La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, January 10, 1924, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Text0 A S CITY EDITI O N VOLUME XXII. OF FARMERS Farmers Organizations' Convention Ends Session OPPOSED TO TAX PLAN BY MELLON Coolidge Gives Final Ap proval to the Shipping Board Resolution; Sen i'ator Smith Heads Sen ate I. C. C. Board. . WASHINGTON (tly the Associa ted Press) It cm wed support to organized labor In political und economic fields was pledged by representatives of form era organi zations at the closing meeting of their session hero. Resolutions were adopted urging a prompt rrpeul of the Kseh-Cum-nilns law, und freight ruto reduc tions on farm products without cutting of railway employes wages. Oppose Tax Plan. Opposition was voiced to .thu. Mel lon tux reduction plan-. The Imiucdiuto enactment of the Norrls-Slnclnir bill to create u gov ernment marketing corporation for farm products was uskod. WASHINGTON. (AP) Tool Idgo today gave JiU final approval I to the shipping board resolution placing the operation of the gov ernment's merchant murine fleet Into lilt hands of the emergency fleet corporation. J Ms approval, however. Is contingent of the board's co-operut Ion. . The resolution Is understood to reserve the board full power of .su pervision over ship sales, alloca tions and selections of trade routes und the power to dispense with the services of the fleet corporations at il!. Democrats Klerteri. . WAHIINOTON. (AP) Senator Smith, Jemocral, of South Carol ina, was elected Wednesday us ' rhairmun of the senate interstate I commerce committee. TURNER OLIVER I LI TO REST WTtlrtl oon ht yes ;jrduy alternoon irT the Hurn mervllle cemetery. One more mem her of that list of Oratido Honl Valley pioneer:! removed from the living, leaving a vacenry that will never ho filled and that is sin cerely' mourned not only by his friends and relatives, but by the entire slate for Turner Oliver was not only prominent in 1'iilou conn ty but was u figure of prominence m the en lift? slate and In the north WP.lt. 1'u ner 1 services were held at Urn new Presbyterian church and wero aJ'-d. by n large crowd of mourn i I he rites were conduct ed under the auspices of the Knights of Pythias, the. .Masonic (Continued on pago ft) SUPPORT 10 LABOR IIUCE Property Loss Less By Fire In 1923 A total of 44 fire culls were f turned In during tho eur of 1U23. 1 uncording to the annual report of, Kire Chief C. O. Murchison pre-! enlcd to the city commissioners ; last evening for their approval. Of this number of eulls ,t3 were tele phone rails, six box calls, two ver- ; Imlvalts, two sll,nt call, and one; out -of -town call wan entered. j 't'l'o amount of iniurar.ee car- ried on buildings at risk amounted j to $U&,"itu und on the contents! 4i.7no, making a totul of S14.?oo j . at risk during the year which wus , $44,2riO less than in 1 Innur-1 Hlice paid during the pant year amounted to H3,3i.7o which wus 44,&14-i- lt than taut paid lit j 1&t ftrmtfr mwttttt MEMBER ASSOCIATED TRESS A Has-Been One of the 1ms bccnsl Sum-, arter rtutu ami city nrtvv vH y In Aniriiiu has banned rilins show ing MuIk1 Xorinaiiri. The pretty, but notorious nctresM, Is shown itbove In one of her latest poses. FOR CAGE TILT La 'Grancleto Pla Elgin Here , .Saturday; Reser vations . My, Be ;. Made ' Now,' -;'' Tlu reserved seat sale for the Kigin-Ii Grande high school busk etball game to be played in the 1-u Grande high gymnusluin Sat urday evening, went on sale this .morning in (ilu:s Orugs, Inc. Ap proximately 100 seats have been placed on reservation with tho un derstanding that the reserved sec tion is solely for tho benefit of the business men and their wives und other townspeople who desire to uso the section. A current rumor has been to the effect that th section to be set off Is only for the use of the bus iness men but It Is to be open to all who ure not students of tho high school, uceording to confir mations made today. 'I he Idea in reserving tho sec tion w:ui simply to give tho fans who are Enable to reach' the gym nasium with the first of the crowd a chance to bo sure of having seats and not have to stand up or In any other way be handicapped from having a full vLvw of the gam . The game Saturday evening will begin prom-ptly at 8:30 o'clock, coinciding with the closing hour of tho business section. Kvery (Continued on page 5) RAY BAGSHAW IS TAKEN TO BOISE, IDAHO Itetttity Sheriff IJrown, of Ada County, 'with headquarters in itoise, Idaho; arrived in Ia Grande lust evening anil after identifying Hay Iiugshuw, arrested here by the police, left with Hugshuw on Train No. 4 for the Gem State cap ital where charges of forgery and obtaining money under false pre tences will be placed against him. Hugflutw is an ex-convict three Pme$ having served two terms Ik, the I tah state penitentiary ana one in the Idaho state penitentiary, and used the mime of R. Jone:i in pawing checks in Idaho, the Jiolwe officer slates. l'J"2. Lorh on buildings in 1U2 umountcd to $9.017. &a and loss on content of buildings hi 1923 total $';.3oy.il. The average speed the fire de partment truck attained to and from fires in 1123 was 29.6 miles per hour. A totul of 618 volunteers were out during tho cloven month of l a 2 :j prior to iH'cember. Klrc permits iMMijed were 1050, electric permits 321 und plumbing permits fcO. The report of the fire depart ment during the yeur of I23 com pure very favorably with tho re port in i!2. Ies dumuge wus donti in PJ23 and tho efficiency of the department was greater In la:? than in l'J2. ATM EASTERN OREGON'S LEADING NEWSPAPER EIGHT PAGES TODAY. LA ll S 1 n n 0 t t Congressman Wires Committee Votes for Re-appropriation MONEY SAID TO BE AVAILABLE Delegation From Oregon HOPES Mini! FOR BAKER nn con icpt UU.I IIUULUII 1 Is Busily Engaged at''1110"1"" tw l commission usked a. Capital Pushing the Project. DAK Kit (Special) A wire re ceived here lute Wednesday from Congressman N. J. Kiuuott from Washington by tho ,luker Herald states; ' "Tho Houso committee on ap propriations today voted to re-up-propriutc lor the fiscal year 1925 tho unexpended balance of this year's fiscal appropriation for the IJuker irrigation project. This will make uvuiluhlo for the project ap proximately foo,(ioi until Jun 110. 1U25. The bill containing the above was reported to ho House tills (Wednesday) afternoouiv..: . Th Oregon delegation a U Wash ington la on the job In force and doing good service in the fight to put the Maker reclamation work over the top, states the Uaker news paper. Mniy Available POIlTLANU (Special) Accord ing to a local newspaper's Wash ington ncwd service bureau, a dis patch yesterday stated: "Ity the in terior department appropriation bill laid before the house this af ternoon It.' tin u nttrnttrln Hons enm t mlttce, the unexpended balance of appropriation for the 1 taker rec lamation project for the current year is made available for the fis cal year ending June HO, 1 'J 2 5. Thiu will provide utmost ir.uo.ooo with which lo proceed with tho work." Under tho "jolts received from the committee recently it is be lieved the interior department will go uhead with the work. 'Hearings on tho bill, made pub I 'c toilay ( Wednesday ) d f fsotosed several sharp passages between Chairman Crumpton, Hcprcienta tiv Carter and CommiKsioner i. W Davis of the reclamation service over the Uaker project. Crampton . msisicfi that information -be given a to why construction of the pro ject Is not under way utter appro priations by congresn in two suc cessive years, finally thin eollouv! occurred: j "Crumpton In tho event that congress ror the third time should; make an appropriation for the Ha- I ker proJiV-t vut is likely to bo the j course of the reclamation service with reference to it? j "Davis The burruu of reclama tion Is willing to carry out any of tlie orders to build any project, I u-tMiru you. "Cramton They would under stand that if an appropriation was mudo a third time, congress really meant it like the man that w.u thrown down stairs finally con cluded that they did not want him in there. "Representative Curler You 1 simply take up those, projects you ure called upon by tho secretary of the interior to take up, do you nof; 1 'Dims f was under tho im- pression right up In litis minute Unit no project eouhi be heirun without tin upprovul of the sec- , retury of the interior. Iterers Question "Cramton Then I should make my iii'iulry whether it would lit (Continued on page &) TWO LA GRANDE MEN BOUND. OVER TO GRAND -JURY C. C. Moxley and Nick Ib iden rich were bound over to Hall lie action of the grand jury yister- day afternoon In the jt ;(ce of peace court here. They ure aecu.led of forgery, Mosley was unuble to pay $:0U bonds and is held In the county Jail. Hetdeiirich us re- leutad under the custody of his guardian. J. L. Mara. L. I. Johnson wch fined in and costs In tho justice court yesterday aflemoon for speeding. Judge Hugh ij. tirad) pnsidid. GRANDE, OREGON, .THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 'joe Thomas Must Serve i Term In Jail Austrian's I'lea for Clem- i ency Not Granted by the City Commission, Joe Thomas, Austrian by birth imiMi i!fi-i lilu untiiwf Knelt WILff 'the decision Veached by the Ia Grundo city commissioners last eve nlng in their regular session "eia in tho city hall. Thomas, who was arrested be fore the holidays for possession of mash, pleaded guilty before Judge It. J. K telicu und was fined 2G0 and sentenced to 30 days In the city Jail, lie wiU paroled until af ter tho holidays when ho was sup posed to servo hl-i sentence. Lust n Ik lit a petition from L, Z ,J, 0,"' that Uu! h,,,,',ln f tn nmim wui wife und eight minor children MJbjeeljon . wan,-, expressed in a petition presented' to tho city com mission last evening by , number Of residents of ,a Orahde' relative to the proposed building of a fun eral service pnrlors on rt' lot ri eently purchased by Suodgraris and Zimmerman on the corner of Penn uylvania avenue und Kourth street. The signers to the petition-were Mrs. (ieorge Stoddard, John Stod dard, Klmer Stoddard, W. H. l-eihfmiun, I- I., lally P.. b. Hed gren, P. A. Kumcn, Mrs, Otis Iey, Juliti.H Itoesch and Margaret An son w'o claimed that the erection of such a building would duinugo their col leet ive properties to the extent of $11, 600. Mr. SnodgriuiH this morning an nounced to a reporter of the Kvo nlng ( Hiserver t hat the tot had been purchased and that they were contemplating building a funeral service parlors In tlie future at that, point. Tint city commission last eve nlng decided that they hud no jur isdiction over tho matter and re ferred it to their city attorneys for tnvesigutlon. KolW-winf, a cowardly act com- J nrfted yesterday afternoon at Hue . ond and f) streets, when poxiuu ( was apretir) over a piece of bolog niv mi usage und thrown on tho I parking only to bo euteit a few i momeiils later by little Ju.z, tho I hem;" dog of C. K. Short, a re- ward was offered for the. appre . hensloa of the parly who commit ted the crime, first a reward of ten dnlijin w;i;i ineiitloned and im mediately (t was raised to fifty dollars by people of that neighbor hood The poison wus thrown O'l the lawn b"lween 1 :3o and 3 o'clock f (ir ll wiix !) t ft-w mitiiiti'V ii f. ,,.r u,M. o'clock when tho doff ale I of the prepared death trap and his 'death folfowe.i almost instantly. : )r, w. U. Iiilev, veterinary, wus WM, ,lt ih(. Brcne iH)l lhl, pnMlon ii..,i n.. ,i.,n... in.... took, the remainlnir nortlon of Dm poisoned meat which will fit Into jthe InveMligalion hH and Iho chief , of police urn carrying on In thli ,c y. A number of dogs have been j posioned lately und tho ofrleers jure determined to locate the ones t who .-ue eng.iging- In Hits cowurdly I and he.tt heitlsh practice. OREGON GIANT KNOCKED OUT IN PORTLAND BOUT 1'OltTLANI). (AP) Jo- (lor man nd Mlh Hpnl, local reuth- erweiirhts. traveled ten rounds, lo a draw here last nigh. In (he other (en round bout Itace Horse Huberts, of San l-'ramtaeo, took a decision from l-Mdio Itlctiards, Port hind middleweight. In a pre- llmlnury Mootf Norbeck. ex-wrest- ler. of Portland, knocked out Jack jlldrner, "Oregon Giant," In tho b'.'volid round. (Continued on page 8) DBJEGTTONS" ARE ENTERED innriT nniiinn FOFPOISONER SEPARATISM LEADER IS DEAD TODAY Assassinated in Speyer, J Bavarian Palatinate, ! Late Yesterday FIVE OTHERS ARE i KILLED IN CLASH Hen Heintz, Shot by As- sassin, Was Separatist Leader and President ; of Government. BPKYER, 1 invar lan Palatinate. (Hy tho Associated Press) Herr Helntx. separatist leader and presi dent of tho autonomous govern ment of the palatinate, was assass inated hero yesterday. I,atcr fh'fl persons were killed In a clash between the separatists and populaco pf this city. BULLETINS nauk itobhers Killed. W 10 ST PAKM REACH, Kla. (AP) r The- notorious Anhley-Mobley gang of bank robbers were wiped out by sheriffs and their posses hero yesterday. Deputy Sheriff Kred Raker, and five members of tho bank robbing gang, wero killed. I ' Kwrrkft testifies. CHKHALIH. ( AP) According to Thad Kweoks, of Skinner Kddy's corporation, Percy Sinclair, when consulted about business in the II .wuscoiank, said "whatever tho boy (does is alright," meunlng Myron , Sinclair. Testifying relative to a statement of the conditions of the .hunk to state bunk supervisors June 30, Ralph Knapp, examiner, said tho handwriting on tho docu ment was the same as Senator Sin clair's had been previously. SInrknt Tixlny i ohtijan'u (Ai-) oitiio iov ! and flteudy. HngH ivcuk to IB cents Inwcr. Mi-illum to clioln' (1511 to 2nd pounds) 17.76 to S.2li. Bliccp Hti-ndy. Kkk one cent lower, now 2S to 33 cents. Huttor steady. Antl-KInn OincnniJtlfnti. MONItOH, I A. (AP) Itepresen tutlves of various unti-klun organi zations In Louisiana und Arkansns met here and organized the Consti tutional League of America with a membership of 3,000 citizens or two states. .lap Stabs Wire, Kidillr. HACIt AM KNTO, (AP) Kuwu shluiu, a Japanese, fatally stabbed his two children ns they were lyltignK sttti and Mr. in ueu looay and proliahiy latany cut his wife, then hanged himself from a rear porch. According to other Japanese Kawushlma wns In -Himp and brooded over the possi bility of being deported. He has been In America 20 years. Waive DcmamH I ATHKNH. (AP) The royaliHts virtually waived their demands for the return of King Ueorgu as con ditional to further peace parleys with former Premier M. Venisselos following promises of Vonlzeiou to guaranteo un honest referendum on the question of a republic or a monarchy. This Is considered a inout Import unt victory for Veni- Zelos. Keorn H tonus ' LONDON (AP) 1'nusuully sev ere storms, uccompunfed by In-li-nso cold, are sweeping Kurope. orf the rousts of Spain 'and France Hie disturbance Is proving a ser loiui menace, to shipping, while in the North Hen and Scundtnuvian r.';iv? r. i'ruvy ,,ml navigation Is diffcult. More cas ualties thun In years ure reported in the HwIhh und rl'emh Alpu. HIJUOAMO. Italy. (AP)me villages in the province of lir- iraillfl urn reiiorlaxl Imrti.rl u llio rcault of hnivr Klornix. . ANCONA, Uuly A I') Torrvn- lial rulna ure nuiklnif houaea In the vIIIiiko of Mondolfo unaafo. Kreiiuent earth ahoeks udd to the dlatn( of the popiilutlon and In- crt-oao tu urongrty duuieve. TO 1921. TaXpayers GellinS Atti(n it .r .T3 W KI tV eVTiX, 'Illllillll w lr lite t iuli r Hid l)l(t wlillit liiniii; of I he cnil(ol, al WaxlilnKlnn, lnxiii'i' !" I In" I iillcil KIhU'm is rivi'lvliiK nlK'iillmi. The Kc-jiiiIiI l tins mi! luii'kliiK lli .Mi'llim lux plan, lliu liLsiirKtut l(4piililfrfiii.s liavo film 111" lliclr ou-ii anil mo havu tho lniiMTatM. A irlHiitilc (Inn slioulil Hoik mil lu uiIviiiiIiiku u tlie rest ol us. Accident Takes Life Of A. D. Webb, 77 'falling Tree Strikes La Grande Man in Back; .. . Death Follows Soon A. D. 'Webb, aged 77 years, met un ilntlniuly death yesterday after noon when he, his mjii, V. A. Webb and his iou-iu-luw J. II. llurke were engaged in falling trees in Mill Cniiyon, about seven mllen .southwest of li Crrnndo, Mr. Webb wus struck by the tip of a fa lint; tree and his baek wan severely-Injured, death coming within five mlniiten after he had been brought lo Ills home lu La (Irando by his Ron und Kon-in-law. According to f'e reports made Kurkrt had Jell Mr. Weliti In charge of the team and had gone up a Mil to felt a tree. They mtppoiicd he was still with the tt am as t he hud told him they would call when they needed bin nstilula nee. Just tut they finlt'hcd cutting thriMj;li tho h;us; of a large tree, Mr. Webb wus een coming up the hill. They shouted to him and he attempted to get out of the way but Hie tree llpa POItTLANO (AP) - I'undM avail iibh; to the state highway coiiiuiih sion do not permit much new work .- i.d'.ir.,iy , w) for projects under way or voted upon, according to unnounceuientti at. a meeting ut the commission here yesterday. Itmi'TH ami MnuetK will remir fiicu niiies of the Old Oregon 'I'r"'l lr"" ' ''""hi to Nolln for il..Ti. .1. W. uud J. U, IflllHlrom. ' Mrlirii-ld. will build bridge n,ar ''oullle ut i2.2f,r,. Wullouii counly Ii:i roiiielerl H "t Ilin I'omimMii'ii on Un nillea or Inalatu liluhwuy from l''lora nor'.ii. (Continued on pug r.) OIGlIiL II DECIDED wtwt MEM HER ASSOCIATED PRESS P ''ile Divorce. IKlllll.H, Alu. (A') Mru. Carol H. Ilourno filed a divorce suit In iii circuit court hero for u ill voice und ullmony from cx-acnutor Jonulhun 1.. Ilourno of Oregon, iio inm 11 in noino norc. rlhe cIhu'kch volunlury utmndonim nt. If i l Late News Flashes SEEKS DISSOLUTION. ' WASHINGTON. Clarence II. Venner, stockholder of the Southern I acific, petitioned the supreme court today for an order to compel the dissolution of control of (he Southern Pacific over the Centra Pacific as directed by a supreme court decision delivered May, 1922. "in making the plea Venner said the attorney general had announced the government would not appeal from Hie decision of the federal district court In Utah ap proving the action of the interstate commerce commis sion in authorizing the Southern Pacific to continue control over the Central Pacific. After the supreme) court decision the federal court of Utah ordered the dissolution hut the inlcrstal commerce commission per mitted the Southern Pacific to continue in control, the, Utah court giving approval, holding that while the dissolution decision had been based on the grounds that construction was prohibited under the Sherman anti- trust act, the order of the commission was,, warranted by 'the transportation act of 1922. Venner in the petition contended that the Utah district court should hold that the interstate commerce commission whs without its jurisdiction to consider the application of the Southern Pacific as it aimed to "nullify the inundate of our highest court." ' BRITISH SUBMARINE LOST. LONDON (AP). An admiralty message says that the British submarine L-24 has been lost off Portland, England, in a collision with a dreadnaught, the Resolu tion. It is feared the entir crew perished. The sub marine was reported carrying 30 men. The Weather Portland (AP) Oregon Fair tonight and Friday. Colder tonight. NUMBER 77 Explosion Started Fire Last Evening in G. M. Tucker Residence SEVERAL BURNED BADLY i FIRE Dead Are Mrs. G. M. Tucker and Her Four Year - Old Grandson, Grant Tucker. JOSEPH, Ore. (Special lo the Observer). Joseph was the scene or an appaling tragedy last night in which two lives wero lost. The dead are Mrs. G. M. Tucker and Grant Tucker, four-year-old grandson of Mrs, Tucker. About Hcvon o'clock In the eve- , nlntf tho town or, .Joncph wutl titnrt,lud by 'tho fire ulurili and "fee luonlii ruslicit to llio homo at Oooriro M. Turkor to find it In flHincl . , It wun Icinrncd that Mr. Tuckor j hud replfiilshcd tho hcutlng Btovo : (Continued on pago 5) PEACE OFFICERS BACK FROM MEET IN PORTLAND, OR. Peace officers returning from a meeting in Portland .Invaded La Grande this morning. .Sheriff l-Yed Ithinehart of Wallowa county fin ished his portion of tho work In Portlund and pussiut through I.a Ornndo on his way homo. Clint Hayncs, La Orantle'a chief of police, roturned early this morn ing from the metropolis where ho had been on liquor enforcement business and attending tho peace officers conciuvo. While John P. Hunnun, the old O-W detective, did not como In from Portland ho Is hero today ikln ,., railroad business. John lives in Walla Walla now und ho auys tho Chinook on its way to the Grande Itnml i Hnd thnt win ter acromi the iiinimiiilm seems uljout ut an und. 1 GRANDSON ARE BURNED n A