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USEES' Edson Tells Why Clothes Cost More (On Editorial Page) Always 2 Pages of , . . Comics Saturday In The Observer ESTABLISHED 1896 LA GRANDE, OREGON SATURDAY EVENING. AUGUST 11, 1915 FIVE CENTS Mate ir IP Day Seim As First Atom Bomb Obsolete Second Works AlucH Better; YJar Continues . PEARL HARBOR, Aug, U (UP) ( Allied armed forces fought on todjry pending the outcome of Ja pan's peace bid, and a historic ; week produced another sensation the disclosure the second ato mic bomb used against the Jap- anese made the first "obsolete." " American' air and naval forces were ordered to maintain the of- fensive against Japan until they have received official notification by the war department the war is over. u:. ' Russians Advise : Superforts of the U. S. 20th air force stayed at their bases but other U. S. planes bombed south ern Japan. Russian troops plung ed on more than 130 miles deep .in Manchuria. The Chinese were . , ordered to keep the pressure on, : and a Chungking newsDaoer sue- gested that the Tokyo peace pro- nnsal urns iinawpntfihlr ; - At a secret Superfort base in the Marianas officers said their second atomic bomb wiped out Nagasaki as a military target j- Thursday and the success of the . . uuiiiuiug uuu uuiuaieu me lype of atomic weapon dropped on ' Hiroshima three days earlier. Fleet Busy Admiral Nimitz' order to con tinue "offensive action" sent the U. S. third fleet back into action against the Japanese homeland, where its 1,200 carrier planes had destroyed' bFdtrrfJaed; 523"enemy aircraft on central and north Honshu during the past few days. Gen. Douglas MacArthur's Okinawa-based planes already were attacking the Japanese home is lands on an uninterrupted sched ule. . Radio Tokyo said 150 bombers had dropped fire and demolition bombs on the northern Kyushu industrial city of Kurume this morning. Fires broke out in Kur ume, but most were controlled by 12:50 p. m., Tokyo said. Eight Columns There was no immediate word as to when and if the B-29 Super fortresses would resume their at tacks. Gen. Carl Spaatz, strategic airforce commander in the Pa cific, had said earlier they would not fly today. Russia ordered her far eastern armies, already more than 130 miles inside Manchuria, to smash on mercilessly against the Japa nese despite their surrender of fer. No fewer than eight soviet columns were driving into Man churia from the east, north and west along a 3,000 mile front against little or no effective oppo sition. Moscow announced Russian gains of 12 to 105 miles toward the great railway hub, military and industrial city of Harbin in central Manchuria. From Guam came the report that the second, and perhaps last, atomic bomb to be dropped had levelled 30 percent of Nagasaki. Spaatz disclosed today the bomb had destroyed an area two miles long and seven-tenths of a mile wide in the town's built-up area Thursday. Radio Tokyo, broadcasting in English, announced early today the Japanese airforce had made a "daring attack" on Okinawa at 9 p. m. Friday. Before The broadcast said, "results are yet to come in." The time of the attack indicated the Japanese planes probably took off before the surrender offer was made. Radio Tokyo also said Japanese forces were counterattacking in the Balikpapan area of northeast ern Borneo and had killed or wounded approximately 150 al lied troops. In Burma, experienced observ ers said small-scale war would continue to be fought even if the allies d td accept t h e enemy's peace bid because there were many Japanese who will cnoose to fight it oit in the hills and jungles. EWEHHOWta V HUSSIA LONDON, Aug- 11 (UP) An NBC broadcast from Moscow said today Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhow er is expected to arrive in the Russian, capital tomorrow on a social visit as guest of the soviets. Hoover Hits British LONG BEACH, Calif., Aug. 11 (UP) Former President Herbert Hoover today scribed Britain's new labor government as "a creeping socialism," part of a tide.pf "i lecuvism sweeping over isurope. . He called upon America to guard against its further spread. . , ' The alternative, he implied, is to be branded as "the generation who surrendered the heritage of America." i The only living ex-president, he spoke before thousand of felJow-Iowans in Bixby park at the annual Iowa picnic one day after his 71st birthday. He is a native of WeBt Secretary Ickes Asks Statehood For Alaska WASHINGTON, Aug. 11 (UP) Secretary of Interior Harold L. Ickes today advocated statehood for the Alaskan territory. Ickes wrote Ernest H. Gruening, gover nor of Alaska, "It is clear state hood is the only form of self government appropriate to the circumstances of Alaska." Alaska is the first of the ter ritories for which Ickes has for mally advocated statehood. Ha waii also is expected to seek statehood after the war. Ickes' department administers territor ial affairs. Acting secretary Abe Fortas, in the absence of Ickes, released a statement in which Icfces said none of the objections raised to Alaskan statehood is "an insur mountable obstacle." "Making Alaska one of the fed eral states would link it more closely with the rest of the na tions, speed development of its resources, diminish the evils of outpostism, encourage new set tlers and greater investments," Iskcs said. He declared Alaska is on the verge of a "great postwar de velopment" w hi cjh he believes will offer opportunities for re turning veterans and other Amer ican citizens." Until congress passes an en abling act on Alaskan statehood, Ickes said it should at least pass legislation giving the territory "a larger measure of genuine self government." Emperor Question Called Irrelevant PORTLAND, Aug. 11 (UP) The question of whether the Jap anese emperor should be allowed to remain on the throne is term ed irrevelant by Dr. Harold J. Noble, authority on the far east and assistant professor of history at the University of Oregon. The professor, who has lived and taught in the Orient, said the allied decision in accepting or re jecting Japan's peace offer should be based solely on whether the peace terms would make it im possible for the country to make war again. TWO VESSELS LOST WASHINGTON, Aug. 11 (UP) The navy today announced loss of the submarine Bonefish and the destroyer Callaghan. Casual ties were light on the Callaghan. Mildred Post, WAVE, Teaches Navy Pilots to Mildred Z. Post, specialist tech nician first class, WAVES, arriv ed in La Grande last evening for a week leave at the home of her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. George Tiss. Miss Post, a former resident of La Grande, is a naval instructor in the use of Link trainers, and since entering the WAVES has also gained her private pilot's rat ing. At her base, San Diego naval air base, she teaches radio navi gation and instrument flight. Miss Post attended the local high school and made her home with the Tisses, and later grad uated from Santa Monica junior college. She entered the WAVES in December. 1M2. took boot training at Hunter college. New York, and her Link training a! Atlanta. Ga.. where she also serv ed eight months as an instructor, before being transferred to her present base. At the termination of her leave, ihe will return to San Diego. A brother, Cecil Post of La , By BEN COOK nranch, la. Fifth Columns Tolitarian governments, Hoov er said, ale getting the upper hand in all Europe, and "we shall be besieged by the missionaries, the propaganda, the fifth col umns of these foreign bureau cracies." "Their Utopia is a will-o'-tho-v.'isp that leads implacably to the swamps of serfdom, he said "Indeed, the lime has come when America should again pro claim our faith. We should pro claim our resolution to hold it. Our first postwar purpose should be to restore it." He cited the British socialist government as proof defense of the American system is "no aca demic question." To Te.ko Over "While their program is a creeping socialism, their platform has been stated time and again as ultimately to take over by the government "all the instrument alities and production and dis tribution includig the nationali zation of the land." Lumping the new government of British Prime Minister Cle ment Attlee with other "collec- tivist" European regimes, Hoover said "they all have a common base in bureaucratic power over the liberties and economic life of the people. "The less violent forms claim government can dictate or oper ate economic life and still pre serve personal liberty," but "in evitably and invariably the to talitarian 'liberals' find them selves whittling away the free dom of men," ho warned. Liberalism Only Hoover said the western hem isphere is becoming 'the last hope of free men" and wartime growth of governmental controls in America piovidcd an example of the "moral degeneration" that comes of collectivism. The former president conceded the American system has had its faults, but said "in any event reform and progress can come only from free men." "If it be 'reactionary' to be for free men," Hoover said, "then I shall be proud of that title for my remaining days. As matter of fact it is the only genuine lib eralism." Weather Data for 24 hours to 7 a.m. Temperature: Maximum 88 Minimum SO Precipitation 09 Forecast: Clear tnighl and Sun day, except fr coastal cloudiness today. Stay on Beam MILDRED POST, instructor in radio navigation and instru ment flight. Giandc, is a radio officer in the mei chant marine. I (7 J Socialism de- col- Month Long Fight Against Fire In Forest Gaining PORTLAND, Aug. 11 (UP) The month-long fight with flames in Oregon's timber areas was nearing a close today with reports i most major fires are under con trol. The watersheds of Forest Grove and Hillsboro are still well pro tected by fire lines and the 300 acre blaze on Sitwalder butte is on a patrol basis. In Ihe Wilson river area trails have been connected and seven additional bulldozers have been sent into the country along the north fork of the Trask river. Fighters armed with power saws are working against time today in an effort to complete the new fire line before the weather clears again. The line runs along a tele phone right of way from Cherry Grove in Washington county to a point west of Hembre ridge. Forest Grove became headquopJ ters for the Wilson river fire to day when all hearquarters inside the burn area was ordered aban doned. Meanwhile, high winds fanned a 400-acre fire along Ce dar creek adjacent to the Mount Hood district and flames threat ened to reach green timber in the Mount Hood forest. 34 Dead in Wreck On Great Northern MICHIGAN, N. D., Aug. 11 (UP) Wrecking crews today began clearing away the twisted mass of steel and wood in which 34 persons died when one sec tion of the Great Northern rail way Empire Builder crashed into another here Thursday night. At least 50 were hurt, 15 seri ously. Nineteen of the dead were servicemen, including one of ficer. The army withheld their names. Workmen started removing the shell of the "death" ear, a sleeper-observation unit, from the ex plosion shattered engine which smashed into it after the first section halted on a curve to cool a hotbox. Five of the civilians killed were (tentatively 'identified as Lloyd S. Burdick, Great Falls, Mont.; Mrs. L. H. Loftus, Lowell, Wash.; Adelaide F. McManus, thought to be a New York City member of the WAVES, J. Per son, uucago ooservation car por ter, and Muriel B. Cummings, 21, Plentywood, Mont. French to Seek To Take Part in Talks PARIS. Aug. 11 (UP) Reliable sources told the United Press yes terday the French government is likely to request French partici pation in negotiations for final Japanese capitulation. The request will be based on Fiance's interest in Indo - China and on the fact Gen. Charles de i i Gaulle's Fre3 French committe' declared war against Japan t: day after Pearl Harbor. Med ford Man Now Favors Miracles In Everyday Life MEDFOBD. Aug, 11 (UP) Frank Walton firmly believed in miracles today after his daughter, Karen, 3, took a mile d a half trip cat the fongua of a trailer fasleaea? to hit car. Ksraa was not around when Walton got into the car at hii mother's place to go home. When he reached home he wa surprised to hear a "hi Dad dy" and to see Karen perched side-saddle tivi on the tongue, unaware of any danger. KNOW THEIR ATOMS Somo of scientists whose assembled knowledge brought about world-stunning atomic bomb discus the discovery before transformers used to supply power to two Uni versity of California. Berkeley, cyclotrons. They are (left to ' itfg'hl) Dr. Ernest O. Lawrence, inventor of cyclotron: Dr. F. A Jenkens, . UC physicist; H. W, Skinner, University of Bristol, England, member of British mission, and Dr. Bernard Peters, professor of physics, UC. More Meat, Fat Outlook Bright for Cutting Point Value WASHINGTON, Aug. 11 (UP) An early easing of meat and fat rationing soon after V-J day became a distinct possibility to day. A well-placed source said the outlook was bright for cut ting of red-point values. He also suit! ending of rationing on many and perhaps all blue-point proces sed foods is likely soon after V-J (lay. Spokesmen previously had in dicated sudden improvement in the domestic food situation is un likely because demobilization will be gradual and foreign need-, heavy. More Abundant It was generally ugreed gaso line rationing wilt, be ended within a matter of days after the war ends. Tires, shoes, cloth ing will become more abundant. The brighter foods prospects were hacked by a new agricul ture department announcement lhat ciops this year, in general, will be the third largest in his tory. The latest crop report showed distinct 'improvement in corn I prospects, which had worried laim leaders. Corn is the basic feed for meat animals. The crop is now estimated at 2,844,478,000 bushels, up 11)0,000,000 bushels since the July estimate. Crop last year hit a record high of 3, 228,3ttl,000 bushels. Another hope tor more mral rests in Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P. Anderson's proposal to drop all beef subsidies effec tive next July 1. Anderson is Polling cattle men for their re action. If they agree, and the su(nes tion is put into effect, Anderson believes it should result in an unloading of cattle that would move more beef from the range to butcher counters. Colonel Eberhard Says Europe "Suffering" Lt. Col. Franklin F.berhard, son of Mr. and Mrs. Colon Eberhard of La Grande, today discussed his recent trip to Brazil as a member of the delegation invited there as guest of the Brazilian government. Colonel Ehcrhnrd, with Gen eral Clark and other members of hid ul.-iff ,hn ,.. joyed the 1 1 - 'ri:.v e,.l,.brtinn wHim im-iuaea all tne sights u Rio de Janeiro, Sau Paulo and Porto Alegre. He served in Europe with Clark's filth army until General Clark w.vs given command of the 15th army group, the combined British and American headrjuar- I lers. Eberhard then tranafrrrrd i to that group. Recently Clark and his Amer ican stall officers were dt-sign- I uled for the mission of occupation I of Austria, with headquarters ir, Vienna. Colnel Eberhard's jeci fic assignment is lhat -of G-4 I I xecutive and planner, Hie hand ling of supply transportati.iti and avacuation policies. He explained that the four na tions providing the occupational armies will cooperate on all phases of building a national gov '4v v 14 After V-J Day It appeared, however, there will be heavy demands on this nation's hum of plenty for some lime to come. President Truman, in his re port n the Potsdam conference, said "if we let Europe go cold and hungty, we may lose some of the foundations- of order -on which the hope for world-wide peaeo must rest." 1,787 CIO Men Out on Strike KLAMATH FALLS, Aug. 11 (UP) Number of CIO men strik ing in the Klamath Falls area has risen to 1.787 today with work stoppage in the Kesterson Lum ber corporation, Kesterson Box factory and the Ewauna Box fac tory. The strike began in the Weyer haeuser operations and spread Thursday to Chiloquin Lumber company and Bly Logging com pany logging camps. Vernon Chase, president of the Klamath basin district council, Interna- tional Woodworkers of America, CIO, said the wnikout is a de mand for a union shop and for wage increases. Bend Sawmill Left In Ruins by Fires BEND, Aug. 11 (UP) The Crawford Lumber company saw mill at Spray, on the John Day river, is in ruins following an early morning fire. All machinery in the sawmill which had a capacity of 45,000 board feet daily, was destroyed. Cause of the blaze was undeter mined, Frani Crawford, operator said. ernment for Austria, gradually replacing the military with civil ians. He said it is his belief this winter will be Ihe hardest win ter in Europe since the middle ges, U cause of the lack of food in that country, the shortage of additional food supplies here and transportation difficulties. Ninety days ufter occupation the army ceases to maintain food supplies for the civilians, and that !)0-day period is almost at an end, he said. After that time food supplies will be the prob lem of united nations food relief division. Judy Lynn Thompnon Little Judy Lynn Thompson, doll-sized daughter of Mr. and ,Mia. Lie Kay Thomaon, yedter day left her incubator home at St. Joseph's hospital, and will now live the life of an ordinary baby. Judy Lynn, who weighed two pounds and seven ounces at birth, June 2!), now weighs four pounds and three und one-half ounces, ami is active as habits ul normal weight. Hirohito May Stay But Will; Do As 4 Allied Powers Order IV WASHINGTON, Aug. 11 (UP) Pacific war allies todajr replied to Japan's plea that Hirohito retain his sovereign pr&r, rogaiivea with a statement the emperor and the Japanese government will be subject to the supreme commander of the victorious occuping powers. ' , - w The emperor will be required immediately to order all Japv anese armed forces to cease active operations and to give up. their arms.1 This reply to Japan's plea was delivered by the United States in behalf of the other allies to the Swiss lega tion. ' BIT The note is expected here to bring V-J day to victorious realization within a matter of days. . : . " It was the first intimation the allies have agreed updft necessity of naming a supreme commander in the Pacific way" theater a policy which paid off big dividends in Europe.1 Army, Navy, Other Agencies Cutting Back War Orders WASHINGTON, Aug. Jl (OP) Army, navy and civilian war agencies today inaugurated vast curtailment programs in war pro curemcnt to save the American taxpayers billions. The navy or dercd work stopped on 05 of 223 warships now under construction to save about $M00(M,0(M). - The army already had stopped several billions of dollars of or ders and is working to slash serv ice force item 80 percent, Mr force items 90 percent, and pe trolcum products 40 percent. . Army Arvlice force procure ment now spends $1300,000,006 a month and army air force pro curement has been running $750, 000,000. . ' The navy will stop work on the battleship Illinois, carriers Re prisal and Iwo Jima, 18 escort carriers, 10 heavy cruisers, 10 light cruisers, 11 destroyers, six submarines and 38 auxiliary ves sels. War mobilization chief John W. Snyder said agencies are can celing contracts "to the greatest extent possible to free materials for reconversion." Indicating bu lions more may be expected soon, snyder promised the administra tion's "maximum assistance" to reconversion. Elgin Toy Factory At Full Capacity; Has Advance Orders New wood toy and wood spe cialty factory, started in Elgin last February, is now operating at lull capacity, D. L. Donason, owner and operator, announced. Donason has sufficient order on file to keep the plant in full operation the remainder ot this year, he states, and through tne greater part of 1040. Shipments of toys are now going forward, with orders coming from whole sale firms in Boise, Wolltr WbIJb, Seattle, Portland and San Fran cisco. The factory is now turning out 2,000 units a month and the out put will be increased as soon as more floor space is obtained. Additional muchinery also will be installed to increase the out put. Colonel Eberhard's decorations include the Legion of Merit and the Bronze Star, both American, as well as the Officer of British Empire and the Brazilian war medal. He wears ribbons for the European theater, Pacific Asia tic and American theaters, and lor pre-Pearl Harbor si rvice. He entered the army a reserve officer in November, 1940, with the rating of second lieutenant. Colonel Eberhard's views and ob servations of economic, military and social conditions in Europe are deeply tnterastinf but may not be published becauto of mili tary regulations. Leaves Incubator Judy's fathifr is a radioman gunner on a ruivy dive bomber on an aircraft cwrrier somewhere in the south Pacific. At the time Judy was more tluin a month old his wife and relatives did iM knuw whether o But he ha4 henrd of the birth of his daugh ter. They still do not know al-i though they are certain hiphas now heard from them about her birth -and her early life in the incubator. Pick MacArthur :' U.'.. Well informed persons h e re predicted suprerne command wUi be given to general of the army Douglas MacArthur. .The allied reply did not reject Jspmi's plea for Emperor Hiro hito. On the contrary, if explain ed how he and his prestige will be used to bring the Japanese war machine to a dead stop. The' not said : Hirohito will be re quired to "authorize and 86'' the signatures of the Japanese' government and the Japanese Imperial headquarters tor cany" fng out the Potsdam ultimatum. Secretary of State James Byrnes qigned the communica tion ta Japan, He acted to be half of the United States, Great Britain, the Soviet Union and China. In their communication' the allies reminded the Japanete the Potsdam ultimatum assured the ultimate form ot Japanese' government will be established by "the freely expressed will of the Japanese people." M they vote for an emperor they evi dently are to be permitted to have one. ' : "" . ' : , Special Spd ' It is ' understood special ef forts will be made to hasten de livery of the note to Japan so that a decision and possibly may be had quickly. , . Japan was warned the Potsdam ultimatum must be accepted and the allied powers will maintain, armed forces in Japan until ail its objectives are achieved. The key paragraph of the note. "Th emperor will be te-J quired to auihcriie and insure the signaiuro by ihe govern ment of Japan and the Japan ese Imperial headquarters of the lurreEder terns Mnssaiy to carry out the provisions oi the Potsdam declaration, and shall Issue his commands to all the Japanese military, n-rai and air authorities and to alt forces under their control wherever located to cease ac tive operations and to surren der their arms and to issua such other orders as the supreme commander may re quire to give effect to the sur rendu terms." A condition imposed upon Jap an is that immediately upon sur render all civilian and military prisoners shall be brought Jo safety. The long years of wait ing, starving and worse are about over. To Swiss. The note was framed as a re ply to the Swiss government. which transmitted Tokyo's sur render proposal, rather than as a reply directly to the Japanese. 10 tne Japanese plea for their emperor, the allies didn't say yes and they didn't say no. But they evidently have said all they in tent! to say. tt is up to Japan now to take it or leave it or clre. The atomic bombs are ly ing ready and the fight goes on. An unofficial truce in the Paci fic was ended as the fleet and uir forces resumed action after a day interlude. Peace Officers Of ' 3 States Hunt Pair PORTLAND, Aug. 11 (UP Pesos ftieers of three states to day are smi-ehing for Morris Yatee, 23. sad his wife, 10, th former HutirtJ Haugn of Port land. The ule hod not been henrd ffere aittce leoviasg Port land im gwstar to wacwute to Cnicnao. fr for their fet arose when offices) at tv1stoii, Mont., Plclicd up a man, on a truck theft charg and $159 worth of war bonds beloiKvng to the Yates were found in his possesion. The couple had planned to go. fa Maciison, wis, ana enter the uni versity. -
