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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
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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
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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
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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. "