"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.
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