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7 THk . A Hiiii'sdny, July 5, 1915 FEPC Employes Paychecks Will Likely Be Late No Hope to Finish War Agencies Bill Any time Soon WASHINGTON, July 5 .(UP) Congressional, bickering ovor the fair employment practices com mittee today threatened to tie up paychecks of thousands of em ployes in nearly a score of gov ernment agencies. Administration leaders aban doned hope :of completing action this week on the $752,000,000 war agencies appropriation bill fur 11116 as southern Democrats re fused to give in to demands to include funds for FEPC. Jlo Money " Under a' previously approved measure, all agencies except FEPC may continue to incur ob ligations until the appropriation bill is passed. But a spokesman for the gcnVral accounting office said pending final action on the measure, no money may be with drawn from the treasury to meet payrolls from the fiscal year which began July 1. Government' payrolls are on a staggered b'&sis, with tomorrow the scheduled payday for four of thj agencies the office of scien tific research and devclopmnt, office of economic stabilization, office of deensc transportation and the coiilr.ovcrsial FEPC. Tho house, was expected to ap prove an emasculated version of the war agencies bill today, pos sibly after knocking out as much as $843,000,000 of the $753,000,000 total before sending it on to the senate. T" tyholo Issue Under hOifsb' rules, appropria tions cannot be made for pur puras which are not authorized by specific legislation and 11 of the agencies covered in the bill were set up by presidential order rather than by legislation. Hence, funds for any or all of the 1 1 agencies can be stricken from the bill by the objection of a single member. . FEPC supporters, angry ai committee failure to vole iunos for the agency, said they are ready to object to appropriations for the other executive agencic in order to throw the whole issue into the lap of the senate. NDH EVENING OBSERVER. LA GRANDE. OREGON Millions of Uncharted German Mines Are Peacetime Death-Traps for French wB I r- s - v it 'Here Come Waves' New Crosby Film; Clever Musical A;. .delightful'1-mixture .of ro mance, songs and comedy pays a screen tribute to the gallant Waves in Paramount's "H-ere Come the Waves," a Mark Sand wich production which opened in gala fashion at the Liberty thea ter last night. Sparking this hit motion pic ture are three of Hollywood's fin i est Bing Crosby, Betty Hutton and Sonny Tufts. It's Bing's first picture since the widely-acclaimed "Going My Way." With Betty Hutton playing twins in a dual role and Sonny Tufts lifting his voice in song for the first time, "Here Come the Waves' takes on a: variety aspect which may out-spangle "Star Spangled Hyiithm.'' ' . 'IT. -re's plenty of meal to this picture's story, though, with the emphasis on complications. First i ". tjettv-'s twins in the film, playing a dual role as Susie and i.tiM-inary Miller. The twins join the Waves and meet Bing. sing ing idol of the nation. Both Bing and his buddy, Tufts, fall for Rosemary and their efforts to win her hand result in some real bully-laughs by the audience. Susie, too, wears her heart on her sleeve for Crosby and arranges to put "the groar.er" in hot water with the navy from the admirai down. " In the final shown-down, Son ny and Susie confess their crime and Bing wins Resemary with 'J'ufts findinij'his true love in Su sie. The show presents the fin est routines seen in a long lime with a Crosby-Tufts black-face ail which bi ought clown Ihe house. Betty takes off with the inimitable Hutton gyrations for which she's duly famous while even Sonny (brcaks into song, his first attempt of his picture career, incidentally', " Songs, sentimental and swing;-, aie creations' by Johnny Mercer and IlaroUrtArlcn which include such hit puj-ade tunes as "A-.--i'rnl-tchu-at the Positive," "Let's Take Ihe Lohn Way Home." Piuniie Yfu,';' "There's a Fella Wailin' in Pouahkcopsic" and Un title song, "Here Come the Waves." The tallest n;:live Amciican bird is the sandhill crene, which i.ttains a height coual to that ol i-n average rr.air.when it is stand ing c-i :ct. in a uorman-marked mine field in France that has taken its loll of alliod soldier dead, en American officer moves for ward with a detector to pick out any hidden explosives that may remain, ' ''Mi? ivl1 A British naval diver, wearing 9 self-contained suit that does not require air from surface pumps, pictured just before a hazardous descent into booby trapped, mine-laden Cherbourg harbor. Canadian Troops Riot at Alder shot 'aLDEKSHOT, England.' July 5 (UP) Military authorities to day opened an inquiry into last nighl's wild street liot during which some 500 Canadian sol diers venUd their Impatience over the delay in pelting trans portation home by wrecking part of this historic military town. No one was injured and there was no evidence of looting or diunkuiress, but the Canadians smashed windows in 25 shops and bloke every automatic machine in a local amusement arcade, causing about $-1,000 damage. The disorder was said to have I. on started by a false report three Canadians were being held in the town jail. By ROSETTE HARGROVE NEA Staff Correspondent PAHIS There will be no sea side vacations for French people this summer no sunbathing on the famous beaches of the Medi terranean, the Atlantic ..or ..the., channel coast resorts. Practically all the coastal areas, which were methodically mined by the Wchrmacht before O-day, have been closed to the public. Authorities estimate that as many as ten years may be re quired to clear these areas com pletely. Forty-five of France's 96 de partments reportedly are dotted with 10j,000,000 mines. This represents around 000,000 acres of ground, every square yard of which may hide a death-dealing explosive. Millions of these mines were laid during the battle of France. Nazi headquarters appar ently purposely kept no plans of land minefields and ammunition dumps, which will make the job of de-mining that much mure difficult. Curiosity Set Off Mines De-mining has already started in Brittany, Normandy, in north ern and eastern France and the viillcy of the Khone, as well as in the coastal regions. So far some 150 types of mines have been un eartned. Many innocuous-looking sea side homes have proved to be death-traps because the enemy laid booby-traps in every con ceivable place where an instinc tive movement of curiosity or need can lead an unsuspecting human being to set one off. In one small bieton coastal town 54 children na.c oien killed in one month cither by mines or booby traps. The allied armies have used American or 13u,ish-made clec-tio-magr.etic deuctors which are r..pid and foolp. oof. But there are not enough of these to clear the whole ot tr.incc and while French industry has been able to supply some oi this apparatus, production is further limited be cause of the lack of raw materi als, principally i ubber for insulators. Courses to instruct Frenchmen in the art of mine-detecting have been started in Ihe most heavily mined regions. In addition, 100,- 000 German prisoners soon will be put to work. Each German mine delecting gang will have to be closely supervised, of course, to make sure that they work con scientiously. Pleasure Resorts Will Como Last, France's de-mining plan is sim ple- Most urgent is the restora tion of public utilities. Viaducts, power plants, gas mains have either been mined or blown up. In the devastated regions, all in dustrial plants will have to be cleared so that every industry necessary to the revival of the nation's economy can go to work without delay. Agriculture is equally important hence the imperious necessity of de-mining 11 grazing and arable land in or der to allow farmers to produce the foodstuffs for the nation's needs. The remaining industries ill be taken care of in order of importance. That is why there will oe no vacationing at the seaside this year de-mining of pleasure re sorts comes last on the already too long list. Page Fivo X?iNK PLENTY OP FLUIDS- PARTICULARLY FRUIT JUICER, Damage Slight in 3 Auto Collisions Automobiles driven by Irene- Webb, Walla Walla, and Lane 31ack, Heimiston, collided yes crday on highway 112. Damage was slignt. Automobiles driven by Mrs. dith H. Miller, Baker, was hit jy Hie car oi an unioeninieu rive ras she was backing up on ighway .10 near Pine Cone park. Damage amounted to $25. Automobiles . drive n by Irene llioit, Elgin, and Henry Hill, La Grande collided yesterday on ighway 82. Damage was slight. Linseed oil is used for paints nd varnishes, printing ink, foun- ry molds, adhesives, wallboaid soaups and fabrics, for processing ealher, linoleum and oilcloth. 1 1 HQ BP (3&TAT L-EASr fcGHT 40URS tt5T.... Heat getting you down? Follow the simple rules illustrated above and you'll feel better. Hi '4, ft THE SPHINX LAUGHS AT LAST A genius, a great leader, strong man of the hour, savior of the nation yet an enigma. Such, paradoxically, is Joseph Stalin. Russia's one-man political power who, in above layout, progresses into what passes for one of his rare smiles. Sequence of pictures was taken from a movie made during a one-hour speech, "Tho Roport to the Nation." In that he called Japan an aggressor nation, Americans Better Clothed, Housed, Fed During 1944 Still Turned Out More Munitions Than Enemies WASHINGTON, July 5 (UP) America managed to keep its citizens better fed, housed and clothed than any other nation last year despite the fact it turn ed out nearly half tho world's munitions. J. A. Krug, war production chairman, reported to President Truman today on what ho term ed a year of brilliant achieve ment on the production front." In 1944, he said, America's pro duction machine made almost 45 percent of the combined combat munitions of both the United Na tions and the axis. Three to One Total world arms output in 1944 was valued at $101,500,000, 000, Krug reported, with the U.S. share $43,500,000,000. The United Nations, he added, outproduced the axis three to one. Overall U. 3. production for 1944 reached $199,000,000,000. Total war production, including construction and other items not directly of a combat nature, amounted to $01,300,000,000. For one thing, he said, there was a smaller working force. In 1944, the armed services aver aged 11,380,000 persons or 2,500, GOO.moro than in 1943, while the civilian labor force dropped al most 1,000,000, Got Less "While all , batllcfronts were ablaze . . ,'thc American consum er was furnished with more goods and services than in any year since 1941." The consumer spent more and got less for his money, however. Here are, some of the 1944 achievements: 96,359 planes including 10,048 heavy bombers; 30,889 ships; 17, 565 tanks; 595,330 army trucks; 3,284 heavy field guns and howit zers and 7,454 light ones; 152,000 army aircraft rocket launchers, 215,177 bazookas and 1,416,774 tons of ground artillery ammuni tion. By 1944, synthetic rubber pro duction had risen to 753,000 long Ions compared to 8,000 in 1941, aluminum production was tiob led between January, 1942, and October, 1944; magnesium pro duction was 50 times 1939 output; r'-.-i 1 production was up 33'4 percent over 1940; penicillan pro duction was 80 limes over that of 19-13; aviation gasoline produc tion doubled in 1944. Young Woman Found Dead of Stab Wound Near Seattle Tracks SEATTLE, July 5 (UP) Stab bed to death with a hunting knife, the body of pretty, auburn haired Wilma Ross, 19, was found today sprawled beneath a boxcar on the Seattle waterfront. Police said the young woman's husband, Charles Ray Ross of Knoxville, Tenn., unable to tell a fully coherent story of the slay ing, told authorities that he and his wife were attacked by four sailois. Ross, police said, was be ing held for safekeeping until he regained his composure. Two coastguard patrolmen said Ross, clothes disheveled and vis ibly shaken, first told them of the killing and led the way to the spot where his wife lay across the tracks near the wheels of the boxcar. Two of the sailors, Koss said, knocked him uncon scious while the other two grab bed his wife. ' Police said the young woman's dress and blouse had been torn in the struggle. A blood-stained hunting knife and a sheath lay near the body. Club A pplication Receives Approval The city commission, at its meeting Tuesday night, approved an application by Roy D. Mug den for operation of the Central club, 1207 Adams. City manager's report for week ending Juno 30 is as follows; General receipts, $2,905.17; gen eral disbursements , $10,088.03; cash on hand, $72,034.02. Water receipts, $203.17; water disbursements, $118.62; cash on hand, $12,995.90, ' Chemist's developed ah explos ive called pentaerythritcletaani-trale. All kinds of them.' We carry delicious cold meats, jams, peanut butler, crisp let luce and all those other things to make satisfying sundwiches for summer meals. Serve Cool, Healthful Salads Oitvn They make a fine change from the regular type of ir.eul. Choose fresh fruits and vege tables here. Sinden's Grocery 1323 Y Ave, Phone OBI Lt. Worth EplinjrJ Home After Five Years in Service First Lt. Worth Epiing arriva l in La Grande yesterday for a day leave with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Epiing, and his brother, Golan Epiing, after serv ing almost two years in the Euro pean theater of operations and three years in the Pacific. - Lieutenant Epiing made the trip from England via Scotland, Iceland and Labrador, landing ii Massachusetts. Ho -entered Ihe army Nov. 10, 1939, and now wears, the Silver Star; has been recommended for tho Distinguished Flying Cross; has the American defenso badge with one bronze star for ono year overseas before the attack on Pearl Harbor; the Asiatic Pacific ribbon with three bronze stars for battle participation, one each for Pearl Harbor, Midway and Wake; the European theater ribbon with four bronze stars, one for the landing on D-day, one for Nor mandy, one for southern France, and the fourth for participation in the battle in Germany; 'also the good conduct badge. COMING LA GRANDE FAIRGROUNDS 6 KIG DAYS 6 STARTING MON., JULY 9 THRILL SHOW Auspices American Legion Festival of Thrills Everything New Hut the Name NKW RIDKS ACTS SIDIi SHOWS ' JJIGGHU and 15I2TTKK EARLIEST PRINTED BOOK SACRED NUMBER The earliest printed book! Tibetans hold the number 108 found lo date came from the sacred. Their holy book contains caves of the Thousand Buddhas, i 108 volumes and, when Ihey give in China. The book was dated ' important banquets, the meal has 098 A. D. ' 108 courses. If you flew the most direct , It has been estimated that the route from New York to Manila, , internal temperature of the sun you'd fly over the Arctic coast- is 50.000.000 decirces. Its surface , temperature is 6000 degrees. line of Canada. 1 - s ft 5i H AVE YOU BEEN WONDERING what kind of lighting you arc going to have in your home after the war? Well, you may be sure that it will be better than any lighting you have enjoyed in the past thanks to the lighting research which will bring the benefits of sunshine right into your home. Cool, soft, abundant lighting for easy seeing . . . ultraviolet rays for your daily sunbath . . . germ-Killing rays to purify the air . . . comforting heat rays to soothe pain. I "'' WW W k QW 'RETAILERS gl -jj i!JJjP!!Xj I I Li! III Bill 1 the abundant, 1 hbcnch l ' UlI Just tho wmMmm 14$ Distributed by COLUMBIA DISTRIBUTING CO. 110 N. W. Second Avenue, Portland, Oregon k Lighting research is "moving the sun" indoors, bringing us tho benefits of outdoor daylight, for healthier, brighter living. Conserve on light today. Plan for a brighter home tomorrow. Eastern Oregon Light & Power Co.
