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IN BRIEF
Pool Radway appointed to
Racial Justice Council
THEASTORIAN • TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2020
Jenny Pool Radway, the executive director of Consejo His-
pano, will serve on Gov. Kate Browns Racial Justice Council.
The council is representative of people who are most
impacted by historical and institutional racism in Oregon
and will help advise the governor on how to create a bet
ter system that fully supports everyone.
Pool Radway is among the founding members.
Corrections deputies
to graduate academy
Two Clatsop County Sheriff’s Office deputies will
graduate Friday from the basic corrections class.
A graduation ceremony will be held for Joseph Cleary
and Tami Schultz at the Oregon Public Safety Academy
in Salem.
The ceremony will be closed to the public because of
the coronavirus pandemic.
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The Astorian
Archery hunter killed by wounded elk
A Hillsboro man died Sunday morning in Tillamook
County after an elk that he had shot and wounded the
previous night charged at him, fatally wounding him.
Mark David, 66, had been archery hunting on pri
vate property in Tillamook County on Saturday evening.
According to Oregon State Police, David hit a bull elk
and wounded it, but couldn’t find it before nightfall.
The next morning, David and the property owner
went out to look for the elk. Around 9:15 a.m., David
found the elk and tried to kill it with his bow.
State police say the elk charged David and gored him
in the neck with its antlers. The property owner tried to
help David, but he died from his injuries.
Police say the elk was killed and the meat was donated
to the Tillamook County Jail.
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The Oregonian
Republicans fail to gather enough
signatures for recall vote of Gov. Brown
The Oregon Republican Party did not gather enough
signatures by Monday’s deadline to recall Gov. Kate
Brown — its second failed recall of the governor in less
than a year.
“It’s gut-wrenching to deliver this news,” Oregon
GOP Chairman Bill Currier said over a Facebook lives-
tream to supporters. “But we will prevail. I am confident
that the people’s will will be upheld in the end.”
Republicans have accused Brown of abusing her
power and destroying the state’s economy through shut
downs imposed in response to the coronavirus pan
demic. The governor has stated shutdowns were in keep
ing with the advice of public health experts and were
intended to save lives.
For the recall to proceed the state GOP needed to
gather and submit 280,050 valid signatures to the Secre
tary of State’s Office by Monday — 90 days from when
the recall effort was initiated.
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Statesman Journal
ON THE RECORD
Reckless driving
• Abraham Leng Cha,
24, of Portland, was
arrested on Sunset Beach
on Saturday for reckless
driving and recklessly
endangering another per
son. Police say Cha was
doing “cookies” on the
beach when he lost con
trol of his vehicle and hit
a pedestrian. The pedes
trian was flown to a Port
land hospital with critical
injuries.
Firearms charge
• Anthony Michael
Hanson, 27, of Portland,
was arrested Sunday on
Duane Street in Astoria
for unlawful possession
of a firearm.
PUBLIC MEETINGS
TUESDAY
Community Center Commission, 10 a.m., Bob Chisholm
Community Center, 1225 Avenue A, Seaside.
Clatsop County Board of Commissioners, noon, work
session, (electronic meeting).
Port of Astoria Commission, 4 p.m., (electronic meeting).
Seaside Library Board, 4:30 p.m., Seaside Public Library,
1131 Broadway.
Clatsop Care Health District Board, 5 p.m., (electronic
meeting).
Sunset Empire Park and Recreation District, 5:15 p.m.,
executive session, Bob Chisholm Community Center, 1225
Avenue A, Seaside.
Seaside Planning Commission, 6 p.m., City Hall, 989
Broadway.
Miles Crossing Sanitary Sewer District Board, 6 p.m.,
34583 U.S. Highway 101 Business.
WEDNESDAY
Urban Renewal Advisory Committee, 3:30 p.m., City Hall,
225 S. Main Ave., Warrenton.
Seaside Improvement Commission, 6 p.m., City Hall, 989
Broadway.
Gearhart City Council, 7 p.m., 698 Pacific Way.
THURSDAY
Seaside Parks Advisory Committee, 7 p.m., City Hall, 989
Broadway.
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trafficking.TOP: Several people pointed out ties between anti-child trafficking protests in the United States and a QAnon conspiracy
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Oregon vets remember
WWII victorv 75 vears on
Astoria played
role in the war
By GARY WARNER
Oregon Capital Bureau
In July 1945, Leon
Devereaux was a U.S. Navy
ensign flying a 4JU Cor
sair fighter, shooting down a
Mitsubishi “Betty” bomber
off the coast of Japan.
Less than two months
later, Devereaux was again
on a mission above Japan,
flying over a battleship in
Tokyo Bay. His Corsair was
part of the air armada above
the USS Missouri, where
Japan was signing the docu
ments of surrender.
It was Sept. 2, 1945. The
end of World War II.
“That was fast — we
weren’t expecting the war
to be over yet,” Dever
eaux said. “We knew there
was a hard-nosed bunch in
Tokyo who wanted to keep
fighting.”
It had been just that
spring that Germany had
surrendered. Still, there was
one more enemy to go. The
path to victory over Japan
was clear — but the cost
of D-Day-style invasions
would be long and bloody.
President Harry Tru
man would say after the
war that “Operation Down
fall” would have lasted
well into 1946 and cost up
to a half-million American
lives — an overestimation,
according to some post-war
military historians.
Then two flashes changed
the timetable. The atomic
bombing of Hiroshima and
Nagasaki in early August
1945 incinerated two major
Japanese cities, killing at
least 110,000. Higher esti
mates are double the num
ber. It would cause Emperor
Hirohito to overrule military
hardliners and capitulate to
the Allies.
Just under four years of
war cost 407,316 Americans
killed and 671,278 wounded.
Of the 150,000 Oregonians
who served, an estimated
3,800 died and more than
5,000 were wounded. While
estimates vary, the death
toll of military and civilians
during the war was about 75
million.
Marching into history
Devereaux,
97,
who
would go on to serve as
Bend’s mayor, is among the
rapidly dwindling number of
Americans for whom service
in World War II isn’t some
thing in a history book, but
part of their life’s memories.
Of the estimated 16 mil-
The Oregon WWII Memorial is located near the state Capitol in Salem. It bears the names of
3,771 Oregonians who were killed in action during the war.
against it should have been
in the Army in 1945.”
Small state
plays a big role
Deschutes County Historical Society
Camp Abbot, which served as the U.S. Army engineer training
camp and trained 90,000 men, sits at the site of Sunriver in
central Oregon.
lion who served in World
War II, less than 300,000
remain, down from more
than 935,000 in just the past
five years. In Oregon, just
7,300 veterans remain. Each
day more than 200 veter
ans of the war die across the
nation. Obituaries tell the
toll.
“After graduation from
Astoria High School in
1943, he enlisted in the
Navy and served his country
in the Pacific Theater during
World War II,” The Astorian
reported on the April death
of Donald Bryce Hoyer, 94,
of Seaside.
It’s a daily fact of life.
“In Oregon, we lose three
or four World War II veter
ans every day,” said Dick
Tobiason, a Vietnam veteran
in Bend active in state efforts
to memorialize World War II
in Oregon.
Bob Stangier was fairly
certain he would have added
to those casualty numbers
if the fighting had contin
ued. World War II had taken
him from Pendleton to Cor
sica, then Italy, flying 70
missions as a pilot of B-25
Mitchell bomber. His plane
was badly damaged on a raid
and limped home to its base
in Allied-occupied Italy on
one engine. When the end of
the war came, Stangier was
a first lieutenant at Santa
Ana Army Air Base in Cal
ifornia, on his way to the
Pacific.
“I had been in combat
and was apprehensive about
going back,” said Stangier,
96. “I was in the Army. They
told you where to go and
what to do, so I was in the
pipeline to the Pacific.”
“Gen. MacArthur said we
could take Japan with just
a few thousands of loses,
but another general said
we could lose a million or
more,” Stangier said. “I had
no confidence in MacAr
thur’s math.”
That even MacArthur’s
estimate was wildly high
was only because of the
atomic bomb, Stangier said.
“I believe I am alive
because of the atomic
bombs,”
Stangier
said.
“These idiots who are
For a state of just over 1
million people at the time,
Oregon played a leading role
in the history of World War
II.
Yosuke
Matsuoka,
Japan’s foreign minister who
negotiated the 1940 alliance
with Nazi Germany and fas
cist Italy, once lived in Port
land and was a 1900 graduate
of the University of Oregon
School of Law. Charged with
war crimes, he died of tuber
culosis in a Tokyo prison in
1946 before the end of his
trial.
Fort Stevens at the mouth
of the Columbia River was
the only military base on the
continental United States to
be attacked. The Japanese
submarine 1-25 surfaced at
night in June 1942 and fired
17 shells from its deck gun,
blowing up the fort’s baseball
field backstop but little else.
Brookings was the scene
of the only enemy bombing
of the war, when the same
submarine launched a sea
plane armed with incen
diary bombs meant to set
off a forest fire that would
draw troops away from mil
itary missions. A small area
was scorched, but no blaze
erupted. Nubuo Fujita, the
pilot, would return after the
war to apologize to the res
ident of Brookings, give the
town his family’s samurai
sword and plant a peace tree
where the bombs fell.
Klamath County was the
site of the only American
See Veterans, Page A5