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Today We Pay Tribute to A SO, Carl Hill McCIure, seaman first class, who is giving lab oratory instruction in navy aeronautical photography in Miami, Flu. He is the 22-year-old son of Mrs. C. H. McCIure, 1502 First street, l,a Grande. He attended elementary school in Weiser, Idaho, high school in La Grande, graduating with the class of 19 10. and was a student at Eastern Oregon college at the time he entered the navy. August 28, 19-13. lie attended n naval school at S(. Mary's, Calif., hefore being transferred to I'ensa cola. Ma., and later to Miami. m. UN .n Pvt. Donald Orlan Milcholl find Pvt. Stanloy'Henry tjoryna, marines, are included in navy war casualties released today. Mitchell, wounded, is the hus band of Mrs. Norma A. Mitchell, Joseph, und Horyna, also wound ed, is the husband of Mrs. Mar garet Iloryna, Ontario. No de tails wore given. Pvt. Herman Herbert Young erroneously was listed as killed in action. Private young, son of Rose M. Powell of Elgin, was wounded in action and is now in the General hospital in San Fran cisco. Young, a member of the 24th division of the 21st infantry on Mindanao, was awarded the bronze star for meritorious serv ice. He was in the outfit with Vorlin Keffer of Lu Grande. Private Young, lB-ycar-old, was inducted Nov. 21, 1 044, and went overseas four months later. His mother is the wife of Hen ry Powell, marshal of the city of Elgin. Pfc. Donald C. Kilby, whose home is Crook and Al den street, La Grande, is with the ;i5th infantry division in Ger many guarding essential installa tions and inslitutons, part of the occupalnn work of the regiment. A hospital guarded by these men had a German gcm'ral and six full colonels as patients. Food warehouses at Aufhagen and Ho denberg, a railroad and highway bridge over the Wcser river, near Hanover, a mine shaft and three displaced persons camps weiv recently under the care of these i:i7lh Yanks. First LI. Dnvid K. Slono is spending his pre-embarkation leave in Iji Grande at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Karl Stone. He will leave Sunday to return lo his company at Camp Fannin, Tex. Lieutenant Stem is in the same regiment as l.t Col. Edwin Briggs, also of I. a Grande. Waller Kostcchka, carpenter's mate second class, who has been on a repair ship in the smith Pacific for 30 months, is a house guest of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar G. Olsen. Prior to enter ing the navy, Kostcchka was a fiii'inan on the Union Pacific railroad out of Pendleton. T4 Claude Westenskow. a member of the Timber Wolves ol the 104th division, infantry, in in La Grande for a 30-day fur lough at the home ol his parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Westen skow. after 10 months duty in the European theater of opera tions. He wears the ETO ribbon with three battle stars, the Good Conduct medal and the Bronze Star for meritorious service in Belgium. Holland und Germany during the period from Oct. 23, 1944 to May 8. 1945. At Ihe termination of his fin - zj Jim Ace Udet Commit ted Suicide, Knowing Luftwaffe Would Fail By CURT MESS BERLIN (NEA) The world famous flyer, Ernst Udet, wasn't killed while trying out a new model of the luftwaffc in 1941, as official reports slated then. He committed suicide because he foresaw his own doom and the defeat of the luftwaffe, this cor respondent learned from an un impeachable source. Udet had won world fame dur ing the last world war as a mom ber of the feared Richthofen fly ing squadron and afterwards when he toured the world as a stunt flyer, easily outclassing all rivals. Udet had never been a nazi and was even known for his sharply ironical criticism of Hit ler before 1933. That is why everybody was as tonished when he entered the party and became leading man in tlie luftwaffe. Ever since his sudden death, rumors have indi cated that he didn't die as offi cially stated. This correspondent declared in 1942 that his death was caused either by suicide or assassination. Now I have talked lo the wo man who loved Udet and who was his mistress during the last years of his life. She has furn ished what I consider ample proof of his suicide, This is her story. False Production Figures Udet never entered the parly, but late in 1933 he was informed by Goering, his former comrade in the Richthofen squadron, that he "had been welcomed into me parly." Since he didn't wish to flee from Germany, he couldn't refuse the job in the luftwaffe. Soon he was lop production man, as chief of the so-called t, uo- Dt.rlnionl. Udet found out that all produc tion figures were shamelessly falsified. Not even Goering was given correct figures, and then Goering changed them again to please Hitler more. The idea was to heighten German and lower allied production figures. Hitler, who constantly dreamed of destroying the British Isles, demanded more bombers. Udet, in spite of falsified production figures, knew German capacity lough he will report lo his com pany in San Louis Obispo for further assignment. Prior lo en tering the army in December, 1942, Westenskow was a steno grapher for Union Pacific rail road John Kirigin. USN has recently been promoted from the rank of lieutenant junior grade to lieutenant senior grade. He is stalioned at San Francisco, in the industrial personnel office. Lieutenant Kirigin was formerly in charge of the employment of fice in La Grande. His wife, the former Peggy Ferdinandsen. and their two children are in Cali fornia with him. Ralph O. Connor, La Grande resident, recently re ceived a promotion from second lieutenant to first at tile San Francisco port of embarkation, installation of the army transpor tation corps. He is presently as signed lo Camp John T. Knight. - Lieutenant Connor is the son of Mr. and Mrs. W. V. Connor of Elgin, Ore., and the husband of Mrs Beatrice II. Connor of Uil)5 X ave., La Grande. He has a brother, Hay W. Connor, serv ing with the navy. Car Sellers Need 'A ulhorizalion All sellers (if usril cars, hm-I tnirks ;iiul u.srd nmtori'.vrlrs who eNpiTt to chiller wiuranU'd ralrs mi and after Ann. I were remind ed luday by K. J. Klein, district PA automotive price specialist, to obtain at once tln'ir authoriza tion. Applications are available at all local Ol'A bonids. Dealers must meet lullowini conditions; (I) Must be generally ennaned in business of acquirim; for sale, selling, and repairing and i econdilioninu used vehicles; V2) Have a place of business for their display and sale; (ii) Have adequate shop and equipment; I4l Must apply to OVA fur deal er authorization on Ol'A form I tiU-2lti;t available at all local boards; (f) Required tu post au thorization in shop. SIGN TO FIGHT CHICAGO. July 17 (UP) Promoter Jack Ki-arns said to day he had arranged tor a 15 round bout at Chicago be! ween Ray (Sugar) Robinson, Negro eltciweight. anil Jack l.aniutta, middleweight title contender. Kearns said the date would be set as soon as the two fighters, holh New Yorkers, agreed on the weight. Sport Togs Km- .Misses anil Women A liitf Variety of Shorts, Slacks & Stark Suits! Also 2-pieee sport outfits of shorts with top and wt.ip around skirts. NORTON'S 1114 Adams riione 2"! i Ernst UdeV world-itemed air ace, did not die in a crash, as the gestapo claimed. He ended his life in despair over the Luftwaffe'i chances for victory. Curt Riess reports. anil knew also that Germany couldn't produce enough bombers lo defeat England. Also, know ing allied production potentiali ties, he was certain that Ameri can and English bombers would eventually devastate Germany. Therefore he declared: Recommendod Building Fighters "Let's stop producing bombers. We need fighters. Twenty thou sand fighters by the end of 1943, or Germany is lost." Goering told him that Hitler wouldn't listen to such talk and insisted on bombers. When Uclet made a second attempt to per suade Goering, the Reichmarshal said: "If you remain stubborn, I can't protect you any longer." Udet, dining that night with his mistress in an elegant rcslau lant in the west end of Berlin told her, "That means the con centration camp. I don't want to end there. I will kill myself." During the next two days the lady in question never left Udet, who all that lime was more or less drunk. Then she left him to No Coverage of Conference Will Be Permitted UERLIN, July 17 (UP) Lieut. Col. John Redding. U. S. army public relations officer, announced today the Big Three had decid ed lo abide by its original deci sion that there be no coverage of the conference" by correspond ents. Redding's announcement meant that allied correspondents officially accredited in Berlin will not bo permitted to enter the area in which the conference is taking place or to reveal any in formation obtained within the compound. It was not clear immediately whether Redding's threat to sus pend any correspondent for 72 hours if he attempted "to ap proach" the compound slill stood. However, lie said that military censorship will not hall any re port which a correspondent filed, whether true fir falsi', and that there will lie no censorship of specu la I i ve d ispat ches Redding said the army itself immediately would cease provid ing any news about the confer ence except for acting as a trans mitting medium for any infonna lion given it by the conferees to pass along in newsmen EQUAL HOUSING WASHINGTON, July 17 (UP) John II. Biandfcn-d, jr., nation al housing administrator, an nounced today families of return ing veterans and men in service are now eligible lu obtain vacant priva!oly-finaiicvd war housing on an equal basis with essential war workers. H avc you tried the finest beer ever produced by Roeseh Brewery? Ask lor ELK IIORNBEER THE KfiKK OK go home to have a night's sleep As soon as she entered her apart ment the telphone rang. Udct's voice came over the wire: "You leave me alone in the darkest moment of my life. Good-by." She rirfced back to Udet, but found him dead. He had shot himself. Half an hour later officials of the luftwaffe removed Udct's body. It was taken lo a nearby airport and neatly arranged un der a wrecked plane. Then the story of the accident was re leased. I talked lo inhabitants of the apartment building where Udet lived at No. 4 Pomnicrsche strasse. They confirmed the story and told me that the gestapo had threatened death to any who would reveal the unofficial ver sion. Subsequent developments proved that Udet was a good judge of what the luftwaffe couldn't accomplish, and of what the allied air forces were capable of doing to Germany. Lana, Laraine, Susan Starred A glamour parade for Uncle Sam. That is Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's spectacular production, "Keep Your Powder Dry," co starring Lana Turner, Laraine Day and Susan Peters at the Lib erty theater in a story as timely as tomorrow's headlines. First feature length film from Hollywood with life in the wom en's army corps as ils theme, the picture teams these three femi nine stellar names. What hap pens when women from widely diversified walks of life are gath ered together under the discipline of one set or regulations, one set of standards and with one exalt ed purpose, is told through the lives and reactions of a society girl, a general's daughter and an army wife. Second Liquor Tax Distribution Made SALEM, July 17 (UP) Second quartet ly distribution of revenue from liquor taxes was made to cities and counties today by the state department. A total of $55,4115.7(1 was disbursed. Thirteen cities of less than 2,000 population received the first iK-iii-l'ils from the census conducted i'or theni by I lie state department, ;is increased popula tion increased the share they re ceived. ' BACK TO PRAO.CE SOUTH W.KV lno., July 17 (UP) Eight letlermen from the I9II Notre Dame football .squad and till! oilier gridiron as pirants have reported for sum mer practice, coach Hugh I)v vore said today. coon TASTE Baseball Standings By United ft r NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pet. Chicago", 29 -623 St. Louis 45 34 .570 Brooklyn ; 45 35 .563 Pittsburgh 41 38 .519 New York 42 41 .506 Boston 39 40 .494 Cincinnati 37 38 .493 Philadelphia ..: 21 63 . .250 AMERICAN LEAGUE Detroit : 44 32 .579 Washington 40 34 .541 New York 41 36 .532 Rnetnn 41 36 .532 Chicago 40 39 .506 St. Louis 37 3B . Cleveland 36 39 .480 Philadelphia 26 51 .338 (Pacific coast unchanged.) Byron Nelson Not" To 'Rest Back', t, DUBUQUE. Ia., July 17 (UP) Byron Nelson, new Profession al Golfers' association, champion, has denied rumors he may retire from tournament golf to rest an ailing back. Nelson, here for an exhibition match with Harold (Jug) Mc Spaden, Sanford, Me., told re porters yesterday, "my back is all right after all, I won the PGA title yesterday after seven full days of golf." ' Flatbush Toreador Returns To Ring MADRID July 17 (UP) Sid ney Franklin the Brooklyn bull fighter, will be back in the Mad rid bullring tomorrow for his first performance in the Spanish capital since 1934. "I feel fine, I'm walking on air ever since I learned I would fight Wednesday in the Madrid ring," quoth the Flatbush tore ador when he announced his forthcoming tussle. Champ's Injuries Are Not Serious PHOENIXVILLE, Pa.i July 17 (UP) Physicians at Valley Forge general hospital said to day the injuries lightweight champion, Cpl. Bob Montgomery suffered in an automobile acci dent arc not serious and will not affect his boxing career. Montgomery, home on furlough fiom Luke field, Arizona, suffer ed muscle strains of the back and right shoulder and a laveratcd right knee when the ear he was driving overturned near Prince ton, N. J., as he was going from New York to Philadelphia. His wife and three year old son also were injured. No Fruit Loss in Cannery Strike PORTLAND, July 17 (UP) While no break has developed in the labor strike hampering oper ations of the Libby, McNeill and Libby, the cannery here has suf fered no loss of fruit through spoilage, K. C. Hardwick, north western district smjerintonrinnt. said today. Hardwick said more employes are returning to work every day, wnn iou on nand today. He add ed a force of 250 is necessary for efficient plant operation. Three hundred workers arc out Drnleslinir dismiss:,! nf Jfnnnnlh Smith, former president of work ers Mil union, who reportedly has been working to obtain a CIO charter. REMOVE MORE CONTROL WASHINGTON, July 17 (UP) The war production board to day removed production controls on the manufacture of new loco motives and railroad cars. WPB said manufacturers now can take orders for these items. Brakemen and Switchmen Urgently Needed! Union Pacific IMt. Earn While Learning Steady Work If you ate between Ihe ages of 18 and 55 we will employ yoa a student brakemen. Tttis is an excellent opportunity to place yourself in a good pool-war occupation. AIho openings in fhops, virioua ctiutaifkations, skilled and un billed. AITLY AT U. S. Employment Sendee Sicajaea Annex .Certificate o( Availability Required Tottering Tigers - Still in First As Senators Lose Need Hitting, Pitching To Stay Long By CARI. LUNDQUIST : NEW YORK, July 17 (UP) It is risky to pick flaws in a pen nant favorite right after it appar ently has shaken a serious slump, but the wonder of it all today is that the tottering Tigers still are In first place. : A browse through the books reveals they are suffering from a serious case of base hit anemia. That wasn't surprising since the prevailing belief has been that prize pitching has kept the club tip in the race. But, it was a shock to learn the club has only three dependable starters at pres ent and it is without a top flight relief pitcher. No Hitting Since competition began with the eastern clubs on June 27, starting pitchers have been able to go the route in only seven out of 19 games and the co-ace of the 1SP44 staff; Paul (Dizzy!) Trout hasn't started and finished a win ning game since May 9, three weeks after the season began. Trout, who didn't accompany the team on its current trip, is down with lumbago in a Detroit hos pital and ho is an extremely big question-mark in the team's plans for the remainder of the season. Even with a 12-hit attack which produced a 9 to 4 victor over the Yanks at New York yesterday, the Tigdr lineup has a season average of only .248. Second baseman Eddie Mayo is the hard est hitting regular at .287 and the rest scale down to shortstop Skectcr Webb who is tapping a bare .179. Thic Ahead . The victory, coupled with dou ble deflation of the Senators by the Browns at Washington, 7 to 3 and 5 to 1, put the Tigers three full games ahead. Veteran Al Hollingsworth and youngster Newman (Tex), Shirley pitched the twin wins for the Browns. Unpredictable Bobo Ncwsom won his second straight after los ing 12 in a row, a two-hit, 7 to 1 triurnph which gave the Athlet ics a split after the White Sox won thb opener, 6 to 2. Leroy Schalk hit a three-run homer to give Johnny Humphries a victory over the A's ace, Russ Christo pher, in the opener. It was Chris topher's fourth straight loss. Bob by Estalella hit two homers for the A's in the second game. Top Red Sox Cleveland made all its runs in the sixth, two of them on a homer by Pat Seerey, to top the Red Sox. at Boston, 3 to 2. Allie Reynolds won his ninth game. The Cubs scored twice in the last of the ninth to beat the Gi ants, 4 to 3. It was Chicago's fifth straight win and their 16th in 17 games. Singles by Harry Lowrey and Rpul Gillespie after a walk and an error produced the deciding tallies. Ray Starr re lieved Claude Passcau to gain his first victory of the season. The runner-up Cardinals kept pace at St. Louis with a 2 to 0 shutout by Harry Brcechcn over the Braves. Breechcn, who has been out with arm trouble was making his first start since June 23. Ho gave up six hits. Tom Seats, shelved asa starling pitch ed by Manager Leo Durocher when tlie Dodgers were winning, came back how that thby arc los ing to win his second straight starting assignment, beating the Pirates at Pittsburgh, 8 lo 4. The Dodgers made 12 hits, including a two-run homer by Augis Galan. LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER ' Phone 600 Complete Local Reports Tuesday, July 17, 1945 TODAY'S SPORTvPARAl By JACK CUDDY United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, July 17 (UP) Who was the greatest golfer of all time Byron Nelson or Bob by Jones? That little question is causing more friendly dispute today among golf cnthusiats than any other issue in sports. Nelson's victory Sunday in the national P.G.A. championhip at Dayton, O., added zest to the argument. It was his eigth straight triumph in recent tournaments sponsored by the Professional Golf associa tion, the most remarkable win ning streak in the game's his tory. It brought his earnings for the year to ?31,500, a new high for six-and-a-half months of play. There's no question "Lord By ron" is the greatest golfer in ac tion today. And it's our opinion he is playing a better game than Bobby Jones did when the fam ous Atlantan was at his peak. Bui, let us emphasize this point: Nelson's apparent superiority now doesn't prove he could have beaten Jones hud they met when Bobby was al his best. The Nelson - Jones argument is mighty interesting, and it's good for golf because it stimulates in terest in the pill-pounding pas. time; but it's more difficult lo come up with an answer than to decide, for example, who made the better heavyweight Joe Louis or Jack Dcmpscy? It is a more difficult question because the lapse of time since Jones was in his heyday is far more import ant in golf than it was in box ing. Fighting has changed little snce the great Dempsey was at his peak in sports' "golden de cade"; but golf has changed much the style of play, equipment, condition of courses, etc. In our opinion, one can make this factual comparison between Nelson and Jones. Nelson plays 1 1 is short irons better than Bobby ever did. However, they com pare almost equally in other de partments of the game. Both top ped their contemporaries in wood play from tee and from fair way. Both were the best of their times in modal play; how ever, Walter Hagen always could beat Jones in match play, and if "The Haig" were in his prime now he'd unquestionably beat Nelson also. Hagen was the greatet match-player of all time. It is important to remember that in Jones' last nine open championships, he finished either first or second. That's an amaz ing record, when one recalls he was competing against such greats as Hagen, Sarazen, Arm our, Barnes, etc. Yet, Nelson's record over the past few years is brilliantly impressive, too. He beat everyone worth while in this tournament or that; and the average tourney player of today i a lower scorer than the average of Jones' day, which is to be ex pected because of improvements in golf. Granada ERICH VON STROHEIM MARY BETH HUGHES 7he Great Tlamarion rlGntAT yIIH A lllM 1 REPUBLIC PICTURE You'll SII-SH-SIIIVKH with SUSPKNSK .... and SH-SH-SHAKE with 1, A U ( H T K R ! jack HALEY JEAN PARKER BEL A LUGOSI lYU TALBOT tMNARO NEDEll SPORT s Page 6 Seattle-Portland Combine Beats Southerners By JACK DAILEY ' Pacific Coast league baseball teams took a busman's holiday yeterday by doubling up to play two all-star games for the benefii of the Association of Professional Ball Players of America. ; At Wrigley field in Los An geles, Los Angeles and San Diego teamed up to score a 3-1 victory over Sacramento and Oakland. A Seattle - Portland comb inatioti trounced a Hollywood-San Fnu Cisco team 13-3 at Portland. :' Th-e southern game saw the squads duelling scoreless for six tight innings. The Angels and the Padres cut lose in the sev. enth when Mel Hicks and Mickey Kreitncr of Los Angeles singled with two men out. Guy Miller '? scored them both "with a lono ; double to left field corner. The ' northern squad finally scored in ' the ninth when Al McElreath, Sacramento, doubled and scored in a single to right by the Solons' Joe Marucci. ; The northern clubs hopped on John Marshall for six runs in two innings ad were ever headed. The winers tagged 17 lilts, including six doubles. They were threaten' ed only once during the evening when they got three runs on one hit, two walks and a error; Seattle's Carl Fischer was credit; ed wilh the win while Marshall a Hollywood right bander, was charged with the defeat. The PCL pennant race resumes in earnest today with Seattle meeting San Francisco at Seattle: Hollywod at Portland, San Diego i at Oakland and Sacramento at . Los Angeles. Oliver Returns to ) Coach at Oregon F EUGENE, July 17 (UP) Lt! ,. Comdr. Gerald A. "Tex" Oliver, . just returned from three years of naval service, assumes his old duties today as varsity football coach at the University of Ore gon. He was placed on inactive :" duty by the navy a week ago. Oliver, who served in the navy .. as head football coach at St. , Mary's pre-f light and director of recreation and physical training in both the Atlantic and Pacific areas, said he would begin shap ing up his football prospects as soon as possible, in lieu of a tough :' nine-game coast conference grid ,. ; . schedule next fall. v. The football mentor admitted !))W he wasn't sure whether his man- ' power situation was good enough ' to put a creditable eleven on the J field. ) - ! W I t m i n mm , mm 'A LAST TIME TODAY loyte KYrfflLOS Robert KUITiW Edward JUSOtD : Ann HARDING Robert BENCHLEY Alan HUE ' .STARTS WEDNESDAY It's the most hilarious cot-right ol the century! AM M-G-M ncTum TURNER $j!dii Sum . 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