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La Grande Evening Observer
Frank Schiro,
j TUESDAY EVENING,, MAY 13, 1945
The Next Enemy to
EVENING OBSERVER'S
PROGRESS PROGRAM
IRRIGATION Complete (he Grande
Ronde Valley irrigation project. ,
LA GRANDE A city of 10,000
Extend the city limits.
To Eat or Not to Eat
In an agricultural area a 21-year-old
4-F has been working day and night,
with the assistance of one hired man,
caring for more than a hundred dairy
cows. Resides feeding, milking and
generally caring for the cattle, the two
men raise most of the feed for thorn,
plus some miscellaneous crops.
The oilier day the' hired man was
put by his draft board into 1-A and
notified to expect an early call. The
young farmer was bitter.
"They say they need food," he said,
"but do they? Do they think I can do
all this work alone? The day they take
John, I shall offer my milk cows for
sale. The grass, and any crops already
in, I'll plow under in the fall to keep the
soil from running down. You can't
raise food without manpower."
President Truman had convincing
arguments for vetoing the resolution
that would have given farm workers
an absolute deferment independent of
other considerations. The proposal was
unsound and undemocratic.
Hut you can't raise food without
manpower. It's easy for city dwellers
who never saw a cow or a pig or a field
of corn to forget that unless there are
farmers to farm, tenement dwellers
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can't eat.
This country is not in or approaching
any famine condition like that in much
of Europe. We haven't suffered for
food. We coidd survive on much less
than wo now have. Judging by warn- (
ings from Judge Rosenman and the
president we are going to do so in the
interest of sharing with Europe's suf
ferers. Wo civilians accept that we must
make sacrifices; we know that we can't
have guns nnd unrestricted butter.
However, many of us feel that the food
situation has been permitted to deter-;
iorate much more than has been neces-r
sary. We aro completely cold to the
theory promulgated by some that, be
cause millions in the world are neces
sarily underfed, we have no, right to
protest ftgainst being unnecessarily de
prived of a satisfying diet.
If we couldn't do our international
duty and still eat moderately well wo
coul dtake it. The handling of our food
production and allocation is going from
had to worse so fast that we are not at
all sure it is necessary.
One of the most urgent tasks con
fronting President Truman and con
gress is to go over the food situation
with a fine-tooth comb, find out what
is wrong, and do whatever seems neces
sary. If it appears that mora man
power is needed on the farm or, at
least, that we can not do with less it
should not be impossible to find a form
ula for deferring really useful farm help
without going as far as the resolution
vetoed by the president would have
gone.
Questions & Answers
You cannot pass legislation to
make a man produce more or to
make him want the capitalistic
system.
- Kric Johnston, president U. S.
chamber of commerce.
It Mvms I can do cviiything
hut gain weight.
Many I.. Hopkins, confidential
adviser to late President Roose
velt. All the Axis criminals should
receive those kinds and amounts
of punishment which would he
best calculated to prevent them
and licter others from inflicting
MUiytHC injuries upon thfir fellow
mctv
--Pr. Emanuel Chapman, direc
tor, committee of Catholics for
,.. human rights.
'Air power was the deadliest
we apon e your arsenal. With
out it c.eii!rn) would still be un
deleted today.
OJticial cf Slemcns-Schuckcrt.
Ku ;nW.g ir.djt'.rial equip
ment manufacturers.
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Washington Merry-Gd-Round
Br DREW PEARSON
. WASHINGTON While the families and
friends of G. I.'s in the European theater
are worrying about who will come home and
who will go on to the Pacific, General Mar
shall is worrying about a'similar problem
In regard to the officers now in Europe. Mar
shall explained this problem recently at a
secret meeting of the senate military affairs
committee.
The trouble is that too many high-ranking
officers who have been in on the job of
knocking out Germany are demanding that'
they be sent on to the Pacific. They don't
want to stop fighting. While most of these
men are officers of the regular army and of
very high rank, a number of reservists and
newly commissioned men are also anxious
to get to the Pacific. Officers who have
had behind-thc-lines jobs in supply, com
munications and other fields in France are
especially anxious to get combat assignments
against the Japs.
While Marshall is tickled by their attitude,
it is adding to his already huge headache re
garding redeployment of forces in the Euro
pean theater.
The chief of staff told senators that a num
ber of top-rank officers have declared their
willingness to accept reduction in rank in
order to go to the Pacific. He named color
ful "Blood and Guts" Patton now a four
star general as one of those who have been
most Insistent about being reassigned to
combat work. Patton told Marshall when
they met in Europe several weeks ago that
he would be willing to "lose a good deal of
rank" if he could only be kept in the war.
Republicans Meet Secretly
AFL President Bill Green was the speak
er when the "78-79 club" (first and second
term Republican congressmen) held its last
meeting. Green didn't say anything of great
importance, but good politician that he is
he made an excellent impression.
Secret Argentine Debate
It is now possible to give the play-by-play
account of what happened behind the closed
doors of the steering committee at San Fran
cisco when the thorny problem of Argen
tina's admission to the United Nations came
up.
Secretary of State Stettinius presided.
After a brief discussion o procedure, For
eign Minister Molotov arose, asked that Kuz
nctsov, chairman of the all-union council of
Soviet trade unions, be permitted to speak
in behalf of the world trade union confer-
WE, THE WOMEN
Br RUTH MILLETT
At a meeting in New York of the Society
of Restaurateurs, its president, -Paul -Hcnkel,-."
pointed out that, many restaurants might
have to close, despite the heaviest patron
age in years, simply because of the difficulty
in getting meat. "It is almost impossible to
make up menus of any variety except to use
fish and eggs, which not everyone can eat,"
said Mr. Hcnkel.
He isn't letting housewives, struggling
with too few red points and practically emp
ty meat cases, in on any secret.
In fact the average housewife is likely to
be a bit envious of the restaurants that CAN
go out of business. " She can't.
She is stuck with the job of feeding her
family no matter how serious the food
shortage becomes. And more than that, the
Behind Scenes in Washington
Br PETER EDSON, La Grande Evening Observer Washington Correspondent
Key figure among the 16 Polish leaders
held under arrest by the Russians since Ap
ril 30 is Brigadier General Leopold Okulicki,
whose full story will make One of the thrill
ers of the war when it can be told. He is
in no sense a political leader, as arc the
other 15 in this group which disappeared
under such mysterious circumstances, to
the embarrassment of the harmonious rela
tionships of major United Nations powers.
But few men did more to further the ad
vance of the Red armies across Poland and
this fact alone makes his detention by the
Russians all the more incomprehensible.
Okulicki was a colonel in the Polish army
when the war broke out in 1930. He fought
the Germans until the last, then surren
dered as a prisoner of war to the Russians.
He was released in 1941 after the Stalin-Si-korski
pact of mutual friendship, and was
evacuated with the Polish armies to the mid
dle east. When these Polish units were
transferred to the Italian front, Okulicki
went along as chief of staff, staying in that
post until he was ordered to London early
in 1944 as deputy to General Bor, command
er of the Home Army, as the Polish under
ground forces were officially designated.
Though General Okulicki was a man of
50. he took training as a parachutist with
Polish forces in Scotland. He was dropped
from a plane over Polish territory, where
he took command of Hame Army detach
ments in the face of retreating Germans and
the on-coming Russians.
In July 1944, General Okulicki sent one
of his aides to Washuig'on to confer with
the combined chiefs of staff. This aide was
known in Washington as General $'almr,
though that was not believed to be Ills real
name. He was in Washington for nearly a
month.
Though he was kept closely under the
wraps of military security at the time, it
can now be revealed that this General Ta
bor brought with him outlines for a plan to
coordinate the operations of the Polish un
derground army with the armies of Central
Eisenhower, in wes'ern Europe. It was the
(5lan of General Okulicki that the Polish
Kuznetsov then proposed on behalf of
Russia that the world trade union conference
organized in London and on which the CIO
is represented be permitted to become a
member of the new United Nations organ
ization. He reminded the delegates of the
contribution organised labor had made to
the defeat of fascism, pointing out that 60
million members of the conference in 30
democratic countries had helped destroy
Germany and Italy as fascist governments.
The Egyptian foreign minister, Abdel
Hamid Badawi, opposed Kuznctsov. He
maintained that accepting the world trade
union conference would open the way to the
entry of other pressure groups. Ecuador,
New Zealand, and Australia all politely op
posed the Russian request. Then Anthony
Eden stepped up and suggested that all
resolutions be withdrawn. His motion was
carried. This was Russia's first defeat.
Russia Wins and Loses
The Russians than won a victory. The
executive committee approved without dis
cussion the Russian recommendations for
seating the Ukrainians and the White Rus
sians. Next came the Argentine issue. .
Molotov suggested that as a matter of
procedure, the Big Four discuss the matter
among themselves prior to the action of the
steering committee. He said there were
some very real unanswered questions about
the character of Argentina. Then he moved
that the question of inviting Argentina be
postponed.
But Ponce Henriqucz, Ecuadorean foreign
minister, jumped up and demanded immedi
ate action. He said Argentina had made a
great contribution to inter-American unity
and should be rewarded, .
Prime Minister Fraser of New Zealand
then spoke up and said he had considerable
doubts about bringing Argentina in.' He
said he was afraid Argentina's admission
might prove a precedent for countries like
neutral Ireland, Spain and England.
However, Fraser was the only one to talk
against Argentina besides the Yugoslav for
eign minister, Ivan Subasic, who supported
Molotov. Finally, Stettinius and Nelson
Rockefeller urged Peru, Chile, Brazil and
Cuba to speak. All opposed Russia. At last
Molotov moved for a vote on his motion to
suspend action until Russia could either
consider the question or discuss it with oth
See WASHINGTON . . . Page 4
housewife is one "restaurateur" who has to
live ' with her dissatisfied customers,.wh.o;;
come home dreaming of beef steak, only to
find spaghetti and cheese, for the main
course and to be told they are lucky to have
the cheese.
But there is one thing the housewife can
do if any member of her family protests at
the lack of variety in the meals or brings
up the fact that the family is having hot
dogs for the third time in a week.
She can turn the family's red points over
to the complaining member and say, "Okay,
you do the, meat marketing for a month
and see if you can get any variety into the
meals." ' -
Even though she can't go out of business,
that is one comeback the housewife has that
is denied the owner of a restaurant.
Home Army, operating through Polish slave
labor in Poland Germany and Belgium,
could disrupt the east-west lateral commun
ication ines in these three counties sor that
the wchrmacht could not move its dwindling
reserves from one front to the other. To
carry out this plan, General Okulicki said he
would need certain supplies of special wea
pons and explosives, dropped to him by the
parachute" supply line.
The plan was communicated to the Rus
sians through Soviet military attaches in
Washington. The plan is believed to have
been turned down by the Russians on the
ground that the Red army did not want the
Poles to be supplied with any arms what
ever. At any rate, General Tabor left
Washington pretty well broken up over the
failure of his mission.
In spite of this setback, General Okulicki
kept up his campaign of underground dis
ruption of the German war effort and aid
to the Russians. In August the Warsaw up
rising was ordered. Theoretically it was to
be coordinated with and relieved by the ad
vances of the Red army. Though the upris
ing was continued for 63 days, Russian re
lief was not forthcoming. On October 3
General Bor was captured to be liberated
from a German prison camp only a few days
ago.
General Okulicki went into hiding with
the political leaders. Early in February he
radioed the London Polish government that
"for basic political reasons" it would be nec
essary to disband the Home Army. Not
questioning the advice of its top military
D leader in Poland, the order was issued and
effective resistance of the Tolish under
ground practically ceased.
Okulicki himself stayed underground un
til March 15 when his identity was disclosed
to the Russians and he was persuaded to
come out into the open to cooperate with
the Russians in setting up a new govern
ment. That led to his trip to Russia pre
sumably en route to London with the 15
political leaders six weeks later, Snd his
forced detention by the Soviet government,
as confirmed ty Foreign Commissar Molotov
at San Francisco.
Side Glances
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Br WM. E. McKENNEY, America's Card Authority
ONE OF THOSE FINE
POINTS IN DEFEINSE
Here is an interesting hand
that I watched the other night.
Declarer won the opening lead
with the ace of hearts and led a
small diamond, finessing dum
my's ten. East won with the
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3N.T. Pass Pass Pass
Opening Q. 16
30 Years Ago, May 15 ,"
Sister Mary Conrad, who .has
been visiting her sister, Mrs.
Gangloff, and Mrs. J. E. Foley
and Mrs. Julius Roesch, returned
to her home in Seattle.
Jess Rosenbaum returi?d after
a prolonged stay in Sn Fran
cisco and Seattle.
George Stoddard was a visitor
at Palmer Junction looking over
the newly instituted logging
camps of his Perry cimpany.
queen and returned a heart. De
clarer's king won and another
diamond was returned, East winning.-
Perhaps East is not subject to
criticism for failing to return a
club at this point, but he could
just about count the declarer's
hand. The king of diamonds in
dummy had that suit blocked. A
heart return would give declarer
O SO THEY SAY
Q What is the Hipo?
A Danish collaborationist po-
lice.
Q What does Japan's naval
personnel number?
A U. S. navy estimates 850,
000. Q What does France want
done with Germany?
A Military occupation of the
Rhineland and Ruhr', to be fol
lowed by international control of
coal, steel and chemical indus
tries of those regions.
-What does CINCLANT
mean in navy code?
Af Commander-in-Chief,
Unit-
cd States Atlantic fleet.
Q How many ships arc in our
merchant marine?
A Around 5000.
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an opporunity to discard the dia
mond king.
Therefore, tht only chance of
defeating the contract was to es
tablish a club trick for West,
However, East nfade the mis
take of leading antjfi, heart,
and while East and iwest Were
able to cash two heart tricks, de
clarer made three cuxioricls, two
hearts, three spades arictthe-ace.
of clubs.
15 Years Ago, May 15
John MelviHe,"piom business
man of La Grande; observedl'the
35th anniversary of entry- into
business here. He opened a tine
man shop here May 10, 1895.
About 150 persons registered
at open house aff!" Grande
Ronde hospital in observance of
National Hospital day, with
Chapter I of P.E.O. in charge of
the program. All patients re
ceived floral gifts.
Miss Valettc HaKm1 Junior at
Oregon State college, vs one of
the eight pledges. to. Phi Qhi
Theta, national honpnfj society
in commerce for women.
10 Years Ago, May IS
Jennie Nielsen, wt mis been,
employed in the hijhjxjjiool pt-
fice, took a position with the
Eastern Oregon Light and Power
company. Zelma lnsMUhas Re
placed her at the high school.
Students from La Grande or
ganized a club to interest students
graduating from the La. Grande
high school and the-Eastern Ore
gon Normal in Oregon State col
lege. At the first meeting Howard
Stoop was elected president and
Karl Johns.; secretary.' The or
ganization planned tp'.Work with
the stale college alumni'organiza
tion in La Grande in? arranging ,
summer activities. 1
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