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La Grande Evening Observer
Frauds Scbito, PuUit&er
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;ii a new li'tliouiii; 1 lower in Japan,
ll')U;'lit ai'ii', by )ini:ruiin:ii. ul;iiiiy.
Id-, claims lliat ii'iu.'itrii'H paid laxij of
n per (i-iii or li'i-.s, wliili; tin? pi'aanl
wT laxi-d up t'i 2'l n-r :irit in mak;
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dual) i , In- naj-H, would UyJiUm taxcx
ly v. lu'i.-li Japan lias Iji-i-n paying for
tl'ir war.
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l i'itli mil of a liaid pi'aii;, lint if Ml'.
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mil' liindrt In laki; away lln-ir t'lmiii'li
and w.ii-iiial'.iiin indimlry and alidad
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1 DflTW PBAHtON
WAttJJJN'JON K'w t)i( nil Ua- InillU'
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t Kviif U )x- bucli Hukunn pupp'-! K'v-iniin-nt
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by tlic Ijjtvivn i'uh-t, tla-y an.' imw K' UuiK
just iiii iidepi'idefit mid, P; Mini' 'xl"it,
arr'gant, an tfn-ir Jtmdn bi'idien,
Or, as jwme neutiaj diplinaU uiniimi iw
it:
"A PjW will alwayn le )'i;le wliellai'
itK's in IjviA'm or Lublin."
Illustrative f huw ihv JM- utw f-elimj
tfivir oats wan a meeting wlncf) twk plai"
at M'jmiow last w'-k icgaidiiiK tin; J'nlitli
row with Cxl)'Iovakia. 'J'Im; ineetiiiij was
atUwled iy Huttiin uHdeiweietary for lot-i-i&n
affaiia Vynbintky; him hy ex-I'ieniiei'
Mikolajvuyk of lf- lArvlm l'olH. )lu
'A Moroweki of the Julilin-Wi'iiaw guvein.
mji.
Morowiiki. tliouijli njppowdly a Bnviel pup-l-t,
ttait'd the fjnwwki by ianti ac.aiiist
the Czech. He taid the Cm-tis had no right
to Thi-n, a small toalmiiniiiK town which
had always Im-n Czech, but which the I'olei
tnatthfcd away from Czechoslovakia when
fche wa poweilebu in ifitier'n iiandii alter
Munich.
Sovj! Cornrniftiiar Vyshin.'ky emphatical
ly diffejeij wilh M'iiuwski. Jle pointed out
that the' Poles have peaceful means foi
settling their disxiulen, should not use the ag
getsive tactics of the Nazis. Kinally Mo
rowiki subsided.
SovUl Hold Slip
Other uncensored diplomatic reports show
that the Warsaw-Lublin Pok'g are getting
tougher and more independent and that the
Soviet gup is slipping. Here are some de
velopments which, for wine queer reason,
have been hushed up by Kuiopean censor- '
ship:
1. Twelve Catholic papeis are now heinij
publisher in Poland. (There has been con
sideiable opposition to the Lublin Poles by
Catholic gioups, on the grounds that th'
church was being suppressed.;
2. The Warsaw-Lublin Poles have indi
cated they want an alliance with the United
Ktites and Great Britain just as strong as
that with the Soviet. This, they say, would
guarantee Polish independence.
3. Poles are already demanding that the
WE, THE WOMEN
By RUTH MILLETT
A I'wnt story from Okinawa reported
that S.Vpiiit Yank were '-aJou.sly pioU-cl--d
by Uit'ir buddies so thai nothing would
happen lo Ibern before the day they were
'.'hediihd to home.
If war wives back hom'O couJd lake that
protective, interested altitude toward the
wiveh who aie boom lo et their men back,
imti'iid of Ufing jmloufc of their good for
tune, every homecoming would be a Hign for
rejoicing umong al) war wives.
And that ih just what ih happening in :i
good many raws. A war wife whose hus
band in coining home on points is often
tiwatnpt-d with offer of help and best wi.sh
en by U'M lucky war vivi-h whose men aie
t ill Kweatjng It out,
"I'll keep Die kids for you if you want to
meet your husband when he lands," one war
wife will nay.
Anil another will look after the house and
garden. And others are interested in th"
Behind Scenes in Washington
By PETER EDSON, L Crnnd Evening Obirrr Washington Correspondent
WASHINGTON-It m.iy he apocryphal
hut 11 story liruiiuht hack from (lenniinv
lelnteil thai I, lent. (M-neiiil Curl Spaat.,
i-oiiimimder ol U. S. nlrnlf Kir air toree, and
l.t. Ctcni'iul Uimir N. ltiiidley, i-oimniinili'i'
of llw Kith army ip'oiip, went in to inter
view Hoeiine,.
"You listen to the Jii'l iiicsliim I'm Koiii!
lo ink him," said Spaiil cockily. "Isn't I',
true," linked Spiiul. when he K"l the riKht
openiiiK, "Hint it whs Hie U. S. air force
homliiiiljs which lenlly defeated tli'i'iiinny''"
"No," iinswei'eil Ciocl'ine, "It wiei the re
pented, heavy and unexpected fti ives of the
U. S. ground forces. They comimiully threw
us off hithtni-c and niinl( it impnssihle fin
us to defend Ihe Hhine. "That," Hi utllcy
remarked Inter, "was the $1211 dollar an
swer." The father of u Mildicr m Clermiiny wrote
the will' department the other day, I'lim
phiininu 11I11111I this "point system" fur pel
ting his son diHcliiHKed mid sent home. It
w us hud enough, the tiither wrote, lo have
to Kive points or butter and men! and things
like that, hut when he hud to sin render Illi
pninls 111 addition to get Ins buy Imek, that
win Koiiik ton tin. If they Insisted on Ihe S")
polnln, however, which k mil did they want
led or blue?
Avciuue eiliens mvn'1 the only ones who
llet mixed up on these tilings Tnke Con
Ijiessimin Jesse Sumner nf Illinois for in
stance, who iieluiilly mude a speech rrili
cIIiik OI'A for wuntlni! to hieak up the
bhit'k market lleiv aie her exut quiilet:
"Their Is 11 point, I have noticed since I liav
been In politics, where people are so dumb
Unit Ihcy in mi' it he Unit dumb mid be hon
est. The people 'vhn iln the real plnnninn
tor this OI'A pii'iiHiin I think have reiiche'l
that point- we would not have lis much food
in we have loihiv except fur ih,. black mar
ket you know il and the DI'A knows It. So
w hul d" they .iln? Xlii' OI'A save not slurt
I'd 11 diive to end the hlurk miiiket "
ConiiirsMiiiin John J. Itilev nf South Caro
led imy wilhdiuw from Poland; ului, that
lh HovM went pollen withdraw.
i The Lublin Poles alto resent the lat
ent Humlun attitude of fiiendliness U Die
fciiiiuu people, which they criticize as
symbol of unpijiiejplcd fiovii-t bidding for
liei man suppoit in older lo 1 ounU'r-balanci;
(he pio ljiiniaiilsiii of tituin Hriljsh ii-ad-eis.
f) The lAiblin Poles alo rvtvni Jtussia's
oppoMtion U Polish expansion in the north
wel, where the Poles would like to take
over the Herman city of Stettin.
fl Kinally, tin- Lublin Poles resent the
fuel Unit the Husians now insist upon bring
ing outsider into the Polish government
In line with the Hopkins-Stalin conversa
tions. Slulin promised Hopkins to give ex
Piemier Mikolajezyk of London and other
Polish leaders cabinet seats in the Lublin
government, which means that mime of I he
Lublin Pules will have to give up their cabi
net posts. Naturally, lliey are tore.
So it looks as if the Polish puppet pot,
which oipe boiled against the London ex
iled Poles, is now simmering against iti
friends in Moscow.
Hands Off Churchill
One of the well-kept secrets of the last
presidential campaign was a statement Win
ston Churchill prepared urging the Ameri
can people to re-elect Franklin Roosevelt.
The statement, however, was never made
public. Roosevelt heard what Churchill was
planning to do and stopped it. He explained
to the British prime minister that much as
he appreciated his good intentions, the
American people resented outside interfer
ence in their politics.
Undoubtedly Churchill was planning reci
procity for the help which Harry Hopkins
had given him two years before. At that
time, the winter of 1042, just after Pearl
Harbor, Churchill faced growing criticism
in parliament.
So Harry Hopkins went to London and
with Roosevelt's blessing dropped the word
quietly in British political circles that the
president of the United States appreciated
the fine coopcualion he was getting from the.
prime minister and would be sorry to see
any change of British leadership.
Hopkins was very open and above-board
about this and later told friends in Wash
ington about the worry he and Roosevelt had
felt regaiding Churchill's tight political position.
clothes she buys wanting her to have only
the most becoming things.
The wives aren't even hesitant about giv
ing advice or saying. "Now If it were Bill
who were coming home, I"d do so and so."
Taking another war wife's good luck in
that manner is, of course, the happiest reac
tion war wives could have. For there is
nothing in that altitude that tears down their
own morale.
The thing that licks I hem is making bit
ter comparisons and thinking, "She's getting
her husband back but nothing is changed
for me."
If the men can want their friends lo gel
home so badly they treat them "ilke ex
pectant mothers" as the news story point
ed out so that nothing will happen to them
before they can be on their way, then
surely war wives al home can be that gen
erous in their attitude toward the lucky
women who are soon to have their men back
with them.
lina has another story about OI'A confusion.
Me tells abut one old Negro woman who
walked int the rationing hoard in his home
town of Sumter and demanded: "I want one
of them books ou can't get nothing with
out." The house debate on OPA renewal had a
lot of laughs in it. High point probably came
when Congressman Alfred J. Elliott of Tu
lare, Calif., brought several big San Joaquin
valley potatoes lo the well of the house and
laid them on the podium while he spoke.
"Hey," came n voice from the floor, "have
you got butter for those?"
Klhotl said in the course of his remarks
that it was nothing to see a potato 12 and
111 inches long in the San Joaquin valley,
wilh irrigation, bill he pointed out there are
now 12 potato rules and regulations. "No
wonder there arc so many eyes in these
potatoes," said Elliott, "they need them in
order to keep up with the rules and regula
tions of the OPA."
When the Swedish exchange ship. Grips
holm, left the United States recently with a
load of several thousand deportees to Italy
and Ulcere, some $411.(1(10 worth of war bonds
were presented at the docks for cashing.
Most of the deportees were criminals and
undesirable and the first lo go up the gang
plank turned in their bonds for exchange.
Hut, when immigration officials told them
that the bonds didn't have to be cashed, the
run stopped As a ivsult, many more thou
sands of dollars worth of these securities
were taken back to the old countries to wait
for maturity lo full value.
In spite of Ihe war, U. S. medical schools
have been repotting difficulties in getting
enough cadavers. Too much prosperity and
the social security laws arv responsible.
Principal source of corpses used to be pau
pers w ho died in institutions leaving no rela
tives to pay for a funeral. Hut there aren't
any paupers any more, and besides, the so
cial security laws provide old age pension
and enough money fur decent buri.il.
Side Glances
f lifer fv
mil &iM
ton mi et ti trwi. wmiKminyi. b -3.
"Well, we were just talking about the manpower shortage yester
day this is one summer we really are glad to have you folks
spend your vacation with us!"
0 McKENNEY ON BRIDGE
Br WM. E. McKENNEY, America's Card Authorirv
STRONG DEFENSE IS
BEST OFFENSE HERE
Peter Leventritt was a member
of one of the winning teams of
the eastern states mixed team-of-four
championship, and received
quite a kick out of winning as
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the cause for which the tourna
ment was conducted is one of his
favorites, the fight against can
cer in children.
Maybe you won't agree with
me on the play of today's hand,
but I like tho defense very much.
It is true that, after looking at all
four hands, you can sec that We.it
could lay down the ace of spades
and Leventritt would be bound
Questions & A nswert
Q When was the last Davis
cup 'tennis match?
A In 1030, Australia defeating
the United Slates, :t-2, in the final
round.
Q Where is Carinthia located,
and what government now claims
it?
A C'irmtli.'ii occupies the basin
of the upper Drava river sysl":n.
east of the Brenner pass, in
tria. It has an area of 3OT7 s uarj
miles, and a prew ar p ' i 1 uicn
of 400,000. The Yugosi rovi
sional government is nn.i ires?
ing claims to the tomb
Q Are there to be more
eclipses of the sun anc n-O 'ii this
year?
A Yes. Total eclip of the
sun July 9 and the moon Dec. 18
19. Both will be visible in the
United States and Canada.
This Curious World
THE Fii?sr
WAS INAUGURATED
BACK IN THE
WHEN SIX HUNDRED
PI6EOMS
WERE DISPATCHED
FROM SALBEK TO
CAIRO, WITH EACH
carrying a silk
wrapped cherry"
por the vezir,
yakuB ben-kilis,
who had expressed
his desice for '
A DISH OF CHERQlES
FROM THE BAlSfiK
RE&ICJN.
Atosr
CEASE lo BURM ATSRBAr
M EIGHTS... USU4LLY EUJHT
TO TEN VilLES ASOVE TVIE
earth's .Surface.
w. m m il si rvl, IPt-
. T. M. BCC U . PAT. Or.
NEXT: Monkey business in Borneo.
to make a trump trick, thus de
feating the contract. Bui good
players are not too anxious to
lead aces against a six bid. In
this particular hand. West did not
open the spade ace. Leventritt's
problem wah w hat to play on the
first trick, the king or the ack.
Ordinarily, he would be expect
ed to play the king, but if he did
this, he would never know where
the queen was. By playing tht
jack to the first trick. South wins
with the queen. Later on, when
Leventritt got in with a trump,
he knew it was useless to con
tinue the diamonds, and therefore
shifted to a spade and defeated
the contract.
e IN FORMER
YEARS
30 Years Ago
In a city school election, L. B.
Russell was elected clerk and A.
Lun, director. Other members of
the board were Chris Johnson
and Charley Jacobson. .
Far more enjoyable than the
promoters had dared to hope, the
O.-W. annual employees' picnic
went into history with the re
turn to La Grande of the 600 or
more from here who attended the
function at Gibbon. Gibbon is
within the Indian reservation and
many Indians were on the
grounds for the occasion.
15 Years Ago
Mrs. Anna Pollack, accompan
ied by Miss Peggy Bohnenkamp,
left for southern Oregon to" visit
relatives.
Mrs Lillian Zweifel and daugh
ter, Adelaide, left for Los Ange
les, where they will visit their
daughter and sister, Lois, who
was training to be a nurse. They
planned to be away from La
Urando about two months.
10 Years Ago
Fire Chief C. T. Lindsey re
lume 1 from a four-day conven
tion lire chiefs in Spokane.
Maigarct Milne left for Berke
ley Ij attend the summer session
of the Univcrsitv of California.
-Mr? 'V. IJ. "Safford left for
Michigan to spend about a month
visiting relatives and friends.
Mrs. J. J. Broughton left for
Kansas City and other points to
visit relatives and friends.
"A BEARIN6 WONT WJRK IF THERf'S
A CHANCE FOR PLA "JifS
ElKSENE . EVERETT,