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EASTERN OREGON'S LEADING NEWSPAPER .EIGHT PAGES TODAY. CITY EDITI O N The Weather . PORTLAND (AP) Ore gon Fair tonight and Tuea (lay. VOLUME XXII. member associated puEss LA, GRANDE, OREGON, MONDAY, JANUARY 14,' 1921. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS NUMBER 80 STATUS . : . PROBING G ERMANYS SINCLAIR IS GUILTY: TO TRY RECALL Iff Pacific and Wahkiakum Counties to Attempt to j Unseat Guilty Solon j MOVE MAY PE i LAUNCHED SOON j Percy Sinclair to Seek . New Trial: Son Is Re- . turned to Walla Walla Prison f'HEHAI.IS, Wn. (l.y tho A-so-c luted Press)-rA move to recall Percy Sinclair as svnntor for P- rifle and Wahkiakum counties wllli be ln Hod said mrn attending the trial here following hl conviction Saturday night in connection with tho failure of tlto Hunk of Ilwnco. 1 Hinclalr moved lo Seattle short ly ufter the bank failure and consti tuents have been agitating the re call question ever since. Attorneys for the statu persuaded them lo de lay action until after Sinclair's trial. It. W. MaoPhall, president of the Wlllapa Harbor Stale, bank Is men tioned prominently us u candidate lo succeed Sinclair if the recall is launched. CIIEJIALIS. Wash. -7-Pcrcy 1,. Sinclair, convicted llwaco . hanker, loft early this morning by aulomo- f . " ':.-, (Continued on pago 6) CAPITOL GITY Party Leaders Gathering , for Committee ( Meet-1 ; inir: Hear Praises of; 1 Candidates. ' WAKUINUTON (A I). Deino n rut if leaders here to choose a convention city and to discuss ( other business mailers at the na- llonal committee m eling Tues-; day found themselves Sunday: night entangled In a maze of po-j lltical discussion centering around' the choice of a presidential nom- j Inee. j V'riends of William O. McAdcio were especially active and piom-j Ised a demonstration Tor the par-1 ty-chleflainH before the meeting is over. Supporters of Senator 1 Underwood of Alabama were bui.y presenting his cause and otheis with the Interests of favorite sons; and potential dark ' horses to guard lost no opportunity lo bring forward their candidates. The New York drlegation, which will present the name- of r rinvrrnnr Al Smith, will arrive Monday with Charles V. Murphy, N-innan K. Mack and other cm- (Continued on P'ige DEMOCRATS III Tigers Defeat Elgin High Here 59 To 14 (Hy NHHp) Ua Grande high school's basket ball team opened their 19'J4 home Hcuson Saturday evening by defeat Ing kl?in, high school with ease on lh local gymna-sium floor be fore a crowd that probably num bered In the neighborhood of 4o t 450. The downstairs hlenchert were filled to capacity inl over head, tho b"i' onies wi re lined three deep with rabid hoop faiw who choi red the Tlgi-rs on to their first triumph at home. The final score was: ia Oraiidc fD, Elgin 14. Looked like u walk-awjiy lliru out by the acoreboard but tmch was not tho rase. Eor the rirsl Tew minutes of play neither team scored, u It hough either one had re vera) chances. Finally Captain Prbo looped a Peld basket thru for the first Ulue and White score and shortly afterwards, Elgin, by converting a foul made the score 2-1. From that time on both teams pored Intermittently during tho first half which ended ti Urande 18. Elgin 4. Two of Elgin's points wero gathered by the free-throw route. During the first half El gin gnve the local team some stiff opposition but In the fveond period uf the tfaine. bvemed to lag btblud Longworth ' ! ni .vj Tlio above photograph ff Nicholas Long worth, of - Ohio, Ucpuhlican house floor leader, Is 01m of the luttM taken uf cite ban! v::!;h. Congi'cwsmaii, Ills elevation to leadership conies to lilm after many years of notable; nefUHy hi legislative and poli tical matter. With La Grande Schools Eieht Years : Board to ' Years; Board Gives Him New Two- Year Contract. i A. C.I Haill)ton, for olgllt years I G. HAMPTON AGAIN CHEN with the I-a Grande public schools, .pl(in of lh(, Aim-rlcun Wheut Grow will, continue as head of that lnsti-,m.,.. fni. Hi,Hi(iiXinir the nxnoriatlnn tiilion tor two years more at leust, uccordimr to an nuanlmous de cbion of the Iai Orando school board recently announced. Kaoh your the month of January is designated as tho lime for chos Ing the school head when con tracts arc expiring and tho elec tion of Superintendent Hampton, coming at the usual time for such an event, will cause no surpriso throughout 1 lie vny. nm wont nuap VnTTC rCC1 A DP been very efficient and Ui Grande J JiHiN 11 1 O AdtArCi schools have advanced steadily un der lib: hand. Mr. Hampton Is a graduate of the State Normal School at Mon mouth and also u graduate of the University of Oregon at Kugenc. lie was born in Yamhill county, Oregon and comes from ono of the sturdy, substantial families of tho Willamette, valley. His life's work lias been in I ho schools of Oregon and hi. standing over the state as a successful school head is very high. He was president of the state tracheni" association in 1913 and J iH'ij was elected national direc tor for Oregon for tho National Educational association, represent ing Oregon at Oea Moines, Iowa in lrl at the national meeting. Mr. Hampton lsnow a member of tho state text book commission. His planr. for tho future devel opment of Iai Grande schools are well tb fined and he stated today that the schools would keep pace with tho fast growing condition of tlu, cttv. while the homo team spurted to a fast finish. MfunM 41 Points I sing an elusive system of pass ing eonibined with an "all forward" oliseneo ur.fl an "all guard" defense the I .a Grande team tort through Elgin's guards time and again for Mre.s tii the second half. A few minulc't before the game wa over the fir. t team was withdrawn from the floor, tlie score then standing r i to 11 in favor of l.a Oraiidc, jiit Hie wend learn replaced them. Put even against tho sec ond stringers. Elgin wu unable to hold their own. The subKtitutos looped rour field buckets while Elgin Kt one ami each team scor ed one free throw, making the fi nal score f? to 14. Plaiiig &Mtty The placing of both teams wui tiiore or ickm spotty, especially In the rirnt half when offensive threrts for the baskets hy both 'iiiini-Me wcr repeatedly broken up and b ft by the wayside. In the latter lialf the playing wus far from ron-sfsb'iit. Ua (irundo did the greiifir portion of her scoring in spurts and In Intervals between (Cuutiuued uu putfe i) VMHFAT PI AN llS APPROVED inir ransirnn i rptib Union County Farm Bur eau in ravor ot bub sidizing Exportation ; 'A. R. HUNTER WILL j VISIT PENDLETON Is Chosen as Delegate to Wheatmen s Caucus to Be Held in Umatilla County,! January 19. Immediately following the ad journment of jho Chamber of Com merce AericnlKunil commiltee Sal- urday afternoon, the Union County Knrni Bureau met in xpcelal ses sion to consider thcwhcat export plan, as presented at" the Chamber of Commerce meeting' hist week. Keeolullons favoring this plan were udopted with littlo discussion and copies of the same have been for- I warded to congressmen at Wash ington, .1). C. with the re'iuest that they support the measure pending. A. It. Htmler was s-doeied us a delegate to represent, the Karrn Iu- eau nt the proposed meeting to be held In Pendleton shortly, with the) ed by a divorce action Hint didn't ' purpose of forming un organl.a-j take; and home matriconiat mix- tion to support this legislation. Itjjp or other where some, woman was further recommended that as claimed that idie. Nina, was tryinx i :"ay wheat growers us possible Imnkn ttiin Ipln Similar resolutions are now be ing circulated throughout- 4 he granges In the county by M. Carter, of Alicel. Resolved, that the I'nlon Comity i,nrm If.,,.:.!! herehv InflnrttnM the of An,orjru Wheat. tlm Important features of which include the tax- ing of all wheal produced at the. rate of 7c per bushel and the dis-l trtbution of this money so collect-1 ed us a premium on the surplus ; grain exported. Resolved, further that a copy of (Continued on page d) WITH $(50,000 OF inv Ti7r T til lfJ : . v xjvetuvfAV(nHim.in,,f.ri.(, jH,r Klty f burned NEWARK. N. J. (AP) Khjht or ,hut r her -brother, Ryrnn Hhoup, ten bandils toilav broke Into lhei"honi. ' maintained, had been warehouse of Pierce, Hutler K- Pierce company, bound and gaged a negro watchman and escaped ;with two truck loads of bonded uhlskey valued at $fu,000. WHATIfieYRS jOfHjlb DO NOW ? Yuh Simply Can't Kid A "Kidder" iNina Wilcox Putnam, Through I ler Tears, Sokes of Drug Store in Kansas. A new angle on the Nina Wil cox I 'lit intui divorce, cast! that has hceii occupying prominent front page space in American newspapers during the last fort night. Is given to the readers of the Kvenintr Observer by Jo seph Van de (irirt, NKA s-rvlec staff writer in the Inimical lit tle alory below. .Mrs. NliKL-Wtl--cox l1 ill mini Himderson, Cele lraed novelist, has become no torious due to marital difficul ties. A divorce decree frop.i her husband In a Rhode Island court has been attached, while Mrs. Klswortli Itassett, of Madi son, Conn., charges that the novelist alb-anted the affections of her husband, who was mana ger of Mis. Sandci son's -business ar fairs. And here's how Mis. JMHnain or Sanderson, as the crse may be, looks at the mailer. Kditor's note. City .Kiscphfm- Van de (.rift) NKW YORK (Spereial by NIC A :'erice Stall' Writer) There's some people that've nearly killed themselves laugh in' at the way, Nina Wilcox I'utnam kids the lifu out of folks mid I heir troubles. ! So when Nina blew in from Florida to find herself confront - to take the other woman's husband wc jtint couldn't r?slst lopin over to Nina's hotel to find out how the-was bearin up'-tindcr - tho strain. Wo found Nina's little olo son so (Continued on page r) ' CDKFESSESTO FEAI AI'ltORA, Iil. (AP)-Warren J. Uiiieolu, hortlcult urist, a distant kinsman of Abraham Lincoln, con- t''s,;d last night, he killed his wife. jit. January JO, 11123, along wit hi iHhwt lo death by Mrs. Lincoln; Lincoln disappeared from bin I home last. April and his wife and Shoup were suspected of his inur- der at that time. THIS WOULD SIMPLIFY MATTERS. HOW I'LL GO Ort AtN1 DO ?! STuff I On H0tDtfS, ' V.'eDHE5DAY5AN' . . . .Y rx Ss-V N W MINUS PLAN PUljO TO SENATE! M; Senator Bursum of New Mexico Proposes Sub stitute Bonus Bill WOULD PAY CASH OR INSURANCE New Plan Would Cost Government $125,000, 000 First Four Years, and . $00,000,000 Next Sixteen. WASHINGTON fly the Associa ted Tress) Another soldiers' bonus bill waft proposed today In tho Sen ate by Mursum, Republican, of New Mexico. The now plan call for the re turn to veterans of family and In surance allotments deducted from pay and a percentage of their sub scriptions to liberty bonds while In service, plus additional compensa tion at tho rate of 2U per month for each month of service. The payments would bo made In Prio 01 tour years. 'one - fourth of the veternna to bo P11-" c"t' y,,,ir ln ri,M- or ln the form of Insurance, as they might elect. Kslimatlng 7f per cent of the veterans would elect to take Insur- ance, Bursum calculated tho cost to the treasury at 1 25,000,00(1 each year for tho first four years and jJBO.OOo.tioo annually for tho auc- ceedlng sixteen years. PLACE SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST HARRY ANTONIA . Jdirrv Antoniu wiis this morn. iuK hound over to awtitt tho uctlon of tlie Bfjind Jury tinder $4(10 bond and LHMhtf tiiiiit.lt) to ruitto tlio hail, w:it conrllit-tt to tlio county Jail. 1 .lutlKtt iluKtt Ilratlft irtHltltd. Antonla 1h charKed with a stat utory orrcnac1. Traiii HUh Auto, (t Dead. HICKNEEE, Ind. (AP) An en liro family of six persons was kill ed, flvo or thorn almost Instantly, when the automobile In which I hey were riding struck by Chicago and Eastern Illinois train No. 02 at a crossing near hero Sunday. Tlio maehlno was thrown 30 feet against an Iron semaphore post, and was hit a second time and carried 60 feet further before tho train wan stopped. OH loti.iOAY::, ( BoTh iayoff r- - if 1 v.- -f ,ir,,tr i Petition Ten f What Is paid to bo the longest petition over submitted to Congress lit shown hero, it contains names of 340,!4G persons who want luxes reduced, Rtpresentntlve Oeorne 1. Darrow of Pennsytvnnia made th prcitcnlntlon. Left to. right: Speaker Olllette. Rep rose illative Dnrrow, ond diaries P, Jcnkiufi, editor of tlie Farm Journsi. who collected th Hitimlmci. , , . . Itt'(trt;(iiil.u(it)ii riaiuit-tl. KAI.I'JM. (AP)V Kfoi'KHIIicAfruii of the Ort'Kon (trowni-B cu-opcra-llvp. itsaoclation it.s tho rxt'luwlve selli'ni? iiRt-m-y for tlrlttl rruitil la ,l)lannitl at tlm niL'otlni; ht ru today. manityanBtu. Ilupoh provlncof from IAccordliiK I't AI. '.I. ::.!u-ioua!, Iu wound Infllctud ubolit two.)vt6ke itBHlBlant Bt nnral inanant-r of the 'Wo liy hantllla who also ohot down aBsoclittion, tin- nonHim-nt anumB wlr mui I'ldnappoa Mrs. Jul illitt fruit Ktowt'lil. us evidenced at! Inn Kllen. a co-worker of North- idlslrlet niet'tlnilM In (he past few weeks, favors thin proposed lype of orKanlzntloll. The problem now lo be aettled said Newbouse 1h wheth er the reort.'anli'.ed iiftsitelul Ion shall Itakc. In I lift entire northwest. Tii Work as One Parly. SAN FKANC1MCO. . (A P) Call- fornia minority parties, includlngi the Farmer-Labor, Workers party, Non-Partlsan league, .Soelatiais and 1...M...O i, "... ....... ... j a single puny in me coming cam paigns, . according reached here. Tin March will select, party group. to decision i .nt Ion in i eonvo liamu for the Appoint Ley, In (i Adjubint. INDIANAPOLIS. ' (AJ) The appointment, or Jtuss.-n O. Crevls lou .of Marlon, Jnd:. as national adjutant, or the American Leghm I to succeed Lemuel Belles, Minne apolis, recently n jiined, was con firmed today by tho Legion's na tional exec III Ivo com mil I ec. STARED HELD NOT GUILTY Jack Stareo, of Stitrkey, charged with unlawful pojxession of In toxicating If'juor, was acjultted of the charge late Saturday night by a jury In the justice of the peace court. Tho trial began at one o'clock Saturday afternoon. Stareo was arrested early in De cember, I ic;'., but, his trial was poKiponei) until .Saturday. ' Judge. Hugh Brady presided at the trial. w. W. Evans, Baker, Buys Interest In Halfway, Or., Bank BA K Ell, Or. Whllt; on a vi-slt lit Halfway. Waller W. Evans, cashier of Ihe Citizens National bank of Ih" cttv pun hael the In terest of W, J. DoughiH In the First National bank of Halt way. They trailed renieneen. nl so. Mr. Evans getting the Doiifjlan homy at. Malf w.ty, and the latter the former's home in Duller, Att'ii' Woman Murdci'iil :LI,KI'-'I""N, Ohio (AP) Tho bodv of Mix Kaiherirm Mohler, 70 who ill -ippcarid wi.-veru! weeks ugo wa:i in an ubandoncd lioute south of here. Sunday. Tho head, legs and arum had been severed aud were found with the torso. William Mohler, 7, husUand of the dead woinun, waH rrHii( and taken to Lima to be 'mewl lolled by the touiitj uutliorities. Miles Long PROFESSOR HOFF DIES OF WOUNDS AT SIANGYANGFU I'KKINO. ' ' !) I'rofmor Ilr nanl iloff. i-n American mlsslon- jn-y, ()! Hunduy In a hoapHnl at field, Minn., when they raided the mission at Esuoyung. Mrs. lloff Is expected to recov er. Mrs. Kllen Is still missing. weuerm w u i'ei v u, leaner oi , Tr1 TTT'll tho Chlneso military party and'iJe KUDCrtlS, WllO' Will commander of tho northern pro vince, offered Sundny a rownrd of 910.000 for I ho rescue of Mrs. Kl- 1 p,n 1 Airs. Kiien is reported to have been seen a few days ago, nppar- llllHir 1 1 It, I IlnKnu. lln.,n ...... vlnce. Professor lloff and his wife were !""lsslonarirs of tho Hwedlsh branch' oi inn Luineran emu en tn tho Uni ted States. l-'lncd For Sp'tMllng E. S. Sperher wus fined lit) and costs this morning In tho justice of ihc coun iy judge Hugh Brady lor speeding. Late News Flashes 7 PRISONERS ESCAPE OREGON CITY (AP). Seven prisoners of the Clackiimsis county jail escaped last night by pryingr loose the bars over a window while they were in the corridor for exercise. The wrench used iu believed to have been obtained from outside sources. The deputies relumed today after an all night search without find ing any trace of the prisoners. Nine others refused lo join in the jail break. PORTER, WASH., FIRE DAMAGING. TACOMA (AP). Practically the entire business (section of Porter, Wash., in eastern Grays Harbor county, was wiped out by fire last night. The total loss is about ?-!.',()(H) with about $S,()(I0 insurance. The fire started in the Odd Fellows' hall, apparently from a cigarette stub; The Odd Fellows' building with all the lodge records were burned at a loss of ?S,000; Geo. McMastcrs' building and store, $2,500; Malone build ing and barber shop, $2,500, and R. E. Lemon and W. II. Uay stores were also damaged. ROM5ERS GET J1.000. V PORTLAND (AP). Robbers early this morning blew the safe of the Portland Damascus Milk company and escaped with $1,000. . , , FIRE LOSS $15,000 , . ' PORTLAND (AP). Loss or about $15,000 in a fire which destroyed the superstructure of the barge Kuda pa.se n, occurred in a fire at the dock here last night. The barge recently returned from salvaging the Welsh Prince off Altoona, Wash. EXPERTS IN PARIS OPEII MEETTODAY Brigadier General Dawes Presiding at Meeting . of Fact-Finders ' POLITICS TO BE. ! TOTALLY IGNORED Dawes' Suggestion That German Money First Be Stabilized Is Ac cepted. PARIS. (By Associated Press) With Brigadier General Dawes pre siding, loading business mon and financiers of tho United States. Groat Rrltaln, France, Belgium and Italy today began examining assets and liabilities of Germany with a view to saving something from tho ruins of tho most, stupendous bank -ruptcy In tho world's history. "Strictly business no polities'," Is tho motto. Dawes said In oponlng tho moot ing that tho "success depends up on whether, In tho public rnrnd and conscience of the Allies, there is an (adequate conception of the great disaster which faces each ally and I'Kuropo unless common sense is crowned king." Tho European credit, said Dawes, had suffered a shock as tho world had seen Germany's economic Ufo obbihff "because,' ho udded, "the (Continued on page 6) CAN LEAD ALL Conduct Symphony Or chestra Tonight at Ar cade Has Pronounced Views. "The happiest day of my lire," ro marked N. Do Ruber! lo, bead oC tho Llltlo Symphony orchestra which appears tonight at the Ar cadrj theatre, "will bo when I tako our American orchestra to Kur opo and play American music to those- peoplo of the old world." Tho great muHlcian was Inter viewed this morning at the Bom- mer notei and ho at onc ran- i vlncod ono of his sincerity in hW - I (Continued on page 3) SURE AMERICA -tK'; is. 1 7-
