La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, January 29, 1924, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextEASTERN OREGON'S LEADING NEWSPAPER EIGHT PAGES TODAY. ftp The Weather PORTLAND (AP) Oro gon Rain tonight and Wednesday. Strong south winds shifting to southerly Kalr. ' . CITY EDITI O N mum VOLUME XXII. LA GRANDE, OREGON, TUESDAY, JANUARY-29, 1924. , NUMBER 94 MEMUUR ASSOCIATED FRESH MEMlllill ASSOCIATED PRESS S TO IT POST mm mm REFUSE QU WOOL MEN, CONCLUDE MEET TODAY V ' l Pendleton Two-Day Ore gon Woolgrowers Con vention Near End SHEEP INDUSTRY CONDITION L.OOD Hagenbarth Says Loss iagenoartn bays loss Due to Shrinkage in Shipments East Should Jie Overcome I'DNDU'.TOX. (Ity I lip Assorln tl'd 1'ii.s) Chni'lcH .1. Itntnd. for Jimty rni'.t chirr or the I'llUr;! Stales lliuvnii tmirkrts, aihlrossiiiy; llio Oivjfoii AVmiI (irowi-rrt (filiveii llim lion." Imlny. wild lli .McNnry ltauucii hill which he ilriirtnl was not csxcnliiillr mi uilniinlstrullve iiensmv, hut II was ajiuneil by I Secretary Walluci" as tiie most likely remedy ror llu: rarmel-s filil daiiieiilal clirrlen!tli'.s. PKXi'L.KTOM By the Associa ted fresw) Prt'uldent l-alconer reported tliat tho sheep industry Is in much butter condition than , luft year. l'r&sident IiiK(iilJurth. of tlio National association, tuihl much lows, due to shrinkage In nhlp inentn to tho caal .would ho over conio by manuracturliis woolonw 111 tlio went, ' ' P!3Nnr.KTON.7lt (Special)" Approxinialely 150 wero in nttend unec at the opening neBalon of the 27th annual convention of the Ore gon Wool Growern hero yesterday. Uheepmen arriving " every train during the day pivn prom tin of 2UU or more in attendance before the convention closec today. "I believe in the Went for the the West." said l-'ranU J. Ha'en- hurtli, president of the National Wool Growers, who uddn-iKied ihej mcetinc fn the aMernoon session, Ho advocated the manufaelure ofj wool prodii'tn in the Wt instead of or. the Atlantic const. "Home years ao." he said, "a j rojumlKsion from 1'hinland made a report that. Portland and Ha vie)n- lly olTered the most id-ul ehmatej 'and humidity conditions in the world i or me iiuunn uci ui r ui wii nrodiiets. Many Oregon wools, I enpecialiy that raiseji in the Co lumbia river region. ahrlnli from (IU to ?(t per cent, the average be InK tl7 per cent. We are Hhippinp this i7 pounds out of Ha. or dirt and waste, to the east and paytnK frlepht on It. The Roods are maiui fae)uied at. l-iirh cost ami shipped hack. This unnecessary expense. rs u loss to tho irrower and to the consumer alike." Mr. Kalconer. president of Uie Oregon Wool Groweis. npoke on the iuestion of railroad a-rviei' and rates, the proposal of the lonsl . aervice to Increase fees, the tarift (Continued on p:;;e S) Non is Seeks IK'-i:lcetion. -WASHINGTON' (AP) -Senator Norris of Nebraska, ono of the jvryap of liepubliean Insurgent;; wno announced two years apo tliut he would re'ife at the CIl X of his pre.scnt term, said Monday suueu in.:, m.i '.vnnnu uum "to be a candidate ' ' lie had decided t for ronomlnatinn, 446 Students In La With the second' seNicster of the In Grande hf?li school wetl under m, n Inlal or Aid students are enrolled ill the high scliool which Is an intense or more than hair a hundred'-3 ver the ricups last year at this lime. ftf the toiiil students enrolled., over !mi are from outside District No. 1 which comprises li Grande. Another item of interest Is the fact that tlie number r grain milt school grydiiutes entering hish school and the number or high school graduate.-, etiter'ntr college Is steadily on the incnl:se. A! grade graduates nr;: now taking most Kin per cel.! of the clgh'h high school training and rroiu 3n to 4" percent of the ai Grande high aeh'Hil graduates nr- yearly enterinc coli-ge. In the local high school at pres ent ull students arc required to tuke Knglish. Two hundred end seventy-live are enndlcd In mathe matics classes. 23'.' nre faking his tory. 15" arc s!udyinfT s-ieice. sm are Icurning the typewriter, lot) boys ui tuktiis in Ihv manuul Figures i , $ tx ISW!! "l? I' Albert If, I 'nil, fnrriirr si't-' rclary of the interior, nntl Harry I'V Sinclair, 4il mini, who aii' piDitiincnt fJ.uurc.' In the invcMfxntioii uelnjf con ilue(4'd by tlie l'. S. .Semite. I-all is pirtui-ed above. I! LEGION MEETS Council ElcttS Officers Hero Last Evening; Compensation : Is Dis cussed. -. Th I'ulen County American Kefr'on Council met .in the Hum met ktM here last cv.-niutf with An election of officers wan held Willi Hie result that Ilarley Kich-crd'-on, 'm Grande, was elected president ; I, vie Kiddle, Imbler. Secretary - Treasurer, and I'.pJ. Murray, perry, who i' a member or the Il Grande post, vice jiresi dent. An executivu commlttt-u was alffi named. I'efore adjournment It was de cided to hold the next meeting, A ri 2)T, at Hot Lake providing arranj-rementH could i made. l-'red Kiddle, . state commander of the American Legion, reported "n r.a.ii:i compensa. nu. ne u nniKiii'-M on p: hi Enrolled Grande Hi livi'nini: flepurt nient, high school students are takim; home :conoin-h-H. 1 KO are taking language (l-'reneh. I.ailn or Spanish) and the commercial department is ucll fill ed. In ad-Iiti'in to the above subjects lllb'e exJ Tuiaj'.lion for credit are held Pt til' Thlrty-rtve ing inuuie credit. liiaenes. eii'l of each s nes'.er. students are also lak outside of school for Kngllsh and eonmilcs nr- tilso being buight in the high school here now. Three girls. L'lia NVdcrr. Itiilli Scott and M.irgaret Creasey are tukiiic; library work under the sil pervtsien of the city librarian and are practicing ity assisiing in tak ing chtrge uf the high -boot li brary. At present they nro neal-nlogin',- and remodeling the library. No credits are given for this work. I nr Went ally, in speaking of the high school, the student body are on record as being very ii.ti'-n pleased' will h the increusvd attend ance at l.usketball games tn the gyuiuasiu; 1 COUNTY INCOME TAX REDUCTIONS ARE URGE Ways and Means Com mittee Action Affects 13,000,000 People CUT 25 PERCENT , EARNED IN COPIES 1 'All Under 5,000 ClassI-1. fied as Earned; .0,000. Rpf TVT'iYiinun Hum in Class. WAKMIXOTO.V (liy the Asso ciated press) Income tax payers Rot their first slice or tho pro posed tax relief Monday when the house ways and moans committee ndoptcil the recommenflationt of Secretary Mellon to allow a spe- cinl 25 per cent reduction in the I fax on incomes which ure "carn icd.' , All taxable incomes under $fi 000 were defined as earned for " purposes of this reduction, while $20,000 was set nu tho maximum j amount of incomes on which the j reduction could bt taken. . Tre:aairy estimate.) sliov. llui. j about 13,000,000 taxpayer:? have incomes of less than ?r.,oou and ( . uutoinnticully could deduct from f n uien i.ix wuen compuieu i"'r ,.,.,,) Prlmo Minister MacDon-.'Iwo northwestern ineinbern of con cent, of its lotnl. Thus a married jaU, haH IIM,t circumstances whiclKress today led d1offfitlonn to Pres- iuii wnn iwo cnuuren wno now;,1U(, ,.,,. li i m tn rr .im,... . pays , a tiiK of $28 on uii Incouii;! or 4,(ioo would puy bnly '$21 on this figure, not taking into ac count any normal Income bix re ductions a proposition nlill bc fore the committee. Itlsposilion of this section of tho bill cleared the way with the exception of yome odds anil end.-j to ho taken up Tuesday, for con sideration hy the committee on income rate themselves including the surtaxes, the main point at lsuo In the tax revision program, liepiiblicnn Program Discussed. Majority members of tlio com mittee met late Monday to dis cu.i : program oi' lu'occdur-t bill agn-ed only to meet in full com mittee Tuesday. Some memberc. have declared ror writing a Uc pulilican income rati; schedule while others wish to work out the rates In full committee. Demo crats, however, have declared t hey will titund solidly for their party proposal of a, reduction In surtax to a 44 per cent maximum in- utead of 25 per cent as suggested by Secretary Mellon. The house Republican steering commillee al-! f Continued on r;!'e S J, J ' ; : (?) ; 1 Foirr; Jurors Selected In Bloom Case Four .iuroia luul been s?le;eted In the jti.'itiee of Hu peace court tlila morning before adjournment for 'tin luncheon lumr to hear tho trial oT the Statu vs. Clyde Illoom. eharg ;ed with possession of Intoxicating i liquor. I I lit crest Ik mi mil hit liiirh In the trial. Court was opened thin morn-. Noyteck-IJdrtneSS Farm ;in at M) o'eloek with Judffi- IhiRh. B p; To 1 Brady pri -siding. Courtroom spee Itutury were many. I Several talesmen were examined I I V the attorneys nnd the court hut only four 4iad been selected up to noon hour. They aro James MeNamco, J-M Meyeralelf, Leo Kn-neh ami Thomas Johnson. "T'Z" !!2 ?I complete the jury of six was begun sl1- on" o'clock "'is afternoqn, when Attorney Hens Is repreHi'lll ln(f Iho (lermdi'nt and J. O Slater, mil-' ini; proRtTMitinfV uttorney, 1m eon dtii'llnpr the cam.! for the stale. Itloom waa arre:!led hy n ruldlim p:trly, led by ofliceiu of the sher ilf and iVicludinif one poltceninn. n !rv dH iiito. 'I'he officers assert thai two raMoiKi of ii(i;or was found on Ins pretii!s:-H. RECQGNIT1D IS SLOWED IP j.oN'DON. lty the Associated regarding recognll Ion tif ItussTa 'by - (Great P.ritain than he hud Intended export - corporation hill which If (when hn took office, according to now under consideration by senate ''oiite political writers. . l"td housh committees on affrlcul- ! The Daily Mail ssiys permanent turc. "Scott Lcavltt, Montana rcp ofrtcialH of tin; foreign office and resenlatlve. wuo accompanied by lexainination of documents on -flbi'bcster C. Davis, Montana state thoro have convinced MaeDonald 'rommiflsloncr of agriculture; M. L. it hat such a Htep would not be- in .Wilson, director of extension work tho best interests of the country. LONDON. (Hy the Associated) reus) Cnlon dock workers today h eided - to withdraw from service Kebrnary It In all parts of Great liritain iinhas sutisf'actory netlle- ment of current wage, disputes an peached. Tim threat of the dock workers' strike comes alter self lenient late V stefday of Cu railway strike. 1NEW STRIKE IS ilPllIED ; i ITS GOING TO IiE HARD TRAVELING RELIEF BILL l& ORDERED APPROVED Acted Upon by Com mittee. . . AMENDMENTS ARE HELD FAVORABLE Would Increase Approp riation for Financial ' Relief to $70,000,000; Also No Class Exclu sion. WASHINGTON (My tho Aosocla led Press) Tho Norh-ck - Hurt n ess tdlt, providing for financial re lief for farmers who am located In nrens stricken by crop failures, wns ordered favorably reported to day by the senate agriculture com mittee. An amendment wus approved In creasing the appropriation from 150.000.000 to f70.oon.000, mid for inahlntr an Additional njnount available for fanners generally in stead ,of only wheot farinera. AccordlnR to a Washington nows lmrcau of a Porllnnd newspnper. lileni i.roolldtrn to oimnnl for his for rpport for th McNary-Haugon for the Montana agricultural co lego una w. u. HtocKion, president of the farm bureau of tho state. This group was followed by Repre sentative llurton K. -French of Idaho,- with George C. Jcwett. gene raj manager of the American Wheal Growers' associated of Minneapolis and Portland: O. P. Mix, repre senting the Idaho Kxport Corpor ation league and Huston Kgbert, president of the Oregon State l-'arnien;' union. The measure, for which the aid. .of tho president wns solicited. would establish a government cor- jporutlon to deal In tho export sur plus o wneai and other farm pro ducts, at prices based upon the pre war purchasing values of the com modities. The northwestern men (Continued on page M MisslMargaret Harding r mil 'i t.ft MKs .Mainiirrt llnrdlnu. ihiunhler of V, I. U. HaiMIng, for , iiii'i rfovcnior of the led era I icservu bonitl, who commit tcL Milclde Ity stHHiliim herself with tier fnllicr'M revolver at tier mine tn Huston, "t touhln't stand life any IfHiffer" was ono of the pi i rases of n note lert by her. Her father Haiti his daugli ter's m l was dm; to her love Tor "soelnl life, danclnu; every night and Miiokfuv; cluarcltcs." F . t-, t... utr ' 'i Father of Miss Margaret MYSTEBY DEATH SOLVED Hnrdinrr Snicirlp Tplh B"n" lhl" ,norn""' lo "'"y ln lh(' jridiuing, ouh-iul, ii.ua U.M of John Horrlnfr anil. NoW of Notes Left' by-XJiri4,,J,!r,n':.fiM,?,'C .f .hvmg. -to BOSTON (I(y iho Asiioclaled Press) W. P. Harding, governor of tho federal reserve bank of ( pOJtTLAND, Oro. (AP) - Llvo Hoston, In a sUilemenU made aior steady, eggs ono cent higher, Monday night, admitted Hint hi 34 to 38 cents, butter steady. daughter, Margaret Mil lot Hard-) . . ing, who was round dead at her -mV ttt vnnuivn homo last Saturday, committed MAIJEL ISOKMAND. sutcldo by shooting herself with hl.i revolver. Karlier tn tho day medical ex aminers had reported Miss Hard ing's suicide but tho immediate cause of (bath whs not made known. Miss Harding, her father said, left notes adddresscd to him, to relatives and to fricitds. In tlio notes to her father Iho young wo man asked forgiveness '.'for what sho had done and what slio was about to do." "I couldn't Htand life any lung, er," was one of tho pb fanes of t hn nole. naid Mr. 1 larding. Ho said his daughter's net was duo to her leva for "aoclal life, danc ing every night ami jmoklng cig aretteu." , McADOO WINNER IN FIRST ROUND ! OF MISSOURI GO; ST. LOCIS (AP) What anti It eed I icmocratH in Missouri de scribed an t he "ft rut set back t o Senator James It. Heed's presi dential candidacy" war (be acllon Mondav of the Democratic, atalo commlttoe In deciding n meet In I Springfield for Ibe Hi 24 slain con-j veatlon by a UH to 20 vote. The McAdoo force: absei led I hey haVO UH votea on the stale committee. ; The Iteed i n pport era. It was said, ' did not wan to the convention to go to Springfield. The action If.uu M;iii V4 limirH lifter ' Itei-d anuounred lils candidacy. LA GRANDE, ORE., PIONEER DEAD AT ROSEEURG llenhimln IH.iekbnrn. a pioneer or lb Grande hoiid" vulley 11 ml well l.nown In this s-ction of tip stale, died Sunday at the Soldiers Home of Himebtirg, Oregon. M. un friends in this city were shrieked to hear or his demiic nnd bin rela tives are receiving the sincere nym paihles or Iheir many fri'-nda In Iheb bereavemeni. Mr. Mlaclib'irn, tuho came to Oregon in the year isC:', Is an un cle or Mrs. I'Vank Cleavlnger, Mrs. L. H, Ituss'dl iipI Mrs. Krank Ito han. all ol this city. - At one lime Mr. lilacUlitirn was owner of the Grundy addition to the cily of La Grande. M'iy D'n Krmn i;Miire. ATHKNH (AP) Scores of per sons have been frpn to death In the cob! wavo that prevail throughout Greece. Ono messags from Salonlkl says that three sold iers and Ki'i civilians living under canvas shelters have dlfl of e.- puburc. BULLETINS Will Tmliry. HAI.KM. (AP) Accoinpnnli-d hy Deputy 'Sheriff Hhotlen of I,ano e.ounly, Tom Murray and b'Udin WalKor, eucli serving a 20 year -leriu for participating .In the Klor- .,nCT bank robi.ery. inrt ror uu. ' i:SK lllKlirr Tollajf, TO GO ON STAND THIS AFTERNOON LOS ANGKLKS. (I.N.8.) Mabel Normand, who has been sumpipned lo nppenr beforo District Attorney Asa Kcyes this afternoon for o grilling on her testimony given at I lie preliminary hearing of Horace A. Greer, her chauffeur, charged with Nhoollng f'ourlland H, Dines, insisted I hut her attorney b pres ent at the iiuesttonlng. Mr. Keyes. It. wns said, will have no objection IMa. Keyi-s plans to question Atlas Normand especially on her testi mony that she neither saw nor beard any! hing that occurred , af ter Grcr entered Dines' apartment on New Year's night. Coy pumcll Dies ItKNTO.V HAltHOIt, Michigan, (AP) Coy Puriieli, 40 years old, inn of Deiijabilll Purllell, fugi tive "king" of the House of David colony, died at Shlloh house, bis father's home, Sunday, following 11 lingering illness aggravated by pneumonia. His death was made known Monday Late News Flashes Mil SERVICE PROBE DEMANDED. WASHINGTON (AP). Sweeping invcHti;ation of (he air 'service wiih demanded in the house of repre sentatives today by Representative Nelson, Republican, of Wisconsin, who declared he was informed that the conditions existing now nrc a continuation of the same practices by the same parties that "wrote the blackest paj;c in America's war history in aircraft failure." STORM WARNINGS OUT. PORTLAND (AP). Storm warnings were ordered. out today along the Oregon and Washington coasts. j - . ii . ASTORIA (AP). A storm ut the nwjllth of the Columbia river moderated today when the- wind dropped from 70 miles per hour at 8 o'clock this morning to 4 miles per hour at 11 o'clock. The barometer is rising rapidly. ' DIED FROM Dl'RNS. TACOMA (AP)-Mrs. Rachal Michael, 65, ' died today from burns received last night when her cloth ing caught afire. Sho was working in a kitchen when her apron strings became ignited from the gas jet on the stove. ' Before she could summon aid the flames had enveloped and fatally burned her. FALL SAID TO RE NEAR llll it Doctor Urges Committee to Question Him in Sick Room SINCLAIR NOT TO RETURN TO U. S Oil Man Refuses to Leave Europe to Testify Un til He Has Completed His Business There. WASHINGTON (Uy (bo Associa ted Press).. ...Kw'retary Den by an-; iiounccd tirter a cabinet meeting at which the oil lease Investigation was consldeml that he bad 110 in tentions at the present of rcsign- Presldqnt Coolldgo today roplled to questions that ho did not care to discuss the Hoblnson resolution re (Ufollng tho resignation of Secro tury Den by. Tho president considers tho wholo oil leasing investigations ns having' resolved Itself into two ma jor problems for tho cxccwtlvo branch, first to dotormlno whether there was criminal liability, second to ascertain whether the leases uro legal and are to the best Interests of tho government. All other matters u,re of lesser Importance in' his opinion, ?"'r The selection of counsel to prose cue nil lease cases Is being hold up awaiting action In the senate on the Walsh resolution directing tho president to proceed fop tho cancel lation of all Doheny leases as welt ns thoso held by the Sinclair in terests. 1 WASHINGTON. (AP) "I am so convinced that 1 did tho right thing that I would do tt again to morrow regardless of tho conse quences," said Secretary Denby to day. r ' ' . "I feel that I carried out tho will of congress-and tuy activities serv ed the best Interests of tho people. Accordingly 1 hnvo nothing to re gret nnd no reason to resign." Itooscvcit in the Clear. Assistant Secretary Itooscvcit, (Continued on page 6) " ' FREE STATE TOKIO. (Uy Associated Press) Whltu forces In Siberia have seized upon Lc nine's death to proclaim at freo state in tho Amur provlncec and have Interrupted rnilway sor vlco to Vladivostok and other points eastward, according to Jap anese government : advices from IS PROGLAIMED