La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, August 20, 1945, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Texti Weather Etuta for 24 hours to 7 a. m. Temperature: Maximum 77 v. Minimum T.... 43 forecast: Fair and warmer Tuesday. Kaiser Takes Free Ride on Pearson's :. Merry-Go-Round 4 ESTABLISHED 1896 CED Finds' Post War Buiiness to Be Good1 Bji!; W. KIENLEN NEW YORK, Aug. 20 (UP) Committee for economic de velopment predicted todny the annual rate of industrial pro duction will reach $80,518, 000,000 by September, 1946, a rise of almost $24,000,000, 000 over 1939. The CED described as "verg ing on hysterical" some of the current forecasts on post-war un employment. After a two-year study, the CED lEvertyone' Is Contf&rned in Vets' Future I Jaycee Speaker f Say $t Welfare of ? Country at Stake Responsibility for the wel fare of veterans returning to civilian life falls upon the shoulders of every citizen, Mearns 'IV Gates, past nation al president of the junior chamber of commerce, told members' and guests at the three state institute banquet in La Grande Saturday night. Development of our economic, social and political future will depend on the Vapidity with which the. veterans is absorbed into the' life of this nation, he said, and...the job must not be left to the government to per form. .. i Discontent In dynamic words, the speaker pointed out that even today there exist in. this country many who do not believe in the democratic forms of government. These are prepared to sow the seeds of dis content among veterans who are left, to shift for themselves and who do mot find-at. .home., the security and opportunity they have - been promised. . Henry Kearns, national pres ident of the organization, also emphasized the responsibility of live junior chamber not only to realize, but to awaken the com munity to the problems of the returning veteran. The junior cnamber move ment has grown, he said, during the war when many eligible members have been in the arm ed services because it is based on community work and on the development of the leadership qualities of the individual mem ber. Now it has a greater future than ever and will burgeon into a greater organization as its ranks are swelled with returning vet erans. The speakers were introduced by Lofton Tatum, national direc tor from t Oregon, who thanked the La Grande junior chamber for accepting the convention and institute responsibility this year. He singled out as chiefly respon sible Vern Van Vranken, Alio Noyes and Chester Peterson. Several Guests Representatives from Idaho were introduced by Leo Bodine, Idaho state president: from Wash ington by Harold Leffel, Wash ington state president, and from Oregon by Lee Stidd, state pres ident. Guests introduced were Mr. and Mrs. Arch Parker, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Ford, and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Schiro. The banquet was the opening of the institute, which followed with an eight hour session Sun day. Dancing at the Sacajawea ballroom followed the banquet. Bob Graham, Seattle, Washing ton national director, was dean of the institute which lasted from 9 a. m. to 5 p. m. Sunday. The institute covered practical plans for Jaycee affairs and outlined methods to be followed in select ing offcers and proceduresi for local projects. It also covered the history of t h e junior chamber movement and outlined some of the plans which local chapters will be asked to take on after the war. Besides Graham, Kearns, Hal Herman, national executive vice president, Tatum, Leffel, Stidd and Gates took part in the in stitute, i Several delegates flew here for the meeting, including three from Klamath Falls. Vic Milnes of Medford interrupted his va cation in Victoria, B. C, to come here. - Baseball Results AMERICAN LEAGUE RUE Phidelphia 0 7 1 Detroit 4 5 0 Batteries: Bowles and Rosar; Newhouser and Richards. said that business "can and will be good!" Will Be Jobs The committee's study covered statistics and information gath ered from 1,406 manufacturing firms and 158 trade associations numbering 20,000 members. While stating the country "has never had" since 1929 what could be termed substantially full em ployment, the CED predicted there will be jobs in peacetime industry for 54,000,000 workers out of a working force of about (10,000,000. In so-called "boom" year of 1929 there was a labor force of 48,000,000, of whom 47,798,000 whom 47,798,000 were gainfully employed, and in 1939 thelast full year of peace there were 44, 1)00,000 men and women, at work out of a labor .force of 54,JO0,O0O. Will Quit There have been reports that many who worked at war jobs, women for instance, will now want to give up their jobs to re turnng servicemen. "Improved machinery, better methods and continuing increase in the efficiency of the American workman," the CED said, "will make it possible for production to rise in greater proportion than the number of employfs." In a break-down of overall pro duction, as of September, 1940, the CED said output of nondur able goods will have risen to $44, 458,200,000. or a gain of 35.7 per cent over the 1!)3U figure of $32, 773,300,000; that production of durable goods will hove expand ed 50.3 peicent over 1939 to $34, 420,500,000 from $22,906,700,000; and miscellaneous output will be up 40.2 percent to 1,630,300,000 from $1,163,000,000 in 1939. Greatest increase is expected in the automobile field, where a rise of 75.8 percent s indicated. Emphasizng the need for "suit able merchandising plans" so that record production can reach con sumption channels, the committee divided the post-war years into three periods: 1. The period of transition to peacetime operations; 2. The period in which industry will try to catch up with accu mulated demand; and 3. The fi nal period in which there will be a switchover to self-sustained basis and during which jobs will depend on current demand and current income. Russians Prepare New 'Super' Five Year Program MOSCOW, Aug. 20 (UP) Rus sia announced today a super five year plan designed to repair the nation's war damage and surpass its pre -war economic develop ment by 1950. For the next five years, life in Russia wll be harnessed to the restoration and expansion of the basic heavy industries to give the country a strong and well-balanced economy. That was the underlying prin ciple of the instructions issued by the corflmunst party's central committee and the council of people's commissars to the state planning commission and various other commissariats over the week-end. The instructions stated the plan should be aimed first at effect ing "complete restoraton of the economy in the formerly occu pied zones; secondly, post-war reorganization of the national economy, and thirdly, further de velopment of all regions of the soviet union." Million jobless Due to Peace Early Midwest, West Coast Hardest Hit By United Presi Industry's reconversion from war to peace made more than a million persons jobless today. A United Press survey of ma jor war production centers show ed at least 1.279.000 workers have lost their jobs through war con tract cancellations. The middle-west was hardest hit. More than 560,000 persons arc out of jobs in Kansas City, St. Louis, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland and other central states cities. Cheering News Eastern and northeastern states reported 310,000 layoffs, while 54,000 workers in southern and southeastern industrial areas looked for new jobs. . airplane manufacturing centers discharged more than 360.000 workers. Contract cancellations in the southwestern states left 71.500 jobless. Workers flooded into Urlted Stales employment service offices VIDKUN QUISLING: "I had the impression he (Hitler) took a strong personal liking to me." . Quisling Asserts 'Hitler Liked Me'; Plead Not Guilty OSLO, Aug. 20 (UP) Vidkun Quisling, second of Adolf Hit ler's European puppel leaders to go on trial for his life, pleaded not guilty to treason today and denied he had any advance knowledge of Germany's plan to invade Norway in 1940. The shabby man whoso name has become a symbol for traitors and puppets uttered his plea in a ringing voice after listening to three supreme court judges read the long indictment. Bogins Ordeal Thus Quisling began the ordeal from which former Marshal Hen ri Philippe Petain, Hitler's puppet chief of state in France, emerged only last week in Paris with a death sentence. Quisling subm'tted as part of his defense a long memoir and soliloquy he had written in his cell. He denied he had prepared any coup against the government to coincidt with the German in vasion and demanded complete exoneration. "All asses give the dying lion its kick," he told the court. "I demand rehabilitation and in demnification for the insult and harm inflicted upon me." Blames Britain He blamed Britain's mining of Norwegian waters for the Ger man attack on Norway. Word of the British mining reached him April 8, 1940 and later that day, he said, "Reports came through" German transports were en route. The Germans landed April 9. Formation of a government that would work with the Ger mans not only saved Norway from further destruction and death, he said, butd eterred Hit ler from also invading Sweden. Quisling said he first met Hit ler in 1939 and "I had the, impres sion he right away took a strong personal liking to me." Five of Eight Hurt In Crash Remain In Hospital Here Roy Allen, 14, has been re leased from the Grande Rondc hospital, where he has been un der observation since Saturday, following an accident on the Island City road. Five of the eight 'teen agers involved in the accident are still in the hospital. They are: Paul Carmen, Jim Nichols, Julicanne Dunn, Car roll Jean Nichols, and Robert Mathis. Robert Brawshaw' and Stanley Porter were released from the hospital Saturday. looking for postwar jobs. In Chicagot hree times the normal number of applicants appeared Jt the employment offices. John Nuveen, jr., Chicago re gional war production board chairman, said 385 Chicago war plants had been reconverted to civilian uses. The plants employ more than half a million work ers. About 80,000 Chicago war workers have beenr eleased after war contract cancellations. Hold Rally Workers generally were con cerned about the future. At Huntington Park, Calif., Mrs. Ruth Frank, 49, ended her life by taking poison. Her husband said she became hysterical when h told her he had lost his job in an aircraft factory. At ChicaffO the rnncrpse t,t In- dustrial Organizations will hold a parade and rally tonight t "rouse the nation" to the phgrt of the worker idled by reconversion. LA GRANDE, OREGON MONDAY EVKNINU, AlKiUS'l MacArthur Japan in 10 Wainwright Soon to Go to Chungking After Air Rescue By ALBERT RAVEN HOLT CHUNGKING, Aug. 20 (UP) Japan formally asked Gen. Doug las MacArthur to halt allied air rescues of war prisoners from occupied areas today after volun teer American paratroops of the U. S. office of strategic service liberated Lt. Gen. Jonathan M. Wainwright, hero of Bntaan and Corregidor. ; An American plane will land at Mukden, Manchuria, to pick up Wainwright and bring him to Chungking as soon as he arrives there from the prison camp at Sian. Sian is 100 miles northeast of Mukden. . Health Good . ; It was not known whether the Japanese will attempt to prevent his return to allied lines. Jap anese general headquarters ra dioed MacArthur from Tokyo such rescues are likely to hamper "the realization of our earnest de sire to effect smoothly and satis factorily the cessation of hostili ties and the surrender of arms."' General Wainwright was re ported in good health. Chinese1 and U. S. officials here anxiously awaited his arrival, possibly with in the next 36 or 48 hours. The OSS team at Mukden was led by Maj. J. T. Hennessey. Maj. R. F. Lamar was specifical ly entrusted with the mission of rescuing Wainwright. American military circles un derstood . Major Lamar, after parachuting into Mukden Atug. 16 traveled to Sian by Japanese, plane or motor vehicle. Lamar intended to bring Wainwright OPA to Shift: to Price Control Reorganization of the OPA board from rationing to price control will be started soon as a result of staff meetings in the district offices in Portland Fri day and Saturday, Jack Hale, board supervisor of the OPA, an nounced today. Hale stated the board expects to retain the majority of its per sonnel, the change being not one of immediate terminations, but of transfer of personnel. Keep Prices Down "We expect a very active pro gram on price control," Hale an nounced, "with Chester Bowles' five-point program being our line of procedure i 1. The rid musi do kept on food prices at all levels. 2. Clothing and apparel prices arc too high at present. 3. Reconversion prices must be controlled. 4. Rents must be strictly con trolled. 5. Enforcement division will take more active participation in the enforcing of price control. "Price control, "'"said Hale, "is more important now than it has been at any previous time. There aie many ommodities that will come on the market slowly, and under present conditions, where money is plentiful and goods are scarce, without price control, in flation could and would become the order of the day overnight. Not Plenty "As for rationing" he said, "while most rationing has ended, we by no means want the public to get the idea that there are Dilemma of Young Utticer Unsolved ! MALDEN, Mass., Aug. 20 (UP) ' A young army officer is to ! leave tomorrow for a Texas camp j apparently no nearer a solution I of the dilemma, which prompted him and his sick wife to otter their paralyzed daughter for j adoption. Lt. Travis T. Bryan, formerly of Vancouver, Wash., and his I pretty young wife, from Taconia. feel they no longer are able t" care for the oldest of tfieir three daughters 3-year-old Diana. Bryan explained his wife, who weighs but 06 pounds, has been hospitalized several times and is nut strong enough to take care of Diana, who was injured in biith and suffered spastic para lysis, and their other children, Pallida. 19 months, and Jeii, 8 1 months. GETS NEWS OF LIBERATION Mrs. Jonathan Wainwright. left, wife of the goneral, and Mrs. John Greoly of Washington, friend of the Wainwright family, stand before the portrait of the liberated general. He has been a prisoner almost four years. first to Mukden, then to Chung king. Informed circles said General Wainwright, since the surrender of Corregidor, had been trans ferred from Formosa to Tokyo, to Chemulpo on the southeast coast of Korea, and finally to "Sian. '. " 1 It was revealed that all mem bers of the rescue teams were plenty of tires. We anticipate tire rationing to become a serious problem, since our quota for the month of September is no greater than that for the month of Au gust. "The shift in eligibility ratings from people in war industries to those employed in gainful occu pations will also present a prob lem," he continued. "There will be more people eligible for tires than there have been in the past, Nylon Hose, Two Way Stretch Girdles Due on Market Soon WASHINGTON, Aug. 20 (UP) Government experts came up to day with cheering news for milady: Nylon stockings and two way stretch girdles are just around the corner. In fact, the entire clothing outlook has improved tremendously and prospects are more clothes of all kinds and more low-priced clothes vill be appearing on retail shelves immediately. Shoe rationing will end soon possibly within two wjeks and in two months at the outside. WPB experts said two-way stretch girdles should be back on the market within 60 days. Here's the outlook: Next month there will be on the market more work clothing, women';! dresses, nightgowns, pa jamas, men's suits and trousers and shirts. Plenty of shirts should be available becaue the navy plans to sell 3,000,01)0 shirts and other types of clothing. Heavy wool garments such as mackinaws, pea coats and cossack jackets will also appear. By October, children's clothing will become more plentiful, par ticularly creepers, rompers, pa jamas, nightgowns, dresses, slips, panties, underwear, siiiits, and overalls. About the same time the supply of such wool garments as overcoats, topcoats, women's and children's coats and suits will be increased and on the mar ket. Also in about two months bed spreads, upholstery, draperies, canvas and lentirig will be in larger supply in retail stores. By November a fairly good supply of low and medium priced cotton, wool and rayon garments vill bo in the stores. ASK WITHDRAWAL WASHINGTON. Aug. 20 (UP) W a r production hoard chair man J. A. Krug today urged man ufacturers whose military con tracts were canceled to withdraw promptly their own orders for bottleneck items so scarce ma terials will flow more freely into expanding civilian pftoductiun. 20, l4t to Land Army in Days, Japs Told volunteers who understood the hazardous job of landing in ene my territory before the formal surrender was signed. U. S. mili tary quarters said no arrange ments had been made with the Japanese beforehand. All per sonnel ran their own risk if the Japanese opened fire or inter fered with the operation in any way. and we shall only be able to is sue tires to the extent of what our quotas amount to. We shall have, to base their eligibility to a great extent on what is was previous to the ending of the war. "Up to this time there have been no changes in either the food or shoe rationing programs and these will continue to be ad ministered in the same manner as they have been in the past." Wheal Harvest in County 75 Percent Completed Now About 75 percent of Union county's wheat is harvested, and the remainder should be in with in the next few weeks, it was an nounced today. Cloyd and Ilenwick Clark, and Lon Eyers have finished their harvests, and harvesting on the John Schroeder ranch should be completed today. Husband Describes 8 S J Tells How He and His SEATTLE, Aug. 20 (UP) Pro nounced "perfectly sane" by a police psychiatrist, after behead ing his wif with a Filipino cere monial knife, Earl Victor Hait liy, 47-year-old veteran of both world wars and the Mexican dis pute, today was charged with first degree murder. Chief deputy prosecutor John J. Kennett said w itnesses to the Aug. 11 decapitation said Hart ley chased hi wife, Ida, 55. from their home, stunned her and be headed her when she dropped to her hands niid knees. The murder weapon, authori ties said, came from a large col lection or sword , guns, ami knives Hartley had taken as sou venirs while in service. Subsequently Kennett made public a swoin statement Issued by Hartley describing fantastic knife duels and shooting affrays More Hope for La Grande M en Held by Japs Release of Gen. "Skinny" Wainwright from the. Japanese prison camp near Mukden hae re vived the hopes of many parents and wives in this area that their husbands and sons will be re leased soon from the captivity which has now lasted nearly four years. Pvt. Keith Walker is one who was taken on Bataan or Corergi dor when Wainwright also was taken, His wife, Jean, says she has not heard from him lately, but the last she heard, from Cpl. Willard Hall, was that he was in the No. 1 camp near Tokyo and was an orderly for General Weekes. Hall's story was substantiated by Lloyd Floyd of Lostine, who, like Hall was taken in the Phil ippines and released at the lib eration of the islands. Corporal Hall was one of those who took part in the death march on Bataan and lived to tell about it. He also was one of those who escaped from the torpedoing of a prison ship. . Urgol O3borno, son of Mr. and Mrs. O. C. Osborne, was another La Grande soldier taken in the Philippines but who is later re ported to have died in captivity. Lt. Keith Madill, step son of Mrs. Ben Madill of Baker, for mer La Grande resident, was still a prisoner in the Philippines, but his wifo was released and has returned to her home at Salt Lake City. Kenneth Flonery, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Flanery of La Grande, is still another who is a prisoner of the Japanese who was taken in the Philippines. Rationing of Farm Implement Tires To End Tonight WASHINGTON, Aug. 20 (UP) Rationing of lues for farm im plements and industrial uses will end at midnight, the office of price administration announced today. Rationing of truck and passen ger car tires will continue. OPA Chief Chester Bowles said that ample supplies of all sizes and types of farm implement tires, including tractor tires, nrc now uvailable to meet require ments. "So we ar e removing them from rationing," he said. He thanked farmers for coop erating with their local war price and rationing boards throughout the rationing program, which be gan in 1!I42. He said that passenger tires and truck tires that are used for farm equipment must continue to be rationed because of short sup ply. The shortage of passenger and truck tires is still acute, he said. Knife Fights . . . $ $ Wife Often Battled in which he said he and his wife engaged for months. "We used to git drunk and fight all the t i m e," Hartley's statement said. "When we got real drunk we'd grab our big bolo knives and fight with them. We'd cut one another, but never too bad. We rcipected each others ability to protect ourselves. We'd also shoot at each other with guns, but we never hit one an other." Hartley said his wife, owner of considerable rental property in Everett and Seattle,, kept him in money. . "She often told me," Hartley's statement concluded, "that some day I would kill her. So I guess Ida wasn't surprised. She was awfully jealous. She wouldn't let me eat in a restaurant where there were women waitresses, but that's all over now." FIVE CENTS Will Ui Force If Necessary MANILA, Aug. 20 (UP) Gen. Douglas MacArthur sent the Jap anese surrender envoys -back to Tokyo with word he will lead on American occupation army into Japan within 10 days, fully equipped to buck up the landng. by force, if necessary. Spokesmen for the supreme al lied commander revealed the Jap anese emissaries bore back with, them still-secret orders outlining when and where MacArthur will enter Japan to dictate the sur render terms to Emperor Hiro-' hito. Separate Demands At the same time, they reveal ed receipt of an urgent appeal from the Japanese government asking MacArthur to intervene in China where, Tokyo said, "un disciplined" Chinese government and communist troops pre scram--bling to take over Japanese-held areas. The Japanese asked MacAP thur to send an investigating party into China. They s aid Chungking and Yenan forces are "rushing unwarrantedly and. without any discipline" into Jap-', anese-controlled China with sep arate demands. -, Tokyo said the Chinese actions are hampering Japan's efforts to ' effect an orderly surrender in China and the Japanese garrison commanders are reluctant to lay down their arms under existing conditions. Pretext . "Although the Japanese forces, which already have completely ceased hostilities, intend to car ry out quickly the demand men tioned in the joint proclamaton, lt is deemed necessary to take appropriate measure for the maintenance of order and the protection of the general public," the Japanese appeal said. There was no immediate indU cation whether the Japanese hop ed to use the China situation as a pretext for further stalling in the surrender negotiations, but MacArthur made it clear he will brook no more delay. ?en Days "I shall soon proceed to Japan with accompanying forces com posed of ground, naval and air elements," the allied supreme commander declared. "Subject to weather that will permit the landins, it is antici pated the instrument of surren der will be signed within 10 days." British and Australian armed forces, he added, will take over the occupation of all Japanese held ureas in the Southwest Pa cific south of the Philippines. The naming of the Japanese airfields on which allied planes would land was believed to have been one of the man points of discussion. Clear Terms MacAithur remained oloof from the preliminary surrender talks. Through his chief of staff, Lt, Gen, Richard K. Sutherland, he gave the Japanese orders in such blunt, clear language there appears no likelihood of further stalling by Tokyo. It was believed members of the allied staffs now in Manila probably will participate in the landing on Japan but only Amer ican occupation forces were ex pected at the start since there is See WILL USE . . . Page 5 Group to Make State Ready For Tourists SALEM, Aug. 20 (UP)r-Fore-sceing unprecedented tourist ac tivity In the late fall and early spring, the state tourist promo tion committee has rolled up its sleeves and is buckling down to the work of advertising the play grounds of Oregon. . First tusk which the commit tee will begin is that of making Oregon ready for tourists. This, they believe, may be done by educajing Ihe residents of the state to revive the "traditional Oregon courtesy," and to improve hotels, auto camps and other fa cilities for tourists.