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Newspaper Page TextThreat of A Community Newspaper For Every Member of the Family Spread in Fire Seen - V WILSON RIVER FIRE CONTROL HDQS., Ore., July 18 (UP) The great 20,000 anrfe Wtlann rivpr fire in Til lamook county is still raging . : l 1 1 T A nAflfno uncuuuuiieu ill iwu BcuHuiw today, State Forester Nels Rogers reported on the fire line, and predicted lowered humidity brought a renewed threat of additional loss. The west, Bouth and southeast edges of the fire have been plow ed with bulldozer and man-made trails and the line is being held, he said, but during the night fire got away from weary fight ers on the eastern section south of the Wilson river highway. Pouring In Also, in the almost inaccessible north section, where no roads lead into the blazing area, the fire continued to advance. This is perhaps the most dangerous section of the 25,000 acres of burned over . land, Rogers said. Men are pouring into the area, mostly by foot, but little pro gress has been made. The humidity is now about 36 percent ,or moderately safe, but is expected to drop to about 28 tomorrow, well within the ex tremely dangerous range. This, coupled with a four to 12 miles an hour wind, made the situation particularly hazardous. Four Sections Nearly 2,000 fire fighters, more than two thirds of them soldiers and sailors from posts all over Oregon and Washington, are com bating the Wilson and now-controlled Salmonberry blazes, over an area of 25,000 acres. Four additional sections of land woret covered by the spreading blaze on the Wilson river, bring ing the total to more than 32 sections. Many spot blazes, caused by burning bark, carried by the wind as far as two miles, have been isolated and put out. Large Losses Greatest damage so far has been done to felled and bucked timber. One concern lost 9,000, 000 board foot, and total damages will run to more than 15,000,000 feet, with doller - damage going close to the $200,000 mark. Little green timber has been lost, bust considerable damage has been done to reforestation projects. Loss of logging equip ment has been light. The blaze is almost entirely confined in the 250,000-acre , 1933 -fire area, but many of the standing snags were being salvaged as usable. Dean Says Stalin For Freedom of Worship, Religion LONDON, July 18 (UP) Dr. Hewlett Johnson, dean of Canter bury, quoted Generalissimo Sta lin today as advocating freedom of worshio and reliffinn Dr. Johnson reported in the London News Chronicle on an interview he had with Stalin dur ing his recent trip to Russia. He quoted Stalin as saying: "Religian cannot be stopped. Conscience cannot be stilled. Re ligion is a matter of conscience and conscience is free. Worship and religion are free." He told Stalin considerable hostility against Russia had been prompted in the past by reports of the Soviet government's treat ment of the church. Stalin re sponded: "The church has its history, and we have our history. The patriarch of the Russian orthodox church pronounced anathema on the new Soviet government and bade the people refuse to pay taxes. We on our part were obliged to defend ourselves. The state had to act." Stalin added the war has shown the church how essentially patri otic the Soviet government is and also revealed the patriotism of the church. Robert Wilson To ' Succeed Collyer WASHINGTON, July 18 (UP) Robert S. Wilson, vice presi dent of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber company, will succeed John L. Collyer as the nation's mbber director, Production Chief J. A. Krug announced today. Collyer, president of the B. F. Goodrich company, is leaving government service to return to private industry. He took over the job last March when the tire production program was in ser ious straits. In his final report to Krug, Collyer said military and mini mum essential civilian require ments for tires and other rubber prodecta can be met this year and next "under programs nof in ef fect." He cried work stoppages and manpower shortages afe princi pal obstacle racing the indus try. A shnrtiwst of natural rubber looms for 1M4,. Colljrer said, hut 'he governneat i initiating pro grams to gain new rubber re sources in liberated arnos in the Pacific. o ESTABLISHED 1S96 A Sirloin) WORLD'S LARGEST PLANE WILL CARRY 750 YANKS First plciura of hull of world's largest plane, the Hughes Hercules, a seaplane cargo plane, to be finished next January. Hull is 220 feet long, 30 feet high, 25 feet wide, has cargo space (or equivalent of two railroad cars. The all-wood ; airship will have eight 3,000 horsepower engines, wingspread will be 320 feet, take off distance over ; a mile. Gross weight more than 200 tons. Ship will be able to carry 750 fully equiped soldiers nonstop from Honolulu to Tokyo. Carrier Planes Again Attack Tokyo Areas GUAM, July 18 (UP) Japa nese broadcasts reported up to 1,500 American and British car rier planes struck from a task force lurking off the east coast of Honshu at airfields and mili tary concentrations in the Tokyo area today for the second straight day. The reported assault in the heart of the empire and neigh boring districts followed by a few hours a 2,00-ton broadside leveled at .Honshu's coast by the giant rifles of allied warships sailing to the approaches of To kyo. -..-' Resumed Enemy accounts said the new carrier-borne attack hit the dis tricts of Chiba, Ibaragi, Kana gawa, Tochigi, Gumma, and Fukushima as well as the Tokyo region. Japanese broadcasts said the great carrier strike which spread havoc across Tokyo's sprawling network of airfields from dawn to dusk yesterday was resumed in force around noon today. Three hours later the attack was still raging an upwards of 500 allied warplanes were bomb ing and strafing airdromes and other military installations on all sides of Tokyo, the enemy ac counts said. Alerted The new air blow came less than 12 hours after a thundering night bombardment by an Anglo American surface fleet against the defenseless Japanese coast, barely 25 miles from Tokyo. Fleet dispatches hinted the al lied battlcwagons were maneu vering off Tokyo bay this after noon and the Japanese alerted their coastal population to expect further shelling. "The enemy task force is liable to attack us at any chosen time and place," the Japanese Domei news agency admitted bleakly. Approve Increase For Bank Lending WASHINGTON, July 18 (UP) The senate banking committee today unalnimously approved legislation to incease the lending powers of the export import bank from $700,000,000 to $3,500,T)00, 000. Committee Chairman Robert F. Wagner, D., N. Y., told reporters he would bring the bill up in the senate as soon as the Bretton Woods monetary proposals, now being debated on the floor, arc ratified. Aussies Press Hard In Eastern Borneo MANILA, July 18 (UP) Vet eran Australian trooDs Pressed Japanese units steadily inland in eastern Borneo supported for the first time by tactical aircraft fly ing from Sepinggan airfield near Balikpapan, Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur's communique announced today. The airfield is approximately five miles east of Balikpapan and within striking distance of any portion of the constantly chang ing front. Army engineers also were working on Manggnr airfield, 1'i miles west ol Balikpapan, and it will be able to take its full Quota of planes soon. Till airfiold has two hwd-suffcicjd runways. LA New Claimant For 'Paternity' Title LOS ANGELES, July 18 (UP) Navy Chief Steward Ore gorlo Zagala. 47-year-old fath er of IS children, today claim ed the U. S. naval paternity championship. The Filipino veteran of 27 years In service listed his eight sons and seven daughters and said he expected to clinch the title when Mrs. Zagala gives birth to another baby in Nov. ember. Zagala's record ruled out the championship b i d of S 1c Roman L. Springer of Winona. Minn., father of 14 children. The Zagala brood range in age from Dolores, 25, is James, 4. Two of the glrjs are mar ried while . three of the sons have followed their father into the navy and are now overseas. Pendleton Hotel Closing Sending Business Here Railroad men and transients arc rearranging their schedules in order to be in La Grande for meals and lodgings following the closing of Pendleton's hotels and laundries early this week. The hotels and laundries re mained closed following word from the OPA of 7 and 8 percent price increases granted local laundries. They also included in ci eases in dry cleaning which the laundry men objected to as put ling them out of lino with other dry cleaning prices in town. Not Enough Increases granted by the re gional OPA ffioces at San Fran cisc have fallen far short of what Pendleton laundries declare they need to resume business, and un til they reopen, hotelmcn said they will be unable to operate. Closing of the hotels meant re moving some 300 rooms from Pendleton's housing facilities. Hotel men brought out at a re cent meeting there was no chance to get their laundry done at near by cities, which can take no ex tra business, and that their stock of linens, sheets, etc., arc not large enough to make it possible to send the laundry to far-away points. Overtime, No Soap There was also talk today that barber shops and similar estab lishments might be confronted with an emergency situation sim ilar to the hotels. A telegram was received Mon day from Senator Guy Cordon stating he was contacting the ser vice trade price branch of the OPA and would report any de velopments. Meanwhile, Pendleton house wives were working their wash ing machines or washboards overtime, if they had them, and to cap the climax, there is a shortage of laundry soap and chips. Weather Data for 24 hours to 7 a. m. Temperature: Maximum II Maivns) 41 Forecast: Partly cloudy tonight and Thursday; few scattered showers. Washington Partly cloudy to day, tonight and Thursday; few scattered ihowcri Thursday. Warmer today but cocer west of Cascades Thursday. Moderate northwest winds off coast. GRANDE, OREGON WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 18, rvoc Lions Say Time To Start Digging For Street Posts It is, say Lions club members, time to start digging. The idea is to have 100 holes two feet deep and of the diame ter of a post hole augur or shovel at the corner of every intersection in a prescribed area of La Grande finished by Saturday night. The holes are to hold the new street markers. The area is enclosed in the fol lowing boundaries: from the cor ner of Palmer and Alder south to Spring street, east on Spring to Fourth, north to the railroad tracks and along the tracks back to Palmer and Alder. -. Stakes Placed Stakes have been placed by the city to show where to dig. House holders are asked to dig the holes on their property and where there are vacant houses or lots the Lions club will dig the holes. They want the holes finished as near as possible by Saturday night so they can take up the slack before the following Wed nesday. The posts will arrive the fol lowing day. Save Stakes Ed Ford, city manager, asks that when the holes have been dug, with the slake marks as the center of the hole, the stakes will be saved, placed in the hole, so they can be used in the next sec tion of town to be marked out. They will be picked up by city crews. The dirt from the hole should not just be tossed around on the grass bul be carefully piled in the gutter or near the hole, the Lions committee chairman, Hor ace J. Nelson, pointed out. New York Papers Print Big Editions NEW YORK, July 18 (UP) Now York's morning newspapers, fat with advertising, hit the streets for the first time in 18 uays today and the metropoli tan area's 13,000,000 readers cele brated by rushing the news stands. Ending a famine of news brought on by a walkout of the Newspaper and Mail Deliverers' union, thick editions were circu lated today. The New York Times went to 42 pages. The Herald Tribune printed 46. Ad vertisers who had been out of touch with millions of consum ers bought large sections of the morning editions. Cpl. Kenneth Knute Given Discharge Cpl. Kenneth Knute arrived in La Grande yesterday afternoon after having received an honor able discharge from the army with 100 points to his credit. He wss overseas 37 '4 months, having participated in the Afri can, Sicilian and Italian cam paigns, and also having duty in Ireland and England. Corporal Knute, son of Mr. and Mrs. Oley Knute, 2195 North First street, entered the army Jan. 20, 194 and went overseas in May of that year. Besides hi. cam paign ribbons and battle sturs he has the Good Conduct medal. Before enterina tho army ho was engaged in farming. He ptan to take vocational training, specializing in diescl cn- Express, Passenger, Mail Service Asked La Grande has been recommended as a station on the Empire Airlines for passengers, air mail and express, by F. Merrit Ruhland, civil aeronautics board examiner, accord ing to word received today by Ed Ford, city manager, from Iiert Zimmerly, president of Empire airlines. Zimmerly presented his petition to the CAB last Novem ber at a hearing at San Francisco, a meeting which Charles Reynolds, chamber of commerce air committee member, also attended. . Zimmei'ly's telegram to Ford: "CAB examiner Ruhland recommends your city for air service for passengers, mail and express on proposed opera tions of Empire airlines. Your past cooperation appreciated and the continued support of your city necessary for final OPA Figures In Price Comparison Challenged Here Differentials in All Items Shown ' In List Figures released yesterday by OPA sources on comparative wholesale prices in 1919 and to day were controverted this morn ing, following further check with local wholesale and retail gro cers. Officials of the community-service committee and the county price and rationing board said the priced had been received from the Portland office and had been a reprint of an editorial from the Quincy, Mass., Patriot Ledger and apparently had to do with prices in that area at the time of the editorial. A step by step check with all prices published in last night's elease, showed differentials in every item; Prices in last night's story were based on wholesale price to the retailer, carload lots, point of origin. Comparisons follow: Beans OPA figures; 1919 $9.30 per 100 pounds; today, $0.25. Actual prices paid by local re tailers In lowest bracket for small Idaho whites $7.30 per hundred pounds. For Red Mexican beans per 100 $8.30. Retail ceiling sell ing price for the former is $!'.02 and for the latter $11.28. Peaches OPA figures: 1919 $5.45 per dozen; today, $2.22, Actual prices paid by local re tailers for very cheapest peaches, seldom on market, $2.70 per dozen. Regular grade Flv-R-Pak peaches 2'A's per dozen $3.52. Retail ceiling selling price on the latter is $4.32. Milk Evaporated milk OPA figures, 1919 $8.48 for 48 cans: todav. 4.li). Actual prices paid ly local retailers $4.3!). Retail ceiling sell ing price Is $5.26. Laid OPA figures, 1!)I9 $25.80 for 100 pounds; today, $13.80. Actual price paid by local retailers $18.25. (jetail ceiling selling price is $21.53. Raisins OPA figures, 1(119 19 cents per pound; today seven and seven-eighths eels per pound. Actual price paid by local re tailers 11 cents per pound. Re tail ceiling selling price, 14 cents. Rice OPA figures, 1910 19 cents per pound; today, six and one-half cents per pound. Actual price paid by local retailers, cighl and one-half cents per pound. Re tail ceiling soiling price, 11 cents per pound. Sugar, bent OPA figures, 1019, $16 per hundred; today, $5.00. Actual price paid by local retailer, $6.35. Retail ceiling sell ing price, $7.11. Sugar, cane Actual price paid by local retailers, $655. Retail ceiling selling price, $7.3.1. gineenng, home. alter a rest at his -'1 W-'" 1945 board approval Efforts The ruling by the CAB comes after sustained efforts on the part of La Grande business and eastern Oregon will have ade quate airmail service, passenger and express service in future. Another announcement was made today concerning North west airlines which had at one time proposed a stop here. North west was recommended for non stop servioe between Portland and Butte, Mont., and United be tween Pendleton and Portland. Other CAB recommendations: 1. Between Seattle and Port Angeles, Wash., via Bremerton, Port Townscnd and Sequin, Wash. 2. Between Seattle and Bell ingham, Wash., via Kirkland, Snohomish, Everett, Arlington, Mt. Vernon and Anacortes, Wash.- 3. Between Seattle and Port land, via Kent, Auburn, Puyal lup, Tacoma, Olympia, Chehalis, McCleary, E 1 m a, Montcsano, Aberdeen Raymond and Ilwaco, Wash., Astoria, Ore., Kelso and St, Helens, Ore. ...4. Between Portland, -Ore., and San Francisco via Hillsboro, Forest Grove, Oregon City, New berg, McMinnville, Woodburn, Silvcrlon, Salem, Dallas, . Inde pendence, Albany, Corvallis, Junction City and Eugene. Oregon Points From Eugene one route to Sun Francisco via Recdsport, North Bend, Ore., Eureka, Fortuna, Fort Bragg, Uklah, Healdsburg, Suntn Rosa, Pctaluma, San Raphael arm Mill Valley, Calif. Another route from Eugene via Cottage Grove, Roscburg, Grants Pass, Medford, Ashland and Kla math Falls, Ore., Yreka, Duns muir, Redding, Red Bluff, Corn ing, Chico, Oroville, Marysville, Roseville, Sacramento, Woodland, Napa, Vallejo, Martinez and Oak land, Calif. 5. From San Francisco to Los Angeles via Redwood City, Palo Alto, Mountain View, Santa Clara, San Joe, Los Galos, Santa Cruz, Watsonville, Gilroy, Hollis ler, Salinas, Monterey, Gonzales, King City, Paso Robles, Alasca dero, San Luis Obispo. Santa Ma ria, Lompoc, Santa Barbara, Ven tura, Oxnard, Santa Paula and Fillmore, Calif. Cpl. Jim Newman In 'Sinking Condition' FORT WORTH .July 18 (UP) Cpl. Jim Newman, whose vali ant fight against death despite overwhelming odds has endeared him to the hearts of the nation, was reported sinking today. His mother said the 25-yenr-old soldier spent a restless night and had been unable to eat all day yesterday, His only nourishment came from a glass of milk at the evening meal. Jim was brought home from ar. ;nmy hospital in New Mexico more than two weeks ago when military doctors said he had only two days to live. His physician, Dr. J. Daly, said last night, that the young hero now was suffering from an in Uiitinul infection in addition to the beri-beri, tuberculosis and ;,cute malnutrition he developed after three years in a Jap prison camp. A Card Holders To (let Some Tires WASHINGTON, July 18 (UP) Rubber Director John L. Col lyer predicted today some A-card holders may obtain new tires by next February or March, if pres ent production goals are met. Tires haw not ijoen available to A-card holders since July, 1943. Collyer said 25,000,000 pas senger car tires are scheduled for production this year or "littlo more than essential replacement needs. A n p T..,.r,,.... . .,,,,,,,1 ., .,.,,. 1,1, , ii in.ni 1- h1 r x u r - x p" o AIRMEN SPONSOR BLIND PRODIGY Wearing a presidential unit citation, an ETO ribbon and the army air force silver wings, Jimmy Osborn, left above, blind 9-year-old piano prodigy, arrives in New York by plane from England for the chance provided him by the 9th U, S. air force. Members of the unit chipped in $3200 for Jimmy's education at Perkins institution for the blind in 1 Walertown, Mass,, where he Is headed. - With him in the photo is Capt. John F. O'Connell, one of the boy's sponsors. Pioneer Children To Have Annual Picnic Thursday Carrying out the custom of the annual picnic, soils and daughters of Union county pio neers will congregate tomorrow at Riverside park for thepotluck diner at noon and the afternoon program. , Rupn thn Rnttini? for tho Die- nic is reminiscent of the days of tho settling of La Grande, the nnrl, l.nlntr thn ulfn nF thn nlH Proebstel homestead, settled in 1862. Thnush none of the original cnlllnfn ni-n loft, mirh vpnr their sons and daughters, some- of whom ware small children at the time, gather each year and retell the experiences of life dur ing that era. A number pf those pioneers who have moved awuy return for the' event and nniov thn nro- grum an dthc visiting and the invariably sumptuous p o 1 1 u c k dinenr. Mrs. Kate Hanlcy and Mrs. Frank Jasper were the commit tee in charge of tho program this year. Bean Describes Australian, New Guinea Life LI. Colonel Walter Bean of La Grande described manners and customs of Australians and resi dents of New Guinea today to members of the Rotary club dur ing the regular meeting of the group at the Stein cafe. Colonel Bean, who has been in the service five years, three of which have been spent overseas, said the Australians were very glad to sec American troops when they arrived. Japs had landed on the northern section of the island Australia has seven million whites and 70,000,000 natives, he said, with the whites populating its area, greater than that of the United States, very sparsely. 11,. ,li.U,.ril..l ..nil L-Ur..,r n,l callft ranches and methods of their operation, natives of Aus tralia and of New Guinea, He left Australia for New Guinea 14 months ago. Colonel Bean was introduced by H. E. Dixon, chairman of the day. The meeting was presided over by Frank Schiro, vice-president. Franco Says King Best Rule For Spain MADRID, July 18 (UP) Gen. Francisco Franco told Spaniards last night monarchy is the only form of rule to solve the coun try's vital problems, but did not suggest a time for the restora tion. Franco made a 38-minutc speech to the Falange party's national council. It was broad cast throughout the country. Monarchists heard the speech with mixed pleasure and disap pointment. Informed observers took the speech to indicate Franco intends to retain the leadership of Spain for many years to come. FIVE CENTS Public Warned Away From Garbage Can PORTLAND. July 18 (UP) In warning the public today to- -stay away from a certain gar-'j' bage can at the city arboretum' curator Ernest E. Fischer said he didn't know how a skunk', got Into the can in question, that he knows only the skunk ; was there. - - ,r.-' Asked why he didn't remove the skunk, Fischer said U wouldn't be worth the effort, that the can was worth only a ' few scents.' - . :. Conversion Not To Hurt Coast, Krug Declares PORTLAND, July 18 (UP) Proximity of Pacific coast states to the Pacific war zone will not be allowed to give tho east re conversion advantages if the war production board can prevent it. So said J. A. Krug, WPB chair man, yesterday, In Portland be fore leaving for a Seattle confer ence, scheduled for today on re conversion methods. According to latest figures, he said, the east is ahead of the west in reconversion just now, but the difference is slight. Krug is now in the region on a "running check" of coastwide recnersion progress. ; Tim increased importance of this area to the war effort, mak ing reconversion here difficult, has prompted the first of tho monthly meetings of the opera tions council of the WPB on the coast. 11 is the Seattle meeting, scheduled for today. Union Decides To f Return to Work OAKLAND, Calif., July 18 (UP) Complying with a war labor board order, 3,075 ArJL shipyard workers today voted to return to their jobs repairing 21 navy and merchant ships at the General Engineering company's Alameda, Calif., yards at 8 a.th. tomorrow. , n; The men complied with a ufl ion steering committee recom mendations that they end a work stoppage begun last Friday aftr a one hour mass meeting. Ori ginally 875 men and nine shifts were involved in the dispute. - Three Month Old S Baby Lost After Accident On Bus " RICHMOND, Va July 18 (UP) A three-month old baby was missing today after a Greyhound bus plunged from a weakened bridge into rain-swollen Glillies creek within the Richmond city limits. Hospital authorities said the other 45 passengers and the bus driver had been rescued. Mrs. Eva Nora Hammel ?D, Delta, Pa., told rescue workers she was holding her daughter, Donna Jnnn. in hor nms uihsn she climbed out of a bus window to the top of tho vehicle. She said she lost the baby while the passe'ngers were standing on the crowded top oi tne ous waiting for rescue. .