PATRONIZE fg feauM Mfoemltui Jjj0LlME v LA GRANDE. UNION COUNT, 0RE33N, r?3f3AY, JJLY 2r, 1936. ' NUMBER 114 LIVES Of IMMATES OF HE AI SALEM MUST FACE NEW CHARGE Scrlpp Neg Association) Chicago, Jjly 27. Two letters, one it is said from the President and the other trom the department of justice, have been received. If the reports are true, r.ew facts will be brought to light that will warrant a more active attack against the Standard Oil Company. It is also intim ated that evidence will be introduced in the federal court next month which will leave a good chance for conviction and imprisonment of the accused. ARMY MOVEMENTS 1.1 THE WEST (Sorlpps New Association) J Kansas Falls. Kas July 27. After w)g and weary marches, in sorre cases Of 250 miles the troops of thisdepartment are concentrated in this vicinity and for miles the tents of the various arms of field service extend along the camp grounds selected. The troops will start tomorrow for the departmentcamp. where they will remain for about a month. JUST SO HE IS A REPUBLICAN Ccrliifi News Association) Chicago, July 27. Secretary of the Treasury Leslie M. Shaw left today to j?$jnd the Republican convention of Iowa JP-whish time the contest of Cummins for renomination will be settled. He says that he is not anxious to mix in ' factional fights and will be satisfied with any can didate jus: so he is a Republican. . FIRST STANDARD FALL SKIRTS t We just received by express a fine s'lOAinl of advance styles in fall skirts, ue call attention to our ladies' ready to wear department which represents some of the best showings of readj to uear garments ?n the county iEW GOODS COMING DAILY i : If you want Phone Black 130 HOME INDUSTRY AND BUILD UP YOUR HOM THREATENED Fortunately Inmates Were on Grounds Trustees Assist in Quencliiflt flames no Insurance." (Scrlppa NVws ArtoHntlon) Salem Ore. July 27 Thi when the inmates of the state morning asylum were about to return .rom their morning exercises an alarm of fir was given. The males had just been marched into the building but on the alarm they hurried back to a small enclosure where they were carefully guarded. The females were taken to a small garden and kept there. The rr.ost vicious ones however were left in the building as they were so dargerous that the management did not dare to remove them until the last moment. Meanwhile the fire, which had started no doubt from crossed wires, had gained some headway in the top floor. The fire department responded promptly and soon had the fire where it was evident that the building could be saved. TWO FLOORS DESTROYED The two upper floors ot the North wing of the state asylum was destroyed bv I fire this m rning. The flames were under control by noon. SAVED BY t'lRE DRILL The entire number of inmates were saved by fire drill. Many of, the maniacs worked like heroes in fightin the flames. ! On account of the oil floors the flames spread rapidly and it .ook the entire city The building is a four story structure and l as the flames star.ed in the upper story, it ! ,;,.. , . ... .. aoparirnent 10 get control or me nre. , MtAW VIIV UUI IVJ VI If IB lllElllCti I.U ICaWll it. TRUSTEES FIGHT FIRE. Eleven trus ess of tho penitentiary were present and fought side by side SHOW! OF the latest Come and see us Mi BY IE TODAY with t -.e fireman. To a man they braved the fierce smoke and flames thinking that their efforts save the building. After Heroic efforst on the parts of the department as well as the trustees. thS fire was bought under contrail. NO INSURANCE None of the floors were burned down k, k n nnM .,. t. Jl.. - - . . ) " " " " f .W.V IMrf UIMIj MMU that complete repairs are necessary. The buildings carry no insurance and the damage by fir and water is a complete loss. There are 1420 patient and 173 employee in the building, and had fortune not decreed that all should be out of the tip floors when the fir broke out. perhaps hundreds would have suffocate '. ARRESTED BY HUNDREDS (Scrlppe News Association) Moscow. Rus., July 87 Agrarian dis turbances in this district and Tver ana extensive a over six hundred arrests have already been made in an effort to quell the socialist and revolutionist uprising. PRESIDENT ENTERTAINS (Scrlpps New Association) Oyster Bay July 27 .h President this afternoon entertained at luncheon. E. E. Clark, lately appointed interstate commerce commissioner, assistant secre tary of state. Bacon, and General Bar- rln BORKMAKER JUMPED EROM A WINDOW (Scrlppa News Association) New York July 27 -Frank E. Rayno'ds a bookmaker and well known on the West side fell or jumped from a fifth floor window in his hotel this morning. He has been ill. HOUSE OF COMMONS IN a , . 8eriPP New. Ablation) JANGLE London July 27 - - - A majority of . ,, ... - - he House of Common, held out through f h rttrror 9irrtr (wtau fnm a .... J i the bitter fight today for IQUUbUUII in the naval appropriation, saying that twelve arid a half million is too much. J . f 1 i ! m ) I : UP TO-DATE STYLES i : : Vergere So. 27 TWENIMtlftEEQUB OUT NG 'Scrippa Awoi'iatlon) New Yor. Jj;y 27. Everything i nearly ready fjr the big annual outing of the Twenty-Three CIuo. which is com posed of theazreai managers, dramatists, newspaper wn'.r and wealthv men w.thout a-'y pa.-twlar occupation. The outing wni tae the form of a cruise all over Long Island sound. wi:n G!en Island as the ultimate collective point. Among tne guests of honor wi I be Mr. Marc ((aw A. L. Erviger.aorgjCohan. Sam H Hams and Hmry Arthur Jones, the English piaywrignt, who is due to arrive here today fflNfl Obhrw Specfat) Pwidl:on Oregon Jr'y 28 Mis Geo gia Pierce of thi city committed suicide yesterday by shooting The cause for the rash act i.exptained by letters wiich she, wrote just prior to her death. Two of em wer to hotel waiters m th s city and th third one to herhusbaid. In the latter she asked that Mr Piurjj think kindly as possible of her while tne ore addressed to, the hote1 waiters SDoke of rejected love. Her husband was called from Helix where he had been working and is heart broken over the affair. During the evening before the suicide the family which lives in the same house noticed that sue a. ted strangely and called the police bjtjwhen they arrived the woman wis lying on her face in her room dead. The letters she had just written were scattered about the room. COAUNG PROBLEM Of NAVY S'-rlppe Xena Asaoftatlon ) Washinuton. 5 C. Julv 27Th N.ui, D partment is looking thoroughly into the " panrnen is loomng tnorougniy int imporUnt prob((lrn of coali ' m It has under consideration in several svsterrs one an Engiish, the other an American invention, wnish are to be tested soon, The naval general board ha. come to the conclusion that coiling at sea is quite as important as the maintenance of a float ing dry dock with its machine shop auxil iary. HOGE m NICKEll ARE CONVICNED Ccrtpps v.--. Association) Portland. Ore.. Julv 27. Martin n ! I Hoge. who with Charle. Nickell was con ' i victed last night of conspiracy and sub- , ordination of perjury in land frauds, was i lodged in the county jail this morning. He I was surrendered by his bondsmen and i g'ver. over to the authorities. His sentence ! ! has not yet been fixed. mik (ir.F r.Fic nniK nF fodtiinf .iiw. imu mid vuuiui iviftiuill tHi"rtr! Nn Ai'oolatlont Ne York Jj'y 27. The will of the late Rjsiell 3ge has been filed. He leives priiti;a:iy all to his widow. His nephew aid n.sces will each flet twentv- five thousand H,s sister. Mrs. Chauin no dead, gr.i ten thousand. The ex-ecjtr.xa-. j axscj'.ors each get a tidy sum. Any be.ietU.ary who objects to any pro v s on loses ';. Saj-J . ii slid to consist of real estate .r. Ne Yjrk worth more than a million ar'd personal property worth more t-ai twe-tj -ni lions. REEORMIJKi WOMAN'S DRESS riD Ns Aoclatlon) Mad:so-!, Jnly 27 -In a lecture before '." state university today Miss Abby Mayhe. dean of the woman's col iedge. o-.diirmd the peikaboo waist, tght m t aid petticoats. She spoke in favor of ;arge shoes, iow neck dressed a-d roj.-ij garter. . She also said that in tiT.e. if wrmen want freedom, they will wea' a gymrasium-like costume. JOrlD.IStOSING APPETITE SliOfllfi SUICIDE AT i iS rlfpi News Association) J; New York Juiy 27- The stea-rer I Airer c gradually nears America J. D. Z i Rocke'e: er woo is onboard, grows, ac j cording to wireiess. plainly peverish and i i;as given up tne shuffle-'oard. abandoned ; h:s coinpanors and the Stewarts say his X i appetite is poor. Tne voyage coi t:ni:e t : to be stormy. The magnate was greatly f anr.pyed aoout the cartoon which appear T d in th ships paper. m (ity is now in GUIDANCE (Sctlpp New. Asftoclatlon) Chicago July 28 The federal court today deposed Prophet Dowie and Voliva from affair, of Zion and ordered election under the law. of Illinois. Etch Zionite over twenty-on year, of age will be allowed to vote for spiritual head. The financial affair, will temporarily i - I i I Mr... ww u imiiih wi utin w. aiaigub WHO ha. been appointed receiver. Judge Landi. exercises personal super vision over affair, to protect th interest, of th member. The title of all invest ors aie recognized a officers of the TVfllTT IN WRECK (Scrlppe New. Association) Springfield. Mo., July 27. The San Francisco passenger train was wracked near her thi. morning and twenty ser iously injured. Mrs. Kate Shottey and R. J. Thorpe were fatally injured and may die. Forty more were more or less bruised. The first car of th train was cut off and turned completely over by a split of the switch. LAND ON EASY TERMS TO SUBJECTS (Scr'.ppe News Association) St. Petersburg, July 27 Orders have been sent to the commander of th Russian war ships in foraian water and posts to return to Kronstadt immediatalv. The principle item in the reform plan of the Czar is granting lands to peasants upon easy payments and easy term. Th government has appealed to the peo ple to use good sense and put down a revolution. SPIES SLAIN St. Petersburg, July 27. A number of government spies were slain in th ter roristquarter today. Murdersand assass inations are reported here today from all parts of the empire. The authorities be lieve it i due to the manifesto written at Viberg, and which was scattered and cir culated throughout th country. . SUGAR COMPANY IN TROUBLE iiJcrlppe New Association) New York. July 27,-The federal grand jury returned three indictment which it s said will result in the investigation of the alleged rebating on sugar from the American Refining companies. INJURED COMB AND BRUSH - SELL THIS WEEK 20 per cent off SEE OUR WID0W DISPLAY NEWLIN DRUG CO. La Grande, Oregon. E TOWN Of COURTS church but are divested of all power, ex cept to expound th scriptures. The gov ernment of Zion City will practically be republic under the guidance of th federal government. All question are to be submitted to a refeiendum and th major ity will rule. Men and women voting at election will be controlled by judge ap pomuM by in Mat election board. - -Th (lection will be held in December, and th court, hav provided tor Dowi' maintenance prior to th election. Rival leader will use th Ubarnacl alternate ly. ' TRlSC0CAlLVtQ2LACRS (Scrlppe New Association) San Francisco, Julyt 2.7 Th crity of labor ha reaahed acut Mag and appeal hav been sent out for skilled hand in all building trades and th coast i being scoured for unskilled laborer with offer of $2.76 per day. Fw, how ver. are coming in and unlet they do thi city will be unable to ct dwelling for th hundreds who art (till homeless, and ar now sheltered in tent or tin and wooden shacks. Th authorities ar vry anx'ous to completer th building befor th rain set in. WEST VIRGINIA EDUCATORS MEET (Scrlppe New Association) Morgantown, Va July 27 Th fourth annual educational conference of th University Summer School opened at Commencement Hall today. Teachers and person Interested in ducational work ar here from all part of Wert Virginia. Th principal topic for discus sion wiU b "A graduated system of school from th primary school to th university." Th discussion duiing th two days of th conference will be sub divided into several sections, including th country shoot, th hiah school, the normal school, th colleg and the Uni versity. PLAN Of DEFENSE A SECRET (8crlpp. New. A iclatlon) New York July 27 It rt statsd that insanity will certainly make its wav In to the Thaw defense. Th attorney for Thaw hav decided on a p!n thathas only one precedent in history, that being a similar case in England which wa acquit ted. but what th plan ar ha been kept a secret. Evelyn visited th prisoner a usual this morning and stated on her return from th Tomb that hr husband is wall. MORE PORTLAND LAND FRAUDS (Rrrlppa Newe Association) Portland, July 27. Th case of Ham ilton Hendricks charged with suborna tion of perjury in land fraud wa opened in th federal court thi morning. He is a wealthy rancher. Th morning occupied the securing of a jury. sr. I: ! 4