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About La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959 | View Entire Issue (June 6, 1945)
Russians Delay Allied Control of G ermanf Yankees A Community Newspaper For Every Member of the Family To Leave Red Area if f Wallow Covaiei in CTrll ESTABLISHED 1898 Ok Increased School Budget Expected to Result in No Increase in Taxation Fluids to be raised bv tax levy for the La Grande school district during the 1!) ir,-19l( school year total $lo2,2'18.7!, it was indicated today by figures made public by Kred Pat ton, superintendent of schools, and 11. O. Williams, clerk of the board. The total represented an increase of $11,083.44 over the previous year's budget. Most of the increase came in sal aries to teachers and other employes, a total of $10,378.44. Scholarships Are Awarded to 4-H Activity Leaders A group nf Union county bovs and gil ls will go to Corvallis to attend the 4-H club summer school June 1Q to 2!) at the state university on scholarships award ed because of their outstanding activities in 4-H club work. The 4-H leaders' association met recently to plan for the award of I'.ie scholarships. First on the list ot those cho.i en to attend the school are 4-H clubbers who received scholar ships last year but were unable' to use th-:m because of the can cellation of the school session. They are Kelda Vogel of Union, Jean . Hoover, La Grande, and Delbert- Rysdain, Elgin. Holdovers' Awarded The association announced the 'award of the following scholar ships held over from last year, and bestowed this year on young leaders most of whom are tarry ing club work. They are Iris Vo gel and Phyllis and Dorothy God ' soy, all of Union, and Lawanna Boswell of Elgin. Two other leaders who received scholarships are Valgc-ne Conrad. La Grande, from the Central school P-TA, and Verna Towle, Cove, from the county farm bureau Scholarship i.lso were award ed to Orville Williams, from the Cove livestock club; Gay Conk lin, from the Cove P-TA: Doris Jean Gray, from the Central P TA; Shirley Cochran, La Grande, from Chris Foods, and Shannon MeDaniels, Imbler, from the South 40 dub. The association also completed a list of r.utslanding 4-H club members throughout the county who will be entitled to go to the summer school as scholarships are available or in the event they care to pav their own way. The county is entitled to send 41 boys and girls between the ages of 12 and 18 years, and it was an nounced that those selected will be notified as scholarships be come available. Mrs. Laurose Hibberd of Im bler and Mrs. Phyllis Cochran of La Grande have been selected by the association to serve as chao crons for the group from this county. The leaders also made tenta tive plans for the Eastern Oregon livestock tour lor boys and the 4-H girls' camp later in .the sum iris camp iaie-i m . Plans for the 4-H club fair j mer. were left undecided because r.l contingent circumstances. Russ General Gives World's Richest Woman Medal For Being Working Girl unME.'" June 0 (UP) Doris Duke, world's wealthiest wom an, had a medal pinned on her by a Soviet genera! just be cause she was another Ameri can working girl, she said in an interview in today's Stars and Stripes, What's mure she was work ing when she went tn thj par ty Marshal Feodor Tolbukhin. commander of the third Ukrain ian army, gave fnrGoo. George S. Patton, jr.. commander of the third American aimy. Or so said Miss Duke who. it now d.'vck.ps, is a corres pondent for an American news service. "I was just doing what iiv tOod newspaperman would have don" she said, as she old abou'. the party where Patton and Tc-llmkhin vi-'d in oiniawa IOIU1 OUHCl IOI lilt OpeiUWUll and administration of La Grande schools is $212,398.75. Of this amount, however,- $80,150 will come from sources outside the regular tax levy, including $14, 000 cash on hand at the beginning of the year. Delinquent lax col lections total $!,5U0; county school fund receipts, $21,000; state school fund, $2,G00; ele mentaiy school fund, $11,500;; vocational -education slate aid, S1.300; non-high school district tuition. $12,000; elementary tui tion $2,000; high school transpor tation, $1,800; sale of property, supplies and equipment, $350; rentals, $100; other sources liimrlip.-mnnH children school law. $1,000, and receipts from special resolve, $ii,uuu. Taxpayers Get Credits It was pointed out that though the tax levy set by the school district is '$132,248.75, further credits will be made against the figure from stale funds, giving each taxpayer credit. ' These credits, which will re duce the actual amount of taxes to he paid, will be foithcoming Horn the $5,000,000 and the $2, 000.000 income tax surplus off sets voted by the state legisla ture. 11 is estimated that the total credit to each taxpayer on this basis will be approximately 10 See ANNUAL . . . Page 5 Body of Hitler , Believed Found In Burned Cavern BERLIN, June 6 (UP) Adolf Hitler's body has teen found and identified with fair certainty, it was learned from a high Russian military source here today. The body, smoke-blackened and charred, was one of four dis covered in the ruins of the great underground fortress beneath the new reichschancellery after the fall of Berlin. These four bodies, any one of which answered pretty well to Hitler's description, were re moved and carefully examined by Russian army physicians. All were badly burned from the flame throwers with which the Red army soldiers finally cleared out the underground command post where Hitler and ni lead ing nazi made their las:. d:tch stand. After careful examination of teeth and other characteristics ii,.. Rntjcinns singled out one ..... - --- body which they believed almost jccriainiy is mui ui ..c I fuehrer. gallantry by kissing the heir ess. Miss Duke said she was in Linz. Austria, waiting for an airplane when Patton came ..ii.nu r,n his wav to the party. ' The general, who had known her Duke i Honolulu, asked Miss to come along, and what cuuld jirl do . . . iillant Patton." said The Stars and Stripes, "took the bronze star off lus chest ano presented ;t to a Russian girl singer as a tribute to the part played by Soviet women in the war. "Not tn 1m milrlnne in Cal- latrv Tn'l...'.r,in lilrtnrwl nn" ot his me-ials off his unuorm and presetted it to Miss Duk ami "ther-jpon Tolbukhin kiss ed Miss Duke's cheek." ft "The galhnt Patton came for waid to do likewise." Victory Revision of Yalta Vote May Break Security Impasse Conference Is Dominated By Veto Question SAN FRANCISCO, June 0 (UP) The United Nations are explor ing the extreme possibility of revising the Yalta voting formula as a way of settling the United Nations conference ciisis r- :;i the big five velo, it was lean.ed to day. Revision of the formula, ac cording to highly authoritative sources, is just one of several pos sibilities being studied. But it is indicative of the extent of the search for a solution which would preserve big five unanim ity. The major concern is lo find a way out that will not leave deep seals. It is agreed that a show down vote on the issue would now end in Russian defeat but the cost would be a body blow to big five solidarity. Charter Change Studied Meanwhile the executive com mittee today considered the ap peal of the big five for changes SAN FRANCISCO, June 7 (UP) Denmark took her seat today at the side ol 49 other United Nations assembled here to fashion a world of lasting peace. In four sections of the world security organization charter al ready approved by technical committees. The committee comprising heads of the delegations of 14 nations including the big five has agreed it can consider and vote on such appeals. But its I'ecommeneiuUons -oieist go back to Jhe committee involved in stead of being passed on to the lull conference as a real "court of appeals" would do. There has been no ollicial dis cussion of the v-sto crisis here for more, (.nan 24'rioui-s. Never theless, itdominalos the confer ence especially on this day of June 6 which originally was set for adjournment. The actual negotiations on this delicate issue are going on in Moscow where Harry L. Hopkins, the personal representative of President Truman, prolonged his stay because of "new business." No one here would deny that Hopkins was negotiating directly with Marshal Josef Stalin. Rotarians Hear of Life of Edison Roy Gretlum of Baker, presi dent of the Eastern Oregon Light and Power company, was guest speaker at the La Grande Rotary club luncheon today in the Stein cafe banquet room. He told of the life of Thomas A. Edison. Guests were Ensign Franklin Howard and Glen Houle, presi dent of the high school student body, who is an honorary mem ber of Rotary during his term of office. Members discussed the matter of voting on future school build ing and though no action was taken favorable comments were made. T. B. Lumsden presided and Fred J. Patton was chairman of the day. Baseball Results By United Press American League R II E Detroit 8 12 0 Cleveland 1 10 2 Overmire and Richards; Smith. Henry (fi) Klicman (fl) and Hayes. St. Louis 0 8 3 Chicago 4 0 1 Jakucki, West (8) and Man cuso; Grove and Tresh; losing pitcher, J i'iucki. n ? 1st fume: Philadelphia 2 14 2 Boston 5 7 0 Knerr, Gerber (7) and Rosar; Ferriss and Garhark. LA GRANDE, OREGON WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE P -V - ' -; ' f -"--'' i 1 FOG-DISPERSING 'FIDO', IN ACTION This first photo to be released on "Operation Fidq'4 (Fog Investigation Dispersal Oper ations) shows how fog was artificially disparted from RAF air fields by lines of burners orr each side of main runways. In tho picture, an RAF Lancaster is; taking off. iiom clear-vision field, though fog ha,igs heavy up above. Spring Storms Boost Ramlall Well Over Averages Rain and snow during the win ter and spring have been con siderably above normal, Ine lotiil of 8.15 inches for the year to June 1 being more than 30 per cent above the 33-year average as shown by records of the East ern Oregon livestock experiment station in Union. The 'station's 'monthly 'report reveals an average of 0.10 iriches of precipitation during the firsl five months of the average year, and that the excess for the cur lent period is l.UU inches. The month of May also showed u substantially heavier rainfall than average, with 2.38 inches recorded against exactly one inch less on the average for Jhe 33 eais for which records are avail able. The crop year, however, shows but .2(i inch more than average moisture, with a total of 10.65 inches. The station's report shows the maximum temperature for May was experienced on the 9lh, when the thermometer reached 83 dc giees, and the lowest tempera ture was on May 18 when it was 30 degrees. There wei e four days on hich the temperature was 32 degrees or lower. There were 19 partly cloudy days, four cloudy, and eighl clear days dering the month, and 18 days on' which rainfall of .01 inch or more was recorded, with the heaviest precipitation in a 24-hour period being .45 inch on May 16. County Of ficial On Military Leave Capt. George L. Anderson, jr., accompanied by Mrs. Anderson end their daughter, Virginia, ar rived last night from Ardmore, Ckla., for a visit with his parents, Mi-, and Mrs. George L. Ander son. I hey will remain until Mon day when they will go to Port land lo spend the remainder of his leave with her parents. Captain Anderson is attached to the second air force courts anc boards section and is courts and boards officer and trial judge ad vocate. When he purchased their tickets for the trip, Captain An derson was informed by the Jickel agent that theirs were the second longest tickets she had ever sold from that station. Mrs. Anderson and Virginia will remain in Portland an a J'Ji lional week with her rarents after Captain Anderson leaves. Plior to entering the army. An derson was district attorney of Union county, a position fim which he is on military leave. Weather Data for 24 hours to 7 a. m. Temperiture; Maximum 57 Minimum 47 Precipitation 18 Forecast; Partly cloudy, prob able showeis tonight and Thurv day. V''-j4iilW ' V, State Building, School Support Taxes Approved SALEM, Ore., June 6 (UP) Support for the two tax meas ures on the June 22 special ballot ' was voted by county school superintendents from all parts of the slate at the annual meeting here Tuesday, The measures include a $10, 000.000. offsets levy for .build ings and a $2,000,000 yearly cigarette tax. A recommendation that the legislative committee continue to work for a uniform salary bill for superintendents waB approved. District Officers Are Elected By Woodcraft Lodge District officers of the Neigh bois of Woodcraft were elected yesterday ;,t the final meeting of a two-day convention in L'i Grande, and were installed at a public ceremony last night in the IOOF hail where convention ses sions were held. Grand representatives a r e Noma Tucker, Weston, and Fan nie Liang, Pendleton, with Oneida Happersett, La Grande, and Ma bell Hatfield, Baker, as alternates. Audrey Lieuallen of Weston was elected guardian neighbor for the coining year. Sara Hall, Pendleton, is the past guardian neighbor. Other officers to serve during the coming yeai are: Ann Rob ertson, Pendleton, advisor; Edna Williams, Union, clerk; Martha Johnson, B-.-nd, banker; Myrtle Donovan, Union, magician; Laura Hanna, Pendleton, attendant; Eunice Greer, Weston, captain of the guard; Anna Schultz, La Grande, inner sentinel; (Catherine Winters. Bend, outer sentinel; Lena Blomgren, Weston, musi cian; Mary Ann Olson, Pendleton, flag bearer- Bessie Williams, La Grande, Alma Jones, Condon and Fay Cornell, Bend, managers; Anna L. Summers, Prineville, corrcspond'-'nl; Ida Mae Roberts, Arlington, senior guardian. Guardian Neighbor Sara Hail presided at the meeting, and Id'i Mae Roberts was clerk. Grand Adviser Minerva Codding was lecturer. Three Scouts Given Advancements The mouthy board of review for Scouts of La Grande wis held Monday night in the First Prt-shylerivn church with Leslie F. Smith as chairman. Other ex aminers :resent were Conrad Huntsman and Clem Wallace. Frank Walch, Troop 113, and Garth Sanderson, Troop 112, were awarded Hie first aid merit badge, an ) Don Smith of Trooo 112 the carpentry merit badge. A special board of review will be held at 7:30 p. n- next Mon day in the Presbyterian church for the Scouts who were attend ing the annual suving camporee at Catheiine Creek this week. 6. 1945 MacArthur Sees Ruin of Japan as Way To Victory March Into Tokyo Seen as Only End To Nippon War MANILA, June 6 (UP) Gen. Douglas MacArthur is convinced that Japan will not quit the war until the Japanese mainland it self is invaded end her cities, her economy nnd her military gov ernment brought down in ruin. For this reason he considers the invasion of Japan Inevitable and as the man who will lead the al lied armies through this final phase of the war he is working toward that goal. MacArlhur's basic formula in the Pacific has always called for winning victories by the manip ulation of a foice which was al ways smaller than the total de fensive strength of his enemy. His prime strategy was this: First, feel out the Japanese strong points. Second, bring them under heavy and continuous air bom bardmcnt for as long as possibli up to the moment just before the Japanese move to strengthen position. Infantry Finishes Job Third, send in the infantry for the kill. MacArthur has high praise for the naval cooperation he has had all the way through. He thinks Admiral Thomas K. Kinkaid and Vice-Admiral Daniel E. Barbey of the Seventh fleet are great ad mirals: if the navy has uny bet ter he doesn't know about them. And he is equally admiring of Admiral William C. Halsey. MacArthur rates the air arm equally high but his all out admi ration is reserved for the foot sol dier who finally has to take all the objectives. When American infantrymen drive into Tokyo he believes the end of the war against Japan will have arrived. Truman Moves In Food Crisis Win Praise of Hoover CHICAGO, June 6 (UP) For mer President Herbert Hoover praised President Truman today for taking action to remedy what he called .1 "terrible muddle in the domestic rood situation." Hoover sjid the president had taken a "wise step" in appoint ing Rep. Clinton P. Anderson, D., N. M., as secretary of-agriculture. He commended Mr. Truman for his plan to consolidate the war food administration with the de partment of agriculture. "But the most hopeful part is that we have a new regime tackling tho problem," Mr. Hoov er told a press conference. "Ev erybody wants the president lo succeed." No Government Post Hoover denied rumors that he- would accept a governmental post in connection with post-war food relief. The former president said he had just le.'t Washington, where he had engaged in a discussion of our domestic food situation and the relief of the liberated coun tries of Europe Mr. Hoo"er said the principal muddle "is local famines over the country due to maldistribution and black markets." "Still a further evidence is a 30 per cent dee l ease in the hog population at a time when we ought to be increasing it," he added. "The American hog is our principal source of fats. Fats are second only to bread as im portant foods." CAP Ko ting Will Benefit Drat let Lt. Col. Leo G. Devaney, air patrol, has announced civil that members of the CAP cadet unit who are trailed int'. the armed services, automatically will " put into th..- air fence if they Ht'l-I a r.'itinil. n pvrt!y ssSd i-ai'h e'adel shoultf) have h,rjling(.clai ified to facile itale the transf FIVE CENTS Japanese Homelam Is Jittery By United Press A wholly unconfirmed re port broadcast by Bern said today that "reports continue to persist in Moscow that the U. S. S. R. has been asked by Japan to transmit peace offers to the allied powers." The Swiss broadcast, giving no source for the report, add ed: "These reports are given sp- j clal significance by the an- ' nouncement that the; Russian ambassador to Japan is back in Moscow on business. PRAKL HARBOR, June G (UP) The bloody battle of Okinawa was virtually over today, and Japan's invasion jitters were netting: worse. With the fighting- in Oki nawa in the mopping-up stuge a "victory" announ cement from Admiral Chester VV. Nimitz is expected at any time. He significantly omit ted any mention of land fight ing from his regular com- mtiiuque. Japanese newspapers conceueu the "isolation" of Okinawa, nnd warned the invasion of the Nip ponese homeland itself wac "rap idly approaching." Other developments in the Pacific fighting included: China Chinese troops re captured Liuchow, former U. S. 14th airforce base in cen tral Kwangti province. Liu chow was lost to. the Japanese last November, Philippines The American 37th division gained six miles in its drive up Cagayan valley in puisuit of lh! remaining 20,000 to 30,000 Japanese in northern Luzon. Enemy opposition was vory light. Enemy Vessels Sunk Pacific Fleet Carrier-based planes of the Pacific Meat sank seven Japanese ships and dam aged at least six more in a new series of attacks ranging from the northern K u r i 1 e s to the southern Ryukyus. Detailed reports on the climac tic fighting on Okinawa are lack ing at the moment. However, thc sixth marine division was believed to have completed the capture of Naha airfield, best on the island and last held by the Japanese. The seventh army division See OKINAWA . . . Page 5 18 WACs Missing On Plane Flight WASHINGTON, June 0 (UP)--An army transport plane carry 18 WACs and a crew of three has been missing in Africa since May 30, the war department an nounced today. The plane was lost on a 770-mile flight from Accra, on the Gold Coast of British West Africa, to Roberts Field, Liberia. The WACs had been stationed at the air transport command base- at Accra since last October. They were being sent on a new assignment. 1'he missing WACs and their next of kin include Pfc. Alice D, King, Mrs. Emma King, mother, RFD Box 201, Route 1, Oswego, Ore. French Legionnaires Reach Safety After Long Flight To Escape Japs KUNMING, June 4 (UP) (Delayed) Bearded, starving veterans of the French foreign legion nave arrived at an American army hospital near Kunming after an epic 650 mile fighting retreat from Indo china, it was disclosed today. They reported some of their (yoanded comrades were mur dtred on the tnal by Japanese. Suffering from disease and malnutrition, the legionnaires straglfel thrvugh almost im passabl&dnngles and over steep hills (a) nearly two months. Fighting a rear guard action G BERLIN, June 5 (UP),-"1 Russia's last minute insists ence on the deletion of a sin gle word , which, she T fearetr . wouiei compromise ner net trality. with Japan delayed signature of the big four pact on Germany tor nearly si.x hours today. 5V Marshal Gregory K. ZhukeW; the Soviet delegate, also blocked jmmediate establishment of trie1 allied control council in Berlin and discussion of coordinated policies for the four occupation forces. , Zhukov said he had not been empowered by his government to carry on further discussions un til American troops had with,, drawn from the zone of Germany assigned to the Red army. ' The meeting broke up shortly, before 7 p.m. and the leading LONDON, June 6 (UP) United States armies will turrt over most of the territory ihr conquered in Germany to Br- iish and Russian troops and,, occupy only Bavaria, it was be lieved today. - V" , The ninth army will yield"' such cities at Leipiig,' lUUv largest in Germany, Magde burg, Chemnits and Erfurt lo the Russians. . i v -' The Rhlneland and the Rhur will be taken over by the Bri tish. - ' j " American and British . delegates drove back to Tempelhof air drome for their return flight.- ; The dispute which delayed the signing of the big-four pact from non to 8:45 p.m. centered around the word "nationals'" in. article 10: . ;, . ';p "The forces, nationals,- shipl, aircraft, military equipment and other property in Germany or lip German control or service or at German disposal, of any other country at war with any of;tf(e allies will be subject to the provi sions of this declaration and pf any proclamations, orders, ordin ances or instructions issued there undsr.'Iv." ', . -'.' ' The Russians wished to elim inate "nationals" from the article. If allowed. Jo stand, Japanese citizens caught in the Russian zone of Germany and in Russia Itself, would have to be handed over to the western allies despite the fact that Russia is net at war with, Japan. The word finally was deleted temporarily pending the outcome of discussions ut g o v e r nment level, and the pact was signed,. Former Prisoner f Is Enroute Home Mrs. Grace Helen Kisselburgh will leave Saturday night for Portland to meet her husband, Capt. James Kisselburgh, who will orrive Sunday morning. He was recently liberated after 19 months internment in a German prison camp. - -, Capt. Kisselburgh, a former football star and ail-American at Oregon State college, was pilot of a B-17 and squadron com mander at the time his plane was shot down over enemy territory. His 80-day leave will include visits with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lynn Bohnenkamp in La Grande, and with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Kisselburgh .In Los Angeles. r-i Brazil Declares ;'; War on Japanese RIO DE J A N E I R O. June 6 (UP) Brazil declared war iJn Japan today. The action will enable . the United States to utilize bases in Brazil for the Pacific war. INFANT CARE PLANNED . WASHINGTON, June 0 (UP) The house today approved and sent to the senate a $2,200,000 supplemental appropriation for emergency maternal and infant care' for families of servicemen duiing Ihe current fiscal year. ' against harrassing Japanese, they made their way to Szemao in southern Yunnan province. From there they were evacu-' ated to the U. S. medical sta tion. - At the end of their terrible journey, there were only two thirds of the original force bf two battalions. The other third were left behind, killed 0V wounded. Several of the veterans said they saw Japanese murder. Suur'l legionnaires whif through necessity, had to left behind. ! '
