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Data for 24 hours to 7 a.m.
Temperature:
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Minimum S3
. Forecast: Partly cloudy tonight
and Saturday. Scattered thun
der showers east portion Saturday.
ESTABLISHED 1896
Russians 110 Miles into Manchuria
Japanese
Defenses
"Meager
LONDON, Aug. 10 (UP)
The Red banner armies of the
far east tonight were report
ed deep within Manchuria,
rolling up an advance of near
ly 110 miles and capturing
the vital northwest Man
churia rail center of Hailar in
less than 48 hours combat.
The rapidity of the Soviet ad
vance across northwest Man
churia suggested the Japanese
are putting up meager opposi
tion. Japanese radio reported So
viet troops had invaded Korea
and the southern half of Sakhal
in island in a broadening offen
sive. Cross River
Soviet communique reported
the Red army had driven straight
down the Chinese eastern rail
road from the border town of
Manchouli to Hailar, nearly 110
miles.
Other troops crossed the Amur
river boundary at another point
end captured two towns in an ad
vance of nearly 10 miles. In the
Lake Dalai or region advances up
to 13 miles were registered and
south qJL.Khabpr.QVsk, two towns
- on the south bank of the Amur
and one on the west bank of the
Ussuri were seized in advances
up to nearly 15 miles.
Fighting northwest from Valid
vostok the Red army captured
the towns of Pogranichnay, Tung
ning and Tangchagou, just across
the maritime provinces frontier.
South and southwest of Khaba
rovsk tho towns of Lopei, Tuns-
kiang and Lahasutu were cap
tured. Japanese Imperial headquar
ters reported these developments
in its communique broadcast by
the Tokyo radio:
1- Red army forces crossed
into Korea near the Korean bor
der town of K e i k o, 80 miles
southwest of Vladivostok and 16
miles inland, yesterday afternoon.
Invade Karafuto
2. Soviet troops on Sakhalin
invaded Karafuto, Japanese-owned
suthern-half of the island. The
southern tip of Karafuto lies only
30 miles north of the Japanese
home island of Hakkaido.
3. A Red army column yester
day afternoon crossed into north
ern Manchuria near Chihco, 500
miles north of the Japanese head
quarters city of Harbin.
4 Another Soviet column
thrust into Manchuria from outer
Mongolia 250 miles southeast of
Manchouli.
5 A Japanese convoy east of
northern Korea shot down 14 of
80 Red air force planes.
Rescue Crews Try
To Get Bodies Out
Of Shattered Car
MICHIGAN, ti. D., Aug. 10
(UP) Rescue crews with acet
ylene torches cut through the
tangled and twisted steel wreck
age of a' railroad coach today in
an effort to remove the bodies of
an estimated 40 servicemen kill
ed in the crash of two sections
of the Empire Builder, crack mes
senger train.
The bodies were enmeshed in
the buckled steel plates of an
observation car and the locomo
tive of the train's second section
which smashed into the car, tele
scoped and then exploded.
Ten persons were known to
have been injured seriously.
Scores of others were bruised, cut
and shaken. Some were burned.
The accident occurred about
7:30 p. m. (CWT) last night when
the first section of the train stop
ped about a half mile from the
small Michigan depot because of
a "hot box" on the locomotive.
Before flares could be put out
to warn the second section, it
plowed into the rear coach, acom
bination Pullman-observation car.
It split the coach down the mid
dle. The engine's boiler ejrploded on
impact and searing steam scalded
those already dying.
Surrender of Japs
Not Signal For
Mass Releases
WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 (UP)
The surrender of Japan would
not be a signal for mass release
of men from the army and navv.
Nor would it mean an immediate
end of redeployment of forces to
the Pacific.
A selective service spokesman
pointed out today under the draft
law registrants are taken into
service for the duration of the
present war and six months after
the "dale of termination of hos
tilities."
The "termination of hostilities'
does not mean when the shooting
stops.
That date is defined by law as
the date proclaimed by the pres,
ident, or the date specified in a
concurrent resolution of congress,
whichever is earlier."
A house military affairs com
mittee spokesman noted Pres
ident Truman has not yet pro
claimed the end of hostilities in
the European war. He said it was
possible the surrender of Japan
might not bring a prompt proc
lamation of the end of hostilities
in the Pacific.
Truman Reveals
Agreements At
Potsdam Talks
By ROBERT I. MANNING
WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 (UP)
President Truman left bruised
and battered Japan with the grim
promise today of more atgmic
bombs and more military sur
prises.
The Japanese have felt only
part of the crushng fate in store
for them if they choose to fight
on, the chief executive declared
last night.
Truman vowed the atomic
bomb will continue to be turned
on the enemy until the minute
of surrender, and he warned Jap
anese civilians to vacate war in
dustrial centers and "save them
selves from destruction."
The president, at the same
time, said he was fully aware the
horrible potentialities of the new
weapon posed a threat to all man
kind. Therefore, he said, the United
States, Canada and Britain, who
hold the secret, will keep it from
the world apparently even
from the Russians "until means
have been found to control the
bomb so as to protect ourselves
and the rest of the world from
the danger of total destruction."
Wheat Crop to
Reach Record
WASHINGTON Aug. 10 (UP)
The department of agricul
ture said today prospects for
the 1945 corn crop have im
proved during the past month.
The department also reported
wheat is expected to reach an
all-time peak of 1,146.283,000
bushels.
Crn last year reached a rec
ord high of 3. 228,36 l.OOObushels.
The average annual yield from
1934 through 1943 was 2.433,
060.000 bushels. July wheat
forecasts indicated 1,128.690,000
bushels. The annual average
from 1934 through 1943 was
789.080,000 bushels.
Churches of Town
Plan For Services
Because many of the ministers
of La Grande are out of town, the
Ministerial association was not
able to plan any joint action.
In any event, the individual
churches of the city will have
services.
First Christian church commit
tee was mif ing lodiy to plan a
meeting, amd Rev. Logan Pruitt,
pastor of First Methodist, said
his church will haw services at
8 p.m. on V-J day.
CHIEF SIGNS CHARTER President Truman formally ratifies
the United States membership in united nations world security
organization by affixing his signature to the ratification, as Sec
retary of State James Byrnes (right) looks on. j
Merchants Prepare to Observe
V-J Day with Parade,Wance
With" nnnnnnf pmpnl nf rtn
elusion of current hostilities
e x p e ct e d momentarily, La
Grande merchants committee
yesterday afternoon planricd
for V-J day.
It was decided that all places
of business will close imme
diately upon receipt of the
news, if it comes before 8 a.m.,
with a parade held at 1 o'clock
that day, and a street dunce at
0 p.m.
In trie event the news should
come any time after 8 a.m., all
stores will immediately close,
except grocery stores which
will remain open until 11 a.m.,
and the parade and dance will
Original U. S. Land Patent Filed Here
t . s
Contains Title to Hindman Homestead
Recently there was filed in the
office of the county clerk of
Union county for recording an
ancient United Slates patent or
government deed, by which the
government conveyed to William
B. Hindman 160 acres of land in
Sections 21 and 28, Township 1
North of Range 40 E. W. M., lo
cated on the North Fork of Clark's
creek in the Elk Flat country
east of Elgin. The patent was
signed by President Rutherford
B. Hayes and dated March 20,
1877, a few days after Hayes suc
ceeded to the office of president
following the Tilden-Hayes pres
idential contest. Because govern
ment patents are necessary in or
der to show good title in the sale
of land, most government patents
to Union county, land have been
recorded for many years.
Because this land has never
been sold or mortgaged is the
probable reason the patent had
never been heretofore recorded.
The land passed to Luther B.
Hindman in 1027 by inheritance,
and was in turn inherited by the
children of Luther B. Hindman
on his death in October, 1M-).
when he was crushed by an over
turning tractor.
William B. Hindman was a pi
oneer freighter and schoolteacher.
Born in 1846 in Mount i-rnon,
la., he crossed the plains by wag
on to Baker in 1864, and then
engaged in freighting between
Umatilla landing and the mines
in eastern Oregon and 13 o i s e
basin. He taught school at Sum
merville and other Grande Ror.de
locations until 1871, when he fil
ed on the homestead, which In
tended in the summer, and con
tinued to engage in teaching and
freighting in the winter. Home
steaders were then required to
live live years on the homestead
before making final proof.
Historically the William li
Hindman homestead and paten'.
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, VaJaa
LA GRANDE, OREGON FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 10,
"iferi " 1
hn hplrt nn thp fnltnuincf rinv
Ed Ford presided at the
meeting. La Grande junior
chamber of commerce will be
in charge of the street dance;
Sam Hill and Harley Smith
will be in charge of the parade;
Fred J. Patton will make ar
rangement fur music for the
parade; Ray Snider will be in
charge of the VFW and George
Tiss of the American Legion.
All business houses are ask
ed tu put out their flags imme
diately upon receipt of the
news of victory.
A union church service was
suggested, but will be left en
tirely to the Ministerial associa
tion tn decide.
have significance in that the
Hindman homestead filing was
the first one made east of Elgin,
and it is family legend that the
reason he moved to the Elk flat
country was to harvest hay grow
ing naturally on a large meadow
on Clark's creek.
Large Farm
Another historical fact of in
terest is that the flat, or low land
of that valley, was so named be
cause a large herd of elk ranged
there throughout one summer in
the early 70s, and left only when
driven out by the storms of a
very severe winter.
The Hindman homestead is
now included in the large farm
ing operations of the Hindman
family, conducted by Luther
Hindman's widow, Mrs. Irma
Hindman, and his son, Billy Hind
man. Richard McDaniel
Injured as Horse
Rolls Over Him
Richard McDaniel, 15-year-old
son of Mr. and Mrs. Lawton E.
McDaniel of Wallowa, was in
jured Wednesday during the noon
hour when his horse rolled over
him at a camp above Lapover.
It was not entire! y clear
whether the lad had fallen from
the horse or been thrown or if
the horse fell at the same time.
He sustained a badly bruised leg
and; concussion, but is rating
easily at the camp and his mother
said it was expected that he
would be brought to Wallowa to
day. Doctor Sharff and hit father,
ol Enterprise, were called, arriv
ing at the camp about 6 o'clock
that evening to care for the boy.
Young McDaniel had been help
ing Ray Shaeffcr in conducting
camping trips in the mountains.
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Wtlltwt CeeafJei
Attacks
On Japan
Continue
. GUAM, Aug. 10 (UP)
More than 1,200 allied carrier
planes struck Japanese mili
tary targets on northern Hon
shu today for the second
straight day in support of the
Red army s Manchurian of
fensive. While the carrier planes
swarmed over the Honshu tar
gets blasting at centers from
which the Japanese supply its
Kwangtung forces opposing the
Russians, 70 Superfortresses drop
ped demolition bombs on the
sprawling Tokyo arsenal area.
Continue Attack
The Superfortress raid on To
kyo followed a pre-dawn Super
fortress assault in which 1)0 B-
20s dropped demolition bombs on
the Nippon oil refinery company
at Amagasaki in the Osaka area.
Radio Tokyo indicated the ear
lier planes still were continuing
their bombing and strafing at
tlacks against the Japanese mili
tary installations on Honshu.
Thc Japanese broadcast said
following the carrier planes'
morning strike against the Kanto
district, which includes the great
er Tokyo-Yokohama area, about
35 allied aircraft raided airfields
and mililary installations at 1
p. m. (Tokyo time) in the Chiba
district, east of Tokyo.
Ask Emperor
The Japanese government
formally protested to the United
Stales through Switzerland on
use of the atmic bomb against
Hiroshima, radio Tokyo said. The
broadcast failed to mention the
Nagasaki attack.
Leaflets dropped called on the
Japanese people to "petition the
emperor to end the war."
On Okinawa, two army Mus
tang pilots told how they watch
ed the blast of the atomic bomb
en Nagasaki.
Even from that distance, Lt.
CI. Edward F. Rhoddy of Cleve
land and Maj. Howard Tuman of
Venice, Calif., said they saw a
huge ball of yellow and orange
fire shoot 8,000 feet in to the sky.
Steer Clear
(Robert Shaplen, Newsweek
correspondent broadcasting over
NBC, said a Liberator bomber on
which he was flying approached
within 10 miles of the city.)
( It was like looking over the
rim of a volcano in the process
of erupting, even though it was
12 hours after that bomb had
been dropped," Shaplen said.
(The pall of smoke and flames
was visible 100 miles away, Shap
len said. All night long, pilots
radioed in reports of the smoke
as far as 200 miles from the city.
American planes have been or
dered to steer clear of Nagasaki.)
Soil Conservation
Talks Discussed
At Wallowa
Proposals to establish soil con
servation districts in Walowa
county will be discussed at pub
lic hearings to be held today and
tomorrow at Enterprise, Wallowa
and Flora.
Petitions signed by 31 landown
ers have been filed with the state
soil conservation committee ;it
Corvallis pursuant to the provi
sions of the statute authorizing
the formation of soil conservation
districts.
The proposed district will em
brace all of Wallowa county, but
the determination of the boun
daries of the district will be de
cided upon at the hearings, and
the determination of whether the
soil conservation district shall be
established will be made at a sub
sequent election in which every
land owner is entitled to one vote.
NO FATALITIES
SAI.EM, Aug. 10 (UP) There
were no fatal men fisted among
the J16 accidents fir-ported to the
state industrial accident commis
sion for the week ending Aug. 'J.
ewer
19-15
He'll either go or
Senators Declare
Jap Peace Offer
'Looks Good'
WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 (UP)
Chairman Elbert D. Thomas, D
Utah, of the senate military af
fairs committee said today the
Japanese peace offer "looks all
to the good to me."
Thomas, one-time Mormon mis
sionary to Japan, said the Japa
nese condition that the emperor
retain his throne "should encour
age us in accepting the offer."
"1 he emperor is the key to the
constitutional government of Ja
pan," Thomas said. "If he Is re
tained, our problem of adminis
tration in Japan will be much
simplified."
"We don't want to destroy the
only constitutional form of gov
ernment in Asia," he said. "We
want to throw out the present
government but we don't want to
knock down their constitution."
Sen. Warren G. Magnuson, D.,
Washington, disagreed with
Thomas.
'Certainly there could be no
greater obstacle to democratic
government in Japan than reten
tion of the emperor," he said.
"Unless there is some good mil
tary reason for accepting the res
ervation, we can still win in a
few days if we keep up warefare
wilh unabated force.
I think wo can get truly un
conditional surrender that way."
Sen. Harold H. Burton, R., O.,
said the Japanese offer "marks
substantial progress in ending the
war.
"And for the emperor, the con
ference at Berlin left the way
open for some such offer. T h e
Potsdam declaration reveals that
even if he were allowed to con
tinue, he would be deprived of
all control over the policies of
Japan which might continue it us
an aggressive nation."
Policeman 'Vafs'
Porcupine Found
Near Residence
An errant porcupine at 906
G avenue called out city police
at 10:30 a.m., according to the
following report of Patrolman
A. C. Meyers.
"Called to 9 Of. G avenue, and
captured 'porky' after a game
of hide and seek in the back
yard, whare flowers, toiti,
thorns and other foliage wen
to thick 'porky' had the td
vantaga. "Bood hiro late a box with
tha help of fat Pitxo.erB.ld. a
hovel, ralct. and hoe, f?oekp
didn't lock lifct he want a
trial, arwi we weren't sorry to
'ragged' him out of towne on
a one-way tickot."
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HIROHITO:
stay.
Ask Hirohito Safety;
Big Four Conferring
By United Press
Japan offered today to surrender provided assurances can
be made regarding the status of Emperor Hirohito. The al
lies went into immediate consultation on the Tokyo proposal.
The -Japanese said they accepted the Potsdam surrender
ultimatum provided the sovereign prerogatives of Hirohito
are maintained, , , . ;
A White House announcement at 8:28 p.m. confirmed the
tho offer had been made and added the United States, Brit
ain, Russia and China are now conferring regarding it.
White lloiwe Secretary Charles G. Ross said there will
be no further White House statement on the Japanese offer
today or tonight and Secretary of State James F. Byrnes re
Unconditional
Surrender of
Japan Urged
Opinion here concerning Jap
an's proposal of peace appeared
to be almost uniform in La
Grande this morning when citi
zens were quizzed on their views.
Mrs. June McManus, business
woman, when querried as to
"What do you think of the war
news today," answered, "It is the
best news I've ever heard, but we
must have unconditional surren
der. It has to be that ultimatum
because we have given too much
and can't take chances on any
slips. Regarding Hirohito, we
can't dictate their religion, after
all we are fighting for freedom,
religious as. well- as any other,
but on the other hnnd, how much
power does ho have, and how
much will he retain? He sanc
tioned these acts and that auto
matically makes him a war crim
inal." Jack Peare, .local Jeweler
aaidt "I wouldn't consider their
offer, We have had one lesion
at their hand didn't they
have emissaries here seeking
peace while their ships were
enrouie to Pearl Harbor? They
are whipped and they know 11.
It is only natural, that lhey
should attempt to make the
best 'deal' possible. But as for
Hirohito, he is worse than Hit
ler, and should be prosecuted
to the limits."
Don Poarch, active member of
the junior chamber of commerce,
sated: "Having Hirohito at the
head of the Japanese government
would be a repetition of the thing
we have just gone through.
Force them to sign the Potsdam
treaty with no reservation, dis
cussion or negotiations. Looks
like it will be over by the first
of the week."
"It looks like It will soon be
a thing of the past, doesn't it?
said Arch K. Parker, manager
of tho La Grande branch of the
First National bank of Portland,
when asked his views. "I think
we should lake a 'stiff-necked'
attitude, with no concessions
mado, but any kind of deal our
govornmeni makes with Japan
will be satisfactory, lhey know
how to handle lt."
In seeking the attitude of a
serviceman's wife, Mrs. Henriet
ta Ircdu1- whose husband, Lt.
(sg) Leonard Iredale is currently
serving aboard an A PA craft, was
contacted. Mrs. Iredale said, "I
consider Hirohito a war criminal.
Me was loo well educated to be
ignorant of the existing facts, and
ho should be tried before the war
criminals' board the same as the
rest."
Mrs. Jess Rotenbaum, whose
son Merrill, was lost whe.i the
St. Lo wertt down, said. "It
wouldn't hurt to leave Hirohito
in as a church symbol, which
ha apparently is to his people,
and then eventually educate
the masses away from thai at
titude, if we only knew how
ha would direct his power. He
might be the means of influ-encl-if
them, but he certainly
should have no riha or aa
cess to civil powers."
Mrs. R. R. Ragsdalc, who has
four sons in the navy, averred:
"I think we should have dropped
the first bomb in Tokyo."
(June IJetrlrk, local business
man, summed up the situation
by saying, "Look out for Nippon."
DBCfcABOJ WAR TODAY
LONDON, Aug. 10 (UP) Radio
Moscow announced today the
Mongolian peoples republic has
declared war on Japan.
Reason Tells Some
Details of Conference
Held at Potsdam
FIVE CENTS
vealed by agreement any and
all news about the surrender
will come from Truman. ,-i.,
Peace Group '
From Chungking came a report
the Japanese offer was made af
ter Hirohito had created a 21
man "peace committee" of Im
perial princes and members of the
government which met today and
agreed to submit the proposal.
First indications were a satis
factory arrangement for the em
peror can be worked out, enabl
ing the Japanese to surrender.
The offer was transmitted to
the allies through the Soviet Am
bassador Jacob Malik who is still
in Tokyo and through the Swed
ish and Swiss legations in Tokyo.
Same Note
Stockholm reported the Jap
anese note has arrived there and
is being turned over immediately,
to the British and Russians. The
note through the Swiss was direc
ted to the United States and
China. It was understood the
:texts of the-notts'are Identical.
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Japanese note had been received
there and promptly, turned over
to the Americans and Chinese.
The speed with which the Jap
anese offer was being transmit
ted indicated before nightfall
President Truman, Prime Minis
ter Attlec, Gen. Josef Stalin and
Gen. Chiang Kai-shek will be
able to exchange their views.
Consults Byrnes
The test of the Japanese offer
was first made public by the To
kyo radl and was reporded by
the United Press in San Fran
cisco. On the basis of this unofficial
text Truman consulted with Sec
retary of State James F. Byrnes
and it was believed the Ameri
can position may have been al
leady formulated.
As quickly as the four allies
agree on their attitude toward
the Japanese proposal,, a reply
will be forwarded.
If the allied answer satisfies
the Japanese regarding the posi
tion of their emperor, it was pre
sumed arrangements quickly will
be made for the formal surrender
a procedure which is very com
plicated due to the widespread
dispersal of Japanese forces.
Follow U. S.
British opinion, it was under
stood, was favorable toward ac
ceptance of the Japanese pro
posals. Howover, the British and
It was presumed the Russians
and Chinese, will be guided
largely by the United States
which has born the brunt of the
more than three and a half years
of conflict with Japan.
In any event it was estimated
it will require some time to work
out a formal surrender possib
ly as long as a week or 10 days
provided the matter of the em
peror is settled.
Conditions
The Potsdam declaration called
for:
1. Unconditional surrender of
oil Japanese armed forces, ac
companied by adequate assur
ances of good faith.
2. Occupation by allied forces
of such portions of Japanese ter
ritory as the allies regard as
necessary for the fulfillment of
their objectives.
3. Elimination "for all time of
the authority and influence of
those who have deceived and mis
led the people of Japan."
4. Punishment of all war crim
inals. 5. Elimination of Japan's war
making capacity and elimination
of all bars to establishment of a
free, democratic regime in Japan.
8. Application of the terms of
tho Cairo declaration, limiting
Japanese sovereignty to the four
islands , of Honshu, Hokkaido,
Kyushu and Shikoku.
7. Stripping Japan of all her
possessions in the Pacific and
Asia won by aggression.
Tho position of the emperor In
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