La Grande evening observer., January 07, 1924, Image 1

EASTEEN OREGON'S LEADING 'NEWSPAPER EIGHT PAGES TODAY.
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The Weather
PORTLAND AP) Rain
or snow tonight, Tuesday
warmer la tha east portion.
-VOLUME XXII.
LA GRANDE, OREGON, MONDAY, JANUARY 7, 1924..
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
NUMBER 74
GETWHISKY
ON BRITISH
SCHOONER
Largest Liquor Seizure
on Gulf Made by Of
ficers Sunday
4,200 CASES OF
SPIRITS FOUND
British Schooner Murial
E. Winters Taken Off
Galveston Island by U.
S. Officials.
GALVESTON (AP). The
largest liquor seizure made
on the Gulf of Mexico since
prohibition, was made by
customs inspectors and coast
guard officials when the
British schooner Murial E.
Winters" was captured off
Galveston Island yesterday,
v. I Her clearance papers
' showed a cargo of 4,200 cases
of liquor when the vessel
cleared Tampico.
S
MUCH II YEAR
TJ.ir.li.nfl CHvrir nirrVir. Cur.
Hundred bixty-eignt oa.r-
loads Of Stock Sent Out
During 1923; Outlook
: This Year Encouraging
i .
NOUTlt I'OWDHIt (Special)
North Powder, situated on the
edge of I ho southern boundary of
l?nlon county, a little ovor 30 miles
from Ui (irunde, made an envlnl
ble record as a shipping center
during tin; past year, shipping a
livji rHil'ttMt list of products of var
ious industries.
A list of the products shipped
follows: Cuttle, 7S cars; Sheep, J4
cars; iloga 14 can; and horses, 'i
earn. making in aU a grttnd total
of. 168 cars of stork.
In addilfon to this there
has
POWDER SHIP
been a larBe tonnage of hay, grain criminal one, 01 larence .). lioo
ie'n und lumber dispatched from " cx-Juatlce of the slate supreme
tills city to outside points. court.
The lumber mills have been very Tho jury was out more than 13
busy and thousands of feet of hours.
timber-has been sent out. "1 have nolhlng to say," (loclur-
Thls section is a large produc-Jl'd Judge Roberts when the ver
er of hay ami grain and thou- diet was read in court. "The jury
sands of pounds of each have been has given lis verdict and there Is
t. (Continued on page 5)
DORIES ELECT
? OFFICERS FOR
COMING VEAR
- " ' 'correspondent of the Greek nuws-
The l. O. K. K.'s or La Grande paper Kletheron Vcmus telegraphs
held an election of officers Katur-jlhat an unsuccessful attempt was
day evening. Officers elected" were made to assassinate Mnstapha Ke
(.'. L. Kerry, royal vizier: Joe Keen-jmal Pasha, the president of the
ey, grand emir: Walter Jones, Turkish republic, at Smyrna.
sheik: DeT.lle Green, secretary: I
William Miller, treasurer: C. L.
Graham, mahedl; Jack McCarty,
satrap and W.I A. Moss, sahib.
Several matters of importance to
the order vfero brought up at this
meeting and plans for an active
year were discusis'-d. The attend
ance was very pood.
unices of Saruk, Mokanna and
Master of Ceremonies will be ap
pointed by the Di vim and announc
ed shortly, orflcers were installed
by Imperial Representative K.
MeCormirk. Meeting was presided
over by It. K. Hycrs, Jioyal Vizier
during the past year.
Dr. Landrith Speaks
At Endeavor Rally
"The death of Nero doubt less
general satisfaction in hi day,'
was the'way lr. Ira Limdritb, of
Chicago, beiran an ddresa here
Saturduy night, under tin; auspices
of the County Christian- J Endeavor
Vnion, his theme b'-ing, "Middling
While, the World Ibirns." "Hut
fiddling amid world ruins did not
die with Nero, nor end with an
cient Home- Slneo then it has be
come a i'tetV habit with many ru
lers, political, social, cducutiunal
and even reliijious.'
Here he Mil u story aa a bort
of text, of a jounjf KaMerner who
removcTi in frontier days to the
West, where lie might have had
opulence for his (oil, old-age com
forts for youthful industry. Uut
ho did no work he fiddled, in sea
sou and out uf m.um)ii, ui uiubiw
Prohi Chief
r m
V a
I ; Ji
A v v n
i f i
OliB Of I lie llliesi phiMON Of
Commissioner of Prohibition
Roy 1). Iluvnes. Ho Just eaihe
out of Hie While House where
lie oiircii I'll with his .presi
dential Thief. .
Ex-Premier From ' Bed
Writes Message Declin
ing Offer of Liberal
Party Leadership.
ATHENS. (AP) Liberals, meet
ing here to re-elect Venlzfclos as
.the purly lender, received a letter
from him, written In bed. -urging
.tnut "1J partisans choose another
ontcrtIlln. Ho threatened to resign
Urn presidency of the assembly and
; w. wik,-
The meeting, however, refused to
cieci anoiar man
General Dauglis was Hunt to in
terview Vonlzelos who promised
111 in he would appear before the
liberals when his health was re
covered to explain his reasons for
declining: leadership of the party.
Carl MaGec, Editor,
Is Freed of Charges
SANTA KK, N. M.. ( A P ) A Jury
today returned a verdict of ac
quittal in the ciise of Curl AlaOee,
Alberuuerquo editor, charged wit h
inothing to be said."
ASSASSINATION
ATTEMPT FAILS
TO "GET" KEMAL
ATHKNS. (AP) The Milylene
A grenade, intended to Injure
Rental, insteud Injured his wife
COPS POUR INTO
GUTTER QUANTITY
OF LIQUOR TAKEN
A , considerable' of moonshine,
wine and other intoxicating liquors
confiscated by the local police de
partment during the past months
was this morning emptied into the
gutter in front of the station.
Several officers of the city were
present at the time the liquor was
poured out.
never assuming tlio dignity of vio
lin playing, ho merely fiddled.
The oi her day they hauled htm
over the hill tho poor house,
where he is probably atlll fiddling,
to the distress of hltf already un
haupy fellow dwellers in the in
stitution. "There Is no harm in
riddling when it is done in sol
itude," remarked the speaker, "but
it is a crime to fiddle when great
work l to be don", when civiliza
tion i:i Imperiled, when tho world
Is on rife, us so pluinly It Ut today.
"Ask them at', from a dybis
'resident uC ih t'nltrd States ani
a living one who for years has
been near the borderland, both of
them victims of a nation's cruel
destructive criticism, through a
(Continued ou page S)
VENIZEL05 TO
REFUSE 'JOB'
Voting Nowk
Underway On
Peace Plan
Bok Contest Winner s
- Plan Put to Popular
Ballot . Today.
NEW YORK (Ily the Assoelnteil
Prosn) The people of the Initeil
Klutes begin votint; today on a pro
posul to have, the Bovcrninent
udopt a program aeleoted, by the
American Peace Award.
Tho program In selected from
pluna submitted In a contest for
$100,0(10 offered by Edward W.
1I01L.
(Btf Frank KnumiO
NEW YOKK (INS) Member
ship In tho World Court, co-oper-,
atlon with, but not membership in
the League of Nations, support of
the principle that moral suasion
and pnblio opinion should bo sub
stituted for military force in sup
port of decisions oil international
questions, and maintenance of the
Monroe Doctrino ,nre recommend
ed as the chief means by which
tho United States can co-operate
with the rest of tho world toward
preventing war, in tho winning
plan of the American I'tace
Award, selection of which was an
nounced today by a Jury of emi
nent Americans.
Tho award, as first announced
by Edward W. I3ok, of Philadel
phia, last July, carries with it a
prize of MO", 000. One of the chief
conditions was that tho plan must
be workable, and accordingly It
was provided that $50,000 would
be paid the winner on announce
ment of selection and the remain
der when practicability has been
demonstrated cither .through rati
fication by tho United Stales Sen
ate or force of public opinion.
Khiiiu AVltliield. ,
To Insure utmosblmpartlallty In
this popular referendum, to bo
taken chiefly through the pre.-,
ident.ty of , the .winner was with
held in today's announcement, the
title, "Vouch Plan No. 14(13," only
having been mado, public, Only
ojie member of the Jury, It was
asserted, knew the namo of the
winnc. 1 ' .
Other recommendations were
that the United States assume no
obligations under the Treaty of
Versailles, except by Act of Con
gress; that this country urge the
League be opened to all nations
of the world on application, condi
tional to a two-thirds vote, and
(Continued on page 5)
FAST Li REEF
ST. AUGUSTINE, Kla (AP)
A mcM.'tu.g-G from the steamship
Georgia, reporting that it was
aground En a rough sea on Mantil
la Ueef, was received here today.
Tho rudder post is gone, making
the rudder useless. The message
also str.ted that the Georgia was
sorely In need of tugboats.
STEAMSHIP IS
DEiS
PLAN GUIS
mm
I Higher Exemption Being
bought tor Mellon .
Measure ' ;
PROPOSE LOWER
RATE ON INCOME
Two Per Cent Rate on
i $5,000 and Under, En
tered into the Proposal
Made Public Sunday. '
WASHINGTON Hy the Associa-
ited Press) A substitute proposal
for the Mellon lax rlvlslon '.plan
(was made, public loday by Repre
sentative Garner of Texas, on bo
!half of himst'tf and the other
,democruts on the house ways, und
! means committee. The "high spots"
'are: ( .
iM normal Incot'ne tnx rates fit
2 per cent on amounts', of . $5000
land under. Instead of 3, per cent
under J tooo, as Mr,' 'Mellon prb
! posed, and of 4 per cent - under
, existing law; 4 per cent from $5000
(to $10,000 instead or C per cent
.above $4(oo, as recommended .by
Mr. Mellon, and of 8 per cent un
,der existing law; G per cent on all
;nmo;ints in excess til' $10,000 in
stead of 8 per cent under existing
law. ,
Start the surtax graduation at
1 per cent on Incomes from $.12,000
to $14,00 Instead or '10,000 to
$12,000 as pro peso d by Mr.. Mellon
(Continued on page, 8)
BULLETINS
Cat (l Htronz Today. V.
PORTLAND, Or. (AP) Cattle
steady to strong" on today's ltfaf.j.
K'it. calves are. zu to bo cents
higher. Hogs uneven, mostly JJf, to
20 cents lower. Medium to fchoico
hogs (ICO to 200 pounds) $7-76 (6
$8.40. Sheep steady. ISggB noetj
Ship Sighted Adrift.
KOIll-'OLK, (AP) A disman
tled battleship, tho Louisiana,
adrift, with a skeleton crew since
Saturday, was sighted today by a
coast guard cutter, accord ing to
advices ho re.
Policy Supported,
WASHINGTON. ( AP) The ad
ministration's policy of non-rocog
nillon of the present Soviet Husala
whs supported vigorously loday in
the, senate by Senator Lodge, Re
publican leader, chairman of the
foreign relations committee Sen
ator Uorult is prepared to reply
to Lodge.
KOUGII HIDING
. tTrt a nniee AOAi (T I: Tli
La Granders j
With Victory
iligh School Cagers Win
from Union High Team
,17 to 10.
Despite the condition of the
highway between Lon Treo and
Hot i-aEe, which proved too much
of a hazard to permit the boys'
second basketball team nnd the
Ku-ls' team to make the trip, tho
lJluu' and White first team wont
to Union Saturday night and de
feated the Maroon and White
quintette In an Interesting game
that ended in favor of La Grande
17 to 10.
About 40 or 60 students und
members of the two teams that
stayed at home were disappointed
Saturday evening in being unable
to go but the first team, rather
tlHin call tho game with Union off,
hired a private cur and attempted
I (Continued on pair R)
yalla Walla Shaken;
rendicton Trembles
'ALLA WALLA. Wash. (AP)
An earthquake which caitsed build
ings at the Btate penitentiary here
to tremble visibly, ' according to
prison officials, was felt through
out tho city early- Sunday morn
ing. No serious damage was re
ported. PENDLETON, Ore. (AP) Many
residents of Pendleton wero awak
ened . Sunday morning ut 6:20
o'clock by an earthquake shock.
No damage was roported.
Thy Iefeats 11 j land
PORTLAND. Ted Thyo defeat
ed Hobby Byland at the Heillb
theater hero Saturday night due to
a wrestling knockout, jtyland was
given 15 minutes to continue tho
malch and said he would go on if
Thyo and the crowd wanted nun to.
Iteforeo Krelllnger called It iiuMb
ami awarded the decision to Thye.
ttytund tolt-:the ftrot full In 29
minutes and Thyo got nls full in
10 minutes andJO seconds.
Although some difficulty was
experienced in traveling tho slate
highways in Union, Wallowa and
Baker counties Saturday, the con
dition loday Is normal with all
highways open. Saturday the road
between North .Powder and Union
was entirely closed due to drifting
snow for a time and travel be
tween Lone Tree und Hot Lake
was exceedingly difficult,
The highway department In La
Grande today announced that the
Old Oregon Trail between Maker
and Pendleton and the La Grande
Wallowa Luke highway were both
open.
HIGHwVAYS ARE
OPENED AGAIN
l Yett! we wKe wis v 1
Shoots Host
-4.'
.Nnlil by polli'i- livoUgii(oi.s lo :iav rktu Inriiciiriicil wlili
Mubrl .Noriniiiiil, lliinu. .', Iicr i lmiiri'i'iii', shot unit wmimliit
Cuiirlhind S, 'Dliii's, wtalthy and twlco cIIvoiiinI oil mm and ex
nvlulnr, on Jiuw -War'a nllit at a Ixw AiiuU'h Iiimiau party, ,
wIiito IMmvi ih cxtorl nlttiitjur Mian .Aoriitnnil niuL ltlna liir
vlnurc, ulun a wnwn iflolirlly. Tlild (lnrtrt M fIr(C, lio Also
used lw iiiimti of fnc Kcllcy, wan Inhvn nttvv III arrest. . Ita
low aru plcliii'cs or .Mulicl Aorniainl (uvtil), ir.l .MInh Vnrvlaiuw,.,
wlko would lirlllti'i' ari'li'iu nor deny Vf-f.rtu ihllt vns en-,
gawd (o DIih-h. (Ji-cci tafd Im wvnt (o IDul's1 Itunrlolls apart
ment noon coimmiiul or !Uiss Noi-rnim.t'M (-iirelnkor, who drelnml
(ho M'i'4'cn star Itad snnunonrd Ih.t clianrnMir hy plnrno. and
-there, Heennllm; (o polle1, shitt IHneM dnrlnt; an alt:ixuiUoit anil,
a:t tiriHfi' helleved, In selr (lerenst-. Itotli women a.vsriil lliero
was no imnneaf tun tor Hie shooting'. ;nii' is irhai'KeU with as
sault wtlh alleniol lo Mil.
Gl CURREY I
SEES ADVANCE!
La Grande Realty Dealer
Homo From Six Weeks
Stay in the .Willamette
Valley.
"Old Oregon is hltehfd ui to
show Home ' sp-r.'d the coming
year," is ihe way fjeorg 11. Cur-,
ley has the tiiMm l Ion figured Otlt
after staying in Portland ami othi-r
WilllamHIf valley polniti for the
past six wei'lii. Jb' and Aim Cur-
have just, returned hoim. ;
v v.-cre wHconihrr a IM I le
granddauifhter while nwny anrl na
turally "Grand pV i.'nri ' y feels a
; opllnii:-!!"' slncf In'', hum'' of
ilaiiuhler. .Mrs. ll-'l'.n l-'arley
was bles'ind with a b.'ihy yhl. i
"There an- a liundr"d resorts why
Oregon Is soon to start on the big
liighwny of activity." eonllnued Mr,
Cmi'ey. "The lumber most be
marketed for 1 he la at aland of the
pine- tr-e Is easily viidble. Kami?
lng Is coining back Klovvly but Jitire
ly. LlvcKtoek looks belter and the
future of the cow man Is not as
dark as it was. Kheep ;y-e tip fop, :
and down In the Willamette val
ley where they Have 'diversified
farms things uij iiulto pro!ip;roun.
"I look foj- La Grande lo be bet
ter than ever It) her hlflory and
you would be. surprised to S'-e how
far the fame of out city- ban npr-.id.
All oyer the lower p:ti t, of u'.nii:
one hears mighty kind words mid
of La Grande and Iter future."
P.adfo Club Mecdi:?.
he 1 ,4i Ornnde Kudio elub will
t at tit" city hull Turs'lay night
':.'iu o'clock. Hevcral important
mailers will be dlHcmwed at this
time, among them being (he mat
ter of a regular meeting place.
It. II. COKER IS
SEEKING PLACE
ON LOAN BOARD
l'UHTI.ANI'. Accnnlirw; lo I he
I'orllulld I H-crjonlfin NevvH llitremi,
of WuKiiinnti.il. li. :'.. itoheri n.
I'oker, luriiH-rly a. I.a Grande, inlu
luler, la Kihi I" 4'" Ht rMnx un np
polnlnieiH lo the rerti-ml Hirm lo.'in
board If Hie Heimtn rujuctu any ' of
llto prvLeiit uiipoiuttta.
Of Film Star
, '!
Chinese Brigands Attack
River Steamer; Two:
Dead and Many In
jured. HUANOHAL (AP) Brigands
attacked the river steamer Tszdul
and killed the captain and -part
owner of the vessel, J. K Brandt,
an KngllHliman. One Chinese was
also killed and several Chinese
passengers wro Injured.
The brigands made their, raid on
the steamer while she whh tied up
for the night at Kaugtshicn, on the
upper' yangtste river, according to
jadvlces to tho agents of the Dollar
Steamship company..
The bandits are believed to bo
rebel soldiers of tho Chinese army.
A- t
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RSiniTI XII I
U35iiJUI I U IlILL
ENGLISHMAN I-H- S-REGDRD
Late News Flashes
CHARGES ARE ISSUED.
WASHINGTON (AP). Charges that Charles R.
Forbes, as director of the veterans bureau, "was a lead
er in an established conspiracy to defraud tho govern
ment," made by John F. Oryan, general counsel, in a
report to the senate veterans' committee were mad'4
public today "In developing the inquiry it has been
conclusively established by testimony of numerous tell
tale circumstances brought out, that fraud and corrup
tion existed in the bureau," General Oryan said, after
summarizing the evidence of the hospital contracts
and other operations of the bureau. Oryan declared
that "further investigation by the department of jus
t'ce should furnish other instances of corrupt transac
tions negotiated by "Forbes and others in the bureau."
TRIAL OF SOLON BEGUN
CHEIIAUS (AP). Trial of State Senator und Mrs.
I'. L. Sinclair on a charge of accepting deposits when
they knew the Southwestern Washington State Bank
of Ilwacu, which failed List autumn, was insolvent, wer
opened here today before Judge W. A. Reynolds in the
Lewis county superior court. The case came here due
to a change of venue from Pacific county.
OCEAN PARK
AMUSEMENT
ZONE RAZEO
Fire Sunday Burns "Play
j . Place" of Prominent
California Resort
LOSS PROBABLY
NEAR $1,000,000
Overheated Stove Is Be
lieved Today to Have
Been Cause of JJevas
tating Blaze.
OCEAN PARK, Cal. (AP) -Ocean
Park's amusement
zone today was a mass of
smouldering ruins after a fire
I yesterday that caused a loss
'estimated at nearly one mil
lion dollars. An over-heated
stove is believed to have
been the cause. '.
OCEAN PAHK. Cal. (AP) Firn,
said to have originated In a small
fish market on the ocean front
jwnlk here Sunday, virtually wiped
out tho eutiro Ocenn IVrk amuse-.
'mont zone and caused damage of- ;
Jficlally estimated at from seven'.
hundred fifty thousand to a mil
lion dollars with approximately
one hundred thousand dollars in
surance. - : " :'(
Most of the loss was sustained .
In tho destruction of three pleusuro :
piers, tho Pickering Million Dollar
pier, tho Kraser Ainouaement pier
and Lick's Dome pier. ;
i Spreading qulekly from tho point
of origin ( tho flames threatened
(the whole concoMlon district be-,
fore thousands of pleasure seokers
strolling along the ocean front
realized what had happened. One
;of tho first structure, to go down
ln the path of the conflagration
was the Giant Dipper, an amuse
ment devlco recently constructed at
a cost of ono hundred .thousand .
dollars. ,
j A strong draught of air beneath
U1U filing uil wjiiv.ii uiu t;uiu
(Continued on pago 5)
Imbler High School, with
65 Pupils, Has Passed
" by a very Successful.
Year.
C. C. Hammerly, superintendent
of the Imbler, Oregon schools, is
not only a firm believer In his
school system but he is also an
ardent booster for Imbler as a
whole, especially for the younger
people.
He writes the following tetter to
the Kvenlng Observer, which boars
out the above statements to tho
effect that he is a roal booslor
for his homo town.
"Not much has been said about
Imbler so far tills year in tho Ob-
(Contlnued on pago 5)
n vuuiniii mil