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What Are Your GI Rights? See New Feature Starting Today Page 6 Postwar Changes May Be Hard For Some Wives, Says RuthMillett,(P2) ESTABLISHED 1896 LA GRANDE, OREGON TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 21, 1945 FIVE CENTS 4-N Fai Set Here Tw8 Days County wide 4-H club fair for the exhibition of club projects will be held Sept. 19 and 20 at the county fair grounds, it was announced to day. ' All 4-H club exhibits are sched uled to be in place by 10 a. m. Sept. 19, with judging beginning immediately and continuing un til all projects have been placed. The faif eliminates the judg ing of 4-H club projects at local achievement days, and will be the members' only opportunity for projects to be judged. ; Scheduled for Sept. 20 are a livestock judging contest and de monstrations for 4-H club mem bers, a n d county style review (judged not on the workmanship of the dress so much as how it appears on the girl). - Four-H: leaders are hoping to have a judging contest for the girls, also, although definite plans have not yet been made. Dairy s t'ock to be exhibited must be tested for Bang's disease if the animals are six months old or older, it was announced. Bradley Declares 'Jobs For AH' Prime Concern . WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 (UP) Gen. Omar N. Bradley, new veterans administrator, told sen ators considering a "jobs for all" bill today getting a job is "the greatest concern" of the return ing veteran; Bradley said a lot of soldiers coming back are not going to be satisfied with the jobs they left when they went to war. if- "They are going to want to ap ply what they have learned in the service," he said. The four-star general made it clear he does not want his testi . -mony to ube, taken, as indicating either "approval or disapproval" of the bill-under consideration. Bradley was lead-off witness in senate banking committee hear ings on the measure. Committee Chairman Robert t . Wagner, D., N. Y., told reporters he believes the bill will reach the u senate floor by mid-September and said it "should go into efleci as of Jan. 1, 1946." Wagner said the bill is on the list of "must" legislation Pres ident Truman will submit to con gress when it reconvenes Sept. 5. - . rn-' Marshall Aide New State Assistant WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 (UP) i President Truman today ap pointed Col. Frank McCarthy of Richmond, 'Va., to be an assistant secretary of state succeeding Ju- ! lius C. Holmes, resigned. ' McCarthy has been on the war department's general staff as an i aide to Gen. George C. Marshall, chief of staff. In his new post, McCarthy will direct administra- ' tion of the state department and the U. S.'Toreign service. Baseball Results lA AMERICAN LEAGUE . New York 3 8 0 Chicago 0 5 1 Batteries: ' Ruffing and Gar bark; Lee, Johnson (9) & Tresh. R H F. Philadelphia 7 17 1 Detroit 6 14 1 , Batteries: Newsom, Berry (7) and Rosar; Benton, Caster (7), Houtteman (9), Tobin (11) and Swift, Richard (7). ' R H E Washington 11 15 1 Cleveland 8 13 2 Batteries: Ullrich (7), Picrctti (8) arid Ferrell; Klieman, Salve son (5), Hoag (7), Reynolds 9) and Hayes. NATIONAL LEAGUE R H E St. Louis 8 13 0 i Boston 4 12 6 Batteries: Barrett and O'Dea; Hutchings. Hendrickson (2), Sin gleton (8) and Masi. R H E Pittsburgh 12 18 0 Brooklyn I 8 2 Batteries: Gables and Lopez; Gregg, King (1), Lombardi (6) and Sandlock. Weather Data for 24 hours to 7 a. m. Temperature: Maximum 86 Minimum 40 Forecast: Mostly clear tonight and Wednesday. VTMin "T ' initial i imii ..:,f..A. .S::: iaCWsl : It, . Umt:.,i,,mxtr,tii DEFEATED JAPS LAND AT Jap surrender arrangements delegation file out of a C-54 transport on arrival at Nichols field, in Manila from Ie Shima. The Jap officer leading his party is Lt. Gen. Torashiro Kawabe. vice chief of Japanese imperial staff. Truman Order Ends Lend-Lease WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 (UP) President Truman has ordered an immediate halt in the United States' multi-billion dollar lend lease program, the White House announced today. The lend-lease program, initiated in 1940 as a defense measure and continued as an instrument of war after the United States entered the con flict, has cost this country about $39,000,000,000. The president ordered Leo T. Crowley, foreign economic ad ministrator, to cancel "all out Ogilvy Trial May Start in October Rancher Held on Charge of Murder Trial of Claude N. Ogilvy, 70, Cove rancher, on charge of first degree murder in the death of Jack Stareo, 57, will probably start the first week in October, according to District Attorney Colon Sberhard. ' , Ogilvy is still in the county Jail and has not yet obtained coun sel. He has not been arraigned and has not asked to be admitted to bail. The charge on which he is held is not a bailable offense. He was arrested July 25. Ogilvy wus arrested at his ranch home by Deputy County Sher iff Hugo Klinghammer after witnesses told slate police and the county officials Ogilvy had killed Stureo with a shotgun blast in an argument over a fence. Burned House, 14 Roadside Fires, Butchered Cow OLYMPIA, Aug. 21 (UP) A weekend spree is over for three persons accused of burning down a house, lighting 14 road side fires and butchering a cow without the owner's permission. Ed Angwood, 27, Michigan Hill, Wash., pleaded guilty in superior court yesterday to a charge of arson and drew a 20 year prison term. Two 'teen aged accomplices, Jim Cordell and Dennis Ruble, have been charged with arson, but prose cutor Levy Johnson said a new information will be filed charg ing burglary. A 15-y e a r - old youth also implicated was re leased. Sheriff Frank C. Tomblyn said the escapade began with Angwood driving a car along a highway south of Olympia while the boys tossed out light ed matches. Later the quartet burglarized a farm house and then burned it. The trail led to a ranch where the four shot and killed a cow, mut off the hind quarters and cooked them at the home of Vance Newhart, Michigan Hill. Newhart is held for investiga tion. Synthetic Tires 'Here To Stay' WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 (UP) Motorists can look forward to an end of tire rationing by the first of the year, but synthetic tires and tubes are here for a long stay. That's the opinion of rubber experts. The war production board expects rationing of pas senger tires to end "within two or three months" and truck tires "within three or four months." The "victory" passenger tire is expected to have a synthetic rubber tread and natural rubber ply. It's going to be a good tire, according to WPB experts, and will have a 40,000-milc life or better. That is equal to the dura bility of the average prewar tire of 100 percent natural rubber. This year 25,000,000 passenger tires will be produced from these improved processes. MANILA Preceeded by an American standing contracts for lend-lease" except where allied governments are willing to make payments or where it is "in the interests of the United States to complete them." The White House statement said Truman also authorized Crowley to negotiate with cus tomers for the sale to them of lend-lease supplies. The stockpiles abroad total be tween $1,000,000,000 and $1,500, 000,000, the White House said. Another $2,000,000,000 worth of lend-lease contracts for non-mu Attorney Henry Hess Awards Scholarship A sophomore scholarship in the amount of $74 has been awarded to Janette Mae Frazler of Milton, who will be a sophomore at East ern Oregon college next fall. The scholarship was granted by Hen ry L. Hess, attorney here. Forest Fire Again Races For Coast PORTLAND, Aug. 21 (UP) Flames of Oregon's 150,000 acre month-old forest fire raced to ward the Tillamook county coast today after fighters had the blaze controlled for nearly a week. Dense smoke clouds and flying embers covered the new burn at the edge of Nehalcm bay pasture lands whore the flames jumpd the natural fire line and ate their way toward Botterson. Green areas only one and a halt miles from the small Mohler community are burning. Sol diers from Neahkanhie camp and pumpers have been sent to the urea. Accurate scouting of the east Foley peak is prevented by heavy smoke. Foley peak is by the edge of the old burn at the south ern corner of the new outbreak. The fire there is near green tim ber which extends to the coast, and in the path of dry easterly winds. The Snoqualmie, Washington national forest fire has spread over 900 acres. Pat Cavanaugh Finds Primitive State in The following excerpts were taken from a letter received by John Cavanuaugh from his daugh ter, Pat, now a cryptographer in Puerto Rico. The latter was dated Aug. 14: "Everyone Is very excited down here on the rumors of the war ending in the Pacific. After all the false rumors, I won't be lieve anything until I see a writ ten statement by the war depart ment. I've heard San Francisco and New York did quite a lot of celebrating because they didn't officer, members of the IB-man nitions and finished goods is un completed. Halt in lend-lease shipments became effective for each country when its mission received notifi cation. The president's instructions to Crowley stipulated "if the mili tary needs lend-lease supplies for the movement of troops or for occupation purposes, the military will be responsible for procure ment." Ross did not elaborate on the possibility some lend-lease con tracts will continue. Robert Bradshaw Again in Hospital Robert Bradshaw, 16, was re admitted to Grande Ronde hos pital yesterday afternoon with a fractured skull. Young Brad shaw, o.io of eight youths iri- jured in a wreck near Island City early Saturday, had been., released from the hospital af ter examination, as having "minor injuries," and the frac ture became apparent only re cently. Still In the hospital are: Paul Carmen, 17; Jim Nichols, 16; Julieanne Dunn, 14; Carroll Jean Nichols, 14; Robert Math is, 15 Roy Allen, 14. and Stan ley Porter, 16, have been re leased, More Bean Pickers Needed at Once PORTLAND, Aug. . 21 (UP) Much of Oregon's one-million-plus dollar bean crop will be lost unless more pickers show up this week, the farm labor office re ported today. Losses will run into several hundred thousand dollars, the of fice said. From 150 to 200 acres in Lane county around Eugene will have to be abandoned. In the Salem area, a thousand pick ers are needed by the middle of the week. At least 500 pickers are needed in Yamhill county around McMinnville. Mi s. Ed Wright Dies in Portland Funeral services for Mrs. Ed Wright, former La Grande resi dent who died yesterday morning at Portland after illness of a month, have not yet been ar ranged, according to word receiv ed here by her brother. Will Clark. Mrs. Wright was a native of Cove and had lived in Union county for many years. Her hus band was for a long time county clerk. When he died in 1927 she moved to Portland to be with her mother. Her son, John, who is in the armed services, was home on leave at the time of her death. believe the news was false. "The other day, I went for a drive in the country and saw what life is like in the tropics where there isn't any civilization. We drove along a winding road along the Atlantic. Here and there were straw, one-room huts where as many as 10 people lived without any visible means of sanitation and no beds but ham mocks and rags on the floor. 1 tows and rowa of tutor cane, millions of cocoanut trees, and banana trees. : Yanks toOccupyJapanese HomelandStartingSunday Murder Mart Killings SEATTLE, Aug. 21 (UP) La belling him the operator of a "murder mart," peddling homi cides for $500 each, King county authorities today filed charges of attempted murder against Wil liam Jennings Cooper, 47, after disclosure of a plot to kill a 39-year-pld Seattle woman. Cooper's bail was set at $25, 000. ' Authorities said they uncov ered the operations of the al leged murder syndicate during an Investigation into the boot leg slaying of Waltre Bernard Foley, jr., 22-year-old former liquor investigator, Aug. 6. Chief deputy prosecutor John J. Kcnnett and chief of county detectives George H. Lohrer, said two men, farmer Calloway Thom as, 25, and Robert Timme, 37, also were formally charged after they signed statements admitting one of them was hired to slay Mrs. Gladys Pauline Bailey, Timme was charged with grand larceny growing out of murder WPB Ends Control On Building of Some Factories WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 (UP) The war production board to day relaxed construction controls to permit the building of factor ies, plants, and other industrial facilities. The agency estimated industry is ready to go ahead with about 4,500,000,000 worth of such con- Birucuuii. wr-o uiuei was lssueu, It said, to speed up reconversion. The agency listed these pro jects which now may be con structed without its authoriza tion: 1. Mining, smelting and refin ing, foundries 2. Logging and lumbering op erations including retail. 3. Pulp plants and industrial research, laboratories. 4. Food processing plants. 5. Textile mills, excluding tailors' or dressmakers' establish ments. 6. Printing and publishing establishments. Four Members of Doolittle'8 Band Taken From Japs CHUNGKING, Aug. 21 (UP) Four members of Lt. Gen. James H. Doolittle's Tokyo raiders have been liberated by American para troopers dropped at Peiping, it was revealed today, but several other paratroop rescue operations encountered Japanese or Russian objections. The Doolittlc airmen were among a group of 12 Americans liberated in the Peiping area by a group of paratroop volunteers of the office of strategic services. Body of Sailor Found in Canal KLAMATH FALLS, Aug. 21 (UP) The body of Andrew Ye's ko, AMM 3c, Erie, Pa., was re covered yesterday after he plung ed to his death from a bridge railing here. Navy officials reported Yesko was accompanied by five other sailors and four girls. He tried to walk the railing of the bridge, slipped, and fell into the govern ment canal. Two of his compan ions, J. R. Jenkins and K. M. Butler, leaped after Yesko but were unable to rescue him. "Right in the middle of no where, we developed a flat tire that couldn't have been any flat ter. To top things off, the jack had been stolen. So Mrs. J. and I stood by the car waiting and hoping for another to come by while Colonel J. went hiking down the road to see what he could find. Pretty soon along down the road comes a crowd of jabbering natives carrying huge machetes; in the middle of them we distinguished Colonel J., who was doing a lot of motioning racket operations and is also charged jointly with Thomas of conspiracy to commit homicide. The assignment to kill Mrs. Bailey was not carried out, but instead the men said they hid the woman in an auto court and conspired to collect the money on the pretense they had earn ed it. Timme, a carpenter, Kennett said, admitted he wei hired for the murder but he in turn ap proached Thomas, a night club Stockman Hopes to Advance Grande Ronde Irrigation Plan PORTLAND, Auk. 21 (UP) Stockman of Oregon said today, the bintrost problem now, m lus opinion, is to take the tetters olf industry. Pentup buying' power will solve the unemployment, prob lem if industry is granted such freedom, he believes. Stock man estimated reconversion will last from four to six months and with the controls of industry the natural demands of the pub lic will create new jobs. The shipyard layoff situation is "regrettable, but the end of the war caught everyone unprepar ed," he suid. Stockman' favors secretary of agriculture Clinton Anderson's farm program and believes that the lifting of restrictions on ag ricultural production and ration ing will result in more buying rather than lower prices. When Stockman returns to Washington, D. C, he intends to work for some Oregon irrigation project. His special projects, rang ing from $3,000,000. to $8,000,000 each, located at Bully creek, Mal heur county; Powder river, Ba ker county; Grande Ronde. Nelle Grimmett Resigns as Clerk Of Ration Board - Nolle Grimmett, chief clerk at the rationing bourd, has resigned effective Sept. 1, it was an nounced toduy. She has been a board member since the start of rationing. "Now that the majority of ra tioning has been discontinued," she said, "my duties arc no long er necessary, so I plan to return to my insurance business." Man Held Confesses Stealing From Mail GRANTS PASS, Aug. 21 (UP) Robert Patrick Morgan, 27, is in county jail here today pending arrival of postal authorities to in vestigate charges of mail box rob bery. Morgan was arrested by state Police Sgt. J. A. Maulding and Police Chief Carl Dallus on a complaint made by Carl Carpen ter. Finding no mail in his box, Carpenter held a conference witii the mailman and discovered mail had been left at his home. The two men stopped Morgun, the only stranger in that vicinity, und held him in the Carpenter car un til police arrived. Morgan confessed to the theft and also admitted taking mail from boxes in Portland, Vancou ver, San Francisco, Sun Bernar dino, Calif., and cashing checks contained in the letters. AUDIENCE WITH POPE VATICAN CITY, Aug. 21 (UP) Pope Pius XII gave a private audience today to Edward D. Mc Kim, special assistant to Pres ident Truman. McKim talked with the pope for half an hour. Puerto Rico with his arms. He couldn't speak Spanish and they couldn't speak English so you can imagine how they got along. Finally another car came along and lent ut their jack, so sfter a lot of jibber-jabber they ot the tire on end Colonel i. tot thm up to a lit tle hut that evidently was their bar and bought them a drink. Said he couldn't down the stuff they had but ordered drinks for all of them. He skirted out with ten fellows and ended up with 20." $500 Each bouncer and former prise fight er for the job, Thomas then disclosed t5 Tim me, Kennett said, he was en gaged to Mrs. Bailey's daughter and the pair agreed to. save her. The deputy prosecutor said the plot apparently had its origin in an altercation between Mrs. Bail ey and Cooper.-Mrs. Bailey has charged in a civil action Cooper had beaten her during an auto mobile ride and threatened to kill her. U. S. Representative Lowell Public Schools' to Cost 30 Millions During 1945-46 SALEM, Aug. 21 (UP) Cost of operating Oregon s public schools for the- 1945-48 school year prob ably will reach $30,025,000, Gov. Earl Snell's tax study commission was told yesterday. Supt. Rex Putnam estimated that the. largest percentage of cost would ba employment, of teachers and administrative offi cials...... , X School . cost in Oregon last school year was $22,544,558. Estimated enrollment- for the coining year is 237,387, an in crease of approximately 11,000. Putnam suggested that mini mum slate equalization fund be provided to effectuate the state's share of the school, program to about 59 percent of the current operating costs. The commission announced James Barrik of Washington, D. C, has been employed as the commission's executive secretary and administrator. State Senator Coe McKenna newly-uppointed member of the committee, said he does not in tend to advocate a sales tux be fore the commission. He prev iously hud publicly endorsed the sales lax. The next commission meeting will be held early in September, It wus announced. Commander Has One Lucky Day PORTLAND, Aug. 21 (UP) Lt. Comdr. Albert A. Muttera really hud a lucky day. Firsl while in the shipyard where his minesweeper is being repaired from south Pacific in vasion inflicted damages, Muttera lost his wallet containing over $100. As he hunted for it, u yurd worker returned it to him. A half hour later, the navy re ceived word of his promotion to lieutenant commander. He'd been waiting for it several months. Celebrating at a party, he won a first prize. He is from Roches ter, N. Y. Japs Have Only 55 Combat Ships Left GUAM. Aug. 21 (UP) Only 55 combat vessels, including six Ger man submarines, remain of Ja pan's once formidable fleet of 382 fighting ships, it was announced today by Adm. Chester W. Nim itz' headquarters on the busis of official reports confirmed by Japan's surrender envoys. Rear Adm. Forres. C. Sher man, deputy chief of staff for Nimitz, said that Japanese offi cials at the Manila conference with Gen. Douglas Mac-Arthur had confirmed the "complete destruction" of the enemy's navy and the reduction of her once for midable merchant fleet to a rela tive handful of ships. The Japanese naval envoy at Manila, Sherman said, asserted l he nearly complete choking off of the island empire's sea lanes hud brought an acuto shortage of food, transportation and gasoline. Air Men Will Go In First MANILA, Aug. 21 (UP) Japan announced today the American occupation of her homeland will begin Sunday when airborne forces will land in the Tokyo area, .The Japanese high command revealed the airborne occupation forces would be followed t w 6 days Inter by American naval forces, landing at Yokoshuka at the entrance to Tokyo bay. No Contact -V Withdrawal of Japanese army and navy forces from the occu pation areas was ordered after Tokyo propaganda broadcasts had expressed fear some "hot headed" Japanese army men might attempt to battle the oc cupation troops. The Japnnese high command sought to reassure the Japanese public which apparently feared occupation areas might be turn ed into buttle zones. It also or dered "non-fraternization." The first American troops will kind at Atsuki, just southwest of Tokyo, the Japanese announce ment revealed. Send Police Gendarmes are to be sent to maintain order in the area from ivhich the military has been with drawn, . -, . , The public was barred from' use of railroads in the affected area because all rail facilities will be required for the troop move ment. Anyone who ordinarily uses trains to ride to work is in structed to stay at home while the movement is being carried out. Gen. Douglas MacArthur, su preme allied occupation com munder, announced yesterday he will "proceed to Japan" within 10 days with ground, air and na val units to receive Japan's sur render. Whether he personally will travel by plane or warship was not announced. Japanese Surrender Envoy 8 See Chinese ' CHUNGKING, Aug. 21 (UP) The Chinese central news agency reported today that a Japanese surrender delegation arrived at the Chihkiang airfield. The Japanese delegation was headed by General Yiyoshi, dep uty chief of staff to Gen. Yasuji Okamura, the Japanese com mander in China. Okamura is ex pected at Chihkiang. Thursday. The British mUtTary mission reported British naval units are now enroute to Hong Kong to ac cept the Japanese surrender there. The Japanese were report ed to have signed a separate sur render at Amoy with the local Chinese commander who took over the port city. 52,000 Japanese Surrender to Reds LONDON, Aug. 21 (UP) The soviet communique tonight re ported 52,000 more Japunese pris oners have surrendered to ' ad vancing soviet far eastern forces in Manchuria. Among those taken prisoner were the commanders of tho first, third and fifth Kwan tung armies, the communique re ported. Soviet forces on Sakhalin island also advanced. The Red army advance was ac companied by a broadcast to sov iet troops to remember they had entered Manchuria as liberators rather than as conquerors. The broadcast came as three soviet armies completed the oc cupation of Mukden, Harbin and Changchun, Manchuria's three most important cities, and began mopping up.. Japanese troops' were surren dering by the tens of thousands. Mr. Fred Gaxkell Die at Grants Ps Mrs. Fred C. Gaskell, former resident of La Grande, has died in a Grants Pass hospital where she wn convalescing .from a heart ailment, according to word received here toduy. Funeral services will be held tomorrow pending the arrival of relatives.
