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ESTABLISHED 1896
Board
Would Allow
Year 'Round
Water Sport
Further suggestions for the
development of a swimming
pool in La Grande emanated
from the regular meeting last
night of the La Grande school
board.
Alter consideration of all sug
gestions in regard to the swim
ming pool, the board passed the
following resolution, according to
Fred Patton, , superintendent of
the board:
Be it resolved that it is the
opinion of the La Grande board
of education that:
When the, first public spon
sored swimming pool is con
structed it should be construc
ted on the high school grounds
in La Grande; and that it
should be a class A covered
pool that can be used 12
months each year. It should
be available to and a part of
the compulsory physical edu
cation work of the high school
and hours arranged for the use
. of the pool, for all citizens of
the community evenings and
week-ends and full time during
summer. Further.
. The board stands ready to
cooperate with any responsible
agency to assist in financing
and maintaining such a service
to the community if the pool is
provided . on. a basis as herein
. outlined.
Truman to Make
Report to Nation
Thursday Night
WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 (UP)
President Truman will report to
the nation on the big three Ber
lin conference at 7 p.m. Thursday
(pwt). The White House said the
address will be broadcast on all
networks.
Presidential Secretary Charles
G. Ross said Truman will make a
30-minute address, in which he
will go into greater detail about
the historic Potsdam parley than
was related in last week's offi
cial communique on the meeting.
Ross said the president will'
"mention" the new atomic bomb.
One of Truman's first appoint
ments today his first day in
the White House since his return
from Europe was with Secre
tary of War Henry L. Stimson.
Ross said they discussed the fear
some new bomb.
The president's first press con
ference following the Berlin
meeting will be held early next
week, probably Monday or Tues
day, Ross said.
"He felt he ought to report to
the people as a whole first," the
press secretary explained.
Walter J. Green,
64, Stockman, Dies
Walter John Green, 64-year-old
farmer and stockman of Un
ion, died at his home Tuesday of
a heart attack.
Funerl arrangements are pend
ing until a son in the army is
notified.
Green was born Oct. 14, 1880
in Lamar, Mo., and had lived in
L'nion for 31 years.
Survivors include his wife,
Hazel,, two children, Willa Kath
ryn Johanson of Union, and Wen
dell W. in the U. S. air corps,
one brother, Will, and a sister,
Mrs. E. H. Miles of Union, as well
as other relatives.
Postal Receipts
Increase in July
Postal receipts for July, 1945,
have shown an increase over
those of July, 1944, Postmaster
Victor Ecklt-y announced today.
Total receipts for last month
were $5,552.62, compared with
$5,482 35 for July of last year.
Other figures are: money or
ders paid, $27,791.85; money or
ders issued, $31,659.48; postal
savings on deposit in 942 ac
counts, July 31, $856,890, com
pared to $839,469 June 30.
LA
Favors
"My God'
GUAM, Aug. 8 (UP) Here are
the eye-witness stories of the
men who dropped the first
atomic bomb on Japan:
Col. Paul W. Tibbets, jr., 36, of
Miami, pilot of the Superfortress
Enola Gay.
"We selected Hiroshima as the
target when we made the land
falL There ws no opposition.
Conditions were clear and we
dropped the bomb visually at
0:15 a. m.
Only Three
"Only Captain Parsons, bom
bardier Major Thomas W. Fere
bee of Mocksville, N. C, and my
self knew what dropped. Others
only knew it was a special mis
sion. "We knew immediately we
had to get the hell out of there
and made a sharp turn in less
than 30 seconds to get broad
side to the target.
'Then it was hard to believe
Gale Mills, 23,
Cove Dies After
24 Hour Illness
COVE, Aug. 8 (Special) Gale
Mills, 23, veteran of World War
2, died at the home of his sister
at Sunnyside, Wash., according to
word received here early today.
He had been ill less'than 24 hours
and was thought to have had in
fantile paralysis.
A native of Cove, he attended
high school here and then went
to Whitman college at Walla Wal
la. He had had a medical dis
charge from the army. Since
leaving the army he had been
working for his brother-in-law,
Lloyd Amundson at Sunnyside.
His parents were notified early
today GhIc was sick, and a few
minutes later received another
telegram saying he was partly
paralyzed. In just a few minutes
more they were called by tele
phone and informed Gale had ex
pired. 1
Besides his sister, he leaves his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Mills;
and two brothers, Gordon, now
overseas, and Allen of Redmond.
He is a member of the Episcopal
church here.
Army Still Plans
For Invasion Or
Occupation
WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 (UP)
The U. S. army still plans to
land on the shores of Japan
either with occupational troops
or with full scale invasion forces,
depending on what the atomic
bomb does to the Japanese will
and power to go on fighting.
For the army to plan any other
way, high officials believed to
day, would be to take unjusti
fiable risks.
For that reason, the war de
partment has no intention des
pite scattered congressional criti
cism to cut the army below the
7,000,000 men and women which
it has felt all along arc essential
to conquest of Japan.
Forty-eight hours after the his
toric announcements proclaiming
the dawn of the atomic age, offi
cials felt soberly constrained to
point out the new era has yjt
to reach its zenith. The new bomb
certainly should shorten the Jap
anese war, they feel, but the only
way it can end the conflict ab
ruptly is for the Japanese them
selves to decide to quit.
This, some observers believetl,
they will be given a second chinos
to do before the full fury of at
omic bomb assault is unleashed.
Certainly the army is ready with
plenty of the new bombs.
Understandably, officials felt,
many persons may have jumped
to the conclusion the atomic
bomb will make it possible for
the army to cut its size drastical
ly. But the war department,
which does not and cannot af
ford to believe in easy ways to
victory, emphatically does not in
tend to sit back now.
, ; '
GRANDE, OREGON WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST
Swimming Pool at Schoo
Bomb Witnesses' Only
what we saw, .'
"Below us, rising rapidly,
was a tremendous black cloud,
nothing was visible where only
minutes before the outline of
the city with its streets and
buildings and waterfront piers
were clearly apparent.
"It happened so fast we could
n't see anything and could only
ftel the heat from the flash and
the concussion from the blast.
Warning
"There were a couple of'sharp
slaps against the airplane. It
felt like close bursts of flak. I
yelled a warning to the crewmen,
but we are all okay."
Capt. William Parsons, U. S.
N., of Santa Fe, N. M., one of the
designers of the bomb, who went
along as "weaponeer repairer" to
see that the bomb worked:
: "The bomb resting in the bomb
bay looked like the final test one
we exploded less than a month
Atom Bomb Blast Kills 100,000
GUAM, Aug. 8 (UP) To
kyo conceded today most of
Hiroshima had been destroyed
by a single American bomb
blistered corpses "too numer-
uua vj uuuiib .
-"The Impact; of the bomb "Was
so terrific practically all living
things, human and animal, were
literally seared to death by the
tremendous heat and pressure,"
one Tokyo broadcast said.
Mo Trace
American reconnaissance pho
tographs confirmed four and one
tenth square miles 60 percent
of the built-up area of Hiro
shima had vanished almost with
out trace. Unofficial American
sources estimated Japanese dead
and wounded might exceed 100,
000. Scores of smaller factories, of
fice buildings and dwellings were
known to have been levelled.
Only a few skeletons of concrete
buildings remained. Additional
damage outside the totally-destroyed
section still was being
assessed.
Radio Tokyo, breaking its si
lence of more than 60 hours after
the raid, said the "indescribable
destructive power" of the bomb
had crushed big buildings and
small dwellings alike.
Inhabitants were killed by
blast, fire and crumbling build
ings, Tokyo said. Most bodies
were so badly battered it was
impossible to distinguish between
men and women.
Strangely, the photo graphs
showed no crater. However, To
kyo had reported the bomb was
dropped by parachute and ex
ploded in the air. It was likely
the entire force n the blast was
directed horizontally.
Few Escaped
Although the built-up area of
Hiroshima came to 6x9 square
miles, the city as a whole totalled
12 square miles with a population
of 318,000 an average of 26,500
persons per square mile.
Few, if any, of the more than
100,000 persons in the totally
devastated four square miles
were believed to have escaped.
The blast alone of the atomic
bomb could kill persons within
a four-mile range, and it was
likely there were many casual
tics outside the utterly-destroyed
section.
Major Bong,
SUPERIOR, Wis., Aug. 8 (UP)
The greatest air ace this coun
try ever had come home today
to stay.
An army transport plane
brought the body of Maj. Rich
ard I. Bong in a flag-draped cas
ket back to the shores of sky-blue
Lake Superior where he roamed
the woods as a boy. Bong, 24. be
came the nation's top flying aco
by shooting down 40 Jap planes.
He was killed Monday in the
crash of a Jet plane he was test
ing in California.
A silent crowd watched the big
Crtt
ago July 10 in a remote corner
of the Alamogordo, N. M., bomb
ing range.
"I have a very personal inter
est in the mission. We know
when we started that success
could only be measured in the
first battle delivery on Japan.
Shorten War
"We knew it was worth a lot
in terms of shortening the war.
When the bomb fell away, we
began to put as much distance
between us and the ball of fire
which we knew was coming, as
quickly as possible.
"There was a terrific flash of ,
light even In the daytime. Vis
ual shock was apparent from
severe) miles.
"That was the first indica
tion I had that the bomb work
' ed. Each man said a 'My Godl'
"What had been Hiroshima,
was going up in a mountain of
smoke. ' ' .
Pink Silk Panties May be Nice . . .
But Not as Substitute for Men's Shorts
SJ.
By FREDERICK'C. OTHMAN
WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 (UP) I don't care what the senator says,
gents, waste no money on ladies' pink pants; they're no substitute
for snorts.
You can't keep the durn things up.
They've got lace on 'em.
I know what I am talking about. I walked into the lingerie de
partment with eyes straight ahead while the ladies gawked, I
bought a pair of pants, tea-rose color, for $6.95. I beat it at once to
the men s suit department on the
floor below and tried on my newti
pants.
In Trash Can
Then I tossed 'cm in the trash
can. Emergency or no, I do not
recommend ladies' pants for men.
I walked down F street and
looked into the stores, but it took
me the whole two weeks to build
up my courage. I finally made it.
"I want a pair of pants." I told
the lady behind the counter.
"What size does she wear?" the
lady asked.
I broke down and told her I
was the fellow who needed the
panls. She didn't think I'd like
ladies' panls, but if I insisted . . .
I did insist. She had some knit
led pants, wjith elastic around
the middle and the bottom of the
legs, too, but none big enough for
me. Maybe I would like a one
piece garment, she said.
No. Not Really
What, I wondered, is the trick
business at the top of it?
"The built-in brassiere," the
clerk said. "Very practical."
But not, I pointed out, for me.
She produced what she called
a pair of dance pants, size large,
and leached across the counter
to see if same would stretch
around my middle.
She didn't have to wait long;
I plunked down my $6.95 and got
out of there with my new pants.
I borrowed a dressing room in the
men's suit department and tried
'em on and we won't go into what
I saw in the mirror.
RECEIVES HARRIMAN
LONDON, Aug. 8 (UP) Mos
cow radio said tonight General
issimo Stalin received W. Avcrell
Harriman, U. S. ambassador.
Greatest U. S.
transport glide onto the runway
at the airport. There were mili
tary dignitaries from Washington,
young men who went to school
with the war hero, and the plain
folks from nearby Poplar when!
Bong grew up on a farm.
His Father
There waa Carl T. Bong, th
major's father, who taught him
how to shoot a rifle. There was
Mrs. Glen Bryco, the flier's grand
mother, whose cookie jar he
raided regularly before he went
away to war.
His brother Carl, 17, was wait
8, 1945
Comment
"First I could see a mush
room of boiling dust appar
ently with some debris in it
up to 20,000 feet. The boiling
continued three or four min
utes a I watched.
"Then a white cloud plumed
upwards from the center to
some 40,000 feet. An angry
dust cloud spread all around
the city.
"There were some fires on the
fringes of the city, apparently
burning as buildings crumbled
and the gas mains broke.
"I knew what the Japs were in
for, but I felt no particular emo
tion about it.
"Last month in the New Mex
ico desert, when we -set off a
bomb suspended from a tower, it
fused the sand for quite a radius
because - it generated heat like
something in the stellar regions.
"The heat flash in New Mexico
was felt for 20 minutes."
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Black Market In
Babies Flourishes
DENVER. Aug. 8 (UP) Juve
nile Judge Philip B. Gilliam to
day declared war against a
"black market" in babies which
he said is doing a wholesale
business in illegitimate children,
some bringing $1,000 or more."
Gilliam reported illegal traf
fic in unwanted babies is flour
shing in the Denver area. The
children he said, generally are
born of unmarried girls and put
up for auction to the highest
' bidder.
Union Area Forms
Fire Protection
District Soon
Rural fire protection district is
now being formed in the Union
area, County Judge C. K. Mc
Cormick announced today.
Petitions for the formation of
the district were received last
month, it was announced, and a
hearing was scheduled for yes
terday. Since no objections were
received at the hearing, an order
was set establishing the area.
Five directors from the district,
immediately surrounding It h e
town of Union, will be chosen at
an election Sept. 14.
When fire protection districts
are formed the people may pur
chase their own equipment, or
may contract with a city for pro
tection. Ace, Comes
ing at the iirprJrt, and so were
two of his siaters, NelditndGer-
aldine.
His best friend, Marvin Peter
son, who runs the hardware store
at Poplar, was there, assisting the
family with the funeral pluns.
His mother remained at h c r
farm home, loo overcome by the
tragedy to come to the airport.
She planned to attend the funeral
in Superior this afternoon.
The flier's wife, who accom
panied the body from California,
was the first off the plane. She
was dry-cyed and held her head
FIVE CENTS
Badgley Expounds
Atom Bomb Theory
For Rotary Club
Development of the atomic
theory and the disintegration or
annihilation of the atom was dis
cussed by Prof. Ralph Badgley
of Eastern Oregon college today
noon during the regular meeting
of La Grande Rotarians.
Badgley traced the increasing
knowledge of mankind from the
conceptions of the' earliest
Greeks who believed matter
could be created if its smallest
unit could be found.
It was during experiment with
this theory that physicists found
energy could be released from
the atom, with one gram of mat
ter creating 25,000,000 kilowat
hours of energy. The atom bomb
undoubtedly resulted from de
velopment of this discovery, he
said.
Guests were Lt. Howard Gra
ham, USN, and First Lt. Richard
Halley, former high school
teacher.
Dr. Logan Pruitt, minister of
the First Methodist church was
introduced as a new member.
The annual picnic, in charge of
W. C. Perkins, chairman of the
committee, was set for Aug. 29.
Dr. Robcn Maaske announced
he and Rev. Clarence Kopp, sec
rotary of the organization will
tittcnd a Rotary meeting in Eu
gene, Aug. 20 and 21.
Chairman ofthe day waa.H. E.
Dixon and Dr. Maaske presided.
Two More Deaths
In Forest Fire,
Includes Soldier
PORTLAND, Aug. 8 (UP)
Two more deaths for a total of
five were chalked up against
western Oregon's month-old for
est fires today.
At Forest Grove, a soldier
member of a crew fighting to
save the city's watershed from
encroaching flames was killed
when a bulldozer he was driving
plunged over a steep embank
ment Tuesday afternoon. Ho at
tempted ' to leap clear when
rockslide began to tilt the heavy
machine, but the bulldozer turn
bled over the road edge after
him, killing him outright.
One Hurt
In Umpowa national forest ir
southwest Oregon, one of 10 para
troopers jumping to control i
lightning-caused fire was killed
Tuesday and another was injured.
This wus the only casualty since
smokc-juinpcrs were first used
in 1938.
Earlier in the battle against
the Tillamook fire on the Wilson
river, a fire fighter was killed by
a falling snug and two soldiers
were killed in a traffic accident
while being rushed to the fire
front.
Forest officials are optimistic
today over the possibility of sav
ing the Forest Grove and Ilills
boro watersheds seriously
threatened for the last few days.
Thei largest force of men and
equipment has been assigned to
the district around the Stimson
Lumber company in the Seine
creek area where the fire is four
miles from the camp and endang
ering the Hillsboro water supply.
Fighters have been unable to
move equipment into the inacces
sible Trask river watershed to
combat flames heading toward
the Siuslaw national forest.
Home to Stay
high.
She stepped into a waiting car
which took her to her parents
home in Superior, where only a
few months ago the hero was
courting her.
The day was warm and the sun
beat down brightly on the air
port where flags flew at half
staff. Sixteen members of the Su
perior poiit of the veterans of for
eign wars formed a color guard
as the casket was taken from the
plane to an ambulance.
Members of the family stood by
silently. There were no tears.
Hope Declaration to
"Speed End of Fight"
LONDON, Aug. 8 (UP) Foreign Commissar V. M. Molo-'.
tov announced in Moscow tonight Russia has declared war"
against Japan, effective tomorrow, in order to speed the end.;
of the conflict in the far east.
Molotov, in the war declaration statement broadcast by the v
Moscow radio, revealed Japan had asked Russia to mediate
for peace with the United States and Britain. ' ,i
. Russia considered the Japanese rejection of the surrender-;
or-die ultimatum announced at Potsdam on July 26 nullified'
Japun's mediation proposal, Molotov said. V'
Molotov called in Naotake Sato, Japanese ambassador to
Moscow, and informed him of
MOLOTOVi "Japanese rejec
tion of ultimatum - nullified'
mediation proposal." -
Draft Board
Says
More Deferred
Men Needed
WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 (UP)
Selective service warned today
a greater number of men between
18 and 30 previously deferred for
essential work will have to be
drafted ,
A report to the house military
affairs committee said there was
not a sufficient number of young
men- becoming . 18' years of age
each month to meet quotas.
Older Men
Rep. John J. Sparkmanl D.,
Ala., who received the report for
the committee, said it also may
mean . an additional number of
men above 30 years of ago will
have to be drafted.
The report did not specify what
occupational groups will be in
line for induction. But it said the
18 to 30 year deferred group in
cludes 65,000 members of the
mcrchunt marine, as w c 1 1 as
"larger numbers of men working
in coal mines, railroads, ship re
pair yn,rds and other csesntial
war activities.
Farmors
"With the exception of special
deferments for coal mines, rail
roads, and ship repuir yards, the
selective service system has no
alternative but to select for in
duction the least essential of the
limited number of men now re
muining occupationally deferred,"
said the report.
It listed in this group 449,457
who have been deferred to indus
try and 483,872 who have been
deferred to agriculture, most of
whom have not had induction ex
amimitions. The 18 to 30 group
also includes 1,000,000 men who
have been rejected after taking
examinations.
No Radioactivity
Left in Jap City
WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 (UP)
Dr. J. R. Oppenheimer, director
of the $2,000,00,000 research
project which produced the at
omic bomb, said today there was
no reason to believe the bomb ex
plosion over Hiroshima left any
"appreciable radioactivity on the
ground."
Ur. Oppenlheimer's Jslulemcnjl
was issued by the war depart
ment in denial of a newspaper
story under the signature of Dr.
Harold Jucnbson, physicist, which
said the atomic bomb would leave
killing radioactivity in its wake
for 70 years.
The war department said flatly
there was "no basis for Dr. Jacob
son's speculations with respect to
radioactivity" in the opinion of
qualified experts.
Bulletin
NEW YORK, Aug. 8 (UP)
Dr. Harold Jacobson, who
helpod in atomic research at
Columbia university, collapsed
in-his office today w&on mili
tary countor-esponage agents
told him he could be imprison
ed for a signed newspaper ar
ticle on -the after-effects of
atomic bombing.
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Russia's decision, ,':
Simultaneously the Soviet en
voy in Tokyo was transmitting,
to the Japanese government the
same statement.
Satisfied
Later Molotov received the
ambassadors from the United.
States, Great Britain and China
and told them of te Soviet Un-;
ion's momentous decision. They.,
expressed satisfaction with the
declaration, the Moscow radio
said.
Molotov said the allies ap
proached the. Soviet government .
with a proposal to enter the war
in order to shorten it, reduce the
extent of casualties, and contrib
ute to speedy peace.
Accepts
"True to its obligation as 'an'
ally, the Soviet government ac-
cepted the proposal of the allies
and has joined in the declaration'
of the allied powers of July 26,"
Molotov said.
He added Russia regarded her
own entry as a means of hasten
ing peace, sparing) tyhe allied
peoples of further sacrifices, and
enabling the Japanese people to.
evade the dangers of destruction
Germany suffered. -.
Vst Force
Russia presumably now will
throw against Japan the vast mil
itary organization it has built up
opposite Manchuria and Korea.
This organization has been rein
forced since Russia whipped Nazi.
Germany in the eastern front. ; . ;
Her armies on the Manchurian
border arc known to be large and
are believed to be a match for
the. .enemy's sizeable, and wejl
equlpp'ocT forces there. '
Thus the United States will be
able to concentrate its powers on
the Japanese homeland without
worrying about liquidating en
emy forces on the upper Asiatic
mainland.
Bear Brunt
It has been speculated the Unit
ed States would bear the brunt
of the air war against Japan, and
possibly the invasion, while Rus
sia neutralizes and presses for
ward on the enemy's flank. '
The Soviet air force is not be
lieved to be geared for long-rango
bombing assaults upon the Jap
anese home islands, but it may be
expected to attack installations
in Manchuria and perhaps Korea.
Corey Terminates
12 Year Service -With
Guard
William -Corey, first sergeant,
is in La Grande to make his home
after receiving an honorable dis
charge from the army with 118
points.
Corey, who left La Grande in
September, 1940, with the nation
al guard and served in the south
Pacific with the 41st division for
32 months, terminated a total of
more than 12 years service with
the nutional guard when he re
ceived his discharge.
He was entitled to wear the
Asiatic-Pacific ribbon with three
bronze battle stars, combat in
fantry badge, and a bronze arrow
head for amphibious landings, as
well as the American Defense
and pre-Pearl Harbor ribbon.
After his return to the United
Slates, Corey transferred from
the Infantry to the air corps. . ,
Corey, who attended the La
Grande schools, graduating from
the high school in 1933, has a
wife and one child.
Jaycees to Sponsor
Paper Drive Show
La Grande junior chamber of
commerce will sponsor a paper
drive matinee tor school children
Wednesday, Aug. 15. J. Donald
Meyers, owner of the local the
aters, has contributed the use of
the Granada theater for the af
ternoon. The picture will be Walt
Disney's "Three Caballeros," and
will start at 1:30 p. m. Admission
will be one large bundle of pa
per, well tied.
Weather "
Data for 24 hours to 7 a. m. "'
Temperature:
Maximum 78
Minimum Sl
Forecast: Partly cloudy tonight
and Thursday with widely scat
tered evening showers. "