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.
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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
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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.
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