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Newspaper Page Texti Weather A Community Newspaper For Every Member of the Family Data (or 24 hours to 7 a. m. ' Temperature: Maximum 92 Minimum 51 Forecast: Clear tonight and Friday. 4rit m4 Wollow Cafi'i ESTABLISHED 1S96 LA GRANDE. OREGON THURSDAY KVKNING. JULY 2H. 11)45 FIVE CENTS Jiek Sfeair on remic Dies Ir3 British Churchill Cabinet 'Riddled' LONDON, July 26 (UP) Prime Minister Winston Churchill and his conservative party went down to defeat to day in the l.ritish election and the labor 'parly was expected to form a new government. British voters overwhelming ly repudiated his conservative party and elected to the house of commons a clear majority of labor party members. Under British custom, Chur chill's resignation and the form ation of a now cabinet headed by labor party leader Maj. Cle ment Attlee is merely a formal ly Win 33 Seats An official tabulation disclosed opposition parties had elected 331 members against 166 for gov ernment supporters. Of the op position total 311 were labor parly members and it was plain that the laborites had elected more man me 611 memneis necessary to give them an abso lute majority in the 640-mtml:er house of commons. At 4 p.m. the count shewed 393 opposition seats, including 369 labor seats, and 203 government seats, including 188 conservatives. There were 44 seats still to be reported. :1 first Time It- was the first time-the- labor patty had ever won a clear ma jority of the house of commons although it formed a coalition under Ramsay MacDonald in the '20s. Churchill himself was returned to parliament as was foreign sec retary Anthony Eden, but they were almost the only holdovers among the conservatives. The mood of ' the electorate was clearly shown when the un known farmer, Alexander Han cock, who ran against Churchill in a London suburban district, managed to roll up 10,000 votes, only 17,000 fewer than were cast for Churchill. Eden Wins Alone among the prominent conservatives to come through the election with his support little damaged was Eden who polled CO percent of his elector ate. Among those who went out of parliament in the sweep was Brendan Bracken, Churchill's closest government associate, and information minister until recent weeks when he became first lord of the admiralty. Others who fell are: M. H. MacMillin, secretary of state for air; Bug. Gen. Edward Spears, British minister in the Levant slates; Leslie Hore-Belisha, one lime war minister; Leopold Sam Ameiy: secretary of state for In dia; Sir James Grigg, war min ister; Geoffrey Lloyd, minister of information; Maj. Radolpb Churchill, the Prime Minister's son; Duncan Sandys, reconstruc tion minister and son-in-law of the prime minister; Richard K. Law, minister of education; Sir William Eeveridge, author of the Assheton, chairman of the con famous Beveridge plan; Ralph servative party; William Astor, son of Lady Astor, Sir Richard Acland, leader of the leftist com monwealth party and Ernest Brown, liberal national and min ister of aircraft production. Cheered Attlee That the labor observers had agreed it was the most difficult election to forecast in a genera tion since nearly a third of the voters were going to the polls for the first time. Army sentimtnt, it was known, had swung sharply to the lcft and its extent had been revealed in Beilin where the troops cheer ed Attlee rather than Churchill during an inspection of Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgom ery's "TH-iert Rats." Outside the dingy little house which is th? office and resident t'f British phrr.e ministers a little crowd stood, huddling close to the building to keep out of the drizzling London rain. 41 Beaten ' " Two Bobbies were on duty. They told the crowd generally See CKVRCHILL . . . Page 7 Labor . WINSTON CHURCHILL nianag ed to Keep nis seat in parliament, but 11 cabinet colleagues wore defeated. Wartime premier must resign, to be succeeded by Cle ment Attics.. S 5 Attlee Sees Need For New Order For Peace LONDON, July 26 (UP) Maj. Clement Altlee ,who will suc ceed Winston Churchill as prime minister of Britain, said today the labory party's foreign policy may be summarized as "the need for a new world order for pre vention of war and a world eco nomic policy based on an endeav or to raise standards of life." ' He made his statement to cor respondents after appearing be. fore a tumultuous victory cele bration at Transport house, labor party and trade union headquar ters." ' Awed Attlee, ar etiring demure man, seemed awed. He told his follow ers the sweep had demonstrated the British public will "respond to a clear and definite policy bas ed on principles and upon the application of those principles." Allien was in thf rnnlilinn Churchill government as deputy prime minister and deDutv Gov ernment leader. He wont In S.in Vnmniunn fit- one of the British delegates to the security conference and accom panied Churchill to Potsdam, par ticipating in the big three discus sions because of the onssihililv of Churchill's defeat. Oxfordian Attlee is 62 years old He tunc educated at Oxford and entered the practice of law in Hinfi H.- served in Gallipoli, Mesopotamia and France during the world war. He first came to parliament 20 years ago and for a time was parliamentary private secretary to Britain's first labor premier, Ramsay MacDonald. Keith Graham Dies Here Following Farm Accident Keith Graham, 15-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred M. Graham, route No. 1, La Grande, died yes terdaya t a local hospital from complications which followed a farm accident a week ago. The lad, a school boy, had lived in La Grande since his birth, July 13, 1930. Besides his parents, he leaves two brothers, Chester in the U. S. air force. Wallace E., in the Sea btos. two sisters, Joyce and Jerry, both of La Grande, his grandpar ents, Mr. and Mrs. Pat May of La Grande and other relatives. Funeral services will be at 2 p. m. Saturday, July 28. at Snod grass Funeral Home. Interment will be in the Masonic cemetery. Morse Sees "Era Of Common Man" WASHHtGTOH. J a 1 f M (UP) Typical of Washington comment on tba defeat of Prime Minister Winston Churchill's parly in the taceol British elections was thai of Senator Wayne Morie, R.. Ore. He said: . "It is perfectly obvious the world is coming into the era of (he common man." Party Allies Warn Japs to POTSDAM, July 26 (UP) President Truman, Prime Minis ter. Churchill and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek warned Japan tonight to surrender or face de struction of the Japanese armed forces and the homeland. The American, British and Chinese leaders, in a proclama tion couched in the terms of an ultimatum, laid down the terms under which they agreed that Ja pan "shall be given an opportun ity to end this war." Charles Ross, Truman's secre tary, announced the proclamation during a recess of the Big Three conference for the Britons to hear the results for the general election in which the Churchill government was defeated. Significantly, perhaps, the move was announced from the scene of the Big Three confer ence where rentier Stalin of Rus sia had been conferring with Mr. Truman and Churchill. Asked whether Stalin was con sulted on the proclamation, Ross said he could not comment on that, and added: "Stalin's gov ernment is not at war with Ja pan." The terms posed for Japan in cluded elimination from author ity and influence of those who led the nation into war, allied occupation of points to be desig nated in Japanese territory, limi tation of Japanese sovereignty to the four main home islands and perhaps certain smaller, ones, re moval of air obstacles to the re vival of democratic tendencies among the Japanese, the uncon ditional surrender of all Japanese armed forces and the complete disarming of them. The three war leaders laid down set terms for Japanese withdrawal from the war, and promised that unless the terms were accepted, destruction worse than that visited upon Germany would be Japan's lot. "The time has come," the pro clamation said, "for Japan to de cide whether she will continue to be controlled by the self-willed militaristic advisers whose un intelligent calculations have brought the empire of Japan to the threshold of annihilation, or whether she will follow the path of reason. "Following are our terms. We wil not deviate from them. There are no alternatives. We shall brook no delay." Before listing the terms, the three powers warned Japan that their armed forces, "many times einforced by their armies and air fleets from the west," were poised to strike the final blows against Japan. "This military power is sus tained and inspired by the de termination of all the allied na tions to prosecute the war against Japan until she ceases to exist," it said. The three chiefs of state said the power converging on Japan is immeasurably greater than that which laid waste to the lands, industry and way of life of the whole German people. First Fatality In Forest Fire; Man Hit by Snag PORTLAND, July 26 (UP) A new outbreak of the Wilson river fire confronted weary fire fight ers in western Oregon today, while blazes in other areas of the Pacific northwest were generally under control. The Tillamook fire was check ed except on the Wilson river where a break through roared smith from a point three miles southwest of Saddle mountain just inside the eastern Tillamook county line. The first fatality of the two week fire occurred when Joe De lick, 50, an employe of the Northwest Forest Fire associa tion, was crushed by a falling wg He was working in tin Sec.ggins creek, sector of the Wil son river fire, 'n Weather officials aid humid ity will drop to a dangerous low ol 35 today and impending east winds could easily expand the new fire. Scores First Victory FANATIC KAMIKAZE BLASTS Jap Kamikaze pilot suicide-dives 1944. U. S. fighter plane (photo No. 1) approache out of clouds in 80 degree dive, Yank pilot unawa (photo No. 2) spots suicider at mast height, veers o Gaseline flames ingulf deck of carrier (photo No. 3 explosion. Columns of smoke rise ered from nearmortal blow, is Time to Start Mother-Daughter Canning Projects Mother-daughter canning pro jects for 4-H club credit should hi; started soon, Miss Doris Mc Whorter, Union county home demonstration agent, announced today. Canning project record books, canning instructions, and en rollment cards are now available at the home demonstration agent's office, and canning may be started soon after receipt of the bulletins. Credit is given for one-half the number of quarts canned in cooperation, Miss McWhorter staled. Girls are urged to ex hibit two quarts at achievement day to show what they have ac complished through the year. The quarts to be exhibited must be canned alone, with the excep tion of taking out and putting jars in the boiling water. In dividual canning should be at tempted only after the girls have acquired proficiency by coop vr-ation-canning, Mills McWhorter staled. Yank Officers in P S 8 Soldier Says "Profiteered Food Supplies" HONOLULU, T. H., July 2(i (UP) American war prisoners in a German camp sold fellow in mates pieces of black bread and other food for exorbitant sums, Cpl. James A. King, 23, nephew cf Capt. Samuel W. King. USN, former Hawaiian delegate to con gress, said today. The young battle veteran, home on a 80 day furlough, was freed from the prison camp after living for four months on a daily rt'et of watery soup and one-sixth cf a loaf of blRck bread. Sold rood King charged some liaison men 'from our own ranks were prac tically quislings." "They sold bread and other food to their comrades for watch es and rings," King said. "I was so hungry one night I sold a ling my father had given tne for three-quarters of a loaf of black bread." Committees, including officer di.-guised us enlisted men, were Quit Or Be XI. S. S. SUWA into deck of U. NEE The dramatic sequence of action as fanatic S. S. Suwanee, escort carrier, off Leyle, Oct. 26, s Suwanee for landing as Jap suicide plane streaks re of enemy's presence. Approaching U. S, plane ff to left as Suwanee's anti-aircraft fire increases ) as Kamikaze makes direct hit, Yank plane clears from Suwanee No. 4) following now back in ser vice. RETURNS HOME Sgt. Lloyd J. Cook, 1604 Adams ave.iue, son of Mrs. Lillian Hill, of the same address, is one of the en listed men recently honorably discharged from the service at the Fort Lewis, Wash., separa tion center. Sergeant Cook, be fore entering the army in 1936. was employed as a sawmill worker. rison Accused . . . $ organized and the names of all food sellers were obtained, King declared. He said he understood those charged with misconduct "are all up for court-martial now." 2 Die Daily King was captured at Stras bourg in January, when he and 300 other members of the 45th division were surrounded while dying to take a hill they later named "Pow hill." The Germans shipped them in a box car to Stalag 12-A, where the food-selling later took place, King said. Conditions were so bad at least two men died each day from ex posure and malnutrition, al though none were physically mistreated, he declared. Pneu monia also struck the camp and !'0 percent of its inmates wete suffering from dysentery. .Later King was moved to an other camp anil rescued by the British April 28. . I flff w t kM&fr Destroyed suicide strike. The vessel, rocov- Fleet Waiting To Resume Attacks On Japanese GUAM, July 26 (UP) Tokyo said today an allied fleet is wait ing to resume a 48-hour attack which wrecked or damaged no fewer than 104 Japanese ships, and 200 land-based planes struck by daylight at the Kobe and Osaka areas. Carrier planes of Admiral Wil liam F. Halsey's third fleet dam aged no fewer than 20 Japanese warships on the first day uf the two-day assault. Japan's inland sea was strewn with the wreck age of ships, and it appears the imperial fleet may have been vir tually finished off. 90 More Tokyo said about 200 planes hit the Kobe and Osaka areas be tween (1:30 and 9 a. m. in a re sumption of tin; land-based boni baidmenl softening the homeland lor invasion. Later another 00 or so planes flew over Koakai, the Japanese reported. Official announcements dis closed the damaging of a score of Japanese warships in the at tack Tuesday on Kure and neighboring waters of the inland sea. Halsey's massive fleet of 150 odd battleships, carriers, cruis ers and supporting warships blacked out last night when swirling storm clouds closed down. Hut there was no sign the nl tack had been broken off. Alarmed Japanese broadcasts warned Halsey's armada was still hulking off the coast, awaiting a bre ak in the weather. Hit Oil Supply In their 12th major strike on Japan's dwindling homeland oil resources, the B-2ils hit the Mit subishi, I la va ma and Asaishi re fineries at Kawasaki. At a cost oi one Superfortress, the raiders touched off huge fires and explo sions in all hut three plants. Helpless against the ponderous R-2!l blows and the rapid-fire fleet attacks, the Japanese glum ly warned their people not a sin vie city or town in the homeland Lould hope to be spared. In the face of that appalling rostr of ruin, Tokyo spokesmen held out the feeble promise their coastal fortifications will hold off the coming invasion, even if the mtiic homeland burned behind them. Claude Ogilvie Held After Cove Shooting Claude N. Ogilvie, 70,. rancher near Cove, is in the county jail awaiting: action by the district attorney, and his former neighbor, Jack Stareo, 57, is dead as result of a difference over a fence which lias been arising' frequently since last spring'. Stareo died, according to state police and the district attorney, Colon Kberhard, as resulUof a shotgun wound in the back. The shotgun was fired by Ogilvie as the climax of an argument over Stareo's milking a gate in the fence in question, witnesses said. ; Ogilvie, who has been a resident of the Cove neighborhood for many years, owns land which is cut off from a country road by land rented by Stareo from Ray and Kva Duncan Harvest of Valley Wheat Starts In Several Areas Grande Ronde valley's 1045 wheat harvest started simultane ously in several sections today, being brought in to the Pioneer Flouring mill at Union and at Island City. First wheat into Island City tamo from the Ed Hughes ranch north of La Grande. Hughes, har vesting, forty-fold fall wheat be gan operations this morning. , His wheat tested No. 1, averag ing 62 pounds to the bushel, pres aging high grades from similar wheal in the valley. First shipment to arrive at Union mill came early this morn ing from the Nellie Eyers ranch in the Cove district. One-combine harvesting was started yesterday, and two combines were put into operation today on the 500-acre ranch, one of the largest in the district. , j ..'.' The wheat tested at 60 pounds per, bushel, classifying it as No. 1 grade, with a price set at $1:30 per bushel, . ' Mrs. Eyers, associated with Ray Hartley and Mr. Hereford, usual ly harvests close to 15,000 bushels in a season, but it is undetermin ed whether or not the harvest this year will top that figure. Fifty bushels of 61-pound test ed wheat, grade No. 1-plus, were brought in this morning to the Island City Flour mill front the Claude Wright ranch, north of La Grande. The wheat, however, was from a back-swath, and Wright will bring in no more un til he starts operating combines on the 70-acre ranch. A similar yield from u back-swath cut came from the Grover Grimmetl ranch. Japs Hint Quit If U. S. Demands Modified By R. H. SHACKFOHD V ASH INGTON, July 26 (UP) Japan acknowledged her critical military plight to day with a frank hint she might sue for peace if Ameri can demands for uncondition al surrender were modified. The bid for more lenient terms was biondeast by the Tokyo radio amid demands in this country for an immediate Russiun declaration of war against the Japanese. And it coincided with a report Soviet Premier Josef Stalin had carried to the big three conference Jap an's official formula for halting hostilities. Startling The state department offered no comment on these develop ments a tacit re-affirmation of its policy Japan can escape destruction only through total and unconditional surrender. Japan's starllingly frank new peace feeler was sent out by To kyo in an English - language broadcast beamed to the United Statrs and recorded by the fed eral communications commission. It said: "Should America show any sincerity of putting into practice what she preaches, as for in stance in the Atlantic charter, excepting Its punitive clause, the Japanese nation, in fact the Jap anese military, would auto matically, if not willingly, (sev eral word) missing) follow in the stopping of the conflict and then, ami only then, will sabers cease to rattle both in the east and in the West." Will Resist 1 While official American quar ters maintain "relative silence" about the exact meaning of un conditional surrender, Tokyo said, "official publicists declare that Japan should be stripped of this or that." and the former Carl Stakland ranch. Ogilvie has used n private road on the Duncan land for years but was required to keep up fence on one side of the road. Stareo, previous to this year, had used only the Staklund land but this year had also rented thp Duncan acres. . Since last spring, according to Eberhard, Stareo had wanted to put a gale in Ogilvie's fence to use when hauling hay, and had used such a gate several times in the last few days. Using an other route, ,'to bring the hay t() his home ranch would have in volved a round about . trip, for Stareo and'his hunds. " ; Hoard None Yesterday, shortly before 3 p.m., Ogilvie came to the Stareo ranch. The two men were discussing thg matter at a short distance from the witnesses, who included Mrs. Stareo and his daughter, Jack lyn, his sister, Mrs. Ray Noyes of Baker, and two hired men, who all saw the occurence but heurd none of the argument. ' . Suddenly, according to infor mation given stale, police, Ogil vie went back to his. wagon and returned with n shotgun. No ube was close enough to hear what further talk ensued between the two men, but when Ogilvie was about 50 feet from Stareo,- who had started for the house, he raised the shotgun, according to state police, and fired twice. Raised Hands Stareo had raised his hands and called "don't shoot," accord ing to his family and to the hired men, Ed Rierman and Alvln Lloyd. 1 Lloyd and Rierman said sever al loads of hay had been hauled through the once yesterday and they were going back another time when the altercation oc curred. The district attorney de clared the fence had been fas tened up again several times by Ogilvie. Since 1937, according to Eber hard, there hiis been pending in the district court a cuse in which Ogilvie had sought of the Dun cans the right to use this private road across their land to his otherwise inaccessible holdings. Called Help One of the hay hands went to a neighbor to call for the county authorities after the shooting. Deputy Sheriff Hugo Kling hammer and Coroner L. L. Snod grass went to the Stareo resi dence which is about a mile at so cast of Cove. While state police and the coroner were talkJ ing to witnesses and preparing the body for removal to the mor. luary here, Klinghammer went on to the Ogilvie residence and arrested Ogilvie. Ogilvie made no resistance. The coroner, deputy sheriff and Ogilvie came back in the same Sec CLAUDE . . . Page 7 100 Persons Left Homeless in Eugene EUGENE, July 2G (UP) Dam age was estimated at $100,000 and 100 persons were homeless today after a fire destroyed the. downtown Bartle Court aparU menl house in Eugene yesterday. Most of the tenants were uni able to save any personal be longings because the fire spread so rapidly in the frame and stuc co building which covers one quarter of a block. It was be lieved the fire started in a fur nace flue, since flames were no ticed both on the roof and in the basement. The Red Cross secured emer gency housing with Eugene fam ilies. TRUMAN RETURNS POTSDAM, July 26 (UP) President Truman returned to Potsdam from Frankfurt late to day for the resumption of the Big Three conference ufter spending the day. with Gen. Dwight D, Eisenhower and American buttlo veterans.