Weather .
Data for 24 hours to 7 a. m.
Maximum 68
Minimum i.. OS
Precipitation .38
Forecast: Partly cloudy to
night and Saturday with scat
tered light showers tonight.
Freezing in east tonight.
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Fall Rains
Continue
In Valley
Fall rains, which began in
earnest a few days ago, con
tinued to fall today over most
of the valley and with the .36
of an inch which had fallen
today and.ithe .25 of Thurs
day, the Aotal was brought to
.90 this month.
Average for the month is 1.12
inches of fain and the amount
which fell last year in September
if was 2.04, an excess of .92.
f Low temperature so far this
1 month has been, so far, 26, which
was registered Sept. 19; high was
I 92 Sept. '2. Maximum for the
month last year was 92 on Sept.
3 9, and the low was 34 on the
1 3rd and 4th.
1 Forecast is for continued cool
r and more showers and rain,
P which has gone far toward re
lieving the danger of forest fires.
By United Press
Generally higher humidity, fog
i and scattered showers today en
S abled fire fighters to bring seven
fires m California under control
; and make new progress toward
subduing ; others scattered
! throughout1 the state, state fores'
i try officials reported. Two nun'
dred additional soldiers flown to
r the scene of a fire which had
threatened-1 Stirling City joined
! Others to battld a .blaze, which had
started the evacuation of women
j and children from the town.
Part of the Robert Louis Stev-
enson memorial tract on Mt. St.
Helena, near Calistoga in Napa
county, had been destroyed be
fore a fire on the mountain was
checked.
Republican Women
Council Plans to
Organize Here
Mrs. George T. Gerlinger, re
publican national committee wo
man for Oregon, is in La Grande
to organize a unit of the Council
of Oregon Republican women
here.
Mrs. Gerlinger, assisted by
Mrs. H J Ritter, vice chairman
of the county central committee,
will confer with interested per
sons, including county party offi
cers, at Sacajawea hotel at 8 p.
m. Saturday.
A unit was organized last night
at Baker. ' During her tour of
this congressional district, Mrs.
Gerlinger has also organized un
its at Ontario, Nyssa, Vail, Can
yon City - John Day, Burns,
Prineviile, Redmond, Madras,
ttwo in Klamath Falls, and Chil
jToquin and Lakeview.
The units are volunteer auxil
iary workers who carry on year
round educational and patriotic
work.
Reds Invited to
Tell Congress All
WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 (UP)
American communists, who re
cently returned to their class
warfare philosophy of political
action, have been asked by a
house committee to tell congress
all about it next Wednesday.
ite house committee Earl
iBrowder, who recently was de
posed from leadership; William
r oster, general secretary of the
Immunist party and new lead-
Dtnjumin j. Davis, jr., negro
i president of the party and a
Udate. for re-election to the
I orK t-"y council; and Jack
uei, communist publicity di-
ffic Accidents
tortland Climb
IrLAND, Sept. 21 (UP)
accioems in Portland in-
i id percent and traffic
8 percent during the firs'.
Iiontht of 1945 over the
Iriod last 8or. the Port
Li if ic safatv cemmissint,
11 today.
Lgust, the first month
Igd&uiiue rationing, acci
nt up 34 percent.
Weatherspoon WinsGirls4-H Club Bond
Took Part in Most Events;
Won Several Blue Ribbons
Joyce Weatherspoon,
daughter ot Mr. and Mrs. w.
H. Weatherspoon, Elgin, was
announced today as winner of
the $zo war bona presented
bv the Buster Brown shoe
store to the girl participating
most m the county-wide 4-ii
club fair.
Miss Weatherspoon was a blue
ribbon winner in Cooking I,
Clothing II, and in the style re
view contest. She also, with Kar
rel Stowe, gave a demonstration
on making muffins, and entered
the judging contest.
Girls were awarded, according
to their workmanship, blue, red
and white ribbons, in addition to
premiums. Blue ribbons were for
Kaiser Leases
Willow Run to
Build New Car
NEW YORK, Sept. 21 (UP)
Kaiser - Frazer corporation an
nounced today it had leased the
$10,000,000 Willow Run bomber
plant for five years for the man
ufacture of a new low-cost auto
mobile called the Kaiser.
Henry J. Kaiser, Pacific coast
shipbuilder, and Joseph W. Fra
zer, Detroit automobile executive,
announced they had negotiated
an agreement with-the recon
struction finance corporation.
"-Frazelv' 'president -6r Graham
Paige Motors, said Graham-Page
will move its manufacturing fa
cilities from its present location
to Willow Run where it will pro
duce a medium-priced automobile
called the Frazer.
Frazer said the designs for the
Frazer car to be produced by
Graham-Paige "have been froz
en while the designs for the
Kaiser car are being developed.
Both cars Will be full-sized, six
passenger automobiles with the
Kaiser selling in the low-priced
field and the Frazer in the me
dium-priced field.
Under the company's opera
tions plan, the new corporation
will begin manufacture with cap
ital and surplus of approximate
ly $20,000,000 and a veteran au
tomobile management, engineer
ing, production and sales staff.
Oregon to Finance
Loans to Veterans
SALEM, Sept. 21 (UP) Ore
gon today was awarded a con
tract to finance $1,000,000 in
bonds for the Oregon war veter.
ans fund. The s t a t e 's bid of
$995,204 plus interest was lowest
of 12 . submitted, according to
director of veterans' affairs Hugh
Rosson.
The bonds are dated Oct. 1,
1945, and will mature in 10 years.
The bonds are valued at $1,000
each.
Interest rates will be 4 of one
percent payable semi-annually on
April 1 and Oct. each year. In
terest in a 10 year period will
amount to $79,796.
The funds will be used in
granting loans to veterans of
world war II to be used in pur
chasing homes or farms. Loans
to veterans will be held at $3,000
and will draw 4 percent interest
on unpaid balances. The loans
must be paid in 20 years.
Rosson said the veterans' de
partment will be ready to accept
applications for loans after Oct.
10.
APPROVE OF PATTERSON
WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 (UP)
The senate military affairs
committee today unanimously
approved the nomination of Rob
ert P. Patterson to be secretary
of war.
County Fair Exhibits Stolen
Thieves who were careful
not to overburden themselves,
walked off with numerous
piece from the exhibits at the
county 4-H club fair yesterday
t the fair grounds.
Studiously avoiding any great
weight or bulk, the person (or
first place, red for second, while
for third, and orange for fourth.
Premium lists have been an
nounced as follows: Blue ribbons,
$3; red, $2; white, $1; orange, $.50.
Demonstrations Blue, $2;
red, $1.50; white, 1. Judging
contest blue, $1.50; red, $1;
white, $.50. Style review
blue, $1.50; red. $1; while, $2.50.
Union county grand champion
$2.50.
Each blue ribbon winner in
the style review will receive
a county style review pins, to
be ordered Bfier awards are
made, and presented at a later
date.
Additional and corrected win
ners at the county-wide fair are
as follows:
Cooking I (La Grande only)
red, Kan-el Stowe, Caryl Hug,
Audrey Carper; white, Barbara
Tolbert, Lewis Laird.
Canning I blue,' Caryl Hug;
red, Evelyn Jackum; white, Bar
bara Tolbert.
Canning II red, Mary Barlow.
Handicraft blue, Billy Car
son; red, Ronald Carson.
Our Home I blue, Florence
Cam, Gail Hug; red, Jackie Hop
kins; white, Janet Coats, Lcona
Carn, DeLeva Carper; orange,
Agnes Tsiatsos, Kathryn Tsiatscs,
Irene Lloyd.
Sewing IA red, Mary Galli-
gan.
Sewing IBwhite, Audry Car
per. .... '.. ;. '
Sewing II blue, Joyce Weath
erspoon; red, K a r r e 1 Stowe;
white, Anita Towle.
Sewing III blue, Rosella
Price; white, Joyce Bechtel.
Sewing IV red, Lolita Smith;
white, Mildred Calhoun, Roberta
Roberts.
Style Review, clothing 5 blue.
xns Vogel.
Style Review, clothing 3 blue
Doris Jean Grey.
Demonstrations red, Joyce
Weatherspoon, Karrel Stowe,
making muffins, blue, Anna
Louise Hug, Caryl Hug, stuffed
tomato salad.
Victory Gardens I first, Bobby
Rother, garden; Frederick Book
er, blue popcorn; Eddie Johnson,
beets; Eadie Johnson, carrots.
Victory Gardens II first, Fred
erick Booker; second, Lonnie
Carroll; third, Gilbert Damon;
fourth, Doyle Brown.
Victory Garden III first,
Bonnie McCanse, tomatoes, cab
bage, corn.
Stock judging contest first.
Phyllis Delong; second, Dale De
Long; third and fourth, Doyle
Brown, Philip Street; fifth and
sixth, Ronald Puckett, Roderick
French, Jackie Lane, Ehrman
Bates, Philip Street, Jimmie Run
dall. Showmanship, in order of
awards:
Dairy showmanship Donald
Hefty, Barrio Gassett, Johnnie
Vann, Jay Hagey, Dale DeLong,
Dickie Conklin.
Pig showmanship Roderick
French, Gassett, Clifford Towlc,
Norman Wells, Vann, William
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Emperor Considers
Quitting Throne
TOKYO, Sept. 21 (UP) Indi
cations Emperor Hirohito is con
sidering abdicating in favor of
nis ll-year-old son increased to
day. Two factors in particular
bolstered the belief.
1. Crown Prince Akihito was
ordered two days before Japan's
capitulation to prepare himself
for "togu" the science of ruler
ship and Dr. Shigeto Hozumi
named official adviser and in
structor. 2. Prince Chichibu, tuberculous
brother of Hirohito, is making
one of his rare trips to Tokyo.
persons) unknown, made off
wun several pot-noiders, dish
towels, and 4-H emblems, in
cluding a pencil and a bracelet.
Also stolen was n angel cake,
and a pint jar of peaches, both
blue ribbon winners.
Several of the exhibits stolen
HENRY FORD II: Takes job at
head of one of world's largest
private fortunes.
8 3
Henry Ford II
Takes Over as
Company Head
By ALLEN V. DOWLING
DETROIT, Sept. 21 (UP)
Henry Ford II, 28, today suc
ceeded his grandfather as presi
dent of the Ford Motor company.
Henry Ford, 82-year-old foun
der of the automotive empire and
vast other holdings, resigned the
presidency for the second time.
He turned over the presidency to
his son, Edscl, in 1918, but re-.
turned to the helm in June, 1943,
shortly after Edsel's death.
Withdraws
The elder Ford increasingly has
withdrawn from responsibilities
of management in the last year.
His grandson and namesake be
came executive vice president
April 28, 1944.
The genius of the model E left
the automobile industry he help
ed pioneer as it was entering a
new era.
"I feel free to take this step
at this time," Ford's letter of re
signation said, "because the cri
tical period during which I again
assumed office has passed.
Stayed on Board
"I shall be glad to remain on
the board, and to assist in an ad
visory capacity."
Then he recommended the
directors consider elevation of
Henry Ford II to the presidency.
Their action followed.
To offset any suggestion his re
signation meant actual retirement
physically, the elder Ford wrote:
"As you know, I have many per
sonal interests to which I now
desire to devote most of my
time."
Ford Motor c o m d a n v was
founded in 1903.
Portland Labor
Opposed to Shift
PORTLAND. Sent ill rnm
A motion was adopted today by
representatives of Portland labor
organizations opposing a proposed
shift of the federal employment
service to state control.
Unemployment is a national
problem," the resolution declared.
"We believe that lahnr urill a,.i
better deal if the employment
service is left in the hands of the
federal government, since t h e
pioDiem is not confined to state
lines."
Fans Leave Despite
Rain for Baker Came
Despite the inclement weather.
a large number of fans left this
noon for Baker to mii.nr ii. i n
Grande high school Baker foot
ball game.
The game was started at 3 p. m.
Coach Gene Cooper took a
squad of about 27 to the game.
The Tigers hoped to relieve the
sting of the defeat suffered last
week at the hands of The Dal
les. were to have been sent to Ihe
slate exhibit at Salem Oct. 1
and 2.
If any of exhibits are "found.''
return to box 735 in the portol
fice building. No questions will
be asked, Doris McWhorler,
county home agent, said.
Oil War
Curtails
Steel Mill
By United Press
Dwindling oil supplies from
the strike-hit Calumet river bas
in-refinery center in northwest
ern Indiana forced the gigantic
Carnegie-Illinois steel plant in
Gary, Ind., to curtail production.
More than 20,000 refinery and
pipeline workers had left their
jobs in six states to enforce the
Oil Workers International union
(CIO) demand for a 30 percent
pay increase. The OW1U served
notice it was ready to fight to
the finish.
More Trouble
More than 200,000 workers
were idled by strikes throughout
the nation.
In Detroit, more trouble flared
when 800 CIO automobile work
ers closed Chrysler eorp.'s Dodge
truck plant in a new dispute.
Company officials said the strike
had developed from the tempor
ary lay-oft of 2,200 employes as
result of lack of truck parts.
Eighty five . thousand were
ktled by labor de putes in De
troit, where a corps of seven la
bor department conciliators were
at work in an offon to iron out
the trouble. Hearings were ord
ered immediately in the strike of
4,500 Kelscy-Hayes Wheel co.
Still Flows
The big inch pipeline from the
southwest oil fields to eastern
areas operated at capacity. Maj.
A. N Home, of Cincinnati, direc
tor of war emergency pipeline,
inc., which operates the big inch,
said the spreading oil strikes had
not yet affected the pipeline.
Steel company officials . said
they would be forced to cut back
to 45 percent of capacity in two
weeks, if the oil strikes last that
long. In three weeks the plant
would not be able to operate at
more than 33 percent.
Farm Subsidies to
Be Discontinued
By Next June
DECATUR, 111., Sept. 21 (UP)
The nation's farmers were told
todav that, "with few excep
tions." all hold the line subsidies
could be discontinued by next
June 30.
Secretary of Agriculture Clin
ton P. Anderson said at an agri
culture industry conference last
nieht that "the end of the war
has made full scale continuation
of these subsidies unnecessary."
Anderson announced low grade
cuts of beef will be ration free
after Sept. 30. Points will re
main on choice cuts of beef, how
ever, he said.
To abandon the rationing pro
gram entirely would not be feas
ible, he said because of a danger
we might go on a "meat-eating
spree" and next spring find our
selves back to a much lower level
of supply.
Anderson disclosed he had
written a letter to Maj. Gen. H r
shey, national selective service
director, asking farm boys be
drafted "in strict compliance with
the Tydings amendment."
Anderson also told reporters
that he had written the war de
paitmcnl about the shortage of
farm labor.
Mother, 4 Children
Trapped in Farm
Home, All Burned
REEDSPORT, Sept. 21 (UP)
Mrs. Martha Doyle and her
four children, ranging from one
to five years old. were burned
to death early today when their
farm house was leveled by fire.
The woman and children were
trapped when the slairwsy
burned and they could not get
down from the second story.
Mrs. Doyle's mother, asleep on
the first floor, managed to es
cape from the house and Mrs.
Doyle's siiler and small child
leaped from a first floor win
dow to safety.
Mrs. Doyle's husband is oval
seas. The farm is located seven
miles fram Reedspori on the
Smith river.
REV. CHARLES G. LONG and his son, Frank, admitted the world
didn't end at 7:33 a. m. today. Rev. Mr. Long, Pasadona preacher,
now says the hand which wrold the forecast he saw in a vision
didn't say which calendar ho was to uso.
3,000 Thrilled
Annual County
Approximately 3,000 persons
yesterday witnessed the Union
county horse show, sponsored an
nually by the Mavericks club.
Two thousand five hundred tick
els were sold, and it was esti-
Farm Bureau Has
First Meeting of
Autumn Season
La Grande local farm bureau
held its first meeting of the fall
season last evening in the IOOF
building with the new officers in
charge.
County Judge Kenneth Mc-
Cormick spoke to the group on
county government and County
Agent R. W. Schaad showed col
ored motion pictures of South
America.
Sam Hunter, state membership
chairman, and Mrs. Hunter of
Milton were present at the meet
ing as was Emil Jasmin of Pen
dleton, who spoke on farm insur
ance. .
Preceding the meeting a pot
luck dinner was served. Renwick
Clark is president of the organ
ization this year and Mrs. Otlo
Klinghammer is secrctary-treas-surer.
.
The next meeting will be at
7:30 p.m. Oct. 18, at the same
place.
National Guard to
Meet at Armory
Capt. G. L. Gregory announced
today members of La Grande na
tional guard company will meet
at 0:30 a.m. Sunday at the arm
ory to go to Pendleton for rifl-"
range practice.
"This will be a good opportun
ity for the members to get their
trigger fingers loosened up before
Ihe deer hunting season opens,"
Captain Gregory remarked.
Dewey Refrained From Using Letter
3 t , 3
Kept Pearl Harbor Story as Army Asked
NEW YORK, Sept. 21 (UP)
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey "knew
the full stoly of Pearl Harbor"
during the 1944 presidential cam
paign and its political impact
"might well have landed Dewey
in the White House" had he not
refrained from using it at the
icquest of Gen. George C. Mar-
hall, Life magazine said today.
Life said General Marshall told
Dewey the United States had
cracked the Japanese "ultra
code, but asked him to keep the
information secret as Japan still
v.-as using the code.
Long before the nation went
to the polls It had come to
Thomas E. Dewoy's attention
that wo had cracked the Jap.
anese 'ultra' code sometime
prior to Pearl Harbor and thai
Roosevelt and his advisers
knew whet the Japanese were
going to do well in advance of
F
at Events of
Horse Show
mated that more than 500 per
sons viewed the proceedings from
the vantage point of the hill
which rises to Gangloff park.
The Lawrence saddle offered
the spectators was presented to
Mrs. Clifford Sherrill, and the
$25 bond to Lynn Gregory.
Highlighting the affair were
Harry McCarthy's new horse.
Leap Year Mac, ridden by Mrs.
Mildred Standley Hanks, and
the Mavericks ladies drill team,
dirocted by Miss Beverly Smith,
and ihe Quadrille team from
the Mi. Emily camp.
Leap Year Mac, a five-galled
bred saddle horse, was pur
chased by McCarthy about two
months ago, and was shown in
ihe five-gaited class, in the la
dies pleasure class and In the
three gailed pairs. Outstand
ing was Mrs. Hank's riding
ability.
The ladies' drill team Hianlnv-
ed 3kill under the capable direc
tion of Miss Beverly Smith, 17-year-old
high school senior and
tnrec-year member of the club,
wno with the members of the
team, gave mnnv linurn tn tho
perfection of the drill. Riding to
music, me team performed an
intricate routine, eynfMtfina
double pinwheel turns, riding in
pans and in fours, forming an M
for Mavericks, and resumino Iho
original positions. The horses
were well paired.
An old-time quadrille, pre
sented by the Mt. Emily riding
team was performed as perfect
ly on horseback as though the
participants were dancing on a
floor. Music was furnished by
O. P. Wirgel and Dick Lindsay.
The presentation of Queen
Eloise Tucker and her princes
ses, at the beginning of the fes
tivities w a s a feature of the
afternoon.
Among the prize horse flesh at
the show was a racehorse ridden
and owned bv Mrs. Rnlnh Mn-
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the overt rupture in relations,"
the Life story said.
"The political impact of such
a chargo. If supported by tho
evidonco of the code-cracking,
would have been terrific, and
might well have landed Dewey
in the While House," Life con
cluded. The magazine said that the
war department, apparently
frightened after Dewey's Okln
homa City speech that the re
publicans would "spring the
truth about Pearl Harbor" sent
a colonel to Dewey with a letter.
The first paragraph asked Dewey
not lo read fui titer unless ho
would keep the letter's contents
secret Dewey returned the let
ter unread, Life said.
Later Dewey received another
letter from Marshall which . he
was given permission to read and
keep. :
Will Aid
Married
Veterans
La Grande's federal hous
ing project has not . been lost
to the community. Through
the efforts of Dr. Itoben J.
Maaske, president of Eastern
Oregon college, 24 units of the
40 house project, have been
secured primarily for the use
of married veterans witlf
families who will attend the
local college.
Dr. Moasko wrote George W.
Qoplen, regional representative
of the housing administration,
stating tlie facts concerning the.
critical situation here. Coplcn's
reply follows in part:
"I am happy to inform you
thai on the basis of ihe inform
ation given in your letter this
office has recommended the
completion of 24 units of this
public housing project. It was
further recommended that, up
on tho completion of these un
its, they be transferred to the
Eastern Oregon college of edu
cation for management and
rental to families of veterans
attending the Eastern Oregon
college. The federal govern
ment will, of course, maintain
title to Ihe buildings and will
be responsible for their dis
pciltion whenever a determine,
tion is reached that they art '
no longer needed for this es
sential purpose." -
Dr. Maaske reiterated that
though the houses are primarily
for veterans with families, and
perhaps for single veterans, at
tending the college, until such a
time as all the units are required
for .their use, the extra ones will ,
bo rented to others in the com
munity who are unable to find
housing during the current short
age. It is also expected, he said, that
other houses will be vacated by
veterans attending college, who
will move into the housing pro
ject, and thus leave vacancies for
others.
Oregon Education
Leaders Discuss
Postwar Problems
PORTLAND. SodI. 21 fUPl
Oregon educational leaders con
ferred in Portland today on
"postwar problems and educa
tion" at a meeting sponsored
jointly by the National Educa
tion 'association and tho Orfanw
State Teachers' association.
The conference has a two-fold
aim of giving representatives a
fair picture of major postwar
problems and determining in a
broad way what contribution the
schools can and should make to
Ihe solution of the nrohlems. an.
cording to Dr. Henry Gunn, Eu
gene superintendent of schools.
Special speakers at the open
ing session were Dr. Richard
Barnes Kennan, representative of
the national commission, and
Gov. Earl Snell. Round table dis
cussions were conducted by Rex
Putnam, slate superintendent of
schools; Oregon supreme court
judge George Rossman; Fred J.
Patton, La Grande superintend
ent of schools; Frank Schiro, La
Grande publisher; Frank Ben
nett, Salem school superintend
ent; James Hamilton, Vanport
supeiintendent; Marshall Dana,?',
and Philip Parrish. Pnrtl.,) o,MK j7
Frank M. Parr, executivJCi
tary of the Oregon StiU&cV
speaker at the sessi'v
Educators Po ;
Meet Here Oc 18-19
Dr. John M. Miller, director of
teacher training at Eastern Or
egon college, yesterday attended
a meeting in Baker of the pro
gram committee which discussed
plans for the eastern Oregon ed
ucational conference to be held
in La Grande Oct. 18 and 19.
Included in the conference are
Grant, Morrow, Umatilla, Union
Wallowa, Baker and Malheur
counties Wiltinm
penntendent of schools at Union
id nrn.Llnn. t ,u -
. i'.v.,ti--itt ui wiu conierence.
Present at the meeting were
Mcidinger, Mrs. Myrtle Lee, Ba
ker p n II n I v ai.,.:n I .
- - --- iiiicuuem or
schools, Mrs. Estelle Boyer, Grant
county supeiinlendcnt, and Wil
liam King who holds that posi
tion In Umatilla county,