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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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. ! '