La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, July 10, 1945, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextAll Time HighSeen In Wheat n ir ( A Community Newspaper For Every Member of the Family liinuwiiimumiiuim.ii (' - Wtlltmt Cfei An average yield of 35 bush cl an acre is expected from Union county's 48.000 acres of wheat, with some few farms bringing in SO to 60 bushels an acre, the county agent's office announced today. The condition of the wheat, owing to hery spring rains, is good, with a loan value of ' $1,283 per bushel for No. 1 ESTABLISHED 1S96 LA GRANDE, OREGON TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 10, 194,") . vec wnuL Fleet, PbimrPyind Tlky i : li WASHINGTON, July 10 , (UP) ! The agriculture de partment; today forecast a IMS corn cron of 2,68:,328,- 000 bushels. This would com pare with 1914 production of 3,228,361,000 bushels and the VJ34--I3 average of 2,433,060, 000 bushels. This first estimate of corn pro- .1 !.. Iliio unnc U!1K hlisvH 1)11 conditions as of July 1. The crop reporting board estim ated land planted in corn at 92, 2211,000 acres, compared with the 1045 goal of 011,008,000 acres. An average yield of 20.1 bushels -. an aero was indicated compared with last year's average of 33.2 bushels. The wheat crop was estimated f at another all-time record of if,l 28,000,000 bushels. Report last month forecast l.uui.uaz.uuu ou- shels of wheat, compared with 1044 production of 1,078,047,000 bushels. The winter wheat crop was in dicated at 834,180,000 bushels against the June estimate of 707, 255,000 bushels and a 1944 output of 764,073,000 bushels. The spring wheat crop was set at 294,501,000 bushels. This com pares with a June estimate of 287,307,000 bushels and the 1944 crop of 314,574,000 bushels. Two Killed, Eight Missing in Flood EASTON, Pa., July 10 (UP) At least two persons wore killed and four others were missing to day as the result of a torrential storm which lashed a 30-mile area in Pennsylvania and New Jersey along the Delaware Tiver. A series of flash floods followed in the wake of the two-hour rain and hail storm last night causing thousands -of - dollars damage , to dwellings and crops through the area. At Phillipsburg, N. J., four or more persons were reported miss ing when a four family frame dwelling was crushed by a retain ing wall which tumbled from a 30-foot high embankment during the downpour. At Coplay, Pa., John Horbow, 60, of nearby Egypt, was electro cuted when lightning struck a transformer at a plant where he was a night watchman, i Robert A. Florey, 38, Bethle hem, Pa., was killed when he came in contact with a power line as he attempted to clear a high way of a fallen tree. The storm, most severe on rec ord in the area, washed out a number of streets and highways. Electrical service was interrupted and several communities were in darkness for hours at a lime. Qualified Personnel Will Go.Overseas WASHINGTON, July 10 (UP) All qualified army personnel in this country who have not ser ved at least six months overseas will be replaced by next May 1 so they may be given foreign assignments. Secretary of War Henry L. Slimson said the replacements will tc made by returning veter ans and others in special cate gories. The changes will affect about 400,000 men under 35 who are now in this country. The army for several months has adhered to a policy of giving overseas assignments to person nel in this country and replacing them with veterans. The new order, however, sets May 1 as the deadline for the changes. The order applies with special emphasis, it was said, to men un der 35. Trace Found of Missing Youth BILLINGS, Mont., July 10 (UP) Sheriff Herbert Bailey believed today Montana author ities may be on the trail of 16-year-old Lcland Owings of Sher idan, Wyo circus worker who has been missing since June 28 when the ATthur Bros, circus played in Helena A letter from Mrs. Mary Frry of Craig received yesterday by Bailey reported she and her son had picked up a boy answering Leland's description near Helena, June 28. According to Mrs. Frcy. the boy gave his name as Bill Fisher and said he had been working with a circus. He stayed at the Frcy home until June 30, she said, and then look a bus to Great Falls. Voice Cracked LONDON, July 10 (UP) Frank Sinatra took an editorial pounding from "Stars and Stripes" yesterday for raising his voice against camp shows put on by the USO and the army special services. The voice, quoth the army newspaper, "is hardly an authority on either military or workaday show business." "It is possible Frankie was dis traught and tired when ho made his statement," it added. "He had just finished seven gruelling weeks overseas during which he sang several times every day, and in addition he had granted an audience to the pope and wised up his holiness on the crooning racket, and that taxes State Will Build North Powder Road Shortly Rejection by the state highway commissioners of a $7,560 bid for construction of 4.65 miles of road from. North Powder to the Baker county lines docs not mean the road construction will be passed up, it was announced here this afternoon. The ista'e will complete the patch and oiling project by force account, that is, using its own equipment and employes, rather than by giving the job to a con tractor. The only bid received was too much higher than the estimate of $5,996. The road is an important federal-state secondary highway which the county maintains, a! though the- federal-state setup builds the road, County Engineer S. B. Morgan said. It follows the North Powder river and connects with the Anthony lake-road. Log hauling has been one of the prin cipal uses of the road, with the Oregon Trail Lumber company at Union as one of the main users. Highway commissioners studying bids on the Carlton timber access road project in Yamhill county, opened yester day in Portland. Of seven bid ders, E. R. Hutchman, Mill City, was lowest with a bid of $52,792, on the 1.96 mile project. The engineer's estimate was $58,016. Unidentified Woman Held in Kidnaping Of Baby in Ohio MARION, O., July 10 (UP) Twcnly-nine-year-old P h y 1 i s Lanmen, Marion, today con fessed the abduclioi of Jean Eileen Crevislon. MARION, O., July 10 (UP) Uoscoe D, Mczger, grandfather of kidnaped baby Jean Eileen Crevislon, said today the family has received no word of the in fant's whereabouts despite pre dictions solution of the case was imminent. Mevgor, wholesale grocery ex ecutive, wearily told a newsman "there just isn't anything new." His daughter, the baby's mother, was taken to her parents' home immediately after the kidnaping Sunday night. An unidentified woman was picked up for questioning in Co lumbus today after Sheriff Leroy Reterrcr had promised an arrest "before noon" and the FBI had said it understood the case had been solved. Mrs. Wilbur Snyder Dies in Portland; Formerly Lived Here Mrs. Wilbur Snyder, formerly of La Grande now of Poitland died at 6:10 a.m. today in a Port land hospital following a long iilness. She leaves her husband, Wil bur Snyder of Portland; a son, Tom Kinzer of La Grande; a daughter, Mrs. Mary Richter of Vicksburg. Miss., and a son-in-law. Lt. Col. Eugene Richter. Mr. and Mrs. Snyder were in the auto business in La Grande, having the Pont iac agency before the war. Funeral services will be at 2:31) p. in. Thursday. July 12, at Snod grass Funeial Home. The body will be brought to La Grande tonight and burial will be in the Masonic cemetery. M r,,i unH Hre iii.iii.r re cently returned from the south Pacific, are at the Kinzer home in La Grande. Smother Capital's Defenses. GUAM, July 10 (UP) More than 1,200 American army and navy planes, backed by the greatest naval armada afloat, are smashing at Tokyo and a broad stretch of the Japanese coast late today af ter eight hours of sustained bombardment that smothered enemy defenses. Counting some 500 lo 550 Su perfortresses that set five Honshu war centers ablaze before dawn, almost 1,800 American warplanes were over the Japanese home land. Near Capital Standing perhaps 200 miles off Tokyo bay throughout the as sault were scores of American carriers, battleships, cruisers and the lesser craft of Vicc-Admiral John S. McCain's task force 38 the fighting spearhead of Admir al William F. (Bull) Halscy's U. S. third fleet. Tokyo said the American fleet was southeast of the capital and included 10 aircraft carriers. They broke radio silence con tinually in a bold challenge to the remnants of. Japan's air and sea forces to come out and fight. But fleet dispatches said thus far not a single enemy plane or ship had been sighted. Up and Down Racing westward under forced draft, the carriers pulled within striking distance of Tokyo before daybreak and sent the first of their, 1,000 bombers and fighters roaring over the capital a few. minutes after-6 a.m.- Alarmed Japanese broadcasts said the navy fliers were ranging up and down the east coast of Honshu on all sides of Tokyo. The Japanese said a third American striking force compris ing 30 Liberators, 30 Mitchell medium bombers and about 70 fighters sliuck from Okinawa at Targets in western Kyushu. Fire Guides Around mid-day, the enemy reported another 100 army Mus tang fighters, accompanied by "several" B-29s joined in the navy strike by attacking shipping one! shore installations in the Osaka-Kobe area southwest of Tokyo. They were guided into the enemy shores by the light of huge fires claping through five Japanese cities-, where a force of 500 to 550 B-29 Superfortresses had unloaded 3,500 Ions of de molition and incendiary bombs shortly before daybreak. McGee Gets Six Months in Jail FORT DEVENS, Mass., July 10 (UP) Pvt. Joseph V. Mc Gee, 25, of Worcester, who served a jail sentence for slapping nine nazi prisoners, was sentenced to day to six months in jail at hard labor for being AWOL the third tune in six weeks. Maj. Frank Reeder, president of the special court martial, an only 10 minutes. It ruled also only 10 minutes. It rulid also that during the six months Mc Gee must forfeit .$.')5 a month out of his pay. McGcc received national atten tion as a "bemedaled hero" who was jailed because he slapped nine German prisoners of war in France. His two-year jail sent ence was commuted recently. Water Still Seems Hut Soap Goes Way Of Sugar, Steak. By United Press If the corner grocer is looking more harried than uual of late, it's safe to assume a shortage of soap, latest item on the list o( waitlmc unobtainable:, is to blame. In virtually every city' in the- country, supplies of package soaps and the better-known bar seaps have virtually disappeared, a United Press survey discloses. Less popular brands, however, usually are available. Many felt deceased production because of a scarcity of Hts and oils was a factor. Others said rumors of rationing actually had created the shortage. : MARINES HOLD FIRE AS JAPS SURRENDER Marine rifle man signals his companions to hold their fire as a Japanese soldier emerges from a cave on Okinawa. Persuaded by a smoke grenade, the occupants of the hideout surrender to the leathernecks, adding lo the large bag of prisoners taken in this island campaign. County Officially Over Quota in War Loan Campaign Although Union county was 'over the top' in the seventh war bond drive more than a week ago, the official announcement of the standing of the county was not announced until today when E. C. Sammons, state war fund committee chairman, declared E bonds sold. here. and..rvportcd by the treasury banks to state head quarters now total $771,266. E bond quota was $741,000 . Union is one of only eight counties in the state which have thus far exceeded their quota of E bonds in official reports, al though unofficially and actually others have reached their goal:.. The other seven counties over are Harney, Clackamas. Klamath, Evikr, Hood River,. Wisco and Washington. Quotas were exceeded in every phase of the drive hero including corporation and prsonal sales. Although further corporation sales were not officially reported they had brought total purchases up to more than $1,150,000. Coun ty quota was $064,000. "I want to compliment W. C. Perkins (county chairman) and all the volunteers of Union coun ty for having done sucli an out standing job on the campaign," Mr. Sammons telephoned the Evening Observer from Portland this morning. Truman Enroule lo Historic Meeting ON THE ATLANTIC WITH PRESIDENT TRUMAN, July 10 (UP) President Truman today was aboard an American warship in mid-Atlantic bound for Europe and his meeting at Potsdam, Ger many, next week with Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Generalissimo Josef Stalin. As his powerful fighting ship drove through unusually placid Atlantic waters, the president held continuous conferences with two of his top international ad visers Secretary of State James F. Byrnes and Fleet Adm. Wil liam D. Leahy, chief of staff to the president. A Washington soap maker at tributed the situation to "a short age of fats and oils and an nver supply of government regula tions." Cake sales were estimated at one-fouith and these of granu lated and flake soaps al emc half of last year in Detroit, when- a swollen population put an addi tional strain on existing supplies. Laundries reported s Q in c in-crease-d business, be'cause wash women were telling their cus tomers, "No so;ip no clothe s." Dealers in Denver, Cleveland, Atlanta. Columbus and Kansas City all reported a stampede to the soap counters. The soap-run eased, they added, when the "I fice of price administration an nounced it had no immediate plans or rationing. ' Chickens Hop On No Feet On This Road PORTLAND, July 10 (UP) State highway commissioners agree perfectly with Bend farmers chickens stuck in road oil can't scratch a living for themselves and can't help much in the war effort. So, at their meeting here late Monday, they agreed to join with the city of Bend in clean ing up spilled road oil which leaked from a tank car and flooded private property. Cherry Growers To Seek Raise In Wage Ceiling At a meeting of cherry grow er's associations last night, it was decided to apply to the war food administration for an increase in the wage ceiling for picking. The Pumpkin Ridge Cooperative Cherry Growers' association will apply for a ceiling price of 3V4 cents a pound, an increase of 'A cent over the rate last year. Prices askeel on applications from other associations are not yet known. While it is still too early to de termine .accurately, picking on Royal Annes is tentatively sched uled for the last week of July. Picking on Bings will start ap proximately 10 days later. About 500 tons of cherries are expected to go through the asso ciation this year, while Cove's association estimates a harvest of from 350 lo 400 tons. Police Free Girl; Shot Hoy Friend I.OS ANGELES, July 10 (UP) Police today released 27-year-old Rita Powers Clements, reel haired Detroit war worker ex onerated by a coroner's jury for the "accidental" killing of her truck driver sweetheart, Thomas Gibbons, 39. Miss Clements, who came here from Detroit to marry Gibbons, was carried from the inquest chamber by detectives after fainting during early testimony that she accidently shot him with an "unloaded" gun when he leased her by biting her neck. Plentiful Representatives of the two largest soap-producers said they arc mainlainiru! normal opera tions. They deplored the well known "vicious circle" which they said starts with rumors of ration ing, followed by hoarding, and finally the need for rationing. Liquid seiaps were appearing on the market for the first time in many cities and dealers did a icc ord business in tie-in sales, frown ed on by the OI'A. The Lincoln Neb. Journal print ed a standard recipe for home made soap on its women's page. In Omaha the wife of a chain store manager peistponed her washing a week because she didn't have laundry soap. Oilier housewives began using less- scarce toilet soap for laundry and dishe3. Grew Warns of Listening to Peace Feelers Says Japan Has Not Offered To Quit WASHINGTON, July 10 (UP) Acting Secretary of State Jo seph C. Grew, denying Japan has offered to surrender, said today the enemy is attempting lo split the allies by provoking public discussion of Pacific surrender terms. ' Ho denied for the third time in recent weeks Japan has made conditional surrender offers "either through official or un official channels." Feelers, However But in a. surprise statement warning against a relaxation of the allies' unconditional surren der demand, Grew acknowledged many "alleged peace feelers" on the part of the Japanese have been reported to this government through indirect channels. Itemizing some of these "feel ers," Grew said they are "famil iar weapons of psychological war fare" being tossed into the battle now the enemy's military posi tion is deteriorating and the plight of Japanese civilians is be coming more critical. a Ho said "conversations relating to peace" have been reported to the slate department from vari ous parts of the world. No Offer "But," he emphasized, "In no case has' an approach been made to this government, directly or indirectly, by a person who could establish his authority to speak for the Japanese government, and in no east hB an "offer'of sur render been made. "" "In no case has this govern ment been presented with a statement purporting to define the basis upon which, the Jap anese government would be pro pared to conclude peace." Grew cited one occasion when "leading Japanese industrialists" and he emphasized the quota tion marks around this phrase were reported as eager to know "the best possible conditions." "Intimated" Grew cited an instance in which a member of a Japanese mission to a neutral country "in timated" to an American citizen, through a German newspaper man, "that real American inter ests in the Far East should lead the United Slates to abandon un conditional surrender and pro pose terms." "Finally," he said, "an uniden tified person approached an American mission in a neutral coifntry, claiming he had been authorized (by whom was not indicated) to approaeh the goav ernincnt of the neutral country with a view to persuading the al lies to drop unconditional sur rendcr and to propose terms." Big Three Chiefs Of Staff Agree On Governing Reich BERLIN, July 10 (UP) Chiefs eif Ihr American, Kussian and British occupation force's nvl to day and agreed upon the iintno diale establishment of an inter allied governing authority lo direct the joint administration of Berlin. An official announcement of the agreement was issue.'d after a confe'irncc e,f big three lcarlers. Marshal Gregory K. Zhukov ol Russia, LI. Gen. Lucius Clay of the United States and 1,1. (Jen. Sir Ronald Weeks of Jirilain we-ie- Ihe ceinforercs. Zhukov prc sielrd. They decided to establish at once tin' mixe d governing author ity "to direct joint ly the admin istration of greater Berlin under the interallied agreement on con trol machinery in Germany." "A satisfactory arrangement was made tei meet the immediate pretble?ms ef food supply for ll.e civil population eif Berlin on the i I sis ol e-ontiiliution from all the zones of nevitpalion,' anounevmeiil said. the official SPECIALISTS ARRIVE BERLIN, July 10 (UP) An tin usually large number of trans port planes swarmed through the skies over Berlin today, giving rise lo the assumption the van guard of specialist and import ant personalities were arriving for the Big Three meeting. . - Follet Family Has Quota of Accidents The Jesse Follet family of dents for a long time, if the law on to work, because at the rate of bunday and Monday they , have their share. Sunday, while Jesse Follet was driving a team, until that: time placid enough, the horses of control. They crashed the wagon into the lence, into the" corner of the barn, then into a hay rake, circled the area',' several times and finally tore into the timber, throwing Fol-;" let from the wagon, severely bruising him and dislocating? his right shoulder. Yesterday his son, George bone when thrown from a bucking . horse, and is now in Grande Rondo hospital receiving treatment. There was a bright spot in the weekend however, that be ing the arrival at the parental home of Warren Follet with' his new bride. He was recently discharged from the navy because of injuries. ' , Laws of Arrest Explained to Police School FBI Agent Talks On Telephone Courtesy Cilcuit Court Judge R. J. Green, principal speaker yester day at the first day of La Grande's five - day ' FBI police school, lectured on the Oregon laws of arrest, dealing with ar rests with and without wai rants in misdemeanors and felonies. "An officer," he stated, "may make "misdemeanor'1 arrests''Sun days in only three cases: when a warrant has been issued, when the offense has been committed in the officer's presence, or when a telegram has been received fiom officers in another county instructing the arrest of a speci fic individual. . Arrests for fel onies may be made at any time." Must Help Judge Green defined a mis demeanor as an offense punish able by cither fine or imprison ment in the county jail, and a felony as an offense punishable by imprisonment in the state peni tenliary. "Whim an officer requests aid of a citizen in making an arrest," he continued, "it is a misdemean or for the citizen lo refuse to give the requested aid." Customers "When an officer reeiucsls aid of a citizen in making an arrest," he continued, "it is a misde meanor for the citizen to refuse lo give the requested aid." Customers Resident Agent Mill. shall I. liarne's preceded Judge Green yesterday, explaining the school schedule and introducing Instruc tors. He lectured on police cour tesy and telephone couitesy, com puting taxpayer-police relations not as an employer to employe, but as a customer to a store owner. Session today was opened with lectures on interviews and report writing, given oy Special Agent Howard B. Patterson, followed by a class In defense tactics given by Special Agent Max E. Taylor. Drilling to Start A ug. 1 On Oil Well Drilling on the as yet un-named oil well, located two miles north of Hot Lake', will start about the first part of August, Hugh Berry, vice - president of the Grande itoneic (JH anel Gas company, an nouncer! inrl.-iv i !-'m:iiir'inir nf II, n ir,.ll ult.i'lnl Somi'time last year, should be completed by then, Berry stated, and the lotary drill equipment, now being checked at Union, will have been transferred lo the well site. 29 Crewmen Lost On Brazil Vessel HIO 1)K JANEIRO, July 10 (UP) The ministry of marine said loilay at least 201 out of 427 BraMian crewmen perished in Ihe sinking of the cruiser Bahia which apparently struck a mine. The death toll was at first re ! leased as 395, but a ministry of marine communique last night said 33 survivors had been picked up by the British freighter Balfc Mid that 100 more had landed in the island of Fernando Noronha. Elgin shouldn't have any acci-',' ol averages can be dependea became terrified and got out " Follet, received a broken collar Six Districts Vote On Consolidation Withlmbler Consolidation of six elementary'1 school districts with the Imblcr district was voted upon at a spe cial election at 2 p. m. today. The election, the results of which may not be known for two . days, was held in the following school districts: Summervillc, Pleasant Grofc, Dry Creek, Pumpkin Ridge, Alicel, Willow Creek, arid Tmbler. It the measure is passed, the;' six districts win be incorporated in the Imblcr district, meeting in the school house there. Ford Asks Respect For Restricted Parking Districts Unless motorists cooperate in" l he futulo in respect of observa tion of the city s restricted dis-;, tricts, strict enforcement of the one hour parking limit will be started, Ed Ford, city manager, announced today. Owing to the shortage of help Ford said, the city has not been" enforcing Ihe one hour parking! limit on Adams avenue. NumcrJ ous complaints have been ro-J etived about employes of busi-i ness houses parking all day in) the restricted district. There haa also been abuse of the loading zone areas, he stated. The work1 crs are asked to park their cars on side streets during business' hours. "Wo also wish lo notify tho children that it is very dangerous lo rido two on a bicycle and 'also that riding on the viaduct and city sidewalks is prohibited," ho staled. . 1 State Judges Fund i Increases $10,000 SALEM, July 10 (UP) The slate judges retirement fund has increased nearly $10,000 during the past year, State Treasurer Leslie M. Scolt leported herd Monday. The fund, erealeel by the 1043 legislature, now has $28,010.54, compared to $18,004.33 last year, anel the original $10,000 apprd prialion. The fund is maintained oy transfers from the general fund, withholdings from judges salaries and income from invest-' menls. ((" All but a small portion, $885.35, is invested in U. S. government securities, Scott said. Dr. Gage Renins As OPA Director PORTLAND, July 10 (UP) Re signalion of Dr. Daniel D. Gage, Portland district OPA cent director, said Gags is to leave Aug. 1 to return to his post at Eugene, where for 13 years ho was connected with the teaching staff of the University of Oregon school of business administration, No successor to Gage has been named. "' Weather r Data for 24 hours to 7 a.m. Temperature: Maximum 97 Minimum : 60 Forecast: Clear tonight aid Wednesday. Not much change in temperature.