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IP LI. Donald W. Waller ui rived here Thursday night for a terminal leave before going to Fort Dix, N. J., to receive an hon orable discharge from the army. Ho has been with the 43rd gen eral hospital unit in southern France for u year and one-hulf, tnd in the strvico four years and eight months. Lieutenant Waltei Is the son of Mrs. Lillian Walter, iind a brother of M. T. Walter of La Grande. Among those men recently given an honorable discharge from the navy at the U. S. naval jscparation center, Puget Sound navy yard, Bremerton, Wash., tire: Arlie Dale Low, radar man, J415 Y avenue; Quentin Scott Belden, storekeeper first class, 2102 Walnut street; Howard Le roy Cantrell, chief motor machin ist mate; Richard Ferris, aviation cadet, 1804 Third street; Ernest Lawrence Rostock, aviation ca det, 2713 Third street; all of La Grande; and Robert Combs Baum, aviation cadet, Union; Ivan Curtis Carper, seaman first class, Wallowa. . Discharged from the army at Fort Lewis separation center were MSgt. Robert 11. Webb, Knterprise; l'fc. Arthur L. Vaughn, TSgt. Harold V. Hear ing, of Elgin; MSgt. Ellon L. Frizzell, Summervillc; and l'fc. Garbet R. Steele and SSgl. Jesse 13. SaiTctl, of Wallowa. - Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Vess of La prande have received word from their son, T4 Jay L Vess, that he is receiving his honorable discharge from the army at Fort Lewis. Vess has been in India for 32 months. A brother, Sgt. Calvin Vess, in in Gauting, Ger liuiny, with the third army and is expected to be home in I'Vli juaiy. Sgt. Harold L. Mohr. husband of Clarinda Mohr, of Burbank, Calif., is a civilian (igain today following his dis charge at McClellan field army separation point after 3 Mi years of service with (he army air forces. ' ' He was overseas in the Euro pean theater with the 304th fighter group as an aircraft arm orer from Feb. 1944 to unc 1045. Ho has been awarded five battle stars. Previous to entering the armed forces, he was employed at Char lev's market in Burns. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Mohr of 1501 Hth street, La Grande, and was formerly in business here and in Wallowa. .T Sgt. Nelson Loree Anderson, Tiidio mechanic with the famous i'Grim Reapers," third bomb Croup, has received an honorable discharge from the (irniy, and is in La Grande for three weeks, Visiting at the home of his mother, Mrs. Sushi Mae Aniler wm, 407 Third street. Anderson who had 113 points to his credit V-E day, said he had not counted them since, lie has eight buttle stars, for Australia, New Guinea, Port Moresby, Nad zal), Ilollandia, the Philippines, 'Leytu and Dobadura. The Glim While. I title or Ivorv FIR -TEX ' Handy Tile A nt'W shipment litis arrived! I cl e a 1 lor remodeling bath rooms, kitchens and laitndi" rooms. Ask us about it. Teel's Paint Store 1308 Adams Public Auction Wednesday, October 1010 a. m. Ittissell Creek Dairy. Walla Walla. Wash. Located 4'-j miU'S east of Walla Walla follow paveinenl on East Alder out of Walla Walla on lo Russell Creek road (watch for red barn and green house on right side of road.) I have sold my farm so no item will be bid in or withheld. 02 Ileal! Hairy Stock 21 Head of these are Registered Guernsey, Balance outstanding grade Guernsey Stock. Hulls, Cows Died Heifers. Calves, Open Heifers Farm and Dairy Machinery Including! De Laval Milking Machine (used 3 monthi), panel truck, new manure spreaders, pneumatic-tired steel wagon. J. D, Tractor, hay chopper, hay loader, manure loared. power mower, buck rake, combine engines, oil chick brooder. 200 tons oat-alfalfa hay, 400 tons pea ensilage, household pood and other stock, equipment and rmal items too numerous to mention. Vrik Mussel I t vvk Dairy for Salo Hill. ARMOND It. JEFFS, Owner Frank Karrens, Auctioneer Harry Paxtnn, Clerk Today We Pay Tribute to J Pi ( v2-J : 1 Wayne Eugene Spears, fire man first class, U. S. navy, who is the son of Mrs. Art UeVore, Union, and the I fii'iiiulHon ol Mr. and Mm. nue, Lit drande. Spears attended grade school in La Grande and high school in I'orlland. He enlist ed in the navy shortly before Christmas of last year, and is now somewhere in the Pacific. Reapers received two presiden tial citations. He has been in the urmy more than four years, 38 months of dial time on overseas duty. An derson arrived In Seattle 10 days ago, and in La Grande Tuesday night. Sergeant Anderson attended Central school, and Lu Grande high school one year, going to Wintwolth Military Academy in Lexington, Mo., to complete his high school work. He attended University of Utah and Oregon Stale college, later studying at a uidio school in Los Angeles. For four years prior to enter ing the army he was radio en gineer at station KG EH, Long Beach, Calir., and at the end of his stay here will return to his former position there. Aviation Cadet Richard Ferris. arrived here Wednesday for a surprise visit with his grandpar ents, Mr. and Mrs. S. B. Morgan, after receiving a discharge from the navy at Bremerton separa tion center Ferris has been in a navy flight training program, and also studied radio and radar. He is now enjoying n visit with his grandparents and many friends. i First Lt, Edris C. Maguire. army nurse, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. B. Morgan, is expected to arrive here by the end of the month. Lieutenant Maguiro has been overseas 2(1 imonths with the 4litli general hospital unit (the University of Oregon Medi cal unit) 27 months. In a letter to her mother, Lieutenant Mag uire, who served in north Africa and France, staled that she would leave for Marseille on Oc tober II. She iwill go to Ckimp Brule, Calif., and then come here for 30 days leave. SSgt. Raymond Scliroth, son of Mr. and Mrs. R, R. Schroth, returned this morning to Lincoln, Neb., after 30 days here on convalescent leave. He is in the personnel office of the air corps. Sgt. Norman Schroth is recovering on Saipan from an attack of dengue fever, accord ing to word received today by his mother. Pfc. Max E. Hoehne, 2101 Maple street, and S Sgt. George W. Decker, Hull () Avenue, La Grande T4 Richard (.'. Endicott of lnlbler. and Sgt. Melvin O. Walker of Jo seph, all were recently given honorable discharges at the Fort Lewis separation center. Ernie Pyle's V-E Day Column Found Among Effects (Editor's Note: After Ernie Pylc was killed by Jap machine gun fire on Ic island, one of his colmuns was found in his pockets. The army forwarded it, with Ernie's other possessions, to Mrs. Pyle in Albuquerque, N. M. It was a column written for re lease on the day of victory in Europe. He had previously writ ten Mrs. Pyle that he might write such a column. In a letter dated April IS, three days before his death, Ernie wrote to her: "I'vo intended for weeks to send in a column to be held until V-E Day, written mainly to the boys in Europe and to be re printed in the Stars and Stripes. But when I tried to write one yesterday I disco vered that I have been in the war so long and am so sick of it that I haven't anything to say so when the .lay comes I may not write any thing at all." But he did, a couple of weeks before V-E Day here it is.) By ERNIE PYLE And so it is over, The cotas- tiophe on one side of the world lias run its course. The day that had so long seemed would never come has come at last. I suppose our emotions here in the Pacific are the same as they were among allies all over the world. First a shouting of the good news with such joyous sur prise you would think the shout- er himself had brought it about. And then an unspoken sense of gigantic relief und then a hope that the collapse in Europe would hasten the end in the Pacific. 'Heart is Still In Europe' It has been seven months since I heard my lust shot in the Eu ropean war. Now I am us far away from it us it is possible to get on this globe. This is written on u little ship lying off the coust of the island of Oklnuwa, just south of Japan, on the other side of the world fiom Ardennes. But my heart is still in Europe and that's why I am writing this column. It is to the boys who were my friends for so long. My one great regret of the war is that I am not with them when it ended. For the companionship of two and a half years of death and misery is a spouse that tolerates no divorce. Such companionship finally becomes a part of one's soul, und it cannot be obliterated. True, I am with American boys in the other war not yet ended, but I am old-fashioned and my sentiment runs to old things. To me the European war is old, and the Pacific-war is new. Last summer I wrote that I hoped the end of the war could be a gigantic relief, but not un elation. In the joyousness of high spirits it is so easy for us to for get the dead. Those who are gone would not wish themselves to be a millstone of gloom around our necks. But there are so many of the living who have hud burn ed into their brains forever the unnatural sight of cold dead inch scattered over the hillsides und in the. ditches. Dead mun by muss production In one country af ter unother month after month und yenr after year. Dead men In winter and dead men in sum mer. Deud me in such fiimilinr promiscuity that they become monotonous. Dead men in such monstrous infinity that you rome almost to hate them. 'We Saw Him' Those ure the things that you at home need not even try lo understand. To you at home they aie columns of figures, or he is a near one who went away and iust didn't come back. You didn't see him lying so grotesque aiu' pasty beside the gravel road in Prance. . . We saw him, saw him by the multiple thousands. That's the difference. We hope above all things that Japan won't make the same stub born mistake Germany did. You must credit Germany for her courage in adveisity, but you can doubt her good common sense in fighting blindly on long after there was any doubt whatever about the outcome. (Distributedby United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) Story of Flying Tigers on Screen As the war-hungry Japanese nation sent its clammy death machines thundering across the lace of China and us pestilence and death grew familiar to the people of the rice fields, a group ot legionnaires took to the skies to defend the faltering heart of China. They flaunted their ban ners in blight colors and flew their beloved Curtiss JM0s to glory. They challenged the Jap to meet them on any terms and acquired the name of Flving Tig ers. "God Is My Co-Pilot," the at traction at the Liberty Theater today and Saturday, is the in spuing , action-packet) store of these men and of their beloved comrude-m - arms. Col. Robert Lee Scott, Jr. Starring Dennis Woman as Col. Scott and featur m Haymond Master, Andrea Km. IXm CUrk, Ahin )Ule, Craig Stevens, Warren Douglas and Minor Watson in suppos ing roles. "God Is Mv Co-Pilot" is Col. Scott's own war log, gath ered from the exploits of the Tiger Airmen. Seamen of our Merchant Marine are still doing a big job, moving supplies overseas, bringing our men home from the war. They deserve the rest and recreation provided by United Seamen'i Service. Help keep this project going. Contribute generously to the National War Fund. All 135,400 Rooms n Chicago Hotels Already Crowded CHICAGO, Oct. 5 (UP)-There were 135,400 rooms in this city'-: ,385 hotels today but somebody got there first. World series funs curled up in the railroad stations and wander ed the streets. The optimistic haunted hotel lobbies. Even the Turkish baths hung out ''no vacancy" signs. The Stevens with 3,1)00 rooms and 3,000 buths sent its rejected applicants as fur afield us Ster ling, 111., more than half way across the state. The management planned to set up a few cots in the grand ballroom just in case it had accepted more reservutions than it had rooms. A hotel Sherman room clerk olfeied a slim hope. "A fellow bringing his own cot can gel space in a hallway," he said. The Bluckstone was booked solid through Nov. 20. There are between 4,000 and 5,000 seals in the bleachers ot Cubs park. The line began form ing yesterday. Two intrepid fans set them selves up in camp chairs at the box office. They plan to hold out until Saturday when the park opens for the first Chicago game of the series. Reserved seats were sold out a week ago. Those lucky enough to have tickets were asking and getting as much as $100 for a set of three grandstand seats regularly priced at $18. Ernest Smith Has Received Discharge Ernest W. Smith, ships cook second class, has been granted an honorable discharge from the navv. after four voary anH thri... months service. He was station ed al a 1J1 base at Okinawa be fore returning to the stales. He landed in San Francisco Sept. 22, and yesterday arrived here, where his wife. Edna, and their seven weeks' old daughter, Collette Jane, have been making their home. He is tho nephew of Mrs. Gene Bonham of Catheiim- creek. While on Okinawa, Smith met bis brother Melvin, about 27 miles away with the 2 7th infantry cli vision, and the twn u-imv. :l.l,. t spend weekends together. Mr. and Mrs. Smith and their daughter plan to spend a vaca tion at the Bonham farm home. TYPICALLY JAPANESE Jaoan's natiim.it flnvcnt- ic ti... chrysanthemum, but, like most of tneir other assets, the Japs did not adopt it until someone ilo(. hud nerferterl it Cbiinwt. nlrinl breeders were developing the flower us early as the fifth cen tury A. D. H ave you tried the finest beer ever produced by Roesch Brewery? Ask for ELK MORN BEER THE REEK OK B. Shepherd Has High Games, Series In League Bowling LADIES' LEAGUE STANDINGS W. L, Pet. Big Bear Mkt 3 Coca-Cola 2 Farnam Supply 2 Odorless Cleaners 2 Falk's 1 Country Club 1 Rosana Shop 1 Glass Drugs 0 Betty Shepherd of Falk's in the ladies league bowling matches last night had the high game, 17K, und high series with 475. Odorless Cleaners defeated Falk's three points to one; Far nam Supply defeated Country Club three points to one. Games last night: Farnam Supply Players 1st C. Spaeth 143 M. Williams... 103 M. Kays 90 C. Jones 142 M. Spaeth 130 Handicap ...106 Totals 720 Country E. Donnelly ...134 M. Brackett .... 99 E. Burress 105 E. Trimble 172 B. Hall 115 Handicap ....113 2nd 3rd Ttl. 137 144 424 148 170 421 112 100 302 134 160 436 144 135 415 106 106 31C 781 815 2316 Club 140 140 420 87 118 304 94 113 312 140 129 447 139 152 400 113 113 .139 725 705 222H Totals ....738 Fu!k' P. VanBibber.. 114 117 110 321 V. Foulkrod....ll0 137 87 340 Hendrickson .. 83 91 79 253 .1. Graham .... 68 102 107 277 B. Shepherd . ..170 134 166 476 Handicap ....147 147 147 441 Totals 084 728 096 2108 Odorless Cleaners B- Jones 117 112 137 366 L. Marshall ... 133 153 134 420 M. Cantiel 110 147 136 J. Grubagh .... 94 97 102 293 U. Winters .... 77 91 99 267 Handicap ... 142 142 142 420 Totals 673 742 750 2105 Duke, Navy Meet In Hottest Game Of Day Saturday NEW YORK, Oct. 5 (UP) The football focus falls on Durham, N. C, tomorrow when Duke and Navy meet in the game of the day and perhaps of the season with an early claim to the na tional gridiron title going to the winner. Two "irresistible forces" Na vy with its multitude of re nowned backs and Duke with a high-scoring combine that has rolled up 136 points in two games promise action. No other game on the packed Saturday card offers such excit ing possibilities but plenty of football should be played at West Point, N. Y., and Atlanta, Ga. Cadets or the U. S. military academy take on a Wake Forest eleven that lost to Tennessee last week by a lone point but which should have, according to quali fied observers, licked last year's Rose Bowl entry by three touch downs Nobody picks Army to lose but the demon deacons, as they call the southerners, should Give the cadets a sternpr liwt than the Louisville air force did last week. In Atlanta .Notre Dame's sur prising winners over Illinois meets Georgia Tech, not the great vellowiackels of nld hut nevertheless an alert gang under new Coach Bobby Dodd who can give the Irish a full afternoon. FLY IN (J INSTRUCTION by Experienced Flyers. Inquire About Our Student Tlraining Courses EASTERN ORKCON AIRWAYS COOD TASTE CA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER Phone 00 1 - , 3 3 Complete Friday, October 5, 1945 .Today's Sport Parade By OSCAR FRALEY DETROIT. Oct. 5 (UP) Ham mering Hank Green berg expects to be "okay" by next summer but as far as this town is con cerned the Bronx blockbuster is plenty all tight today. Big Hank, the guy who goes up six feet, three and u quarter U. of Washington Faces Big Test In Berkeley SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 5 (UP) Down through the years, the University of Washington has been a power in Pacific coast football ranks. The Huskies could always put out a team to hold its own witl: the best the nation had to offer, from the days of Coach Gloomy Gil Oobie, who held sway nine straight years without a defeat lo the current mentor, Ralph (Pest) Welch. Welch wus the only conference coach in the great northwest who held u football teum together din ing the war years and while it didn't play many games it kept a presentable record. Last year the Seattle club look a tour of the southern coast re gion where it was expected lo offer little opposition to the Cal ifornia and Southern California powerhouses. True, the Trojans of U. S. C. chalked up a 38 to 7 victory but the Huskies turned tliv.' tables at Bt-rja-ley, routing the California Golfun Bears 33 lo 7. The Huskies invade Berkeley again Saturday already holding high ranking in the conference by virtue of a 20 to 0 victory over Oregon in the opening game. California on the other hand has lost its only two starts so Wash ington is expected to continue its superiority. This game headlines the Pacific coast card. Oregon State which tied Camp Beale last week, meets Washington State and Idaho meets Oregon. Outside the conference, Jeff Cravath's Trojans tangle with the St. Mary's pre-flight Airdevils. Southern Cal appeals destined for a third straight role in the Rose Bowl, but the Fliers can can easily blotch .'their record fiom a national standpoint. Pre fhght drubbed College of the Pa ci fie last week 69 u, o. USELESS TO VALUABLE The cotton seed, once detested and thrown away, now is so val uable for its by-products of oils feeds and chemicals that there is serious talk of growing cotton primarily for its seed. In the next six months it is estimated North Africa will re quire imports, exclusive of wheat totaling more than $100,000,000. Smolnisky and O'Leary Electrical Appliances Home iind Commercial Refrigeration NORd'E and ADMIK U. APPLIANCES Oil Healers WiriiiK Supplies Motors Phone 122 1102 Adams While TUney Lastt! A Limited Number of the Fourth Annual Northeastern Oregon Edition of the La Grande Evening Observer ' (Published October 1st, Are now available at mtr office at i:,c per co,,v or mailed to addresses you provide for 20c per copy. 1 T Ynu Thtrn La Grande Evening SPORTS Local Reports Page 6 United Press siaii inches under a shock of slick black hair, blasted his wuy even deeper into the heart of this motor metropolis with the three run homer which won the second game of the world series. That put the Tigers smock into the middle of the classic again, all even at one game euch against the Chicago Cubs. Afraid Of course they've always been plenty fond of the rangy fellow who clouted his way to the sec ond highest salary in- baseball a pittance of $55,000 just before he entered the army and rose to the rank of captain while serving with the bomber command in the I C. B. I. theater. CAnd this was the hawk-nosed outfielder, wno brought the American league flag to the Bengals on the last day of the season. Yet they were afraid for awhile that Hankus Pankus was going to leave them. "No sir," Hank sputtered in the shower, deep in the concrete depths of Briggs stadium, after clouting Ins puyoit rounu-iripper yesterday. "I'm not quitting base ball next year." "I'll be okay after spring train ing," he added naively. The Business What a guy. And the funny part of it is that, big Hank wasn't kidding. For uppermost in his mind was deep and sincere ad miration for winning pitcher Vir gil Trucks. "I've struck out too many times to get cocky over a home run or the crowd's cheeib be cause maybe tomorrow I'll strike out in the same situation anu they'll all give me the business," Hank said sincerely. "Besides," Greenberg gagged, "we had to win a couple of them t-n i;iw. vnu newsoaner euvs a couple of extra days' work." But underneath his sneti, nanK was plenty happy. It meant a lot tn ihe hip env to win this one. Ever since he come back in July he has wondered deep inside whether to renounce the game which carried him to fame. Those loiig muscUldi' legs which hadn't scampered over the diamond for so long Greenberg wasn't a sol dier ball player gave him plen ty of aches and pains. Granada A HOUSE OF s WITH THE TAINT OF "Dead rHj?CROWD PAMELA BLAKE CHARLES Q0R00N MA-A MICHAEL A WAf KIN trtf B JUS SAC UNIVERSAL NEWS Pick I p i-Effliiji.iiiir"i Furgol, McSpaden Share Lead at 66 In Tacoma Open TACOMA, Wash., Oct. 5 (Up) Rangy Ed Furgol, former De. troit public links star, shared a four under par CO with Harold (Jug) McSpaden, Sunford, Me to lead the field into the second round of the Tacoma open golf tournament today. Rising from comparative ob scurity Furgol grabbed three birdies on the tough first nine for 34 and came up with 'three more for a 32 on the finul lup in the opener yesterday. Veteran McSpaden settled for three birdies out and one in for 32-34. Predictions that g0lt course record of 05 would tumble found support in McSpaden's performance. He hit all three in regulation figures and left four putts hanging on the lip. The strike of the day came on the ninth hole when. McSpaden drove 280 yards from behind a tree to land within inches of the green. i.V A stiff wind and bumpy greens kept McSpaden's companion in the big four at par and above par figures. Lord Byron Nelson, of Toledo, O., banged out 36-3470, and Sammy Snead, Hunt Springs,' Va., and Ben Hogan, Ilershoy, Pa., slid in with 72s. Seals, Rainiers To Meet Tonight SEATTLE, Oct. 5' (UP) -The initial playoff gamo between the San Francisco Seals and the Sc uttle Rainiers .for the Paeilie coast league governor's cup will be held tonight. The opening game, originally scheduled for last' night, was postponed when the Seals arriv ed in full strength minus their uniforms und equipment. mw-r m ' ww rw im m . 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