La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, October 05, 1945, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Text, Weather Data (or 24 hours to 7 a.m. Temperature: Maximum 70 Minimum 43 ' Forecast: Clear tonight and Saturday except morning fug in western valleys. A Free Press the Torch of World Peace t twtt WllEmi!S!iillL;;!!!!!!!:!!!!!l!! nffTTiim.l:liT!t:MM-i;nl:lH.ll (' Willow Cor'i ESTABLISHED 1896 LA GRANDE, OREGON, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 5, 1915 FIVE CENTS Stroke Cyib JAP PHOTO SHOWS FIRST BOMB DROPPED ON PEARL HARBOR Believed io be the first bomb dropped on Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7. 1941, this Jap picture was found torn to pieces at Yoko suka naval base. One Japanese plane pulling out of a dive is shown above center, and another in the air is at upper right (circles). The picture was carefully copied with a Japanese camera on Jap photographic plates returned to the aircraft carrier Shangri-La where the original was turned over to the navy intelligence. U. S. Navy photo. Jap Order iant" ' TOKYO, Oct. 5 (UP) The Jap anese home' office today ordered .', provincial' police chiefs to hold on for the time being to posts ? from which Gen. Douglas Mac . Arthur had ordered them ousted by Oct. 10. The home1 office's hint at po tential defiance of MacArthur came as Japanese diplomats scur ried about in an effort to form a ; government' to replace that of Prince Ndrh'hikoHigashi,-Kuni, j which was overthrown by the su '! prcme commander's sweeping re forms. . . ;. Shigeru's Yoshida, foreign min i ister in the fallen cabinet and leader of a peace movement for which he was arrested as early as last June,' looked to be the most likely candidate for the Icadcr ) ship of llitf new government. 1 .. Amidst the government shake : UR the home office instructed Ja pan's provincial police chiefs to disregard ',' MacArthur's removal orders "pending decisions on tu tute steps."' JLacking a time element to com- pare with MacArthur's ouster r date of Opt. 10, the true signifi cance of the home office ord-T was uncertain. j ; ;. ! Nimiiz' Receives 7e)i Ovation Than Ike, Skinny WASHINGTON, Oct. 5 (UP) Amid thunderous cheers of ac claim for a job well done, Ad miral Chester W. Nimitz came home to a hero's welcome today, and solemnly called on his coun trymen lo make certain "no fu ture war may ever again find us unprepared." The white-haired man whose naval glenius led America's mighty fleet in its victorious sweep across the Pacific stood be fore an applauding joint session of congress to urge that we eter nally exercise "common sense and keep our fighting forces ready." pur future forces, the admiral said, must include a strong navy, because it was sea power that brought Japan to her knees with out a bloody and costly invasion of her main islands. It was sea i power, he added, that forced Ja pan to sue for peace before the atomic bomb and Russian entry into the war. f Salem, Boy Dies Of Collision Injuries SALEM, Oct. 5 (UP) Ronald Morris, 10-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Joe C. Morris, Salem, died early today of injuries re ceived when his bicycle collided with a school bur yesterday af ternoon. ' Donald Bisbee, bus driver, was arrested by city police on charge of driving with defective brakn. Mnt was released after I jpoating Hill. Bisbee told police the young ster had ridden his bike into the path of the bus which was not yet loaded. The accident occur red near Bush grade school. FIRE PREVENTION WEEK SALEM, Ore. Oct. 5 (UP) Gov. Earl Snell today called at tention to fire prevention week, starting Sunday. Mt. Emily Lumber Company Has Statement on Industry Strike August Stunge, of Mt. Emily Lumber company, today issued a statement about the present in-dusry-wide strike. The state ment gives the position of the company in the strike. It follows: On June 1, 1945, the Mount Emily Lumber company entered into a working agreement with their local Lumber and Sawmill Workers unions, which unions represent the company employ ees at its operations, for, a peri od of one year. At the same time, the Alexander Yawkey Lumber company, Stoddard Lumber com pany, Craig Mt. Lumber com pany, Oregon Lumber company, Kinzua Pine Mills company, Col lins Pine company and Edward Hines Lumber company, herein aiter reierrcd to as the operators, obtained separate and individual contracts with their local Lum ber and Sawmill Workers un ions, all possessed with the same or identical terms and provisions. All the above named operators have, since 1841, negotiated with their local unions through the Northwest Council, A. F. of L., representatives at Portland, Ore gon, as all employees of above operators are hilly aware, be cause thpy designated the North west council as their bargaining agent. As of August 27, 1045, Mount Emily Lumber company, together with the other operators, re ceived a demand from the union representatives that they meet with union representatives for the purpose-of discussing and ne gotiating the union demand for a wage increase. In compliance with the terms of this demand, the operators agreed to meet with the union otfieials for negotiation confer- ences in Portland as of Saturday, c.,i,i,.... is iiiji; in ii... r,. llierance ol tins pian, operators lepresentatives met in Portland as of September 14, anticipating the commencement of full nego tiation conferences on the follow ing day. However, the Union, for rea sons at that time unknown lo Operator representatives, can celled the negotiation confer- , 4 C.lw,.. IS no nf 4 00 P M. Fridav. September 14. t,- .mT has PVFRiSeoh M. Stack. Pittsburgh, was BEEN MADE BY THE UNION TO RESUME THESE NEGOTIA TION CONFERENCES. The Op erators were unable to obtain from the Union representatives any agreement to resume negoti ation conferences despile numer ous requests byvthe Operators that the negotiations canctiMM by the Union as of SarJU'iid t?r 14, 1945, be resumed in the im mediate future. On Tuesday, September 18, 1945, representatives of the Op erators attended hearings called by a special lumber commission appointed by Jtite Secretary of Labor m an attempt to aven threatened strike in the lumber i industry. The Operators were in formed al 1 these ' hearing. FOR THE FIRST TIME T HAI inr. Lumber & Sawmill Workers, A F. of L. were demanding that all Operators in Oregon, Washing rm TAuhn Montana and Cali fornia enter into industry wide I negotiations covering the five . mentioned states. In other words, whether they be in the fir lumber business, pine lumber business, the ply wood industry or whether they operate box factories, stock and detail plants or whether they manufacture package veneer, doors, matches, or wooden bar rels, they must enter into indus try wide negotiations as one bar gaining group. All this, despite the fact that such a demand had never before been made on the above named companies in the Central and Eastern Oregon area and despite the further fact that such a de mand violates the well establish ed and satisfactory practices be- tweeri the parties. ; The officials. 'of t Mt.' " Emily Lumber Company and the offi cials of the other Central and Eastern Operators view the Union position as amounting to the following: "That as the requirement be fore any negotiation on the wage demand submitted to the Cen tral and Eastern Oregon Opera tors, such Operators must agree to negotiate on an industry wide basis with all other Operators who produce, handle or process lumber in any form, stage . or condition. In the event that this requirement was not met the Unions would not negotiate with the Operators on the Union's wa,t(o demands, Which prior to Tuesday, September 18, 1945, were the only issues in contro versy. Rather, instead of carry ing out negotiation conferences on their wage demands in ac cordance with the practice of the last 5 years, the Union would in dulge in affirmative strike ac tion." From August 27, 1945, the date of the Union demand for negoti- !Ulon conrcrence, wn.en --" was agreed to m good faith y "-' Operators, to the present time-, no negotiation conferences I have been held between the Central & Eastern Oregon Oper ators and their Union represcnla See MT. EMILY . . . Page 5 Portland Veteran Elected to Next High Post in VFW CHICAGO, Oct. 5 (UP) -J" elected commander-in - chief by unanimous vote yesterday in the last order of business of the 4litn national encampment of the Vet erans of Foreign Wars. Named to succeed Stack as se nior vice commander was Louis E. Starr, Portland, Ore. Ray H. Brannaman, Denver was elected junior vice commander and Ly all T. Beggs, Madison, Wis., judge advocate general, in balloting for other major offices. Newly elected members of the national council included Martyn Shule, Bangor, Me.: Earl.Scilz. Pittsburgh. Mayo Buckley, Ath- lens, Ga.; Leroy Omer, Louisville, K. . jamt, Fisher, Wichita, Kas Vernon C h e e v e r, Colorado Springs; Maurice Ogilvie, .Wal lace, Ida., and William Barge, Washington. POPUUlTIOlt RISC WASHINGTON, Oct. 5 (UP) San Francisco had a population increase of 192,804 of 30.4 per cent between April 1, 1940. and Aug. 1, 1945, the censu bureau reported today. Population of San Francisco Aug. 1 was 827, 4 on. hn Dosfcainice Si Epidemic of Odd Auto Mishaps Here Indudes Four Rear End Collisions An epidemic of accidents broke out in La Grande Wednesday and Thursday, with eight accident reports on file at the city police station. Only one injury, that of a speed-cop run down by a worn-, an going; 1" miles an hour, was 'reported,- a n d estimated damage totaled $100. Four of the accidents were rear-eild collisions. ; Wednesday At 9 a. m. Billy C. Fox, La Grunde, police reports show, bucking from a garage on Jefferson street, smashed into an automobile driven by Lois Fergu son, also of La Grande, who had just backed from the curb. Po lice said Fox was traveling al an estimated speed of 35 miles nn hour, and his car hit Mrs. Fer guson's car broadside, tearing the fender from the running board, and curling the running board up under the fender.' Damage is estimated at $25 for the Fergu so car. Wednesday afternoon. Frank Pallet!, La Grande, backing on Depot street by the Modern laundry, struck a parked auto mobile owned by R. G. Walker, also of La Grande, causing $20 damage io Pelleit's car Thursday Rear-end collision resulted at 5 a. m. when automo biles driven by Viola Stiles and. Doyle Jordan both of La Grande, were . traveling west . on Adams avenue near Depot street. The Jordan car had faulty brakes, po lice reports show. At 11:20 a. m. cars of Mrs. Bene Cooper, La Giande, backing south on Depot street, and Roy Bell, Cove, backing north, collided. No damage was reported. Another rear-end collision re sulted at 3:30 p. m. when au tomobiles driven by David E. Johnson, Union, end Harley F. Davis, La Grande, collided on Adams avenue. Johnson was backing from the curb, and Da vis was traveling west on Ad ams. ' Dick Dooley, traffic officer on the La Grande police force, received a bruised right leg and foot as the result of an acci dent which occurred at 5:30 p. m. Dooley was chasing a speed er, going west on Jefferson av enue. Miss Ruckman, as Doo ley was passing, backed from the curb at an estimated speed of 10 miles an hour, overturn- Dorothy Carter Will Be Stewardess For United Airlines Miss Dorothy Carter yesterday received confirmation of her em ployment as a mainliner steward ess for United Airlines. She will leave Oct. 13 for Pen dleton, and will fly from there to Chicago. After completion of her training, she probably will be stationed at San Francisco, Portland, or Denver. Miss Carter, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence M. Carter, route 2, recently taught a year in the Elgin high school. She was graduated from the University of Oregon, where she received her B. A. degree in English. Prisoners Don't Get Outfit's Citations WASHINGTON, Oct. 5 (UP) The War Department said today it was all a mistake that pus oners of war never were suppos ed to receive battle citations awarded their units after they were captured. The department "guessed" there had been a mistake after it was reported liberated Ameri can airmen had returned to the west coast to find that battle cit ation points they were counting on to obtain tiiclr discharge wen not being honored. REMOVE ICE BOX CONTROL ! WASHINGTON, Oct. 5 (UP) I Controls over the distribution of I oomestic mechanical refngeia-, tors will be removed Oct. ID, the war production board announced i toduy. ing the motorcycle. Damage io the motorcycle was estimated at SIS. Thursday afternoon, b r akes fuiled on John Baum's automo bile, which was parked on the hill neur the Red Shutter motel, and the tlriverless car started down the hill, running into an I, V li, - i LnnJkUJ CHAMP JUMPER Li. Calvin Campbell, above, of Richmond, Va.. a member of the 82nd Air borne division, has the distinc tion of being the first to jump in every American airborne in vasion Sicily, Salerno, Anzio beachhead, Normandy. Hol land, and central Germany. He wears seven campaign stars and the purple heart with two clusters. W. N. Banton, 71), Retired Farmer, Dies; 111 Briefly William N. Banton, 79-year-old retired farmer whose home was 1309 X avenue died today at a local hospital as the result of a short illness. He made his home in the Ladd canyon district near ly all his liAi. moving to La Grande after retiring from active farming. ' He was born Jan. 22, 1800 in Union county, and remained here all his life. He is survived by his wife, Sarah, five children, Mrs. Alta Winbin n, H E. Banton, Mrs Etta Poole and Mrs Lolu Young, all of La Grande, and J. W. Banton of Kinzua, as well as 12 grand chil dren, 70 great grandchildren and other relatives and a host of friends. Funeral services will be at 2 p. m. Saturday at Snodgrass Funeral home with Rev. T. E. Mitchell officiating. I nterment will be in the family plot i the Masonic cemetery. Boy Scout Court To Sit Monday Night Boy Scout court 'of honor will be held at 8 p. m. Monday at the high school gymnasium, it was announced today. Eisenhower awards will be presented and ad vancements made at (summer camp will be recognized as well as cub achievements. Three boys will receive palms, two gold and one bronze undone eagle Scout badge will be p'e sented. Merit budges will also be awarded and advancements made. Frank Schiro will preside and the panel will be made up of scout musters. Ford Company Will Reown its Plants DETROIT, Oct. 5 (UP) Ford Motor company, assured of a flow of vital parts -for its ussembly Nnes from the re-opened Kils'y Hoyes Wheel company, recalled workers to their jobs ut two De tioit plants toduy. Comnlete resumption of pro duction in the other Ford plants is expected by Oct. 15. automobile being driven west on highway 30 by George T. Mc Clelland of Silverdale. Damage is estimated at $30 for each cur, police reports show. Later Thursday, afternoon, an automobile owned by Bill Hall, La Grande, was being towed up the Eighth street hill, when the Passeau Pitches One-Hitter to Win Third Game For Chicago DETROIT, Oct. 5 (UP) Vete ran Claude Passeau turned in a pitching masterpiece toduy when he shut out the Detroit Tigers on one hit to give the Chicago Cubs a 3 tot 0 series victory. The tri umph gave the Cubs u 2 to 1 edge. Thb pitching wizardy with which Passeuu set back the Ti gers matched the best hurling performance in world series his tory a one hitter with which Ed Ruelbach turned buck the Chi cago White Sox in 1900. And he did it for the Cubs, just us Pas seau. So invincible was the gangling right hander the Tigers got only two men on base Rudy York who singled with two out in the second, and Bob Swift, who walk ed to lead off the sixth. He faced only 28 men, for Swift, later was erased in a double play. York's hit was a clean line drive lo left. As Passeau, with his assuitmcnt of curve balls, fast balls and change of pace, was baf fling the Tigers, the Cubs got to little Stubby Overmirc, the Tiger left hander in the fourth inning lor all the runs Passeuu needed. They got another tally in the seventh off Al Benton. Turned Bacw Overmirc hud turned the Cubs buck on one hit in the first three innings, but Peanuts Lowrey opened the fourth with a double against the screen in front of the left field grandstands. The bull was only inches above the out stretched hnnds of Hunk Green- Wife 'Believes' Husband Innocent Only After Killing Woman She Had Accused SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. 5 (UP) I A haggard, sobbing Mrs. Annie Irene Munsfeldt, red-haired wife of a prominent Sun Francisco physician, appeared in municipal court for arraignment today, ap parently more worried about her husband's disappearance than the murder charge filed a'guinst her. Mrs. Mansleldt, who has been in an overwrought condition since she admitted the fatal shooting of Mrs. Vada S. Mar tin, an attractive hospital nurse she suspected, was granted a continuance. The 40 - year - old mother of three children wept hysterically throughout her courtroom appear ance and insisted her husband must be dead. Laval Belabors Jury PARIS, Oct. 5 (UP) Pierre Laval, fighting craftily for his life, belabored a French high court jury today with on impas sioned insistence he never agreed to make France a vassul of Ger many. Luvnl, seizing the first oppor tunity in his treason trial to launch into u full dress defense, declared he hud tried to pro'.ect Frunce from German demands. He charged Marshal Henri Phil ippe Petuin himself convicted of treason and serving a life term to which his death sentence was commuted put France under the Vichy dictatorship. Drawn and haggard Laval plunged into his own defense af ter judge Pierre Mongiljroux overruled urgent request both by Laval and his counsel for an in definite p o s t ponementj of the trial. They pleaded lor , more time to prepare their case. Laval was permitted to return to court with a stern warning tow rope broke. The car careen ed down the hill, Eighth, bounc ed from a curb, turned and con tinued down the hill until it hit a parked uutomobile owned by Orson W. Watson, of Pocatcllo, Ida. Damage has not been es timated yet, uccidents reports show. berg. The Cubs played It the con centional way, and hud their lend ing hitter, Phil Cuvnrettu, sacri fice. Overmire lost his control then and walked Andy Pafko on four consecutive wide ones. With the infield drawn in for a possible play at the plate. Bill Nicholson sent a looping fly ball thai was just out oi Skeel er Webb's reach. Overmire got Mickey Living ston on a (ly, but Roy Hughes singled to right. It was a sharp ly hit bull and Roy Cullcnblne came up fast with it, but for some reason did not throw to the plate and Pafko scored. Stubby settled down then, but the damage had been done. Overmire went out for a pinch hitter in the Tiger's sixth, and the Cubs went to work on his successor for their other tally in the seventh. Livingston started it this time with another double, his one off the right field wall. Hughes sacrifices him to third, and scored when Passeuu drove u fly to Cramer. And all the while Passeuu was turning back the Tigers in mon otonous regulurity. One Pass York gave them their first chance to cheer in the second when he singled, but he died on first. Swift was the only other Tiger to get on base off Pus seau. He worked the Cub hurler for a pass lo open the Tiger half Soe PASSEAU . . . Page 5 Mrs. Munsfelt told authorities yesterday she shot Mrs. Martin during a street corner mealing and then drove her to Central Emergency hospital. "She kept denying everything. She said she hud been out with him a few times, she said. ''I fired.' At first it seemed as if nothing happened. She told me again she had never loved my husband. I told her that shot was oi.ily a blank but that if sho didn't tell me the truth I would use a real one. "1 struck her in the face with the gun. Then she fell forward. She told me with her dying breath she had never loved my husband. Now I believe her, and it's too late." from Mongibeaux, who last night ordered him out for good because of his "insulting" behavior throughout the first hectic duy of the trial. Veterans' Bureau Prepared for Loans SALEM, Oct. 5 (UP) The state department of veterans' af fairs is now prepared to grant loans to qualified World War II veterans for the purpose of buy ing homes and farms, director Hugh Rosson announced today. In accordance with a constitu tional amendement approved by the voters and a legislative act passed at the last session, loans up to 19,000 nay 1 made to horttirably discharged veterans who have served in the armed forces for lit) days since Sept. 1, 1941. Only Oregon citizens are eligible. Veterans receiving loans from the federal government for the same purpose are ineligible. irvoe Oregon Lines Not Affected By Stoppages By United Press ; Normal telephone servieb was cut off from coast to coast today by a walkout of operators a n d maintenance workers. An estimated 250,000 telephone workers left their jobs to take a strike vote. The work stoppage was scheduled to last four hours fiom 11 a. m. to 3 p. m. EST. During that period only dial phones were working in most areas. ... (In Oregon, the union decided not to join other operators and there was no interruption of serv ice cither local or log distance within the state. However, any calls placed for points outside the stale were held up the same us if they had originated in states where the wulkout had occurred.) Ordered Back ' At almost the same moment the telephone employes began leav ing their posts, CIO oil workers union at Washington ordered its members back to work in all re fineries. The union asked the ment to return to the 52 oil plants seized by the navy and to all other plants where they have been on strike... j ; ' j . At Washington the' telephone Walkout begun shortly afternoon, two hours before the 2 p. m. deed line. Long distnnce callers heard a recording which suid "opera tors have left the switchboards In a work stoppage." Emorgency Skeleton crews handled emer gency long distance culls ut Seat tle, bill San Franciscans who di aled long distance got no unswer. Three thousand telephone work ers walked out in Kansas City. The company predicted service will be resumed by tonight. Non-' union supervisory crews handled emergency culls in Utuh and Ida ho. Long distance culls were being handled as usual in Denver. It was not known whether or not employes there had walked out. In Chicago, 7,200 workers joined t h e wulkout. Supervisory em ployes tried to keep essential long distance telephone business oper ating, but 20 workers were try ing to handle the job normally piloted to 500 operators. No Holp Telephone usi-rs trying to get the eentiul exchange in Chicago were notified "emergency calls only will be accepted. Will you cull later?" All but emergency calls were refused in North Carolina, Lou isiana, Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, Oklahoma and Texas. The Southern Bell Telephone company reported only 30 per cent of its normal force working in Kentucky. In Portland leaders of 01,000 striking AFL lumber workers to day answered ClO-obtained in junctions ugainst picket lines by declaring all lumber produced be hind its "imaginary picket line" to be "hot" and unfair to organ ized labor. Two More Al. the same time AFL pickets surrounded two more ClO-oper-uled mills, closing down opera tions at the White River Lum ber company in Enumclaw, Wash., and the Vancouver Ply wood company, at Vancouver. Other strikes: coal Labor Sec retary Schwellcnbuch calls in dustry and United Mine Workers representatives to meet with him tomorrow to halt a spreading strike of the soft coal fieldst Steel 13,000 CIO steelworkcrs out in scattered work stoppages throughout the east and midwest. Bus drivers 2,700 Pacific Greyhound drivers in California, Oiegon, Utuh, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas walk out in a dispute over wages. , Auto approxipately 105,000 CIO auto workers on Strike or idle because of contract disputes, unsettled grievances and wage demands. Shipping New York port opp erattoiis still paralyzed by a strike of UO.OOO AFL longshoremen.