Hawaii Mars To
Be Raised From
Chesapeake Bay
Sunk by Speedy
Landing; Hull
Broken Open
LOVE POINT, Md., Aug. 8 (UP)
Glenn L. Martin company on
ginecrs began preparations today
to raise (he Hawaii Mara, world s
largest airplane, from the Chesa
peake Bay where it sank yester
day during a high-speed emer
gency landing.
None of the 10 men aboard the
big 72M-ton flying boat was in
jured seriously when loss of a ver
tical stabilizer interrupted a test
flight and forced her down.
Hull Crashed
The impact cracked open the
hull and the big ship began sink
ing. The wafer was only about 25
feet deep, however, and the tail
and tip of one wing remained
above the surface.
Veteran test pilot William E.
Coney, who was at the controls,
told the United Press that his in
strument panel blacked out after
the ship lost the stabilizer at
about 7,000 feet.
"T h e instrument panel went
dead because the ship was in a
yawed (shaking) condition," he
said. "But the crew decided it
could be landed and wc tested the
plane for 30 minutes at partial en
gine power."
Back to Plant
The Hawaii Mars had been
launched only two weeks before
as the first of 20 such transports
being constructed for the navy.
The Martin company said it would
be taken back to its Baltimore
plant for overhauling.
Coney, who was at the controls
when the ship went up on its first
flight two weeks ago, said it
would be examined for structural
weaknesses. The next piano of
the Mars type, he said, "will be
structurally perfect."
Mitscher Predicts
Millions of Japs
To Blow Selves Up
NEW YORK, Aug. 8 (UP)
Vice Admiral Marc Mitscher pre
dicted today thousands, perhaps
millions, of Japanese will be or
dered to lash themselves to ex
plosive and blow themselves up
in the path of American forces
when they invade Japan.
The former commander of task
for 58 said some of the Japanese
"will bo lashed to dynamite.
Others will be steering bombs or
torpedoes."
"The Japanese army has in
structed the '100,000,000 people'
of Japan to halt all invasion by
'death-defying charges' and by
'bodily attacks against tanks'."
Mitscher wrote. "A body can stop
a tank only if it is attached to
dynamite . . . Japs lake calls
to suicide very seriously."
Mitscher said, however, mass
hati-kiri will not materially les
sen or postpone Japanese defeat.
Defense against the self-destroying
kamikaze has been so
effective since its first organ
ized appearance off Leyte last
October that only one in 100
suicide pilots now crashes into
an American ship, Mitscher said.
No kamikaze has yet sunk an
American carrier, battleship or
cruiser, he aid and one destroyer
was still afloat after sjx direct
hits.
U. S. to Intervene
In B-29 Plant Halt
CINCINNATI, O., Aug. 6 (UP)
Government intervention today
was expected in a thrcc-day-old
Wajkout at the Lockland, O.,
pWit of the Wright Aeronautical
corporation which has halted pro
duction of 11-2!) engines and idled
approximately 27,000 workers.
Federal conciliator James Me
Namara said he would attempt to
arrange a meeting between offi
cials of the company and the Unit
ed Auto Workers (CIO) in an ef
fort to settle the dispute which
flared into open violence over the
weekend.
A union official also said a let
ter had been sent to the regional
war labor board at Cleveland
charging the company had refus
ed to bargain with the union over
its accumulated grievances.
Airlines to More
Soldiers by Air
SEATTI.K, Aug. ti (UP) Local
offices of United and Northwest
airlines said today they had been
ratified they will begin trans
porting troops across the conti
nent by plane shortly after Aug.
20.
On that day, the army will ln--gin
turning over 08 C -47 trans
port planes to the airlines. The
army also is assigning 200 pilots
to the commercial lines for this
work.
They will fly planes from New
ark, N. J., to Seattle, San Fian
ciseo. and l.os Angeles.
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Greece.
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Steel works at Kamaishi, on northern Honshu, hurling salvo of
plants, second largest in Japan.
Mrs, Burnia T, Lively
received an overseas telephone
call, Aug. 3, from her husband,
Staff Sergeant Lively, who is in
the Pacific area.
Cpl, Carl G. Larson
of Walla Walla air base, is in La
Grande visiting friends.
William H. Lovan.
18, has enrolled at the U. S. mari
time service enrolling office,
Portland, for training as a mer
chant seaman.
He will receive basic training
at the training station at Avalon,
Catalina island, and upon com
pletion of his training will be as
signed to duty aboard a merchant
vessel.
Pvt. Winfield H. Eales
son of Mr. and Mrs. Ben L. Eales,
La Grande, was enrolled this
week in the AAF training com
mand's basic airplane and engine
mechanics course at Kecsler field,
Biloxi, Miss.
The course will extend over a
70-day period during which time
he will receive instruction and
actual experience in aircraft
maintenance. This training will
prepare him for entrance into a
specialized course where ground
crew students will receive addi
tional instruction in maintenance
and truble shooting.
Sgl. Horman Lassley
has returned to Camp Maxcy,
Texas after a 20-day furlough
here with his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. B. C. Lassley, 101)5 Third
street. A brother, Jack D. Lass
ley is expected home from the
Philippines soon.
First Lt. Bob Spencer,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Hoy Spencer,
is in La Grande on a (id-day con
valescent leave. This is his first
visit home in four years. Recent
ly while in Baxter general hos
pital, Spokane, he was given his
promotion to first lieutenant. He
left La Grande with the national
guaid and served in the south
Pacific with tin.- -list division,
one of the first divisions to go
into combat there.
He was wounded March 10 at
Luzon. At the termination of hi
have lie will report to Fort Lewis
for reassignment.
Pfc. Cecil Minch
has been 20 months in combat
zones without firing n round.
The 550th field artillery battal
ion challenges any organization
to beat its mark, or match its
hard luck story of no battle stars.
Formerly the second battalion
of the Slllh field artillery regi
ment, the 550th missed out on
battle participation stars by six
degrees laitude once and again by
six days and six miles. And the
woist part of it ;,, ,, .si.,,
would put many members over
mo critical 85 -point score, and
two stars would entitle Ho per
cent of the battalion to dis
charges. t.t. Lot. Daimev W
of Hrnokhavcn. Miss.
I'ownsend
iiimnnd-
dig officer, told of th,. s;id nhelo
of the SMIth during assembly area
command redeployment process
ing at Camp Miami ileal Chalons
r ranee.
The battalion went to Kodiak,
Alaska, in June 1IM2, and there
oceanic Hie most h
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aiiiuery unit in existence. In
ad-
onion to the regular
iii"t.i of 12
15Smin howitzers,
the cannoneers
manned 12
Long Toms
155mm Ml guns.
a six-inch naval
" nun. aoo a coin-
ii'le set of mortars and infanliv
weapons. Hut not a round was
iiieo. and latitude dill
cost them a star.
Iiedoslgnatid the 51
its return to the V. S
1!44, the artillerymen trained in
fantry troops for the liig pushes
intho E'I'O, then went to Kumpc
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is this parrot, mascot of Master
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go. Polly likes to keep her feet
warm on her pal's pipestem as
they ride a coast guard-manned
transport somewhere in the
Pacific.
Glorious Romance
In' Bell Tolls' At
Liberty Theater
Last night Paramount threw
its hat into the academy award
ring with ts presention of the
technicolor triumph, "For Whom
the Bell Tolls" at the Liberty
theater.
Co-starring Gary Cooper and
Ingrid Bergman, the Ernest Hem
ingway novel about the Spanish
levolulion lives as brilliantly on
I ho screen as it did in his great
book. As Robert Jordan, the
American fighting for his ideals
in Spain, Gary Cooper is perfect
ly cast.
Others ill the cast arc super
lative performers, too. A k i m
Taniirofl is Pablo, Katina Paxi
nou is Pilar, Aituro de Cordova
Agustin, Joseph Calleia El Soldo;
all of them make "For Whom the
Bell Tolls" a movie must.
in March. 11)45. Security and
in i I i t a r y government duties
around Simiiiern, Germany, oc
cupied their attention through
Y-K day.
Privato Max W. LoGore
whose wife, Mrs. Orma LeGore,
lives at Kill) Jefferson St., La
Grande, and wtiose mother lives
at 1415 V ave., is a member of
an army railway operating unit
in India which is playing an im
portant part in keeping supplies
moving along a vital link in the
line of communications to our
Chinese allies.
Charles R. Knapp,
ships cook, second class, is now
in New York, he wrote his par
ents. Mr. and Mrs. Lowell W.
Knapp of La Grande. He had
Lien in training in Miami, FUi.,
and New Orleans, since January.
Another son of the Knapps is
Pfc. Loyde W. Knapp, still in the
Philippines. His first letter stated
he had been in Manila the first
time since February and re
marked on the many changes,
t'ales and stores, are being
opened he said, but that prices
are still very high, with a chicken
dinner costing three to four dol
lars. Willi his company are Jack
Matott, Lawrence Filnuire and
Lewis Dining.
Pic. and Mrs. H. C. Burgess
and daughter Ann Louise of
Clovis, N. M , are visiting friends
and relatives here. Mrs. Burgess
is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Kd Davis.
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Baseball Standings
By United Press
AMERICAN LEAGUE
W. L.
Detroit 53 40
Washington 54 42
New York 50 43
Chicago 40 46
Boston 48 40
Cleveland 40 48
St. Louis 45 47
Philadelphia 32 62
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Chicago 63 34
St. Louis 5!) 42
Brooklyn 55 43
New York 54 47
Pittsburgh 51 50
Cincinnati 43 53
Boston 46 55
Philadelphia 26 73
PACIFIC COAST
Portland 82 46
Pet.
.570
.563
.538
.516
.405
.489
.489
.340
.649
.584
.561
.535
.505
.448
.455
.263
.641
.578
.523
.500
.500
.455
.419
.403
Seattle 74 54
Sacramento 68 62
Oakland 64 66
San Francisco 64 64
San Diego 60 72
Los Angeles 54 75
Hollywood 52 77
Talbert Wins His
Home Town Meet
WILMINGTON, Del., Aug. C
(UP) Billy Talbert gave his home
town of Wilmington top honors
today in the Delaware state men's
invitational meet, after beating
Francisco (Pancho) Segura, 0-0,
6-2, 6-2, in championship finals
Sunday.
After a slow start, Talbert re
couped quickly in the second set
and thereafter had tlve upper
hand. Pauline Betz of Los Angeles,
the national women's champion,
and Margaret Osborne of San
Francisco advanced to the finals
in the "women's division of the
grass courts championships.
Miss Betz had to go three sets
before eliminating Mrs. Sarah
Palfrey Cooke of Boston, 4-6. 8-6,
6-2. Mrs. Cooke, recent winner of
the national women's clay court
championship, dominated play
through much of the first two
sets, but faded in the third.
Miss Osborne, defending cham
pion in tiie Delaware meet, oust
ed Louise B r o u g h of Beverly
Hills, CaliL. 0-7. 6-1. Miss Brough,
the nation's third-seeded woman
star, sparkled in the long deuce
set but couldn't get going in the
second.
Football to Return
To Portland Stadium
PORTLAND. Aug. 6 (UP)
Giving tangible evidence that col
lege football is back in Oregon,
civic stadium manager James J.
Richardson has announced reser
vations are being accepted for the
games to be played in Portland.
Two Pacific coast conference
tilts are scheduled for the sta
dium Oregon State vs. Washing
ton Oct. 20 and Oregon vs. Wash
ington on Nov. 3.
Paper Company
Buys More Timber
PORTLAND, Aug. 0 (IT)
Negotiations for the Acquisition
of 44.408 acres of limb, rland by
the Crown Zollorbaeh corporation
have been practically completed,
it was revealed today. The land
runs along the Molalla river and
is now owned bv the Ostrander
Railway and Timber company
and the E. S. Collins estate.
The tract brine's to 420,000
acres the area involved in the
company's plans for sustained
yield operations.
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Portland Star Wins
Utah Golf Tourney
SALT LAKE CITY, Aug. 8 (UP)
Harold West, Portland link star,
today was the winner of the $1,
500 Utah open golf tournament
after shooting a six-below-par 83
for a new course record in Sat
urday's semi-final round.
The Oregonian shot a 73 during
play yesterday morning and came
back with a 68 for a three-day tor
tal of 274.
Second with a 279 total was
Earl Schneiter, Ogden, Utah. Tee
Branca, Salt Lake country club
professional was third with a 280
score.
TODAY
By JACK CUDDY
UP Staff Correspondent
LONDON, Aug. 6 (UP) Col.
E. E. (Swede). Larson, chief of
I he special service branch of the
marines and a former navy foot
ball player and coach, said today
a tremendous morale problem for
troops in the Pacific is in the
offing when the war ends with
Japan.
"It is much "greater problem
than the one the army now is
handling in the European thea
ter," he said. "We estimated the
combined services will have
nearly three million men in the
Pacific before Japan surrenders.
Because of the vast distances in
volved it will take a long time to
get them back home, therefore
wc are planning the most exten
sive sports program ever attemp
ted anywhere.
Cost High .
The equipment alone will cost
more than 50 million dollars dur
ing the next 20 months, Larson
said.
Larson was one of a combined
group of "brass hats" represent
ing the special services of the
marines, navy, army and the Red
Cross, who arrived today from
Paris to witness the G.I. track
meet at London's White City,
starring a couple of swift Swedes,
Gunder Hagg and Arne Ander
son. The group arrived at Paris over
the weekend from the United
States and other scattered points.
All flew to London in a special
plane accompanied by five Amer
ican sports writrs.
Major Bases
The combined group is .expec
ted to study the army's European
program more than a month be
fore completing plans for the
Pacific program.
Larson said plans now are for
at least five major sports bases
or "stagings" to be established
in the Pacific.
These bases, he said, probably
would be in the Philippines, the
Marianas, Okinawa and the main
land, either Japanese or Chinese.
"We now are studying the
army's European program which
is magnificently organized," he
said. "We expect to benefit from
the army's work and avoid any
possible mistakes."
Larson said he expected soft
ball, baseball, hasknthnl) hnvlna
and volleyball to be the ptincipal
Pacific sports.
Jesse Owens To
Show His Speed
PORTLAND, Aug. 6 (UP)
Jesse Owens, co-holder of the
world century sprinters' mark,
will show Portlanders a sample
of his speed during the baseball
jubilee here tonight and Tuesday.
Owens will race against a horse,
compete in a handicap race against
baseball players and show how
quickly a human can hit the four
bases of a diamond.
His appearance 16 scheduled for
a seventh-inning pause during the
all-star game between the Harlem
Globetrotters and the Bearded
Davidites.
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for a helicopter more than four
centuries ago.
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raise and save the vitally necessary food. Men,
women, boys and girls are eligible. No
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Complete Local Reports
: Monday, August 6, 1945
Senators Within Half
Game of First Place
By CARL LUNDQUIST
NEW YORK, Aug. 6 (UP) As
if there weren't enough confusion
in Washington a 1 r e a dy, the
chances were bright today for the
world series to be there, provided
of course the office of defense
transportation permits it to be
held anywhere.
The Senators, climaxing one of
the most remarkable performan
ces in years, are only a half game
out of the first place after playing
five double headers in as many
days and winning all but one of
the 10 games.
Wins 13th
Before the spree began last
Wednesday, Washington was five
and a half games behind the Ti
gers. The only reason Detroit
wasn't overtaken is that it was
having a winning streak of its
own until the week-end. While
the Senators were sweeping their
double header with the Red Sox,
3 to 4 and 4 to 1, yesterday, the
Tigers were dropping a pair to
the White Sox at Chicago, 12 to 3
and 3 to 2.
The Senators, whohave one of
the most Solid pitching staffs in
either league, carried the burden
again yesterday although it took
three men to settle the issue in
the 14-inning opener. Mickey
Haefner .finally gained the de
cision, while Rogef W6lff knuck
led down and went the route for
his 13th win in the second game.
Win Eight
The calamity that befell the
Tigers was brought about by the
collapse of its vaunted pitching
staff. Erstwhile ace Paul (Dizzy)
Trout gave up 12 of Chicago's 17
hits before going out in the
seventh of the first game and Les
Mueller blew up in the last of
the ninth after pitching eight
scoreless innings. Relief pitcher
Johnny Johnson won the first
game. Frank Rapish, who took
over for L c f t y Thornton Leaf
pitched one inning to win the sec
ond. It was the eighth straight
Sunday double header the White
Sox have won at home this sea
son. The Athletics kept New York
from taking advantage of De
troit's slip by trouncing) the
Yankees twice at Philadelphia, 6
to 3 and 4 to 3. That ended the
A's losing streak at 10 games.
Dick Sicbert, with a three-run
triple in the first game and a
double and single in the second,
paced the hitters. Lewis (Bobo)
Newsom won the opener and Jess
Flores, with help from jittery Jo
Berry took the second.
Hit Homers
The Indians and Browns di
vided at St. Louis, Cleveland took
the opener, 6 to 3, the Browns
won the second, 10, to 9, off to an
eight-run lead in three innings.
While the American race was
tightening, the trend was the
other way in the national where
the Cubs ran their lead to six fu'l
games by winning two at Cincin
nati, 12 to 5 and 5 to 1. The pres
ence of Commissioner Albert B.
Chandler was no help to the Reds,
who were pounded for 22 hits,
five by Phil Cavarretta in the
first game. The Cubs used a
strikeout to start their winning
rally in the second game, Harry
Lowrcy getting on when the ball
got away from the catcher. He
and Cavarretta scored on a single
by Heinz Becker. Claude Passau
won his 12th game in the night
cap. The Pirates and Cardinals di
vided alt Pittsburgh. St. Louis
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made 21 hits to win the opener,
12 to 5, Charley Barrett chalking
up his 15th win. It was Pitts
burgh's turn to hit the ball in the
second game, a 10 to 3 triumph
for Fritz Ostennucller, pitching
his first game since being dis
charged from the army. Johnny
Barrett, and Al Gionfriddo got
Pirate homers in the two games.
Art Herring pitched a two-hit
shutout to give Brooklyn a 7 to 0
victory but Boston countered to
win the second game, 10 to 1,
with a 16-hit assault on three
Dodger pitchers. Bob Logan was
as steady as he needed to be in
winning the second game in
which Chuck Workman's two
run homer was a key blow.
The Giants won two from the
futility boys from Philadelphia,
14 to 5 and 4 to 2. Bill Voiselle
struck out 11 in winning his 12th
game in the opener, getting off
to an early lead on Buddy Kerr's
homer.
Florists Still Lead
Legion Junior Ball
PORTLAND, Aug. 6 (UP)
Lind-Pomeroy Florists are still
champions of the Oregon Ameri
can Legion junior baseball lea
gue, following yesterday's win
over Challenge Creamery, 2 to 0.
Paced by pitcher Don Hagen,
the defending champs held the
Creamery lads scoreless in the
playoff game ending the tourna
ment here. The Florists will now
head for Boise, Idaho, where the
American Legion junior regional
baseball tourney will be held
August 11, 12 and 13.
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Beavers Increase
Lead in League
With Two Wins
Rainier s Also In
Double Win For
Second Spot
By United Press
With more than 50 games still
to go in the 1945 Pacific coast
league pennant scramble, all the
battling appeared to be for low
er division spots, , ,.
; The Portland Beavers have
given indication they are the
strongest club in the league and
will retain their swelling advant
age to the end; Seattle appears
definitely to be the second best
club.
In late weeks, the Sacramento
Solons have been doing a good
job of sewing up third place,
That leaves the rest of the clubs
to battle for the No. 4 spot In the
governors' cup playoffs Partic.
ularly San Francisco aid Oak
land. Yesterday Portland further
strengthened its claim to the top
rung by trouncing Hollywood
twice, 7-4 and 14-5 to. win the se
ries, seven games to one; Seattle
whipped San Francisco in two,
17-4 and 6-3 and won the series,
5-3.
Sacramento turned the same
trick by downing Los Angeles,
5-3 and 3-2 for an 8-1 series tri
umph, and Oakland: whipped San
Diego in a pair, 4-2 and 8-3 for
a 6-3 scries edge. . . '
Crosby Fourth In
Movie Tournament
HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 6 (UP)
Bing Crosby, a more successful
crooner than golfer, carded a 75
yesterday to finish fourth in Di
rector Frank Borzage's movie col- f
ony golf tournament.
The motion picture golf cham
pionship went to Jim Erratt, tech-
nicolor company employe, who
slipped under the wire with a 72.
Few of the 2,000 fans saw him
win, though. Most of them milled
srnnnJ PrnsK,, nrkn Innb a 111 V
on me oacK nine, including
birdie three.
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