i
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
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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
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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.