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LA GRANDE, OREGON TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 17, 1915
FIVE CENTS
TRAINING IN BLIND FLYING ii exciting in one oi these navy
B trainers, shewn at the office of the Mt. Emily mill office. Shown
in the picture are T. E. Tennant, First Lt. W. M. Pierson of the
civil air patrol. Mist Juaniia Huppert and C. L. Griffin.
"Blind Flying" Even on Ground,
Has Thrills in Navy B' Trainer
, So you think you con fly a perfect course, do you? You are abso
lutely positive of being able to fly at so many miles an hour, at' so
much altitude, at such and such a compass reading, correcting all
the time for variations, headwinds, sidewinds, human fallibility and
mechanical inaccuracy?
Perhaps you can, but before making any bets on it go to the Mt.
Emily mill ofice and try a flight in the navy B-trainer which is
there for the use of CAP members who want to learn blind flying.
Others interested may see how it works.
Challenge
W M. Pierson CAP first lieut
enant, and Dr. W. M. Pearc, CAP
second lieutenant, will "check
you out" in the machine. 1 1t you
can follow the course laid out
the first time you try. it is bc
cuuse you are an expert.
A little practice, however, and
the student begins to learn the
value of "blind flying" instruc
tion. To the beginner who has
hardly ever been up in a plane,
the experience of "piloting" one,
where, of course, there is actual
ly no danger, is unbelievably
thrilling. 1 Trying to watch the
clock, the compass, the airspeed,
the bank and turn indicator, the
altimeter, the temperature and
several other things all at once
remembering, all the time, the
instructors and his pals are
watching him ready to give off
with the raspberries is at once
a stern trial and a challenge. He
knows darned well he can do it
and eventually, if he ticks at
it, he docs do it.
Many Experts
Lieutenants Pears and Pierson
have checked dozens of fliers out
in the trainer and have had many
of them become so export in
blind flying they could follow a
course without the slightest de
viation and later fjavo testimony
as to the extreme, value of being
able to fly blind.
Besides that, it gives the pilot,
even the beginner, a feeling of
confidence that he needs. Such
flying is no longer a theory. He
sees at once it is extremely prac
ticable and even more than
that, it is practical. It may save
him and his ship.
The trainer simulates the
pilot's cabin in a real plane. All
the instruments are before him
and he wears his headphones for
"plane - ground" communication.
The "plane", of course, does not
leave the ground. But once the
canopy is closed down, the flier
is on his own.
Local Airport Has
Many Arrivals in
Last Few Days
Activity at the airport here has
been considerable lately as rec
ords of the port show. Besides
local activity there are frequent
ly air travelers in and out. Re
cent reports show:
Lonnic Shurlleff flew to Spo
kane Saturday, returning Sunday
and bringing a Sinson 105 plane.
H. W. Parsons of Spokane flew
to the local airport, transacted
business here yesterday and con
tinued on to Baker.
Ray Dunstnore of Joseph flew
his ship to La Grande Saturday,
making a business trip and re
turning that day.
Allen L. Morrison of Yakima
landed at the local airport re
cently. He was piloting a Lus
combc. Lloyd Eason, flying a Taylor
craft, came to La Grande on busi
ness this weekend, continuing his
flight to Pendleton later in the
day.
Dick Miller of La Grande re
cently made his first solo flight
at the local airport.
Reporter Declares
Hitler, Mistress
In South America
CHICAGO, July 17 (UP)
Chicago Times correspondent
Vincent De Pascal has reported
from Montevideo he is "vir
tually certain" Adolf Hitler and
his sweetheart, Eva Braun, arc
in hiding in a German-owned
estate in southern Argentina.
His dispatch was carried yes
terday. DePascal's information, which
he said was received through
"reliable channels," was that
the one time master of Ger
many was living on one of a
number of estate's in the deso
late Patagonia area "purchased
to provide tanctuaries for the
nazi overlords if, and whon,
their schemes for world con
quest went awry."
No Trace Found
Of O'Brien, Brody,
Police Report
Carrol Jessie O'Brien and Brad
Icy Brody are still at large fol
lowing their escape from the
county ail Saturday night. No
trace has been found of cither,
it was announced today by slate
police.
O Bnen has a long criminal
record for issuing fraudulent
checks, obtaining money under
false pretenses, and forgery, FBI
records say. He was arrested
Dec. 1, 1941, in Salem, on a fraud
ulent check charge, and was sen
tenced to four years in the state
penitentiary, but was paroled.
Previously ho had been paroled
from the Washington state peni
tentiary after serving two of his
20 year sentence on a charge of
first degree forgery.
Reports on Brody's fingerprints
have not been received as yet
from the FBI.
Brody's description is: age, 24;
height, 5 feet 7',j inches; weight,
160; eyes, blue; hair, straight
light brown.
O'Brien is described as follows:
age. 34;. height, 5 feet 9 inches;
weight, 155; eyes, blue; hair,
very curly auburn.
Al Harlow, county treasurer,
into whose office the escaping
pair broke, has been offered a
new rubber plant by Mrs. Clar
ence Burns, to replace the one
broken by the men as they
squeezed through the 10V4 by 12
inch hole in me wan separating
his office from the jail.
William Arrivey
Heads New DAY
Chapter Here
Officers for Blue Mountain
chapter No. 2i of the Disabled
American Veterans were elected
and installed at the organization's
first meeting, it was announced
today.
New officers arc William Ar
rivey, commander; Willard Green,
senior vice - commander; Marvin
HilU junior vice - commander;
Clifford Wiley, adjutant; C. J.
Sutlers, trcasuier; and Billy Fox,
officor of the day.
Lilc Dailey, national serviee of
ficer, organized the local chap
ter of the D, A, V third largest
patriotic organization in the
United States, and has left for
Pendleton and Baker to organize
chapters I here.
Membership is open to all men
with certificates of disability dis
charge or men with service dis
ability.
About 25 Union county men
joined the organization Saturday
evening, and more arc expected
al the next meeing, which will be
held Aug. 13, in the commission
rooms at the city hall.
Sewafe Plant Still
Not Sweet Although
Resembles Taj Mahal
LOS ANGELES, July 17 (UP)
Though a sewage treatment
plant may look like the Taj Ma
hal, no amount of architecture
can ever camouflage the smell,
Councilman Parley P. Christcn
sen argued today.
Christcnsen told the city coun
cil the seashore site proposed for
Los Angeles' $21,000,000 ultra
modern treatment plant is more
beautiful than any on the French
Riviera, and he, for one, saw no
reason to spoil it.
The city planning commission,
which shared his views, recently
told Mayor Fletcher Bowron:
"Whether the proposed build
ing be as beautiful as the Taj
Mahal or Canterbury cathedral
or be given a most euphonious
name it will still be an institu
tion which all but primitive peo
ple prefer to place in the least
conspicuous spot."
ESTABLISHED 1896
Fire Not
Yet Into
Controls
By ERIC W. ALLEN. Jr.
SALEM, July 17 (UP)
More than 20,000 acres of
Oregon forest land was char
red and smoke blackened to
day from early-season fires,
as the largest blaze on the
Wilson river, about 25 miles
west of Forest Grove, raged
out of control on the north
after jumping the river high
way late Sunday.
The smaller Salmonberry blaze
is under control and being mop
ped up, while a new fire in west
ern Polk county was reported. It
included about 40 acres.
On the Wilson rivor blar.o,
more than 1000 men. Including
410 sailors from Tongue Point
navel bass at Astoria, 300 vet
eran combat engineers from Ft.
Lewis and more than 200 log
gers wore holding the spread
ing flames in spots and trying
to circle it to the north. More
'soldiers and sailors wore cn
routo.
One hundied fitly Negro troops
from Vancouver barracks were
returned late yesterday after they
proved inefficient due to inex
perience. They were mostly lim
ited service troops. Gov. Earl
Sncll and state forest Nels S.
Rogers made a tour of inspection
in the fire areas yesterday, com
pleting fighting arrangements.
Many Losses
Nearly a dozen logging com
panies sustained loss due to the
fire. The Consolidated Logging
company, which was engaged in
salvage operations on the burned
over land, lost heavily, while
9,000,000 board feet of bucked
timber was lost by the A. F.
Coats lumber company, a loss of
more than $90,000.
In the north where the blaze
is spreading unchecked because
of the difficulty of reaching it,
the fighters were moving into
position slowly, and forest offi
cials hope the moving flames can
be encircled today.
Moves On
The entire fire area has been
circled two different times, and
each time the fire has "spotted"
and moved on.
The Wilson fire covered
about 17,000 acres yasicjrday.
while the Salmonberry burn
was nearly 4,000 acres in ex
tent. Both fires are on land
which was burned out in the
250,000 acre fire f 1933. o Blh
slariod in Tillamook county,
but havo spread out into Wash
ington county.
Only a few stands of green
timber have been killed, as most
of the blazes were on burned
over land, but reforestation, both
natural and a large state project
in the Salmonberry area, were
wiped out.
Origin of the Wilson blaze
hac not been determined. One
person suggested an incendiary
balloon bomb, a theory dis
counted by forest officials.
Only one injury has been re
ported, wlien a soldier from Camp
While, near Medford, cracked
several ribs in a fall. Others
have been hospitalized, however,
from recurrent trench foot anil
Jungle rut, which Hie heal
brought back.
Little logging equipment has
been lost due to the fires, but
one company got its donkey en
gine out "just one jump ahead
of the fire."
Probably 70 to 80 miles of fire
trails and ditches have been dug.
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BRITISH BATTLESHIP TORPEDOED IN MEDITERRANEAN
rin smoke end flames after being torpedoed in In Mediterranean
wilh Barham were 859 officers od men. '
GIRLS WOULD BE GIRLS These gals bejieve in freedom of the
knees, as the signs emphasize. Regulations on the M-G-M lot in
Hollywood require girl dancers to wear slacks whoa rehearsing.
They protested the ruling by picketing with signs shown above.
Food Prices Not
So Inflated As
In 1918, Says OPA
Comparison of food prices for
the period of World War I, and
the current war, made by the
OPA, shows that though Hie cost
of living has increased consider
ably over the pre-war period, it
is still much lower than during
the first war.
A comparison of some articles
as purchased by the retailer fol
lows: dry beans in 1910, $9.30
per 100 pounds, now, $6.25 for
that amount; large cans of peach
es in 1-919 were $5.45, now for the'
same grade and from the same
manufacturer are $2.22 per dozen
cans;
Evaporated milk then, $0.48
for 48 cans, and today's price
$4.10; lard, $25.80 for 100 pounds
in 1919, and now $13.80 for the
same amount; raisins then wen;
19 cents a pound, and are now
seven and seven-eights cents u
pound; rice in 1919, 19 cents a
pound, now six and one-half
cents; sugar in 1919, $10 a 100
pounds is now $5.00 for the same
amount.
New Officers of
Health Association
Elected, Installed
New officers were elected and
installed and plans were dis
cussed for the coining x-ray sur
vey unit at a meeting of the exec
utive board of the Union county
public health association held
last night in the Observer build
ing. Officers for the coming year
are: Horace J. Nelson, president;
Mrs. J. Miller, executive secre
tary; Marguerite Zweifel, treas
urer; Kathleen Rochester, secre
tary; Trcve Lumsdcn, budget di
rector. Weather
Data for 24 hours to 7 a. m.
Temperature:
Maximum 80
Minimum 50
Forecast: Scattered clouds to
night and Wednesday. Few show
ers northeast portion today.
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Rope Skipping Cow
Which Gave Own
Buttermilk Doubted
HOLLYWOOD, July 17 (UP)
Blond dancer Mary F. Al
mond's talc about her cow
which gave buttermilk only
gained her a suspended jail
sentence of 00 days and a $75
fine.
She made the mistake of
telling the story to policemen
N. C. Wiggins who arrested her
on a charge of drunkenness.
He told municipal Judge F.
Ray Bennett of the following
conversation:
"I've been drinking butter
"milk," Miss Almond said.
"Where did you get it?"
Wiggins was skeptical.
"From my cow, of course,"
she answered.
"Buttermilk comes from a
churn," the officer informed.
"My cow skips rope and
churns its own," Miss Almond
replied.
NLRB Preparing.
Saw Rate Decision
PORTLAND, July 17 (UP)
A six-man unit of the national
labor relations board today is
preparing a decision, to be an
nounced later this week, after
conducting a heuring here oi
disputes between seven logging
firms and their workers over a
piopostd power saw rate in
crease. Willi employers' representa
tives holding that a power sav.
rale increase by the west coast
lumber commission is "not per
missible under the wage; unci
stabilization act, union repre
sentative countered with th'
statement that the previous rale
"has interfei'rcd with war pro
duction." They seek NWLU's en
dorsement of 35 cents an hour
for power saw fullers and buck
ers, previously granted by the
commission.
K. M. Davis, representing the
northwest council of lumber and
sawmill workers, AFL, termed
the power saw operation a "rare
and unusual problem," due, he
said, to wages being unknowingly
frozen loo low by the stabiliza
tion act.
British battleship Barham goes up
in November, 1941, by U-351. Lost
Pounds City Only 25
Miles from Capital
GUAM, Wednesday, July 18 (UP) U. S. Pacific fleet,
steaming boldly through midnight darkness to the gates of
Tokyo, bombarded a cluster of shoreline war factories today
in a challenging attack that touched off great fires through
an industrial area only 25 miles north- of the bomb-battered
capital.
The battleship Iowa and other powerful warcraft of Ad
miral William R (Bull) Halsoy's rampaging third fleet heaped
tons of high explosives on important Honshu shore targets
while the Japano homeland rocked under continuous strikes
of 1,500 U. S. and British carrier planus.
"Funeral Pyre"
Flagship correspondents, reporting directly from the fleet
during the bombardment, said a flaming "funeral pyre"
glowed along the target area between the cities of Mito,
Shortage of Hay
Hands Here Only
15 to 20 So Far
A shortage of from 750 to 1,000
able-bodied men to help in Ore
gon's hay harvest is estimated by
J, R. Beck, slate farm labor sup
ervisor. Every county in the state
reporting to the farm labor of
fice in the Oregon state college
extension service indicates short
ages ranging from a small num
ber hip to as many as 150 hay
hands.
Approximately 15 men are
needed for farms surrounding La
Grande, with some farms not re
ported as yet.
The recent period of unseason
ably hot weather which has
caused the hay to cure much fast
er than normally, plus lack of
bailing equipment in some areas,
have added to the problem of
getting hay hands, it was indi
cated. The highest wages ever offered
for haying are now being paid in
every county in the state, Beck
said. Some few Union county
farmers have received special
permission from the war food
administration to pay from $C to
$8 for hands and $10 for stackers.
Ceiling prices are the same prices
paid in 1941.
Heavy Harvest of
Most Crops For
Northwest
PORTLAND, July 17 (UP) A
heavy harvest for most crops in
Washington, Oregon and Idaho
was forecast today by the U. S.
department of agriculture.
A report by the deportment
predicted that a total harvest
well above average and about
equal to the favorable harvest of
1944 could be expected this year.
More Wheat
Oregon's wheat crops probably
will lotal 24,095,(100 bushels or 7
percent more limn last year and
32 percent more than the aver
age from 1934 to 1913, the serv
ice reported. Wheat harvests for
the three northwest states will
total around 130,504,000 bushels.
Corn, oats, bailey and rye in
regon will be above average but
about 5 percent below last year.
For the three northwest slates
it will be about 50,031,000 bush
els, a drop of 5 percent.
' Hay Good
Heavy increases in potato pro
duction were expected, the re
port disclosed. The Oregon crop
was forecast at 10,800,000 bushels,
4 percent more than last year.
Washington and Idaho crops
probably will be 10 percent above
last year.
The harvest of commercial ap
ples in Oregon and Washington
is expected to drop 20 percent
! from last year to around 27,800,-
000 bushels. ,
Increases in prunes and dc-chn'-s
in cherries and peas were
noted in the report. Hay crops
tluoughoul th northwest were re
ported "unusually good."
Scrap Pickup to
Come Next Week;
Want Paper, Cans
During the next few days cub
scouts of La Grande will circu-
ale through the city, reniintling
hous"hoklrrs tluirr will hi' a pick
up of strap here during the per
iod of July 21-29, Lynn Hohnen
kamp announced today.
Th! pickup will inijudc tin
cans and paper, Mr. Bohnen
kamp said and the exact date of
il will be anniiunccd laler as
soon as arrangements havo been
completed for the actual gather
ing of the scrap.
Sukcgawa'and Hitachi
II was the third inshore attack
against Japan within four days.
A Mutual broadcasting system
correspondent said . targets in
cluded factories only 25 miles
from Tokyo. The bombarding
fleet was described as the largest
ever employed against the Jap
anese homeland.
During the early stages of the
attack, correspondents said, there
was no Japanese retaliation al
though the ABC correpondent
said tho fleet stood "on the very
brink of what should be Japan's
most heavily fortified shore in
stallations." Brighter
("As I speak," said correspond
ent Norman Paige, "I can see
great eruptions of (flame - and
smoke as 16 inch shells find their
mark. With every passing min
ute now the immediate shoreline
of Honshu in front of us becomes
brighter under the funeral pyre
our guns are setting.")
Already, assessment of intelli
gence reports revealed, the con
tinuous operations up and down
the coast of Japan had sent 140
Jap ships and small craft to the
bottom and damaged another 235
for a total of 374.
Fewer Targets
Swarms of Royal navy and
U. S. flattop smashed at a dim
inishing number of targets in the
Tokyo district. They were laun
ched from a fleet of perhaps 150
men o' war.
This was the first night sea
bombardment of Japanese home
land targets.
Factories in the Hitachi area
manufacture aircraft parts, elec
trical equipment, preccsion in
struments, wire, cable, dipsel en
gines, rudios and gerams.
Other potential target for the
fleets roaring guns arc the Hit
achi engineering works, the Jap
an mining company in a narrow
valley behind the city, the Yi;m
;.te wire cable plant, and a com
plex railroad system feeding me
entire industrial area.
Scheduled Airline
Service Soon
To Portland
Eastern Oregon residents will
have available for the first time
beginning Monday, July 23, i
daily air charter service to Port
land, Merlin Johnson and Keith
Province, operators of Eastorn
Oregon Airways al the La Grande
airport, announced today.
Passengers will be picked up
ill La Grande at 7 a.m. and will
arrive in downtown Portland at
9:30 a.m. For return flights, pas
sengers will be picked up in
downtown Portland at 4 in the
afternoon and will arrive in La
Grande at 7 p.m.
Fliglils will be made daily,
weathi r conditions pormiting, and
passage can be arranged for one
or both ways on reservations. An
added feature nf the service is
the provision of bejel accommo
dations in Portland for those pas
sengers dishing them. Baggage
is limited to 25 pounds for each
pasM'iiger, the operators said.
Smith Heads County
Hoard of Welfare
UNION, July 17 (Special)
Tony Smith has been notified by
the office of the governor of his
appointment as chairman of tlv;
Union county welfare board, to
become effective the first of the
month.
ISiillctin
WASHINGTON. July 17 (UP)
The1 senate today unanimous
ly confirmed toe nomination of
Fred M. Vinson io be secretary
of the treasury. Ho succeeds
Henry Morgenlhau, jr.
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NEW PREMIER Joseph BenV;
dlei Chlfly, above, automatic
ally succeeded the late Johnt
Curiln as prime minister of
Australia when elected leader
of the Federal Labor parly. ,
Truman, Stalin,
Churchill Meet
After Luncheon
POTSDAM, July 17 (UP) -i
President Truman, Premier Stal
in and Prima Minister Churchill
met this afternoon in the opening
session of the big three confer-;
ence at otsdam. Leaders got right
down to business at the first foci,
mal session.
The initial meeting of the big
three Truman had conferred inr
formally and separately with
Churchill and Stalin was strip
ped of most of the formalities.
Ing session, which followed by a
few hours a call Generalissimo
Stalin .pilid .The-Amorifn B(4dv
Russian leaders and their'rore'lgn
ministers talked for an hour and
lunched together. (The American
secretary of state is equivalent
to Russia's foreign minister.)
The conference opened behind .
a tight curtain of secrecy. It was
hours after the first session
opened before it was confirmed:
officially, although responsible
sources revealed earlier that the
formal meeting was slated for
this afternoon. . i
This evening Truman had din-
nor with Secretary of War Henry;'
Stimson, Gen. George C. Mar
shall, Admiral Ernest J. King,'
and Gen. Henry H. Arnold.
Fewer Marriages,
Births in Union
County This Year '.
Marriages and births in Union
county during the first half of
1944 exceeded the number dur
ing the first half of 1945, and di
vorces during those periods were
slightly higher during the first
halt of 1945, the records show
today.
Forty-five marriage licenses
were issued from Jan. 1 to Juno
30 during 1945, and 60 licenses
were issued in the county during
tho corresponding period of lost
year.
Births in the county for Jan. 1
to June 30, 1944 were 198 or;tfl
more than for that period this
year when the total was 182
births. a
Divorces the first half of this
year .lumbered 36 in comparison
wilh the 33 granted in tho first
half of 1944.
Maj. Max Jensen Oit :
U. S. Berlin Staff
UNION, July 17 (UP) MV.
and Mrs. Orval Jensen receivctLa
letter from their eldest son, Moj.
Max R. Jensen, enclosing a nunj
ber of very interesting souvenir.
Major Jensen has been asked Vo
act on the staff of the supreme
command headquarters to help
in running the transportation
highway system of American
occupied Germany. Major Jen
sen had just returned from a trip
through Luxemburg, Belgium,
Holland and a week stay in Paris.
Certify Lumber Need
WASHINGTON, July 17 (UP)
The government said today
that home owners no longer need
apply to the federal housing ad
ministration for authorization to
buy lumber for emergency re
pair, The war production board
and nation housing agency an
nounced Jointly the home owner
now may ceritfy his own pur
chase order and buy tho lumber
directly from a distributor. -