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)FORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1945.
NO. 162.
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.MOTHER'S EFFORTS
HT RESCUE FAIL
! BLAZING HOI
Tragedy Comes To Mr. and
Mrs. Elmer Wells Satur
day Morning
Two infant sons of Mr. and
Mrs. Elmer Wells, Butte Falls,
were burned to death about 9
a. m. yesterday when their nonie
was destroyed by fire. Mrs.
Wells was brought to the Sacred
Heart hospital by Mrs. R. E. and
Ben Edmondson and is in a seri
ous but not critical condition.
According to Deputy Coroner
. Carlos Morris, who investigated
'X ht iir11- I. .A
ji Ine trageuy, jyhs. hcus iuu
of Mrs. Roberta Hemple and as
the stepped out of the Hemple
home she heard her other four
children in the yard screaming
and saw flames shooting out of
windows in the house.
With Robert Hemple, 16, Mrs.
Wells rushed to the house and
was unable to gain entrance
through the front door, Morris
said. She broke out glass in a
bedroom window with her hand
and attempted to remove Kent,
one month old, from the bed but
was unable to do so. Ward, 18
months, was in a crib in the bed
room but his mother was also
unable to remove him.
The father had gone deer
hunting at 5:30 a. m. -yesterday
and did not return until 1 p. m.
A new drag saw was all that was
saved as the house was com
t pletely gutted. A volunteer fire
f fighting crew was unable to
check the conflagration.
According to Morris, a son,
Jack, came down stairs and
found the fire in a front room
stove had gone out. He took
what he thought was kerosene
to put on the blaze. The liquid
was a highly inflammable clean
ing fluid and quickly ignited,
spreading throughout the room.
The boy attempted to extinKuish
the blaze but fled when he was
unable to do so.
The place was known as the
Heckerthorn house and had
been purchased by the Wells'
about two years ago.
A half-sister, Gale Robertson,
resides at 322 North Oakdale
avenue and is employed at the
What-Not cafe. A grandmother,
Mrs. Mary Ellis of Medford, also
survives.
Funeral services will be held
.Tuesday at 2:30 p. m at the
"J Conger-Morris chapel with inter
ment in the I.O.O.F. cemetery.
Silverton. Ore., Sept. 29-(U.R)
Mrs Eleanor Elmore and her
three children burned to death
rarly today in a fire of un
known origin that destroyed
their home. Mrs. Elmor's hus
band. D. Elmore, is in. the arm
ed services but his address was
rot known here.
Tillamook. Ore., Sept. 29
U.R) One-year-old Neil Joseph
Fteiner droivned Friday when
he feil into an open water tank
near the home of his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen G. Steiner.
Soldiers Trapped
At Icy Camp Freed
Narsarssuak, Greenland, Sept.
29 (U.R) Eleven American sol
diers headed for this army base
command headquarters tonight
after being trapped in Green-
land's icy mountains for almost
year.
The men were volunteer;, a ho
staffed the lonely outpost weath
er station at Skjoldungen. Green
land, in the fall of 1944. Last
January 8, a snowslide buried
their food and their powerhouse.
Since then they had been "on
the land."
Details 'of their rescue were
disclosed by the army's eavtern
defense command who prescrib
ed the men's outpost as "a
prison."
MILL STRIKE ENDS
Astoria, Ore., Sept. 29 L?J
CIO mill workers at the Wanna
Lumber company plant went
back to work today after accjpt
ing a federal conciliation otie
for settlement of the dispute that
started Sept. 14 over a local is
tue. Ninety per cent of the church
rnembers in L'tah are Mormons.
Philippine President Arrives in U. S.
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Sergio Osema, president of the Philippines, Is welcomed at Hamilton
Field, Calif., by group of admiring Filipino delegates including Miss Fran
ces Begley (right), San Francisco girl, who presented the 67-year-old ex
ecutive with a bouquet. Osmena waa en route to Washington, D. O. Sig
nal Corps photo.
OF JEWS SAME AS
NAZIS IS CHARGE
Washington, Sept. 29 (U.R) f
President Truman tonight made
public a report on the condition
of Jews in Germany and Austria
which charged that American
military government forces ' ap
pear to be treating the Jews as
the Nazis treated them."
Simultaneously, he released a
letter to Gen. Dwight Eisen
hower ordering him to "clean
up" the reported conditions and
to turn Germans out of their
homes, if necessary, to get the i
Jewish survivors of Nazism out
of filthy concentration camps.
The Harrison report was a re
cital of horrid conditions under
which Germany's Jews have
been subjected ever since "lib
eration." They are still confined to con
ucj ic u...
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notorious Berger Bcisen camp-.
and according to Harrison still
are treated much as they were
under the Germans.
Harrison said that the Ger
mans, by comparison, are better
fed, better clothed and better
housed than the Jews who pre
sumably were "liberated."
ALLIED CONTROL,
OF JAVA STARTS
Batavia. Java. Sept. 29 (U.R)
Adrn. Lord Louis Mountbat-
ten's southeast Asia command
forces began the Allied reoccu-patio-i
of Java today, putting
1 250 infantrymen and marines
ashore in the Batavla area as the
first step in bringing allied con
trol to all parts of the island
until the Dutch take over.
The Stars and Stripes, the
Ur:on Jack and thc Dutch Tri
color were hoisted over former
,'apaii'sr-oceupied buildincs by
the British troons soon after
hey came ashore.
Singapore reports had faid
British troops speeded to Java
because of reports of recent dis
turbances here among Indone
sian nationalists, but the landing
action proceeded ."noothly with
out demonstrations- by the na-tionaM:-ts
or extremeists.
Rear Adm. W R. Patterson,
comminder of the fifth British
eriiUor iniiadron said in a pro-
nn that the tTOODS
naa
i.rrivM to accept thc surrender
of Jicanese force', to protect
he 'people and "to maintain
'aw pnd order until the time
iv..f th lawful eovernment of
the Netherlanrts Last inaics
once gain functioning."
IE
JAP BEHEADINGS
-OF YANK FLIERS
-Pearl Harbor, Sept. 29 W.R)
The body of Capt. M a s a f o r i
Shiga, Japanese commander of
Mili atoll in the Marshalls, was
found in a tent on Majuro island
Friday along with a note saying
he assumed responsibility for the
torture and decapitation of five
captured American fliers in Jan
uary, 1944, the navy announced
today. He apparently killed him
self by taking poison.
Shiga was being held on Ma-
juro pending outcome of an in-
vestigation to fix responsibility
for the deaths of the fliers. The
text of the note he left was not
revealed. As atoll commander,
Shiga was accused of issuing the
order that sent the fliers to their
deaths.
The navy, said 11 other Jap-
anese officers, including two who
iactuallv swune the swordsiPeai. advocates of such action
st- bared necks of thc
... .... w hpin
held on Majuro pending outcome
of the investigation.
Actual details of the torture
and decapitation of the fliers was
not revealed in the terse navy
announcement the first revela
tion of this act of Japanese
treachery. .
Names of the slain fliers were
not revealed in the three-paragraph
announcement but a navy
spokesman promised they would
be released as soon as possible.
Mystery Shot Kills
La Grande Matron
La Grande. Ore., Sept. 29
!U.R) Mrs. Frank Lovely, young
La Giande matron, was killed
near here last night when an
unidentified person shot into a
group around a campfire.
Mr. and Mrs. Lovely and Mr.
and Mrs. Ncal Evans had gone
to Fox Hill above La Grande
Fridnv afternoon to await open
ing el thc hunting season this
morning. According to a state
police report, an automobile ap
proached and the shot was fired.
Mrs. Lovely is survived by
her husband, a small child and
her parents.
State Waltons Ask
Change Cordon Bill
Salem, Ore., Sept. 29 UR)
Launching of a broad program
designed to further the develop-
ment of state lisn ana game re
sources was announced today by
Lloyd Reinhold, Salem, president
of the Oregon division of thc
Izaak Walton league.
The organization went on rec
ord as endorsing Sen. Guy Cor-
don s bill authorizing protection
of biological interests in water
projects by the fish and wildlife
i service but asking an amendment
i to assure state control of fish and
is game so that management prac-
I tices wotild not be upset.
ITPOSI
WAR TAXDETAIL
Four Billion Cut Business
And Individuals Hinted In
Unison
Washington, Sept. 29 ill.R)
The administration sends to con
gress on Monday a postwar
transition tax program expected
to call for about $4,000,000,000
in tax relief for business and
individuals.
Secretary of the Treasury
Fred M. Vinson will lay the ad
ministration's recommendations
before the House Ways and
Means committee, which initi
ates tax legislation.
Both President Truman and
Vinson have warned that sub
stantial tax reductions connot
be expected now. Congress Is
expected to share that view, at
though there may be some con
flict over the amount and method
of effecting reductions
Anticipating a budget of about
$25,000,000,000 for the 1947 fis
cal year, Ways and Means com
mittee members doubt that Vin
son will propose tax cuts in ex
cess of $4,000,000,000.
The committee expects Vin
son's proposals to deal primarily
with the three per cent normal
tax on individuals and the 95
per cent excess profits tax on
business both wartime levies.
Members believe the adminis
tration cither will call for repeal
of the normal tax or Increased
exemptions. The tax imposes a
three per cent levy on each tax
payers' income in excess of S500
and allows no additional exemp
tion for dependents.
Repeal, which has been advo
cated by Rep. A. Willis Robert
son, D., Va., would cost the
treasury an estimated $2,000,
000,000. Both the administra
tion and Ways and Means com
mittee democrats will be aligned
against the republican proposal
to cut personal taxes 20 per cent
in all brackets.
The committee has been wond
ering whether Vinson would
favor complete repeal of the ex
cess profits tax. Some demo
crats have indicated preference
for a sharp cut rather than out
right repeal. However, if Vin
son shoul
son should not recommend re-
of
will confront him with his July
h renort as war m,lhili7a)i.
I rector. Vinson said then that
! ,he excess profits tax should be
repealed after V-J day.
000LITTLE TRIO
SHOT
Shanghai, Sept. 29 (U.R)
The three American fliers sen
tenced to death after MaJ. Gen.
James H. Doolittle's 1942 raid
on Tokyo were tied to low
wooden crosses and shot in a
field some five miles from down
town Shanghai.
The field already was bathed
with the blood of more than
1,000 Chinese who were behead
ed or .ihot in a Confucion temple
some 100 yards from the spot
where the Americans were
killed.
The three executed fliers
were 2nd Lt. Dean Hallmark.
Dallas. Tex.; 2nd Lt. William
Glovei Farrow, Washington and
Darlington, S C, and Sgt. Har
old A Spatz, Lebo, Kan.
Some 10 Chinese families liv
ing beside the road near the
field were a'ways driven to
covpr oy the Japanese when ex-
ecut.;&n took place to prevent
'.heir
The
callv
witnessing the killings,
-.-aid the did not specifi
remember the Americans
shot. Japanese murder
being
rauai. arrived at the field three
or four times a month, they said.
SEEKS FORTUNE
Panton, Lincolnshire, Sept. 29
(U.R) Cyril Wilcman, 47, a fac
tory worker, will leave shortly
for the United States to claim a
$15,000,000 fortune left by a
California gold miner.
JAP CENSORSHIP,
BY MACS ORDER
Army Demobilized Free
Press and Speech Invoked
By Directives
Tokyo, Sept. 29 U.R Japan '
reported today that four-fifths of
the two and one-half million
men of its crack home army,
which a month ago stood fanatic
ally ready to resist invasion to
the death, had laid down their
arms and returned to civilian
life.
With this end of Japanese mill
t a r i s m, dictatorial oppression
was ending too as Gen. Douglas
MacArthur ordered the abolition
of Japan's traditional censorship
of newspapers, radio, motion pic
tures, mail and communications.
The order gave Japan a free
press for the first time and took
effect immediately. Three Tokyo
newspapers resumed selling edi
tions which the home ministry
had banned because they carried
interviews with Hirohito by two
American newspapermen.
The government reported that
demobilization had been complet
ed In northern Honshu, the area
occupied by the U. S. 11th army.
In the central sector of this larg
est of the home islands, nearly
all troops have been discharged,
me report said.
The demobilization of troops
remaining on southern Honshu
and Kyushu was delayed by the
bept. 17 typhoon. The govern
ment requested MacArthur to
permit temporary resumption of
air travel between Fukuoka and
Osaka to speed demobilization.
MacArthur's directive ordered
the elimination of censorship of
all kinds and the repeal of all
laws designed to control the writ
ten and spoken word. It ordered
the Japanese government to re
port on the 1st and 16th days of
each month on the steps It had
taken toward fulfilling his or
ders. The order, supplementing Mac
Arthur's freedom of the press
directive of Sept. 24, was said
to have been drafted several
days ago but was announced now
because the home ministry had
forbidden the sale of the Tokyo
newspapers, Mainichl, Asahl and
Yomiuri.
Those papers had printed In
terviews with the emperor by
Hugh Baillie, president of United
Press, and Frank L. Kluckhohn
of thc New York Times. Malnichi
also had published a picture
showing MacArthur towering
over thc emperor as they posed
during Hirohito's call on thc
allied supreme commander at thc
U. S. embassy.
PACFUR00PS
San Francisco, Sept. 29 U.R)
The carrier Saratoga, making
her second trip as a "passenger
liner," will dock tomorrow at
8:30 a. m. at Alameda with 3,745
returning soldiers, thc navy an
nounced tonight.
Also docking in San Francisco
bay ports tomorrow will be the
mighty battleship Maryland with
1.519 returning servicemen, and
the carriers Hornet with 2,200
passengers and Bunker Hill with
294.
OF
RATIONING TOLD
Seattle, Sept. 29 (U.R) No
immediate change in liquor ra
tioning in Washington state Is
contemplated. Chairman Luther
E. Gregory of the State Liquor
Control board said tonight, after
announcement that rationing
wrill end in Oregon Monday.
Gregory declined to comment
further on the possibility of
i elimination of rationing here.
Tokyo, Sunday, Sept. 30 01 R)
City officials announced a
drive today from Oct. 1 through
Oct. 10 to clean up thc city's
bomb damaged area.
CIO PICKET LINE
Whiting Mayor Asks Help As
Refinery Strike Flares
Menacingly
Whiting, Ind., Sept. 29 (U.R)
CIO pickets were withdrawn
suddenly tonight from thc Whit
ing refinery of the Standard Oil
company of Indiana.
A spokesman for Standard Oil
said the pickets dispersed within
five minutes after announce
ments were made that "thc
troops are coming."
Whiting, Ind., Sept. 29 (UP.)
Mayor James McNamara to
night told Indiana Gov. Ralph
Gates that "law and order" was
breaking down in Whiting and
Lake county where the CIO had
clamped a tight ring of 2,000
pickets around the Standard
Oil Co. of Indiana Refinery.
Several small battles broke
out ai the pickets, armed with
clubs and using their fists, rout
ed rtfinery workers trying to
enter the massive plant.
Mayor McNamara again ap
pealed to Governor Gates for
units of the state guard or thc
state police. The city official
talked by long distance to Gov
ernor Gates who was in French
Lick, Ind., to address a state
republican meeting.
McNamara and Lake County
Sherlft Fred Stults ''decided to
ask the governor "fSr "immedi
ate assistance' 'after a 12-hour
conference.
Meanwhile, the OWIU acted
to forestall a w,ter shortage
for the city of Whiting when lt
announced lt would permit
workers to man the pumps in
the refinery which furnish wa
ter to the community,
A unit of thc Indiana state
guard already had been mobiliz
ed as Mayor McNr.mara declar
ed a 3tate of emergency existed
in Whiting.
Mayor McNamara declared
the state of emergency and said
his police force could not man
age the mass of humanity that
was Jammed around and In the
neighborhood of the plant, last
rcfim.ry operating In the Calu
met River industrial area which
supplies Chicago with most of
its oil products.
OF HUN VICTIMS
AT HORROR CAMP
Lueneburg, Sept. 29 (U.R)
New mass graves of nazi victims
were found today within a mile
of Lueneburg, where 45 prison
camp guards and commanders
accused of atrocities are on trial
for their lives.
The discovery In a clearing of
pine woods near a railroad was
not directly connected with the
trial. But it was a former trial
witness, Harold Ledruillenec
from the Channel Island of Jer
scy, who located the graves. He
had been present at the ruth
less burials.
Ledruillenec, a former British
schoolmaster, told how last April
bombers had blasted four cars
loaded with nazi captives headed
for the Bcisen camp. Half of
those in the cars were killed.
Some of the survivors were sent
on to Belsen. Nazi guards then
forced the remaining prisoners
to dig the graves for the dead.
As fast as the graves were filled,
the diggers themselves were shot
and dumped in.
Around the graves today for
mer Belsen inmates tried vainly
to identify relatives among thc
bones and fragments of bodies.
Meanwhile, before a British
military court at Lueneburg a
string of witnesses continued a
recital of horrors.
Wenatchce, Wash., Sept. 29
(U.R) Twelve-year-old Glen Mu
guerz of Seattle was killed to
day when a .22 rifle accidentally
discharged.
WAR BULLETINS
Roma, Sept. 29 (U.R) Lt.
Can. Joiaph T. McNarnay of
Emporium, Pa commander of
U. S. f orcai in the Mediterran
ean theater of operations, hat
been named supreme allied
commander In the MTO to re
place Field Marshal Sir Harold
R. Alexander, allied headquar
ters announced today. Alexan
der will become governor gen
eral of Canada.
London, Sept. 29 (U.R) The
partial evacuation of S o v 1 e t
troops from Manchuria began
several days ago. Radio Mos
cow announced tonight. The
main eracuatton will begin
during the last half of October'
and will be completed by the
end of November, the broad
cast said.
BIG FOUR PLANS
COMMISSION FOR
GOVERNING JAPS
Russia, China, Britain and
America to Meet Tokyo,
Washington Soon
London. Sept. 29 (U.R) Sec
retary of State James F. Byrnes
announced tonight that the
United States. Great Britain
Russia and China had agreed to
fnrmutlim of a commission to
formulate a nolicv for Japan and
that meetings would be neio in
Washington and Tokyo.
First meeting of tho commis
sion will be held in Washington
soon. Byrnes said. H an
nounccd that the commission
would be asked to consider
whether an Allied control coun
cil should be set up in Japan,
as requested by the Soviet Union.
Soviet Foreign Commissar V,
M. Molotov had introduced the
Question of an Allied control
council for Japan earlier this
week. Byrnes' announcement
indicated he had attempted
compromise with Russia on the
question of Japan.
A reliable source reported to
night that Byrnes also had at
tempted to break the deadlock
over treaties with former enemy
countries In the Balkans by pro-1
posing a conference of "all in
terested belligerents" to be fol
lowed by a meeting among the
United States, Great Britain and
Russia, Russia had insisted the
Balkan treaties were a question
concerning only the Big Three.
However, it was reported later
that Russia had rejected this new
compromise attempt and that
the United States and the Soviet
Union still were hopelessly dead
locked on the Balkan situation.
Formation of the Japan com
mission was assured when Brit
ain agreed to join. Byrnes' an
nouncement said seven other
powers France, the Philippines,
Australia, New Zealand, Canada,
the Netherlands and India,
would be Invited to become
members.
SEXY AXIS SALLY
GETS FOUR YEARS
Rome, Sept. 29 U.R) Sexy
voiced Axis Sally, whose nazi
propaganda broadcasts from
Rome radio were known to every
GI who fought from North Af
rica to Florence, was found guil
ty by an Italian military court
of intelligence with the enemy
today and sentenced to four
years and five months In prison.
Born Rita Zucca, daughter of
a New York restauranteur, and
once an American citizen, Axis
Sally was tried before seven Ital
ian army officers in a tiny white
washed room. Prosecution 'wit
nesses included three American
soldiers and two Germans who
had appeared on Sally's pro
gram. The"f?'latively light sentence
was handed down after a one
hour and 40 minute oration by
Defense Attorney Ovlatto Llbct
to. Under Italian law, Sally's
nine-months old son may go to
Jail with her until he is two years
old.
OVER 1LLINI 70
TOP GRID UPSET
Northwestern Ties Indiana
In Another Surprise
Other Scores
New York, Sept. 29 U.R)
Notre Dame's Irish, supposedly
just a pale green imitation of
the school's great color beurera
of the past, served a "Mickey
Finn" to a hopeful Illinois eleven
today, winning 7 to 0 for iti
ninth straight victory over tin
Big Ten rivals.
The Irish, playing an uniqtn
role as underdogs, didn't like it
and came through for one of Ilia
day's top upsets.
A newcomer to the Irish ranks.
Phil Colella, playing his first
collegiate game, ran 76 yards to)
the touchdown in the first min
ute of play.
The Notre Dam victory only
slightly overshadowed another
surprising midwest performance)
by the Northwestern wildcast,
who held highly favored Indiana
to a 7-all tie. The Hoosicrs, con.
sidered Big Ten title timber after
their victory last week over
Michigan, outplayed NorthwesU
ern but couldn't get the margin
necessary to win.
In tho east, Army had touch,
downs to spare in a 32 to 0 vic
tory over the Louisville, Ky.f
AAF eleven. Navy defeated ViU
lanova, 49 to 0. Yale topped
Tufts 27 to 0 and Pennsylvania)
was a 50 to 0 victor over Brown.
Colgate defeated Rochester 40
to 0, Cornell laced Bucknell 10
to 8, Holy Cross beat Dartmouth
13 to 6, Fenn State was a 47 to
7 victor over Muhlenberg, Pitts,
burgh defeated West Virginia, 20
to 0, Boston College larruped
Squantum Naval Base, 13 to 0.
Michigan bounced back from
the Indiana defeat to beat MlchU
gan State 40 to 0. Purdue)
topped Great Lakes Naval, 20 to
6,; Iowa drubbed Jowa Teachers-
48
u, Wisconsin defeated
Marquette 40 to 13, and Iowa
was a 14 to 13 victor over Berg.
Strom, Tex., AAF.
Duke rolled over Bogue Field.
76 to 0. Georgia Tech defeated
a North Carolina eleven, 20 ta
i, While Georgia won 20 to n
from Clemson. Florida beat
Mississippi 26 to 13, South Caro.
Iina defeated Presbyterian, 40 ta
0, Tennessee topped Wake For.
est, 7 to 0, Vandcrbilt beat Ten.
ncssee Poly, 12 to 0, Virginia,
defeated North Carolina State 23
to 6, William and Mary won,
19 to 6 from Catawba and Ala.
bama topped Kcssler Field, 21
to 0.
In the southwest, Oklahoma
A. ic M.'s topped Arkansas 19
to 14. Texas Christian edged
Baylor, 7 to 6, and Texas de.
feated Southwestern, 46 to 0.
Oklahoma won 20 to 0 over
Nczraska, while Kansas Stat
beat Wichita, 13 to 6.
L
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Washington, Sept. 29 'U.R'
President John L. Lewis of the)
United Mine Workers warned
bituminous operators tonight
that they were inviting troublo
in thc soft coal fields.
. He made the warning In re
newing his request that repre
sentatives of the operators meet
with the UMW Monday to dis
cuss unionization of mine supr.
visors. The dispute alfVady has
closed 80 mines.
Lumber Strikers At
Lebanon Aid Plant
Lebanon, Ore., Sept. 29 (U.R)
Full crews, made up of strik
ing AFL lumber workers, today
manned all shifts at the Spencer
Packing Company plant at
Lebanon for the first time In
two years.
Cat.nery officials said the re.
maindcr of the prune and toma.
to crop can be saved if the men
continue working Several
thousand .dollars worth of crops
have been lost in the area be
cause of the manpower short,
age.