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'Baiting to Control
Grasshoppers Is
iUrgetJ in County
County Agent R. W. Schaad
(announced today that grasshop
pers arc beginning to hatch
' the southern end of Union coun
tyi arid he urged farmers to start
I control measures immediately.
1 1 He said farmers who need bait
; arrange for It through the county
i j agent's office. He said baiting
'l Ishould be done on a warm, dry
j day when the hoppers are out
i Ifeeding.
The baiting program will be
I 'carried on this year the same as
j jjn past years with poison bran
land sawdust vailablu at the
' county shops free to users in any
ramount, Schaad said. Containers
.must be furnished when securing
'the bait. The baiting program
is being directed through the
county agent's office in La
iGrande.
An estimated 157,500 acres
,were Infested with grasshoppers
last year. This same acreage and
probably more will be infested
this year with considerable dam
age expected. $130,250.00 estim
ated damage was caused by the
grasshoppers on all crops in Un
ion county last year, with $50,
500.00 estimated savings to farm-
as n w.anlt nf thn hnifinp nm.
grtwi.
Rumor qf Portland
Strike Is Penied
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PQRTLAND, June 13 (UP)
(Reports of a general strike vote
to be taken over Oregon by
Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Ware
housemen and Helpers union lo
jcals in sympathy with a Coos
(Bay local's demond for wage in
creases from' three truck lines
.operating (n that area, were
'termed "without foundation" to
'day by Phil Brady, Portland
president of the AFL joint cpun
cil of drivers.
I "There's not going to be any
I strike," Brady declared. "We're
I not going to violate the pledge
we gave the great Franklin
Roosevelt. That goes for Coos
Bay and the whole state of Ore
gon." Teachers In Service
Get Salary Benefits
' ' SALEM, Ore., June 13 (UP)
Salpm's school teachers who are
now with the fighting forces of
the country will be admitted back
I to their jobs at a pay scale which
I has continued to rise as though
i they never had left.
' This was decided at a meeting
. of the directors of the Salem
i school district Tuesday night, who
said that the teachers should nut
be. .-penalized for serving in the
armed forces.
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could support Allied invasion of China
WHAT U. S. PLANES CAN DO FROM OKINAWA BASES Some of the rcasais for Japan's sui
cidal fight to prevent capture of Okinawa, are illuslratod by tho map above. From Okinawa bases,
U. S. air forces can largoly isolate Japan proper from the Chinese minland, culling off large numbers
of troops and dopriving war industries of raw mat erials from Asia. Allied bombers and mi.ie-sow-ing
planes can continually disrupt sea traffic betw een Asia and Japan water routes that are the
enemy's real lifelino lo China, lo Korea (through which war products from Manchuriapa sstby rail)
and to Mauchuria, vitally important for its resourcos.
Army Will Take
All Surplus Lambs
PORTLAND, June 13 (UP)
T. T. Swonson, government live
stock reporter at north Portland,
today announced the department
of agriculture had wired that the
army had decided to take all sur
plus common, good ond choice
grade surplus lambs at the price
at Portland.
The new policy was seen as a
blow to u recent move to have
the OPA establish a point free
policy on lambs, which producers
said they were unable to ship or
market in the northwest.
With the army taking the lamb
surplus, it was antleipatecl there
will be a scarcity of lamb for
consumers.
YOU HEED
OBTAIN A PERSONAL LOAN
DON'T CASH ANY OF
YOUR WAR BONDS
It's really a simple, matter to keep all of your War Bonds
intact and, at the same time, meet family emergencies with
cash. All you need do if you require money for any worthy
pin pose is apply for Personal Loan at this bank. Credit
requirements anil repayment terms are icason.ihle. So, KliKP
your War Bonds for yourself ami your govcrumcntl
More Money for OWI
Asked By Truman
WASHINGTON, June 13 (UP)
President Truman urged con
gress today to restore the funds
which were cut from the 1040
budget of the office .of war in
formation by the house repre
sentatives. '
The .house last week slashed
$17,000,1)00 from the OWI's $30,
000,000 budget for the coming: fis
cal year and directed that the
cut be applied to activities in the
United States and Europe. A
house conmittcfi' previously re
duced the figure from a budget
estimate of $42,000,000. The bill
i.'- now before the senate appro
priations committee. -
MONEY
Food Prospects of
Nation Brighter,
1 Crops Loom
WASHINGTON, June 13 (UP)
The yeal's first major crop survey-promised
plenty of nourish
ing food for Americans and plenty
of wheat for foreign relief. It did
not, however, promise meat-hungry
U. S. citizens all the steaks
and chops they want.
The agriculture, dartmvnt's
early June forecast ca.J an unex
pectedly optimistic light over the
nation's food pro.spol this year.
Working overtime to make up
delays due to a cold, rainy spring
farmers have planted a "sur
prisingly large" acreage, the dcy
partment reported. Total produeJ
promises to be well above aver
age and banner harvests are in
sight for several important crops.
Record Crops Indicated
For the second successive year
wheat, the all-important relief
food, may set a new record. Com
bined winter and spring produc
tion is expected to surpass 1,01)4,-
000,000 bushels.
Record output also is predicted
for early potatoes, peaches, sweet
cherries and truck crops. Total
fruit production may be almost
record. The oat crop will be the
second largest in 20 years.
The word "shortage" appears
nowhere in the 32-page report.
Even meat, the nation's No. 1
seaieity, is touched on favorably.
Livestock, the department said, is
in "thriving condition." May milk
output continued at record level.
The survey had its darker side,
howeviT.
Adverse M;,y weather took a
38,U0n.(HI0-bushel toll of the win
ter wheat crop. This was more
than balanced, however, by tire
spring eiop. The barley crop
may !. the lowest since 1038 and
rye the firth smallest since 1000.
Apple production probably will
hit a new low.
The ll.ntz mounu-.ins of Sax
ony, once reported as a hiding
place for Hitler, are famous for
canaries, witches and mammoth
caverns, u-.e of which will hold
1V1II0 people.
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Po- War Burgling
Who Wants 'fo Argue
SEATTLE, June 13 (UP) Seattle Police Chief Herbert D. Kimiey
today gave millions of reasons why burglary as a post-war profes
sion has been dealt a mortal blow by World War Two.
"Burglars, .said Kimsey, will
ened, light-sleeping veterans fully
with all the highly-trained violence Jhey employed o.i ihe baltle-
Jield."
' Old-line burglars to whom Kim
sey has talked recently, tie said,
are discouraged over prospects o!
making a livelihood at their old
profession after' this war ends,
even more so than after .the first
world war.
"There was a considerable in
crease in burglaries for a year
after the last war ended," Kimsey
recalled, "but that was because
jobs were scarce. But secor.d
stgry men, the old-timers, think
things are going to be different
this time."
Several of them, Kimsey said,
have decided to retire for good
from their profession because of
mounting risks.
"Recession" Is Expected
Admitting that burglary is
flourishing at present, Kimsey
said he expects the situation to
improve rapidly from the police
.viewpoint, and deteriorate from
Ihe viewpoint of burglars.
Said Kimsey:
"There's biyn evidence of tha:
already. One old repeater told
me that whereas formerly many
houses were occupied only by
women, now that more and more
thousands of servicemen ore re
turning to those homes, breaking
and entering is getting 'just
plain risky.'
"Especially if they happen to
pick a serviceman's house, one
who has been out killing infil
trating Jap's and Germans for the
past two or three years. Bur
glars are lucky to get out of a
house like that alive."
Don't Need Weapons
"Most servicemen sleep like
cats, and when they wake up,
even if they haven't got bazookas
parked by their beds, they have
unarmed night fighting down to
a science. We have a couple of
would-be burglars who have
been worked over by veterans in
our custody now. They are in
rather battered condition."
Many other thousands of serv
icemen's homes, he said, will be
stocked with "souvenirs" the vet
erans know how to use.
The fact that millions of vet
erans also have been trained in
highly-effective methods of forc
ing entry themselves, doesn't
wprry Kimsey.
"That part of it they'll forget,
once they get home to jobs, but
thpy won't forget how to defend
what" is'theirs." ' 1
''It's a beautiful thought, isn't
THE SEVEN GREAT BATTLES highlighted
here and the many other, big and little
that aren't mentioned have brought us
step by step closer to victory. The success
of the SIX WAR LOAN DRIVES already
completed has contributed immeasurably,
too.
BUT TOTAL VICTORY is still not ours.
There are slill many battles ahead un
taught unpaid for. You can help win
lhom by buying WAR BONDS MORE
BONDS in the 7th WAR LOAN.
'Depression' Looms
With Tough Vets?
encounter millions of battle-hard
prepared to defend their homes
Veteran Is Named
Pental School Dean
PORTLAND, June 13 (UP)
Dr. Ernest E. Starr, staff member
for many years of the Noith Paci
fic Dental college of Portland,
yesterday was approved by the
state board of education as acting
dean of the University of Oregon
dental school.
A $314,040 budget for the new
est addition to the state system
of higher education, the former
North Pacific Dental college at
Portland, was also approved at
the board s meting.
Hearing is Called on
Ship Repairers' Pay
WASHINGTON, June 13 (UP)
The war labor board today set
June 20 to hear an appeal from
its shipbuilding commission's re
fusal to order an 11.6 per cent
wage increase for repair workers
southern California shipyards.
The appeal was made by the
metal trades department of the
American Federation of Labor,
which demanded that this higher
pay rate now. in effect in San
Francisco arid north of there be
extended t yards in the Los An
geles and San Pedro area.
it," he smiled. "Millions of men
of whom burglars are scared to
death, back in their millions of
homes oil over the country. Mil
lions of men who know how to
booby trap, shot if they' have to,
and fight without weapons at
all.
"Really a beautiful thought."
AT ALL PEALERS
NORMANDY LANDING
The Miracle Invasion
After months of battling up the Italian
boot, the allied armies marched into Rome
on June 4, 1944. The horrors of the Anzio
feeachhead were post, the back-breaking
Cassino battle had been won. The eyes of
the world were on Allied Supreme Head
quarters. What new step would be taken
to bring tho war straight into the heart of
Nazi held Europe? What new stroke would
boldy paint our pattern of Victory?
As the icy waves in the English Channel
roared their fury against the heavy skies,
a greater fury the greatest ever mustered
by man was loosed in the name of free
dom. It was D-Day, June 6, 1944. Our inva
sion of Western Europe had begun.
At 6 a.m. the first boats scraped the
French shore on the Normandy beaches be
tween Cherbourg and Le Havre. Behind
them streamed 4.000 ships that made up a
mighty armada for victory. Tons of sup
plies, hordes of grim-faced men, endless
tanks and jeeps and guns rode the unruly
Channel eastward from England. Overhead,
swarms of b o m b e is, fighters, transport
planes streaked across the morning sky.
Dropping from the air were thousands of
paratroopers of our Airborne forces. Pour
ing ashore from Coast Guard-manned as
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Walter Marsh Is
Called By Death
Walter Howard Marsh, 68, of
213 Fir street, a painter and resi
dent of La Grande for four years,
died yesterday in a local hospital
after a brief illness.
Funeral services will be con
ducted at 10 a. m. Friday in the
Snodgrsss funeral home, and
burial will be ,in 'the Masonic
cemetery.
He is survived by four sisters,
Mrs. R. M. Moore of La Grande,
Mrs. Frank West of Salem, Mrs.
Nellie Hamm of Los Angeles, and
Mrs. Sophia Seheehter of Pasa
dena, Calif., and three brothers,
Ralph of Salem, Charles of Los
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sault barges and smaller landing craft were
American Rangers and Infantrymen and
British Commandos in wave after wave.
Roaring landward from mighty warships
lying off shore were terrific shell barrages
pulverizing the ciastal defenses. All hell
had broken loose and now, 4 years after
Dunkirk, the Nazis was getting it butt end!
On the beaches our men were met with
machine gun and artillery fire from the
cliff-entrenched enemy. They crouched in
the swirling ice-cold water, inched forward
step by step through the land mines and the
tons of wreckage, looked back ever reas
sured at the hundreds of reinforcements
landing always behind them. And they ad
vanced heroically, unstoppably against the
rain from above.
All day long the shores were black with
landing men and machines. All day long
our trucks tilted over in the muck, our ships
foundered in the shallow waters, our soldiers
dropped on the bloody mud of the shore.
But behind them were more men, more
ships, more trucks and tanks and guns. They
came to conquer, to liberate, to purge the
woild of Nazi horror. We were on our
march to Berlin!
Fifth of a series commemorating SEVEN GREAT
BATTLES OF WORLD WAR II published in the in
teresi of a GREATER AMERICA. Next week, the
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La Grande's Better Store
Angeles, and Harry of Aberdeen. "
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All of Marsh's sisters, .his bro...
ther, Ralph, and two " nieces, ''
Georgia Ponto of Pasadena and '
Betty Marsh of Salem, were wfth
him when he died.
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