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iwoncmy, August id, im-io Woman Held For Shooting Husband PORTLAND, Aug. 13 (UP) Mrs. Louise B. Flournoy, 41, is In jail today charged with the second-degree murder of her for fer husband.1 ' Police said Mrs. Flournoy ad mitted shooting Robert W. Flou rnoy, 45, with a .22 caliber pistol following a quarrel in her apart ment Sunday night. She told po lice detectives she had obtained a divorce two years ago at Fort Worth, Tex. Flournoy occasional ly visited his former wife and their two daughters, she said. Sunday night they quarrelea and he struck her, Mrs. Flournoj , charged.She" threatened to shoot mm it he continuea 10 moiesi her and followed the warning by taking her single-shot target pis tol from a dresser drawer and loading it. . City News In Ifrict '. V EIGHT ARRESTED: M. K. -',. Erickson and Otto Schliep, both of La Grande, were arrested by city police yesterday on charges of being drunk. Schliep is being held, and EYickson was released on $15 bond for appearance in oily- court today, police records show. Warren Garret, La Grande, .was arrested last night on charges .'61 being drunk and indecent ex ' pesure. He has been released, , records show. Dan McDonald, ' Walter Bradford Wilson, Jim Al I ffed Duerock, transients,- Henry i lu, McFarland, Jefferson Bar j jacks, Mo., and Orin N. Hass, La f. Jjirande, were arrested Saturday ' ';:pn charges of being, drunk. . The V': "five men have been released on , $18 bond each for appearance in city court today. LICENSE EXAMINER Trav eling examiner of operators and , chauffeurs is scheduled to arrive ;.in La Grande Friday, and will be :: on duty at the city hall from 9 a. m. to 4 p. m. All those wishing r permits or; licenses to drive cars kare asked to"' get in touch with the examiner during these hours. AVOIDS CRASH Automobile driven by Orlin P. Fitzgerald, Summerville, was undamaged Saturday after it was driven into a curb to escape hitting another automobikv driven by an uniden tified man. TWO COLLISIONS Automo biles driven by Mrs. J. H. Book er, Island City, and H. E. Vincent, La Grande, collided on Depot street near Jefferson Sunday. The accident occurred as Vincent was backing from the curb. There was no damage, police records show. Automobiles driven by Ruth L. Chadwick, Pendleton, and Jim . Edward Klein, La Grande, collided yesterday on Fir and Washington streets. There was no damage. ! AUTO DAMAGE Fifty dollar damage is recorded for an acci dent Saturday in which automo biles driven by Billy Fox and H. A. Thornburg, both of La Grande, collided on' Chestnut street. The accident occurred when Thorn burg backed from the curb. OFFICERS i ' ON TRIP Sgt. Lewis Johnson and Officer Lester Sater, of the Oregon state police, left this morning for Ontario on business. - COUPLE IN HOSPITAL Mr. (and Mrs. EJmer Case, Alicel, who ' have been' hr the Grande Ronde hospital for two weeks, are do ing "well,", ji; was reported today. ','' OFFICE i'PAlNTED. Repaint ing of thclchamber of commerce office in the'-hew Foley building has been completed. The office, formerly a cream color, is now pale green.-. Y TRAFFIC' OFFENSE Nasni Skinnniss,.-Ontario, was fined $10 last night in justice court on charge of fiaving four adults in the driver's seat. Big 4 Told to 'Show Cause' WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 (UP) The "Big Four" domestic air- i lines were ordered by the civil 1 aeronautics board today to show cause why their mail rates should '. not be reduced from 60 cents to 45 cents a ton-mile. The compan ies are American Airlines, Unit ed Air lines; Eastern Air lines, and Transcontinental & Western Air. lENDfO WHISKEY 66 proof. 60 groin V" Schinlty Diitilltn Corp., N Y Markets Steel, Rails Take Market Beating NEW YORK, Aug. 13 (UP) Stocks drjopped fractions more than 2 points today with steel and railroad shares under heaviest pressure. Trading was only about half as active as on Friday. Selling was interpreted in. Wall street as the reaction of disap pointed bulls, who had acquired large holdings last week on the sudden rush of dramatic Pacific war developments and then held onto them in the face of Friday's sharp reaction. CHICAGO l LIVESTOCK CHICAGO, Aug. 13 (UP) (WFA) Hogs 4,000; active, fully steady; good and choice barrows and gills 140 lbs., and up at 14.75 ceiling, good and choice sows at 14.00; complete clearance. Cattel, 1400; calves 800; fed steers and yearlings, including yearling heifers steady; good and choice grades very active, other grades slow with undertone weak; top steers 18.00, the ceil ing paid for 1506 lb. averages; best yearlings 17.75; mixed steers and heifer yearlings 17.40; heif ers 17.00; unseasonally' small supply grass cattle in crop; cows and bulls steady to weak; veal ers steady at 16.00 down; slock cattle scarce, steady at 12.00 to 14.25; heavy beef bulls to 15.00: sausage offerings to 13.25. Sheep 1,000; general trade fully steady; top 25 cents higher on nativ spring lambs and shorn ewes, most good and choice na- live spring lambs 14.50; bucks discounted 1.00, top 14.75 spar ingly; common to lightweight 11.00 to 12.00; three decks good and choice shorn fed yearlings No. 1 pelt held above 12.50; shorn aged native ewes mainly 6.75 down; package choice kind 7.00. PORTLAND LIVESTOCK PORTLAND, Aug. 13 (UP) Cattle Salable 2,650, calves 500, market very active, mostly steady, two loads good grass fat steers $16.75; medium to good grades $14.50-16; common down to $12.00; common to medium heifers, $10.00-14..00; one, load $14.50; canner and cutter cows $6.50-9.00; medium good beef cows $11.00-13; good beef bulls mostly $12(00;-g o o d to choice vealer"lai'gely $14.00-14.50, few $15.00. Hogs, salable 150, market steady, with feeder pigs 50 cents higher. Barrows and gilts all weights $15.75, sows $15.00, choice 90 lb. feeder pigs $21.00. Sheep, salable 2,000, active, strong to 25 cents higher late last week, good to choice spring lambs $12.50-13.00; few to $13.50, common to medium grades $9.00 11.50, good ewes $5.75. Wheat Recovers But Not Enough CHICAGO, Aug. 13 (UP) While grain circles awaited Jap an's reply futures declined in nervous dealings on the board of trade today. Trading was active but confined mostly to commer cial interests. Nearby wheat contracts resisted bearishness on government support buying. Wheat recovered about one cent from the day's lows but failed to reach the previous level. The commodity credit corp., buy ing of cash wheat at Kansas City followed heavy business last week and contributed to better sentiment in this pit. Dairies Take More Milk, Less Cream PORTLAND, Aug. 13 (UP) Oregon plants licensed for manu facture of dairy products receiv ed more butterfat and whole milk but less cream in 1944 than in 1943, the department of agricul tural economics said today. A decrease in cream offset the whole milk increase but reflect ed the trend of recent years toward sale of whole milk, the department report said. Butter production decreased 9 percent and American cheese increased 11 percent. A production of evaporated milk went up 25 per cent. n.ulrol I C. Identities of 34 Killed in Wreck Of Train Revealed ST. PAUL, Minn., Aug. 12 (UP) Thirty-four persons killed when the first, and second sec tions of the crack Empire Build er passenger train collided Thurs day at Michigan, NN. D., were identified today. Identities of three civilian pas sengers still had not been defi nitely, established. Army dead included First Lt. Donald J. Pet ers, Seattle, Wash.; SSgt. Ed ward J. Lein, Four Buttes, Mont.; and. Pfc. August W. Wichman, Limmy, Mont. Navy dead in cluded Lt. j,g.) L. S. Stuller Se attle, Wash. Civilian dead included Gregory John Vandenburg, four-year-old son of Lt. Col. R. Vandenburg, Tacoma, Wash.; Lloyd S. Bur dick, GGreat Falls, Mont.; Mrs. L. H. Lefthus, Lowell, Wash.; Mrs. Muriel B. Cummings, Plen tywood, Mont.; and Mrs. D. B. McGriff, Portland, Ore. Uranium Deposits Located in Oregon PORTLAND, Aug. 13 (UP) Deposits of uranium, the basis of the atomic bomb, have been found in Oregon, according to Archie H. Smith, manager of the fluorescent department of Smith's agate shop. Smith said the depos its exist along the Deschutes river and in the Mutton moun tain range in the Warm springs Indian reservation. 1 Every time your heart beats America uses 837 gallons of gasoline. That's 62,785 gallons per minute, 33 billion gal lons per year. Gasoline in that quantity -enough to make a small river -can't be stored to any extent. It has to flow. If Union Oil had been owned by, say, two men, this system would have cost them $10,400,000 apiece. But since the company is owned by 32,227 people the cost averaged just $645 per stockholder -owner. In this principle of mul tiple ownership you have one secret of America's indus trial might union odb. pnn OF CAtlFORHIA THE LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER, LA GRANDE, OREGON Silver Used to Replace Copper OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Aug. 13 (UP) Another secret was per mitted to seep out of the super secret atomic bomb plant here today. The war department re vealed 1,000,000 pounds of silver was borrowed from the U. S. treasury for use in thousands of electro-magnets. The silver, used as a substitute for scrape copper, may still find itself in some fu ture issue of new dimes. Full Employment 'First Business' WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 (UP) Alben W. Barkley said today the "human element" of recon version will be the first order of business when congress recon ivenes. He said full employment legis lation and adequate benefits for the temporary jobless will top the five-point program for which con gress is being called back Sept. 5. "Those are the two most urgent matters awaiting our attention," Barkley said in an interview. "The others government reor ganization, surplus property dis posal and continuing the war agencies are important but less urgent to the human elements of reconversion," Barkley said there is bound to be some unemployment as indus try shifts from war to peace pro duction. He said congress couldn't cure that by any legislation, Hueuv 57Qoir fairs beato 'OH GIVE ME A HORSE' A saddle fit for an admiral who in tends to ride down Tokyo's main street on Shirayuku the Mikado's famous white horse, has been prepared in Reno, Nev., for Admiral William F, Halsey. Decorated with 110 pieces of Nevada silver, and intricately tooled by saddle-makers, the outfit, pictured above, is valued at $2000, It will be flown to lhe Pacific by naval air transport. Insot shows Shirayukl, with Hirohito up That means the stream must be kept moving con stantly - from oil wells to refinery to substation to service station to you. This takes lank ships, tank cars and trucks. But most important of all, it takes pipe lines-thousands of miles of them. J ; tsar c- 5 If our heavy industries people who could put up $10,011,000, progress would be pretty slow. But by pooling the money and the talents of a lot ofpixiple we've been able to accomplish UskstvlluUvely that we could never have handled alone. had to be financed by the few Police Will Probe Death of Soldier, 3 Children in Fire PORTLAND, Aug. 13 .(UP) Police detectives today were awaiting action of army officials in the deaths of Pvt. Carl J. Gra ham, 35-year-old soldier home on leave, and his three children. 11 was expected an inquest In to the father's death would deter mine further action. The four bodies were found Saturday morning in the charred ruins of their home. Police dis covered two notes - indicating the possibility of suicide and one note when appeared to be, in rough form, a will. When questioned by detectives Mrs. Graham said she and her 'husband had visited a Portland night club Friday night, and had quarreled. She spent the re mainder of the night at a friend's home. Police also questioned an ac quaintance, Sol Sigman Shapiro, after they found a man's clothing containing letters and papers ad dressed to Shapiro in the Graham home. NEW NAVY BOMBER BUKBANK,, Calif., Aug. 13 (UP) The navy is using a pow erful new bomber against the Japanese, Lockheed Aircraft cor poration revealed. The bomber, the PV-2 Harpoon, hps a speed of more than 300 miles an hour, a range of 2,000 miles and a bomb load of 4,000 pounds. v Now these pipe lines cost money. At Union Oil, for example, we have 1100 miles of line through which wa pump more than 7 million gallons of gasoline and oil every day. These lines with their 35 pumping stations and dozens of storage tanks cost $20,800,000 to install. O Of course, these big jobs could have been financed by assessing -M the people through government ownership. But we Americans do it under voluntary legal agreements known as corpomlwm. For in that way we can preserve the efficiency of a free economy, freedom of the individual and tlmt all-important human incentive - competition. This seitt.sfxmsortd by tht IxtvpU of Union OH Company, is dedicated to a disrussiim of how and why A mrtmibttsimss functions. We hope you'll feel free to send in any fmaieidimi at criticisms' you have to offer. Write The Resident, Union CHI Co.. Union Oil Bldg., Los Angeles 14, Calif. AMERICA'S flfTH FRIIDOM ' F R 1 1 ' I N T I R P R I tl Page FW Harry Dollar Will Manage Sawmill EUGENE, Aug. 13 (UP) Vice President Harry Dollar of the shipping timber division of Rob ert Dollar company today became manager of operations of the Glendale, Ore, sawmill and log-' ging equipment of the Snell-' strom-Ingham lumber company. Capacity of the mill is 125,00ci board feet daily. Snellstrom sold, his Vaughn timber interests a month ago to the Long Bell com pany. Atomic Bomb Ready For Movie Debut HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 13 (UP) The atomic bomb, is already to. make ite movie debut, Producer Darryl F. Zanuck announced to. day. Zanuck said a full length picture centering about the "A bomb" was completed by his company under the title "Th6 House on 02nd Street." Story . of the development of the atomic bomb was withheld from the scenario until the White House announced use of the bomb against Jupan. DKS. BIGGS & BIGGS CHIROPRACTORS Palmer Graduates X-Rsy - Neurocalomeier Str. 2019 1st Si... Both Phones SSI Baker, Ore.
