La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, August 25, 1945, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextWeather . Data for"24 hours to 7 a. m. Temperature: ' Maximum 96 Minimum 45 i Forecast: Clear and slightly warmer Sunday. t :v. Darryl Zanuck Says 'No Conscience in Reich' Page 2 Uio and Walhwo Covnit ESTABLISHED 1896 LA GRANDE, OREGON, SATURpAY EVENING, AUGUST 25, 1945 FIVE CENTS i'f i Wore Stepped $26,338 Back Tax Disbursed Disbursement of $26,338.58 turn over from back taxes was an nounced today by Al Harlow, county treasurer, as follows: 1032 taxes: general fund, $478. 09; general road fund, $52.23; market road fund, $51,71; bond fund, $221.45; road bond redemp tion fund, $46.48; fire patrol fund, $.32; school fund, $128.74; high school fund, $28.16; special cities fund, $937.85; special school fund, $896.31; library fund, $1.75. 1933-34 taxes: general fund, $900.45; general road fund, $84. 80; market road fund, $78.51; bond fund, $221.42; road bond re demption fund, $104.43; fire pa trol fund, $15.14; school fund, $221.42; school fund, $35.54; spe cial cities fund, $1,678.21; spe cial school fund, $1,474.84; li brary fund, $2.35. 1935 taxes: general fund, $359. 46; general road fund, $33.57; market road fund, $33.75; bond fund, $104.06; road bond redemp tion fund, $36.25; fire patrol fund, $16.29; school fund, $91.31; high school fund, $49.04; special cities fund, $322.26; special school fund, $377.28; library fund, $.91. 1942-43 taxes: general fund, $386.29; general road fund, $32.25; market road fund, $27.73; indi gent soldier's fund, $1.29; fire pa trol fund, $9.28; school fund, $84. 18; high school fund, $17.12; spe cial cities fund, $643.83; special school fund, $702.82; library fund, $.87. 1944-45' taxes:; 7 general fund, $2,301.19; general road fund, $322.91; market road fund, $508. 28; indigent soldiers' fund, $11. 29; fire patrol fund, $194.30; school fund, $835.83; public util ities division fund, $305.25; high school fund, $392.31; special cit ies fund, $4,600.20; special school fund, $5,769.99; library fund, $8.31. Total: general fund, $4,425.48; general road fund, $525.76; mar ket road fund, $699.80; bond fund, $546.93; road bond redemption fund, $187.16; indigent soldiers' fund, $12.58; fire patrol fund, $235.33; school fund, $1,361.48; public utilities fund, $305.25; high school fund, $522.17; special cit ies fund, $8,281.40; special school Kind, $9,221.24; library fund, $14.01 Disbursement of $8,281.40 in special cities find has been an nounced as follows: La Grande, $7,509.76; $372.79; Elgin, $146.46; Powder, $36.10; Imbler, Island City, $37.75; Cove, Union. North $55.80; $42.74. Maaske Advises Veterans to Look Before Signing Dr. Robcn Maaske, president of Eastern Oregon colleee of education, again today advised veterans who are eligible for edu cation under the provision of the "G. I. bill of rights" to examine carefully all possibilities before signing up for any particular course of study. t "For many returned veterans 'some correspondence courses might be excellent. Veterans are warned, however, by the veter an's bureau, to observe carefully any group or salesman for a course who implies he is sent out or approved by the bureau," Dr. Maaske said. Such courses are legal in that they provide some resident in struction. They offer "college for those who are unable to get away to go to college" in some cases. They charge maximum tuition and pay the travel expenses of veterans to the city where the course is offered. Doolittle Fliers Arrive in Capital CHUNGKING. Aug. 25 (UP) Three of the eight American irmen known to have fallen into Japanese hands after raid ing Tokyo with LI. Gel. James H. Doolittle in April, 1942, ar rived in Chungking today from an ormny prison camp at Pei Pin O Q The filer who remained be hind aPeiping is Lt. George Barr, Pittsburg. Kas. - -! I- TWO UNION COUNTY MEN at least, Arthur LeHoy (Bud) Dra per, and Alfred Leslie Pearson of Island City, who is on the USS Iowa, will see this mighty fleet, the Third U. S. fleet, as it man euvers off the coast of Japan following news of Japan's surrender La Grande Two days of anxiety were end ed today for Mrs. Myrtle Price, 1808 First street, when she re ceived a letter from her son, Pet er G. Russell S 2c, who was aboard the USS Pennsylvania, recently reported damaged by en emy torpedo attacks off Okina wa with a loss of 20 men killed or wounded. The damage to the battleship was announced T h u r s day, al though the attack took place Aug. 12. The letter received, today by Mrs. Price was dated Aug. 14, Parity Offered on Wheat Under Loan WASHINGTON, Aug. 25 (UP) The agriculture department to day announced a purchase pro gram offering farmers full parity prices for 1945 wheat placed un der government loan. Farmers who put wheat under commodity credit corporation loans will have the option of sell ing the wheat next spring to the department at 15 cents a bushel above the applicable loan value minus carrying charges. Average $1.38 The average loan rate for this year's crop is $1.38 a bushel or 90 percent of parity. The sta bilization extension act of 11)44 requires the government to guar antee farmers full parity return on their wheat. All farm-stored whe;('. tinder loan, which has not been r edeem ed by next April 1 and which is delivered to authorized agents Nelson Rockefeller Resigns Stale Post WASHINGTON. Aug. 25 (UP) President Truman today accepted resignation of assist ant secretary of state Nelson A. Rockefeller. He appointed Spruille Braden, U. S. ambas sador to Argentina, to succeed Rockefeller as assistant secre tary in charge of Latin-American affairs. Rockefeller's resignation was announced by Charles G Ross, White House press secretary. He said Braden, a native of Elkhorn, Mont., will be formal ly nominated to the post when the senate reconvenes next month. Ross said he did not know of Rockefeller's plans for the future. Bulgaria Puts Off National Election LONDON, Aug. 25 (UP) Bul garia yielded to allied pressuse today and postponed indefinitely her national elections. Postpone ment is a diplomatic victory for the United States and Britain, who had protested to Sofia Bul garia's present single-party sys tem makes free elections impos sible, g, Since Russia also is a member of the control commission, this indicated the Soviets had sup ported the western allies WW' J3i Boy on Battleship Safe two days after the attack, and said, in part: "Mom, whatever you hear over the radio, or read in the paper, don't worry about it because I'm all right. I may be home soon very soon, in fact, but I'm not sure." In 8 Months Mrs. Price has known her son was aboard the Pennsylvania since Aug. 17, when she received a letter disclosing his station. This is the first trip for young Russell, 18, who has been .in the navy eight months. He was grad- by the producer, will bo pur chased by the department. The government will pay a price equal to loan value plus 15 cents a bushel, but not more than ceil ing price. No storage payment will be made on farm-stored loan wheat purchased by the govern ment. After April 1 Unredeemed ware-house-stored loan wheat will be bought after April 1 in the southwest and after May 1 in other areas. The price paid will be the applicable loan value represented by warehouse receipts plus 15 cents a bushel but not more than ceilings. Amount the producer will be paid will be the difference be tween the purchase price and the unpaid amount of the note plus interest through the date of pur- j chase and "the amount of ae- . rriind unnniH iwarphniKii ehari'ps I through the storage year." Lawyers Here Go To Baker to Hear Justice Douglas Several attorneys and their wives from La Grande and Union county drove to Baker this after noon to attend a dinner at which William O. Douglas, associate justice of the U. S. supreme court, will be '.he speaker on "the woik of the U. S. supreme couit. The meeting was to be for th-- Baker county bar and guests eluding members of the board o governors of the Oregon State Gar association. Guests from Union county in cluded Judge and Mrs. R- J Green, District Attorney and Mrs. Colon Eberhard, Mr. and Mrs George Cochran, Mr. and Mrs H nry Hess, all of La Grande, and Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Crum of El gin. Oregon National Guard is Praised SALEM, Aug. 25 (UP) Com mendation of the Oregon nation al guard is expressed in a letter received by Gov. Earl Snell from Mi, Gen. John F. Williams, ac. ing chief of the national guard bureau, Washington, D. C. I General Williams said of the Oregon guardsme- "their record of service might be equalkdO.ut certainly has not been exceeded by any unit of the U. S. army. 01 negotiations. Extent of this formation is so great the photog rapher could not get all of it. Bud is a member of the crew of the USS Indiana, a battle wagon. He onlisted in the navy in 1944. (See picture of Bid and his brother, page 3.) uated from La Grande high school in December, 1944. The Pennsylvania was torpe doed by a low flying Japanese plane while anchored in Buckner bay off Okinama Aug. 12, it has been announced. , Lucky Ship i A delayed dispatch from Oki nawa said the attacking plane glided in with its engines shut off and launched the torpedo, which struck just aft of amidship. . A . preliminary - report showed 20 men killed or missing. . The 33,100-ton Pennsylvania, long called "the luckiest ship in the fleet," was one of eight bat tleships damaged by the Japa nese in the Pearl Hurbor attack. It then participated in 13 am phibious operations from Attu to Leyte and Luzon. The ship has fired more tons of ammunition than any other ship in American naval history. Portland Aircraft Plant Closes Down PORTLAND, Aug. 25 (UP) Columbia aircraft industries was virtually al a standstill today due to the laying-off of most of its employes after a government can cellation of plane part contracts. The plant had been manufactur ing Catalina patrol bomber tail sections for the navy. Only 100 of an estimated 700 employes were left working in the plant, where a year and a half ago 2,000 were employed. About 75 percent of the employed were women. Liquor Agent Sais Story Was 'Hoax' SEATTLE, Aug. 25 (UP) For rest W. Ford, 28-ycar-old under cover agent for the state liquor board, told police last night that his story of having been tortured and beaten by bootleggers was a hoax. He was treated for superficial knife wounds and burns at King county hospital, but his latest statement said he was unable to remember how they were suffered. State Seeks Ways to Attract More Tourist Trade to Oregon By ELDON C. BARRETT SALEM, Aug. 23 (UP) End of the war and release of gasoline has thrown the business of ad vertising Oregon to tourists into high gear. Several weeks ago Gov. E.irl Snell said: "The tourist trade can be made Oregon's top industry ' """ '" : as a keynote, several promotional j st(frin(, cf,mmiU(;, UKri.,M js organizations have started. j advertising campaigns must be j Among these organizations is coordinated. the governor's 80-man state tour- : Oregon's existing "tourist in i ist promotion committee. j dustry" is valued at approximate- At a meeting recently with ly 50.000,000, and Governor Snell I Governor Snell, a steering com- jsays this can be doubled. Imittee of the promotional organ- j Something may, develop along ization laid preliminary Alans (or: an advertising campaign wnicn they be0eve is necessary. First step, the committee Screed, is to advertise the idea to OregoniansO.hemselves to revive "traditional Oregon courtesy-" Nlous Chinese Forces Advance to Take Former Capital CHUNGKING, Aug. 25 (UP) Chungking forces have entered Canton, Shanghai and the former national capital of Nanking, the Chinese central news agency re ported today. Th news agency indicated Gen eralissimo Chiang Kai-shek's troops were taking control of Canton and Nanking without op position from either the Japanese or rival communists. ' Officials appointed by the Chungking government wore re ported in control of Canton and functioning openly. Situation on other surrender fronts: Manila Typhoons force 48 hour postponement in American landing schedule on Japan and signing of surrender terms; Ad miral Spruance discloses occupa tion forces will go ashore with full combat equipment San Francisco Emperor issues imperial rescript asking Japanese army and navy forces to "de mobilize with speed and in or der." Chungking Chiang yields to Britain on occupation of Hong Korffi; gives up China's claim to outcSr Mongolia; offers Tibet high degcee of autonomy; generalissi mo sends third urgent invitation to ommunist leader Mao Tzo tung to confer personally with him; communists announce 50, 000 workers occupy Shanghai fac tory zone. Members of Cline Family Home First Time in Five Years UNION, Aug. 25 (Special) Mr. and Mrs. Ora Cline, for the first time in five years, have their family with them in their home. Their son, Darrell, just recently discharged from the service is at home for a rest, their daughter, Mrs. Rex Baxter with her hus band and four children arrived from Salt Lake Saturday, son Harold, his wife and four chil dren came in from Los Angeles Monday, Miss LuFayc arrived from Portland Tuesday. Hotels and auto courts as well as other tourists' facilities must be repaired or replaced, the com mittee said. Suggestions were made that tourist camps be de- j signed in western style. Taking care of the tourist after : he arrives in the stale will be a grefter advertising boon than a ooxlar of travel folders. Allot her noint nn uhi..h lh, this line when the state highway commission's tourist advisory committee meets in mid-September with the steering committee. MfVitimc, hotels and resorts In all parts of the stale report "con gested tourist traffic." Drag) Two Fires Near Here Brought Into Control Light showers and humidity which reached as high as 70 per cent early today had enabled fire fighters to bring the forest fires on Robb's hill, four miles from here under control and speeded the work of "mopping up," the state forestry service said this afternoon. Thirty or 40 men were still working there. .The Sagebrush and grass fire between Union and Tolocaset was also under control, the for esters said, after it had covered 7,000 acres or more in the Hog valley area. When the wind died down and the humidity increas ed greatly the blaze was stopped. Not, however, until after sev eral thousand dollars worth of damage had been caused to the Eastern Oregon Light and Power company's 66,000 volt line from Baker to Union. Two more tow ers were burned last night. Company officials said repairs to the line will be made Sunday, when the load on the system is not enough to demand use of the Baker-La Grande line. PORTLAND, Aug. 25 (UP) Forest fires established a new major front in Oregon today, burning 7,000 acres of Pondcrosa pine and Douglas fir in some of the state's most scenic areas in the Deschutes national forest. Local rains were falling in some areas, however, which fire officials hoped will bring to an end the threat. Minto pass fire near Mt. Jef ferson quitcd down as humidity rose today. Rains during the night barely dampened fire areas but it gave crows of 600 men 8 chance to push new fire trails. Vicious Blase Guy Johnson, forest control of ficer in Portland, said the blaze, which is rutining through the high Cascades is the biggest and most viciously-flaming area in the state. Retired in the background for the moment was the Wilson river fire which was reported quiet. High winds were driving the Deschutes fire, defying the des perate efforts of 600 men to stem it. Forestry officials pinned their hopes on the flames being check Baum Brothers Get Together in France UNION, Aug. 25 (Special) Mr. and Mrs. Ray Baum, who a few weeks ago were busily send ing cables to their sons to Rheims, France, to make possible a meeting between the two boys are in receipt of a letter from their son, Cpl. Richard Baum, which reads in part: "Guess what? Just saw Dave a little while ago. Was sitting in my tent resting when some one put his hand on my shoulder. Looked up and almost fell over . in surprise. I here Dave stood, as big as a mountain. He reminds me of Nephi, he is so big. Was wonderful to see him. He got your telegram, Mom, tnanks a lot. He is assistant provost mar shal in Rheims. I was in Rheims on pass all day yesterday, and ol course, had no idea Dave was around. Will go in tomorrow and stay over the week end, should have a big time. May be here for a couple of weeks yet." Bobby, a younger brother, who is still in Oklahoma with 50 hours flying to his credit as pilot, writes he doesn't know what the navy is going to do with him, and his greatest concern is when he will sec his brothers, since it has been three years since they were together. Japs Commit Mass Hara-kiri Before Emperor's Palace SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 25 (UP) Radio Tokyo said today Japanese are committing mass hara-kiri In front of Emperor Hirohito's palace. The enemy broadcast reported "large numbers" were killing thcmselve.l, presumably in the traditional manner of disemhow elment by daggers, as the hour for the American occupation of their homeland ncarcd. FCC monitors said the report, carried In a Japanese-language broadcast beaded to North Amer ica, gave no details of the mass suicides. ed by the Santiam highway when the fire on the southern front reached the area. Fires in Linn county and Coos county were termed under con trol. Fires hi the Warm Springs In dian reservation were conquered, except for a 3,000-acre blaze on ,Codar creek, which was in the mopping-up stage. A new forest fire in the Wal lowa mountains of eastern Ore gon was combattcd by flying "smokejumpers" parachuted into the area. The fire spread to 400 acres in scattered timber and brush 17 miles from the nearest road. Other crews were sent in by foot, with hand equipment. The blaze is on Cow creek ridge between the Imnaha and Snake rivers. Shull Arms in Atomic Energy WorkS Years That their son, Shull Arms, hos been working on the atomic bomb since September, 1940, was learn ed yesterday by Mr and Mrs. M. H. Arms, 2100 Second street, when they received a letter from him. Young Arms, a graduate of Ox ford university, is now in Mont real, Canada. He worked in the Clarendon laboratories at Oxford for two years before taking charge of the Birmingham labo ratory for 18 months. In 1943 he was sent to New York and worked in the Columbia univer sity laboratory. In Juno of this year, he was sent to Montreal with his family, where he heads a group of eight physicists. He was a Rhodes scholar in 1938, after graduating from the University of Idaho in 1936. He was graduated from Oxford in 1938, and finished his post-graduate work in 1939. He and his wife, an. English girl, have two children. Quisling Says He Refused to Flee To Safe Country OSLO, Aug. 25 (UP) Vidkun Quisling opened his own defense today by saying he had scorned a German invitation to flee Nor way for some "safe" country when Germany's capitulation wus imminent. Quisling told the court, Josef Tcrbovcn, civil governor of Nor way, informed him May 6 Ger many was about to surrender. Terboven, he said, offered him passage in a German plane or submarine "to some country, not Germany, which I thought would lie Spain." "I told Terboven I would not go; that I was duty bound to re main in Norway." When he finished, Quisling put his first defense witness on the sland,, a slight, pale, dark-haired woman namco naiuis INceguara i who was a close associate of I1 puppet premier. The woman swore Quisling had no advance Information of the German invasion of Norway one of the prosecution charges She testified Quisling's procla mation putting himself at the head of the government actually was not prepared until the after noon of April 9, 1940, hours ufter the Germans landed. Quisling told the court he hud protested strongly against an al leged German plan to use Nor way as a last bastion after the fall of Germany proper. Baseball Results AMERICAN LEAGUE R. II. E. Washington 2 5 0 New York 4 0 0 Leonard, Picretti (8) and Fcr rell; Bevens, Zuber (9) and Rob inson. , NATIONAL LEAGUE St. Louis 3 8 1 Chicago 1 10 I Burkhardt and Odea; Prim, Wysc (6) and Gillespie, Williams (8). Chamber Asks Reversal of Halt Orders Work on the federal hous ing: project here was stopped today by orders received last night from the federal hous ing authority at Seattle. The 40-unit housing project had been started about six weeks ago and is at least two-thirds completed, according to work men, Chamber of commerce officials today swung into action upon re ceipt of word of the closure. Send Wires Wires were sent to aroa au thority supervisor at Seattle, af ter word had been received from James Maxwell of Portland, state supervisor, that anything which happened would be over his head. Chamber officials here, led by Raymond Gray, urged the hous ing authority to reconsider the action. Jesse Epstein, Seattle, area supervisor, told Gray late this afternoon he had not realized how far the work was advanced here nor what conditions are here and will call the offices in Wash ington, D. C. Monday. Hat Hopes He held out hopes the order will be reconsidered so far as La Grande is concerned, but could promise nothing. "The need for housing here now is greater than it has ever been and will continue to increase, as our people return from the ormy and navy and from closed down war plants' said GrayJ : Now Won "The end of the war and can cellation of war contracts does not affect La Grande in the way It affects cities where there were large war industries. Our large industry, the railroad, will con tinue to have as large a force here as lt has had in the recent past and consequently our need for housing will be as great. "More than 80 applications have been received from fami lies which do not have housing and this is only a small fraction of the people who arc inadequate ly housed here," he told the hous ing authority. Many Homeless "There are hundreds of families here who have only most sketchy accommodations and the comple tion of this project is vital. "Camp grounds, cabin camps, apartments, lodging houses and hotels arc all full and still there are people who have no place to go," Gray said. Walter E. Langer, engineer at Ihc housing job, said this after;' noon at least 75 percent of the work on the job had been finished and the houses will be ready for occupancy within a few weeks." Gray wub joined by M. G. Breii ner, district superintendent of the Union Pacific railroad here, in asking for completion of the housing, since many railroad men are among those who have been unable to find housing. 2 Fighter Pilots Beat Mac A rthur Beat MacArthlW to Landing in Japan SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 25 (UP) Two American fighter pi lots beat Gen. Douglas MacAr thur's armies to the Japanese mainland today by landing on an enemy airstrip and converging with Japanese officers for ap proximately two hours, broad casts from Okinawa said. The two pilots, identified as Lt. Col. Clay Tice, jr., Phoenix, Ariz., and Douglas B. Hall, Anamosa, la., landed together on an air strip on south central . Kyushu when Hall's P-38 developed en gine trouble. The fliers returned to Okinawa after waiting on the air strip for a Flying Fortress which delivered them gasoline. During their wait of some two-and-thren quarters hours "the two pilots chatted pleasantly" wtth Japanese officers and en listed men. LIFT FRUIT RESTRICTION WASHINGTON, Aug. 25 (UP) Tho agriculture department to day lifted wartime restrictions on the use of fruit and berries for making wine and other alcoi holic products, , ' '