Army Cautions
Ward Officials .
Chicago, Jan. 4 (IPi Officials
of Montgomery Ward and Co.
were warned today that any re
sistance to army occupation of
the mall order firm's government
seized facilities In seven cities will
be placed promptly before the
special federal grand jury investi
gating the seizure.
U. S. District Attorney J. Albert
Woll said he would not ask the
grand jury, which was recessed
today, for any Indictments at this
time, but he added he would keep
the case before it and would re
sume investigation promptly if
the army reported any possible
violations of federal laws by com
pany officials.
Woll said the jury would recon
vene toworrow to weigh evidence
gathered in its investigation and
determine if additional witnesses
should be called. '
Jury Called
The jury' was called to de
termine if the company's resis
tance constituted a violation of
the Smith-Connally labor disputes
act or a conspiracy against the
United States government.
Maj. Gen. Joseph W. Byron,
army manager of the seized prop
erties, yesterday replaced the last
of balky Ward officials who re
fused to recognize the validity of
the government seizure.
The latest officials ousted were
Lloyd Foothe, general manager
of the company's Chicago mail
order department, and A. R.
Wilkes, mail order house general
manager at St. Paul, Minn. They
were replaced by army officers.
Army In Control
The ouster put army men In
control of all properties seized
Dec. 28 to enforce war labor board
directives on wages and mainten
ance of union membership.
Meanwhile, Sewell Avery, mili
tant chairman of the firm's board
of directors who has refused to
recognize the government's right
to seize the company's properties
not engaged directly in war pro
duction, maintained an official
silence, apparently waiting for the
hearing Monday on the govern
ment's petition for a temporary
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injunction restraining officials
from interfering with army operation.
Logging Congress
Dates Announced
Seaside, Ore., Jan. 4 Hit A rec
ord delegation of 1000 northwest
loggers, including a large party
from British Columbia, will at
tend the 35th annual Pacific log
ging congress here on Jan. 10
through Jan. 12.
Plans for meeting acute war
time machinery, and operation
problems will take the spotlight
during the four wartime meet
ings. Included In the three-day sched
ule of the convention will bo
speeches by state and federal
forestry officials and lumber
leaders, according to A. Whisnant,
Portland, the logging congress'
secretary.
Mayor W. B. Hollenbeck of Sea
side will welcome the loggers dur
ing the opening session Dednes
day. Speakers at the Seaside confer
ence will Include James Wells of
the Gilchrist Timber company, at
Gilchrist.
Col. Chenoweth
Visiting Family
Lt Col. W. C. Chenoweth, son
of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Chenoweth,
Bend, is now visiting with his
wife and children in Louisville,
Ky.. it has been learned here. A
prisoner of the Japanese since the
fall of iiataan, Colonel Chenoweth
was rescued following the torpe
doing of a prisoner-laden Japa
nese ship in the Philippines area.
Colonel Chenoweth was injured
in the torpedoing of the vessel and
is still under medical care.
Bend Sky Soldier
Finishes Training
Fort Benning, Ga., Jan. 4 Pvt.
Lowell Franks son of Mr. and
Mrs. George Franks of Rt. 2,
Bend, Ore., has won the right to
wear "Wings and Boots" of the
United States army paratroops.
He has completed four weeks of
jump training during which time
he made five jumps, the last a tac
tical jump at night involving a
combat problem on landing.
Know
MDHIM BOMS
OF PORTLAND
riDIRAl IMOIIf
THE
Rescue of Lf. Miller, Bend,
From Under Guns o f Nippons
Related in New
Rescue of a Bend pilot, I.t. ( j.g.)
William Miller, son of Mr. and
Mrs. H. A. Miller, Bend, from
Jap-held land near Manila is
graphically recounted in an ar
ticle appearing in the New York
Herald-Tribune of Dec. 26, 1944.
The Bend pilot, the article reveals,
was shot down over Manila and
crash landed on an islet off Cor
regidor. Rescue of Lt. Miller and
his fellow fliers was effected by
a speedy PT boat, which in turn
was attacked by a Japanese plane.
The New York Herald-Tribune's
account of the rescue of the Bend
flier follows:
"Lt. (I.g.) William Elwood Mil
ler, of Bend, Ore., and four other
aviators who were shot down over
Manila over a month ago were
rescued on' Dec. 24 when two PT
boats raced through the Mindoro
strait and came within sight of
the Japanese garrison on Luzon
to pick up the aviators who had
paddled out to meet them in na
tive baneas (canoes).
"A Japanese float plane over
took the speeding PT's at 11 a. m.
when they were still 60 miles
from the Mindoro beachhead and
was shot down after its bombs
fell between the two boats.
"Although missing for periods
of from 23 to 93 daysthe pilots
never abandoned hope of being
rescued. Miller ate snails and
crabs on an islet off Corregidor
for 16 days before he dared paddle
over to the mainland of Luzon.
"Lt. Miller, piloting a Hellcat
in his first fighter sweep over
Manila on Sept. 21, ran into heavy
anti-aircraft fire. The plane's oil
system was smashed. Miller
crash-landed near an island south
of Corregidor.
Fishing Tackle Aids
" 'It's a good thing there was
fishing tackle in the escape kit,'
he said. 'I just about exhausted
all the snails and the crabs after
the first week. It rained every
days for 10 days and I was wet
and cold and miserable. Fishing
helped to keep my mind off the
weather.
" T had no water cans, but rain
filled the holes in the rocks and
there was plenty of water until
about the 12th day, when the sky
cleared and a two-day drought
"SSH...MY HUSBAND
THINKS I'M
AM ANGEL"
why ?
I'll tell you. The other night
Joe was fuming and fussing over
our bills ... trying to balance the family.
budget. We had that big hospital bill, and
some other emergency bills that
came up unexpectedly. They really threw
our budget out of balance.
So, I said, Why don't we spread
those expenses over a year's time
by borrowing the LOW-COST way at the
FIRST NATIONAL BANK. We'll establish our
Bank Credit that way, too. Then when
the war's over and we want to buy a new car
we'll tell our dealer that we want our car
financed thru the First National.
See why my husband thinks
I'm an Angel?
LOANS $50 to $IOOO
INSUtAMCt CORPORATION
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began. Holes were getting dry
and I started praying for rain.
Then it came down in soaking
showers. I got wet and cold again,
hut it was better than going
thirsty.'
"Lt. Miller caught Just enough
fish to keep going. He didn't have
much luck outsmarting the crabs.
They ducked into holes before Lt.
Miller could grab them.
"After 16 davs Lt. Miller rowed
over to the mainland and joined
the other four aviators in the
hills.
"The rescued men showed no
traces of fatigue when the PT
boats reached a safe harbor with
them on Dee. 21. In fact, their last
hour was the most hazardous of
all.
"The PT boats, piloted by Lis:
(j.g.) Eugene Johnson, of Spo
kane, Wash., and Robert Roth, a
Minnesotah, picked up the avia
tors on northern Mindoro shortly
after midnight. They raced south
through the strait and were only
an hour from Mangarin bay when
the Japanese float plane overtook
them.
"Evidently the Japanese pilot
wasn't sure whether the boats
were friendly or enemy. He cir
cled twice while the navy gun
ners held their fire. Then he came
at them, dropping bombs that
narrowly missed both boats. He
turned for a strafing run, but his
guns barely opened up before he
was caught in cross fire from the
PT boats. The plane crashed and
sank just astern of the rear boat.
"Those rescued besides Miller
were Lts. (j.g.) William S. Rising
3rd, Brooklyn, N. Y. J. M. New
some, Hartsville, N. C: Donald
Dundero, Carson City, Nov., and
Rising's gunner, J. W. Montgom
ery, Shelvyville, Ky., aviation ra
dio man, second class."
Lt. Miller Is now In the United
Stales and last night telephoned
to his parents from San Fran
cisco, Calif.
During the 1940-43 period, the
number of acres In the United
States devoted to crops increased
about 4 per cent, but the amount
of commercial fertilizer used in
creased 36 per cent or over.
j December
Days
Cool and Foggy
I Not once this past month was
I zero weather recorded in Bend,
I but, nevertheless, the month pro-
ivided some of the coolest und
I driest December weather ever re
corded at the local weather sta
Mon, airways observers in charge
reported today. The mean torn
perature for (he month was 28.1
degrees, nearly four degrees
under the 40-year normal. Only
inches of moisture, mostly in
the rotmof snow, was measured,
providing for the station a De
cember deficiency of 0.9S of an
inch.
Not only was the month cool
and dry, hut foggy conditions pre
vailed for nearly two weeks.
Fog was recorded on 13 different
clays, hut most of this was listed
as light, with a visibility greater
than one-fourth of a mile. Low
ceilings were general in the final
two weeks of the month.
Highest temperature recorded
in December was 52 decrees and
lowest was five degrees, register
ed on two different nights. A
total of five inches of snow fell
in the month.
The maximum and minimum
temperatures for the month fol
low: Max.
Dec. 1 42
Dec. 2 44
Dee. 3 39
Dec. 4 44
Min.
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27
26
30
34
31
28
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. 20
12
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Dec.
Dec.
Dec.
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6 53
7 53
8 13
9 40
10 46
11 23
12 28
13 39
14 20
15 32
16 39
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18 27
19 45
20 34
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Pacific Veteran
Named Auditor
Portland, Ore., Jan. 4 mi Maj
George M. Baldwin, a veteran of
recent campaigns in Nbw Guinea
with the famous 41st "Sunset
division, today assumed his new
duties as county auditor for Mult
nomah county after being sworn
in late Wednesday.
Muior Baldwin received his (lis
charge only a few hours before
reporting to the courthouse to re
peat the oath of office after Cir
cuit judge Ashhy C. Dickson.
The new auditor received the
legion of merit award from Gen.
Douglas MacArthur while in the
southwest Pacific. He was ap
pointed by the county commission
as the successor to Al Brown who
was elected county clerk in No
vember. Young to Attend
State Meeting
E. II. Young, farm labor assist
ant, is to attend a conference in
Corvallis on January 9 and 10.
The? conference was called by J.
R. Heck, state supervisor of
emergency farm labor service.
Purpose of the Corvallis meel
ing will be lo develop plans for the
1915 farm labor program In Ore
gon.
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1945
Plea for More
By Chairman
Miss Lucy Davison, recruitment
nurse for Deschutes county, has
received the following communi
cation from Basil O'Connor, chair
man of the national Red Cross:
The surgeon general of the
army has again appealed to me
ot urge an immediate, maximum
Red Cross effort to secure the
10.000 additional nurses which the
army requested ot us in October.
Rapidly mounting casualties
make it imperative that these
nurses be procured at once or
many of our wounded will be de
prived ot essential nursing care.
Eleven army hospital units about
to go overseas are being sent
without any nurses. This is an un
precedented event In this war.
The people of the country do not
appreciate the extreme gravity
of the situation and the efforts
they can make to relieve It.
As the tempo and severity of
the war Increase, civilian nursing
must he restricted more and
more; it must he rationed intelli
gently. Military needs come first
and they have Increased greatly
in recent months. In army Gen
eral hospitals in the United States
the patient load has more than
doubled in the last nine months
wit It no increase in nurses. For-
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of Red Cross
tunately there are adequate num
bers of nurses to meet military
needs and essential civilian needs
as well, provided our nursing re
sources are utilized with Ingenu
ity. To aid in this effort, I am en
closing a statement of 10 ways
in which the public can release
nurses for military service.
"1. Work In a hospital in any
type of housekeeping duties.
"2. Remember hospital beds are
at a premium. Defer a non-essential
operation when your doc
tor asks you to do so.
"3. Save the nurse's time at the
hospital by asking for only neces
sary service.
"4. Do not employ a special
i nurse except for critical illness.
i Use your local visiting nurse as-
sociation or hourly nursing serV'
ice tor illness at Home.
"5. Become a U. S. cadet nurse,
if you are eligible.
"C. Become a Red Cross nurses
aide, if there is a program in your
community. If you are a trained
aide, serve at least ten hours
every week.
7. Learn how to take care of
members of your own family.
Take a Red Cross home nursing
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course.
"8. Guard your own health.
Don't take useless risks.
"9. Urge every nurse and retired
nurse not eligible for military
service to take an essential nurs
ing job to fill up the ranks on the
Civilian front.
"10. Seek out every nurse clas
sified as available for military "
service. Urge her to apply at once
to the American Red Cross or to'
wire collect the surgeon general
of the army."
River Hatchery
Viewed Favorably
The use to which the proposed
hatchery at Wizard falls on the
Metolius river will be put, has
been outlined by Hugh C. Mitch
ell, chief aquaculturist for the
Oregon state fish commission, in
a report Just completed. The re
port, which indicates that the fish
commission views favorably the
building of a hatchery at'that site,
said that the state would "develop
and establish a blue back run,
using Suttlo lake as a spawning
area and rearing area for finger
lings, as well as spring Chinook."
Mitchell's report argues for the
feeding of small salmon 14
months before they are released
: into the river for their trio to the
I Columbia, rather than the three
or four months as practiced now.
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