La Grande evening observer., August 22, 1922, Image 1

" VOLUME XXV MEMBER OF ABSOCIATBH PRBSS
LA GRANDE, OREGON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1922
MBMHKlt OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
NUMBER 274
BIG INCOMES
GLIi TIJ THE
EASTEflH PART
Illinois is Seuoml to New
York in Getting the
Money Annually.
CALIFORNIA HAS
GOOD SHOWING
North Central States Have
Incomes and People
. in that Section Show a
Warded Prosperity. ,
(Rv Associated Prpwi.)
NEW YORK. Aug. 22. Illinois
with $4.962,UU0.0U0 us the annual
aggregato Incomd of its citizens
leads the North-Central States, ac
cording to. compilations which have
" been announced at the headquarters
of the National Bureau of Keonomic
Research, New York. Illinois re
ceives seven und one-half per cent
of the nation's income, a (Inure
which is exceeded only hy New
York and Pennsylvania. Pennsyl
vania ranks second with $5,958,
000,000, while New York tops the
list with n little more than $y,O00,
000,000. These data fare taken
from advance sheets of a report en
titled "Distribution oT Incomo by
! States" which will be issued by the
National bureau of Economic Re
search this month. This study which
was prepared by Oswald W. Knuutli,
supplements an exhaustive Investi
gation of "Income in the United
States' upon which the Research
Staff of the Bureau, under Dr. Wes
ley C. Mitchell, has been engaged,
for more than a year. I
Get 22 Per Cent.
The" Kast-North Central states
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and
Wisconsin, uceording to the rnport 1
"Distribution of Incomo by States,"!
had In 1010 a total incomo of near
ly $15,000000,000, which was 22
'per cent- of "the- income- of the -entire
country. At tho same time
their population was exactly one
fifth of (ho total. As a group,
therefore, their average per capita
Incomo of $(184 was somewhat high
er than that of the whole, country
which was $627, though ft-Hs than
the $783 average in tho Kastern
states, and the figure of $796 en
joyed by the Pacific states.
Tho middle Atlantic states. Now
York, New Jersey and Pennsylvan
ia, taken as a group have over one
fourth of the national income, and
with the Kast-North Central group
and the New Kngland states havo
more than one-half of the total..
(Continued on l'ugo Eight)
BAKER TO BE
One car load of Tokio temple
offinuTs and one car load of Ad
club boosters will leave tomorrow
morning for Baker, where they will
attend a meeting of Baker Cham
ber of Commerce and present the
Dokie convention program to the
Baker (people. The Dokie delegation
was. picked last night at a meeting
of the general committee and Royal
Vizier C. W. Stone, Secretary DeLile
Green, Treasurer Win. Miller and
Giles Harnden will represent the
Dokie Temple. The Ad club dele
gation consists of H. K. Coolidge,
chairman Karl Stoddard, Rev. Geo.
H. Quigley, F. L. Lilly, all members
of the entertainment committee and
A. W. Nelson, manager of the Ad
club, and ('has. Reynolds, acting
hetfd of the finance committee. Rev.
Geo. H. Quigley, member of the en
tertuinment committee of the Ad
club will deliver the principle ad
dress at the Bake. meeting.
T SHOW
CHARGED WITH
FIENDISH ACT
Oly Associated ,
DENVER, Colo-, Auk. 22. Albert
J. Lowe, insurance agent, was arrest
ed today at Greeley. Colorado, on a
murder charge following the mother's
investigation of the death there re
cently jf Edna Skinner, a young
school teacher of BocmingUm, who os
tensibly was killed through the explos
ion of a gasolinp stove. Miss Skin
ner was Lowe's ister-in-law.
May Have Grabbed Half
Million Fron Employer
(Hr Associated Press)
HONOLCLU. T. H.. Aue.
Serious insularities understood tM
pxce-d ,'irtM.ottti,
said to have
been found in th
counts of John
Guild.
:.rv ef "bijioliig lirm
E
VANS ALLOWS
COMPANY TO
ENTER CASE
Pacific Telephone juid. Tele
graph Company otaris
Legal Proceedings in Pate
Hearing.
'Uy Anaoctated l'raaa.)
PORTLAND, Aur- 22. Charging
Pubic Service Commissioners McCoy
and Kerrigan with coimpiracy, the Pa
cific Telephone and Telegraph com
pany intervened in circuit court today
in a suit instituted by Robert. G. Dun
can and others to set aaide the new
telephone rates- Judge Evan allow
ed the company's motion -to intervene.
Hid Associated Prptis.)
PORTLAND, An. 22. Clerks
and freight handlers will be in
creased (wo cents an hour t over
their old scale, vacation lay-off
and sick lesve alm-f with Satur
day aftcmion off have been re
Htored according to announce
ment made Into this afternoon by
headquarters of the Union Pacific
railroad in this city.
(Special to The observer)
BOY SCOUTS SUMMER CAMP,
Big Minam, Aug. 22 Four more boys
will arrive at the camp tomorrow ev
ening, which will increaBfl the person
nel to two more members, Rev. Rps.-
having left yesterday and Fern Kelly
will leave today. Lyle Chandler, Bob
Smith, Floyd Coolidge and Edwin Jen
sen will be tho new arrivals and they
will be taken as far as Cove by Ueorire
Cochran. At Cove they wHl meet rein
Kelly on his way back to La Grande
and Ilnrvcy Carter, who wil' guide
benefitting thrt boys physically and
morally, as well as socially.
Everything is ship shape tit the
earnp- No accidents or unpleasant
happenings have occurred to mar tno
even tenor of a wonderful vacation,
them to the camp.
HUNTER IS SHOT.
MASHFIitfLD, Aug. 22. Uovh! Os-
t inn(lfir. ufvi-ntien.Vi!nr-H Hon of R.
C. Ostrander, barber at Port Orford,
I was shot and probably fatally wound
'erf by his hunting- companion, George
Hurst, aged 21. With two other young
men they were hunting deer in the
I wilds of Curry county. They had
I wounded a buck which they were try
ing to Hurround.
BULLETINS
LIVE STOCK .MARKETS.
(By Associated I'resn.) I
PORTLAND, Auff. 2 2 Steers wera
steady; cows a quarter lower; calves
fifty cents higher; ho(f a half dollar,
lower, prime light selling at $11-00 t
$12.00; sheep hIow and weak; eggs
two cents higher, buying. price 22 to
'2( centH ner dozen, sellinir nrice 21
n.o ol cents; butter steady-
ORGAN IZFiR DIES,
(by AflHoclalfd l-rcs.)
PALO ALTO, Calif-, AuC 22 Col.
Harris Wcinstock, former Btate mar
ket commissioner and noted for or
ganizing the Growers' Association
throughout the state of California,
died today from a fractured skull re
ceived when he fell from his horse in
Los Angeles.
He is accused of inducing the young
teacher to take out a two thousand
dollar life insurance policy payable
to him. The accusation states fur
ther that he beat the "jrl to death with
a stove weight and set fire to the
k i teen of his home, where the alleged
cr ime occurred.
Relatives started an investigation
when he reached Uloommtton with th
corpse and refused to open the coffin
of Alerander and Baldwin, accord
ing to statacientft made by C. H
Senmnway. treasurer and asnlstant
nmnaeer. after a Kp"'ial meet luff
of the -hoard of dtrertors. Guild is
UNION PACIFIC
RAISES WAGES
SCOUTS HAVING ,
FINE OUTING
. hi! boms wrIoi.?!y; 111. m im.
II ." STPFI'HraiflA
mm9
Announcement Made Today
of Bi Increase in AVages
Paid to Common Labor.
TWENTY PER
CENT ADDED
Order to Affect All of its
-Manufacturing Plants on
September 1st Other La
bor also to be Adjusted.
(Hv Anaoclated Press)
NEW YORK. Aue. 22. Tllo
United Steel Corporation tonny' an
nounced that a wage rain duy labor
in all lis manufacturing plants
would be raised twenty per cent
from September 1st ;and that other
rate, on labor would be. equitably
adjusted.
RAISES WAGES
EMPLOYES
La Grande Boy Killed
By Californian Near ;
Rainier Last Night
(By Associated Press)
PORTLAND, Aug. 22. An hum s':
will bo held this afternoon or tomor
row over the remains of Alvah it
Price, of Kelso. Washington, who was
shot and killed last night by George
Kcberio, a passenger on the A-storia-bound
Columbia river stage near
Rainier.
R. Widing, of Vancouver. B. C, an
other passenger on the stage was
.shot by Reberio but is reported to be
recovering from the wounds, which
were in the head and chest.
RJcberio is a former inmate of the
California state hospital for the in
sane and claimed at first that he fired
in self defense, but later toid Sherifi
Wellington the men insulted him- The
sheriff alleges theso statements wen?
not corroborated by witnesses. Ro
berto's mental condition will be exam
ined. He refwed to eat while in jail
today. ' j
Pio n l.a Grande Hoy.
Alvah R. Price, who was kilU'tl lv
a former inmate of the California
state hosnital. near Kainicr Inst nieht.
is a l.a jramle lov and belongs to I
one of this city s nest families- lli.s
mother is Mary K. Price and his broth
crs ale Sheldon I'-., Parley, Milton,
Clnike. Owen and Shirley Price. Mrs
J. A. Gnrrity is a sister and he has n
baby sister, Lucille Price, all iiviiik
in La 'Grande. His brother, Milton,
is connected with the hveninir Ob
server as a nrinter.
The family received Hie word early
today hut litte of the details of the
murder could be obtained until the
Associated Press furnished the abovoi
account. ,
mm m mm m, su m a mm m
'tmsHuus
Dr. Kay Murphy Iic-eleetcd
as President and C AV.
Bhitfiier is Chosen a Sec
retary for .the Ywnr.
Dr. Ray Murphy wa elected (presi
dent or the Grand Rondo Chau
tauqua association to servo another
year, at a meeting of tho' directors
held at tho Ad club last evening.
Dr. Murphy was elected president
the night before the 1921 aosslon
and has In reality served only one
calendar year. His election came
over his own protest, he being of
the opinion that one session of the
chautauqua should bo sufficient for
any president. The directors how
ever declined to observe his ob
jection and be was re-elected, Mr.
C. J. Black was elected tlce-presi-
detit, and C. W. Bingner succeed
A. W, Nelson as secretary. Mrs.
T. J. Scroggin fiucceeds Ooo, T.
Cochran as treasurer. Mrs. Harry
Cleaver, H. E. Dfxou, A. C. Hamp
ton and Krnest Delong wore re
ceived into tho board as new di
rectors. Various business, matters
were discussed and tho work for
the year roughly- outlined (1 urine
the session.
Alvah Ptico was manager of the
Union Oil company at Kelso, Wnsh.,
where he had been for several months.
Prior to that time be hnd lived in Port
land, where his standing is excellent
He enlisted during- the war but did
not get to France- The body will be
sent to this citv for burial following
the inquest in Portland. No funerHl
ariangcments have yet been made.
H. 'J. Norlon. vlco president of
the International Hrotherhood of
Boilermakers. Is In the city and. to
morrow afternoon at 2 o'clock lie
will speak In KuKles' hall to all the
members or the railroad crafts and
their wives. Ife extends a upoclal
invitation to members of. tho Ills;
Four.
MK.N HIIOT roit DKKfl
(Hv AHHficintiid Press.)
MKDKORD, Aug. 22. IV' A.
Stewart and Charles H. Moad, ir
Portland, are recovering from
wounds received Sunday wlieh they
were mistaken for deer by Charles
King, Rosehiirg'tt hjgll school Couch,
while out hunting.
WlfKAT MAllKbT
I'ORTLANO. Aug. 22.
ens $1.02 tu $1.07 today.
H. J. NORTON TO
SPEAK IN CITY
C'MON, C'MON, LET'S GO!
FDEunTIOPllJlES
ninni-n i i i
ACTIVE FOR
All Organized Labor May be
Called Into Conlih-t
It Xow Appears.
APPEAL COMES
AS A SURPRISE
Attempt by Kailroads and
Other Employers to .De
stroy Organized Labor is
Charged by Federation
Men.
(Hy AMH.-hittd Tihh.) i
WASHINGTON, Aug. 22 Tho np
pealto four million members uf the
American Kedcrution of Iibur issued
yesterday to give fuli support to the
tftopimn s strike came as u disturber
tr those who felt the railroad trou
bles were in a. fair way to be settled
tomorrow when the meeting convenes
in New York between th Rig Four rep
resentatives and the executives of the
roads.
Following the statement issued by
Samuel (.ompiMS, president of the
Federation, Saturday, declaring Presi
dent Haiding's address to congress on
tho industrial situation to have been
"unfortunate" and predicting that it
would restrain rather than facilitate
the peace negotiations, the executive
council of the federation today issued
the appeal for widespread support of
the strike. ;
Terms Declared Unfair.
The federation appeal addressed to
"all organized labor" was in part as
follows:
The executive council of the Am
erican Federation of Labor uddresscs
this appeal to all organized labor
through Amorica in behalf of tho
organizations in the railway employes
department whose members aiu now
on strike to resist the imposition of
unfair terms and conditions of em
ployment. "Jt must be clear to all wage earn
ers and ail thinking men and women
that tho policy which has been pursued
by the railroads has been entirely in
harmony with the policies of all or
ganizations of em no vers which, since
the armistice, have been seeking to
weaken and destroy tho voluntary or
ganizations of tho workers.
"The railroads have been engaged
in this effort from the moment govern
ment control was relinquished on
March 1, 1120.
Co-operation Long Attempted
"For two and a half years the rail
road workers, now on strike, made
every possible effort to co-operate
with tho railroad labor board in order
to give the law every possible trial
and to secure, if possible, just ends
for the workers and continuous opera
tions of the mads.
"No amount of conscientious effort
and forbcaranco on the part of the
workers, however, could overcome the
(Continued on Pace Five.)
SHOP S
tmm
IMBUING
Pioneer Resident, of Grande
Ifonde Valltv, After Longj
Illness, Died at Crandc-
Londe Hospital.
Joseph Jones, another of the
Orando Rondo valley's pioneers,
passed away at the hospital this
mornfnir lit 10-40 i.'iin..b ... t.
mination of a seigo of ttiherculusia.
He has been failing In health for
several months and has been srious-
IV III f fir II fi-iur Mvitnlru Tl. P..
neral arrangements have not yot
uwn mauo.
The deceased came to Uio valley
ItiailV VUll I'M Jiirn ntlrl mm ,t ll,
big ranchers hero for many ytinrn.
no uimi uwns ono or l.u oruude's
transfer Mutts und iH ..rnmi.w-.nt
Elk.
H In drill f MA r II I'll (V nu tl tn
a host of friends nnd to his rela
tives Willi 111 fll! 1-11 llfu Muual:,,, .,n
At tho timo of his death ho was
inreu years snort or tho span of
man's existence on this mirth tiima
score and ten years.
Anieriean legion Aleetin-r
Jiast A -glit J jays Plans lor
Time on Armistice
Day.
PlniiB for the celebration of Armis
tice Hay, Novemebr 11, were discus.ted
and slatted rollinir Inst evcninit when
tho Anicrican Legion met at tho
Kniflcs Hall. The Iji Grande post has
Invited the other posts in the county
to celebrate in La (irando with them
on that day and, wrth their itceptauce
received, everything attendant to the
colebrution Is bcinif perfected-
One oflhc big phases of tho cele
bration will bo n football double-header
held in the afternoon. The Union
Amciirnn Legion'' team will play the
Iinbler U'gion team and a La UrawL
team will probably meet some other
team, the latter game yet being in n
,..,.,. uie su.ge. uoin me unionnc -
lind Illlhlix fnllmiru tinvn ar.tinM ..mini:
..: r i ll. i iT i
riltimiMli U1UI IHU KUII11.B SIIOUHl lB UI I
the first water.
The executive committee announced 'i
they would appoint the various com-j.
nuttees relative to the celebration pre
parations ami would announce them at.
a Inter date.
"lO-H" Society Klartcd.
Lyle Kiddle, of Imber, was present .
at the meeting and presented a com-1
nl. .!. r it... t,io u' .'i
111 POSTS ILL
CELEBRATE HEBE
the American 'gion anil asked fori!"1 n","l.";1,tl'"'8,1T0 Ti'i amu
charter membcrH. Unite a. numben
signed up, about eight from La Grande
adding their names to the li.it. This
organization is a county affair, only
one society being permitted in each
t'ounty, and indications point to a live
hodv in this county.
The meeting was commenced with
l he reports from the delegates who
at t "tided the State Convention at Tha
'Dalles a few weeks ago. A good at
tendance was present and the meet
ing was voted u huge success.
SHOTS, JAILED
John Pcura, a Mexican, caused n
little excitement this morning at onei
o'clock in the Elite Rooming House
when he fired several shots into a
brick wall- '1 he police were called Hi.d
ho was placed under arrest, later be
ing Deed on giving bonds amounting
to $."i0- He gave no reason for firing
the hds and apparently they were
not accidentally fired. He will Ik tried
ibis afternoon in the police court ut
two o'clock.
Enos lepers, n Mexican, was arrest
ed last cveninir and will face a charge
of intoxication this afternoon in the
police ctiuit at two o'clock.
TWO MENFINED
FOR DRUNKENNESS
Tin city treasury was enriched by
twenty dollars yc-tetday aftenmon as
thy result of two of its citizens becom
ing intoxicated. L. K. Smalley and L
Tinner were both arrested over the
week -end and were tried yesterday af
ternoon in the' municipal court, with
.Indue Robert Kakfn presiding.
Both men weru found guilty and
wer find ?10 each.
MEXICAN F RES
Assembling For Rail
Strike Conference
(flv AMn-'ltrri Pre- t
Ni:V YORK. Aug. 22. The shop
crafts strike entered another pha
to'iiiv wh-n mi I mud presidents fron
all th'- w ft tii statM heuan to a -iie
lor tomorrow's bin eonfer-
I
IS AFTEH THE
Hoover Says Lesislalioii to
bo JntroiUici'il this Week
to Curb Prices.
SEVERAL PLANS
UNDER SCRUTINY,
I'iXliaustive Coal Investiga
tion Sure to Follow tlio
Bill lioported Upon Fa
vorably by Senate Today.
(Br Aaaoulntcd Pres.)
WASHINGTON', Auk. 22. I.ORls
llttloll to euiible tho t'oilertit control
of coul prlcfH will bo ilrnftod this
Arock, Socrotnry Hoovor Htutc'cl to
duy. .
Tim dnpartmiMit of Juatlc'o, ho de
clared, was luepiirlng a bill to be
submitted to congress and It would
permit two or three plans of con
trolling tho udvuuciuK tprices of
coal.
Ono of tho iilans la similar to
the Hulled Slates Oraln corporation
which nxed prices during tho war.
Tho senate labor commltteo to
day reported favorably on tha bill
reeoui mended by President Harding
for mi exhuustlvo coal Investigation.
Some evidence of how Doklos ara
planuliiR on invading La Orunde on
Scpti'inber 1st and 2nd muy.be seoti
In the final announcement coming
from 'HimtiiiEton. HunthiRtnn la not
a larKe place but it Is stlwling an
onthUHiaslli; dnloKatiou. M.. A. May
field -writes from Huntington that
about '10 out of the Dokio delega
tion thoro are coming-and they are
hriufjluK u float which tlioy guar
antee will lake first prize In tho
iparado Hnd they are also brlngim;
12 randldates for Initiation. The
HuntluKlon doluKatlou will travel hy
Hlltom()hUH ,Ul ,.,, Clir pr(,periy
1 1
HiuiitraU'd witn bikiih.
From Pendleton comes final word
about -their delegations, most of
which will arrive Thursday ovenlng.
Tho 19 members of Khnled Tomplo
nntrol team are coming Thursday nnd1
the I'endlntou Duklo club Is also
sending ovor a force of curpcitera
to build ilio rcmllotott float at La
Grand. There are considerably mora
than 100 Doklcfe In Pendleton and
. n ..
lo present.
Cherry FJorists Have
Some of Most Beautiful -Roses
Ever Shown Hera
All will admit that is, all who lova
the beautiful things of nature that
nothing is more beautiful than thj
well developed, deeply colored ted
lose; the rose with beauty that taktu
yr.u away from the world for an in
stant; the rose with a perfume so
puio and fragrant that one wonder?
how fiom this old earth such Purity
can come.
Well, that's the kind of roses that
the Cherry Florists arc producing;
light here in La Grando 2H00 fo-jt
above sea level. Portland is noted for
her roses, but La Grande takes no
back seat in rose culture.
This morning A. B. Cherry glad
dened the hearts of the Kvening Ob
server force, and purified th" mind of
each worker, by presenting this office
with a wonderful bouquet cf these La
Grande roses.
OLD FASHIONED ,
i CHARIVARI HELD
A real old fashioned charivari took
mm- i) i i k ti' o inr iiiuimrU
of Miis I Ad a Mulkey and Marion Hol
man. A party of about twenty-five
friends went to their home, and, tyin
tho bride on one piile of the car and
the gro:in on the other side, paraded
them through the main streets of thd
city, to the accompaniment of a sere
nade of tin cans and other noisy weap
;!. Following the charivari the party
held an impromptu dance ut the homo
of the bride's mother.
Til K WKATHKK
PORTLAND. Aim. 22. Wednes
day will bo fair and warmer except
i near Di-oon coast.
oneo of tho Association of Rallwa
Kxecutives at which time they wilt
vole their answers to tho measures'
propoKd by the. BU four lirother
hoods as practical means of set
ling th' seniority suealiout
HUNTINGTON 5
GOING STRONG