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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.
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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
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Wi
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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.