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. POTSDAM, July 16 (UP)
President Truman toured
the war-ravaged heart of Ber
lin today while awaiting' the
opening of the big three con-
lerence Which was postponed
until Tuesday by a delay in
the arrival of Premier Stalin.
Prime Minister Churchill also
made a two-hour tour of Berlin.
His party reached the chancel
lery 10 minutes after Truman's
left. ; For 28 minutes the 70-year-old
p r , m c minister roamed
through the ruins of the chan
cellery like an experienced
mountain climber.
Views Wreckage '
Truman left Potsdam with an
annorcd escort. For two hours
he traveled through the streets
of central Berlin, critically view
ing the destruction wrought by
the allied armies and air forces.
It wasn't a victory tour with
flashy ceremonials, but a serious
study of destruction.
-' Truman, Prime Minister Chur
chill and Stalin had been expect
ed to open the Potsdam confer
ence of the big three this morn
ing. But a day's delay was
caused by tho. absence of the
Russian generalissimo. His exact
whereabouts are not revealed,
but he is expected to arrive late
today.
Wont Part
. The president wedged his Ber
lin tu'r intp a crowded schedule,
which included a formal call by
Churchill and a steady round of
conferences.
The presidential party traveled
to Berlin proper along the auto
bahn or speedway from Potsdam
and proceeded to the center of
their city where the Germans
made their last stand.
Flunked by two carloads of
secret service men and a halt
track load of export army rifle
men, Truman and Secretary of
state James Byrnes motored
through the worst rubble of cen
tral Berlin.
Terrible
When he stopped before the
shattered, bumfd-out shell of
the chancellory the president ob
served with a pensive shake of
ins near,:
"It's a terrible thing, but they
brought it' on themselves."
He looked up at the jagged re
mains of a balcony where Adolf
Hitler cnflumcd the world with
his ranting speeches and said:
H-s Just a ' demonstration of
what can happen when a man
ra readies nimsoit. i never
saw such destruction. I don't
know whether they'll learn any
thing from it or not."
As he looked and spoke, list
less and ragged Germans stum
bled through the rubble. The
Germans pnid little attention lo
him. When they did, it was' most
ly in blank, sullen stares.
Fred J. Smith,
81, Farmer, Dies
Fred Joseph Smith, 81, farm
er, of 1307 C avenue died Satur
day at his home.
He was born Feb. 10, 1864, in
Ontario, Canada, and has resided
in La Grande for 27 years. He
was a member of the Catholic
church.
He leaves his wife, Rose Mary;
five children, Mrs. Joe Burgess,
Mrs. Ralph Corbctt, Rose Smith
and Fred Smith of La Grande,
and Joe L. Smith of Sheridan,
five grandsons and one great
granddaughter. Rosary will be said tonight, at
1 7:30 o'clock in the Snodgrass
Funeral Home. Funeral services
will bo at 0 a. m. Tuesday, July
17, at the Catholic chi ,'i with
Rev. John Baumgartncr offering
the mass.
Caudle Appointed
" Assistant to Clark
WASHINGTON, July 16 (UP)
j t President Truman today nom
inaled Theron Lamar Caudle of
fWadcsboro, N. C, to be assistant
Htlorncy general, the justice dc
' fcartmcnt post vacated when Tom
C. Clark became attorney gen
eral. Caudle, 41, has served as U. S.
, attorney for the western district
of North Carolina since 194". He
was graduated from Wake Forest
college in 1D26 and immediately
began private law practice.
' Truman also nominated Herald
William Judson of Los Angeles
to be assistant solicitor general,
Succeeding Hugh B. Cox.
Ration Value of
Sutter Reduced
WASHINGTON, July 16 (UP)
The ration value of creamery
butter U back down to 16 points
a pound today.
The old 24-point value came
to an end at 12:01 a. m. Sunday.
The OPA laid the move was .
! wade possible by reduced mili-
tary requirement. But it
warned jQints will be raised
1 again if tuppliei diiappear too
J quickly.
J Country butter remained at
? U pointa a pound.
ESTABLISHED 1896
Psior
Four More Japan Cities Blasted
BLEW OUT 10 CANDLES AMONG THEM Celebrating their second birthday anniversary yetier
day, the Diligent! quintuplets posed in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Shown (left to right) are Franco,
Maria Fernanda. Maria Ester, Maria Christina and Carlos Alberta.
Wife Finds Her
Husband Frozen
In Refrigerator
STAMFORD, CONN, July IB
(UP) Saul H. Perry, 50, owner
of the Pickwick ice cream com
pany, tried to fight off death in
the plant's 40 below zero refri
geration room with a box of
matches, and lost
Police said today Perry entered
the sub-zero room Sunday when
no employes were around and
let the door close behind him,
forgetting the lock was under
going rejiairs and the inside
handle had been removed.
His wife found his body when
she returned from Boston where
she had been visiting. Mrs. Per
ry locked herself in tre refri
geration room several days ago,
but was freed by employes.
Perry tried frantically to free
himself. He tried to pick the
lock, first with a pencil, then a
fountain pen, dropping them on
the floor in desperation. He
tore a length of electric wiring
from the walls, but that loo fail
ed to trip the lock. Then he
lighted the matches, one by one,
trying to fight off the growing
numbness. Finally they were ex
hausted. Mrs. Perry returned by train.
and finding her husband was not
at the station to meet her, went
to the plant. A red light above
the door indicated someone was
in the refrigeration room.
She found her husband, frozen
stiff.
Ninth German Dies
In Prison Hospital
Of Gun Wounds
FT. DOUGLAS, Utah, July 10
(UP) The death loll from a ber
serk American armv uuurd's
shooting orgy last week at the
branch German prisoner of war
camp at Sahna, Utah, today has
risen to nine.
Ninth service command offi
cials here reported that German
Pre rricdrieh Riltcr died Friday
from wounds suffered when Pvt.
Clarence V. Bertucei, New Or
leans, turned a mounted machine
gun on the POW camp enclosure,
tiring wildly into the tents of the
sleeping prisoners with a full belt
of .30 caliber bullets.
Eight prisoners were killed al
most outright and 19 others were
wounded. Military funeral serv
ices will be conducted here to
morrow for Ritter.
liaker Boy Injured
Here in Fall From
Delivery Truck
Jess J. Zemmcr of Baker, 13-ycar-old
son of Mrs. Maxine
Zemmer of Baker, is a patient at
Grande Rondc hospital suffering
a probable skull fracture which
resulted from a fall from a de
livery truck in La Grande Sun
day morning. q
w
to visit for a short wjjlje, but will .
now be conrinea to tne nospnar
for some time. His condition.
hospital attendants jfflvi. is good
The bov had come to La CrandifDln8 u mutual assista.tc!) and
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Douglas To Speak
Here About Sept. 1
Justice William O. Douglas
of the U. S. supreme court, now
vacationing at his summer
home on the south fork of the
Lostine river, will "definitely"
rpeak at La Grande about Sept.
1, it was announced today.
Douglas had been tentatively
announced as a public speaker
of the chamber of commerce,
here then under the auspices
but lit was not definite until
today. t.
Truman Nominates
Vinson Secretary
Of the Treasury
WASHINGTON, July 10 (UP)
President Truman formally
nominated Fred M. Vinson to be
secretary of treasury. No succes
sor to Vinson as war mobiliza
tion and reconversion chief was
named immediately.
Federal Loan Administrator
John W. Snyder is most promin
ently mentioned to succeed Vin
son as home front czar. Snyder,
a close personal friend of Truman
for 25 years, was appointed to the
loan post when Vinson succeeded
James F. Byines as war mobil
izes He formerly was vice presi
dent of the First National bank
of St. Louis.
The White House said it had
received no information yet from
Berlin on the president's selec
tion of a new war mobilization
ad reconversion director.
Morgcnthau, who originally
agreed to stay on until the presi
dent returns from Europe, will
step out as soon as Vinson is eon
firmed, ending a tenure of more
than 11 yeais as secretary of
treasury.
Wagner. Pleads For
Prompt Acceptance
Of Iirellon Woods
WASHINGTON, July Hi (UP)
Sen. Robeit F. Wagner, D.,
N. Y., opened senate debate on
the Bretton Woods monetary pro
posals today with a plea for
prompt ratification. j
He said their acceptance would ;
'inform the world that we stand j
ready to cooperate in interna- j
tional economic matters." To
gether with tile United Nations j
ehaiter, he said, the proposals
"lay a f i r m foundation f')i '
peace." !
Wagner introduced the lint-:
ton woods proposals in his cap
acity as chairman of the senate
banking committee.
Overwhelmingly adopted by
the house, they provide for
United Slates participation in
!), 1 00,000.000 world bank and an
$li.UOO.0OO,Olll,internatiiinal mone
tary fund to help world rccon
slruelion and development and lu
stabilize currencies.
Wagner told his coKOicgiics the
legislation now before them "will
assist immeasurably in achiev
general understanding na
lions that are so esse nli,(T)lo the !
establishment of nn'V enduring '
r.nd preperous p(fi
GRANDE, OREGON MONDAY EVENING, JULY 16. 1915
B-29 Ghost Plane
Speeds Toward
West Coast
GRAND RAPIDS, Minn., July
IB (UP) Authorities scanned
the skies today for a B-29 "ghost
plane" reportedly speeding west
ward after its entire crew bailed
out to escape gasoline fumes
but not before throwing an un
conscious airman overboard. .
The Superfortress, its automatic
pilot subbing for its absent guic' .',
cairiccl 4,000 gallons of gasoline,
enough to fly il to the Pacific
ocean.
Ten of the 11-nian crew para
chuted from the plane when a
leaky gas tank engulfed them in
explosive fumes. The decision
lo abandon ship was not made
until one man already had been
ovcTcomc. His parachute was
rigged to open and he was tossed
out. It was believed he revived
before landing.
The men, picked up by forest
ranger and farmers in the area
near Napolean and Bear lakes in
northern Minnesota, lold police
officers they decided to jump
when the fumes threatened to
set the aircraft on fire.
The Superfortress was on a
routine round-trip flight from its
base at Pyotc, Tex.
Chaplin Ordered to
Pay liaby's Support
HOLLYWOOD, July 10 (UP)
Cemcdian Charlie Chaplin whose
attorney said he has a $3,000,000
fortune, was ordered today to
pay $75 weekly for care of 21-month-old
Carol Ann Barry un
til the courts rule on his appeal
that he is not the baby's daddy.
Sporting an authentic mus
tache, Chaplin was haled before
Superior Judge Clarence L. Kin
caid by the baby's attorneys, who
claimed he failed to continue
paying last April, after a jury de
cided he was the father of red
haired Joan Barry's child.
Farm Hazard Check Urged
A systematic safety check-up
on every farm in Union county
would mean elcmination of scoies
of accidents or fires, injuries, and
possibly deaths, says County
Agent R. W. Schaad in calling
.mention lo national farm safety
wek proclaimed by President
Truman for July 22 lo 20.
"This is the second annual
farm safety week in Oregon"
stales Dean William A. Schocn
!eld of Oregon Slate college, who
again has been appointed a chair
man for Oregon by the National
Safely council.
Checks SuMeetcd
A farm safely check-up means
Hiking a prepared list of ordinary
hazards around the farm and
home and checking to sec if they
present or not, soys SchaaQ.
Places to chee, include mach
inery. buildngs Qind farm-, yard,
fue Jiazftds, bv anlma s arc
hanSWd, (gjeclrical installations,
hand tols, sanitation and alth.
; nd the farm residence.
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B-29s Follow Up
Fleet Attacks;
Emperor Appeals
434 Enemy Planes
Destroyed By
Third Fleet
By WILLIAM F. TYREE
GUAM, TUESDAY, July 17
(UP) Four task forces of 450 to
500 Superfortresses, carrying the
prc-invasion atlack on Japan into
its 42nd day, hurled more than
2,500 tons of fire bombs into four
cities across a 475-mile stretch of
Kyushu and Honshu early today
on the heels of n shattering inl
and sea bombardment by the U.
S. third fleet.
Tbo mighty sky giants raised
to 43 the number of Japanese
cilics scourged in the knockout
campaign that began last March.
The third fleet's week-end bom
bardment meanwhile had wreck
ed 10 northern Japanese cities
and virtually cut Hokkaido off
from the main Island of Honshu.
Tokyo said 1hc fleet had with
drawn but pre umably is still
prowling Japanese waters.
Emperor Speaks
As the libmcland shuddered
under gigantic aerials and sea
bombardments, Emperor Hiro
hilo personally called on his
shadowy air force to strike back.
Thus far it had not. Attesting the
Japanese uir force's impotency.
Adm. William F. Halscy's third
fleet raiders destroyed 434 planes
in its sweeps which started last
Tuesday against Tokyo all but
three of them caught on the
ground.
Targets for today's attack, the
eighth this month by the Super
forts, were:
Numa.u, 32 miles northeast or
Shizuoka; Kuwana, 12 miles
southwest of gutted Nagoya;
Hiratsuka, 34 miles southwest of
Tokyo; and Oita, on the north
eastern tip of Kyushu.
Burned Out
The giant raiders went in at
low altitude to spill tons of bombs
on all four cities for the first
time, although Oitu had been hit
by lighter planes from Okinawa.
See B29s . . . Page 5
Interim Tax Study
Commission Meets
SALEM, July 10 (UP) The
thirteen members of Oregon's
interim tax study commission,
created by the 1945 legislature
to study a possible revamping
of the stale's lax structure, held
their first meeting here today.
On Agenda were discussion of
tile appointment of an executive
director of the commission, and
the possible employment of out-of-state
expert aid.
The commission has $20,000 to
spend on its investigations, and
the question of oul-of-tatc or
local cxpesrt was one of the bones
of contention when the legisla
ture approved the study.
The first request for the com
mission's study was made by Gov.
Earl Snell in his message lo the
legislature on the first day of
the 1945 session.
Four-II club members are en -
eouraged to make such eherk-ups
on the farms where they live,
whether they belong to regular
farm safely clubs or not. Mi
meographed che ck lists aie avail
able for this as wi II as a printed
4-1! club bulletin on farm safety
and fire protection. Copies may
bo had at the county extension
office.
Largo Losses
The accident "front" is one of
the most deadly "battle fronts"
loday, even with a world war not
yet finished, according to Schaad.
More persons were: killed by ac
cident); in America during the
first two years of the war than
there wire Americans killed in
the war itself. While farm acci
dents did not account for all of
thee, they cause more than 25
Fercent of1 all the death in occu
pational mishaps.
The first national faint, safety
week last year focused attention
in Qm and home accidents and
lesuiieo in some improvement,
c
I'' '
J. P. SHAFROTH, rear admir
al, USN, commander of the
bombardment forces which set
the steel port of Hamt'hi
eilsme in a two hour attack.
Another attack Sunday, lho
seond straight day of surface
force blow):, combined with
planes to wreck 10 cities and
practically cut off Hokkaido.
Wilson River
Fire Farther
Out of Control
PORTLAND, July IB (UP) A
raging and fast moving 7,000 acre
forest fire along the Wilson riv
er is roaring further out of con
trol today, despite desperate ef
forts of 500 fire fighters, includ
ing 20 truckloads of soldiers from
Vancouver barracks, to check the
blaze. K
Northwest and westerly winds
were driving the rampaging fire
eastward toward the crest of the
coast range of mountains in Tilla
mook county, giving Oregon an
other gleal forest fire crisis rem
iniscent of the Tillamook burn of
1035.
Weather conditions were deem
ed favorable lo combat foresl
fires with some clouds and mod
erate relative humidity, but for
estry officials said the weather
seemed to be having little or no
effect on the flames.
So far, little or no green tim
ber has been burned,
Billowing smoke poured over
the Willamette valley all day
Sunday, almost obscuring the sun
in places. The brownish-red pall
was over Portland, and the smoke
plume was reported making work
difficult for fire lookouts over the
Cascade mountain forests, almost
a hundred miles east.
A logging operation in Ihe Wil
son river region was believed In
be the origin of the fire.
Northwest Oregon's ofher for
est fire along the Salmonberry
river is reported under control
with no spreading for tile last
three days.
Weather
Data for 21 hours In 7 a.m.
Temperature:
Maximum B2
Minimum 50
Oirgon Scattered clouds to
night and Tuesday.
! report shave shown.
The .second
is intended
j rational observance
to keep up lho good work and
rave still more lives and property.
Precautions
Seen liny of Stale Hubert S.
Kam ll listed the.se safely precau
tions lor the avoidance of aeei
I'enls involving the transporta
tion of farm workers:
I: Make fcurei vehicles are
cotiipped with adequate side
boards, at least four feet high.
2. Provide tailgates on trucks
so passengers will be prok-cled.
3. Provide benches so passen
gers will not he tempted to sit
on tin' b'd of the triieje with
their legs dangling over Hie end.
Itear-end collisions are a serious
hazaid in sueli eases.
4. Inspect vehicles regularly lo
make sure brakes and oilier
equipment are in good operating
condition.
5: Observer traffic regulations
at all times.
0: Encourage passengers to
avoid horseplay enroute.
O'Brien, Brody Held
On Forgery Charges
Carrol Jessie O'Brien and Bradley Brody, both arrested
for forgery, Saturday niitht had smashed their way to free
dom from the county jail where they were being held pri
son nrs.
Neither of the men has been
city police, the shenlf, and his deputies, are hunting tnenv.
The break was discovered early Sunday morning, when
Sheriff Jesse Brcshears came to the jail to feed the men. '
O'Brien and Brody had pried loose two bars, which had
been broken before, but had been repaired and braced; and
with them had smashed a hole 10'a by 12 inches id the wall
Deer Season In
State Sept 29
Through Oct. 28
Not Dates Picked
By East Oregon
Sports Group
Sportsmen in this are pro
nounced themselves fairly well
satisfied with the deer and elk
reasons set for Oregon hunters
this year, although the season
fixed by the slute game . com
mission ure not exactly those re
commended by the eastern Ore
gon sports council.
Deer season was sot from Sept.
20 through Oct. 28, with the bag
limit remaining the same as last
year one deer with not less
than forked horns.
Antelope Limited
Open season on antelope was
set from Sept. 22 to 30. Only
HOI) antelope will be permitted
to be killed and these only by
holders of speciul antelope tugs.
The open season on ducks,
gcosc and other migratory water
fowl will be from Oct. 13 Until
Feb. 1, unless the federal govern
ment takes action to close the
season earlier.
For the first time in ten years,
there will bo an open season on
marlen, a fur bearing animal
which has Increased from only
u scattered few to an estimated
10,000. The open season on these
animals will be from Nov. 15, to
Feb. 15, 1040. Present market
price of marten pelts Is around
$35. ...
Deer
Open season, Sept. 21) to Oct.
211, inclusive, in entile slac for
blaelttail and mule deer having
not less than forked horns; and
in Douglas county only for white
tail deer having not less than
forked horns.
Hag limit, one deer having not
less than forked horns; provided
that the bag limit is one deer of
either sex in that part of the
Canyon deck game refuge lying
cast and north of Cunyon creek,
which area is reserved by statute
lo hunting by means of long bow
and broad arro wonly.
Special Doo Door Soason
Eight hundred permits will be
iiswd for taking of doc deer
irom December I to December
5, inclusive, in the winter range
Sec DEER . . . Page 5
Furniture Group
Director is Dead
PORTLAND, July 111 (UP)
J. King Hryon, managing direc
tor of Hie Retail Furniture Deal
ers of Oregon and the Gas Ap
pliance Society of Oregon, died
Sunday after 35 years resilience
in Portland.
Horn in IJrooklyn, N. Y., he
was for many yeais associuled
with the Laclel and Tilton hank.
In 1021 he was president of the
Oregon chapter, American Insti
tute of Hanking. He was presi
dent of the Progressive Business
Men's club in 1033 and a leader
in boys' work fostered by that
body.
In liiail he organized the Furni
ture Di'iileis association which
lie since had nianagerl.
Medium Dies on
Appointed Day
SEATTLE, July 10 (UP) Mrs.
Sarah J. Adams, 01, and Seattle's
eldest spiritualist medium, told
her daughter a week ago yester
day: "You will have lo visit me
i lily one week more, then I shall
be gone."
Death kept the appointment.
She died at 3:03 p. n yesterday.
Mrs. Adams came here from
Tolcdieo., in 1008 to display her
strange gifts at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific
exposition. She re
mained here and her Income
f i om readings made her finan
cially independent.
FIVE CENTS
J
found yet, but state police,
which separated the jail irom tne
county treasurers office, escap
ing from there by the simple pro!;
ccduro of opening a window. ;
t.. Break Plant
O'Brien, in the county jail
since May 24, and Brody, a pri
soner since July 32, evidently
had visited other offices in the
deserted courthouse.
Al Harlow, county treasurer, is
mourning the loss of hs pet rub
ber plant, broken off at the base
as tho prisoners squeezed through
the hole in the wall, but noth
ing else in the office was harmed,
Third Break
Plaster dust had been tracked
from the treasurer's office through
the courthouse halls, pieces of
mortar wore lying in corners of
the room, and leaves of the rub,
bcr plant were on the floor, de
spite hurried clean-up efforts. '."
This was the third break in the
last 18 months, and was similar'
to tho one achieved in May by
George Washington Durham, who
picked the. lock on. his cell, and
tore a hole in the wall with a
piece of his iron cot. In Febru
ary, 1944, two 'teen-age youths
were aided in their escape by two
girls who hid in the courthouse,
broke into ,thc sheriff's office,
took the jail keys, 'and released
the youths. ,
Teachers Should
Apply at Once
For Certificates
Teachers who ure plunning lo
use cmeygency ccrtificutes should
apply for them immediately,
Miss Ethel S. , Hansen, county
superintendent of schools, an
nounced today. Teachers who
need renewal certificates should
also apply immediately, it was
also 'announced.
According to school law, all
teachers must file three papers
in the office of the county super
intendent of schools before they
receive their first month's sal
ary. These papers are: tcachcrs's
certificate, toucher's contract, and
health certificate. The health
certificate must be countersigned
by the county physician, A. L.
Hichardson.
Counties Need More
Stale Taxing Help
SALEM, July 10 (UP) F. U
Phipps, executive secretary of
the association of Oregon coun
on tax study meeting here today
tics lold the interim commitlci;
Ihe counties must have more help
from the state if they are to meet
their increasing responsibilities
in the post war periods.
Either the 0 percent constitu
tional limitation em property lev
ies must be lifted or the state
must divert more funds to the
counties, Phipps told the com
mittee. The state legislature is con
stantly heaping additional de
sponsibilities on the counties,
such us the compulsory herd
testing act of the last session, but
never provides any means for fi
nancing these new duties, Phipps
declared.
Orchid Lei Sent to
Mrs. John Garily
Tho exotic orchid lei now on
display in Cherry's florist shop
is the gift sent Mrs. John Gar
ily by her son, Envign William '
Floenor, who is now in the Pa
cific area. t
The lei, composed of 26 per
fect little spray orchids of a
bright lavendar color, presum
ably was sont from Hawaii,
where that arrangomcnt oi ,
flowers is the symbol of friend
ship or affection.
Seldom is this arrangement
of blossoms seen in this part of
the country, though it is a fa
miliar sight in the Islands
where each new arrival Is pre-,
sailed with a lei as tho ship
reaches port.
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