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"locaP Rule For Private (Flying Seen I Decentralization Plans Laid Out J By CAA (See editorial on Page 2 of - Ih Observer today.) A decentralized program (or i enforcement of federal aviation . laws and regulations has been , worked out by the civil aoronau- tiqs association, it has been an- 'v.iiounccd by Lt., Col. Leo G. Dc- ; vaney, director of the civil air ' ' petrol for Oregon. Devaney had met with E. J. Robins, assistant to the civil aero ; nautics administrator, and R. T. ; Puckey, assistant airport supcr ,! visor for this district. X' ' Can Rule ., r . Devaney ' says although ques- tions which have pertained to the t CAA have been presented to re- fiional . offices, final decisions I have had to come from Washing- ton. Regional managers now arc assistant administrators and can i rule on most problems which ?, come up. ; Devaney said it is hoped lcgis ' lation will permit local state I police, officers to handle federal '! violation of federal aviation laws. Slate agencies will be provided iwith registration lists of planes A and fliers. ' '- Education Second, tlie slates will have available the educational facili ties which have heretofore been centered in Washington. Educ tional programs in the public schools may also receive the ap- if education. t Third, while tlie CAA will con tinue to provide engineering con sultants for airport building, de centralization of the program will permit regional engineers to give decisions in less time and to work more closely with state groups. Devaney pointed out also that federal aviation control ought to segregate regulations pertaining to air carrier operations from private or non scheduled opera tions. La Grande Masons Get Appointments By Grand Master Several members of the La Grande Masonic lodge have been honored by5PPo.'nt,mpt?(itP P.9" 'sition's tn1ie''tla?6nfc grand lodge of Oregon, according to an official circular just issued. Attorney Colon R. Eberhard has been appointed chairman of the committee on endowment, and C. M. Humphreys, secretary of the local lodge, has been ap pointed chairman of the commit tee on examination of visiting , brethren. Geo. T. Cochran, PGM, was named a member of the com mittee on honorary grand lodge memberships. Fred W. Hartman of Portland is grand master. His personal representative in Union and Wal lowa counties will be Aug. J. Stange of La Grande, whoso ap pointment has previously been announced. Man Found Slain In Liquor Battle CHICAGO, July 13 (UP) A man was found slain in gang land style today, and police said he was Morris Margolis, 35, who was under indictment in a Michi gan liquor racket. The nattily-dressed body was found slumped over the steering . wheel of an automobile on the near-northwest side. The victim ' had been shot behind the left car. Margolis was identified by fingerprints. He had been in dicted twice on charges of acting as go-between for Chicago liquor . racketeers and a syndicate head- ed by Peter Licavoli, Detroit i mobster. His case still is pend 5 ing in court. j The slaying was discovered I when a passerby noticed blood I trickling from the side of the car ! into the street. The motor still v was running. COMPLETE LEGISLATION WASHINGTON, July 13 (UP) Congress today completed leg islative action on the long-delayed $768,500,000 war agencies appropriation bill. Oregon Bond Sales Nearly Double Quota PORTLAND, July 13 (UP) Release of final figures in Ore gon's role In the seventh war loan drive disclosed today the stale almost doubled its quota, reaching $204,405,442. 185.8 per ccal of the $1 10.000,000 quota. I hoed tales throughout the slate, tee toughest quota to lit aaaieverf $48,030,060. 1U.S parser of the Sis.MO.OOO Multnomah county recorded 0136,404.367 of all series of for the drive's final figure and a record of 198.7 percent of the $68,670,000 quota. ESTABLISHED 1896 HOME FROM RAID, SUPERFORT CRASHES AT IWO JIMA Returning from la strike at the Jap homeland where it was badly shot up, this Super fort, made a crash landing on Iwo Jima's 7ih fight er command base. The entire crew escaped, some with minor injuries, . Fishing Prospects Best in This Week, Game Commissioner Reports PORTLAND, July 13 (UP) Fishing prospects arc best (his week in eastern Oregon, accord ing to the Oregon stale game commission report today. Wasco, Wallowa, Lake, Mal heur, Gilliam, and Wheeler coun ties all have waters in which fishing is good. Baker and Mor row report poor angling results, although in Morrow several limit catches have been reported in smaller streams. ' In Wasco, all streams arc in good condition, except the De schutes is yielding only fair cat ches in the Maupin district. Olal lic and Fish lakes arc good. Trout Bite Trout are biting freely in Wal lowa, and mountain lakes arc now free of ice and accessible to horsebacjc travel, Lake county 'reports' poor bass arid perch fish ing in Dog lake and Drews rescr. voir, but most crocks good for fiy fishing. In Malheur, Owyhee dam re ports catches of crappics taken on any lure; bass being taken in upper waters of the dam; and limit catches of crappics coming from the Owyhee river, also trout. In Willamette valley, Polk and Marion report hot weather has limited results. In Linn, most of streams and several lakes arc within fire-restricted areas and entrance requires permits. Fish taken are small. Some Limits Along the coast, Curry county reports CShinpok salmon being taken from the Rogue river be low the highway bridge on troll, and by fishermen anchored at Hie river's mouth. A few steel head arc showing in the river, and fair catches of cutthroat arc being taken from Hunter creek and Pistol river, also upper Sixes unci Elk rivers. Jn Jefferson county, Blue and Sultlc lakes continue to yield a few limit catches "nigger fish ing" on eggs. WANTS OPA WATCH WASHINGTON, July 13 (UP) Sen. Wayne Morse, II., Ore., wonts the senate to set an official watchdog on the office of price administration. He introduced a icsolnlion yesterday to create a special seven - man committee which would conduct "a continu ing investigation of OPA." Morse is a strong critic of the agency. Parsons Changes Common Stones into Beauty Crysocoela, curnelliun, rhodon ite, obsidian agates of surpass ing beauty are made into rings, brooches, tie claaps and other types of jewelry by Cecil Par sons, 901 O avenue, as a hobby. Parsons, machinist for the Un ion Pacific railroad company for the past 28 years, cuts and pol ishes the stones himself, buys tho mountings and makes the jewelry for his own and his friends' en joyment. He sells only a few, but is thiking of making a busi what has been a hobby rur two years. "I learned the skill" Parsons says, "by the simple proccedurc of hanging around lapidaries." A lapidary, via Webster, is a man who makes jewelry. He wears a large rectanfftlar Montana scenic ring in a cop per letting, of pearl-grey back ground with brown and black formations, and has mede two exceptionally beautiful brooches. One rtitmblm pond, with a marih in the fore LA A Loving, Dutiful Frau .... 8 s s c ' She Was Able to Be Proud of Himmler ' By ANN STRINGER INTERNMENT CAMP ON ROME OUTSKIRTS, July 13 (UP) Frau Margarete Himmler maintained today she is still proud of her infamous husband and shrugged away the world's hatred of the dead gestapo chief with the observation "no one loves a policeman." When told her Hcinnch had been captured and hud died from his own dose of poison Frau Himmler showed absolutely no emotion. She sat, hands folded in her lap, and merely shrugged her shoulders. Not Told Until then she had not known what had happened to Himmler Munich from Berlin around Easter. When first captured by the fifth army she had claimed a weak heart and internment camp officials, fearful of a heart attack, never told her of her husband's death. But even when I told her Him mler was buried in an unmarked grave Frau Himmler showed no surprise, no interest. She Knew I talked to Frau Himmler in a luxurious villa home owned by a former movie magnate where she and her 15-year-old daughter, Gudrun, are being held witli one other female internee. I asked her if she was aware of her husband's activities as ges tapo chief and she replied, "of course." Then I asked if she knew what the world had thought of him and she replied, "I know that be fore the war many people thought highly of him," Agrees Asked if she realized Himmler was probably the most despised and haled man in the win Id, Frau Margarete shrugged and suid, "Maybe so." Frau Margarete denied Hie possibility her dead husband might have been considoicd the No. 1 war criminal. She said, "My husband? How could he he when Hitler, was fuehrer?" Asked if she was proud of her husband. Frau Margarete re plied, "Of course, I was proud of lrm." Then she added, "In Ger many wives would not even be asked such questions." ground, and ducks flying high in the sky; the other shows red. brown mountain bluffs outlined egainst a sky of blue-grey, with button earrings to match. Parsons has one of the best agate collections in the north west, possibly in the whole United blutes, with stones of ! hypnotic beauty Many Colors There is the Oregon red moss, with lacy blood-red vein forma tions in a grey-beige background: the flower obsidian, a black stone with lacy while clusters; the cry socolla, pale blue stone from the copper mines of Globe, Ariz.: and the pale green varisite from Utah. Tbon is Ihe Montana polka dot, pur white background with startling spoetu ot jet black; the foulb African tiger eyes, moll Led earth brown lad green; the Oregon green most, small sage-green veins making lacy pattern! in a light grey ground, loking unbelievably cool. 'iiiiainiiiniiin'aiiiiiiiMaiijuiiffliit GRANDE, OREGON FRIDAY j 1 & ? East Oregon Police Hear Talk On Testimony Special Agent K. D. Dcaderick yesterday conducted classes on testifying and raids, at the La Urunde 1BI police school. 4 peace officers on entering closed doors, positions to lake so as not to be caught in a cioss-fire, and authority needed to make raids. Special Agent Max E. Taylor also lectured on defense tactics, leading demonstration and prac tice in the use of hundcuffs and log irons, as well as the "quick frisk." Session today was opened with a lecture by Agent Deaderick on Ihe searching of persons and piaccs with an actual problem adapted to the La Grande police department. Agent Taylor again lectured on defense luetics. Frank Schiro, publisher of the Observer, lectured on public re lations, and the five-day school was officially closed. Property of Nazis To Be Confiscated LONDON, July 13 (UP) Ber lin radio suid the city council de creed today the property of all na.is and everyone who aided them will be confiscated in the German capital. "The imporlunce of the decree is likely to reach far beyond Ber lin, although it applies only to Berlin at present," the broadcast said. The confiscation was described as reaching beyond the members of the nuzi party and nazi-cre-uted groups to "all other persons who took an active part in the propagation of nazism, who com mitted vile acts against others." or wlm wi,l kprl fur r,r 111:1, If nrn- I fits from the nuzi regime. There is the Oregon thunder egg, shading from pearl-grey to grey-brown; and the Montana earnellian, white-grey with red laown formations. There is the Mack Montana moss agate; and orange beach a ales from New port; yellow and red-brown mot- Med Mexican onyx; and the shim- nieiing black obsidian. has Hobbies There are lapis lazuli, blue and fcicy; red jasper; beige and black mottled petrified palm wood; the green mottled Wyoming jade, and the blue and wine-red Texas jas per. There are other stones, too white banded iris agates, banded Texas jaspers, western gem Ttiate rial, the black and pink rhodon ite, and the Oregon banded grey agate; all cut and polish' d in tound, oblong, square, rectangu lar, or heart-shaped slwics. Parsons has had a hobby ail his life, including photograph;', oil painting, woodworking, and radio somehow finding time lor jigsaw and crossword puzzle -21 i EVENING, JULY 13, 1943 Fires Set By B-29s Still Rage GUAM, July 13 (UP) Gasoline-fed fires, fanned by a Pacific Rule, limited a I5 milc stretch of the Japanese homeland today after C00 to fHipenoru esses sent inure Ihnn 3 9W) Imia nf innnnrliul-i iu I crashing into five packed war H , ' .. 11 1 a eK: centers un iiuiimiu ami 0111 koku. Japanese broadcasts tacticly admitted the flamos are still rag ing out of control at some points this morning, hours after the massive B-29 strike. Two Lost In .Washington, a 20lh air force, communique rcporlrd two air craft were lost in the raid and a third is missiing. It said bomb ing was by precision instrument nml results were unobserved. It was tnc Kii consecutive at tack Japan and raised to 30 the number of enemy home cities gutted by American bombers rincc the pre.invasion bombard ment began last March. And fresh warning Japan's or deal by fire and high explosive will be stretched around the clock until the enemy is beaten into submission came from Gen George C. Kcnney, comrnundcr of the far eastern air forces un der Gen. Douglas MacArthur. Move Seventh Kcnney revealed the seventh air force, aerial spearhead of the American march across the cen tral Pacific, had been shifted from Admiral Chester W. Nimit.' command to join the fifth, 13th and. 20th -bomber commands in 'the final phase of the Pncific air war. "As soon as we're in position, we will attack Japan from 10,000 feet and from ten feet with fires and explosives, with fighters and bombers, and we'll do it 24 hours a day," Kcnney promised girmly. The Japanese D 0 m c i ows agency went even farther than Kcnney, asserting the 24-hour bombardment "already is a real ity." Soo Invasion "Moreover," the enemy agency added, "we must be fully aware that these air attacks arc a pre lude to the invasion of our homo- land Dome! said the B-2l)s already have switched from bombing Japan's major cities to the small er war centers and warned the next and probably final phase be fore invasion will be the attack of Japanese railway and high way communications. All the B-2D targets loduy were secondary production centers, each of 100,000 or less population, although their closely - packed war plants and thousands ol "shadow factories" made them prime bombing objectives. Weather . Data for 24 hours to 7 a.m. Temperature: Maximum 09 Minimum 60 Oregon partly cloudy tonight and Saturday; scattered Ihun dershowers over and easl of Cas cades. crazes when they swept the coun try, and hunting and fishing, as the seasons come. Parsons had no hunting and fishing trophies, no completed jig saw puzzles, or radios left from his former hobbies, but several excellent samples of his wood working skill, bookcases, two round tables, coffee table, end luble, magazine shelf, and two pin-up lamps grace hi;; apart ment. Five oil paintings are there, too, copies of well-known pic tures Sir Thomas Lawrence's "Pinky"; un old seaman in a sou' wester, smoking a corn-cob pipe; an opium smoker squalling by a lilt; an Indian in a birch-bark caniic; and a woodland scene. Paints, Too Mrs. Parsons shuies a few of her husbands hobbies, having painhtd an appealing little pic ture of two Scotch terriers, and having made the rock shelf table Upon which her husband's agates are displayed. RhAodlPir(ps i : - . Parsons was born in the Eng $ruer NOT BY AIR POWER ALONE will the U. S. beat Japan; we must Invade, Vice Admiral Mark Miiacher declares. The admiral and his wife left today for Washington after a day and a night at his home town of Hillsboro, Wis, Three purposes are seen In ihe jockeying now going on In the Pacifici to in vade Japan by the Okinawa method; to engage and destroy the Japanese armies in Asia; to squeeze to death tho Japanese forces now bypassed and iso lated. Truman Expected To Dock Sunday At Belgium Port By WALTER CRONKITE ANTWERP, July 13 (UP) President Truman is expected to dock here Sunday morning, it is understood today, and probably will motor to Brussels where he will take a plane to Berlin, De tails of the president's arrival and his itinerary were blacked out. However, it is believed certain ho - will drive to Brussels since Antwerp does not have an air field safe for tho presidential plane. It was thought likely Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower will send his new C-54 from Frankfurt to pick up Truman. It is not known whether Eisenhower will fly here to greet the president. U. S. ambassador Charles Saw yer will greet Truman and ac company him to Brussels. News reports Truman would dock here created great excite ment among security officers and the American embassy in Brus sels continued to maintain it had no official information on Tru man's impending arrival, It appeared likely there would be no public observance of the president's arrival except Tru man's World War I regiment, the 137th regiment of the 35th divi sion, a Missouri national guard outfit, would be employed as a guard of honor. Pelillo Held For Assault on Marines J, OS ANGELES, July 13 (UP) Kelly Petillo, former auto rac ing champion accused of gctlinK tough with two murines win n they were slow in leaving his cafe, loday wa shold for trial on Iwo counts of assault with a deadly weapon. Pvt. James W. Lunsford and Cpl. John W. Young testified ill municipal court that Pelillo fired a rifle over Hieii heads, hit them with his fisis and threw a chair at liiein. lish eity of Balli, county of Som erset, the youngest of four child ren, three boys and one girl. All thiee boys, Stanley, Arch, and Cecil have Ihe same birthday, Aug. 23, although tin re; is cinhl years difference between each. He attended British public schools, and also King Kdvaid the Sixth's grammar school, com parable to the Eastern Oregon college of education. The school, as its name infers, emphasizes the belter speaking of the English language. Hero Since 1917 Parsons' entire education and (raining was intended lo equip him for u career as a British aval artificer, but because of los ing the heal ing of his left ear, he was disqualified and had to aban don his cho.sen profession. He came to the United States in 1912, working New Vork, California, Idaho, and Washington. He came lo Oregon in 1917. He and Mis. Parsons, a grad I'ute nurse, were married in Col fax, Wash., in 1938. Suggest Closing Protection County Has More Farm Acreage But Fewer Farms Now State Has Both More Farms, More Acres Union county has 25,000 acres more farmland now than was the case in 1040, a report of the bu reau of census shows today, but there are 47 fewer farms in the county. In 1040, 471,173 acres were un der Ullage or in farms of some sort; in 104D the acreage was 400,169. Thoro were 1,208 farms in 1045 and 1,255 in 1040, the sur vey shows. State Increase Wallowa county In 1945 had 811 farms and in 11140 had 980. Acreage, however, has increased from 579,003 to 079,300 in the last five years. Oregon has gained 2,430 farms and 1,838,384 acres in farmlands since 1940. The number of farms in the Oregon counties In creased by 3.9 percent, from 81, 829 in 1940 to 04,208 in 1045; farm acreage increased by 10.2 percent, from 17,088,307 acres in 1940 to 19,826,001 acres in 1945, and average size of farms in creased by six percent, from 290.9 acres in 1940 to 308.5 acres in 1945. Large Gain Greatest increase in number of farms, 897, or 20.1 percent,-waa shown by Lane county, but its farm acreage increased only .8 percent. Greatest increase in farm acreage, 614,817 acres, or 79.5 percent, was shown by Kla math county, although it lost 86, or 7.8 percent, of the 1,552 farms it had in 1940. Lt. Kay Pierson Gets Air Medal For China Flights First Lt, Hay L. Pierson, pilot, son of Mr, and Mrs. W. M. Pier son 1305 Tenth street, La Grande, has been awarded an air medal, it was announced by Brig. Gen. W. II. Tunner, commading gener al of the India-China division, air transport command. The award was made upon completion of 150 hours of oper ational flight in transport air era ft over the dangerous and dif ficult India-China air routes, whole enemy interception und attack was prnbuhlc und expect ed. The air trail over the "Hump," famed roule through the tower ing peaks of the Himalaya moun tains, blazed by the air trans port command, is recognized by airmen as the world's toughest. Today Hie Hump route is the main lifestieum of vital military aipplies for the allied fores fighting Ihe Japanese in China. The citation accompanying the award adds: "Flying at night as well as by day, at high altitudes over impassable, mountainous terrain through areas character ized by extremely treacherous weather conditions necessitating long peiiods of operation on In struments . . . requiring courage ous und superior performance n his duties, he accomplished his mission with distinction . . ." The award was made for the period of service Jan. 12 lo Feb. 28, l!)45. Lieutenant Pioison is repented missing on a flight in thai ter ritory since May 3. BULLETINS WASHINGTON, July 13 (UP) Tho sonalo foreign re lations commilloo today ap proved tho unilod nations char tor by a vole of 20 to nothing. DAYTOW, O., July 13 (UP) Byron Nelson of Tolodo, O., hooting four-under-par golf, held a lwo-up lead over Denny Shule of Akron, O., t wice PGA champion, at the end of 18 holoi In their 38 hole quarter final match in the 27th nation al PGA golf tournament. A Community Newspaper For Every Member of the Family of River Wofild Save Fish Concentrated In v Pools in Summer Members of the .'Sportsmen's club here agreed last flight the Grande Ronde river, has been almost at its best this season and there has been good fishing in it; but, they also tigreed,1 some thing ought to be done to keep the fishing in good condition tor coming years. Fred Lanzer set out the sug gestion to have tho club press for closing the river to fishing afttt the middle of July each year, afr ter the water is dropped to low level and the fish are left in small pools where it is too easy . to catch them. This it was agreed t would help to keep the fishing good up to tho middle bf the summer every year. No official action was taken. , Plan Dinner - Tho club expects to have a big dinner meeting late in the sum mer, before the deer season opens. Possibly a barbecue will be held and a fly and bait casting con test has also been-proposed. De tails will be settled at the next meeting. Satsfaction was expressed by Ihe president.-Ernic Walden, and other members of the club at the report of Claude Mackey on pheasant stocking in the county Four hundred and eighty-two birds, with two roosters for every six hens, were brought in from Ontario and 2,40V) more have been promised by the game com mission, They will be released in. the jfallcy: s- .- f . J. ". Harmony " ' " ;' Chairman of the fish commit tee, Barney Tillotson, was unable lo be present, but Walden trans mitted his report, which is to the effect that only four hacherics in the state arc operating, which makes fish for planting scarce. There will be an abundance of crappics later, which tho mem bers of the club may release in county waters. Reports on tho recent meeting of the Eastern Oregon sports council declared harmony pre vailed on the questions of the dates for the open seasons on elk and deer. Max Wilson of Joseph, . the council delegate to meet with tho state commission Saturday at Portland, has been instructed to seek tho following dates for deer and elk open teason in eastern Oregon: Biting Well Deer, Sept. 20 lo Oct. 25, in clusive; and elk, Nov. 6-30 inclu sive. Walt Sweet, member of the Sportsmen's club, had an audi ence when he gave out the fol lowing facts. The 1 r 0 ut in the Powder , rlvor near North Powder, be. low the Thief Valley dam, are fighting fools and a fisherman is lucky if ho gels two out of five strikes. His luck was good as he caught 10 fish which woighed 14 pounds. Crawfish, found plentifully under ihe locks along tho rivor, attract tho fish quickly.. Other recent experiences in the valley and in the surrounding territory were recounted at the meeting, before the session came to order in the Triangle park. Tho meeting hud been scheduled for the city hall, but an aversion lo the heat inside a building last night led the members to seek the soft grass and cooler air of the park. NAZIMOVA DEAD HOLLYWOOD, Calif., July 13 (UP) Mmc. Alia Na.imova, one of Hie world's greatest actresses, and a fuvorltc for two decades, died here today. The Russian born actress was 66. Cat Walks In With Swallow On Head SEATTLE, July 13 (UP) Mrs. Myron C. Miller was em phatically surprised yesterday when her pet Persian cat, Tag gio, marched Into the kitchet), with a baby swallow sitting on her head. Mrs. Miller, said Taggie took, her new friend into the living room. Tho bird hopped down and apparently was quite; pleased with the situation. ,: "Taggie sat down by the bird and purred," she said. ' e. P FIVE CENTS ; 1- i'M or-tl ' jpi
