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New Bomb to Add
3,000 Fold Power
To Superforts
Bv FRED SCHERFF
WASHINGTON, Aug. 7 (UP)
New atomic bomb has theoret
ically multiplied the destruction
power of the American fleet of
Superforts at least 3,000 times.
The 800 B-29s which recently
raided the Jap islands would
have the blasting effect of 2,400,
000 planes carrying TNT.
Latest figures show B-29s are
each carrying seven-ton loads of
explosives on their raids. The
atomic bomb dropped on Hiro
shima had more power than 20,.
000 tons of TNT or about 3,000
times the blasting effect of the
seven tons of old-type bombs car
ried by one B-29.
These computations are based
on the premise a Superfort can
cany only one atomic bomb at a
time. However, no information
concerning their size, shape or
weight has been disclosed. It is
believed the explosive atomic
matter is comparatively small but
the fuse mechanism to set it off
may possibly be ponderous.
It was also pointed out these
figures were largely theoretical
in the sense large-scale raids as
we now know them with atomic
bombs would, be impossible. The
blasting effects would be such
that closely packed aircraft would
be blown up as well as the tar
get. Robins Expects Big
Developments
PORTLAND, Aug. 7 (UP)
The Pacific northwest is bound
to become highly developed be
cause of its natural resources,
f.Caj. Gen. Thomas M. Robins, de
puty chief of army engineers,
said here today.
He reported army engineers are
planning for this post-war de
velopment through the Willa
mette valley project, the Uma
tilla dam and four or five dams
along the Snake river.
RATION
CALENDAR
Processed Foods Blue stamps:
Bonk 4, Y2 through CI valid
through Aug. 31. Dl through HI
through Sept. 30. Jl through Nl
through Oct. 31. PI through Tl
through Nov. 30.
Meal, Butler, Cheese Red
stamps:
Book 4 Q2 through U2 valid
through Aug. 31. V2 through Z2
through Sept. 30. Al through El
through Oct. 31. Fl through Kl
through Nov. 30.
Sugar: f j
Book 4 Sugar stamp 38 valid
through Aug. 31. Endorse can-
nihg sugar coupons with, ration
book 4 number and your name.
Shoes:
Loose stamps invalid. Book 3
' n'i'P'ane stamps 1-2-3-4 now val-
Kl.
Gasoline: "., ,
Coupons not valid unless en
dorsed. "A" 16 coupons, 0 gal.
each, valid through Sept. 21. "B"
7-8 ami "C" 7-8 valid, 5 gal. each.
Stoves: "'l
Apply local board for oil stove
certificates.
Wood, Coal, Sawdust: Order now.
Dealers determine delivery pri
ority from - consumer's annual
needs and quantity on hand.
Fuel Oil: Fill tanks now.
11)41-1045 period 1-2-3-4 and 5
coupons expire August 31, 1945.
II )5-l!Mfi period 1 coupons ex
pire August 31, 1946.
Waste Paper and Cans:
Bundled waste paper and pro
pared tin cans may be left at the
salvage depot, 1106 Jefferson
street.
Official Records
Water turned off, Aug. 6:
Mrs. L. S. Mattoon, 1402 B av
enue; J. R. Nichols, 2008 Cedar
street; Floyd Reeder, 1707 -'to av
enue; M. M. Howill, 2608 Fir
street.
Water turned on:
K. C. Orcutt, 2706 Depot street;
Daisy Lundeen, 2303 Ash street;
Mrs L. S. Matoon, 1208 F avenue;
luhn N. Davis, 2008 Cedar street;
Ben H. Schnff, 1402 B avenue;
M. M. Howill, 1615 Washington
J street.
Mure than 1500 people have
written biographies of Abraham
Lincoln. - . 3
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OKINAWA GUINEA PIGS RISK MALARIA V olunlary "guinea pigs," Col. M. W. May, Brook
haven, N. C. (left), and Lt. (jg) N. Frannevelqua. Chicago, 111. gave a hand to an experiment thai
may end in deadly malaria, in tests conducted at 219th malaria survey detachment at Nago, Okin
awa to determine if mosquitoes carry filarisis. Approximately 75 mosquitoes in containers, may
feed on the men's right hands.
Government Still
Needs Workers For
Atomic Bomb Plants
WASHINGTON, Aug. 7 (UP)
The government still needs work
ers for the atomic bomb project.
More than 179,000 have been re
cruited so far. Because of the ex
treme secrecy involved, the job
of getting workers was one of the
most difficult ever undertaken
by the war manpower commis
sion.
The recruited workers were un
aware of the nature of the proj
ect even after they had been em
ployed some months. U. S. em
ployment service officials, ip deal
ing with prospective workers,
merely referred to a "highly
secret job.
Of the 179,000 workers recruit
ed, 80,000 were for the Hanford
plant in Washington, approxi
mately '90,000 for the Clinton
project p Tennessee and about
9,000 for all other phases of the
activity.
Producers Ceiling
On Pears Unchanged
PORTLAND, Aug. 7 (UP)
Producers' ceiling prices for the
1945 pack of canned and frozen
pears in Washington and Oregon
will be the same as'those in ef
fect last year, the department of
agriculture and OPA offices here
announced today.
An average grower price of $73
per ton' will be used in construc
tion of processors' ceiling prices.
Prices for certain grades based
upon the average price have been
set. The announcement stated
that if the average price paid by
a processor for each grade clas
sification is less than the announc
ed price for such grade classifi
cation the ceiling prices for pro
cessed pears will reflect this re
duced raw material cost.
Father of Quads
Urged to Return
PITTSBURGH, Aug. 7 (UP)
William (Red) Thompson, former
army sergeant, was in receipt of
a message today sent by Nora
Carpenter, unwed English girl
who bore him quadruplets 17
months ago, to return to England.
The message was delivered by
T5 Albert Krazer who returned
to Pittsburgh three days ago. Ac
cording to Frazer, Miss Carpen
ter asked Thompson to return to
her and their1 ;thrce remaining
children.
Meat Production
Higher Last Week
CHICAGO, Aug. 7 (UP) The
war meat board announced today
federally inspected meat produc
tion totaled 267,000,000 pounds for
the past week, compared with
265,000,000 pounds for the preced
ing week and 308,000,000 pounds
for the corresponding week of
1944.
Pork, lamb, and mutton produc
tion for the week ending Aug. 4
decreased from the preceding
week.
Horace J. Nelson
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Film History
Repeats Itself
Nine years ago there flashed
on the screen one of the greatest
motion pictures ever produced.
It was Ernest Hemingway's
"Farewell to Arms," a poignant
love story told against the brutal
background of the Italian rout at
Caporctto in World War I. Its
stars were Gary Cooper and
Helen Hayes.
Today Gary Cooper is starred
in another great Ernest Heming
way war romance. It is Para
mount's technicolor "For Whom
the Bell Tolls," playing at the
Liberty theater today and Wed
nesday with the lovely Ingrid
Bergman portraying Maria to
Cooper's Robert Jordan. This
Hemingway love story is drawn
against the excitement and heart
break of the Spanish civil war
and it resembles its memorable
predecessor in dramatic power
and romantic appeal. "For Whom
the Bell Tolls" has, in addition,
a technicolored scenic splendor
that makes it one of the most
beautiful pictures ever filmed.
Canned Fruit Set
Aside Is Reduced
PORTLAND, Aug. 7 (UP)
Quantities of canned fruit and
fruit juices to be set aside for
government agencies have been
reduced, the U. S. department of
agriculture officer here announc
ed today.
Canned prunes and plums were
removed from the list of set aside
commodities. A simultaneous an
nouncement said today civilians
will have 10,000,000 more cases
from the 1945 pack of principal
canned vegetables than previous
ly allotted.
Reductions on set aside orders
included applesauce from 54 per
cent to 48; fruit cocktail, 54 to
52; peaches, 64 to 60; pineapple,
70 to 66; Pineapple juice, 48 to
36; lima beans, 36 to 34; beets,
52 to 46; sweet corn, 44 to 42;
peas, 43 to 38; pumpkin, 46 to 44;
sauerkraut, 70 to 40; spinach 77
to 76; tomato catsup 47 to 37; to
mato juice 27 to 16.
Senator Fears Man
May Destroy Self
DENVER, Aug. 7 (UP) Sen.
Ed C. Johnson, D., Colo., ranking
member of the senate military
affairs committee who has raised
his voice recently over an army
"absurdly too large,' 'to day said
the atomic bomb should bring a
speedy end to talk of peacetime
conscription.
"The big trouble has been that
the scientists have progressed
faster than the statesmen," the
senator declared. "Unless the
statesmen catch up the destruc
tion of mankind itself may be in
sight."
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you nearly all the protective
food ritsynents of the whole
grain declared essential to hu
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Rejection by VFW
Of Veteran Draws
Ire of WRA Head.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 7 (UP)
Director Dillon Meyer of the war
relocation authority said today
the members of post 51 of the
Veterans of Foreign Wars should
ieconsidcr their rejection of Pic
Richard Naito, Japanese-American
soldier, for membership.
"I fully concur with Colonel
Miller's keen indignation," Meyer
said, "over the action taken by a
minority of members of post 51
of the Veterans of foreign Wars,
Spokane, Wash., in excluding
Private Naito from membership
on the grounds of his ancestry,
The great majority of Americans
and of VFW members every
where will, I feel sure, repudiate
this act. They will join with Col.
Miller in insisting that the Jap
anese-American soldiers return
ing from battle and their parents
coming home from relocation
centers must be treated with de
cencv and fairness."
Hospital Notes
St. Joseph's hospital:
Admitted: John Skillings, Im
bler, Mrs. Jerry Pierson, Mrs.
George Gray, La Grande, Mrs.
Lawrence Hermann, Hamilton,
James Calhoun, Summerville,
medical; Dorothy Holcomb, Ba
ker, laboratory.
Dismissed: John Folsom, Mar
tha Swart, Mrs. Walter Primm,
Mrs. Donald Traverso and son,
Mrs. Margaret Keffer and son,
La Grande, Mrs. Elias York and
son, Summerville.
Grande Ronde hospital:
Admitted: Donald Blacker,
Robert Dean, Ruth Dean, Robert
Joe Thompson, Mrs. C. W. Fross,
La Grande, Edgar J. Newman,
North Powder, Randolph E.
Sharp, Joel M. Sharp, Evelyn Lee
Shark, Newbridge, Dnnieta Wil
liams, Richland, David Harper,
Wallowa, all surgery; Fayc Har
old, Bill Noble, Gayle Ei.abeth
Cork, Hurry Myers, George II.
Vane, Vcrna Mason, La Grande,
Charles A. Dalton, North Pow
der, medical.
Dismissed: N. A. Clark, Red
mond, Mis. R. Grosgcbauer,
Frcewater, Mrs. Millie Parsons,
Elgin, Mis. Earl Aller and son,
Mrs. Fred Hearing and daughter,
Wallowa, L e a m a n Goodwin,
Starkey, Rex Thomas, Mrs. Rob
ert Clark, Ian and Ewan Gerstel,
Mrs. Wallace Chandler, Mrs. J. H.
Booher, James W. Grandell, Mrs.
F. E. Jones, Miss Nina Kamc, and
Mrs Anna Wright, La Grande.
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Society Briefs
Mrs. Elizabeth Carr of Port
Orchard, Wash., spent a week in
town visiting with Mr. and Mrs.
Lowell W. Knapp and other rein
fives and friends. Mrs. Carr made
the trip with Mr. and Mis. Eldon
Sloan and two children, Rickey
and Gordon, who went on to
North Powder to visit Mr. Sloan's
mother.
Pat Knapp returned home after
visiting Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Jack
son in Eugene. While there they
made a trip to the sea shore.
Riverside Aid will not meet this
Thursday, it was announced to
day. The meeting has been post
poned indefinitely.
Navy mothers will meet 8 p. m.
Thursday in the USO club rooms.
Mrs. Noreen E. Nagey, daugh
ler of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Berry,
left this morning for Sioux Falls,
S. D., to rejoin her husband, Pfc.
Alex Nagy, who is stationed
there.
Drs. Joe and Margaret Ingle
and their daughter, Mary, have
returned from a short vacation
at Wallowa lake.
Mrs. Abe Harris of Redwood
City, Calif., is in La Grande vis
iting her mother, Mrs. Roxena
strong and her brothers and sis
ters. She plans to leave Friday
to return to her home.
Mrs. J. F. Paradise of Baker,
visited recently in La Grande
with her sister, Mis. R. R. Rags
dale. Mrs. Vincent Gibson, the form
er Darlene Millering, arrived in
La Grande yesterday morning
and will remain here with her
mother, Mrs. Delia Millering,
while her husband is overseas.
Mrs. Gibson has been living in
Sacramento, until her husband's
departure.
Mrs. Joe Kohn and daughter,
Mrs. Bert Anderson of Portland
have returned there after a visit
in La Grande at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Antone Freisinger. Mrs.
Kohn is a sister of Mr. Freis
inger. Mrs. Cecil Ripley, the former
Dorothy Brownton, and her.threc
children of Okanogan, Wash., are
expected to arrive here tomorrow
to be guests for 10 days at the
home of Mrs. Ripley's parents,
Dr. and Mis. H. S. Brownton.
Mrs. Rosemary Belts and her
father, Charles Tullis of Pendle
ton, spent yesterday in La
Grande.
Britons eat an average of 14
ounces of bread daily, or 312
pounds annually, per head of the
population.
Big baby with a bife. Here's sixty
tons of trouble for Tokio. This majestic B-29 can
carry forty 500-lb. calling cards for Hirohito and
a heavy armament of machine guns and cannon to
insure that they'll be delivered.
I Superforts like this, built in the West by Boeing,
are test-flown and delivered on Chevron Aviation
Gasoline. Someday, a highway version of this. great
gasoline will power your car, too. Then like
Boeing you'll find there's a world of dependable
power and performance behind the Chevron label.
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LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER
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News and
Engagements
Social
Tuesday, AtiRiist 7, 1915
Blue Mountain Camp Council Meets To
Discuss Trip to Army Hospital Friday
. Blue Mountain camp and hos
pital council met last night and
discussed the Friday trip to Mc
Caw general hospital at Walla
Walla, with Mrs. C. F. Roberts
reading a report on the visit.
Ward 21, furnished by La Grande
contributions, and the Elks' room
are both in use, it was reported.
Current magazines, books, sta
tionery, beads, yarn, pin-up
lamps, toothbrushes, belt buckles,
and scraps of plain colored silk,
for use in occupational therapy,
and also contributions for eve
ning treats and record funds have
been requested. The need for
telephone funds -is especially
acute, it was announced, and the
boys are requesting an additional
birthday party be given each
Mrs. Martin Haasch
Honored at Dinner
Mrs. Wayne McKee entertained
Saturday evening at the home of
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. W.
Smith, at a dinner honoring Mrs.
Martin Haasch
Present were Mrs. Haasch,
Mrs. Evan Halsey, Mrs. Gerald
Butcher, Mrs. Lewis Coffey and
the Misses Darlene Mayficld and
Emogene Stein.
Mrs. Haasch left yesterday for
Seattle where she will meet her
husband who landed in New
York Friday on the Queen Mary
after two years overseas with an
engineering unit in the European
theater. He will have 30 days
before reassignment. His parents
live at Milton.
Mrs. Haasch is the former
Eloise Stein and is employed by
the Union Pacific railroad. After
the 30 days she expects to re
turn to La Grande.
She was accompanied by her
sister Emogene Stein, who will
return to La Grande by plane on
Thursday.
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Activities
. . . Weddings
Events
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month.
Attending the trip to McCaw
were: Mrs. Fred Lanzer, Mrs. B.
W. TillotSon, of the motor corps,
who furnished cars, Mrs. R. R.
Ragsdale, Mrs. C. N. Palmer, Mrs.
L. E. Walters, Ina Mae Walters,
Mrs. J. D. Larson, Mrs. Frank
Dunn, Mis. E. G. Moore, Mrs.
C. F. Roberts.
Zion Lutheran Has
Outdoor Services,
School Picnic
Zion Lutheran church members
and thoir families enjoyed a day
in the woods with a church ser
vice and picnic at the Stump
Patch, Following the Sunday
school services at the church, the
parents and children went to the
picnic ground and held services
about 11:30 a.m.
After that a picnic dinner was
served, and games were played
with ice cream served later in
the afternoon. More than 50 per
sons attended.
Cannery Workers
Choose no Vnion
KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Aug. 7
(UP) An election among south
eastern Alaska cannery operators
to choose a union bargaining
agent resulted in an insufficient
majority vote yesterday. The em
ployes were voting on whether to
choose the AFL, CIO or Alaska
native brotherhood unions. None
received a majority.
Clearance of
Children's Coats
One Special Group g
Sizes 3 to 12.
All, Olhor Children's
Coats Greatly Roduced,
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MeTtofe&u ftefrurns
To Loya'l Star
Mrs. Lula Day was reinstated
in the Loyal Star lodge when
the organization met last night
at the Neighborhood clubhouse.
The 12 members present voted to
change the social club meeting
for this month from the 16th to
the 23rd.
Prizes were awarded to Mrs.
Connie Zander and to Mrs. Elam
Briggs. After the business meet
ing refreshments were served by
Mrs. James Smith and Mrs. Mah
lon Rogers. ,
Social Calendar
TUESDAY
8 p. m. VFW auxiliary, K of P
hall.
8 p. m. Neighbors of Woodcraft.
lOOF hall.
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"Till the End of Time"
Perry Como with orchestra.
"Daybreak Serenade" Jess
Stacy and his orchestra,
"Tchalkowaky Walti" from
the Sleeping Beauty.
"Blue Danube Walts'" and
Tales from the Vienna Woods
Johann Strauss,
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Tchaikowiky Manfred -
Symphonic Poem for Full
Orchestra.
Artie Shaw Featuring his
inspired clarinet.
Piano Reflections Jo
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