La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, April 07, 1945, Image 8

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Newspaper Page Text'1)1 "II Sportsmen's Council to Be Formed Tomorrow at Area Meeting in Elgin Sportsmen of northeastern Oregon will gather in Elgin at noon tomorrow to form a sports council to promote the fish and game program of this area. Sponsored by the Elgin rod and gun club, the meeting was called primarily to create a representative body througn which the in terests of the area may be voiced in legislative and administrative matters having a bearing on the hunting and fishing conditions in fKie cj-finn nf the State. I The meeting will be convened at noon in the KniEhtS of Pvtlli ar. hall, where lunch will be served by the Pythian sisters of Elgin. r:.A..; l.iHon P .T Green of i n Grande will be master of I ceremonies, and the principal speakers will be Virgil Benning ton of Walla Walla, a member of the Washington fish and game commission. R. L. McClellan of .Enterprise, a member of the Ore gon commission, also will be present. Representatives of approxi mately 20 organizations in Un ion, Baker, Wallowa and Uma tilla counties are expected at the session, at which the La Grande sportsmen's club will be repre sented officially bv its president, Ernest Walden, and A. J. Stange, a member of the executive board. A number of other club mem bers are planning to attend. All sportsmen are invited to attend the meeting bv Tom Bur ton, president of the Elgin club. Ironmen Get Crack At Hockey Title PORTLAND, Ore., April 7 (UP) Seattle's ironmen today looked forward to a national championship playoff with the Boston Olympics after trimming the Portland Eagles, 4 to 1 last K.'ght to win the Northern divi sion title of the Pacific Coast Ice Hockey league. The deciding playoff game ended the series at 4 victories to two. The Portland team plays the Olympics in exhibition games here Sunday ami Wednesday. -ft..- ...kih (hn Irnnmpn and Boston play a three out of five thn nntinnal amateur v , crown. . The Ironmen won the regular division tilt while Portland had eliminated Seattle's stars in the semi-finals. o Fight Results By United Press New York Tony Janiro, 140. Youngstown, O., knocked out Humberto Zavala, 137J4. Mex ico City, (4). Worcester. Mass. T i in in y Hayes, 127, Boston, stopped Sam my Montani, 128, Pittsburgh, (3. Providence. R. I. Duif'iul Reed, 170, Newark, N. J., out pointed Jerry (Schoolboy I Ber thiaume, 179. Montreal, (10). Toronto Gets First Ice Title Match DETROIT, April 7 (UP) Dave (Sweeney) S c h r i n ? r. one of hockey's most capable veterans, and Frankic (Finn) McCool. the .'port's top rookie, sent the Tor onto Maple Leafs out in from to day with an all-important fjist victory in the Stanley Cup hockey playoffs with the Detroit Red Wings. Toronto's 1 to 0 triumph was brought about by Schrinrr's un assisted goal in the first pi nod tnd Mt'Cool's brilliant goal-te-nd-tng from start to finish. VETERAN TRAINER PUSSES L E X I N G TON. Kv . April 7 (UP) Trotting horse fans l ' day mourned the di ath of Rich i.rd MeMahon. retired li airier, ho was a colorful figure foi many .wars in Grand circuit rac ing. He dud ystcrday after an illnctiS of more than a yiar. lb was 78 years old. In 1!131 M c M a h o n won the llanibli toman stake at tii'hiii. Y Y . with Calumet IJutlcn There are 26.000.1100 chickens on the farms uf Illinois. q pVJp ThprrV Keglers Divide Postponed Match I.FACUE STANDINGS W. L. Pis. Service Wholesale 22 14 31 Farnam Supply 21 15 28 Lorec's Bldrs - 17 IS io Coca-Cola 18 1 23 Shell 17 19 22 Observer 15 21 22 Cherry's florists 16 20 21 Kichfi'eld 17 19 20 A handicap advantage of 66 .-, thr. Chnrrv Florists a J 2-2 split in standing points with the Service Wnoiesaiers in a post poned game in the men's bowling league. The service five took one game and series and the Cherry keg lers took two games. "Rusty" Jordan of the Service team rolled the high series of 540 pins, and split high game honors with Walter Chadwick. They rolled 205 each in their first yames. The scores: Service Wholesale Players 1st 2nd 3rd Ttl. Chadwick 205 158 172 535 Jordan 205 103 172 540 Workman 128 144 164 436 Cook 17!) 170 134 483 L. Courtney 141 176 163 488 Handicap 120 120 120 360 Totals ... !'86 031 !I25 2842 Cherry's Florists G. Courtney 107 167 17! 445 411 441 400 475 558 Kcnick 130 Murphv 107 Ycsko 1 152 17!) 172 158 166 12!l 155 14!l 160 136 spoiling is Handicap ... 186 Totals 856 1014 950 2820 Smelt Run Sets All-Time Record PORTLAND, Oil'., April 7 (UP) An all-time record is be ing set by the continued heavy run of smelt in the Sandy and nearby rivers, veteran fishermen said today. Th, run sli.i-'e-'j n.st Sundav night and there seems no letup, despite hundreds of fishermen scooping out the fish wholesale. Friday's run was the heaviest of the week. Banks of the Sandy were lined for 10 miles from Troutdale and seven clerks ivi-i.' kept busy selling non-commercial fishing licenses. The average fishermen took about 10 minutes to scoop up his 50 pjund limit with whatever utensils he had available, includ ing buckets., nets, sacks and bare hands Millions of the t.sh have come against Bonneville dam and many are going over the laddcis or through the tanner creek by pass. I Nelson Holds Lead ; In Georgia Match ATLANTA, fia.. April 7 il'i"-' - Sammy Byrd. who traded in J hi baseball bat for a b.ig of Kutfi j e'iuo-. moved into runner-up' . p.i.Ml:nn today in the 10,000 Iron' I. org tuuinanu-nl but Byron Nel j: n. the v mti? champion, still is the man to lu-.il. j Nrlson's two day a'ti-holc total -. .is I'M, five i-lioke-s under par and six .stroke's K ss th.m Byrd's n-Nli I place total of 13!'. Tin Toicd sharpshooter h.d an even pai (i'l yi-stcui.iy to go with !u I hi tlhanl (It of the opening day ( lie is living for l is eighth vio ' tin v u( the ra..-m ' 'I ! & Pro-Grid Draft Includes Stars 0 Of Service Teams NEW YORK, April 7 (UP) A new policy by National League professional football teams in their annual player draft was evident today because of the in clusion in the selection for the first time of slars Irom the army and navy military academies. Jack Green, captain and guard on Army's 1045 team, George Barney Poole, a dependable cadet end, and Bob Jenkins, bone crushing backfield star from Navy, were included in the 330 players named yesterday in the long involved selection bee. Green, a brilliant football tac tician, A-as selected by the Chi cago Bears, Poole by the New York Giants and Jankins by the Washington Redskins. Selection of the academy play ers was unusual for several rea sons. Each of the three has from one to three seasons left to paly. Each is outstanding not only as an athlete but in his academy- career and none of the three is likely to leave military service to take over in the professional gridiron realm. In normal times, the pro clubs made it an unwritten rule not to draft players from the service schools because the odds were long against the players being of any use to them. TODAY'S SPORTvPARADE. Bv LEO H. PETERSEN United Press Sports Editor ' NEW YORK, April 7 (UP) The "Binder Twine Kid" is doing his spring planting now among the hills somewhere around Clin ton, S. C for he is in the middle of his hill-billy season. He will continue in that role until August when he will com ? Hown out of those hills to go to the training camp of the Green Bay Packers, national profession al football league champions. And in a football suit or in the store clothes he wears when he leaves his native hearth he is any thing but a hill-billy. For Larry Craig leads two lics. In the fall months he's "Don Jut son's Muscle.'' The rest of the year he roughs it as the direct ing head of the farming opera tions of the Craig family. And if it wasn't for pro-football there probably wouldn't be any Craig homesteads. To the people around Green Bay. Wis., and Clinton, S. C. Ciaie is pretty well known. But to the average football fan he is ; known as a workmanlike player ! one of the best in the league 1 hut you don't hear much about him because he lacks what they call color in the sport. But that color isn't lacking to anyone who knows Larry very well. As soon s he leaves those mountains every fall he goes back to wearing shoos suits, shirts and ties and you won't find many -aigumenls among the pro-football players if you call him the best looking guy in the bunch and one of the best dress-urs. And l when the Packers go into a hoti-1 in sonv' league city the pr etties; . gill in the lobbv will be there ! waiting for Larry Craig. . Hs j i the pro football league's "sailoi"! j with a girl at every port of call j in the circuit. j He doesn't forget what he is hired for. either. In all his years with the Packers he probably hasn't handled tb; ball more than a doen times, and then it was I usually scooping up fumbles. But j he's been barking the Packer signals for a long time, throwing the kev Mocks on offense and t.ikir.g over fur Hutxm en de f n.c;- For when the exposition S".s the ball. Don drops into the backfie-ld and Larry' moves up to left end. He's one of the hest ele. ft nsive ends in the leaciu and to lii.s coach Curlv Lambeau. he's the game's all-time ejuartei hack for the J'aclecr system. Larry like-s his fitlall louyh. t(Ki. lli. fiame'is 'built for it riO pounds over six fi -t. one ;tni a h :tl f inches. They tried him as a line backer-upper in a game of couple of years ago and alter aWmt six plays he calld his U-ammati s in a huddle and said he had .-neiuth of that job. His compl.unt 'wa: that the line wasn't idling anv enemy pivers thmugli whop; he could hit So I.airy iM lit l'e k to left iJ. When 11. e season's over. L.n f'Tgi Is hi football world, chants to th.- mrb of a South Carolina hil." faime-r an.l i.-ses touch with the wo; Id I).- take's his money with him h. 0-aved his dad'. fa:m with hi (ex.tba'.l earning ;n.l tiun lounht another farm The farms a:e in n pn ',t.y remote section so getting in to-ach with I.arry Levuima major league) t. k during the off e(in. 9uB PHYSICIAN DIES O !UC,G0O.pnl 7 il'I'j - Di . John V n.ivi i,hv,i.-r.n f...- IV.. Chieago Cubs (or more than ) iais, died .terday of a heart Davis al.-o w aTtcamO.,ysician t -i the Ch'eago Beats leHitiNiii team for the past 21 ears. ai " i ved in a .:niiar capacity (jy the Amencan Be.i: b-.-ke-ttin! ! air. last w inter. LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER I'hone 600 Complete Local Reports Saturday. April 7. 191'. ''' 8 Beavers Tighten Hold On Top of Ladder By United Press The Portland Beavers increased their Pacific Coast league leader- j ship to two games yesterday. They scored their seventh win in eight starts last night by defeating the Sacramento Solons 11-6. The San Francisco Seals lost their third game to the San Diego Padres by a score of 2-0 as their northern rivals, the Oakland Oaks, chalked up their third straight victory over the Hollywood Stars by a 9-7 score. The Seattle Rainiers snapped off a four-game Los Angeles winning streak by taking an afternoon game 8-5. Seventh is Fatal The win over the Solons gave the Beavers their third of the reries. The Beavers cinched the game when they scored seven runs in the fifth, climaxed by Frank Shone's homer with two aboard. Jess Landrum featured the Solons' batting with a double and a single in three trips to the plate. Clarence Fc-dcrmeyer was credited with the win. Padres Take Seals Del Ballinger set the Padres up for their victory over the f ?als when he singled to right field in the last of the eighth. A few moments later. Vein Reyn olds singled to center with Val lie Eaves following up with a two bagger to left field which brought in the winning talii-.'S. Errors Beat Stars Four Hollywood errors and 14 Oakland bingles helped the Oaks win the ball game. Newt Kim ball, who started on the mound for the Twinks. was belted out of the box in the seventh. Man aged Dolph Camilli got credit for the victory though he was leiieved in the sixth. fiob Can- i tell hit four singles for the Stars. Ted Norbert. Rainier outfieleVr who played last year for the An i;t Is. cinched the Suds' victory in the sixth whi n he banned out his fourth home ran of the sea son to bring in two tallies. The Angels had their biggest inning in the first when they scored twice on a walk and three hits. Lou Xovikoff led the batting for the southerners with thiee hits in fuv tunes up. Pasture Problems Are Subject Of Farmers' Session The List of :i .--flies of meet- I inns held th-MKiuhout the coun- j ty will be ;t Blue Muunta;n Gi;inn' hall n.:ir La Grande to- n;cht when CVunty Anent R. W. I Schaad will conduct a di?euiun I on pasture improvement. ) He will shew motion pictun.sj to illustrate the kinds of pastures and the methyls of use and man- I agemcnl for increasing milk pro- ( duttior. and for greater efficiency j at the lowest n Pasture man- tion. fi edmj methods, and ;.-e ) of eomtr.ertii 1 fertilizers. The pictur. p:odudi'n or pastures and riency of p: ii show the c st - various kinds illustrate the efl uction through be ter mar.age-rr.t nt. One of t:c pasture mixtuie-s which the extension service sug gests for svi with a high mms tuie conti nt is meadow foxtail (not the b, ,t:dcd foxtail', nl'.a fose-ut . orehiid Era-s. tall mea dow oat eass. and white Du'e'h cl'-vt-r. V'he:e alkali l.s p:e-e-r.t. strawbvr: Pchaad ait. f-.-se.. e'- cr diH's '.'. e.l V:k dry p.,-tun English rye gr.i-s e r.!" giass. e-ich.ir 'vi l-iw sw eel '. '. t i o n:mi nri'-'l. is making paymi -n! r -r pasture seeilir iiprovement. idde-.l. AAA Judy (kulnml A pa in Plays Teen-age Hole 1 A'-I Jjl'j ttVili IVJlSjTOJSfWt A!"t"t ' ir.g considerable; -e.'-- j com in ' 1 lit io!es. into wimii j she c: ..'i.i. i not l-nu aco. Ju-i-.- i Ci.il!a".i ae on apuears as a t. i :.- i : 'Meet Me In St. L"i-l. ' ',.'i .'If action at '.he l.:!v e'lVe l '.e..t- tin. ugh next T .- da, 1 n. -t- : -. .. laid in .. '- ! '' - .: i j, w ith the aft -.: - of !' S-i th f.'V.lIe. reldeot- , ! I W A - -. i lip-f'. V t : p:, ... - ,v to , Ni w Y-r - i YANKEE FlLLDER CALLED A il) "-. ; H' t'-TY. N -1 . Ar .! V I'.ttK --' .! .Nl'W- It'.rV lal'i' V .-lie, ,0? .O IVPOI, .O 0,00 l'hi.... for a rr - HI le ' SPORTS Today We Pay Tribute to I'vt. Alvin Joseph Bush man, T-l. the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Hushman of I'ort I;:ikI. He has served in Ice land. England and in France v. here he was (riven a citation fr.r bravery in the invasion, lie serves with a signal bat talion in the radiu television department. Iiii-ltman attended t;iade school in Pendleton and Im hier and was graduated from Imblcr high .school. Hefore entering the army, November 11. lit 12. he was employed iicar La (irande as a farm a borer. vurvriY.cr 1 iris .SERVICE.? Cpl. Merrill Orton arrived last night from. Laredo, Texas, for a 15 day furlough with his v e and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Orton in Pendieton. He is a top-turret gunner for a B 21 and on his return will take aerial engineering. j ' The nava air stalln ;it Qttum wa. Iowa, today announced the ' arrival of Knsign Lf land Pleger of La Grande fe:r primary air i flight training. He is among some 300 recently commissioned ensigns who will undergo a four-month period of training at Ottuma. Pleger was commissioned recently at the na val reserve midshipman's school in New York citv. . I Pfc. Vernon Martin, son of Mrs. . I C. L. Gothnrd. 3"1 Fourth street, s j has returned to the United States r j aftt r 40 months in the south Pa 1 cifle. and w ill a: rive ht.-'r Su' ay or Monday for a 21-dav leave. M; i tin. 'who was given leave under the rotation p!an, has se-ret En the Hawaian islands. Aiistialia. New Guinea and the I'hiliupines. Si. fore bring ealled Into se:V- j ire with the national guard in September. W-W. he was living in roMie-roy. Yah. Technician Fouith Giade-Che's-ter J. Hoak. son of Mr. and Mrs. m I i l LIBERTY Nw Playing ' ' M.n.M'c nioriniiR Love ' Story with Music and TECHNICOLOR! MEET ME MARY ASTOR LUCIUX BREMER eS-. V TCN CSAitS KARJORIE MAIN Featuiiiii; The Hit Paiade Tune. " Prifo rnilino- Cuts Despite Increased I ran, mmmm tea ritli Everyone in the dairy farmer's lamuy is pucmng m Ih. nation with more fluid milk than ever has bee.i produced before. Less milk will be churned i.ito butter tins year because of price differentials. By S. B41RT0N HEATH and DOUGLAS LARSEN NEA Staff Correspondents WASHINGTON The princi pal reason why you can not buy butter, except at the cost of more ration points than you can afford, is because the farmer can get about twice as much for fluid milk as for the butter it will make. Naturally he sells the milk in fluid form. In spite of demands bv the armed forces for milk and milk products, there probably will be more fluid milk for civilians this vear than ever before. If some of this were to be made into but ter, we still could get by very well for milk. But that would cost the producer a price that no businessman could afford to pay. Top grade fluid milk in the New York area brings about 4.50 a hundred pounds. The same milk, made into butler, would yield approximately S2 at current prices. The exact fig ures may differ in other areas and at various times, but the spread will be about the same. Naturally, milk is plentiful but butter is scarce. More Milk Than Ever The bureau of aericuKural eco nomics predicts that there will be, this year. 101 per cent as much fluid milk as last year. 105 per cent as much condensed and evaporated milk, 1U2 per cent as much cheese but only 89 per cent as much butter. If your grocer's refrigerator, for the moment, is bulging with butter, and your self-service mar ket has an "as much as you want" sign on its butter display, that is not because the spread i actuallv plentiful. It is because the high ration point value. chargeable against meat tokens, has discouraged buving and has driven manv families to oleomar- enrine or entirely out of the mar- KCl. The Diospects for margarine look rather good. Government rtatisticians foresee 109 ner cent as much oleo available this year as last. How much you will get is. of course, another auestion. with new thousands turnine to marcanne because they can buy it for only eight points whereas at thir writing, butter requires 24 points. Taken, altogether, the food sources of bodily heat and ener gy are far from promising. Pork is awav off 17 per cent under last year. As a natural accom paniment, laid is off 13 points. Butter is i'wn 11 per cent. Mar garine, u somewhat, can't ab soib the slack. The feiod value that you normally get freim fats and fat meats, without thinking about them, thus are sadly below par for this year Sugar is Scarcer Sugar, of course, provlde-s both bodilv heat and energy. But you can't turn to sugar. It. too. is going to be even harder to gi-t Charles Hoak of route I. La Grande, is now overseas w ith a tank corps. His last letter was written to his parents from Eng land. Hoak operated his parents' farm hofoic entering the serv ice in December. 1941. Tkn Tuesday IN ST. LOUIS The Trolley Soni;" P 1 11 Butter Supply Milk Production -. . -. . . this year than at any time since World War I. The government forecast is for only 88 per cent as much sugar as we had last year. Last year we splurged on su gar and used up about a quarter of our reserve stocks. In this manner we obtained i;n average cf 88 pounds a person during this year including ration point su gar, canning allowances, and in- direct consumption in the form oi sweeienea ioous, eirnms, vie. As a result we shall have to get along this year with 78 pounds a person 10 pounds less. Part of this will come out of home canning allowances, which will be smaller. Part wil come out of the sugar bowls in restau rants and institutions. Bakers, canncrs and soft drink makers may feel the pinch and we, their customers, mav find their products either scarcer or less tasty. You mav find public eating places once mo)e discouraging the second cup of coffee. That probably will not have anything to do with the supply of coffee, but rather with the sugar used in it. Coffee itself is expected to re main as plentiful as now you .an buy all you want without either rationing or finding deal ers' shelves low. The only cloud op the coffee horizon is the dis pute between the OPA and cof- lee- proeiuee-is wiie-ioe-i ee-iioit,j prices should be lilted to allow the producers a greater profit. Inasmuch as the United States is infinitely the best customer the producing countries have or are likely to find, it is assumed that this dispute will be settled with out anv stoppage of supplies to us. . . . I bliarCZ OeiS i Off ' Qi'py SnOOliS fjPCCy PORTLAND. April 7 (UP) Johrny Suarez of Portland today looked' lor new worlds to conoucr after a 10-round decision here last nicht over Harold IS' -ks) Lacey. Negro from New York. Tlu i;i7-pound Suatez now has seven straight wins. He belt-vd Lacey, 133. for seven rounds and three were even. Granada ,-, 1 I I T ,V.. Z "V . n u k o I 5J ILL Latest Is --tie I iiii.r.:j. o 0o' WAllY ALAN' ff C,-r BROWN CARNEY 1 iS8K FRANCES VERA JmLANGFORD VAGUE. O 5AL-p I T C H U M 1 ,ft W rpjice today! Liberated at M 4 yearj of darkness under the naii heel! THK PLASTIC INVENTOR" UNIVERSAL an DiMiey I ,u toon Premier Suzuki Pessimistic Over Japan's Prospects (Continued from Page 1) Japanese expeditionary form, China, have been appointed manders of the new genera army command. Gjn. s' Kawabe was appointed mander of the general army fa command. Doihara Gets Post Significantly Kcnji Doiharj Japan's "Lawrence of nitj'm churia," regarded in some gujt. ters as the instigator of the in famous "Mukden incident" m. ting off hostilities in Asia, returned to public life. He was nnnnintr.H insnor-tni it-inunt "t-r-""" , tr-"'-iai or f military education. ins cauinei nsi was Droadcast by the Tokyo Domei agency, pre. sumably after it had been ap. proved by Emperor Hirohito. fe completion was delayed by lh( American superfostress attack on Tokyo this morning, Domei said. Only navy minister Mitsumasa Yonai and justice minister Hiro masa Matsuzaka were retained from the Kioso cabinet, which resigned in a storm of criticism over Japan's recent military de feats. Gen. Korechika Anami, direc tor general of army aviation headquarters, was named war minister, and Admiral Teijiro Toyada, former chief of the navy aviation department, was given the posts of munitions, transpor tation and communications min ister. Other members of the new cabinet are almost all veteran career civil servants, were: Anami, the new war minister, was vice minister of war before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harboi. He was appointed di rector general of the army avia tion headquarters and concur rently a member of the Japanese supreme war council last Dec. 26. Gonki Abe, the new home min ister, was a former superintend I dent general of the metropolitan i police board and a veteran police I official. Now in Stock! AI.UKR'S Chick eratch it ncl Chick Feeders! AValko Tablets! B-K Powder!' Garden Seeds! Garden & Fruit Sprays! ERICKSON and L0TTES 1525 Jefferson Phone 792 Sunday Monday - Tuesday - - II f LI I I . i b , . . ffflk.'f . P A D D S-M he World in Action U V M O NEW.' 1 Tll us how did you feci when you faced Feller's last ball?"