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Weather rJaiii for 24 hours to 7 a.m. Tejfipereature: Maximum 93 . Minimum 54 Fritfe'east: Clear tonight unci Sutlir'day; littl,e temperature chatige. A Community , Newspaper For Every Member of the Family nTrrmiMiiimiiiuiin.n Vaaa aaa Cnfi'ti ESTABLISHED 189B LA GRANDE. OREGON FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 27, 1915 FIVE CENTS , Elgin to Ask Grant To School ELGIN; July 27 (Special) Iu-fll Voters of the Elitin consolidated siihool district gave the board of directors the go-ahead to the board's plans for an expanded school service by, a lvt'ge vote at the special school election held here Thursday afternoon. Voters were asked to author ize the purchase of adjoining Fisher property at a cost of $3800 and the voters responded by a vote of 02 to 11. To Use Buses The board was authorized to institute bus transportation for pupils living two miles or more from the school district, through puichase.br lease of buses, by a vote of 72 to 2. The board was also authorized to sell school houses and school sites acquired in the consolida tion, by a vole of 70 to 3. The budget for the current school year was adopted as pub lished, anci the board levied a special school, tax of $22,050. In order to make this levy, special approval of Jegal voters was re quired under the 6 percent bud get law, and this approval was given by a-, .vote 62 to 7. Plan School Today the bpard is conferring wilh the school' district's archi tect and federal officials from Seattle who .have jurisdiction of the allotment of federal funds to assist overburdened districts in areas in which, war plants are located. ,,, Tlie Elgin, school district hopes to get a large, grant to assist in the construction of a new school building, .with, ajditorium, to house the elementary school and high school,, of the newly con solidated school districts of that area. .Colon . R. Eberhard who is handling the. legal work of the Elgin school district, attended the board meetinjj Jujre last Jiighf. Election" Success Surprise to Kin Of Ernest Bevin PORTLAND, July 27 (UP) Election success of England's labor party, was a surprise to the daughter and son-in-law of Ernest Bevin, one of the party leaders. Mr. and Mrs, Hubert J. Davies of Portland said they had a letter from Mrs., Bevin two weeks ago in which, she spoke as if Chur chill were certain to be returned to power, (In London Prime Minister Cle ment Attlee today named Bevin his foreign secretary. Hugh Dal lon was named chancellor of the exhequer, , Sir Stafford Cripps president . of the board of trade, Herbert Morrison president of the council, and Sir William Jo witt lord chancellor.) "The outcome of the election in England was a surprise to us all, for we never really expected such success for the labor party," Mrs. Davies said. She added Eng land's working people .have been attempting for many years to wrest control of the government from the conservative party. Mrs. D a v i s explained that while Bevin and Churchill are political rivals, they are close friends in private life. Blum Declares Petam Wrecked French Republic PARIS, ;July 27 (UP) Former Premier Leon Blum charged to day Marshal Henri Philippe Pe tain destroyed France's repub lican institutions by force and substituted a "despotic power the like of which never was seen in the Orient." "That was treason," Blum, leader of the pre-war popular front, shouted at the peak of his denunciation of Petaih. Occa sional Blum sobbed so heavily it was hard for him to speak. Blum W or k e d laboriously through a narrative of the schem ing and turmoil of the govern ment's flight, from Paris in 1940 &nd eventual establishment at Vichy. . In allowing himself to be dashed to the ground in despair and lettfrrg his country fall in a like manner no, he cannot say he was doing that for France's good or honor," Blum declaimed. 150 DIE IN CRASH PARIS, July 27 (UP) French press agericY tonight reported 150 i persons were believed to have ; Been killed or injured in a rail- j road accident al Saint Lons in i the Rhode department. BIG GAIN OF ONE POUND in one month makes Judy Lynn Thompson seem considerably less fragile than she was when she was bor.i and weighed only 2 pounds, seven ounces. Here she is shown with her mother, Mrs, Lee Ray Thompson, Thompson is a radioman-gwiner on a navy dive bomber in the south Pacific and has not heard of lhe birth of his daughter. Rapid Gain May Soon Enable Baby to Leave Now that Judy Lynn Thomp son, is almost a month old she is permitted to leave the incubator in which she has lived since June 29, the day of her birth, six weeks prematurely. Not only that, but Judy. Lynn, daughter of . ARM 2C and Mrs. Lee. Ray Thompson, has gained 8 whole pound, from two pounds; seven ''puttees, io. three, .'pounds, seven ounces. By the time her daddy,, who is in the south Pa cific somewhere, hears about her having been born she will be big enough to leave the incubator and be with the other babies in the St. Joseph hospital nursery. Judy's father is in his third campaign in the Pacific. He is a gunner-radio operator on a dive bomber, which operates from a carrier. Judy's middle name was John Thompson, 55, Union Farmer, Injured in Mishap John Thompson,' 55 year old Union farmer was critically ' in jured at 11:30 a.m. today when the six-foot point of a buck rake penetrated his lower chest, went through his left chest cavity, and came out his right shoulder. Thompson had been driving the rake on the Fred Brown ranch at Union, helping Roy Mil ler harvest his hay when the team pulling the rake became frightened and bolted. Thomp son attempted to head the horses off, but they swerved, putting him directly in line with the rake. La Grande's first-aid car was summoned to the ranch, and he was taken to the Grande Ronde hospital. His condition was de scribed as "critical", and he will be allowed no visitors until fur ther notice. AFL Sawmill Men To Take Strike Vote COOS BAY, July 27 (UP) . Petitions for a legal strike vote affecting some 3,000 lumber workers in southwestern Oregon will be filed with the national labor relations board in Wash ington, D. C, July 28 by 15 dis tricts affiliated with the north western council AFL lumber sawmill workers, it was disclosed today. Fritz Hagen, business agent of the AFL mill workers, made the announcement upon return from Portland where he attended a meeting with the northwest coun cil committee and a six man NLRB panel, which had been "ailed to discuss union demands for a general increase of iO cents per hour. AA1LHOAO MONTH PORTLAND July J7 (UP) Gov. Earl Snell of Orejon today proclaimed the nvmth of August 'Haihoad -Manpower Drive Month" to asaist the i:ruitin drive for wotkers to handle rec ord military .hjmentti acro th nation. Thcjuogram iMn Tues day, with a goal ot 2,000 worker fp-om Oregon and 3,000 from Washington. 'j- ' Incubator Home given her for her father's pilot, Lt. (j. g.) Boy Lynn of Alham bra, Calif. , . Thompson and his wife, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Frei singer, met while both were at tending high school here. He left high school to enter the navy three years ago and they were cmarried ' two years .ago at San Jose, .Calif,..His . parent are Mr. and Mrs. Ralph acery. Though so small, Judy Lynn is, well supplied with grandpar ents, who include the Freisingers and Beerys, and her great grand parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank J. Ward of Willamette. How soon Judy may leave the incubator is not certain. In the meantime she will be under the care, as she has been since birth, of the nurse, Miss Bernice Miller. Rites Monday For Jefferson Rees, Retired Farmer Jefferson Rees, 83-year-old re tired farmer of Union, for 23 years a resident of that commun-' ity, died Wednesday at a local hospital following a short illness. He was born Mcy 9, 1862 in, Iowa. Survivors include a daugh ter, Leatha Tidball of Union, a brother, Robert Rees of Santa Cruz, Calif.! two sisters, Mariah Masterson of Portland and Mar tha Mitchell of Long Beach, Calif., and one grandson in the army. Funeral services are set for 2:30 p.m., Monday at the Metho dist church in Union with Rev. O. A. Fortune officiating. Inter ment will be in the Union ceme tery. '. . Production Normal At Plywood Plant SPRINGFIELD, July 27 (UP) Production is back to normal today at the Springfield plywood corporation plant as army super vision of the plant goes into its second day. Lt. Col. Leroy B. Burns, commanding troops in the plant, said 155 had reported for work Thursday. CIO and AFL labor leade rs pledged cooperation to army au thorities in holding to production schedules. The plant linns out live million feet of plywood a month but at present is nine mil lion feet behind on government war orders. Jean Walker Gets Word from Reported 'Well' In Jap Prison ., Mrs. Jean Walker this morning received a telegram from the gov ernment, relating an intercepted broadcast fom her husband, Pfc. Keith Walker, who is in Tokyo prison camp No. 1. The telegram brought Mw. Walker her first communication from her husband in two years, the last being a letter received last year, that having been writ B-29s 'Call Shots' Against Next 11 Ja p Cities After Ref usa I to Give U p Ogilvie Claude N. Ogilvie, 70, Cove farmer arrested Wednesday after the death by gunshot wounds of Jack Sttireo, a neigh bor, 57, was arraigned today before Justice of the Peace George H. Currey, but since he was unaccompanied by coun sel did not enter a plea to the charge of first degree murder lodged against him. Colon R. Eberhard, district attorney, who filed tlie charge, said as soon as Ogilvie obtains counsel he will try to fix a date for a preliminary hearing during which Justice Currey will sit as a committing magistrate, unless counsel and Ogil vie waive preliminary proceedings to permit immediate bind- ! i. 11 i ;.. i nig uvei wj me, mtuni jm.v. Eberhard filed the information after consideration of statements he had taken yesterday from wit-i nesses to the shooting, which took place on the Stareo farm east of Cove. The complaint charges Ogilvie "with premedi tated malice" shot and killed Stareo. Questioned Witnesses The formal complaint does not set forth the circumstances un der which the death of Stareo look place. Eberhard questioned all the witnesses yesterday and they gave him substantially the same account as had been ob tained upon the scene by Eber hard and members ,of the state police force, who, with Deputy Sheriff Hugo Klinghammor and Coroner Lot Snodgrass, had beer) called to the scene. !, Witnesses included Mrs. Stareo; Jacklyn, her daughter, 14; Mr. Stareo's sister, Mrs. Ray Noyes Of Baker; and two hired men, Ed Rierman and Alvin Lloyd. v Fence Caused It Thi. nmisp rf thp armimnnt tween the two irien was a fence! in which Stareo, state police said, had nut a eate to savp several! miles, of driving 'with., his hay l no tencc enclosed a private road from the county highway to the Ogilvie farm and for this fence Ogilvie was responsible. He had used the lane before the land which Stareo had been farming had been leased to Stareo by Ray and Eva Duncan. The Duncan farm and the rest of the land Stareo farmed made Ogilvie's farm inaccessible from the coun ty highway without the lane. i . Ogilvie had previously refused, police were told, to allow Stareo to put a gate in the fence. The argument arose after the gate had been put in and S t a r e o 's hired men had brought several loads of hay across the lane. Funeral service for Stareo will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at Cove Baptist church, with burial in Coye cemetery. 'Hundreds' of Yank Airmen 'Murdered' (DARMSTADT, Germany, July 27 (UP) Reliable sources here, where 11 Germans are on trial, said today "hundreds" of Amer ican airmen downed in the reich were killed by German civilians during the war. The 11 Germans on trial arc accused of murdering six airmen of the U. S. eighth air force at Russelsheim last August when their bomber was forced down. Among documents in American hands is an order to local German police authorities directing them to take no action against civilians for killing allied airmen. One investigator of war crimes said new atrocities were being uncovered almost daily. He said it probably would take years to complete the trials of Germans accused in the death of aviators forced down or shot down dur ing the battle of Germany. ROSENMAN TO POTSDAM WASHINGTON, July 27 (UP) Samuel I. Rosenman, special counsel to the President, left Washington yesterday to join the big three conference at Potsdam, the White House disclosed today. ten a year before it arrived here. It Well In the broadcast Walker stated thai he felt "fine", and could hardly wait to get home; sent his love to all his family, and spoke of his brother's new baby, which proves he has received Mrs. Walker's letters. He said that he is eager to re turn to his job and to start build ing a new home, which presup poses he is in good health, sub stantiating the idea by averring Faces Charge of Attlee to Join Truman, Stalin In Few Hours Bevin Foresees More Home Rule For Indians By PAUL AULT LONDON, July 27 (UP) Prime Minister Clement R. Attlee tack led the job of forming Britain's new labor cabinet today on a rush basis in hope of naming his key men within a few hours and clearing the way for his return to the big three conference at Potsdam by tomorrow. Winston S. Churchill was pack ing up at No. 10 Downing street and easing out as Britain's warrior-statesman in the nation's wartime era of "blood and toil, tears and sweat" which culmi nated in the defeat ot Germany. Not of Hurry There was every sign Church ill would not return to Potsdam, and reports persisted jjes will re tire to write ; his memoirs; per haps even surrendering the par liamentary seat to which he was returned. The Potsdam conference, to re sume Saturday, added a note of urgency to Attlee's cabinet dis cussions. Premier Yosef Stalin and President Truman were wait ing impatiently to finish up the talks begun with Churchill. A foreign office commentator said "there is a lot still to be discussed at Potsdam" and it was not just a mutter of finishing up discussions already initiated. Leave Soon Attlee is expected to name Er nest Bevin to the foreign secre taryship held by Anthony Eden, If possible, Attlee and Bevin will probably leave for Potsdam to morrow. Attlee arrived at the treasury building early today, wearing a black coat and striped trousers. He set to work immediately on the formation of his government. Close India Office Bevin declared Britain must "show patience and toleration and try to obtain an understand ing in order to come together for the common purpose of maintain ing peace and develping a high er standard of living with a com plete removal of fear." He said Italy should not be treated as though Mussolini was still in power and relations wilh France must be strengthened. Of India, he said: "We will close the India office and trans fer its business to India. This very fact itself will give confidence that they are no longer govern ed from Whitehall." India's home rule responsibility, he said must be increased, year by year. ENROLLMENT FALLS OFF EUGENE, July 27 (UP) The University of Oregon has an en rollment of 270 for the second summer session, Clifford L. Con 'stance, assistant registrar, report ed today. He said the figure was half that for the first session. . Husband everything "is all right," and not to worry. Store Manager Walker entered the army in March I (141, and wiui taken pri soner al the fall of Bataan. Prior to entering the service he was assistant manager of the J. C. Penney store in Enterprise. He is the husband of the form er Jean -Buchanan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Roe Buchanan, and is (he son of Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Walker of Enterprise, 4 YANK SHELL OUT TO JAPAN MAINLAND-Observation plane rests on USS Massachusetts, as two more battleships siring out behind, one firing broadside, in first of close range Japan home land bombardment by U. S. 3rd fleot, which met with almost no opposition from riltemy- idrces:;" i Casualties Rise To Three in Fight On Forest Fires PORTLAND, July 27 (UP) Forest fires in western Oregon which have burned over nearly 100,000 acres and claimed three lives, today spread dangerously near several small communities. Low humidity and strong east winds uided the new spot fires in rugged mountain areas. One was burning completely around the zig zag guard station in Washington county, and added 3,0.00 acres destroyed. The fire was moving into the Forest Grove watershed, about 10 miles from the city of Forest Grove. Out of Control The main Wilson river fire came within three miles of Gates creek community and Sudu Springs and was spreading out ui control. Two soldiers killed were Pvt. Jesse L. Thompson, Phil:idelphit, and Pvt. Lester A. Ware, Colum bus, O. They were killed when their truck overturned north of Portland, while rnroutc in con- I voy to the Tillamook foiest fire area, fcjghl oilier sultiiers were in jured, two of them seriously. Stale forestry officials disclos ed the death of a Iumberjai-k, Joe Dillich, 50, killed while working witli a pumper to' hold back the s I (? a il i 1 y-advancing Tillumook blaze. Officials said he was crush ed under a falling section of a tree. Ncod Help At one point, lumberjacks anil volunteer sailors, were forced to run for their lives when the fire look to the treetops, threatening to trap the men between two firey walls. The mayor of Forest Grove, Ore., ordered all available man power in his community to stand by near the city's 2ll,()IIU-iirie watershed, endangered by t h e conflagration. Nebraskan Captures Goering's Silver SEATTLE, July 27 (UP) When the Seattle relatives of Sut. George Long, Hastings, Neb., sit down to eat today, they'll use the silverware and table linen that once graced the tabln of Hermann Goering. Long sent the 12 piece set and linens to his sister, Mis. Uillie Guslafson, from Siilzbuig, Ger many, found the treasures in the private 10-car train nf Goer ing which was hidden in a tunnel near Ilerchtesgaden. Murder I - Australians Chase Japanese Units ' MANILA, July 27 (UP) Aus tralian troops pursued fl.'eting Japanese units today along the main highway northeast of Bal ikpupim, after RAAF Spitfires had intercepted one column and strafed lfl vehicles. Gen. Douglas Mac-Arthur's com munique revealed the enemy withdrawal apparently is being attempted by separate small groups rather than in one mass movement. Factory Strikes Soon to Halt Raids on Japan Bv United Press ' Striking employes in B-2!) en- gine plants in Chicago and Pater son, N. J., were warned today Superfortress attacks against the Japanese homeland would be re duced "within a few days" unless, production is resumed imme diately. Fifty thousand away from their jobs al the aircraft engine plants, operated by the Wright Aero nautical and Chrysler corpora tions, made up the bulk of the ration's 70,000 idle workers. Halt Raids Aetiruj Secretary of War Rob ert P. Patterson said in Washing Ion last nighl the two work .stop pages, if continued, could accom plish what the Japs had failed to do halt raids on enemy industry. "The two plants manufacture four-fifths of all B-2II engines," Pattersun said. "The supply of these engines is so short the B-2!) attacks on Japan will be reduced within a matter of days if these strikes continue." Spread Chrysler strikers, approximate ly 20,0110, put down their tools at the giant Chicago plant to pro test a multitude of grievances. The strike began last Saturday on a minor scale and spread despite hack to work orders from CIO officials. In the Wright strike, 30,000 workers were out at Paterson and Woudridge, N. J. Draft boards Acre instructed to reclassify for induction striking Wright em ployes holding occupational de ferments. The army and various federal egencies stepped into other walkouts. Aat the V. S. ftubber company in Detroit approximate-' ly 1,000 of 5,0(10 striking CIO rubber workers wore persuaded to cross picket lines. Strikes con tinued, however, in 14 Detroit lumber yards. 3 Centers BlazingAs Plan Told GUAM', Saturday, July 28 (UP) America's 20th ahv foi-ce, putting teetli into the Potsdam ultimatum, today, told the Japanese the names; of the next 11 Nipponese' cities which will be buftieii out by Superfortress raids, ini! a' move unprecedented in any war, , As three more of Japan's flim sy war centers were still flaming from (the last B-20 jncendlary raid, six Superforts crused over the 11 targets-to-be at midnight,. dropping 60,000 leaflets warning. civilians to evacuate or be' burnr ed out. Direct Challenge Thus, the 20th air force, for the first time in uny war naming its targets in advance, laid down, the most direct challenge pos sible to the Japanese to fight, quit, or else. . Muj. Gen. Curtis Lemay, corri mahder of the 20th declared; '. ' ' "The Japs have nothing to look forward to, except destruction.' We've reached the point where they refuse to . fight while we burn down, their cities. Now we're telling them where we're' going to do it." 49 Already The leaflets, psychological prods to the thinking element of Japan, named the following tar- Het-wities 9 00 '.added tq the 49' already hit by devastating fire raids: On Honshu: Ichinomiya, Tsu, Ujiyamada, Nngaoka, Nishjno miya, Aomori, Ogaki and Kori yama. On Shlkoku:' Uwajlma. On Kyushu: Kurume. On Hokkaido: Hodakate. All are 'secondary industrial centers with populations of be tween 50,00 Oand 200,000. At least four of the cities warn ed will be subjected to the next all-out incendiary bombing with in the next few days, Lemay said, with 450 to 000 Superforts car rying about 3,500 tons of fire bombs to the targets. Can Do Nothing "Thry can't do anything about it," the 20lh air force chief who is retiring to become chief of staff to Gen. Carl Spaotz in the strategic air command. "We tell them, then do it." ; LcMay declared the Japanese are now unable lo concentrate their defenses against B-29 raids, and said losses over even the most heavily defended cities have been negligible. "We've reached the stage where the thinking Jap knows ne is beaten, but we want him to be convinced," he added. "All 11 cities will be destroyed, and if It looks like it's doing any good wo will pick out It morcr or even 50." Still in Air The Superfortresses carrying the liO.OOO leaflets from Saipan were still in the air as Li-May spoke. The office of war inform ation began immediately to broadcast the same information to Japan. The leaflets were prepared bv navy's psychological warfare office at LcMay's siiLiestinn. nnH carry pictures of B-2!) dropping clusters of fire bombs with the names of the 11 cities and a warning that Japan's military clique must be destroyed. Japs in China Talk Openly of Peace CHUNGKING, July 27 (UP) A Chinese military spokesman declared today a Japanese briea. dier general, in a broadcast to his own 'people said it is "an open secret Japanese troops in China are discussing peace overtures." The spokesman quoted Field Marshal Reigi Okamura, com mander of the Japanese expedi tionary force in south China, as saying "if the Japanese withdraw from China with arms it will take two years, and one year without arms. Okamura, according to Tokyo, decided it was "useless" to cbn sider such a withdrawal. He wag quoted as saying an armistice would be necessary as "prere quisite" to a withdrawal.
