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: -' VOLUME XXVI MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS LA GRANDE, OREGON, THURSDAY,,? FEBRUARY 1, 1923. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PHK8S NUMBER 100 F. B. HAYES IS MANAGER OF if NOW Takes Office of City Man ager This Morning at I Eight O'clock. SYSTEMIZATION -PART OF PROGRAM Mr. Hayes Comes to La Grande From Pendleton With Fine Record; Rec ommendations Hearty. When the clock in the city office chimed eight o'clock this morning, F. B. Hayes, formorly of Pendleton, became, city manuger of La Grande succeeding J. E. Stearns, who has - temporarily filled lhe position along with his duties as city recorder since the resignation of O. A. Kratz, formerly city manager, who is now business manager of Astoria. Mr. Hayes spent the greater part of the morning in conference with Mr Stearns preliminary to getting down to the real business of acting as La Grande's business head. "It is still too early to definitely state my future plans," states Mr. Hayes, "but I do expect to system ma'tize several minor details of the city government, especially in ref erence to the engineering depart ments, with the view of making them more effective and efficient. La Grande looks mighty good to me and I feel deeply gratified1 . the wel come that has been extended mo this city, I assure tho citizens of La Grande that I will give my best to the advancement of the needs of the city in my capacity." . Arrived Last Evening. ' Mr. Hayes' arrived in La Grande last evening on No. 18 and the first thing he did was to go to the city hall and "sit in" at the weekly meeting of the city commissioners. He was extended a hearty welcome by the "city dads" upon his arrival His family will arrive in LnGrande tomorrow morning and Mr. and Mrs. Haves and their son. Thomas Burke, will be at home at 701 Adams ave nue on the following day. . V 1 ' ; .'-I'.- Fine Record.,, M, , ; Mr. Haves has, been'-'watoj-.'super-intendent 'in Pendleton' for ten years and two months, ' and during the past six years has also served in the capacity of city engineer. The enlarging of the water ; sys tem was done during his , incumbency and receipts : for: water increased from ?20,000 to $72,000 in round numbers during his reign. Mr. Hayes and his family are members of the Presbyterian church in Pendleton and Mr. Hayes is also a member of the Elks lodge and the Rotary club of Pendleton. DEBT FUNDING BOARD TO PRESENT PLAN (lly The .Associated Press) WASHINGTON, TUr-llon. chairman Feb. 1. Si'i - relai - y of the American ilelit funding commission, today called a nil-cling of Die commission to ma!.c nluns for iinwrnius to ronsn m Ami-jiran-llritisjl atjr, in London yesterday- i-im-nt acci ij'ted K. P OFFICERS TO VISIT CITY .1. F. Hardest-, gTand chancellor, of the domain of Oregon of the . n...l.:ne ofI Wnlter Gleason. grand keeper of records and seals of the domain of Oregon, will make an official visit to the Red Crois Lodge No. 27, Knights of Pythias, of La Granue on .uonuay ) evening. Cars Reported Buried Deep In Snow At Kamela tTTENDLETOX, Feb. 1 MoVc than a dozen automobiles are buried in snow at Kamela. according to tour ists who arrived from the crest of the mount:ain yesterday on the ' railroad train and who shipped their cars with them. Tho snow is over nine feet deep on the highway. With a heavy crust on about six feet of snow, a number of tourists have uttemptcd to cross the Blue mountains from 1-a Grande to Pen dleton in the past few weeks, but in variably the cars have broken thru and buried themselves beyond hope of extrication. Since many of the cats have bom ! stalled alxiut three more feet of snow have fallen and inanv of the cars can only be iden tified by digging down to their tops. One party of three tourist cars succeeded in petting as far as Ka mela and then secured shipment out. Days of burking the snow on the east side of the mountain, were told of bv the Inen who came in yester day. Iletwecn Kamela and Jli-ach- atr the- h -t:!l n.l it ;s Aggie Flapper Defies Old Man Winter: Goes Hatless; Wears Sandals (By Associated Press CORVALLIS, Ftb. 1. Hatless, bobbed and sandaled, . Helen Stedman defies Oregon weather and campus precedents. iMisg Stedman is the only co-ed on rolled m chemical engineering, and will be the first woman to be graduated from that course nt O. A. C. when she finishes in June. Miss Stedman is ac customed to .the unusual. Swim ming three milse across Lake Mendota, and being unceremon- iously roused in the middle of the night to recount her ex ploit to a campus reporter, was one of her experiences at Uni versity of Wisconsin, where she took most of her undergraduate work. E Increase Is Noted Over Last Semester's Enrollment in All but Riveria Grammar School. With the second semester of the school year well underway the school officials have released a report, in cluding the enrollment statistics. An increase over, last semester is noted two of the grammar schools and the high school, a total increase of 110 having been made in the La Grande public schools. In the high school 426 pupils are now enrolled and attending with the number growing slightly with each succeeding week. Last semes ter the total registered was 414 but jat midyear 51 new students came into the freshman class.- A few students dropped out during the se mester and at mid-year which re sulted in the total increase, in high school amounting ; to only a dozen. Grade Schools Growing. ' In the three grammar schools the increase was very encouraging with a total of 98 new pupils being en rolled. At the -Central school the register now shows a total of 601 against "594' for last semester. J' At the Riveria school the enrollment slumped a little falling below Inst semester's mark of 342 with only 327 registered at' presents In the Girenwood school the increase was marked with 534 Pupids this semes ter against 488i for last semester. All four schools are well under way in their present':semester's Pro gram and from all' conditions, the La Grande public . schools will have one of their best-,years in-1923, . Sportsmen of the Grande Ronde valley and the members of the Wing, Fin and Fleetfoot tof -La Grande, arc - now sure of plenty of, China PheaS: 'ants for next venr's hunting seasoni An announcement has been made to the local secretary of the latter club stating that 250 China pheasants will be planted in Union county in the present month, deliverance probably to come in the latter part of Feb-, ruary. With tho news temporary fears that the pheasant crop in this coun ty would be exhausted vanished. Announcements come also that the Oregon legislature is expecting to make no changes in the license fees but that m all probability no appro- pnations will be i made to the depart- mcnt, which will mean that tho ex- Pcnscs must be met from the actual u liar receipts. impossible to get through the tour ists stated. Travel over the mountains has been the best this winter that it haa ever been in tho history of the Old Otegon Trail due to the fast that the highway is almost completed on holh sides, but the stretch incom plete as fan as rock surfacing is concerned has been blocking traffic for some time. That this winter will be the last year of an impassable highway, is the statement of it. If. Baldnck, di vision engineer of the state high way department who intends to keep the highway patrolled with tractors when it is completed. Although the snowfall is sometimes heavy, the highway is not impassible when the snow is packed and the tourists who cam down yesterday declaro that the trip would not have been diffi cult if the trail had been broken. As Mon as weather permits next spring the highway will be complet ed and the Old Oregon trail be tween Penrileton and I a flrand- will ilui.li !, iiia'l, ta A ;'iar ui "Lf. 0 PUPILS LISTED VALLEY TO GET 250 PHEASANTS nrniri, m TEAM PICKED h I KM H hill Kll .! U I IIIUULEl Ul EXPLOSION Chaos and Wreckage Reign in Massachusetts City. FORTY INJURED IN GAS TANK BLAST No fatalities yet Reported; Autos in Business Section Hub-Deep in Wreckage- SPRINGFIELD, Feb. 1. Lat er reporU show that three lives were lost in the explosion. (Bv Associated Press) SPRINGFIELD, Mass., Feb. 1- Confusion and chaos reigned supreme in the business section today as the -esult of the explosion of a storage tank of tha Springfield Gas and Light company. Forty persons were injured by the explosion, many oi fice workers in the municipal group of buildings around the city hall ;ng listed among tho casualties. Windows were shattered in the banks and business houses and sev eral plant workers were seriously hurt. Automobiles in the, svreet are hub deep in wreckage. i CONSOLIDATION' TABLED (By Associated Press) SALEM, Feb. 1 The senate today, by fourteen votes, tabled the Hall consolidation bill on Eddy's motion after- Hall asked that it be made a special order for tomorrow. Sena tors supporting the Eddy- motion said it was to give more time for the study of rthree other pending eon solidation bills. , . The senate Passed the following bills: Eddy's bill giving counties 75 per cent and the state 25 per cent of fines derived from liquor viola tors for enforcement funds; Parrel's bill creating a fund for each school district for the education of ..crip pled children; Hall's bill prohibiting ny person from carrying firearms after wounding or killing another person either intentionally or not; Brown's bill providing for farmers on the game commission. The houM passed the Kooseveit highway bill providing for the matching of federal appropriations. Tho governor signed tne aiui-garo bi" Kubli is back in the Capitol city to resume his gavel this afternoon. 7, 7::C : Both Affirmative' and Nega - tive Teams Are Selected; First Debate Will Be With Pendleton. ; -.- "Resolved, that the United States government should own and operate tho railroads." is the subieot that will be discussed by the silver-ton gued debators of La Grande and Pendleton they will arcu Dro and con February 9th. when the chief in- terscholastic debate clash of the sea son will be held. The La Grande affirmative team will go to Pendle ton and the negative team will re main at home. A debate between the affirmative and negative. La Grande teams is scheduled for Monday evening at seven o'clock at tha high school. At this time both sectors of tho Blue and White oratorical representatives will get into action versus each oth er and the arguments promise to fly fast and furious. Ill addition to two regular speakers on each Fide, a substitute will also enter the con test. Several volunteer? speakers from La Grande citizenry will ad dress the students at tills time. , Teams Now Picked. Under the tutelage of Miss M-.tbel Bennett those trying-out lfor conte have been working diligently in an effort to make the team which was picked only recently. Donald Rohan and Fonda Hanks from the affirmative team nod Floyd Smith and Lucille Cruij art on .the negative team.. Dorothy Kir by, who likes both sides of the ques tion, is the official substitute. Uncontrollable Flapper Uses Fists Freely in Oregon City Courtroom OREGON CITY. Or., Feb. 1. , Teddy Gloss, 15, pretty, and by ., her own admission - absolutely '' ! uncontrollable, made a bedlam , of the Clackamas ' county court i house today, staged a' fist fight in tho juvenile court, was the principal in a spectacular race down Main street and threaten ed to "clean un" on the sheriffs two deputies, states the Oregon ian. ' ..',. , Teddv, in company .with. Wal-1 . ter McRao, both- of .Aurora, was: arrested for the robbery iof the ( G. H. Grey residence near -Aurora..,; They not only robbed the j bouse, was said, 'but broke eight of . the -windows, smashed -furniture, threw -wood : over the rooms and generally wrecked the place. .... "There wasn't any excitement down there," explained the girl , - with a toss of her yellow bob- bed hlilr;r Slightly more than five'. feet tall with tho build of. an athlete and a punch, the dep uties on whom she landed say, would do justice to the prize ring, she threw the court hear ing into- a turmoil. She attack ed Grey, the complaining wit- ?css, with her fists, bruising his ace and threatened to kill him if she ever got the chance. She bumped County Judge Cross in the melee when he attempted to step between her and Grey. REBECCA AT THE COAL SHED COLD WAVE GRIPS WEST T Pomona. California. Hit bv Severe Frost; Mercury 28 Above. TWO DEGREES ABOVE ZERO IN LA GRANDE Coldest Weather in 18 Years Is Registered in Los Ang- eies; rails to ais Above Zero. Headline tho coldest point since De- cL-mbcr when tho. tuormomotcr drop ped to six degrees bolow suro, the mercury lilt a low point lust evening or two uUovo. llcglnnlng ut about D o'clock last evening tho thormoinctor began dropping rapidly toward lied rock, failing to ollmb until early this morning. At 8:45 the mercury had climbed to 13 degrees above. Very llttlo snow ia In evidence In tho city and during tho past few days, nunslilny weather, accompanied with cold winds, has boon experienced. Many reporta of frozen water pipes last night wero received. I.OS ANQKI.Ea Feb. 1. Tho cold est weathor was registered In eigh teen years at tho down town woathor station this morning, tho mercury reg-. istorlng 3G degrees above sero, while In Environs it reached a lowor stage. I'oniona Has lix. At Pomona, . Calif.. . tho mercury dropped to 2 8 abovo xero today. He ports state that ico is plentiful in and around tho city and that a seven frost, resembling a snow, blankt-t, has uppcared. WHITE ' SALMON HIT WHITE SALMON, Wash., Feb. 1. An unexpected drop in tempera ture here early Tuesday morning caused water pipes in ' homes to freeze. The government wenther thermometer registered 7 J degrees above zero. ' The weather is clear and calm. " " ' 1 -j 27 Below nt Mcacham. " Reports received in La Grande to day state that the thermometer reg-j istered - 27 degrees below zero at Mcacham last night.'- BULLETINS FIKE SWEEPS CAMP ! (By Associated Fress) NEWPORT, Ore, Feb. 1 Fire Inst nifiht destroyed the workshops, the round house and two locomotives at the camp of the Multnomah Lum ber and Box company on Spencer Crook, eijyht miles up the coast. The origin is undetermined hut the loss is estimated at between $75, 000 and $100,000. - ' LAST NIGH A Rhinelad Republic May Be Proclaimed French Reserve Right To Parley With Turks If Conference Fails (Fly The Associated Press) LONDON, Feb. 1. The British government today received a noto from Franco stating that Franco reserves the right to undertnko. separate negotiations . with Tur key in tho event that tho Lau sanne confcrcnco fails. Officials . hero, howevor, say that tho reports from l,ausann give hopo that the conference will' prove successful. First Team. to. Play Enter prise and Joseph; Seconds to Meet Imbler and Haineg Tho Hluo and White casro team, with the season half over and six vic tories slowed away In tho scaln ban: aqu one defeat marring- the otherwise perfect collection, expects two or tho hardest games of the season Friday and Huturday night when they moot the iMHcrprlse and Joseph fives on the high school gymnasium floor. A week of Intensivo practice, largely do- voted to smoothing out the floor-work tho home quintette, has beun In order uud the "Hlim" team, showing1 better form hist night in practice limn at any time heretofore thlfl seu son, Is hopeful of gleaning two ihoro victories. i Oonch Amenlmo and his Knterprlmi hoopers will form tho second part of duublo basketball bill, Huines play ing the lueul second team in thu first game, on Friday night, l,a Grande defeated tho Knterprlse boy 33 to 81 on their homo floor und many funs tired let that the frame with, tho Hluck and Mirtfon ; quint wllj .be tho tough- st Of the two, i A ficiible-header iwlll also b pluycA-rh Haturday nltflit, the second tam attain; taking . the court ugulnat I m bier.- preliminary to tin Joseph-La (Iran tie Kunuv Joseph, who Won from the Blue. Warn HO -to 2 a on their Own floor is rnnked-about put' with the 1 ;KnterpviHO ft aggregation, either Intbler Dtir 'Haines. 'have np-Jiearcd- on' "the ' local floor tills year und;thefi seconds are expecting1 'two hard' games. yHulnef-defeated thtt Hu- Jcitr (lrnl titrlngers in art -early season jranut' 19 io is,-; but -lost recently '3G to IHi", Iil)ler:i strength: Is more iff ietw a niysteryi,', ..n If'' . -j jf. , The games start -both' 'tvi'nlngw a: 7:H( o'clock and fans are riirgvd to go early as a large cro-d (ls expected for both nights. E Kwrrpinfr over the city lat eventmr at nine o'clock,' the' Death ' AiikoI claimed John Alton Knlnrjf, who haH been 111 for the' .Mint few days ol pneumonia. HI demise wan um-x-pet'frd :il)d hlH latli ciiiiki um a Had Hlux-k to his IionL of friends In thl oily ami linker, where ho former! v nfade IiIh home. The deceue.O wkh prominent In railroad el re leu In UiIh city and was admired and leHpectod hi' all who were numbered un IiIm ac(ii ilnlanceN, The funer.it HervlreH will be held In the Ifoltnenkump t 'ha pel tomorrow afternoon nt two o'clock, with thu reverend Mr. Clcorsc II. Qulifley de livering the funeral Kcrmon. HIh re- inulnK will liG laid to rent in the Mannnlc cemetery. , 1 John Alton Knbcrff, who was 3r, years of affe at the time of his di-.-il)i. hod made his home In 1-a Grande, for twenty years and wait uIho a for mer refddent of 1 taker. J-i is anr vlved by hl wife, three children, l'oninl, Hnndalt antl.Mai'Krtietite, his mother, M rn. K. KnherK, all of al- ClinnOf, u il -iter, Mi-h. John I'unllff, of liukur, two brothum, Onenr KuUortr, now In the I'hllllelnc Intaudn, and Itoy Knberc of I-a Grande. WHEAT QUOTATIONS (Kv Associated Pnr) roHTI.AN), Fob. I, Wheat $1.12 to $1.27. BLUE QUINT HARD GIFS SS w Robbers Subject Their , Victims To Hardships (Hv Associated Press? i highwaymen left them, was the cx- OKKGON CITV, Feb. 1. Held up , perience of Mr. "and Mrs. Cliffonl by two robbers near Itoseburg last ! Smith, of Sumner, Washington, ac eveninn, relicvel of In-1 ween $.100 1 cording to their report to Sheriff ami 4dO. forced to drive through Wilson tolay. I tho night while covered by the ban-1 The sheriff obtained n description dits' guns until ti,ey reached Pulp of tho men and immediately sent ,.4din, thiv miles sMith of On'tjon deputies to attempt to pick up their (jjtv -...rl'iu: n. '!::..- "b't. ui(ill autl biiuc Utcni lo .Justice. . .' Proclamation May Be Today French and. Belgians Re- " ported Aiding Separatist Agitators; RING AROUND RUHR V .VALLEY COMPLETED Plans for Rhineland Repub lic nave ceen underway Since Yanks Left Coblenz, ' Reports State. . . tJ (By Tho Associated Press) ' HKK1.IN, Feb.- 1. Separatist uirl. tators in tho Itlilnolund district who havo non In confuronco at Coblciu Hlnco tho daparturo . of tho Amcrlcnn . troops aro drafting pinna for tho proc lamation of a Hhtnclanu rupubllo to- . day, states a Coblonz dispatch. Tlio French and Belgians are rcnorf- cd to bo aiding In the contemplated coup, proposing to proclaim martial law and sotzo all lines of communtca tlon and ovlct Gorman officials. Kulir KIiik Coinplptc. 1 ' (By Tho Associated Press) ' ,: DUHHELDOIili, Fob. I. Tho clis- ng of tho Dortmund gateway, tho only " remainlngocxlt to unoccupied Oer. mnny, was undertaken today by ths rench upon tho receipt of Instruct tlon to compluto tho Xtuhr valley Iso lation. : " Keport Covers Five - Month Period Beginning Septem r ' ber 1, ,1922, and Ending T: .January 31, 1923. ,: : v - ,? TJ . official rennrt of tho PuMIa ' " Health i Nurse of Union countv for ." tho, month 'of September.- October.: Novembur. December and J.niurv has been roleased anil' contains many '' ' interestinir items. Ono Item nf " ' cinl interest is that out of 12a0 school children visited In an sehnnla only ,81 were overweight. Sevcnty- tour corrections of defects were made during: the five month period. the complete report Is as follows: , School Work. Schools visited. 35: visits mnrin. , 18; pupils inspected, 1351)! pupils woighed and measured. 12U0: No. ' pupils 10 per cent underweight, 22S; iio. ouuun iu per cent overweignt. HI: old corrections found. 1.10: de fects found uncorrected, 020; ' via- ion coses, 94: teeth cases; 201: T. nnd A. glands, 238; skin, 66:, ner- : vous, 21 1 (8 goitre cases)) hearing, 8; excluded for communicable di- soane, 4: visits made to homes of pupils, telephone calls to homes of pupils, 52; taken to doctor of parents choice, 27. Mothers time so occupied with care of smaller children that she ' has not time to give adequate caro 1 to schoolchild. Notes to ParentSf ' 282; classroom talks, 58. . uorrections Made. The, last two months tho follow ing corrections havo been made; vision cases, 9 fitted to glasses: 4 casus treated by doctor; 2 corrected ' iy removal of tonsils and adenoids; tonsilcstomics, 6; tonsils treated by doctor, (J; teeth cases visited den- ' tist, 32; teeth extracted by P. H. N., Id; total corrections, 74. Itcncral .Nursing. ; Tuberculosis cases, 30; sociul ser-. vice, 2o; child welfare, 33-: general, v Z'J; total number calls made, 216; nursing care given to 21 cases; calls ii. unicu, pnunu cans, oo; ul- flee hours, 252; letters written, 172; Clinic Clinics held at Elgin, Union! North Powder, La Cirande; pre school children examined by Dr. E. F. Warner, 90; cases dismissed -as 100 per cent, 2(; cases carried over to next clinic, 64; improvement re ported from 7 cases; cases sent to tuberculosis hospital at Salon, 2; enscs taken to feeble-minded hos pital at Salem, 1. Til K WKATII Kll I'OHTI.ANI), l-eh. J. 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