La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, August 28, 1945, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextWeather t Data fur 24 hours to 7 u. Temperature: ' Maximum 78 ' Minimum 39 Forecast: Clear tonight Wednesday. ESTABLISHED 1896 THE U.S.S. MISSOURI, bearing the name of the president's home state, will close her world war career in a blaze of glory Friday when she will serve as the scene of the unconditional surrender of Japan to the United States. e t ! S t Occupation of Japan Starts Smoothly; Headquarters Set 20 Miles from Tokyo MANILA, Aug. 28 (UP) Oc cupation of Japan began smooth ly today with establishment of American advance headquarters 20 miles from Tokyo and the an choring in Tokyo bay of a nine ship task force with 10,000 mar ine and bluejackets. An advanced party of 150 tech nicians the first occupation troops to land on Japan radioed back from Atsugi airfield tonight all 48 planes in the initial air borne force had landed safely. Arrive Early Radio communications wore set up and preparations begun to ready the airfield for the mass air-borne landings scheduled to begin Thursday morning. Gen. Douglas MacArthur, supreme oc cupation commander, will be among the early arrivals Thurs day. An NBC correspondent on Oki nawa quoted the Atsugi party as saying that the Japanese garri son Served some of the Ameri cans a six-course dinner on a white tablecloth while, other pilots guarded 'the planes. Curi ous" Japanese soldiers and civil ians had to be pushed away from the planes. Plane Crashes The main communications plane for the advance party crashed on its takeoff from Oki nawa airfield early this morn ing and all 19 occupants were killed. Some valuable equipment was lost, but a substitute plane was sent immediately to Atsugi in its place. Rear Admiral Oscar C. Bad ger's flagship, line cruiser San Diego, led a troop-laden trans port, four destroyers, and three seaplane tenders through narrow Uraga strait into Tokyo bay with out incident. Ships Ready Situation on Pacific surrender fronts: TOKYO BAY Nine American Pictures Shown of Oregon University Mrs. William Glang, new as sistant dean of women at the Uni versity of Oregon, and Betty Lou Siegman were here from Eugene last night to attend -a meeting of the Oregon Federation held in the Presbyterian church, and to advise persons interested in at tending the university. Miss Mary Ingle is the local federation chairman and assisted in arrangements for the event. Present at the meeting were Harriet Turner. Hildegard Rettig, Mary Jasper, Maxine Snider, Pat I Ferdinandsen, Janie Richardson. Delia Jean Dahlstrom, Charles Reynolds, Pat Baron, Mary Ingle, and interertcd townspeople. Colored pictures of the campus and activities at the school were shown to the group . Mariana Airfields, Fortunately, Close Together These Days SAIPAN. Aug. 28 (UP) Air fields in the Marianas are so close and numerous anything can happen. Storm clouds poured tropical rain over Saipan and Tinian the other night when a pilot's roice saying "I'm coming in" was heard at the Saipan control lower. S5qt. G o r Spichiholz, Grindsieue, Pa., answered from lb tower: "Roger, but I don't Sew you. Turn on your lights." The pilot Mia: "They ere on. Tin oev.the runway making the landing now." "I trJU can't see yea," Spach tholi replied. A few moments later Spach tholz ca".d Ilia ptlri again atld -fonsid he had landed success' ( t tully on Tinia,, W in. and warships anchor 300 yards off Yokosuka naval base carrying 10,000 marines and bluejackets ready to begin occupation Thurs day. SAN FRANCISCO Tokyo newspaper Asahi says editorially Japan is defeated nation and must liquidate militarism. GUAM Nimitz announced fifth and seventh fleets to aug ment third fleet in occupation of Japan and former Japanese ter ritory. RANGOON Japanese sur Justice Douglas to Speak Here Tuesday William O. Douglas, asso ciate justice of the U. S. su preme court, who has been spending: his summer vacation in the Lostine country, will address n community meeting here at noon next Tuesday, it was announced here this af ternoon. Justice Douglas will speak on "The work of the supreme court." He had previously been sched uled to speak on world events and the outlook for peace, but thought he would rather stick to the work of the court. Justice Douglas has been a resident of the Pacific northwest for many years. He has not spoken in La Grande for nearly two years. The meeting next Tuesday will be at the Elks lodge and the address will follow a luncheon. DuPont Plans Rayon Factory in Oregon PORTLAND, Aug. 28 (UP) Engineers of the E. I. Dupont De Nemours corporation have been studying the possibilities of set ting up a rayon manufacturing plant in the Willamette valley, it was reported today. Several sites were being con sidered for the plant which would cost more than $1,000,000 and employ 3,000 or more workers. The company is looking for a suitable spot of 500 acres. Sug gestions of locations in the Eu gene area or near Albany have been made. It was stressed the work now being done is of a preliminary character. Rayon will be manu factured from wood wastes of pulp a"nd be used in a wide var. iety of goods. Girl Scout Troop Has First Meeting Girl Scout troop No. 4, spon sored by the Presbyterian church, held the first meeting of the sea son last evening in the church recreation rooms. The business meeting was pre ceded by a flag drill, led by pa trols 3 and 4. Work was continu ed by the second class group for dressmaker badges, under the di rection of Mrs. Robert Shelton, assistant leader. The tenderfoot group designated homemaking as the next project. Games conclud ed the evening. The next meeting will be at 7 i. m. Monday in the church. AVCID PENALTY CORVALLIS. Ore.. Aug 28 (UP) Oregon State college stu dents v.ho are considered essen tial to the harvesting and process- ir.g of ftatt fruit clops will be allowed to register as late as Oct. 6 Without being penalized for late rier be licenicd to fly westward ick M. Hunter informed Pres. A. L. Strand today. ' - -r -wssassw -w"v -w- -w render envoys sign preliminary peace agreements with Mount batten's representatives for south- SHANGHAI Chinese and American paratroops take over Shanghai with help of under ground units; official amity be tween communists and central government near. LONDON Soviet broadcast says Russians have reached southern tip of Sakhalin island; Russian bag of prisoners for far eastern war reaches 438,000. A toastmaster for the affair has not yet been selected. Tickets for the program are on sale through the chamber of com merce. -. Last Saturday" night Justice Douglas talked at Baker to mem bers of the State Bar association on the subject he will discuss here. Several attorneys from here and their wives went to the Baker meeting. The meeting here is open to everyone. Tri-Council Labor Meets Here For Quarterly Talks After more than 40 members of the tri-eouncil labor group, com posed of the central labor councils of La Grande, Pendleton and Ba ker, met Saturday evening in the labor temple here. It was an nounced the labor disputes now before the war labor board will be settled by the organization, but any arising in the future will be handled by the department of la bor in Washington. Next meeting of the tri-coun-cil will be held in Baker some time during November. Portland visitors here for the occasion were J. T. Marr, execu tive secretary of Oregon State Federation of Labor, J. D. Mc Donald, president of that group, R. E. Brownell, executive secre tary of Stale Council of Carpen ters, W. L. Duncan, field man for Columbia river district coun cil, Miss Green of the Tubercu losis association, Stack, of the Union Trade labels. Guests from La Grande were Richard Barnett, commander of veterans of Foreign Wars, C. J. Shorb, local businessman. Others present were La Grande Central labor council and delegates, as well as corresponding groups from Pendleton and Baker. RITES FOR NOVELIST BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., Aug. 28 (UP) Funeral services for Franz Werfel, 54, Euiopear. novelist whose early attacks on the nazis forced him to flee to the United States in 1939, will be held here Wednesday. Society to Hear Stories of Grande Ronde Union County Historical socie ty appointed a committee to plan for publication of a book and out lined the program for the coming year last night at the Sacajawea hotel. The committee is Dr. Roben j Maaske. George Cochrane. Mrs. ', ftrao? Powers. Ann Firkins and , James Wooddcll. They will take j the steps necessary to publication ; of "The Life of Dunham Wright," written by Frank Jasper, j Program for the year is set as I follows, with all the meetings set U!o 4 LA GRANDE, OREGON, TUESDAY EVENING. AUGUST Ar Wi Wl . . ; w nen 7v Mrtnurv7ives Air Operators List Advantages of Choice for La Grande is prob ably no air line at all or else, to begin with, a feeder line, - mem bers of the La Grande chamber of commerce airport committee were told Monday afternoon in a meeting at the chamber office with two officials of Zimmerly Airlines. j The two men declared if Baki is included as a stop on a trans continental airline, a feeder line would not be interested In crosq ig this territory now because Baker would be an important point in a feeder line develop ment. f Tell Advantage! .' Thomas R. Croson and Gwln Hicks were the two representa tives of Zimmerly to meet with W. C. Perkins, W. M. Peare and Ed Ford, pity manager. Both stressed the advantages of feeder line service with frequent stops which would aid in making con nections with transcontinental lies over infrequent stops , by large airline services, . , Zimmerly lines proposed Ser vice to La Grande from Spokane and points south and east in Ida- New Students To Register at High i School Saurday j All students entering La Grande high school this fair for the first time are asked to ap pear at the library in. the high school building at 10 a.m. Satur day," Sept. 1. At this meeting they will be acquainted with the schedule of studies and be given an oppor tunity to ask as many questions as they wish. Students will be advised as to the requirements for graduation from La Grande high school, as well as the re quirements of any standard high school in the state of Oregon. There will also be a discussion of the requirements for entrance into accredited colleges and uni versities. . ' La Grande high school is a standard high school fully ac credited by the state-of Oregon and by the Northwest Associa tion of Secondary and Higher Schools. Graduates of La Grande high school are accepted in any standard college or university in the United States. However, there is a choice of courses of fered and some students choose a vocational course rather than the college preparatory course. Student body officers will be present at the meeting for new students and will explain school traditions and customs. Beverly Decker To Attend Art, Music School in Salt Lake Miss Beverly Decker, pianist, who was awarded scholarships to Eastern Oregon college and to Northwestern Conservatory of Music, has chosen McCunc Con servatory of Music and Art in Salt Lake City to attend this year. Miss Decker was graduated from high school in La Grande in 1944 and attended the local college last year where she made a straight A grade average, and is a member of the national hon orary society, Sigma Alpha Chi. She plans to continue with piano and also take instruction in pipe organ. for the Sacajswea until further notice: SetMemper Reba Davis will present the "huckleberry story." October George Currey "His tory of Union county newspapers. November Edith Currey, "Early La Grande." December The annual Christ mas party. January Bessie Scriber, "Dead man's hill." February Kate Hanely, "Pres ident Harding at Mcaehim." Wallowa Cotmfei Will' A A A ho and Utah' has been recom mended to the civil aeronautics board in Washington. Need Space '' The feeder line will need of fice space, operational services and waiting rooms at the airport, all of which are available. At present Keith Province and Mer lin Johnson, proprietors of East ern Oregon Airways have the Mackeys Entertain 164 Old Friends at 40th Anniversary Celebration of the 40th an niversary of Mr. and Mrs. Claude L. Mackey was observed at their home, 2013 First street Sunday, with approximately 164 former customers, friends, and neighbors attending. Mackey and his wife, the form er Nora Bussard, were married at noon Aug. 27, at the home of Mrs. Maekey's father, M. M. Bus sard, Albany. Bussard, who will be 88 his next birthday, was the only one of the family present at the celebration. 20 Bouquets Mrs. Mackey wore a white lace formal during the open house and the room was charming with more than 20 bouquets which had been presented to the couple. A large centerpiece of white gladioli graced the table, where thefollowing people poured: Mrs. Bert Spencer, Mrs. Harry Han sen, Mrs. Roe Buchanan, Mrs. Jim Harrison, Mrs. Joe Harrison, Mrs. Gertrude McVey, Mrs. Mol ly Gower, Mrs. Edna Smith, Mrs. Myrtle Hansen, Mrs. Herman Gaertner, Mrs. Ray Swan, and Mrs. Frank Black. Asisting wore: Miss Marguer ite Zweifel, Mrs. L. C. Kays, Mrs. Howard Waggoner, Mrs. Leo Hansen, Mrs. J. E. Stiles, Mrs. Sugar Certificates Soon To' lie Sent PORTLAND, Aug. 28 (UP) Issuance of home canning sug ar coupons, suspended tempor arily pending a review of iho sugar supply quota situation in the Pacific coast region1, has been resumed, Frederick F. Jan ney, acting district OPA direc tor said today. Local boards continued to ac cept applications for the sugar throughout the suspension per iod. Housewives are asked not to telephone their boards as ac cumplated applications will be mailed at soon as possible, Jan ney said. Mercy Fleet Of Superforts Takes Food to Prisoners GUAM, Aug. 28 (UP) A mercy fleet of 125 Superforts dropped more than 875,000 pounds of food, clothing and medical supplies into 60 allied prisoner of war camps on Honshu and Kyushu late this afternoon, the 20th airforce an nounced. Officials estimated 20,000 pris oners are held in the "target" camp. Each of the gleaming B-29scar-rlec'i 7,000 pounds of supplies. Some of the camps required only half a load. In the oil drums were soup, cocoa, C and K rations, fruit, candy, vitamin tablets, shoelaces, sewing kits, khaki uniforms, soap, toothpaste, razorblades and other toilet articles. March Grace Molitor, the life of her father "John Caviness." April Dr. Charles Quaintance, "Early wild life of the Grande Ronde valley." May Charles Hsmsnn, "Hut lake." June Frank Jes?r "The i-tory of the man who built chimneys." July End of the year, annual election At the meetinO laiit night Mrs. Charles Spencer ve a Ittotory of the "Battlt of the Grande Honde." 28, 1945 Cut Points i I airport facilities under lease from the city and Zimmerly repre sentatives said they would hope to contract with Province and Johnson for the services needed. They also expressed gratification at the La Grande to Portland daily flight service now being offered by Province and Johnson. They declared feeder line service into La Grande would be profit- Cloyd Hopple, Mrs. Kieth Walk er, Mas. Nate Zweifel, Mrs. Nel lie Charlcton, Mrs. Arnie Thomp son, Mrs. Ray Swan, and Mrs. Walter Nelson. Coffee, tea, cakes, fruit bars and hard candies were served. Receive Gift ' Out-of-town guests were: Mr. and Mrs. Sloan Thomson of Echo, and Mrs. Irene Kelley of Lewis ton, Ida. Among the many gifts received were two rose Pendleton blan kets presented to the Mackeys by employes of the post office, where he has been assistant postmaster for 13 years; and a cedar Pen dleton blanket presented by members of the Maekey's bridge club. The Mackeys have been prom inent in local affairs, Mackey having been a member of the city commission in 1911 and 1912. He is a member of La Grande lodge No. 433, B.P.O.E., and has been president of La Grande Gun club for several years. Mrs. Mackey has been active in the Women's Benefit association, the Young Women's Educational auxiliary, and the Royal Neigh bors. The Mackeys have one son, Marvin. Texas Hurricane Decreasing; Six Dead in Storm HOUSTON, Aug. 28 (UP) Latest U. S. weather bureau's ad visory today reported the tropi cal hurricane now has struck Scaly, Tex., 50 miles west-northwest of Houston but is decreasing. The storm was reported mov ing slowly north with gales of about 40 to 50 miles per hour around the center and possibly winds up to 70 miles over a small area at the center. It now was believed that, with the course the hurricane had tak en, Houston might miss the full force of the blow. Missouri Pacific railroad offi cials reported two of the com pany's trains were missing. Com munications were down, but it was believed they had reached the small town of Francitas, neat- Bay City, where sufficient track age would be found to support them. Death toll was six. Policeman Held For Shooting Soldier McMINNVILLE, Aug. 28 (UP) Police officer George Egger Is being held In the county jail to day pending filing of formal charges against him for shooting to death Pvt. George R. Yasic, 30, of Chicago. . - The district attorney is out of town, but county sheriff's officers said Eggcrt will probably be charged with manslaughter. Police reported Yasic and his companion Cpl. Jack Lee, both of Camp Adair, had engaged in three fights and were molesting shoppers. When Eggert attempt ed to quiet the pair, they jumped him, beating the officer badly. Eggert escapeoj, calli-d police headquarters for reinforcements and returned to hold the two sol diers. They attacked him again, officers said, and Yisic knocked Eggert down three times IWoro the officer pulled his gun and fired. Yas-lc died an hour and a half later at the hewpital. Corporal Lee, who was held following the shooting, has been released to military authorities, W1I Feeder Line able to the Johnson and Province air service, and vice versa. Zimmerly lines are now flying 1,700 miles of service daily and have acquired two-motored Boe ing planes for use in it. . They have also other planes and enough personnel ready to ex pand their services as soon, as CAB grants them permission to start operating on their proposed interstate routes. Tour Territory Croson and Hicks said theit operation In Idaho has proven to CAB airline operations betwocn small western cities is practic able and profitable. The two men have been on an extended tour of the torritory in which they expect to operate, making arrangements with gov ernment authorities in charge of airports and pott facilities in the towns where their stops are to be scheduled. Officials here assured them of. every co-operation, should they be granted the permission they seek. Wreckage of B-24 Located WALLA WALLA. Aug. 28 (UP) Wreckage of a B-24, missing sinde Saturday night has been found seven miles north of Tollgate, Ore.; but the fate of the 15 men aboard was undetermined, the army report ed today. The announcement said the plane was spotted from the air in the rugged mountainous re gion of northeastern Oregon and that word was being await ed from a ground party. The bomber disappeared on a training flight from Sioux Falls, S. D to the army air fiold here. Wainwright, Dutch, British Officers Reach Chungking CHUNGKING, Aug. 28 (UP) Lt. Gen. Jonathan M. Wainwright, American commander at Bataan and Corregielor, and a group of senior British and Dutch officers liberated from a Manchurian pris on camp arrived by plane today. Lt. Gen. A. E. Percival, British commander at Singapore, was among the officers who accom panied Wainwright back to free China. Both Wainwright nnd Per cival will tell their stories to the press later today. They were liberated from a Jap anese prison camp, at Sian, 100 miles north of Mukden, by Amer ican paratroops and Red army forces last week. 36 Prominent Japs Commit Suicide SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 28 (UP) Thirty-six members of "ultra-patriotic" societies have com mitted suicide since Aug. 15, ra dio Tokyo said today. A Domei broadcast recorded by United Press said the total in cluded 10 members of the Sonjo Doshikai" and "Okusei Domei" who committed ceremonial hara kiri. No mention was made, however, of earlier Tokyo reports of mass hara kiri in front of the imperial palace. Meanwhile, Domei revealed party leaders in the house of rep resentatives met today to discuss the forthcoming diet session. Ray Smith Injured In Woods Accident Ray Smith, route 1, is con valescing today in St. Joseph's hospital after an accident in which his right hand was severly injured. Smith and G a y 1 o r d Ncer, a neighbor, were cutting wood at the foot of Mt. Emily at 11 a.m. today when the cable on the carriage of the two-man sawmill broke, catching Smith's band. ' ilis hsvt was injured frum the thumb to the little finger, with every tendon bema torn, una every bono being broken. . Douglas Larsen Women's Future In Medicine (P2) FIVE CENTS to 80 an d w or Reduce Size To 2 Million By Next July WASHINGTON, August 28. (UP) The army disclosed today it will reduce the point' discharge score from 85 to 80 as soon as Gen. Douglas Mac- Arthur gives the word, and that It plmis to cut its size from 8,050,000 to 2,500,000 b'y' next July, . Additional demobilization plans and the projected point revision were submitted to the house military affairs committee as it began an inquiry into the admin istration plan to continue draft ing young men. No More Maj. Gen. Stephen G. Henry, assistant chief of staff for the army's personnel division, said a new point plan reducing the re quired number of points from 85 to 80 will go into effect only af ter MacArthur finds his Pacific manpower needs are provided for and discharges can be acceler ated. Henry said when MacArthura signal comes, no men with 60 or more points will be sent over seas. At present the army is screening out 75-point men. . All discharge points will be recomputed .and brought up to date,. Henry said. The present system limits a soldier's dis charge points to those accumu lated up to last May 12. Combat Units Edwards said men still are be ing sent into the Pacific at the request of Gen. MacArthur. This includes some units that have seen combat service in Europe, he added. "We had requirements to send those men over," Edwards said. "Wo had to have units that would be ready to fight." He compared the occupation of the Japanese homeland to an in vasion and reminded the commit tee Japan still has 1,500,000 sol diers under arms In her home land. Changed Needs Edwards explained the Jap anese surrender had changed the types of units needed in the Paci fic. When the invasion of Japan was being planned, ho said, the army dispatched service units. Now, the need is for combat un its instead, he explained. On next July 1, Edwards pre dicted, army strength will be as follows: 370,000 troops in Europe: 830,000 in the Pacific; 115,000 in Alaska, the Caribbean and other islands, and 1,185,000 in the United States. The troops in this country, he said, will include a "strategic striking" reserve of 200,000; 485,000 operational per sonnel and 500,000 non-operating personnel. 3Iiss Hendrickson Hurt in Accident Miss Elizabeth Hendrickson is recovering today in Grande Ronde hospital following an ac cident on the highway near Hot Lake in which she received a fractured skull. Miss Hendrick son and an unidentified soldier from Walla Walla air base, were riding on a motorcycle, when tho machine overturned. Although the accident occurred last Wed nesday Miss Hendrickson enter ed the hospital only today. Two Families go in For Tonsilectomie8 Tonsllectomy becomes a fam ily affair, just bofore school starts each year, as was exem plified by two different fami les at the Grande Ronde hos pital so far this week. Lyman and Wallace Baker, sons of Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Baker of Burns, had their ton sils removed at t h e hospiiaL Three children of Mrs. Edna -Mobley also were at the hos pital at the same time, for ton sileciomles. They are Ernestine. 7, Ernest, 6, and Lilian, 10. They live in La Grande.