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Newspaper Page Texto World Republic Antidote for War- - Trumarf i Weather Data for 24 hours to 7 a. m. Temperature: Maximum 71 Minimum 44 Precipitation 10 Forecast: Partly cloudy, prob able showers tonight and Saturday. ESTABLISHED 1896 LA GRANDE, OREGON FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 29, 1945 B29 Smash Jap !Rf Sale of E Bonds Off $22,000 The treasury department announced today in Wash ington that the 7th war loan lias been oversubscribed by 51.5 per cent, members of the Union county war finance committee continued their drive for additional sales of E bonds. W. C. Perkins, committee chairman, announced E bond sales remain approximately $22,000 short of the $741,000 goal, and he suggested that employed persons who have paydays prior to Independence day use the money they normally would spend on a celebration to pur chase additional bonds. "What better way to celebrate the Fourth of July," he said, "then by buying war bonds that will help win the war. Sales of E bonds yesterday were reported as $12,081.25, bringing the total for the cam paign to $643,779.50. Sales of bonds to corporations yesterday totalled $01,512. With the E bond sales so near the quota, and sales to corpora tions over,4he goal--lin, Pel kins urged that employed pcrsom makes an extra effort to buy one or more bonds of the smaller denominations today to give the oiivc the push needed to put il over the goal line. The treasury department's rc poit showd 7th war loan sales ag gregating $21,039,000,0(10, against a quota of $14,000,000,000. The previous record was made in llu 0th war loan campaign when sales aggregated $21,012,000,000. The sales thus far in the cam paign include $3,071,000,000 in K bonds. Carpatho - Ukraine Pact is Signed By Soviets and Czechs LONDON, June 20 (UP) The Moscow radio said tonight that Russia and Czechoslovakia had signed a treaty annexing the Car- patho-Ukraine, Ihe eastern tip of Czechoslovakia, to the Soviet un ion. The treaty was signed at the Kremlin by foreign Commissar V. M. Mololov and Zdenck Ficr lingcr, prime minister of Czecho slovakia, in the presence of Gen eralissimo Stalin. Moscow said the Carpatho Ukraine thus becomes a part of the Soviet Ukraine, with the fron tier between Slovakia and the Capalho-Ukrainc becoming the Czechoslovak-Russian border. The treaty signed Tuesday will be ratified by the presidium of the supreme Soviet and bv the Czechoslovak assembly, the Mos cow radio said. Moscow said Slovak and Czech nationals living in the Carpal ho Ukrainc can choose Czechoslovak or Russian nationality wilhin a given time, and a like choice will be permitted the Russians in Czechoslovakia. Baseball Results NATIONAL LEAGUE L'hieagi 4 9 0 Brooklyn 5 IV) 2 Prime, Starr, Chipman 9. Sing er 9, and Wililams; Herring, Bukir 8 and Dantonio, Peacock 8. Cincinnati 4 11 0 Boston 18 0 Walters and Unscr; Andrews fnd Masi. o Pittsburgh 2 7 1 New York 3 8 2 Butcher and Salkicld:. Voiselle. Adams I9i and Kluttz. AMERICAN LEAGUE Philadelphia 2 5 0 Cleveland 4 13 0 Geikin. Berry (7), Kneer (8) and Roslir: Reynoids, Klieinan 18) and Hayes. Boston 4 12 5 Chicago 2 9 1 Fc-rriss and Garbark; llum "hries and Trcsh. Germans Hanged For Slaying of American Pilot RHEINBACK, Giermlany, June 29 (UP) Three Germai civilians were hanged at a mill tary prison here at dawn today for the murder of an unidenti fied American airman who parachuted into Germany from a burning bomber last might. The men, Peter Back, Peter Kohn and Mathias Gierens, were convicted at a court mar tial. A fourth defendant, Mathias Krein, also was convicted, but was reprieved by Lt. Gen. Leonard T. Gerow, command er of the American 15th army. Chinese Clear Wide Section of Mainland Coast CHUNGKING, June 29 (UP) Chinese forces have captured one of the airfields of Liuehow but have by-passed the cily, which has been burning for a week, a spokesman for the high command said today. A military spokesman dis closed Chinese forces have cleared' a 'SOOriUe 'stretch of east China coastline and reach ed Huangyen, Chekivig prov ince coastal city 280 airline miles south of Shanghai. Two of the three airfields where American bombers of the 14th aii forcc formerly were based still were in enemy hands. The spokesman said that the capture of Liuehow itself was a matter nf time. He said the Japanese fired the city a week ago and il lias been burning since then. One column of Chinese trews. which bypassed the city, reached a point three miles north of Liu ehow. Another column drove lo i point nine miles north of the city. A high command communiuuc said that after completing the capture of the airfield, Chinese troops were fighting in the west ern and northeastern suburbs of Liuehow. The communique also disclosed that the Japanese still were at tacking in the eastern part of the Liuehow peninsula on the south China coast. On June 20, it said, an enemy force struck tow aid Muiluk, 12 miles southeast of Fahsien. Previous Japanese counter-attacks on the Liuehow peninsula were believed to have been dc signd to cover the enemy with drawal from Hainan island. Enterprise Soldier Killed in Pacific Current casualty lists of the army include the name of Pvt. Willard R. Pickle of Entcrpiise among those killed in action in the Pacific area. He is the son of Mrs. Minne Pickle of Enterprise, who was notified previously by the war I department. Three More SAN PEDRO, Calif., June 21) Powell, which Tokyo radio reported sunk last March 20 after it was hit by a Japanese suicide plane 10 miles off the coast of Ja pan, soon will be back in action. The crippled craft fought for two days to fcid off continuing air attacks after the Kamikaie plane crushed through the deck and out the bottom of the ship. It is undergoing repairs at Terminal island. The suicide plane struck as the destroyer was fueling and trans ferring rescued airmen to a carrier. The flaming Kamikaze, ap parently aimed at Ihe carrier, overshot its mark, tore a gaping hole in the destroyer's after deck and shot through the starboard side into the ocean. An underwater explosion followed. The Powell lifted and shook and flames burst over the ship from exploding gasoline. The stem or.e-lhjrii of the destroyer was a mass of flames and wreckage, settling fait. DESTROYS ESCORT WWs THROUGH PORTLAND, Ore., June 29 (UP) A spunky little destroyer es cort, the U. S. S. Bright, manned by a "never, say die" crew, leached port here today for repairs to battle damage sustained in a hectic three-minute fight lust May 13 with a Japanese "Kami- Enemy Moves War Industry To Manchuria GUAM, Saturday, June 30 (UP) A fleet of Superfort resses blasted the big' Kuda matsu oil refinery on Honshu island last night 20 hours af ter huge incendiary fires were touched off at the Sascbo naval base and three other important Japanese cities. Fifty B-29s flying in close for mation pin-pointed the refinery Japan s fourth largest with an undisclosed tonnage of high ex plosive bombs. It was a midnight raid. The Kudamafsu refinery, lo cated outside Tokyuama 445 miles southwest of Tokyo, was the target of the 86th raid on Japan. During June, 4,600 B-29s have dropped 30,500 tons of bombs on homeland cities. Industries Are Moved Tokyo announced a mass move ment of industry from the inva sion-threatened home islands to Manchuria. The Kadamatsu lefincry, only 140 miles northeast of burning Sasebo, produces aviation gaso line and oils. It was the eighth major fuel installation hit bv. B- 29 assaults in -the systematic de struction of Japan's war making iRousirics. Pilars of flame visible 75 miles swirled upward from Sase bo, one of Japan's largest naval bases, casting a fiery glow against the cloudy overcast. Files licked through Mnji and Nnbcoka, Kyushu island scannrls. and Okayama, site of a Nip ponese army training center on Honshu. Returning- B-29 crew men of the 400 to 500 plane fleet said red hot thermal upclralts uom Hie fires were so intense that it seemed they "burned a hole in the overcast." Japan reported Li. S. para chute and mountain troops have See JAPAN . . . Page 7 Nazi Confesses Giving Order for Czech Butchery LONDON, June 29 (UP) Karl Hermann Frank has confessed that he ordered the mass slaugh ter of Czechoslovaks in reprisal tor the assassination of R.-in- hardt Hcydrich, it was revealed today. Frank, former Nazi slate sec retary for the "protectorate'' of Bohemia-Moravia, sought to miti- gate his crime by claiming that the ordersd caused the buleheiv of "only 1.500 to 2,000" Czech.j ! Slovaks and that estimates of 20.000 were exaggerated. Dr. B. Ecer, Czechoslovak member of the United Nations war crimes commission, disclosed that he had a 70-pagc signed con fession by Frank. On the basis of the document, he said, ne is insisting that Frank be returned to Czechoslovakia for trial as I he country's No. 1 war criminal. U. S. Warships Survive Japanese "Suicide" Attacks (UP) The destroyer USS llalsrv fl!!i!!i!!!!!!l!ii!S!iil"t;MS!!!lll!H!!!!!!!! FLAME THROWERS MOP UP ON OKINAWA Organised resistance by Japs has ended on Okin awa but many resistance pockets remain to be cleaned out with flames and bullets. Here a flame throwing tank of U. S. 10th army moves close to a Jap position as an infantryman crouches ready to get any Jap fleeing flame. Signal corp photo. Youngsters Will Be Heard Tonight In Band Concert I A widely varied program will be presented at 8 o'clock tonight in the high school auditorium at the third annual concert of the summer, band students of - .LA Grande public schools. Leioy Darling, high school band director who created the band, will direct approximately 80 students of elementary sch-iol age. The band has been divided into three groups: beginning ciass, intermediate c 1 a s s, and junior band, all of whom will present selections. Hghlights of the program will be cornel, flute and baiiloiic horn solos, and selections by clarinet and cornet quarlettes. Culminating the activities of the band more than 00 students at tended the annual picnic yester day at Cove and Pine Cone. After a picnic dinner at Cove, the group went to Pine Cone to swim. In charge of the group were. L,eroy uailing, band inslivclor at La Grande high school for the past three years, Mrs. Darl ing and Mrs. Stuart Bennett. Lumber Output And Orders Are Up PORTLAND. June 29 (UP) The following is the reooit for the week ended June 23 of com parative figures on lumber or ders, shipments and production, based on information from 102 identical mills, as furnished by the Western Pine association here today. Orders for western pine lumber for the week totaled 69,052,000 feet as compared with S.'t.Jii.'I.UO'i fert for Ihe previous week and 8C.428.000 feet for the correspond ing week last year. Similar com parisons of shipments are 58,:tfi0, 000 feet, 56,159,000 fel l and 78, 151,000 feet and of production are 68.783,000 feet, 61,555,000 feet and 78,014,000 feet. n.ii- suieioe piano uir Ukuiiv. a. Skippered by U. Comdr. William A. McMahan of Chicago, III., the DE-747 docked at thv Portland waterfront after crossing the Pacific from Okinawa under its own power with no rudder, being steered only by a "jury rig" "( unique and effective design. In the three-minutes of "frightening hell" which saw tho Jap-, aneso suicide pilot and hii plane craih to fruitless destruction aster i the Bright the vei&cl sufforcd a "veoring" hit on the stern which blew it in below the water line up to the main deck. Coi eussion from the explo-ion of a 500 pound bomb attached to the Jap plane also pushed th - steering engine of the ship against a watertight bulkhead, blowing large boles in the main deck and in the 40 millimeter gun ni.-iga.inj. Numerous electrical fires were stalled below decks. All pisonnel in the ship's steering room were wounded, but mi ractilously, none fatally McMahan called the 'incident" "definitely "lucky" with the ship's crew showing amazing daring, skill and Just plain "ol' fashioned American ingenuity." TRANSPORT CASUALTIES ARE LIGHT ALAMEDA, Calif., June 20 (UP) Repair crews were busy to day on the battered and torn hulk of the transport U. S. S. Pink- s r VVT'i New Jap Peace Offer Reported By Congressman WASHINGTON, June 29 (UP) Senator E. Capehart R Ind said today he had in formation that the Japanese have made a peace offer which' "would be acceptable to me." Capehart declined to give de tail? of the offer or reveal the source of his information. He said, however, that he consid ered his informant "reliable" "I think that if a poace offer has been made the people should know about it," Cape hart said. "If none hei been made, it would be simplo for the government lo say so." Achievements Win Awards at Cub Pack's Meeting Achievement awards were dis tributed to members of Boy Seoul cub pack 111 at a meeting yes terday in Riverside park. Roy Skecn was chairman and the awards were presented by Forest Zirkle, cubmasler. Toe group was welcomed bv Rev. Lo gan A. Pruitl, new pastor of Ihe I' list Methodist church, sponsor of the pack. Awards were made as follows: bronze wolf awards were Philip Cochran, Duane Epling, Donald Anson and Bobby Zimmerman; gold wolf, Cochran, Epling and Donald Anson; silver wolf, Ed ward Clark and Cochran; bronze bear and gold bear, Clark, Nor man Price, Lynn Bennett and Cochran: silver bear, Clark and Terry Kelley, and gold lion, Bruce Patlon. Bob cat pins were issued to Roger Smjth, Pat Far ley, Duight Gilstrap, Zimmer man. Epling. Joe Farley, Charles Gieulieh, Bill Moure, Jack Keller and Jerry Arnoldus. A falher-son baseball game at the high school July 29 will be a feature of the July meeting. FIVE CENTS U. S., Britain Are Ready to Accept New Polish Regime LONDON, June 29 (UP) Anglo-American recognition of the new Polish provisional govern ment of national unity awailed today only a guarantee by the government that it will conduct "free and unfettered elections." Once such formal notification has been received from Warsaw, the United Stales and Britain will in joint or parallel actions withdraw recognition from the rival Polish exile government in London in favor of the new gov ernment. Meanwhile, the British radio reported today that Ihe French government has recognized the new Warsaw government. In Moscow an official Ta.i'i news agency dispatch from War saw said American and British recognition of the new Polish government was expected soon. Julius Sakowski, vice minis ter of information in the London regime, said his government and Ihe greater part of its aimy of 250,000 men would remain in the United Kingdom at least until the fate of the army had been determined, He said there is a possibility SL'e u- s- BRITISH . . Page 7 Nazi Art Treasure Trove is Discovered BREMEN, June 29 (UP) An other hoard of ail treasures hid den by the Nazis was located to day. Nazi officials revealed the hid ing place of a master chart show ing where priceless relies of (his ancient Hansealie free city Irid been hidden in north Germany. The first clue to the where abouts of the treasure, consist ing of paintings, gold objects and historical mementoes was ob tained by Capl. Louis Rosenblatt of the Bronx, New York. A squad of American art and historical experts are assembling I the scattered objects. ney, which look the full force of a Japanese suicide attack April Hi while loading battle wounded off Okinawa, at a cost of 30 dead or missing. The navy reported that Ihe Pinkney was hit amidships at dusk by a Japanese suicide plane carrying a 1,000-pound bomb. The blast ripped away her superstructure, tore a hole from the bridge dock to the engine room five decks below and exploded oil tanks to spread file throughout the ship. Most of the ship's complement of 400 mon were attending a movie in a hold which escaped damage, aid their presence there was credited with saving many lives. While the ship's repair crews battled Ihe flumes, hospital staff members fi ll lo the task of i. scuing the wounded from the ward rooms, many of which were blazing infernos. They carried about lll lo safety, but 18 of the buttle veterans died. The other 18 dead or missing were members of the ship's crew. One of three of its type of ship in the navy, the Pinkney is de signed bolh to land assault troops and evacuate wounded. Be cause it is armed, it does not bear the customary marking of a hospital ship. It had been in action in the Pacific 29 months, including the Sol omons, Leyte, Llngayen gulf, Iwo Jimo and Palau campaigns. Security Charter Is Viewed by President As New Constitution KANSAS GITY, Mo., June 29 (UP) President Truman, worked today on a 600-word message which he will send to the senate Monday in support of the United Nations chaii-, ler, the basis of his startling proposal of a world republic as the only effective antidote for future world wars, t - Charles G. Ross, the presidential press secretary, said that Mr. Truman lias not decided whether he will carry the message to congress personally. The chief executive was up early again today, working on his message at his home before moving into his office here. Ross indicated the president virtually had completed his mess age. His proposal for a world, re public of nations was contained in a speech made hcic last night, a solemn call for this nation to become the guidepost of the world by being the first lo ratify the new charter. He likened that document to a new world con stitution. Again hundreds of friends streamed into his office today to shake his hand and wish him well. Included among the callers was a large Negro delegation headed by the Rev. Carl Flipper, Baptist minister, and William H. Towers, representative In the Kansas legislature. The delgalion wanted the pres ident to know that it approved of his stand on the fair employ ment practices commission. The president confers with Alf M. Landon, former Kansas gov ernor and 1036 Republican presi dential candidate, today and plans lo atted a newspapermen's parly for his press secretary. Mr. Truman said last night, "It will be just as easy for nations to get along in a republic of the world as It is for us to get along in a republic of the United States." He was talking to Jackson county neighbors and old class mates as he received an honor ary degree from his alma mater, the law school of the University of Kansas City. In an unexpected, extempor aneous statument on f o r pi g n policy, the- president based his campaign for speedy gratification of the' United Nations charter on the theory that unless tho United States leads the way, there will he" no durable peace. Oregon Highways Measure Up To National Standard SALEM, Ore., June 29 (UP) Oregon's principal highways measure up well In the standards adopted for all interstate high ways in the nation last week by Ihe American association of stale highway officials. R. II. Baldoek, Oregon high way engineer, who has just re turned from the association meet ing in Washington, described the new staiidaids today, and stated that Oregon highways meet the specifications in all but one or two respects. The code of standards adopted by the association Is now being submitted to the various state highway eommssions, Baldoek said. When a majority of them approve the standards, they will be adopted for national Interstate highways. Highor Speeds Providod The new standards describe roads which ore designed for 60-mi!es-an-hour traffic, with 70 mile traffic where possible, on flat country. Fifty to 00 miles an hour traffic in rolling coun try, and 40-50 mile traffic in the mountains is called for in the new plan. Width of the new roads will be 22 feet minimum where peak hour traffic is 200 or less. No slci per than five per cent grades are called for, while divided highways will l;o necessary for peaK-liour traffic of 1100 cars. Jtiglil of wav width is set at Ste OREGON . . . Page 7 - Japanese Expect , New Allied Thrust ' At Borneo Coast MANILA, June 29 (UP) Tokyo said today allied minesweepers were operating off Balikpapan "apparently preparatory to a landing" nfter it was officially revealed that tho V- S, 7th fleet was ranging tho Macassar strait. The Japanese broadcost daliti cd that an allied destroyer had been sunk by air attack, and said that two patrol boats sank from "unknown reasons." , Fleet on Prowl ' A communique from Gen. Douglas MacArlhur's headquar ters confirmed that tho 7th fleet, commanded by Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid, is roaming the wa ters between Borneo's cast coast and Celebes, Balikpapan, im portant oil center, is located on tho cast coast. A Melbourne dispatch report cd that the rich oilfield on tiny Tarakan" island, northeast of Balikpapan, has resumed produc tion for the first time since it was demolished by the Japanese a few days before the Australian landing there May 1. , . r-v The Tarakan field can produce oil sutlable for pumping right in to ships' bunkers without refill ing. Before the wur it turned out ubout 6,000,000 barrels a yeflr. Aunies Take Beautori On the opposite side -of Bor neo, ' according -to a Melbourne radio report, Australia frees cap tured the rubber town of Beau fort, northeast of Brunei bay. , !;, To tho southwest of Brunei bay, troops which took the Mirl oilfields linked with other Aus tralian units who had captured the Sella fields. Destroyers shell ed Japanese positions 11 miles south of Miri. In the Philippines the main fighting was over but nasty mop-ping-up continued in the moun tains of northern Luzon and In Mindanao in the Davao area. . Mitscher is Again Bombed Out By Jap Suicide Plane SAN DIEGO, Calif., June 2(1 (UP) Vice Adm. Marc A. Mitsch er, whose quarters on his now flagship were destroyed by a flaming Japanese plane just three days after he was bombed off the aircraft carrier Bunker Hill, said today that Japanese suicide at-, tacks were only about one per cent effective. The naval commander, who left the Bunker Hill after two suicide planes blasted her into a mass of charred wreckage, established his headquarters on an unnamed second carrier. Thiec days later, he revealed, a flaming Japanese plane, shot down by the ship's anti-aircraft guns, crashed into the carrier, on gulfing it in smoke and flames and destroying the admiral's quarters. . . . "They always get the admir al's quarters," Mitscher said. He moved to a third carrier, where he remained until return ing to his home here. Mitscher said he thinks the American people were making too much of stories of kamikaie attacks on U. S. warships. While the Japanese get through one per cent of the time, ho said, Ameri can dive bombers get through 80 per cent of the time, and get back. Campfire Permits Needed for Outing PORTLAND, June 29 (UP) Campfire permits are musts in all national forests of Oregon and Washington except those desr natcd "permit exempt" by pos ters, J. J. Andrews, regional forester, reminded today. His warning came as fourth of July approaches and was an at tempt to prevent accidental fires. Ho asked campers travelling by car-or horse to .carry axes shovels and water buckets. Ho reminded smokers that forest truils arc unsafe places to smoke, and that careless smoking habits start many fires In the woods. "