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ft' Heppner Gazette Times, August 27, 1942 3 Tewers of Traf h Chinese, Finnish, TagJog, Dutch, Spanish programs in more than a dozen tongues go out from the towers of General Electric stations WGEA and WGEO, Schenectady, and KGEI, San Francisco. Heppner Gazette Times THE HEPPNER GAZETTE. Established March 30, 1883; THE HEPPNER TIMES. Established November 18, 1897; CONSOLIDATED FEBRUARY 15. 191? HEy; THE HECK WITH you ROOKIES THE CHOW LIME- THE CHOW LINES IT'S THE MAIL LNE- OVER. HERE! FOR. US f (MESS HALL) Published every Thursday morning by CRAWFORD PUBLISHING COMPANY and entered at the Post Office at Hepp ner, Oregon, as second-class matter. JASPER V. CRAWFORD, Editor I I SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year $2.50 4.50 6.00 1.25 .65 .05 Two Years Three Years Six Months Three Months .... Single Copies .... Official Paper for Morrow County Week of the War Continued from First Page enemy fleet of 47 which attacked Darwin. No Allied planes were lost. The Navy reported the Marines hold on at least three of the Solomon islands is now well estbalished. When 700 Japanese counter-attacked on one of the islands 670 were killed and the other 30 taken pris oners, Pacific Fleet Commander Nimitz reported. The Marine losses were 28 killed and 72 wounded. Ad miral Nimitz also announced a force of Marines made a successful land ing on Makin Island, killed 80 Jap anese, wrecked various installations and then withdrew. U. S. Army headquarters, Euro ean theater, announced arrival in Britain with the largest U. S. con voy of the war, with more men and material for the American air forces which had already begun precision bombing by daylight of Nazi-occupied Europe. U. S. flying fortresses bombed the Nazi transportation sys tem at Amiens and Abbeville. In a battle over the North Sea, four fly ing fortresses shot down three Ger man fighters and damaged nine others, while all the U. S. planes re turned safely. A U. S. Ranger bat talion joined with Canadian and British forces in a nine-hour raid on Dieppe, France. The Navy re ported U. S. submarines operating in the Aleutians and in the Far East sank a cruiser or destroyer and dam aged a destroyer, sank two cargo ships and a transport, and damaged another cargo ship. The torpedoing of seven more United Nations mer chantment by enemy submarines was announced. Foreign Relations President Roosevelt and Secretary of State Hull sent messages of sol idarity to Brazil as that country be came the first South American na tion to declare war on Germany and Italy. The President said Wendell L. Willkie will tour Europe and the Near East as his special representa tive in order to correct the impres sion in those places that U. S. pro duction is not all it should be. Mr. Willkie will carry messages from the President to foreign leaders, in cluding Premier Stalin. The Presi dent issued a statement that the per v petrators of "barbaric" acs in' occu pied countries "will have to stand in the courts of law" in the same coun tries in which barbarism now rages, ' and answer in those courts for their crimes. Selective Service Selective Service Director Her shey said draft boards will begin calling men with dependents before Christmas. He said single men with "secondary" dependents, such as aged or crippled relatives, will be called first; married men whose wives work,, next; then men with dependent wives; and finally men who have wives and children. He said the reservoir of 1-A men throughout the country is "practic ally exhausted." Selective Service headquarters said class 1-B (men fit for limited military service only) will be eliminated, and beginning September 1, all registrants who are not totally disqualified will be class ified in 1-A, while those not suited for any military service will be placed in 4-F. In the case of men reclassfied in 1-A, the Army will determine after induction whether they will be assigned to full or lim ited service. Army and Navy The War Department said it will inaugurate this fall a voluntary pre induction training program utilizing a Sat CSV HQ7 existing facilities of schools and col leges to meet present and future needs for properly trained personnel in the armed forces. Out of every 100 men inducted into the Army about 63 are assigned to duties re quiring specialized training, the De partment said. The Army said it is organizing and training port battal ions (composed mostly of former stevedores) for duty overseas to in sure prompt handling of U. S. mil itary equipment for forces stationed throughout the world. The Depart ment said checks inpayment of al lowances to dependents of enlisted men of the Army, covering the first applications to be approved, will go out shortly after September 1. The Navy announced recruiting of enlisted personnel of the Women's Naval Reserve will begin September 11, and training will start October 9 at the University of Wisconsin, Indiana University, and Oklahoma A. and M. College. Stabilization of Farm Prices Secretary of Agriculture Wickard said he would approve a plan of live stock ceiling prices which "must not permit abnormal profits to anyone . in the industry at the expense of the producers and consumers." Mr. Wickard alp said he now favors re peal of the provision of the price control act "that prohibits ceilings on processed farm products if the ceiling price reflects a farm price of less than 110 percent of parity." He said farm prices "have reached parity on an average." The WPB Food Requirements Committee ask ed the armed forces, the Lend -Lease Administration, and the War Pro duction Board to collaborate in working out a program for alloca tion of all government meat pur chases as equitably as possible am ong federally inspected packers. The Agricultural Marketing Admin istration bought $137,900,000 worth of foodstuff during July for the United Nations and other require ments, including 80,000 pounds of dehydrated beef. Rationing Tire quotas will have to follow a downward trend the rest of this year to keep within the amount of rubber earmarked by the WPB for the purpose, the Office of Price Ad ministration said. The Office asked local rationing boards for the strict est possible interpretation of a re cent amendment to tire rationing regulations restricting truck eligi bility to vehicles essential to the war effort or public health and safety. Oil and Gasoline WPB Chairman Nelson appointed 1 Under Secretary of War Patterson, Petroleum Coordinator Ickes and Price Administrator Henderson as a committee to determine whether fuel oil should be rationed in the East Coast area this winter. Because of the shortage of fuel oil in the area, Mr. Ickes prohibited the haul ing of automotive gasoline by rail in 20 middle western and southwest ern states in order to divert enough tank cars to carry 100,000 barrels of fuel oil daily to the rationed area. If the withdrawal of these 5,000 to 7,000 tank cars creates a shortage, rationing should be ex tended, Mr. Ickes said. Harvest Ball at Open Air pavilion, Saturday, August 29. Music by Mer rill's orchestra. Sponsored by Ladies Altar Society. Copyright 1942, B.P.O. ELKS Wheat Surplus in Northwest- Remains Puzzling Problem The 1943-44 wheat market outlook is complicated and difficult to weigh, despite important known facts, ac cording to the annual wheat out look report of the Oregon State col lege extension service. "With the supply of wheat at record-breaking proportions, the old questions of what to plant on surplus wheat acres and what to do with the surplus wheat on hand are still problems," says the report. The United States supply of wheat is so great that less than one-half will be needed for all known uses during the 1942-43 marketing season, unless more is used for feed and for the manufacture of rubber or other products than now seems pro bable, data in the report reveals. The Pacific northwest wheat acre age in 1942 was 25 per cent less than the average from 1930 to 1939, and Oregon's acreage 30 per cent less, yet production this year is greater than the average owing to good yields. The carry-over is also very great, both in the Pacific north west and in the country as a whole. Production in four principal wheat exporting nations (United States, Canada, Argentina, and Australia) combined will be slightly larger than last year and the carry-over is the greatest on record. Very little wheat can be exported under existing con- ditions. The report states that Oregon does not produce enough of such feed grains as barley, corn and oats, but ships in corn and some other feed. Wheat is good feed for the produc tion of pork, beef, lamb, milk, eggs, chickens, and turkeys, all of which are needed in the war effort. By using more wheat for feed, trans portation will be conserved and stor age space relieved as less corn and other feed would need to be shipped in. In considering what to plant on surplus wheat land there is need to consider various crops, including the hay situation. Preliminary estimates indicate that in relation to the num ber of animals on hand, Oregon's hay supply may be 15 to 20 per cent less than last winter, partly owing to increased numbers of livestock, and partly to there being less hay harvested. Grain Bins, Elevators Supplied in Counties Commodity Credit portable wood en grain bins are proving an "ace in the hole" for Oregon wheat growers in their efforts to provide storage for their second successive bumper wheat crop. A total of 280 bins have been ordered through county AAA offices, and more bins are being or dered by growers who underestim ated their crop or were unable to obtain materials to provide enough farm storage. Forward-looking growers tire or dering bins to take care of next year's wheat crop in anticipation of shortage of materials and labor ev en more acute than this year, the state AAA office reports. To assist growers in getting the wheat into the farm granaries, 33 portable grain elevators have been shipped to five Columbia basin counties. These el evators will be available by loaito farmers on application to county AAA offices. J:-: 1. They provide authentic war in formation for news-starved peoples around the globe, entertainment for U.S. forces abroad. These G-E short wave stations . . . 3. Theyprovided theonly U.S. pro grams that reached Bataan. People in conquered lands risk their lives to listen. Smuggled letters say they Dnng hope ot release. General Electric believes good citizen is to be a good soldier. General Electric Company, Schenectady, N. Y. GENERAL NON-SHATTER GRASS GROWN Junction City One of the first fairly large lots of the new non shattering strain of tall meadow oat grass has just been harvested on the farm of C. B. Flanagan, a local far mer who raised V2 acres of this grass. The original seed for this field was obtained from the Oregon experiment station by County Ag ent O. S. Fletcher in the fall of 1939. Leonard Freeman, another local far mer, has just harvested one acre of a special strain of creeping led fes cue, the seed of which was origin ally imported from Wales. We've got Axis to grind. Buy Defense Bonds and Stamps. DR. STRAM DON'T WAIT For School to Start Send your child in for an eye check-up before the back-to-school rush be gins. PRICES REASONABLE No Charge for Examination Satisfaction Guaranteed STRAM OPTICAL CO. 225 S. Main St. Pendleton Ell y ' 'vf-m 2. ... have special antennas "pointed" at Australia, South America, China, Europe making reception there almost as strong as from local stations. 4. Some announcers are regular G-E production employees, working on war work. They tell people in their native lands that America is determined on victory. that its first duty as a ELECTRIC ! STAR Reporter FRIDAY-SATURDAY Twilight on the Trail Bill Boyd, Brad King, Andy Clyde You'll get a kick out of Hopalong Cassidy and his pals, masquerading as Englishmen in order to seek out some cattle thieves! -pius-Privatc Buckcroo Andrews Sisters, Harry James and Orchestra, Joe E. Lewis, Dick Foran, Shemp Howard A glorified vaudeville show with musical numbers including "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen," "Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree" and "Three Little Sisters." SUNDAY-MONDAY Cecil B. DeMille's Greatest Triumph Reap the Wild Wind (In Technicolor) PauJctte Goddard, John Wayne, Ray Milland and a cast of thousands. Based on the serial story that ran in the Saturday Evening Post. She wrecked her boat and broke her heart to prove that her lover was not a traitor. Slightly increased prices for this show only. Sunday Matinee 40c, Evenings 55c, Children 15c any time. All prices include Federal Tax. 1 TUESDAY Bargain Night Adults 25c ' Children 10c I Was Framed Michael Ames, Julie Bishop, Regis Toomcy, Patty Hale A two-fisted, thrill-packed action drama. WEDNESDAY-THURSDAY Dangerously They Live John Garfield, Raymond Massey, Nancy Coleman He's a one-man army when he gets going against Uncle Sam's back stabbing foes! Also "CALLING ALL. GIRLS" a musical short subject with lavish dance numbers.