interest of vehicle conservation and accident pre vention. Banker Named to Education Board SALEM, Ore., June 23 (UP) Governor Earl Snell today un nounced the appointment of Her man Oliver, John Day banker and stock raiser, as a member of the state board of higher educa tion to succeed the late Mac Hoke of Pendleton. Oliver was one of the original members of the slato board ul higher education when it was created in 1929. He resigned in 1941) to become a member of the stale highway commission, retir ing from that commission in Ao ril, 1943. Former La Grande Druggist Succumbs Many foituicr friends of Law- vi,..v, ikj, wmis, i u r ni e l i-iai'.. tiiande druggist, were apprl rr his death in Portland.' Watts was well (mown here and was cflgi.gcd in the drug business for a long pei ItM. having moved to Portland a number of years ago. H; is survived by a fistcr, Mrs. L. O. Lakin. Funeral services were conduc ted today in the coast city. (UP) The Okinawa invest Tokyo repuiUd that Emperor Hirohito sou might take over control of the country from the government which just look it over from the parliament. Emperor May Take Helm A commentator on radio Tokyo said that the empeior may use his "imperial supreme authority" if things got worse. That meant Hirohito would boss everybody, including the cabinet. The Japanese radio also re ported that Tokyo now had "vir tually" completed all its invasion preparations. A civilian volun toer corps was opeiating through cut the capital's 35 wards or what was left of them. . , Another, enemy broadcast reported' signs of a new de ployment of American and Chinese forces in China for a counter - offensive "when and if American forces attempt to land on China's coast." It said 20 Chinese divisions were mov ing into "battle positions" in the southern provinces. Today's Chungking communi que reported two important places in southwestern Honan recapture by Chinese troops. A Tokyo broadcast today said 10 or more Superfortresses raid ed Hanoi in French Indo-Chino Thursday night and Friday morn ing. fn the Philippines, American and Filipino forces were rapidly winning control of the last im portant parts of northern Luzon still in enemy hands. Japs Kill Own Wounded A statement issued by Gen. MacArthur's head quarters in Manila said that the Japanese had killed all their wounded, who didn't die from their in juries in .the Philippines fighting. The statement said that 82,012 See U. S. PLANES . . . Page 7 Senators Approve Agricultural Aide WASHINGTON, June 23 (UP) The senate agriculture commit tee today unanimously approved the nomination of J. B. Hution '.o be undersecretary of agricul ture despite charges that his ad ministration of the commodity credit corp. was "inefficient." The committee heard Ralph Moore, representing Texas agri cultural commissioner J. E. Mc Donald, assert that the CCC "hasn't been on the up and up" in purchasing grain. He said Hutson, who was chairman of the CCC until last November, was re sponsible for this. The committee action will be reported to the senate Monday, with confirmation probable on Tuesday. Lumber Workers Plan Strike Vote PORTLAND. June 2.1 (UP) The exi-culive committee of the northwest council at lumber and sawmill workeis today sot July 15 as the elate to request a strike Vole in all operations whore a local or district council has au . , , .. rs.......,i I ,!... - for a raise in wages prompted thr ; ultimatum. & ) 1 ' Executive secretary Kenr.-.'th ; M. Davis, predicted there will be a 100 per cent response from lo ! cals and district councils favor- ing a strike. The council territory covers I Oregon, Washington, Montana, I Idaho and northern California. OKINAWA ARK CAUGHT IN DELUGE Flash flood caused by tropical torrent caught this AAF liaison plane and it look the whole crew to fish it out. Weather is typical of obstacles Yanks found i.i exterminating Japs on the island. Jap Stab at U. S. Shipping Seen In Floating Sea Mines SEATTLE, June 23 (UP) Bizarre Japanese attempts to cripple west coast shipping by floating mines across the Pacific on the Japanese current were indicated today by shipping warnings from Pacific northwest and Alaska naval districts. The 13th naval district here confirmed an earlier warning from the coastguard information office at Ketchikan, Alaska, thai float ing mines have begun appearing in waters along the Alaskan coast. Truman to Seek , Early Approval of Security Charter OLYMPIA, Wash., June 23 (UP) t President Tinman, setting his sights for quick senate approval of the United Nations charter, today plan ned to submit the completed charter to the senate on July 2. This was not announced of ficially, but it was an apparent fact in the light of plans being made by the chief executive. The piesidcnt might throw the fullest measure of his official weight behind the charter by go ing before the senate in person, presenting the document and ask ing for speedy consent to ratifica tion. Opinion was divided as to how fast the senate will act. Mr. Tru man undoubtedly would like to go to the mid - July big three meeting with ratification behind him, but senate leaders incline toward the idea of long debate and discussion before passage. To Attend Homecomings Mr. Truman, when he leaves San Francisco next Wednesday morning, will go to his home at Independence, Mo., for homecom ing celebrations there and in Kansas City. He planned to re turn to Washington on the eve ning of July 1 and start the char ter moving through olficial chan nels the next day. The president also lias another engagement planned for July 2 he will be host to Jan Christian Smuts, prime minister of the Union of South Afiica. who will be an overnight White House guest. The South African gen eral has been head of his coun try's delegation to the UNCIO conference. Meanwhile, the prcsic'-nt hrnke See TRUMAN . . . Page 7 V. S. Citizenship is Sought By Bridges SAN FRANCISCO. June 23 (UP) Harry Bridges, west coart lalwr leader who won a court fight against his deportation as a communist, today applied for U. S. citizenship. . Bridges earlier piedlited that j tile "same forces who attaekorl ' me lor lack ot citizenship would iJ Jievt-I,v ui ueitly 111 at tainment of citizenship. SPANIARDS ARRESTED PHILADELPHIA. June 23 UP) Two Spanish seamen were ar rested here today by federal hUf k reau ot investigation agents anSfary of being German spies, thr charged with smuggling mes-1 war department announced to saes to the Germans. I day. The communition was n?- c7hcy were held for further j ommended by Secretary of War hearing June 23. P.ail was set 1 Henry L. Stimson and the judge at $25,000 for each. I advocate general of the aimy. V5l 11 The Japanese current, mariner? pointed out, sweeps northward from Japan, along the Aleutians and south along the Alaska coast and the west coast of the United Slates. "We are not sure yet whether any of the mines have diifted this far south," a 13th naval dis I r i c t headquarters spokesman said, "but we have just received the warning issued to shipping from the 17th naval district in Alaska and are investigating." "It is entirely possible that the mines arc Japanese," he said. 'A later naval announcement, from the 13th district, said that during the past three years a number of Japanese mines had been washed to the west coast of the United States and Alaska, but had damaged no allied ship ping. United Press reports from Oki nawa recently told of Japanese attempts to cripple allied ship uing there by loosing hundreds of mines in the currents along the Ryukyu chain. At Ketchikan, the coastguard issued a warning to all shipping, including fishermen and boat opeiators that mines had begun appearing along the Alaskan coa.st. The coastguard announcement gave no indication whether the mines were enemy - manufac tured, and naval district head quarters here pointed out the possibility the mines hud brok- n loose from American fields. 'l)ut if the Japs wele desper See FLOATING ... Page 7 Last Rites Set For Capt. J. T. Gardner Funeral services for the late Dr. John T, Gardner, captain in the U. S. army and formerly of La Grande, will he at 9:30 a. re. Monday, in St. Patrick's church in Walla Walla. Interment w'll be in the Catholic cemetery, 'fin' Very Rev. J. J. Callanan will oi ficiale. RiWary will be said at 8 p. m. Sunday at the Marshall. Calloway and Hennessey fune.nl home. He left La Grande about 11 years ago. and practiced dentist- ry in Walla Walla until eillt rm 1 th.T service. n & j t 'Ort StlXttnCCS OI in UK'S I OtniMllPtt O WASHINGTON, June .23 (UP) has cuyi imWt fne muted life imprisonnn death sentences of Willi ani C. C'olepauglj. and Erich Gunpel, who were convicted last Febru- House Approves Agriculture Chief As U.S. Food Czar Relief of Meat Shortage Sought In OPA Action WASHINGTON, June 23 (UP) The house added an amend ment, to the OP A extension bill today which would make the new secretary of agriculture, Rep. Clinton P. Anderson, D., N. M., the nation's food czar. The vote was 154 to 140. Backed by. virtually all repub licans and a few democrats, the amendment would give the agri culture secretary veto power over all regulations and orders utfect ing food. It would tequire his approvul in writing within 00 days before any order became ef fective. The proposal, approved while the measure was being read for amendment was adopted only tentatively, and is subject to a final roll call vote when the measure comes up for passage. Meat Helief Sought . Earlier, the house tentatively approved two amendments de signed specifically to relieve the current meat shortage. One, offered by Rep. George J. Bates, R., Mass., was identical with the so-called "Barkley amendment" adopted by the sen ate. It would compel OPA to consider hogs, battle and lambs as separate items in the imposi tion of price ceilings based on cost ot production plus a reason able profit At presin. OPA imposes livestock ceilings based on the over-ull profit of the en tire meat processing industry. The other o f f e r e d by Rep. Wright Patman, D., Tex., would permit interstate .shipment of meat slaughtered in non-fedcral-ly inspected plants upon the cer tification of the secretary of agriculture. The house rejected, 102 to 80, a substitute by Rep.J. Edgar Chenowelh, R., Colo., w h i c h would have removed slaughter quotas. In spanking for the Patman amendment, Anderson told the house that there appears to be an abundance of livestock and it should he tianslated into meal. Jap Escape Route Cut By Guerrillas MANILA, June 23 (UP) A phantom Filipino-American army fanned through the Cagayan val ley today in pursuit.of the last large enemy force on Luzon after sealing the island's final escape port. The ghost force, composed of sixth army troops and Filipino guerrillas, suddenly swooned down from .the mountains of northwest Luzon, and captured Aparri, north Luzon port. It was at Aparri that the Japanese made their first Luzon landing in their invasion of the Philip pines in December, 1041, and it was the last port they could use to extricate any of the two divi sions now trapped in the Caga yan valley. The joint force which captured Aparri then advanced south eight miles to the town of Dugo. Low Level Route To Alaska Urged PORTLAND, Ore., June 23 (UP) Sentiment for oolow levi(l. highway to Alaska west of the Cascade mountain range drew favor today at a conference of the interstate cooperation commis sion of California, Oregon and Washington. Sfionsors of the highway cited how.il would t) the large min eral Resources and scenic areas of tiKynorthern county. Kemper Freeman of Seattle, representing the Northtvcst trade association, and Donald McDonald of Fair banks, formerly of the Alaska highway commission, declared such a route would be cheap lu build, have all-year service and connect tributary resources. The conference closes tonight. It was preceded by a Wednesday Thursday governmental confer ence of high state, federal .-nd county officials. Fag Tax Beaten I smn A KNOWS THE SCORE Prison er of the Japs at Santo Tomas camp on Luzon for three years, Patricia M. Chittick, above, of Yakima, Wash., joined - tho WAVES to "settle a personal score with the enemy." Shs was born in Manila 20 years ago. Want Nylons? TfieyVe Yours At Bond Sale ' Nylon hose, that commodity dear to the feminine heart, will be offered at auction to night st the junior chamber of commerce bond rally at 8 o'clock at Adams and Depot streets. These are the first nylon hose to be offered in La Grande in teveral years, and to the highost bidder will , go the much prized hose. Other items to lie ottered by that master auctioneer, Claude Berry, are the services of five prominemt business mon, eu well as 51-gauge hose, second only to nylons, cigarettes, gum and candy. Gossip in the business dis trict has it that W. E. Wilkins. real estate man, plans to re verse the procoss and auction Berry, rofusing to bo "sold" by a business competitor. The entire county has been invited to attend, both to buy bonds and witness the hi'.arily that will accompany the sales oi the business men's services. Third Oregon Area Over E-Bond Goal PORTLAND, June 23 (UP) Harney county Saturday became the third Oregon county to make its E-bond goal while the state shot past the mark on its over, all quota. Harney reported $17,753 sold over its E-bond quota of $232,000. Oregon's all-issues total was $1U,5U,U5 for 108.7 per cent of its $110,000,000 quota but its E bond sales were still almost $15, 000,000 short of the goal. Cor poration Ijond sales put the total over the top. Hood River and Wasco coun ties have gone over both their all-issues and E-bond goals. Gil liam, Tillamook, Benton, Clacka mas, Polk, Josephine, Washing ton. Multnomah and deschtltes have reached their all-issues quotas. Former Cangxter Is Slain as Prowler CHICAGO, June 23 (UP) quale Paigone-, 41, m-sl -P; side hoodlum "f the l!)20's, was shot arid killed early today by An t'UfU Zino, 55. O Zino, the father of nine chil dren, said he was disturbed by prowlers. Arming himself with a .32 caliber- pistol, Zlno went down the back staiis of his sec ond floor apartment and saw four men running. Hj ordered them to hall and just as three men climbed oves a fence he shot once. Pmgone riropixtl iead with a bull .'I in his heart. School Support and Improvement: Plans Attract: Light Vote PORTLAND, June 23 (UP) Voters in Oregon decteively approved the $10,(100,000 state building: fund in Friday' special election, and defeated a proposed cigaret tax by a wide margin, late returns showed today. The building fund was passed by a three-to-two margin, while the cigaret tax was losing steadily as late returns came in, despite some "favorable margins recorded in downstate counties. The proposal was trailing by a margin of more than 8,000 votes in late returns. With 1,432 of the state's 1,830 precincts reporting, the count stood: Building fund: Yes, 68,490; no, 44,040. Cigaret tax: Yes, 52,785; no, 60,178. . A mere handful of tho state s I G03.013 registered voters turned out at the -slate's first special oleclion in nine yeurs, in a nenr rccord light vote. In some coun ties the vote was less thun 10 per cent. The heavily approved building fund Is a two-year measure, de signed to raise $6,000,000 for new buildings for the state hospitals and other institutions, and $4, 000,000 for higher eduation build ings. The measure, labeled a property tax, will impose no new property levy, as it will be offset by income tax surpluses now in the state treasury. Tho cigaret tax would have brought un estimuted $2,000,000 into the stutcla coffers yearly, for the benefit of c o m m cj n schools. It was intended to be a permanent tax of two cents per package. Similar cigaret tax proposals have been defeated by Oi-'gon voters on previous occa sions. In Portland, a civic center pro posal was snowed under by a two -to-one margin. The center would have provided construc tion of civic and semi-public buildings and for a park area on the downtown wutorfront. Nazi Labor Leader Nabbed By Yanks LEIPZIG, June 23 (UP) A former Nazi tabor boss who palmed himself off as "Germany's Henry Kaiser" was arrested, as a war criminal yesterday when an American putrol found him cowering in a pigsty. He had a small fortune in stolen Nni funds. The prisoner, Dr. Eugen Fleid erer, was one of the top officials of the Nazi labor front and hud been sought for weeks as the man responsible for the building of the notorious Nordhuusen con centration camp. Browder Ousted as Communist Leader NEW YORK, Juno 23 (UP) Earl Browder has been deposed as leader, of the communist po litical association by a thre-e mun secretariat which issued a call to day for a national nnvenlion to in u k e recommendations f o r "strengthunmg and f.l.'slvening the national leadership." The convention is cxpctpd to return the communists to the status of a political party. The party was dissolved in Jan uary, 1044. The CPA wan form ed with Browder as president and pledging its support of free en terprine. Baseball Results y Usifcxl Plata AMERICA IXAOVt o R. II. . Philadelphi 6 B 1 New York 0 7 14 2 Knen, Gassaay () Berry (8) Oind George; Pagcg Turner c.ili and uuiikuk. Washingtji 6 10 2 Boston 5 12 1 Wolff, LeonarSP (7) and Fcrrcll; Wilson, Kyba (7) Uarnett (0)and Walters. NATIONAL LEAGUE St. Louis 8 10 0 Chicago 4 11 1 Brccheen, Dockins (3)' and Odea; Vandenberg, firickson (5) Signer (8) and Williams, War neke (9). i Election Issues Given Approval In Union County ; ; Voters In 20 of Union county's. 30 voting precincts yesterdoy gave their approval to both the state . institutional building fund proposal and the cigaret tax, the vote on the former being 908 to 332, and on the latter 750 .to 527: The vote : in the county, as throughout the state, was ex tremely light, only a bare 22 per cent of the qualified electors hav ing gone to .tho polls locally.,: In the. iJrecinetsheKed In. to the office of county .Clerk C, L. Gra- ' ham up to noon today, ballots of 1,277 voters were accounted ipr out of a total registered voting strength of 5,740, in the precinct3 reported. The total county reg istration is 6,883. This includes all the La Grande precincts, and others throughout the county except the following precincts: Big Creek, Elgin No, 2, Imblor, and Summervillc. It is noteworthy that although thero was active campaigning in the county for the $10,000,000 state Institutional building funrs proposal, and little, if any on the cigaret tax measure, the latter attracted the largest number of votes, a total of 12,77 being cast, as against a total of 1,240 on the building proposal. . . , One Voter is Opposed The widest margin of approval of the building measure was giv en in La Grande city precinct No. 2, the polling place for which Was at the city hall. There the vot ers endorsed the proposal by a vote of 54 to 1. The only precinct in the coun ty in which a majority voted against the building, plan was El gin No. 1, where the vote was 22 yes and 28 no. Voters in the Kamela precinct showed the greatest insistency of opinion, casting 3 ballots for the building measure and 2 against, and wlo for the cigaret tax and three against it. Perry precinct divided its vote equally for unci against the eig aivt tax, registering an 8-8 tie, while voting 13 to 4 in fuvor of the building proposal. Majorities against .the cigaret tax were given in Alicel, La Grande No. 4, 7 and 13, and in .Starkey and Union No. 1. Rationing Office To Close Earlier Reduction in the hours during which the Union county war prico and rationing board will be open to the public was announced today by Miss Ncllc Grimmett, chief clejk, upon receipt of in structions from the district head quarters. 3 jPsgmntng Monday, the office will be open from 10 a. m. to 3 p. m., Instead of itil 4:30 p. m., and will be open only until noon on Saturdays instead of until 1 p. m. The hours on Friday will r. main unchanged, 10 a. m. to 8:30 p. m., Miss Grimmett announced. The shortening of hours was ordered, she said, to give more uninterrupted time for the detail work that accompanies various operations of the board, thereby providing faster service to the public.