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Eastern Oregon College
Gets Priority In State
Educational Development
Plans for erection of a new ?12.",U()0 classroom and library
building at Eastern Oregon college as soon as labor and
materials are made available by the federal government, were
announced today in Portland by Chancellor Frederick M.
Hunter.
Hunter said the erection of this badly needed unit and
others at various centers of the state system of higher edu
cation are made possible by approval of Oregon voters of the
$10,000,000 state building fund at last week's special election.
World Security
Board Paves Way
For Peace
Body
SAN FRANCISCO, June 27
(UP) The "preparatory commis
sion" of the United Nations for
mally came into existence today
with the promise that it may be
able to begin conducting busi
ness in London about Aug. 1.
The commission was set up by
the Uni.'ed Nations conference to
make arrangements for the first
meeting of the new security or
ganization after the necessary
ratification of the peace charter.
Each of the 50 member nations
arc represented on the commis
sion. Dr. Leo Pasvolsky of the
state department represented the
United States today.
The meeting was a formality
"to bring the commission into ex
istence." It was decided that be
cause the commission will have
headquarters in London, the Brit
ish government would name an
interim officer to prepare for the
first meeting of the' commission
and its subordinate executive
committee of 14 nations.
Most of the top name delegates
had departed this morning, but
several of the heads of delega
tions were, still here and attend
ed the meeting. The proceed
ings were said to have been ex
tremely cordial.
The next step will be an exec
utive committee meeting in Lon
don. The executive committee
then will call a meeting of the
full commission, probably after
ratification of the charter. The
commission then will issue Ihe
formal call for the first meeting
of the general assembly and se
curity council the step which
will signal the beginning of the
new organization set up here.
The meeting came after final
approval and signing of the Unit
ed Nations charter and a colorful
closing meeting in the San Fran
cisco opera house with President
Truman the principal speaker.
Monty Suggested
As Ruhr Coal Czar
WASHINGTON, June T7 (UP)
President Truman has asked
Prime Minister Winston Church
ill to make Field Marshal Sir Ber
nard L. Montgomery coal czar of
the Ruhr, highly placed sources
said today.
These sources said successful
handling of this assignment is of
as crucial importance to recon
struction as was Montgomery's
war job to the victory in Europe.
Europe is desperate for coal.
C. J. Potter, deputy solid fuels
administrator who has just re
turned from the continent said the
Present European deficit whs
estimated at about 50.000,000
ons. He said France, Denmark.
Norway, Belgium, Holland Italy,
Sweden. Switzerland, Spain and
Portugal along with north Africa
were almost entirely without
coal.
War Prisoners Held
For Essential Jobs
WASHINGTON, June 27 (UP)
Able-bodind prisoners of war
will be kept in this country as
long as American manpower is
rot available to replace them in
essential work, Ihe war depart
ment said today. G
Maj. Gen. Archer L. Lerch. pro
vost marshal general, said tlicro
v.ere 421.291 Germans and Ital
ians here June 1.
HIGHWAY IS OPEN
SALEM. Ore., June 27 (UP)
The MtS-llood highway between
Parkdale and Wapinitia Junction,
near Government C a m p, was
"Pencd to traffic today, the state
highway department said.
The others which will get
priority are at Corvallis, Eugene,
Monmouth, Ashland and Port
land, with the wood products lab
oratory at Oregon State college
to be one of the first to be built.
It will cost $100,000.
Hunter said the building pro.
gram will make it eventually pos
sible for the state to adequately
meet its educational responsibil
ity toward an expected enroll
ment of 18,000 to 20,000 students,
including eligibles from the arm
ed services plus the regular stu
dents counted in the system in
stitutions. Other buildings which are as
sured as result of the vote include
an engineering wing, college
dairy products laboratory and
agriculture structure at Corval.
lis, costing $670,000; dormitory at
tile Southern Oregon College of
Education, Ashland, $125,000:
classroom and library at the Ore
gon College of Education, Mon
mouth, approximately $750,000,
and the University of Oregon
Medical School hospital wing and
heating plant, Portland, $800,000.
Charles Reynolds, head of a
chamber of commerce committee
which has been active in efforts
to obtain an expansion of the
facilities at Eastern Oregon col
lege said today, the decision of
the state education officials to
push the building program here
is gratifying, and the additional
facilities will to a welcome addi
tion to the nstitution.
He said the committee hoped
to have a men's dormitory in
cluded in the building program,
and will continue its efforts in
that direction.
Huge Losses Are
Laid to Handling
Of Nation's Food
WASHINGTON, June 27 (UP)
War food administration inef
ficiency has resulted m losses
"probably amounting to many
millions of dollars," the hour;
agricultural appropriations sub
committee told congress today.
In a report filed in the house,
the subcommittee praised the
overall job done by WFA but
detailed instances of alleged
waste and unbusincss-likc trans
actions. It also asserted that some
agency officials on occasion had
deliberately furnished raise in
formation to congress.
A substantial share of the
blame was charged to Lt. Col.
Ralph W. Olmstcad, until about
two months ago director of food
distribution for WFA.
The committee said Marvin
Jones, retiring WFA administra
tor, had been cooperative and
said he had been confronted with
a task of great magnitude.
Among other things the re
port dealt with the alleged loss
of 400 cars of eggs, the mysteiy
of the whereabouts of reputed
pre-Pcarl Harbor food caches,
and on investment of approxim
ately $2,000,000 in a still unused
storage cave near Atchison, Kn.
New Succession
Plan Approved
WASHINGTON. Julie 27 (UP)
The house judiciary committee
today approved lcislation em
bodying President Truman's pro
posal to make the speaker of the
house next in line by presidential
succession.
The committee acted at the end
of a on?-hour session without
holding hearings on the bill. The
vote was 10 to 0.
Committee Chiarman Hatton
Sumners, D., Tex., introduced
the bill two days ago it. response
to a recommendation of Mr. Tru
man. The measure prov ed that
the speaker and the president
pro tern of the senate should be
next in line for the presidency
if both the president and vier
president should be removed
through death or disqualification.
Big Sales of E
Bonds Needed to
Complete Quota
$56201 Needed
To Reach Goal
Set For County
Purchases of war bonds in de
nominations of $25 to $100 are
urgently needed if Union county
ii; to reach its 7th war loan quota
of $741,000 in sales to indiv
iduals. This was the announcement
today of W. C. Perkins, county
war finance chairman, who said
the county remains $56,201, sale
value, short of the quota. He
said this includes $36,000 of the
otiota of $1,000 bond sales as the
drive went into its final phiir-1,
and anticipates receipt of $75,000
in E bond credits from purchases
through payroll savings pur
chases by Union county employes
of corporations with headquar
ters outside the county.
He said while complete re
ports have not been received on
purchases of bods by corpora
tions, the committee believes the
quota of $223,000 in that time of
bond sales has been reached.
Volunteers who have been soli
citing prospective purchasers of
the $1,000 bonds have nearly ex
hausted their lists of prospects,
indicating that a larger margin
of purchases of bonds of smaller
denominations must be achieved
to make up the deficit if the
county is to reach its goal by
June 30, the closing dale of the
campaign.
Lowering of Army
Discharge Points
Is Expected Soon
WASHINGTON, June 27 (UP)
The army is cxpectd to lower
the number of points required for
discharge from 85 to between 78
and 80 in the next few weeks, it
was reliably reported today.
At the same time members of
the house military affairs com
mittee said they anticipate no
change in the army regulations
qualifying men for automatic dis
charge on reaching 40 years of
age.
They also said that the army
will stand on its demands for
7,0(10,000 men to whip Japan.
However, the army itself has
made it clear that some time
soon the number of points nred
ed for discharge will be further
reduced.
It was pointed out that field
commanders sent in reports on
the number of points held by all
men up to today.
The new "critical" discharge
score will be determined from
these reports will be based on
the number of points that will
release 1,300,000 men. The pres
ent critical score of 85 was inten
tionally set too high to release
tlie 1,300,000 since until all scores
were in the army did not know
what total would serve to release
exactly the right number.
Committee members said they
do not believe the new score
would be much below 85, that it
probably would be fixed at 80
and not less than 78. They em
phasized that point values would
not be changed.
Senate Approves
Postal Pay Boost
WASHINGTON. June 27 (UP)
The senate has passed by voice
vote a bill giving a pay increase
to postofficc department em
ployees. The bill now goes lo confer
ence with the house on senate
amendments. It provides an in
crease of 20 per cent of base sal
ary or $400 a year, whichever is
smaller, but in no event to be
less than $300 a year.
Late yesterday, the senate ap
procd and sent to the While
House a bill which would giant
federal government employes
basic wage increases averaging
15.9 per cent with regular time-and-a-half
overtime. It is esti
mated to cost $74(1,000,000 annu
ally. CONVICTS RECAPTURED
SALEM. Ore June 27 (UP)
Two convicts from the state peni
tontiaro who escaped from a
bayinjP crew early yesterday,
were picked up by stale police
early this morning.
The two, William II. Bromley.
M, and Vugil Miller. 17. were
appuhiiulid niter a woman
phorni the- police that she had
vi ihom walking down the
lASld
Veterans Administration Will
Establish La Grande Office to
Aid Discharged Service Men
Establishment of a unit ot
tlie veterans' administration in
Lu Grande to assist in the ad
ministration of the affairs ot
discharged m embers of the
armed services was announced
today by United State Senator
Guy Cordon in a telegram from
Washington.
He said the office will be
established as soon as suitable '
space can be obtained and per
sonnel obtained tend trained,
and that it will be expanded
through the assignment of ad
ditional personnel (is require
ments demand.
The initial staff will consist
Summer School
Band Group Will
Present Concert
The third annunl summer con
cert of the summer band students
of La Grande public schools will
be presented at 8 o'clock Friday
night in the high school auditor
ium. ' The group includes approxim
ately 80 numbers and is com
posed of children chiefly of ele
mentary school age, all of whom
are students of the summer music
course provided by the school
system. The band, which was
created and has been directed by
Leroy Darling, high school band
director, has been divided into
three groups: beginning class, in
termediate class, and junior band.
Beginners Will Play
The program will begin with
demonstration and selection's by
the beginners, followed by selec
tions by the intermediate group.
Highlights of the program will
be selections by the clarinet
ouartclte, Barbara Detrick,- Marv
Ralliff, Delpha Morehead and
Dale Vaught; cornet solos by
Franklin Seward: selections by
cornet quartctt, Duane Hamlin.
Bobby Quinn, Charles Brackell
and Dick Johnston; flute solos by
Maurinc Gerards and baritine
horn solos by Dick Johnston. The
p r o g r a in will conclude with
sole ctions by the junior band.
Pupils taking part in the con
cert in addition to the above are:
Beginners Billy Williamson,
Kobin Williamson, Fae Willam
son, James Marshall, John Ben
nett, Jerry Stoddard, Lynn Ben
nett. Erido Johnson, Laughton
See SUMMER . . . Page 5
Oregon Livestock
Is Near Record
PORTLAND, June 27 (UP)
Oregon livestock producers have
more beef cattle on farms and
ranges than they have had at any
one time in 15 years and only
ask that government regulations
give them a chance to sell the
meal, state director of agriculture
E. L. Peterson told a special
directors meeting of the Oicgon
Food Merchants association.
Peterson said Oregon is pro
ducing a heavy surplus of meat
for its population.
There are 746,000 head bf beef
cattle, 436,000 dairy cows, 104.000
hogs, and l,0t2,OUO lambs and
sheep on farms in the state,
Peterson explained.
PORTLAND, June 27 (UP)
The 1945 Oregon pig crop
amounts to 264,000 head, 23 per
cent less than the 1944 crop and
35 per cent below the 10-year
fverage annual production of
409,000 head, the U. S. bureau of
agricultural economics reported.
Four Held in Probe
Of Bootleg Fatalitien
SEATTLE, June 27 (UP) Po
lice today held four men as sus
pected members of a bootleg ring
handling denatured alcohol that
killed three men and blinded a
fourth within the past month.
The suspects were arrested on
a tip from a man who drank some
of the alcohol and survived its
effects. One of the suspects was
pouring the alcohol into bottles
as he was arrested.
HERMISTON YOUTH DROWNS
PASCO. Wash., June 27 (UP)
Coast guard units and sheriffs
deputies today were searching
the Snake river for the body of
Joe McCoy, 18, Hermiston, Oi:.,
w ho was drowned while working
on a dredge near Gage island.
of. a contact representative of
the veterans' admin istration
and a stenographer-clerk.
The office will be a contact
unit, the purpose of which is to
scivc veterans '.. connection
with the rights and privileges
provided under the so-called
GI bill of rights, providing
them with assistance in the
transition from military to
civilian life and advice con
cerning loans, educational op
portunities and other advant
ages accunng through the gov
ernment's program for aiding
them in resuming their places
in the civilian activity of the
community.
Stettinius Quits
Cabinet Office
INDEPENDENCE. Mo.. June
27 (UP) Preside it Truman to
day announced the resignation
of Secretary of Stale Stettin
ius and his appointment to the
Untied Nations council.
Mr. Truman also announced
he will nominate a successor
to Stettinius next Monday or
Tuesday and every indication
here is that the new secretary
will be the president's old
friend, former supreme court
Justice James F. Byrnes,
Plans For Summer
Camp Approved
By Scout Council
Plans for the summer camp at
Wallowa Lake were approved
and the 1946 budget was adopted
at the executive meeting of the
Blue MoUitain council ef boy
scouts last night in the Presby
terian church.
Ken Hickenbottoni, field exe
cutive, told about the improve
ments at the lake, most import
ant of which is the new water
front set-up. The waterfront,
which is a standard set-up out
lined by the national board, is
divided into sections for begin
ners, swimmers and life savers.
The camp will start July 1
and will continue until August 19.
Time will be six periods, first
unci second will run for one
work; third and fourth for ten
days; and fifth and sixth for one
week.
The camp is fairly full, 355
boys having been registered by
today.
Wcs Klusman, national chair
man of camping, inspected the
camp recently and suggested that
other camps be organized in ad
dition lo the one al Wallowa
Lake, since the site is too far
from some of the districts. The
suggested additional campsites
are Buck Creek, near Pendleton,
Anthony Lake, and one in Mor
row county.
Baseball Results
By United Press
NATIONAL LEAGUE
R. H. E.
Cincinnati 5 11 1
Boston 4 9 2
10 innings.
Kennedy and Unser; Cooper,
Mulchings (10) and Masi.
Pittsburgh 4 7 0
New York 10 17 1
Gcrhauser, Resigno (7) and Lo
pez; Mungo and Lombardi.
Green-Eyed Monster May Have
Something to do in This Case
PARIS, June 27 (UP)
Frenchwomen say the Yanks
arc lousy lovers and consider
ably less well-behaved than
Hollywood movies had led them
lo expect, according lo the
Parisian Weekly, Samrdi Soir.
Annoyed by a recent column
in the army newspaper Stars
and Stripes, in which scores of
GI's aired their gripes against
French women, the weekly re
taliated with a few complaints
about the Yanks.
"Here's what French women
don't like about Americans,"
the newspaper said:
"First, their getting loo of
ten and unbearably drunk:
"Second, their devil niay
caic attitude. They talk and
laugh too loud:
Rousing Welcome
Given President By
Home Town Crowd
Truman To Rest
Briefly at Home
In Independence
INDEPENDENCE, Mo., June
27 (UP) President Truman came
home today to a rousing welcome
from the flag-bedecked town
where he got his political start
to make one of the most import
ant news announcements of his
career.
As Ihe presidential special
plane landed at Kansas City,
Kan., at 1:30 p. m. (CWT) the
president stepped out to receive
home town greetings from May
or Roger T. Sermon, a life-long
friend, and a delegation of Inde
pendence civic and business lead
ers. Greeted by Daughter
As the plane taxied to a stop,
Miss Margaret Truman, wearing
a pink dress and yellow straw
hat, climbed the steps lo kiss her
smiling father. Then, arm in
arm, they stepped down to the
runway as photographers snap
ped their pictures.
Old friends ganged aroun dhim
and for five minutes it was a fast
and furious exchange of greet
ings, everybody calling every
body calling everybody else by
their first names.
President Truman climbed into
an open car lo lead a short cara
van of motor cars, behind police
escort, through downtwn Kansas
City. Mo., and the 10 miles to the
redecorated summer White House
here where Mrs. Truman was
awaiting him.
The president was home lo
celebrate his 26th wceleling anni
versary tomorrow with Iho first
lady in the big rambling 14-room
home to which he took her after
their marriage here.
Stops in Sail Lako City
President Truman spent the
night in Salt Lake City, where
he was welcomed yesterday by
Governor Herbert B. Maw, who
See ROUSING . . . Page 5
Army Reveals 13
Divisions Slated
For Redeployment
PAUIS, June 27 (UP) Two
more redeployed divisions, tlie
2!!th infantry and the lOlh ar
mored, are due to reach the as
sembly area on their way home
early in July, the army's com
munications zone headquarters
announced today.
The 28lh is scheduled to reach
Camp Pittsburgh un July 5th and
the lOlh armored lo arrive at
Camp Oklahoma City on July
8th. Both camps are in the
Ithcims assembly area.
The announcement brought to
13 the number ot divisions sched
uled for redeployment. The stat
us of the others was announced
as follows:
Fourth division: Now assem
bled at Le Havre for embarka
tion July 1.
44th division: Will move to Le
Havre staging area lo embark
July 3rd.
8th division: Moving lo Le
Havre June 28.
llllh armored division; Sched
uled to reach camp June 28.
Other divisions presently in
various stages along the line aiv
the eighth, second, fifth and 104th
infantry divisions.. Tlie 86th,
97th and 94th already have sailed.
"Third, their inability to dis
tinguish a rcspr-ctablo woman
from a tart:
"Fourth, their insolence lo
womi n on the street s
"Fifth, their inability, except
in the movies, lo pay ri fined,
charming and sentimental court
lo women."
According, lo Ihe Samrili
Soir, French men are pretty
hitter about the whole deal.
They feel that the Yanks are
xeiling v vulgarizing milli
ence
on trench gins, leacning
them
to chew sum and lalk
through their noses.
(Editor's note: Could be that
the
well known old "green-
eyed
monster" otherwise
known as jealousy may enter
into the ricnenmens gripe.;
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LADDER OF ISLANDS TO JAPAN -Th maps aboe show the
slraicgic position of caplured Okt.iawe, and tiny Kume island, .,
which is reported today by Tokyo to have been invaded by
American Jcrces. Kume lies 50 miles west of Okinawa and would
provido the U. S. iorces with another springboard to the China i
coast or Japan. . - '
Japanese Move to
Convert Homeland
Into Field of Battle
pita m t,w, 97 ii ip fnWn snlH tnrlnv American forces
landed on Kume island, 50 miles west of Okinnwa, and thtf!
Japanese jrovcrnment seized control of ull communications
systems as a prelude to converting tne nomeinnn into a
battle field.
Enemy broadcasts reported without confirmation that
heavy fitrhtinjc was under way on Kuno between American
amphibious forces ami tlie
speculated the U. S. Pacific
Kvukyus springuoara tor landings in. jni'iui nu ijiu.j
nhitwt. r
Using its new auinoruarian
decree powers for the first time.
Premier Baron Kantaro Suzukis
government took direct control
ii 1 niiKtul. Leleerann. tele
phone and radio communications
throughout Japan. The new con
trol measure, Tokyo said, envis-
agL'K "urgent" steps lo proviele
"facilities lo suppress hostile
r.iilio hrodcasts. Japan's com
munication system, in effect, will
become an integral part or me
invasion defense system.
Japanese civilians again were
exhorted by Home Minister Gcn
ki lo give their lives to repel
American invaders.
There was no iuiintliatc con
(irmalion of the landing report
from American sources, but To
kyo said yesterday that 200
American warships and landing
craft were assembleel in the
Am-riean-helel Kerama islands,
half way between Okinawa and
Kume, for new landings in the
Hyuku island chan or possibly
in Japan itself.
The Tokyo newspaper Yomiuri
Hoehi saw a "great possibility"
that American forces would land
in China heforD invading Japan.
Such a thrust would be de
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Spanish Border
Closed to French
PARIS, June 27 (UP) A
French foreign office source said
today that Spain has cancelled
all imports, exports and transit
licenses affecting France in re
prisal for a French mob attack
on Spaniards at Chanibrey 10
days ago.
Spain also notified Franc; that
the time was "inopportune" to
attempt to open commercial nego.
tiations, the inlnnnanl said.
A number of Spanish diplo
mats anet laborers were killed or
injured at Chambrey by a French
mob who attacked their train in
Ihe belief they were members of
(he infamous Spanish Blue Le
gion which fought beside the
Germans against Russia. The
Spaniards were being repatriated
from Germany.
Stale Purchase of
Liquor Held "Clean"
PORTLAND, June 27 (UP)
A joint Oregon legislative com
nnttie investigating the purchase
of the Watcrfill - Frazier and
Shawhan distilleries by the Ore-
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was in recess until the auditors
make final reports.
Hay II. Lesher, auditor em
ployed by the Oregon liquor com
mission, testified at Tuesday's
hearing that the transaction was
"perfectly c I e a n all the way
i through."
Pacific Ocean
Japanese garrison. Japanese.
command was enlarging lis
T
Victories Mark
Allied Operations
On Luzon, Borneo
MANILA, June 27 (UP) Aus
tralian troops completed their
conquest of northwest Borneo 3
rich oilfields today ana loKyo
reported a continuous bombard- .
nient of Balikpapan on me is- .
land's cast coast.
At the sumo time Gen. Douglas
MacArthur announced that liqui
dation of "the last enemy strong
hold" on the Philippine Island of
Luzon wan approacning.
The ninth Australian division
captured the town of Miri, cen-.
ter of the oilfields of the same)
name which produced 1,318,000
barrels of crude oil in 1940.
In the Luzon fighting, less than
20 miles separated two American
forces advancing north and south
in Cugayon valley, where the last
big enemy force was trapped.
The remnants of the two Jap
anese divisions which had been
conccntaratcd in northern Luzon
appaix-ntly were retreating into
the wild hills east of highway
five.
State To Improve
Davis Ranch Road
Improvement of the Davis
ranch road west of North Powder
at an early date is contemplated
by the state highway commis
sion under plans levcaled yester
day in Salem.
The commission will open bids
on July 0 for patching and oiling
the 4'i miles of the thoroughfare
which serves a large agricultural
area west of North Powder.
It is a unit of the secondary
highway system which carries a
heavy load of traffic. It was con
structed under the federal aid
plan and is an important link
in the county sylem of highways.
White Collar Worker
Holiday Approved
WASHINGTON, June 27 (UP)
The war labor board today an
nounced that employers may givj
their office, retail and other
"white collar" workers n full or
half-day summer holiday wcckW
from now until Sept. 15, without
cutting their pay. 3
The action applies only In
white collar employes and not
production workers, the WLiB
said. r
Weather
Data for 24 hours to 7 -a.m.
Temperature:
Maximum 71
Minimum 42
Forecast: Clearing tonight and
Thursday. ,
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