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Newspaper Page Text. ... Weather Data for 24 hours to 7 .a. m. Temperature: . Maximum 36 Minimum 57 Forecast: Clear to partly cloudy tonight pnd Friday, nol much temperature change. i4 Community Newspaper For Every Member of the Family mammicxm m ESTABLISHED 189(5 LA GRANDE. OREGON-THURSDAY KVKNING. JULY 12, 11) I.'. FIVE CENTS B-29s Hit 5 New Targets STEAMED FOR TOKYO'S DESTRUCTION Team ed up agalj in delivering devastating 1.200-plane attack on Tokyo area are Adm. Wm. F. Halsey. ri ghl, and Vice-Adm. John S. McCain (left), carrier tuk force commander, thow.i talking over strategy in stateroom of Hals:y' flagship during an ear lier attack. Mightiest naval armada afloat backed the air attack, standing some 200 miles off To kyo, with flying time from carriers to Tokyo target and back about 16 mi'.iuies, Enrollment at Eastern Oregon College Will Show Increase Over That of 1944 ' Indications are the enroll ment for the fall term at Eastern Orejron college will show a considerable increase Over last fall. This increase . will be partly due to the addi-tiori-of three new terminal cur ricula of two years duration which' aro being added to the general college program. These curricula are 'designed for train ing medical and dental assist ants; merchandising, and radi-j-elpctric service and management. Returning veterans are showing considerable 'interest in the new course ,in radio-electric service and management, which will qualify men to serve in the cap acity as managers of radio stores or -no work in connection with the servicing of radios. Carlos Lasley has been engaged to head this new radio program. Mr. Easley. comes" well qualified for this position, having taken his college training in the field of mathematics and physics plus considerable practical experience in the radio field. Combat Casualties Now 1,047,680, Increase 10,743 I WASHINGTON, July 12 (Ul' Total U. S. combat casualties reached 1,047,680 today, an in crease of 10,743 over a week ago. The total induced 243,043 killed. . Aimy casualties compiled here now stand at 015,718 as compared with 131,082 for the navy, marine corps, and coast guard. ' Of 567,674 army wounded, 340, 111 have returned to duty. Of 117,213 army prisoners of war, !4,0?0 have been liberated. Acting Secietary of War Rob ert P. Patterson disclosed at his news conference 3,031 Japanese had been kilicd and 275 captured in the Borneo campaign up to July 7. . Allied casualties in the same campaign were 214 killed and wounded and 22 missing. ; In addition, Australian forces mopping up New Guinea, Bou gainville and New Britain have counted 1,175 more Japanese dead nnd taken 27 more prisoners, bringing the total since Jan. 1 to 10,300 enemy dead and 253 cap tured in these by-passed areas. The U. S. casually table: ,.. , Armv Navy Total Killed 193,508 40,535 243 043 Wound. 567,674 66,763 634 437 Missing 37,323 11.502 48 825 Prison. 117,213 4,162 121,375 Tota's 915,718 131,062 1,047.680 BULLETINS WASHINGTON, July 12 (UP) (UP) Sen. A. B. (Happy) Chandler, baseball's new com mirsioner, announced today that the major league baseball: c.'ub owners had unanimously approved a formal contract which will give him the tame unrestricted power enjoyed by his predecessor, the late mi tic Kenesaw Mountaii Laite. DAYTON, Ohio, juiy 11 Jf) Mike Turneia, Whit Pauoa. N. Y., tenaciously hunf oo to his one-hole lead over Syroa Nelson. Tol.ido, O., today with nine hoI left in their IB-bole recond round mafth of the 27lh rational PGA golf champion Cannery Equipment To Be Stored Here It was' learned today that through the efforts of Raymond Gray president of La Grande Chamber of Commerce, and lo cal school authorities the slate vocational education depart ment is willing to permit the storage of the cannery equip ment in La Grande for this year providing there is assur ance local interest will insure the provision of a building suitable for instaMalion next rpring. From all evidence at hand it is now too late la in flail a cannery for this season and thus the only possibility of saving the equipment for local use will be through the promise of providing quarters for the cannery next spring. Truman Studies Progress of War Wilh Japanese ABOARD U. S. S. AUGUSTA WITH PRESIDENT TRUMAN, July 12 (UP) Interrupting his detailed study of the program for the Big Three meeting, President Truman paid close attention to the progress of the U. S. third fleet which has been hammerim Japanese homeland with carrier planes. riuman was preparing to put a simple American case before r-iime Minister Churchill and Premier Stalin when they meet in Potsdam, Germany, next week. The Big Three conference it self is expected to begin Monday or Tuesday and probably to last longer than cither of the two previous Big Three parleys. The Tehran conference lasted less than a week, the Yalta meeting eight days. In intervals between highly secret bulletins direct from the American task force off Japan, the president conferred with Sec retary of State James F. Bvrncs and fleet Adm. William D. Lcahv on the Big Three agenda suggest ed by tl.a three participating governments. Strikers Return To Essential Jobs Bv Uiited Press tsacK-io-work movements among striking employes in war and essential civilian industries throughout the nation today cut l less than 40,000 the number of workers away from their jobs. With decisions to end work stoppages in Detroit and along the eastern seaboard, the largest single strike centered in Akron, O.. where a walkout of 16.600 Firestone Tire and Rubber com pany employes entered its 12lh day. .The strikers, members of ! the United Rubber Workers j fCIO), wqie scheduled to meet ; Saturday to consider a war la I bur board order to return to work. One thousand CIO United Dairy Workers voted yesterday to end a strike at two Detroit creamer-1 les wnich had fccen unable to de liver milk to 150,000 families. The dispute arose over the union membership of part time managers. City Will Hire Patrol Rider For Beaver Watershed Payment of $500 for patrol rid er of the Beaver creek watershed was authoriized by the city com mission last night, in an effort to keep stock from the water shed during the coming season. The commission also author ized a warrant to be drawn for $5,000 in payment of Lot 11, and portion of Lot 12, Blk. 106, Chap lin's addition, La Grande city. Lot' 1, Blk. 3, Arnold's addition, La Grands City, was Ocedcd to John R. iHalladay, and prices were set on two other pieces of property: Lot 7, Blk. 8, Riverside addition, La Grande city, $175; and Lot 8, Blk. 8, Riverside addi tion, La Grande city, $250. A petition with 13 signatures, was filed for installation of ; street light at the intersection of Depot street and X avenue. Bills in the amount of $2,750. 30 were allowed. City manager's report for the week ending July 7, 1045 fol lows: General receipts, $267.66; general disbursements, $24,628. 78; cash on hand, $47,672.00. Water receipts, $0,211.13; wa ter disbursements, $10,200.21; cash on hand, $2,880.20. Methodist Youth Fellowship Will ' Meet July 16-22 Methodist Youth Fellowship institute will be hold July 10-22 at the Methodist camp ground at Wallowa lake. The theme will be the "Day of dawning brotherhood." Rev. O. L. Kendall of Baker will be dean. Rev. Floyd White of the Fir Street Methodist church of La Grande will be as sistant dean. Mrs. O. A. Fortune of Union will be dean of the girls, 'and Mrs. Floyd White will be in charge of the junior department. Chuich classes on Bible study and missions will be held in the forenoons. Among the out-of-town instructors will be Rev. L. Shaver of Caldwell, returned missionarw from Japan, who will conduct classes on the Old Testa mint ,and Rev. O. J. Gill of Pen dleton. Rev. Logan Pruitt of First Methodist church in La Grande will instruct a class and Rev. Mr. White will instruct the adult class on the World of Tomorrow. Delegations from Union, Baker. La Grande, Cove, Haines. Pen dleton, Prairie Citv, Wallowa and Joseph will attend the conference. Tokyo Speculates On Allied Landings MANILA. Ju,v 12 ITP Radio Tokyo speculated today on the possibility ol imminent allied landing operations on the Car nicobar islands, in the Indian ocean, following a reported Brit ish carrier-based assault against the Sumatra naval ba.-e at Sab ring. Japanese broiidcutcrs said al lied naval Units I!I ii.rr.ntlv l.-url buoys in the waters arliurenl t i the Carnicobar group, whiib is located north of Sumatra and west of Malaya, while only yes terday morning a British cairicr ti.sk force had launched some 200 plants agjjnrl Sabang. Oregon By ERIC W. ALLEN, Jr. SALKM, July 12 (UP) Oregon has been lucky so far as forest fires fire concerned tin's year so far, at least. Twenty-one fires reported within the last two days, most of them the result of an electric storm in southern Oregon, have brought the total to 80 for 1045, State Forester Nels Rogers re ports. Only two arc in danger of going out of control. . Overcast Now Only 59 fires had been reported up to this week, Rogers said, about the same number as last year. An overcast of smoke in the Willamette valley bore , wit ness to two fires in the north western part of the state one in Clatsop county and one not far from Forest Grove. The latter is potentially serious, and a large crew was fighting it. In spite of the new fires, the situation is not as serious as it could be, Rogers said, because the humidity has not yet reached its low point. He estimates there willw be a period of 50 to 60 days of maximum danger during the summer, vncn humidity drops below 30 points. Stop Logging At present it is in the high 30s and low 40s, he said. When it gets below 30 in western Oregon all logging operations must cease. The outbreak of fires puts stress on the need for care in the woods, Rogers emphasized. This week is only the preliminary danger period, and because we've been lucky so far is no reason to be careless, he said. Fires can be caused by any number of things, but a large proportion arc man-set. The fire near Astoria is believed to have been caused by "embers which have smoldered in a log all win ter, after slashings were burned there last fall. Reminders As a result of the situation be coming rapidly more dangerous, Rogers and the Keep Oregon Green association remind travel ers, picknickcrs and campers of the following facts and rules. 1. Danger of natural fires in the woods, Oregon's greatest re source, is great, and will become greater. 2. Once set, a fire has a good ehanre of destroying thousands of dollars worth of timber neces sary in the war effort. 3. Most fires are preventable. 4. If you are going into the woods, take along an axe and n shovel. 5. Report all fires to the near est fire warden. 6. Above all, be careful with fire! Possession of Slot Machine Illegal SALEM, July 12 (UP) Pos session of a coin-in-the-slot gam bling machine, except when it i" owned for storage only and is ot in working condition, is against the law, Attorney Gen eral George Neur.er ruled today. In an opinion for Stanley J. Mitchel, Clackamas county dis trict attorney, Neuner said pos session when the machine is ir. a position to be operated is illegal. -VH pi: L, NEW PASTORS HERE Rev. T. M. Mitchell, new pastor of he Church of God hero, and Mrs. Mitchell, assistant pastor, will pre sent services here Sunday for the second lime ill La Grande, Thoy preiously served tho church at Newberg and for the last year both attended Anderson collego and seminary at Anderson, Imd. The Mitchells hart two children, Constance, 9, Bid Thomas, 6. In Newburg lhev were well acquainted with Rev. Ernest Chamber lain, couili of Rv. Eugene Chamberiiln, pastor of First Christian church here. Forest County Pioneers Plan Picnic Includes Music, Historical Papers Mrs. Kate R. Hanley and Mrs. Frank Jasper have announced the pingram for the Union Coun ty Pioneers annual picnic which will be an event of July 10 at Riverside park. The event will open with com munity singing. Invocation will be given by Frank Jasper, and the address of welcome will be given by George T. Cochran. Walter M. Pierce will respond. Mrs. Vivian Hindman Mclntire will piesent a solo and Mrs. Edith Currey will conduct the memor ial. Community singing will con clude the program, which each year is conducted in the pavilion. Cochran, Pierce and Mrs. Cur rey will include brief resumes of pioneer history in their ad dresses. Mrs. Molly Proebstcl Gamble, Los Angeles, sister of the late Hatlie Eckley, will be present for the day. During her visit heio Duce's Wife Says 'Near Him Only If He Was Down' (Editor's note: The following exclusive interview is one of the few public statements ever made by Mrs. Benito Mussolini. It is her first to an American' corres pondent since the death of her husband and her removal to a British internment camp.) By ANN STRINGER BRITISH INTERNMENT CAMP, TERM, Italy.- July 12 (UP) "I was never close to him when he was high; I was always near him when he was down." With that weeping epitaph, Be nito Mussolini's gray-haired wi dow summed up her life with the flamboyant duee who left her for a younger, prettier mistress at the height of his fascist power. Pouring out her words between choking sobs, Donna Rachele re vealed in an exclusive interview she spoke to the doomed duee by telephone only six hours before he was slain by a band of Italian partisans near Milan last April. We spoke informally in the six room apartment in an abandoned synthetic rubber factory where she and her two youngest chil dren are being Jield in British protective custody. Throughout t h e interview, Donna Rachele defended her dead husband against every ac cusation except his final infidel ity with Clara Petacci, who shar ed his death and humiliation in the bloody public square in Mi lan. For the red-haired Clara, Mrs. Musoslini had nothing but hatred and a fierce satisfaction that Be nito's mistress was dead. WOOD SUCCEEDS HART WASHINGTON, July 12 (UP) The house today elected Rep. John S. Wood, D., Ga., to the chairmanship of the committee on unAmeiican activities. He succeeds Rep. Edwards J. Hart, D., N. J., who resigned. Small, she will be a guest at the home ot her nephew, Victor Eckley, and of a life-long friend, Kate Hanley. Bert Huffman, early day pio neer, here recently on a visit from his home in Canada is ex pected to be hero for the meet ing. A business meeting will follow the program and election of of ficers for the coming year will be conducted. Present officcis are: George Cochran, president; Frank Jasper, vice-president; An. na Brooks Royes, secretary, and Mrs. Kate R. Hanley, treasurer. A basket lunch will be served at noon, with coffee and cream furnished by the association. The rest of the afternoon will will be spent visiting, and a meeting of the Union County His torical society will be held there later in live day. OPA Validates New Shoe Stamp WASHINGTON, July 12 (UP) The office of price administra tion announced today airplane stamp No. 4 in war ration book 3 would become good for one pair of shoes beginning Aug. 1. OPA said airplane stamps Nos. 1, 2 and 3 would continue to be good "indefinitely." The last Nov. 1. Mrs. Burleigh of Enterprise Dies; III But Few Days Mrs. Lorn A. Burleigh of En terprise, wife of the late James A. Burleigh, and mother of Eyl vcsler H. Burleigh of La Grande, d'ed at the Enterprise hospital rt 5 p.m. Wednesday. She suf fered a stroke Saturday at her home. Other survivors include three more children, Woldcll M. and Genevieve McCuhb'n of Entcr piise and Florence McCubbin of Wallowa and ten grandchildren, as wi II as her stepfather, Jim Elakeloy a cattle man, and a half sister, Veva Ilillon of Everett, Wash. Both Blakeley and Mrs. Hilton are in La Grande today, prepara tory to going to Enterpiise for the funeral services which will be held at 2 p.m. Friday, July 13, in the Community church at En terprise. Burial will l.e in the Enterprise cemetery. Mrs. Builcigh was born I.ora Alice Morris, Dec. 10, 1872 in Harrisburg, Ore., making her 72 years old at the time of her death. She came to Wallowa county with lur parents jn the 11180, and was mariied to J. A. Burleigh ir 1804. He preceded her in t'eath four years ago. Fraternizing Rule Will Be Relaxed BRITISH OCCUPATION HQ.. Germany, July I'l (UP) Hulo against troop fraternization with the Germans probably rwill he eased in the American as well as the British zone in about two weeks, it was reported today. The soldiers will bo permitted to vi.-.il cafes, talk with the Ger mans and walk with frauleins, it was understood, but probably will not be permitted to visit German homes. Oil Prospecting In Willamette Starts SALEM, Jiilv 12 (III') Scien. Ijlu- pi-ospeiting for oil and natural g.-is is being conducted in tin- mid-Willamette valley by two major oil companies, with 30 men doing routine reeonnaisanee work. Texas and Standard Oil com panies have established offices in Sal'-m, and bull) are conducting a si-iMiiogiaphie survey, partieu larly for natural gas. If the geo physical explication hads to any prospects it is rjiesumed wildcat wells will lie drilled. STANCE APPOINTED August J. biangi! was appoint ed to the office of district deputy grand master of the grand lodge of Oregon, A. F. and A. M. The appointment was made by Fred V. Hartman, grand master. To Date 25,000 Head of Stock to Move Out of Areas Truckers, Rail Men fJiscuss Shipping Stock growers and transporta tion men from Union und Wal lcwn county estimated last night there will be at least 25,000 head of cattle, hogs and sheep to be moved out of the two counties as soon as the season starts, in nbout another month. About 7,500 cattle will move from Wallowa county and 6,000 fiom Union, it was estimated; there will be 3,500 hogs to move here and 4,000 from Wallowa; and several thousand head of sheep from the two counties. The men met last night at the Sacajawca hotel to discuss means of transportation. Railroa. 1 "f ficials have estimated they will need three days notice to get cars for carload movements. Truckers al the meeting last night indi cated if rail shippers could han dle the carload lots, the truckers could handle the smaller than car shipments. Theo Gregory of La Grande and P. M. Wolf of Union were the two truckers present. The meeting included county agents, raiiroaa men ana uul Director Wicse of Portland.. Tho movement to market starts when the cattle and other stock are brought down out of tho hills. off the gruss and put in lots. Bangs disease tests of cattle will .Marl men too and it was sueiiest ed infected animals be moved Jn midweek shipments, leaving wrcKcnus nee for the other ship ping. Back Taxes in Cities Fund in County Divided Division of current and back taxes from 1020-11)45 in the spe ciui cures lunci nus been an nounced by Al Harlow, county treasurer. The fund, totaling $8,0118.52, has been divided on a percentage basis among the fol lowing eight Union county cities: La Grande, $7,131; Union, $1,424.00; l-ilgin, $105.08; North Powder, $141.12; Imbler, $28.80; Island City, $27.30; Summcrville, $11.00; Cove, $120.58. Division ot the special school fund s back and current taxes from 1020-1045 was also an nounced. 'Jj.i-e $11,806.05 lu&ul, also divided on a percentage ba sis, will go to the 40 school dish-jets in Union county. No fig ures have been announced. Classes in Print Studies Held at I FBI School Here I Slice. ill Aiviil lliiwm rl II Pnl - terson yesterday conducted class es in fingerprint and palm-print impressions at La Grande's half eoinpleliri five-day Fill police school. Agent Patterson also conducted practical patent fingerprint work, which included dusting and lift ing of Intents, followed by prac tice work in the subjects. Session today was opened by Spicial Agent K. D. Deaderiek, lecturing on testifying, and lead ing a discussion of raids. Special Arenl Max E. Taylor conducted class in defense tac tics, with both demonstration and praclic in the use of handuffs and leg irons, as well as the "otiiek frisk." Hop Pickers Top Wages Are Fixed SALEM, July 12 (UP) A maximum wage of three and a half cents a pound will be puid nop pickers in Oregon this year, it was drcided at a meeting of hope grokers here late yesterday. W. E. Kimsey, state labor com missioner, said these wages may be raised tn certain instances when pickers can not make an average wage comparable to those obtainable in better produc ing yards. Maximums will be 75 cents an hour, or $7.50 per day, Kimsey said. 39 Cities Spattered By Bombs GUAM, Friday.. July 13 (UP) A fleet ol' r()0 to 550 Superfortresses splattered the lieaits of four Japanese home; island cities With more than 3,200 tons of fire bombs early today, and dropped tons of high explosives into the im portant Kawasaki petroleum center. : The new Superfort strike, rais ing to 30 the number of Japanese cities bathed with incendieries in the past four months, came as Tokyo alerted its coastal defenses against a possible new carrier strike by the blacked out U. S. fleet, lurking somewhere off the battered enemy homland. 92nd Strike Unil,s of the giant ajir fleet struck along a 450-mile route from Shikoku Island to the Tokyo region on Honshu in the sixth B-20 raid this month and the 92nd major air strike at Japan. Targets included Uwajima, on the southwest tip of Shikoku and one of that island's four laraest (cities; Tsuruga, 210 miles west of Tokyo, Utsunomiya, 55 miles north of Tokyo, and Ichinomiya. The latter three cities arc im portant industrial ccntors on Honshu. The Kawasaki petroleum cen ter, also hit, is located on a re claimed island in Tokyo Bay and is the site of four oil refineries and storage depots, including those of tho Standgrd-Vacuum ' Oil company, the Nippon Oil . company, the Rising Sun Petro- leum' company, and the Mitsui storago depot;.:' . - :,. i - Set-Afire Stored on the Island worn high test aviation gasoline, alcohol, diesel fuel, asphalt and benzine: Congested housing areas and Important railroad yards were set afire in Tsuruga. At utsunomiya, the highly in flammable gasoline jelly bombs' crashed down on the Nakaj'ima aircraft factory, silk-recling fac.- loiies ana a Hour mill, Tho three Honshu provincial cities, each with less than 10,000 population, are important rail- way, aircraft, munitions and tex tile centers. , Not Confirmed. 1 Raid today brought the bomb tonnage dropped this month by the Superforts to 18,2000 tons carried by from 2,650- to 2,850 planes in six strikes. Enemy broadcasts said 180 American fighters and bombers thundered up from Okinawa early today to attack the Japanese suicide- piano bases on southern Kyushu, but wore turned back by uuu weamer over me targets. - oomo or inc raiders also flew over Shikoku. island, between Kyushu and Honshu, enroute hack to their Okinawa bases, the Japanese accounts said. There was no confiimation. Five Districts To Consolidate FiVC School Hilll'ir'lu Plnl.cunl Grove, Imbler, Dry Creek, Wil low Creek and Pumnlrin ni,l,. voted lo incorporate into one dis trict, the Tmhlnr rTiuf i..l hl h special election Tuesday, 'it was .'iiiiuumea uns auernoon by Miss Ethel Hansen, county supcrin-tc-dent. Tho distilets ot Alicel and Summcrville voted against the proposition at tho same election. The exact vote was not an nounced as the official canvass has not been made. The can vass will be completed Friday by the district boundary board and the consolidation will then be declared effective. Policemen Guard Newspaper Plants NEW YORK, July 12 (UP) Police Commissioner Lewis J". Valentine ordered more uni formed policemen and detectives assigned to guard newspaper plants today as a result of vio lence last night in the I?.-day-old strike of newspaper delivery men. Police said they had been In formed morning newspapers will attempt to make deliveries to railroad terminals and outlying points tonight, and protection will be provided. Valentine or dered out the reinforcements after a conference with John J. Ryan, chief of detectives.. J