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Selby C. Weaver, 27, cor
poral in the air corps at De
Ridder, La. He is the son of
Mrs. Pearl Weaver, Wallowa,
and attended grade school and
high school there. He attend
ed Moler barber college and
before entering the army on
November 27. 1942 was em
ployed in the O. K. barbel
shop in Ui Grande.
lie was married October 6,
1910 to Ruth U. Dene Iko,
who is at present living in De
Ridder, La.
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Villiam F. Youmlmt, Y2c, ,
USNR, 503 M avenue, nnd Dallas
D. LeGore. S 1c, USNR, 1415 Y
avenue, La Grande, fought at
Okinawa aboard the venerable
man o' war, USS West Virginia,
the only baiuesnip wnicn naa
taken part in every major land
ing operation in the Pacific in
the last six months.
Blasted at Pearl Harbor by two
bombs and at least six torpedoes,
the old battleship was resurrected
and repaired, then joined the
fight against the Japs with a
vigor that has won her a reputa
tion as the "one ship task force."
Copt. Johnny Groupe
of La Grande, who has been
through four battle fronts, North
Africa, Italy, France and Ger
many, had his closest call after
the cessation of hostilities in the
European theater, he wrote his
father, Charles O. 'Groupe. '
He said recently while riding
on the Autobohn, (Germany's
superhighway) near Heidelberg
in a jeep, the vehicle was struck
by a two and one-half ton truck.
The jeep turned over once throw
ing the driver and another cap
tain out, but Captain Groupe was
still in the jeep whin it stopped
rolling. The two captains suffer
ed only cuts and bruises though
their driver sustained a broken
back which will require months
of hospitalization.
Sgt. Desmond O. Larson
has returned to La Grande lifter
16 months service in the Euro
pean theater with a medical de
tachment. F.nrmile to La Qrande he. vis
ited in Salt Lake City, and will
spend the rest of his 30-day fur
lough here with his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Oi in L. Larson. At the
termination of his furlough he
will report to Fort Douglas, Utah,
for reassignment.
Before entering the service in
April, 1!M3, Larson was a stu
dent at Brigham Young univer
sity. Provo, Utah.
Bernadino Hungerford. Yl c.
WAVES, will leave tomorrow
night for her base at Alameda,
Calif., after a two weeks visit
at the home of her parents, Mr.
and Mis. 11. L. Hungerford. Miss
Hungerfoid has been stationed
there for about two years.
Pvt. Glonn Bayliss
has arrived in Florida and is ex
pected to bp in La Grande in
about a week Bayliss has been
in Italy for the past 18 months.
He telephoned his wife, Mis.
Velma Rayliss. upon his arrival
in the United Stales. This will
be his firs! visit with his nine-months-old
daughter, Glenda.
Bayliss is the son of Tom Bay
liss of La Grande.
BAR MEETING CANCELLED
McMlNNVILLE, Aug. 7 (UP)
Plans for a state convention of
Oregon state bar have loen can
celled. President Francis F
Marsh, 'McMiniiville, announced
today.
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Many Men
WASHINGTON, Aug. 7 (UP)
Here are some of the men who
helped perfect the new super
agent of destruction the atomic
bomb:
Maj. Gen-. Leslie R. Groves
army construction engineer who
had executive charge of the en
tiro project. He is 4!) and a native
of Albany, N. Y. His home is here.
Dr. J. Robert Opcnheimcr a
leading physicist and a pioneer in
the field of atomic research. He
planned, organized and directed
the special laboratory in the New
Mexico desert where the bomb
was perfected,
Dr. Vannevar Bush director
of the office of scientific research
and development, who had charge
of the project in its early phase.
Bush, 50, is a native of Everett,
Mass,
Dr. Neils Bohr Danish physi
cist, winner of the Noble prize
for science, who was literally
stolen from the grasp of the Nazis.
He conducted early experiments
at Princeton university in 1939.
Dr. James B. Conanf president
of Harvard university, who has
had close contact with the project
since its inecption. ,
Dr. E. O. Lawrence a leading
physicist who had an active part
in the solution of scientific prob
lems. He has been a professor of
physics at the university of Cal
ifornia since 1930.
Dr. A.' H. Sompton winner of
the Noble prize for physics, a
member of the advisory panel.
Dr. Enrico also a member of
the panel. Fermi, 43, a native of
Rome, Italy, was awarded the
Noble prize for physics in 1939.
Dr. Karl T. Compton president
of the Massachusetts institute of
technology.
Dr. Richard C. Tolman scien
tific adviser to U. S. members of
the combined policy committee
He has been professor of physics
and chemistry at the University
of California since 1922.
Lt. Gen. Wilhelm D. Stycr-
member of the military policy
committee.
Rear Admiral William H. Pur
nell member of the same com
mittee. George L. Harrison special
consultant to Secretary of War
Henry L. Stimson and president
of the New York life insurance
company.
Three La Grande
Men Honored By
Commander
TWENTIETH AIR FORCE
HDQS., Aug. 7 (Special) For
the part they played in the his
toric series of five low level in
cendiary attacks on Japan during
an all-out offensive, three men
from La Grande and hundreds of
other enlisted men at B-29 bases
in the Marianas have been com
mended by the commanding gen
eral of the twentieth air foi-ce.
The men are: Sgt. William
Grant Runklc, whose wife lives
in La Grande; Pfc. Oscar H.
Howe, whose wife, Alice, live at
Kill Fifth street, and Cpl. Or
villc G. Witlen, whose father,
Walter I. Whitten, lives at 1805
Alder street.
They are with ground echelons
supporting the almost daily Su
perfort assaults.
Throughout the period of sus
tained b o m b ing attacks, these
men and other members of the
ground staff worked night and
nay, virtually without rest, to
keep the army bombers in the
air and striking at the enemy.
Jack Zanders Plan
To Make Home Here;
Recently Discharged
Jack Zander and his bride are
in La Grande to make their home.
He recently was given an honor
able discharge from the army on
the strength of his 122 points and
five and one-half years of serv
ice. Three years and 15 days of thai
time were spent in the South Pa
cific where Zander participated
in the Papuan. New Guinea. Bis
marck archipelago. Netherland
East Indies and Philippines cam
paigns. He has the award of merit, the
pro-Pearl Harbor ribbon the Pacific-Asiatic,
and American De
fense ribbons.
Mr. and Mrs. Zander are at
the home of his fathvr, Henry K.
Zander,
Prize Crew Brings
Jap Shi) to Port
AN ALLIED PACIFIC POUT.
Aug. 7 (UP) A navy prize crew
from two seventh fleet dcstrm-cit
brought t h e Japanese hospital
ship. Tachibana Mam. into an al
lied harbor Monday after it had
lxen discovered to lie carrying
arms, ammunition and other con
traband. The navy turned over 1,5(52 pa
tients, 13 oflicers and 63 men of
the crew to U. S. urmv authori-
ties.
It was the largest single haul
! of pi mmcrs In the Pacific war.
Navy wews are till digging out
contraband hid it n in t!.it ship's
hold.
Took Part
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C-8B packe after maiden flight 30 days ahead of schedule has wingsproad great enough
lo shelter AT-6 Texan trainer (left) and P-51 Mustang fighter. The Fairchild-designed cargo plane
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Australians Push
Toward Vital Oil
Port on Borneo
MANILA, Aug. 7 (UP) Aus
tralian units found an opening
today along thi well - guarded
road to Samarinda, vital oil port
in southeast Borneo, knocking
out defensive positions with ac
curate mortar fire.
Snvnnth division. Australians.
In th nrnn north of BaliknaDan.
followed the mortars with rifles
and hand grenades as the enemy
slowly withdrew to the north.
Gen. D o u gl a s MacArthur's
communique anounced more than
400 far eastern airforce bombers
and fighters on Sunday dumped
tons of jellied gasoline on iaru
mizu, on the eastern shore of
Kagoshima Bay in southern Kyu
shu. Returning pilots reported their
bombs and rockets left smoke
columns visible 30 miles away.
Fifth and seventh airforce Lib
erators, B-25s, and A-26s, escorted
by Mustangs and Thunderbolts,
also participated in the attack.
Frau Goering Says
Hitler Blocked
Peace Parley
By CURT RIESS
NEAR GERMAN CZECHO
SLOVAK BORDER, August 7
(NNEA) Frau Emmy Goer
ing believes if Adolf Hitler had
not held up a message from Win
ston Churchill, her husband could
have prevented world war II.
Hermann Goering was opposed
to the war, she claims, but she
did not give me any idea what
he could have done about it.
Albert Forsler, later gauleitcr
of Danzig, was in England short
ly before hostilities broke out in
1931), Emmy told me. He was
asked by Churchill to tell Goer
ing that the Briton (not yet prime
minister at that time) would like
to talk to him.
"Tell Goering to come to Eng
land," Churchill urged Forsler,
according to Emmy.
The message was relayed to
Hitler, and Goering heard noth
ing about it until a year later,
Emmy says. Forster mentioned
it to Goering only after the war
was in full swing.
"Why didn't you toll mi,"
the Rcichsmarshal asked then.
"This might have prevented the
warl"
Goering soon realized the air
blitz of England could not win
the war, she told me. He want
ed to discontinue it. He would
argue that his crews were too
tired to go out again, or that the
weather was unfavorable, but
Hiller would insist on more raids.
"The Fuehrer wants me to
send my men into certain
death," Goering would lament.
And often he would ask, as al
lied planes increasingly devas
tated the reichi
"What can I tell the Gor
man people?"
The naive explanations and ex
ruses made by Emmy, however
unconvincing to others, seem
worth repeating because they
probably foreshadow the defense
her husband will make when he
goes on trial.
"If the allies kill Hermann
they must kill all of their own
soldiers," she cried. "He did
only what they did obeved
orners.
Allied Troops Meet
Savage Jap Battle
CALCUTTA. Aug. 7 (UP) Al
lied troops operating between
Myilkyo and the old Sittang liver
channel in the flooded area of
southeastern Burma are meeting
with savage Japanese resistance,
a southeast Asia communique
said today.
Other allied troops have clear
ed enemy elements from astride
: h e IVgu-Martaha.n railway. A
Japanese attack on a village sit
uated on the south bank of the
Siltang channel. 20 miles cast of
Pegu, was repulsed.
Air command Spitfires and
Thunderbolts supported ground
units.
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Airport News . . .
Salem Girl Goes
Home After Her
First Solo Flight
Jane Pearmine of Salem has
returned to her home after mak
ing her first solo airplane flight
at the local airport, terminating
two weeks of instruction.
Flying to Portland Monday
were Judy Moore of La Grande,
and Dr. S. Ballentyne and Dr.
C. W. Taylor, both of Portland,
who flew here Saturday.
Flying to Portland today were
Myron Flcser of Minam, Roth Mc
Cullough of Haines and Mac
Shanks of Union.
Pilots checking in at the local
airport over the weekend were:
Clay Porter, flying a Piper cub,
Cy Gallogley, in a Cub cruiser,
and H. H. Hart, in a Taylorcraft,
all of Pendleton; E. C. Welch, of
John Day, flying a Taylorcraft;
Virgil Davis, and Arthur A. Her
tel, both flying Luscombes, and
both of Walla Walla; H. E. De
Vore of Ontaria, in an Interstate;
Ardis Brinton and Raleigh Mun
kers of Baker, and both piloting
Taylorcraft; Charles Freeman of
Vernal, Utah, in a Taylorcraft,
and A. Johnston of Seattle, who
was ferrying a Stinson from Okla
homa to Seattle.
Contract Cutbacks
Reach 15 Billions
WASHINGTON, Aug. 7 (UP)
War contract cutbacks, affecting
1945 and 194(1 production sched
ules, totaled more than $15,000,
000,000 up to July 28, the war
production board reported today.
The WPB emphasized, however,
that this figure was not adjusted
to reflect new contracts that have
been or will be let for war work
or of any inei-easo in production
due to rescheduling.
The boaid said that its produc
tion readjustment committee had
processed cutbacks totaling $l,-
509,000,000 in war contracts af
fecting 1945 schedules and a total
of 0.725.000,000 affecting 1945
schedules.
About three-fourths of the 1945
cutbacks take effect in the last
five months of the year, when
they will average close to $1,300,
000,000 a month.
Portlander Escapes
Having Throat Cut
PORTLAND, Aug. 7 (UP)
Millard M. Spratt, 53-ycar-old Al
bany, Ore., railroad worker, prob
ably will think twice before ac
cepting rides from now on.
Spratt told police he met a man
Sunday who took him riding in
an automobile. After the two had
a few drinks and were about five
miles out of Portland, the strang
er stopped the car and remarked:
"I think I'll cut your throat."
A struggle ensued and Spratt
finally escaped after suffering
knife wounds in his throat. He
walked back to the city and was
given first aid at St. Vincent's
hospital.
B-29 Engine Plant
Closed by Strikers
CINCINNATI. O.. Aug. 7 (UP)
U. S. Conciliator James McXa
mara today renewed his efforts
to end a five-day walkout at the
Lockland, O., plant of the Wright
Aeronautical corporation which
has idled 27.000 workers and halt
ed production of engines.
McNamara met separately yes
terday with officials of the com
pany and the United Auto Work
ers (CIO) but neither would make
the first move to , r.d the strike.
The strike bei;an Friday when 14
employes refused to accept lower
paying jobs.
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Talbert, Bets In
Top Seeded Places
In Rye Tourney
RYE, N. Y., Aug. 7 (UP) Wil
liam Talbert of Wilmington, Del.,
and Pauline Betz of Los Angeles
were seeded No. 1 today in the
men's and women's division of
the eastern grass court tennis
championships which open at the
Westchester country club tomor
row. Lt. Gardnar Mulloy was seeded
No. 2 in the men's singles with
Francisco Segura No. 3 and El
wood Cooke No. 4. Margaret Os
borne was seeded second among
the women followed by Mrs.
Sarah P. Cooke and A. Louise
Brough.
The opening round paired Tal
bert against Nick A. Buzolich of
San Pedro, Cal.; Sqgura against
Harry Buttimer of San Francis
co while Mulloy and Cooke drew
byes.
In the women's singles first
round Miss Betz will meet Betty
Rosenquest of South Orange, N.
J.; Miss Osborne plays Connie
Clifton of New Smyrna Beach,
Fla.; Mrs. Cooke goes against
Lillian B. Lopaus of New York
and Miss Brough meets Edna
Steinbach of Richmond Hill, N.
Y.
The men's division drew 24
entrants, the women's 32.
Russia Will Renew
Finnish Relations
By United Press
Finnish and Rumanian broad
casts said last night Russia has
decided to resume diplomatic re
lations with Finland and Ru
mania. The decision was taken "in
view of the fact Finland has so
far loyally complied with the
terms of the armistice agreement"
signed last September, the Fin.
nish broadcast said.
Radio Bucharest said a simi
lar memorandum was given Ru
manian Premier Petre Groza by
Col. Gen. Ivan Z. Susaikov, So
viet chairman of the allied con
trol commission in Rumania.
Moscow Papers All
Carry Bomb Stories
LONDON, Aug. 7 (UP) Radio
Moscow said all Moscow news
papers published President Tru
man's statement on the atomic
bomb today. Morning news
papers in London filled their
front pages with details and side
lights on the new weapon. Edi
torials praised the work of sci
entists, but expressed grave fears
for civilization.
MacKenzie King
Elected to House
ALEXANDRIA, OnL, Aug. 7
(UP) Prime minister W. L. Mac
Kenzie King held a seat in the
house of commons today after a
landslide victory over Dr. Rich
ard Monahan in a Glengarry rid
ing by-election.
The liberal party leader's vote
yesterday was 4,623 against 327
for Dr. Monahan, an independent
liberal.
The by-election was made nec
essary by King's defeat in the Ca
nadian general election in June,
which King's party won. To con
tinue as prime minister he need
ed a commons seat.
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Pennant Fever In
Detroit Halted
By Bad Chills
Tigers Lose More
Than Won Last
Month
By CARL LUNDQUIST
NEW YORK, Aug. 7 (UP)
Detroit's pennant fever was com
plicated with severe chills today,
brought on by a month of medio
cre play in which only two clubs,
the Red Sox and Athletics, have
lost more games than the first
place Tigers.
C-Since July 7 the Tigers have
won 13 games and lost 14, hardly
the pace 'with which to win a
pennant. That they still remain
In the lead, although by only a
half game, is an indication of
How tight, the race has become
since mid-season.
The Washington Senators, now
Jn second, were playing just so
so 'ball themselves until they ran
into five double headers in as
many days and won nine of the
10 games. That gave them a rec
ord of 16 wins and 13 losses for
the month, about the same pace
as the White Sox set in leading
the western half of the circuit
with 15 victories and 11 defeats.
The Cleveland Indians were next
With 16 victories and 13 losses.
' Loses More
Even the trouble-beset Yan
kees did better than the Tigers,
winning 12 and losing 12. The
seventh place Browns, who were
leading the league at this time a
year ago, played at exactly the
same pace as the Tigers, winning
13 and losing 14.
The Red Sox were just a shade
worse, winning 13 and losing 15
while the A's won 10 and lost 17
to bring up the rear.
The Tigers broke even in a
double header with the White
Sox at Chicago yesterday, muff
ing an opportunity to gain on
the idle Senators. Al Benton,
who has won five of the 13 Tiger
victories during the month, gain
ed his 11th win against two de
feats in the opener, beating the
Sox, 6 to 2.
Browns Lose
It was Detroit's first victory in
five games with the Sox, but
they couldn't stand the pace and
Johnny Humphries shut them out
on four hits, 7 to 0, in the second
game.
The champion Brownies drop
ped to a new low for the season,
losing two to the Indians at St.
Louis, 9 to 7 and 8 to 4, to go all
alone into seventh place.
Previously the Browns and In
dians had been tied for sixth, but
the double win moved Cleveland
into fifth, place ahead of Boston.
The Browns suffered a blow
worse than defeat in the opener
when third baseman Mark Christ
man was hit in the head by one
of Allie Reynolds' fast pitches
and suffered a brain concussion.
He is in a serious condition in a
St. Louis hospital. Homers ac
counted for both Cleveland vic
toris, Pat Seerey and Frankie
Hayes delivering in the opener
and Mickey Rocco and Jeff Heath
connecting in thp seonnri damp
No other American league
games were scheduled and all in
the National were rained out.
Hagg, Andersson
Will Visit in U. S.
LONDON, Aug. 7 (UP) Swed
ish distance aces Gunder Hagg
and Arne Andersson said today
they both definitely will come
to the United States for the in
door track season next winter in
an effort to set new world marks
for the mile and two mile runs.
"You can tell Dan Ferris, the
secretary of the Amateur Athletic
Union, that we are all set," An
dersson said. "We are making
the arrangements now."
"INSECT SUBMARINES"
Caddis fly larvae were build
ing submarines millions of years
before man came on earth. These
tiny worms encase themselves in
an armor of silk, stones and shells
In this undersea craft, they roam
about the ocean, rising to the
surface or sinking, at will.
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Complete Local Reports
Tuesday, August 7, 1945
Baseball Standings
By United Press
AMERICAN LEAGUE
W. L. Pet.
Detroit 54 41 .568
Washington 54 42 .563
New York 50 43 .538
Chicago 50 47 .515
Cleveland 48 48 .500
Boston 48 49 .495
St. Louis 45 49 .479
Philadelphia 31 62 .340
TODAY
SPORTvPARA
By JACK CUDDY
United Press Correspondent
LONDON, Aug. 7 (UP) Now
the holocaust of war is just a bit
ter memory to the thousands of
American servicemen still in Eu
rope, the army is ready with the
biggest and most concentrated
sports program in history to make
them forget battles and their
burning desire to come home.
There are two million men,
mostly combat veterans, who are
awaiting redeployment which
necessarily must be delayed for
many months because shipping
facilities are so urgently needed
for the Pacific theater.
Explains
Maj. Gen. Ben Sawbridge, chief
of the athletics division of the
army special services, explained
what the army intended to do.
"All of these men wish to re
turn home right away which is
impossible,' he said. "But we can't
let them rot. They deserve top
treatment while they are waiting.
It is our job to keep them happy
and to prevent homesickness.
"Now they no longer are in
combat, we can't keep drilling
constantly. Hence we must burn
their energy with athletics, the
kind where all compete. And we
must entertain them with pro
gressive competitions wherein fi
nally the best compete in big tour
naments inspiring divisional
pride.
No Chance
Sawbridge said he saw "no pos
sibility" of the American world
series baseball teams coming to
Europe to put on their classic for
servicemen.
"The weather after September
is too rainy and uncertain to at
tempt anything like that," Saw
bridge said.
Sawbridge, a former Stnford
university student who said he
never made the first team any
where although he tried out for
everything, is a tall well-built
veteran with graying brown hair.
He is assisted by Col. Ken Fields,
former army athlete from West
Point. Fields was halfback in the
early '30's, being graduated in
1934. Also on the staff is Col.
Frank McCormick, former direc
tor of athletics at Minnesota, who
recently returned from America.
Informal
Now being distributed as fast
as transportation facilities are
made available are huge stock
piles of softball, baseball, nd vol
leyball equipment, the staff also
is invoved in the supervision of
numerous tournaments now in
progress. Thew include baseball,
soft ball, golf, tennis, track and
field, archery, horse shoe pitch
ing, and swimming.
Boxing now is being carried on
informally throughout the seven
European sports commands but
will be included with football as
one of the major phases of the
winter program.
GOOD TASTE
SPORTS
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Bob Joyce to Try
For 25th Win In
Oakland Series
By United Press
Bob Joyce bids for his 25th
victory of the Pacific Coast lea.
gue season tonight as his team
mates on the San Francisco Seals
enter their "make or break"
series with the Oakland Acorns.
Both teams arc lied for fourth
place, four full games behind the
third-place Sacramento So Ions
and 19 games behind the top
spot Portland Beavers. A clear
cut series victory for either might
go far toward securing a berth in
the post-season playoffs for the
winner and tumbling- the loser
into the second division perman
ently. In other games tonight the Sac
ramento Solons invade San
Diego, while Hollywood and Los
Angeles battle for undisputed
possession of the loop cellar,
Tomorrow night the Seattle
Eainiers begin trying to whittle
down Portland's eight-game lead.
But even sweeping the eight
game series would leave the
Rainiers a full game behind the
Beavers. The latter took a 4 to 3
edge in their series.
Stiner Starts On
All-Civilian Team
CORVALLIS, Aug. 7 (UP) -Coach
Lon Stiner today is work
ing on the problem of construct
ing the Oregon State college 1945
football team exclusively from
civilians, navy officers having
served notice navy students 'will
not be available for play. .
An ROTC unit- will' be estab
lished at OSC in September, but
navy regulations stipulate the
students under ROTC must be in
residence one quarter before be.
coming eligible for intercolle
giate sports. Thus, the navy men
will be eligible for winter and
spring sport teams.
For OSC's first varsity foot
ball team in three years, Stiner
is counting heavily on freshmen
to form the bulk of his squad,
with additional help from dis
charged veterans, practice opens
Sept. 8, with the first game slated
with the Klamath Falls marines
Sept. 29.
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