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Weather Data for 24 hours to 7 a.m. Temperature: Maximum 88 Minimum 42 Forecast: Mostly cloudy to night and Tuesday. A Free Press the Torch of World Peace Uio m4 Wallow Covii'ei ESTABLISHED 1896 LA GRANDE, OREGON, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 8, 191") FIVE CENTS ymbeir i.:.. mm J IV.. r i: mmmm Volini(g FPaires po L Quota Cubs Even Series By Downing Tigers, 8-7 CHICAGO, Oct. 8 (UP) Chicago, Cubs, taking advant age of an error by Hank Greenberg, evened the world series at three games apiece when they defeated the De troit Tigers, 8 to 7, in 12 inn ings. ... The tally was scored by little Billy Schuster, a pinch runner, when Greenberg let Stan Hack's single go through him. Earlier, Greenberg was theDetroit hero because he hit a home run which sent the game into extra innings. No Play Schuster already had slopped at second. But when big Hank failed to come up with the ball, NEW JAP PREMIER: Baroa Kijuro Shidehara. 73. liberal, named new premier of Japan by Emperor Hirohito, promises all-out cooperation with allied occupation forces, will choose a new cabinet within two or three days. Japs Executed 14 Yanks 2 Months Before V-J Day SHANGHAI, Oct. 8 (UP) The Japanese, executed 14 American airmen only two months before Japan surrendered and while Tokyo was seeking peace terms from the allies, it was revealed today. Fourteen urns containing the ashes of the fliers arrived by plane in Shanghai today from Formosa. Inscriptions on the urns and records accompanying them confirmed the executions and identity of the fliers. The rec ords showed the fliers were put to death last Juno lfl. Their names wore withheld pending notification of next-of-kin. Raids on Formosa were carried out largely by fliers of Gen. Douglas MacArthur's far eastern air forces from Philippines bases. Also aboard the plane from For mosa were the ashes of a 15th American flier who was killed in '. a plane crash. Kramer Says Is Not 'Beast' of Belsen LUENEBURG. O c t. 8 (UP) Josef Kramer, commandant of the Belsen concentration camp, tes tified today in his own defense before the British military court trying him on charges of conduct ing nazi atrocities. Kramer opened the story of his administration of tha Belsen camp and his service in the notorious Oswiecim camp after his defense counsel. Maj. S. Windwood, told the court the prisoner should be called "not the beast of Belsen but the scapegoat of Belsen." Music Class Will Meet Wednesday Music appreciation classes at Eastern Oregon college have been arranged for the convenience ol those who cannot attend the day classes, and Wednesday will be last day to enroll. ' The classes meet in room 11 of the administration building on the campus at 7;30 p. m. each Wednesday. Townspeople are in vited i.o attend. V Mfo I mm m ., ' i m m Ll 3 ' of $580,000 for little Billy tore for home. There wasn't even a play at the plate and Hack, too, could have scored on the error. It was a wild ball game with first one team and then the other playing like bush leaguers. For a time it seemed the Cubs, behind the veteran Claude Pas seau, were going to have an easy time of it, for they knocked the Detroit starter, Virgil Trucks, out of the box in a fifth inning rally that netted four runs and gave them a 4 to 1 lead. They increas ed it to 6 to 1 and then 7 to 3 be fore Passeau, suffering from an injured finger, ran out of gas. Second Win It was Borowy's second victory of the series. He won the opener at Detroit Wednesday and lost the fifth game here yesterday. Both managers, Steve O'Neill and Charley Grimm, shot the works. O'Neill sent five pitchers to the I mound .while Grimm used four. The Cubs, in all, used 21 diflcr ent men the most ever in a world series game. It was fitting Hack hit the ball which eventually meant the ball game, for he had been anything but an aid to the Cub cause be fore the payoff single. He had made two of the three Cub er rors and otherwise had conduct ed himself in a manner which would probably have made him the goat of the series. 28 Hits The Cubs made 15 hits olf De troit pitching and the Tigers came up with 13. Detroit kicked in with two errors. In the 12th, Secory, an Iowa farm boy, batting for Merullo, singled to center and Schuster was sent to run. Borowy struck out, and then Hack fouled one pitch, look a ball, and then fol lowed with another foul, before he connected. Schuster knew he was a dead duck if ho tried to go any farther than second, if Green berg came up with the ball. He had come to a dead slop, and when he saw the ball roll behind Greenberg he : must have set a base running record. Box score: Detroit (A) AB R H O A E Webb, ss 3 0 0 3 4 0 Hoover, ss 3 Mayor, 2b 6 Cramer, cf 0 Greenberg, If 5 Cullenbine, rf.. 5 York, lb 0 Outlaw, 3b 5 Richaids, c 0 Swift, c 2 Trucks, p 1 Caster, p 0 Bridges, p 0 Benton, p 0 Trout, p 2 A Maser 1 I-. MU.,1 1 c Hosteller .... 1 d Walker 1 Totals 48 7 13 35 15 2 Y 2 out in I2th when winning run scored. Note: Swift scored in 8th inn ing on Hack's error. a Batted for Richards in 6th. b Batted for Caster in 6th. c Batted for Webb in 7th. d Batted for Benton in 8th. Chicago (N) AB R II O A E Hack, 3b 5 1 4 3 3 2 Johnson, 2b .... 4 0 0 2 6 1 Lowrey, If 5 116 Cavarrotta, lb 2 15 0 U Pafko, cf 6 0 Nicholson, rf . .. 5 0 Livingston, a... 3 2 Williams, c 1 0 Hughes, ss 4 1 2 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 2 2 0 0 110 3 4 3 0 0 110 0 U 1 0 merullo, ss 0 Passeau, p 3 Wyse, p 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Prim, p 0 Borowy, p 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 ooo 0 0 0 0 0 0 a Gillespie 1 0 b Becker 0 0 z Block 0 0 c Secory 1 0 x Schuster 0 1 0 0 0 0 Tolals 46 8 15 36 19 1 Note: Schuster scored 'in 12th inning on Grcenbcrg's error. a Batted for Livingston in Oth. b Batted for Hughes in flth. c Bated for Merullo in 12th. z Ran for Becker in 0th. x Ran for Secory in 12th. Detroit 010 000 240 0110 7 Chicago 000 041 200 0012 KRHBHWH 8. y FRESIDENT DECORATES PAPPY BOYINGTON Famous Ma rine fighter ace, Lt. Col. Gregory (Pappy) Boyington is awarded the Medal of Honor by President Truman in ceremonies at White House in which 14 navy and marine war heroes received the na-j lions highest honors for devotion to their country. Boyington. Okanogan, Wash., was cited for heroism as commanding officer cf .iaie squadron during period when he shot down 20 planes, later adding eight to his record. Mother Three Children Hurt In Headon Collision in Meacham Mrs. R. D. McKinloy and her three children, Murcelyn Ann, I Karen and James, are patients in Grande Rondo hospital recover ing from injuries received in a head-on collson -which occurred at about 10 a.m. yesterday in fiont of the Chuck Wagon cafe in Meacham. The driver of the other car, Lawrence Lester Radford, Indian from Athena, was charged with drunken driving by the arresting stale police from La Grande and was turned over to state police in Pendleton. Mrs. McKinloy, driving the family car, with the children as passengers, and her husband, driving behind her in a truck, were enroute from Portland whero they had been living, to Nyssa where they planned to farm. Mrs. McKinley reported the other car involved was on Iho wrong side of the road and that she swerved to avoid a wreck. The other driver swer ved also. Most seriously injured is the six-year-old ooy, James, who suf fcred a depressed fracture of the Fkull over the light temple. The injury will require an operation for Uk- removal of the bone, and a special vitalium plate, sent fur air-mail by his physician, will re place the removed hone. Mrs. McKinley received head, chest and leg injuries. A 10 year old daughter, Marcelyn Ann, was cut about the chin, on both knees and received other minor injuries. Karen, eight years old, sustaned a cut five or six inches long across the right temple. All are in Grande Rnnde hos pital and the attending physi cian said that their condition was good. Hoover Sees New POTSDAM. N. Y., Oct. 8 (UP) Former President Herbert Hoo ver said today the United States faces a vast new frontier of eco nomic expansion, but warned "a host of destructive actions'' could cripple the naiion. Speaking at Clarkson College of Technology on its 50th anniver sary, Hoover said whether the na tion realizes its possibilities de pends upon the "moral, social and political climate with which these licneficcnt forces are surround- He warned against repeating the "one economic sin" which fol lowed the first world war. The economic weakness in t li e M Speaker Stresses Influence of U. S. On World Order Dr. O. L. Walters of Portland, executive president of the Ore gon synod of Presbyterian churches, was the featured speak er at the Lions club's Monday noon meeting at the Slein cafe today. Dr. Walters stressed the impor tance and significance of the in fluence the United States is hav ing on' all peoples of the world in bringing to them the ideals of liberty and democracy. He voiced the hope is coming to the peoples of many nations that they will be able to change to this freer way of life, and staled that they ate looking to this country to help and guidance in their quest. Dr. Walters urged all citizens of this nation to shoulder willing ly the individual responsibility of seeing that the expected sup port of this nation is given to people of all races. Guests at the meeting were Rev. Mark A. T a I n e y of La Grande: Rodney Berg, Ole Olson, of Portland; and P. W. Bull, "f the Grothe Lumber company. Bill Dittrich, president of East ern Oregon college of education student body, was introduced as a new honorary member. NEW "DURATION" MANILA, Oct. 8 (UP) A sign on the floor of the former censor ship (iffice at general headquar ters ,'irmy forces of the Pacific, rear echelon public relations camp at Manila, read today ' rins ed for the duration of peace." years which followed the v.'.ir. Hoover said, was "that inilust; .id labor and management skimmed off the cream" of gains wlueh had been made. This lefl Ihe farmer and the whit e collar workers "out of the benefits." Tiie nation's economic future, he said, can be cnppled by: 1. Monopolies that restrict pi iluelion. 2. Labor union rules which "limit the ouiput of men during their agreed hours of work; the gigautic wastes of stiikes ;i n d lockouts; misguided labor that seeks to secure the bem fils of in creased productivity before it is aceoinplished." 3. Foolish industrial labor and County Victory Loan E Bond Goal $370,000 In Final Drive Quota set for Union county in the victory or eighth war i bond campaign begins Oct. 2t is ffiSO.OHO, it was announced ! today by W. C. Perkins, chair man of the county war finance committee. Perkins and nine other Union cuunly bond drive leaders attend ed a bond iles conference for loaders of 10 states at Portland Saturday. Although the. campaign is to last through November, Per kins this afternoon announced further it is the purpose of the Union county sales organization to "clean up" tho job so as to celebrate it along with Armis tice day. Srries E quota for individuals is $370,000. Quota for other in dividual purchase bonds is $55, 0110 and the total of the two thus is $425,000. Goal for sales to corporations is only $155,000, Perkins was in formed by the state chairman and his associates. Sales in the seventh war loan campaign here were SI, S26.000, about double the quota for the coming drive. Those who attended the meet ing in Portland were Parkins, Mp. and Mrs. T. B. Lumsdon, Mrs. Anton Freisinger, Victor Eckley, Raymond Gray, Slaniey Milts, Ervin Hess and Jack Fitzg'.-rald. Amng speakers were Ted Gam ble, national chairman; E. C. Sanimons, Oregon chairman; and ioncri w. Loyne, assistant na tional director. General Patton Leaves His Army BAD TOLEZ, Bavaria, Oct. 3 (UP) Gen. George S. Patton, jr., and the famed third arm.v, wliich he !.'d from Normandy across France and. Germany to victory, have parted company. He turned over command of the army to Lt. Gen. Lucian K. Truscolt. jr., at a six-minute cere mony. Patton becomes head of the skeletal 15th army and a gen eral officers' board studying the European campaign. Speaking in a husky voice. Pat ton addressed 400 selected of ficers and men of his former command as "comrades" in a 50 second farewell address. "The best thing that ever came to me thus far is the honor and privilege of having command of the third army," he, said. Spokane Pair Buys Tract Here, Plans New Tourist Cabins Mr. and Mrs. Edward Allen of Spokane have purchased a tract 440 feet by 101 on Adams avenue between the underpass and Cher ry street from a group here. The nlicn n.-iwl w.-is S3 100 In MrSi Lc.,a Bowles, Mrs. Earl Huff J and Mrs. E. Searles. The tract in- eludes mostly vacant lots. Tho Aliens revealed they in 'lend to construct and operate tourist cabins on the plot. They expect to start building as soon as materials became available. Frontiers' management policies. 4. Government policies which jeopardize stability of currency and credit. 5. Taxes which "destroy the in centive of men by taking away the reward of their efforts.' ' 6. Buieauciacy which "stymies productive forces by stupid med dling." Hoover said, however, the sum of the possibilities confronting the nation's economic life means not only recovery but a lenewetl march in progress. The nation, Hoover said, can expect; (ileal expansion in air transport; SOCIALITE QUESTIONED BY DISTRICT ATTORNEY Mrs. Irene Mansfeldt, self confessed killer of a San Francisco, Calif., nurse, is questioned at longth in tho presence of her attorney. Vincent Hallinan, by Pat Brown, (left), district attorney of San Francisco city and county. A statewide hunt is underway for her husband. Dr. John H. Mansfeldt. Doctor's Suicide Leaves His Wife's Questions Unanswered SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 8 (UP) Bodies of Dr. John H. Mans feldt, 47, and Mrs. Vada Martin, the young nurse whom his wife killed in trying to force an ad mission of stolen love, awaited burial today. He committed sui cide rather than face the shame of his wife's action. Mrs. Annie Irene Mansfeldt, 40, is under obsarvulioti in the psy chopathic ward of San Francisco Hearing on Soil District Set for Hot Lake, Oct. 26 Dale for hearing and election to decide the formation of a soil conservation district in the Ladd canyon, Union( and HoV Lake area, has been set for 7:30 p. m. Oct. 20 at Hot Lake. People in the proposed areas will vote on whether or not the district is to be formed. State sifil corrTvation com mittee will be present lo conduct the hearing. Ex-offieio members are Charles E. Strickland, Salem, slate engineer: William A. Scho enfeld, Corvallis, director of ag ricultural experiment studies; and William A. Teutseh, Corval lis, assistant director of extension service. Farmer members appointed by the governor are: Robert H. War rens, Forest Grove, chairman; G. W. Franklin, Enterprise, and J. M. Clifford. Corvallis. Members of the original com mittee that has been working on the project fur over two years arc: Gilbert Courtrighl, J. C. Heddinglield. Charles Grandy, T. W. Bates, all of route 2, La Grande, and Royal Allen, Cove. Petitions for the" formation of the district were circulated as the result of a meeting July 13 of farmers and soil conservation spe cialists in Hot Lake. The pelitions were then sent to the state board of soil conservation, who set Ihe date for the hearing. END DAILY FLIGHTS Eastern Oregon Airways, lo cated at La Grande airport, Sat urday terminated daily flight trips to Portland. Charter service there and anyo:h-r point is still being maintained. in Science Cheaper railway and highway transport; Wide use of light metals; Many improvements in farm machinery; Saving of great wastes by im provement in weather forecast ing; more development of labor saving machinery; prolonging of skilled lives through new discov eries in medicine; improved gas oline; vast changes by introduc tion of atomic energy; expansion of science and industry. Forces of science and technol ogy can save "this in! inn from being crushed by Ihe burdens of war," Hoover said. "Hut to do it," he jidded, "men must lie free Jn mind, spiiit and creative power. hospital. She was taken there when news of her husband's death unnerved her. Unanswered Mansfeldt's death loft unan swered the question she told authorities hud driven her to fire a bullet into the 30 -year -old nurse's chest whether or. not her husband was having an af fair with Mrs. Martin.' . -- Mrs. Mansfeldt was charged with murder for the fatal shoot ing last Thursday of the nurse. Mrs. Mansfeldt had seen her in Hie doctor's automobile early one punning as Ihe nurse waited to go on a case with him, . Mansfeldt's body was found early Sunday in the front seat of his automobile beside a lonely cliff at Pedro Point in San Mal-co county. Long Search Police had searched for Mans feldt since Saturday. Previously authorities had discounted Mrs. MansfoMt's expressed fcfirs he had done away with himself. There was an opened bottle of morphine sulphate, a drug used to ease pain, in the glove com partment of his automobile. Be side him on tho seat was a hypo dermic needle with a small quan tity of the drug still in it. He apparently gave himself an over dose and dropped off into a pro found sleep. Mansfeldt apparently took the lethal dose Thursday, a lew hours after hearing the story of jealousy and death from his wife. The Mansfeldt's children, one son, John, 14, and two daughters, Irene, 15 unci Tony 12, were taken to Marin county by relatives. They were told quietly that their father was dead. Ed Ford, Veterans, School Band Invited To Walla Walla Fest Herbert G. West, mayor of Wal la Walla, has extended invita tions lo Ed Ford, city manager, and members of his family, and to members of Ihe American Le gion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, and Disabled American Veterans to attend homecoming festivities for Gen. Jonathan M. Wainwright in Walla Walla Nov. 10 and 11. Invitations have also been ex tended lo members of the high school band to play in the parade which will lake place at II a. m. Nov. 10. A special section has been ar ranged for veterans. Laval Trial Goes on Without Defendant PARIS, Oct. 8 (UP) Treason trial of Pierre Laval was lesumed today without tho defendant, de f.ensc counsel or defense wit nesses. Laval's tiial reoponed an hour and a half behind rchedule after Judge Pierre Mongibeaux and Minister of Ju.ilic;' Henri Teingen liied in vain to induce the former Vichy premier to change liis mind and coiiKf to court. With Laval defiantly absent and only a few prosecution wit nesses ori hand, it appeared the triatwill end by mid-week. ' CIO Row PORTLAND, Oct. 8 (UP) First violence in the strike of 81,000 western AFL lumber and saw mill workers union occurred here1 today when CIO workmen tang led with AFL pickets at the Mult nomah Box Si Lumber company sawmill. No injuries were report ed, but a banner was torn from one AFL picket. At another sawmill, that of tho Western Oregon Lumber com pany, at Portland, AFL pickets left peacefully after CIO workers; broke through the line, then re turned outside and threatened the pickets. Withdraw "Wo are not going to work be hind any picket line," the CIO men told their labor rivals. Tho AFL pickets explained they were not posted there to inspire any violence and with drew. These ovents bore out a prom ise from John M. Chriitemon, president of AFL Northwestern Council of Lumber and Saw mill workers, "You can expect to see plenty of excitement lhi next week," "We nro showing the operators we were not fooling when we said we were going to close down the industry so long as it refuses to negotiate with us for wage in creases," he said. . Close Three ; AFL reported picketing had closed three Portland planjts where CIO workers arc employ ed. They are the Inman Poulsen .Lumber, company, the Eastern Western Lumber- company--twn of the largest in Portland and the Coast Basket and Veneer company. Inman Poulsen employes about 250 workmen. Eastern - Western 175 and Coast Basket about 100. No report was available Mon day on the sixth Portland saw mill employing CIO labor, the Portland Box company. About 200 pickets were involv ed in the lines. No Fuel Tho AFL reported that, despite CIO intention to work the Eastern-Western mill arrived at af ter a purported CIO conference with management the plant was closed through refusal of the AFL teamsters union to deliver fuel. Four more Portland mills em ploying an estimated 400 men were closed after members of an other AFL union refused to pass picket lines. They wore the M. & M. Plywood corporation, National Wood Pie & Tank company, American Wood Products com pany, and the Pein Box company. Other strike fronts: Coal Labor Secretary Schwellenbach and Unitedi Mine Workers President John L. Lewis meet again today at Washington, I). C in an attempt to send 1U0, 000 soft coal miners back to pits Production losses are estimate!! at 1,000,000 tons a day. Autos 50,000 Ford Motor com pany workers were back turning out 1046 model Ford cars. Communications 250,000 tele phone workers await the decision of the national labor relations board. Teamsters President Truman plans to name a board to investi gate a wage controversy of the Railway Express Agency witn the AFL International Brother hood of Teamsters. Stoel Contract disputes keep 16,000 CIO steel workers idle. Transportation Ro d-.-umi in seven western states paralyzed witn n.700 Greyhound drivers and employers idle. Movies Fifty film workers weie injured in a battle wth other workers who broke through picket lines around Warner Brothers studio. A viation Council to Ask Con press to Aid. Airport Building City Manager Ed Ford, recent ly returned from a director's meeting n,f the Oregon Aviation council in Portland Saturday, an nounced a resolution adopted by the council to urge congress to make an appropriation for build ing new airports and the Imprive ment of old airports. If the money is appropriated, Ford said, it will probably be on a match-miine? basis, with cities putting up equal amounts for the building or Improvements.
