La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, January 20, 1923, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Text'fcttftttll VOLUME XXVI SECTION ONE LA GRANDE. OREGON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 20, 1923. member op associated press NUMBER 90 163 BILLS INTRODUCED II 2 WEEKS One Hundred Fifteen in the House and 48 in the Senate is Total NUNN REPORTS OX COLUMBIA BRIDGE Two Sites Selected, One Near Ranier and One Near ThreeTree-Cathlam-et Points. (Rv Associate:) Press) KALE.Mi Jan. 20. With two weeks legislative session gone, 115 lills have been intrnJured into the Hou.s:1 and 48 into the Senate. The house passed ten house bills, one senats bill, and the senate passed seven senate hills and one house bili. Xunn Gives Estimates. The highway engineer Xunn today reported to the governor his esti mates on the bridge across the low er Columbia called for by an net of last session. The farthest west possible would be between the Three Tree point on. tho -Washington shore to Cnthlamet Point on the Oregon ride. The oth er suggested site would be in the vicinity of Uninier. NKW YORK, Jan. 20 Thousands of New York saloons, cafe; and 'res taurants, a largo number of Iheni in the white light district, may be clas cd soon as a result of decision made at the second of two conferences on prohibition enforcement ashore and afloat, attended by K. C. Yellow ley, directing head of the s,tatc en forcement forces. Padlocking of virtually all estab lishments convicted of prohibition law violations, it was stated, would follow the hoL-inning Friday of unit ed .action by federal and local au thorities. Concerted action by pro . hibition enforcement officials, feder al judicial iforccs, -the customs ser vice and the New York police against ir.m law violators was decided upon at the two conferences. The first was with customs and port author ities, the second with representatives of the federal prosecutor's office and the New York police department. The second meeting followed th? decision of the f:dcral circuit court of appends, affirming a decree clos ing Keisen weber's restaurant for t year for violation of the Volstead act. It was stated that injunctions simi lar to the one filed against Uiisen webcr would be filed against other violators. Tho decision to act im me. lintel y against convicted violators of the piohibition laws was supplemented by an order by Police Commissioner Enright, Directing Chief Inspector Lahey to proceed with a cleanup ol reported blind pigs and speak-easies on the waterfront. The order, it v.as declared! was strongly influenced by an announce ment of Chief City Magistrate Mc Adoo that arrests for diunkenncss increased 2582 and arraignments for linji'ij law violations increased by 1817 during-1:22, Construction UDPini VIQUlTOnSGF VOLSTEAD LAW Foundry Progressing Located on the Mile where the form-1 cr l.a (Ira mil- Iron Woi kn factory! ."tood, that wa s raznl by fire a f.w yj-rwks ago. Is a new building, rapidly! (tsrolng up. rndaunted by a loss tliat amounted to lens of thousands of dol-i lars. I - 1'iUgerald, proprietor, rccmn-! meiK-rd tlie wo k tf constructing -i 1 new fot'ndry as tnon as th insurance! Ulju--t uurt wis rtit'-nded to. titiildiug 'f Ihe m tv loini'lry, :i' Ttool i-Hil ciM-: UL.itfd iron M met lire 7:t by :: I u-t v 111 I..- conip'eteil nndi the v.f(t -: prejuc-ed and laid by .lan-i ti.ny N- f-re b-lek and ln-1 log wi.l be a.)-;.-', to the rup-da .in-l! nil ?r.es fei n.icf ( -I'-Upint lit dain-1 aires ! by Hie 'ti e itl be lepatre.i; two ih'.s lal r. On .laitnivty STth. th new f'MiiMiv win itegin pro'iuting ca.'-t inh-J au'i::i. Marb.ne Slm- Imprmnl. The n--w iikii ;iili.' hhop feetion of the t 1 11 li.ili-iin.: v.-JI b ef a more mtei- d :ii. beti-r i u n t : i' '-r. wen .if. iei k rooniK, ir.i it .f ace for o'r v.Hl be built. Th M.rl-f Hid und moie " r mac-hilierv racks hi.iilin H"W h bide t nil ini.. in -: .d ef facing t!i uck, wlil U'.t Crt A-crec JOSEPH wins ins Br 4 POINTS Blue and White Quintette Strikes a Snag in Last Year's Sectional Hoop Champions. The local basketball team journey ed into Jur.eph, abode of last yuur'u secilonut boon champions, humming ( underneath t llu'ir breath) "On to .alem." Hours later they depurted for l.nterprise humming 'Tack up your trouble in your old ktt bap. and smile, smile, smile.' For 1 tie Joseph boys, who apparently liked their lam years Jaunt to tho Capitol city, lumti ed out a nice juicy lemon to the visit ors in the form of a defeat. Joseph won IMi to 22. The tame wai fiercely fought from whistle to irhiatle and although jo.i big to Joneph on their own floor, Lx pramle carried no stigma thereupon I'or they went down, not hopelessly defeated, but riffMing to the last mln ule, try ing: desperately to wrest vic tory until the timekeeper put a stop to tho t;n me with the final dismal blast of the official whistle. La (ratidn Hns Chillier. Although iiu I ferine defeat last niht, the Blue and White have not yet lOHt hopo. On February ;inl. .los- eph comes to iJa Grande for a return Kiiinc and tbeNjoya expect to give them tho battlJKU' their lives in an at tempt to t ' .e tables and -it least break even with the up-country team. If Knterprlac is, disposed of tonight I. a oi-ande will havd but seven games left and ot the suvon, six of them will bo ;it home. Only one out of town same remains to be played, that on February 10 when the cagcrs will to in linker. And with the oddn psy chologically In their favor, the hoped for trip to the stale championship tourney nuiy yet be realized. Only five of the six remninlng games need bo won as Pendleton high school, scheduled here on February -4th. is In another section and the (famen will h ive no beam nee on the section com piled of Union, Wallowa and Ualcer counties. A. It, llristow, connected with the Oregon Near Kast Itelief organization. which has been canvassing La Grande ,nnd vicinity during the pant few days, j leuvt.s this evening for North 1'ow jder where he will continue th; relief ! work In I'nlon oownty. . In leaving he states, "1" am well ; pleased with the help and generous i n-sponse that La Grande. Jmbler and ! Island "ity have given me. I expect the total subsjribed by these thre 'cities in the ijast few days to amount Ito over $istu. 1 wish to thank Mr. Pryke, chairman of tho local drive i work, for his kindly co-operation and anyone desiring to give to the relief work may do so by communicating with him." j i.ri: t'o.MMrrrr.i-: ami:i The fommlltee In charge of the next country club dance is as follows: Mr. and Mrs. Claude Kcranton. Mr. jand .Mrs. J. G. Snodgrass. Mr. and Mrs. Ceo. f'urn-y. Mr. Leo French. Mr. and Mrs. Ir. Kirby. Mr. and Mrs. A. K. il'ryUe. Mr. and Mrs. Floyd .McKen non. Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Hero'gins. Mr. und Mrs. T. K. Itellamy.. Mr. JI. L. II'-hs, Mr .nnd Mrs. H. N. Ashby. Mr. and Mrs. '. U. Mac key, Mr. and Mrs. (ieo. Vrhrs, Mr. nnd Mrs. Jlnrley j Ulehnrdson. Mr. and Mrs. Verne ! Johnson. The date will be announced 1 in the m-ar future. of New The shop will bo 1 2( feet in length. SI feet being the length of the found i y. An addition of twelve feet In width over the old building will In made.. The acetylene welding d. par tnic.it will be all new modern equipment furnished by a firm in MlnncapollH whose welding and cutting accessories are gaining great popularity lltrougli oit the ast. The rloor of this end ( lb'- b'lsini-sn will be of crushed gravel and concrete. Temporal') Shop I p. A t'-nipoiiiry machine shop h: bt-i-n t tii In the btiildinx iiwil for sioia:re b"fore the fire and they ate now nhle to d blackFTiiMtb work alii) l.iachine work not too large t be handled by ii 27 Inch lathe. Weld Ing equipment l also installtd in thh iMllldiniT. I ; tit I t--I ' niple(iil Mr. Fitzge- ild is planning on hav in- the i-iitir' building completed bv bf nary I'Mth and utatci. "If tie fltii'r ts not ton littered with new riiiipmcnt I may give a dance." add liig, "a t;Mch as catch can afralr t-j tc-t th i!ipsih ot thu ik'V lifer.' n SO M BE BUSY IN Joint Assessment and Taxa tion Committee to Pre sent Bills. SEVERANCE TAX IS CREATING INTEREST Farm Bloc is Growing in Numbers; Oratory Com ing Back Into Own, Says Senator Dennis.' (My Uruce Dennis) STATU HOt'SM. SAL KM, .Ian. IS By Mail Willi the closing of the sec ond week of Oregon's th try t -second legislation will come a clarification ol affairs to the extent that It is believ ed a more definite program will mark the opening of tho third week. Jn all probability the joint assess ment and taxation commltte will bo able about Monday to shoot into the grist mill n number of bills which will bcir directly on tho slate's tax iiucstiou hills which will mean revi sion and reform in several ways bills which will, If passed, more equit ably distribute the tax burdens. How strange It is, after investiga tion in many avenues of state Imsi ness, that there is little disposition' to give up departments and thus rend-j er a saving, but such! condition exists, and the different consolidation nilln now, before the assembly will mean little or no saving3 in dollars nnd cents If tlioy are enacted. And afler all, that is what the people want a dollars and cents saving. We have all been fed up on the word "efficiency until the argument of thoHc support ting the present consolidation bills (hat they will make state government mor efficient" ceases to echo in a way that i musical. What wo need in elimination rather than consolida tion. - If the people of Oregon '''should awaken some bright mornlngund by act of providence wo liad been strip ped of a'.l state government except the governor, secretary of slate, . stale treasurer, school superintendent and the Supreme . court, It Is doubtful if we would know about It from the or dinary pursuit of our' lives. The state could in our opinion run Indef initely with Just these officials and wu do not think the people as a whoso would suffer. .Plainly the trouble Ins been in our attempted "regulation" of uf fairs to create departments which in turn regulate to old the ones In business rather than the consumer and the rank and fll; of tho people. So Ion:,' h-ts this regulating been going on that about everything in tho state Is un der some kind of an organization which might bo termed. If one win! cd to be st run k enough, a little trust to protect and benefit the ones who are In tthe particular line of work (Continued on IV. Re Six.) coinera THEY'RE FEEDING THE PUP THE WRONG FOOD MY! -c- l . 'r 1 lt(M III 5 f II fc L 1 "BllB IRELSl ISmlMESlEI I V . I I Former Sheriff Shot en the! Bastrop Road Last Night By Carey Calhoun; Died I Today. (Ry Asaiiinted Press) BASTROP, .a., Jim. 20. H. K. BlnnkenshiD testified to day that he had identified the Ford truck he saw August 24th in which Watt Daniel was a pris oner of hooded men. He de clared he recognized two of the mnske.1 men as Aliver Skipwith, tho youngest son of Captain Skipwith, head of the Morehouse Ku Klux Klan, and Smith Stev enson. (Bv Associated Press) M0NKCO, La., Jan. 20. John P. fnrkcr, Jr., former sneritf snot on the Bastrop road last nisht by Carey Calhoun, of Moncco, died today with out recovering consciousness. Deputy Sheriff Named. BASTKOP, La., Jan. 20. Suite's Attorney General A. V. Coco, con ductinK the investigations here in to the operation of masked bands in Morehouse parish, called B. A. "Berry" Whetstone, regarded as the stnte's most important witness, in its effort to identify the kidnappers and slayers of Watt Dnnicl and T. F. Richard, on the stand. lie named T. J. Burnett, former deputy sher iff, now under arrest on a charge of murder, as one of the members of the masked band that abducted Dan iel and Richard, August 24, on the Bastrop-Mer Rouge highway. Whetstone, since stating several weeks ago, that he had identified one or more of the masked men, has been in charge of the authorities at an unannounced place, and when he unexpectedly appeared in the court room he was escorted by Detective Chief Glynn, of the New Orleans po lice department. He left tho room immediately after concluding his tes timony. I Delegation of Cove Citizens to Appear Before Ad Club Tuesday on Question of the Cove-Island City Road Plans. On Tuesday noon, unless some thing occurs that blockades, all vrads between ('ovc and La Grande, a dele gation of Cove men will apnear be fore the Union County Aj club, pre senting their arguments on the de sired paving of the Island City-Covi road. Curl Helm will be chairman of the day and tho meeting will be held in the Methodist church with the Methodist church ladies again acting as caterers. i 4 zkx? m HNTfl ATTEND LUNCH ADVERTISE . &3?7 EVERY BAY J& ; NEAR DOZEN Eleven Men Executed Today in L,ana 01 jnn; the 1 otal Grows. FORTY-FIVE HAVE BEEN PUT TO DEATH Two Months and Two Days is Time Durinrr Which Ov er Two Score Have Been Executed. (By Associated Press) DUBLIN, Jan. 20. Eleven execu tions occurred todny in Ireland. Pour at Tralec, -fivo at Athlone. two at Limerick. This brings the total executions since November 17th to a total of forty-five. (Uy Associated Press) SAN DIEGO. Cul.. Jan. 20. I-'riUi Maim, "dancer, whose both was found on the beach' recently, is believed to have boon shun otter a quarrel with a man in a closed car seen at Top Torrey Pints pradc Sunday nijrht and tho body is believed to have been thrown off of the bridge across the tidal estuary, according to the latest chro furnished by Billy Kynn, truck driver, who saw tht quarrel as he drove by. State Highway Commission Will Ask for Grading Bids on Elgin Overhead. Oiv Associated Press) SALEM, Jan: 20. The state high- way commission decided to advertise for grading for the approach am bankments to P.hinehart over the crossing in Union county. The grad ing will be for a distance of 2(5-100 of a mile. THE MA KKKT (Bv Associated Press) PORTLAND. Jan. li0.Livestock and butter steady, eggs weak. GollV. . (AC- 5MS Ii.' , 7H Slurp J IN ACCUSED OFMIBING PRETTY DANCER u o mi 10 Two Joseph Men Purchased i Over 2o0 Acres of Land to Be Developed as Tourist Park. JUtiKl-H, Jan.su. A uVul haa juat been closed by J. lcosa Lcallo anU J. S. it ml t'lytlo Aincy whereby tho re- nuihifmr land or tho Associated Hitch I'ompank's at the head ot Wallowa Lake have been purchased for the purpoito of developing u rocreatlonal park and a tourist center. The thruo Jus.-ph xtmu-mcii have been working on tlio proposition for Home time to et the consent of tho ditch compan ics to sell the land. This consent wun obtained quite recently and this week niusi ol' thorn had bitfnud the deeds fur the transfer of the land. Start Work Noon. That the iu w company mcanu bind nt'Hs is attested by their announcement that work will Htart linmcdlatidy In tho development of their plans. On of iho liiMt things contemplated' is lliu erection of a tanull sawmill whore (lie lumber for tho Improvements will no ta woo out. vviiHo the sawmill I being liiHlalh-d materials for a ten- i-ooui log hou.'tc will he assembled and it Is expected that tills huuso will b" the first building completed, Upon the completion of the house und the installation of proper furniture. It 1h planned to start m-iving meals. An nouncoiticnt of this feature will Ij in u lu in title seaHon. I'l-obably the second bulldlni; to-occupy the attention of the new concern will be a tiervlt'e station. This- Is a feature that has been badly needed at tho lake for novoral hcusodh. The plans for this structure have not been fully worked out yet but It haa been .suggested that thu building be of loft und of considerable hIxc. 2."0 Arrt's Puivhusfd. The acreage purchused by Messrs. Leslie and Amey amounts to nioro t hint ij.'iO aeres, and extends across the Mouth end of Wallowa l.aku excepting the 17 or IS aeres belonging to Mo JnturlT & Hon. The new owners will control all of thu water front except- in is 'a. Kid foot strip belonging to the Mclnturffs and used by them for an cnlnihco to the lake. Thus the scopo of their development Is not In the letst limited. While It is planned to make the new park one of the best of Hh kind in the Northwest, eventually, this year will sen buL a Htnall port of the work completed. Tluu e will bo plenty of work at that, but much of It will be preliminary to the general scheme. Knongh will be done this spring to arenmodale unity people during the coining summer months. Botli Cadmean Circuit and Ellison-White Circuit are Open for Selection; A. J. Stange Now Board Mem ber. At a nn-etlng of the hoard of direc tors ol' tiie (inimie Kondf t'liautnil iita asNocialion let.iMitly, the iirogram for the coining year was discussed at li-uglh. and (he com in II tee for the Hr:t lime In several years lias before it the option of Kt.-Uictln from two well-cstablhdied chautauqua bureaus. 'Ih? 'adiiH-iui circuit, which made ho r.real a hit tliioiighoiit the West last y (-(r, i Iddding far the local program, and. ef com tie, Kittson-White are on the job, with a fine program. No final action has been taken by the lor al board, but prospects for u strong piograiik Ihl car are encouraging. August J. Mtantcc. u seasoneil chau lai)iia worker with many years' ex perience in Wisconsin, bus been elect ed n a member of the board. CHAUTAUOUA La Grande Athletic Club Organized 33 Years Ago old (Inn-is in Lii (Irandr, with the aid id it lltil,. K-ad Ki-'iitchlug, may n mcinlur whut or cured on the liiifht 01 Ichruary liCtli, I Kill, just thirty M ars an, larking littles over a month. I'or on llutt eM'DliiK n body of men met together and (iruunlxed mm the !' Oiiiiid.i .WniitiHi Athletic Hub, tin I if! nlhlflW- rti miiii.dllon of tin kin I hi I n Ion runnlv, aei-ordhiL' to :iv;il! :il.Ie ri-i'fM d.s. Iti the ensulm yeut Id- hil, Htnrti'd uii (hut nlnht lit Im Ii i 11 hi . made a mime fur It w'l" thlirMiiuunl IIh iifiiihWfNt, -u'ttiiiK cv. era I irioid: hi ftrld events til toiirna liH nt.H held In ro'-llund and Kiifdei n vt'Kn. 'I'i)da. the hlb sehnnl atb li ten jfiid othi-r ttmiit"ur tHKiinlKntlonM iv.-inKitiif merrily on wards, uernrdonal H e.ill.iHK' il t'htl llldMMMhlp or Netliht; a rreord. tiw Ihetr previ-nt delip. Hient tv Ihe flint Mt'-l taken ": ear tx a uIimi a lni f t l,u Oraitde men tit li ) :i ii ill hli'tlc 01 r.-nnt.attnn I hut de t'I'piit mid wrew, To-derlm? phnl-i i mI prefe( i Ion und upremaey until; t'.. j '.!!' it i-i.' t, u! i.i .... s' :-J ESSEN TODAY Marshall Foch Scheduled to Arrive the in Ruhr Valley Today. REICHS BANK WILL REMAIN UNOPENED Directors Will Leave Bank Closed Until French Mil itary is Withdrawn; The French Will Stay. (By Associated Press) ESSEN. Jan. 20 Strikes in pro test against the arrest of mino di rectors occurring this afternoon with officials, technicals staffs and mine workers of firms to which tho di rectors belonged walking out. (By Associated Press) ESSEN, Jan. 20. Firtz Rhysson and five other leading mino operators were arrested today and taken to Dusseldorf. It was reported here that Marshal Foch would arrive in the Ruhr valley today. DUSSELDORF, Jan. 20. Point ' blank refusal from directors of the Hoichsbank hero to reopen tho bank was delivered today to General Do Cioutto, French commander. Iho bank will remain closed as long as there is a single French soldier around,' promises the direc tors. . DcGouttc, in replying, held the di rectors personally responsible and informed them thut a military guard would be removed only after thu bank was opened. EIGHTEEN ARRESTED (By Associated Press) DUSSELDORF, Jan. 20. A total of eighteen German magnates and industrial leaders, were arrested to day by tho French. All wore tak en to Mnycnce under military guard. AJthoug not enrolled in the regu lar sectional debating league, La Grande high school will meet Pen dleton on February 9th, the affirma tive team traveling nnd the negative tf-um remaining at home. The ques tion to be nrgucd in the dual debute is: "Kesolved, that tho United States government should own and operate the railroads. The team has not been selected a 3 yet but under the tutelage of Miss .Mablo iKcnnett, several oratoncally gifted ftudrnts are preparing for tho coming silver-tongued battle. (By Associated Press) KL PASO, Jan. 20. Harry Tur ner, a Southern Pacific livestock agent, and two other men were shot to death by an insane mnn who rati amuck on the train. The slayer jumped and escaped in the desert. THOUSANDS HONOR WALLY (Bv Associated Press) LOS ANGELKS, Jan. 20. Thou sands today passed through the downtown church where Wallace Kpid's body lay in stato prccedin,; the funeral. Its present stand lug in thfo scclUm of the eounlry. .llany .Members Yet In City. That organization, Mturted when Cirando was but a vlllaKc. bud as charter mcmbiirji II. K. l-'llhum, K. l. I, In... In. O. M. Ith hey, It. I.( Itov, U. l Miller. .1. lltHlopm. M. J. Umk by. T. Wal.-h, (dead) Mr. OoodlioiiKh. A IV Ih'iileit. V. I.. Lyons. L. 1. S. hon. f. H. Moi'HtorL V. Miller. .1. Senll, (I. I'eiincll, A. Andrews, t. L. I'trk. .). K. ItouifK. M. K. Nebel, .1. II. l'caie, I-. L. Meyer.i, J. K. J K-vlltr. J ('. MUM, Murray, Dr. Htrtek land. (deal) and K. T. Abbott. A. per iisal of the lint of members show many men who pre yei In .t (Irande. Htill aetlv e in biiHlnesn or retired, runt) holding phtees of eHpeetai prominence. I tceol lection of th fornirr cln1. thut held n hlKh place In northwest ern Hports, trrmilted In the rtiidtnir of the niiniitci of the first meeting, idmi rd by t L. I'lck, secretnrj. by ViL lliim Miller, of I i U' tixj.., uMIj le.-vrii' thioiu-h omi old docuuiPuL DEBATE SKED NQWARRANGED I KILLS TWO