La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, May 31, 1945, Image 5

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Newspaper Page Textu . Tluuudny, May 31, 1915 FederarAction Is Held Unlikely in Nisei Terrorism WASHINGTON, May 31 (UP) jhe federaT;government believes II has little .fight to intervene in cases of tctorism against Jap anese - Americans oh the west coast, It was learned today. Justice department nttorneys have been Studying the 19 cases n ported to them and have con cluded thaftr there is possibility fur federal-action in only one. Eleanor; Bontcscu, department irttuiney,Hsaid, tnw.'ligation of that case,- not complete. She said federal authorities could step in only 'under, special cir- cuinstancBSi- such as on the re quest of a.'slate governor, if force is used to deprive Japunese- Amerieans of property or civil rights or if federal laws are vio lated. S - In most cases, she indicated, action was up to local authori ties. 'J (A justice of: the peace in Pur- lier, Calif., placed a rancher on probation Monday after convict ing him of. firing a buckshot- charged shotgun into the home cf Charloe-Iwasaki. No one was hurt antL.Justice L.. B. Crosby said it was "more important that this not" occur again than it is to punish 'this man for the act thai did occur.'") ' f Tomato; Spinach Ration Values Up; Meat Unchanged WASHINGTON, May 31 (UP) Lower point values in June for tomato and ' mixed vegetable juices and ' higher values for canned ' Ip'pialoes ' and , canned spinach we announced today by thfl office ofprlce administration. The new "values are effective June 3 to 30. Canned tomatoes arc raised 10 points to 40 points for the No) 2 'can, the highest to date, and spinach is advanced 10 points each on the No. 2 and No. Vk cans, making them 20 and 30 points, respectively. Meat Supply Drops Along with the processed food changes ' 0PA announced that point values for most meats, fats and- oils will remain undisturbed for the June period but warned that there will be seven per cent less meat for civilians than in May. He said there would be 6,700, 000 pounds less besf, 12,300,000 pounds less pork, 600,000 pounds ,t jes lamb,rbut, 5,300,0'00 Roun,ds more veaj ' and 1.000,000 p'ounds more mutton. Values for fatback or salt pork were increased three points bringing them to eight points a pound, plate bacon the same and pork sides, dry and cured, one point to nine points a pound. Lard, shortening, salad and cook ing oils were left at 10 points a pound, rtmrgarine at 12 points and butter, at. 24. Juice Values Reduced Canned tomato juice and vege table juice combinations contain ing 70 per cent tomato juice were set at two cans (up to and includ ing the No) 2'2 sire) for one blue ration stamp (10 points). Cans bought singly, however, still re quire one .blue stamp (except for the. No. 10 sife.) WPB.Ufts Ban On Production of Farm Machinery WASHINGTON, May 31 (UP) The war. production board to day .removed restrictions from the manufacture of farm machinery a month ahead of schedule. The restrictions had been scheduled to expire on July 1, but WPB said they were lifted im mediately in an effort to boost 1945 production 30 per cent above schedule. Manufacturers now may use material on hand and any they can obtaTri' without WPB assist- ' unco to 'njutie machinery above quota, the .announcement said. The farm, machinery advisory .'committee has advised WPB that fanners '..still arc exceedingly ; short of manpoyer and must have more machinery as well as ma terials .to repair that they al- , ready have on hand. ' WPB said that at present only the produc'.ion of tractors is on schedule. Other farm machinery and equipment is from seven to 28 'per cent behind schedule. . . .TOPS FOR QUALITY Ptpti-Cola Company. Lovn Mind City, N. Y. Franchised Bottler: Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co. of Pendleton ' r 1 ; ' rTJSSsSSi ?:'.Ys. NikolsmkdfT) J Final detenu arte LsS f "'"chgi,"V J . arrf vital .T J i t T- I h i ? 'o'c end .o. moi.n-l - T Ml J J I I i.ta . U H" A Ji&fawrL Mum I Lpl J Wk''J CH.50NIN IS, fmim& mo VOLCANO IS. i wSP mr- ,yAP 4s ' PATTERN OF JAP STRATEGY FOR THE SHOW DOWN The chips are down on Japan's great gamble for victory in the Pacific. The enemy rak cd in some fat pots in the early days of the war, when the allies thought he was bluffing, but fou.id he held many an ace. Now, with his luck run n) ig out, the Jap is playing 'em close to his vest. Troops withdrawn from central China will solidify northern defenses for strongest possible stand th ?re. Forces several hundred thousand strong in' southeast Asia and the East Iidies may be left to ! neir fate, with orders to light suicide stands and impede allied advance as much as possible. U. S. aerial, submarine and surface forces, cutting their vital sea-borne "life-line" at many points, have vir tually isolated them from Japan, anyway. i Aluminum Plant Expands Output PORTLAND, May 31 (UP) r A, third potline, gpened ..today jit the- Troutdalo plant of 'the' Alum inum Company of America as the war production board speeded up pioduction quotas. The Troutdale plant once oper ated four potlines, then cut to three, and dropped to two last September at WPB request. Re opening of the line called for ar. additional 240 men whom works manager George R. Stout hoped can be found within a few days. Mumwhile, workmen still struggled to unfrcoze aluminum melting pots at the Vancouver Alcoa plant which had to be shut down last week during a three day sitdown strike. Musif is Feature Of Liberty Film Music ihat ranges from the ri diculous to the sublime has a prominent part in the motion pic ture, "Music For Millions," now showing at the Liberty theater. The music ranges from Jimmy Durante's hilarious "Umbriago" number to the works of Handel, Grieg and Victor Herbert played by a symphony orchestra direct ed by Jose Iturbi. Margaret O'Brien and June Allyson have the leading roles and Marsha Hunt, Larry Adlor, Hugh Herbert and Marie Wilson head the .iupporting cast. Rail Freight, Traffic Shows Sharp Rise WASHINGTON, May 31 (UP) Loadings of revenue freight in the week ended May 26 rose 15, 803 cars to a four-week high at 882,437 cars, the association of American railroads reported to day. Loadings in the latest week compare with 868.634 in the prev ious week and 868,821 in the cor responding week of 1044. For 1945 to date loadings aggregate 16.897,283 cars, compared with 16,946.315 a year ago. ?r I j Claude A. Remington Called By Death Claude Arthur Remington, 64, route 2, La Grande, died yester day in a local horprtal' following a long illness. Remington, who was born May 27, 1881, in Hcrmcsas, S. Dak., had been a resident of La Grande for 7 years. Survivors include his wife, Freda, and two children, Mrs. Dorothy Clark and Virginia .Rem ington, both of La Grande. Funeral ieryiccs will be held at 2 p. m. Monday in the Snodgrass funeral home with Rev. Mark A. Talney officiating. The body will be sent to Portland for cremation. 1 Vv t XX (.'If IT C THE LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER, LA GRANDE, OREGON Baker Man Slain In Holiday Row BAKER, Ore., May 31 (UP)i An autopsy and inquest was' scheduled late today for JohH Dignin, Baker laborer, who was shot to death yesterday in an alt tercation with C. C. Cox of Bak er. 1 Cox was held in custody by state police while they investi gated his report that he fired in self-defense when Dignin threat ened him with a hammer. Cox is a long-time Baker resident and has been identified in mining ac tivities for many years. The shooting occurred in the Cox apartment, Coroner A. L. Schroe der said. or Szm HU trck catch style on the wlnj , , . In Tropical IK) Belts. Luxurious yet sturdy fabrics In giy, w, ftelts Ti&ynEjrs Jealous Father Who Slew Girl Killed By Police KANSAS CITY, Mo., May 31 (UP) Cornered in a dingy store room home where he killed his daughter Tuesday night In a fit of jealous rage, Ray E. Davis, 42, fired a shot into his chest today, then attempted to shoot it out with officers.. . Within five minutes Davis was dead. Officers at first believed the police bullet, fired by Lt. Charles ' Welch, homicide chief, had killed him. Examination of the body the morgue latei however, indicated Davis had shot himself below the heart.' Welch, another detective and a United Prqss reporter had gone to the home, .where Davis killed ; attractive 21-year-old Lulu Mae ; Davis Tuesday, night. j They heard a shot and Davis Vllli-t(,iu UI1U lUlllllllfi. Gripped in his hand was the .38 caliber revolver with which, he fatally wounded his eldest daugh ter. Welch firad once, the bullet striking Davis in the arm.. Davis fell and died almost instantly.' Davis shot his daughter as she prepared to go out with Pvt. Da vid Sharp, 23, her schooldny sweetheart, just back from three years overseas. As her father sought to shoot Sharp in a jealous rage, the girl shielded the soldier with her own body. Mrs. Davis and two other daughters, Mildicd, 1!), and Wan da, 14, Sharp'and his mother have been held in protective custody since the fatal shooting. Germany Control Commission Soon To Start Work LONDON, ,May 31 (UP) A Moscow announcement of an im minent meeting of the allied con trol commission for Germany in dicated today that Russia, Amer ica and Britain are agreed ori the main points of policy in the three- way occupation of the reich. British sources confirmed the Soviet report that a meeting of the control commissicSi was shap ing up. They said the exact date had not been-)l, but there would be no undue delay. Marshal Gregory K. Zhukov, Russia's No. l professional sol dier, will represent the Soviet un ion on the commission. Gen. DwfgKt D. Eisenhower will represent the United States and Marshal'' Sir Bernard L. Monlgomery,'43rituinj on the com. mission.' ' ! ' "' "'" Fiance nas'not named her dele gate, but it probably will be Gen. Jean do L.Htre de Tassigny, com mander in qhicf of the French first army. ,. The commission hopes utli mately to sit in Berlin, but lack of housing facilities will keep it out of the capital ut least tempo rarily. Inhabitants of Greater London normally make an averugo of 487 trips a year by train, tramway, or bus. Bird Brco brant colors.' to War Production Project for Vets in Hospital Aids Health and Morale I "1W.PI' ji; h:t .. ... ......ww,v...f?Hfcr-... .. Assembling nuts and bolts not only contributes something to the war effort, but helps Welter Lewis, East Cleveland, O., to strengthen his left arm end wrist, Lewis, wounded in both wrists on Saipon. suffered a broken leg In a fall. His left arm and leg are in casts, and he works with the aid of a bed tray. , CLEVELAND, O., May 31 Four hundred disubled wiir veter ans in the great Crilc general hospital here don'j fel that they have yet clone everything they can to help ths wareffort so, in bed and sitting up in wheel chairs, they are engaged in war production. Under a plan of industrial pro duction combined with occupa tional therapy worked out by the hospital authorities ar.d the Lamson and Sessions Co., they work on nuts and bolts that the company uses in making war material. The protect is the sec ond of its kind in the country, the only other one being conducted in Birmingham, Calif., by the Northrup Aircraft Co., and army hospital authorities. At Crilc. rehabilitation work is designed for bed patients and those veterans far enough recov ered to work in a shop. The work p; ys 75 cents an hour, no matter what operation the patient is sn- 4jaged in, or how much or little he produces. ..CJiooses Work That Fits Needs In the shop,1 Hie veteran oper ates automatic machines that thread nuts onto bolts, files dies, or helps In the shipping depart ment. In the machine operation, no easyWtory for American . -C :s. & JAPS ARB TRSCKtT0UGH lV JN'jjy .HARI),TO. UCK, MSTER. ALL OUT FOR THE EVERYBODY! Buy Mote and BiqgerWar fhntis The Japs have boasted they'ro ready for a hundred years of war if necessary. And they mean it I It's up to you everybody to pour out America's might NOW in the Mighty 7th War Loan to show the sons of Nippon that their doys are actually numbered. And don't forget, cither, that the Mighty 7th ic TWO OREAT DRIVES IN ONE it takes the place of the two drives thut were scheduled by this time Mr for AMERICA'S 8f(r T WAR LOAN This Advertisement ih Contributed by the o Eastern Oregon Light & Power Co. the. patient either' wurks his feet on treadies thut operate some of the nutting machines, or works with his hands on machines that thread the nuts on the bolts. For mer opera tion is designed to strengthen weakened leg muscles; the (liter reconditions arm und finger muscles., Filing dies is an Intricate .job that strengthens arm, shoulder, und finger mus cles. '. Bed patients, incupable of shop work, arc supplied with a tray on which the nuts and bolts arc spread. The worker picks up the pieces from this tray and slowly turns the nut onto the bolt. As his injured arm or hund heals, his production speeds up, and soon lie is ready for a job in the shop. As . organized by Capt. Mux Goldenberg and 11. V.I Mordell, supervisor of industrial therapy at the hospital, the program al lows a man to work no more than three hours a day. Work is conducted seven days u week. Veterans can earn about $15 a wcelj. . The program was staited last December. At the end of that month, 62 workers were on the payroll. By the end of January, 367 men were employed. last year. That means, to do your pert, you must buy MORE DONDS and IHOGER DONDS. For never has tho need been greater. Mountains of equipment must still be mode, shipped across thousand of miles of ocean and sent into battle before the final hour of this war. When you think you've bought all the War Bonds you cun, that's the time to buy more. Page Five Kaiser Awaits U. S. Okeh to Launch Plane, Auto Plants OAKLAND, Calif., May 31 (UP) Shipbuilding czar Henry J. Kaiser said today he is await ing only a government okay be fore moving into new production fields. ' Kaiser, who has been confer ring on "total postwar employ ment" with' President R. J. Thomas of tha United Automo bile workers (CIO), said he has completed several models of a new lightweight car as well as four types of private airplanes. Steel Plant Is Key Greatest obstacle to Immediate decision on an expansion, he said, is the pending reconversion of his $110,000,000 Fontana, Calif., steel plant to a peacetime basis. The reconstruciion finance corpora tion has been asked to approve a $60,000,000 loan from private banks to keep ownership of the plant- in Kaiser's hands. One point discussed in the Kaiser-Thomas conference was the possibility of Kaiser's taking over the Willow Run plant, still not released by 'the urmy but scheduled to be closed shortly by the Ford nyifor company. s Veteran Engineer Dies Suddenly George W. Hillman, 71, a re tired railroad engineer, died of a heart attack yesterday at his home, 11)07 iiixlh street. Hillman, sportsman and lover of the outdoors, was one of the first engineers to run the Stream liner through La Grande. Ho was born May 8, 1874, In Dover, Wis., und hud resided in La Grande 40 years. He was a member of the Union Pacific Old Timers and the Masonic blue lodge in Baker. Survivors include two brother;:, Martin und John Hillman, and a sister, Mis. George Petry, all of Spooner, Wis., and two stepsons, Bert Hansen and Edward Elliott Df La Grande. Funerul services are set for 2 p. m. Saturday in the SnodgrasJ funeral home under the auspices of the Masonic lodge. Interment will be in the Masonic cemetery.' d. FALSE TEETH Rock, Slid or Slip? FABTEETH, an Improved powJtr to b iprlnkicd on upper or lower plftUi, holdi fnlie teeth more firmly tn place. Do not elide, illp or rock. No gummy, rotuiy, paaty taste or feeling. FAS TKBT11 le alkaline (non-acid), Doea not aour. Checks "plate odor" (denture breath). (Jet FA8TK1STH at any drug tor. MIOHTY j Q