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- 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
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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.
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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.
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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. .