La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, July 15, 1926, Image 2

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Newspaper Page Textt Page Two I All Dresses, Millinery, Coats, Shoes, Piece Goods, Blankets, Hosiery, Underwear and J I . , Dress Accessories I REDUCED IN THIS FINAL '-i&posal-.Sale' Drive " I Sale Ends Saturday Night A Good Place TLJrir ' IT A Good Place Suminer Proving Goofl Season For Radio Fan Reception Compares Fav- oranly with Last Wln 7 ter Less Static and 17 "Fading." VCKICAiJO, July JS, (Ar Hum ' mrr dm", lonit 0asan4 iu a, period 'in which distance radio reception was & fact In name only, stowly lM brintrlnir about a chiuiMra In opln- I iuh amonir llstonlno; exports. - The present summer season, hut a few weelui old, haji been produc tive of much better reception than was nil of last winter when flight after nlKht local stations weru all that eould be received, with any satisfaction, Riinsnnl Illankot JtemmAit. IVumroiis theories havo been advanced for tho chaniro. A moiiic them was the Mutement that the dlnUtilshin of sunspow, so much In evidence lust winter, has re. innvnl a moimetlo blanket that tended to Ntnuthnr radio slgials when c.oinlnir from a greater din. tunre than ISO miles. Hlnco thn sun betrun lt uouthward Journey, a. nolicenblo hnprovemont In re caption has been observed, ins tance stations that could not be loifed lust winter, with no local transmitters In operation, can now Fire Never Sleeps 0 , , 1 HOLLYWOOD Kieven plan. Stallstle. .how that a dwelling Ing mills of l.o Atigelea and vlrtn burns every 1 minulra lly have merged lino the Pacific UeKer check over your In.ur. Door and Sash rcmpany with B ance today and determine If you enpllaliiatlon of H.dtio.ooa. imw a sgiiicient amount to cov.t a lo.s In caso of flro. . "We Write FolkHea Rlghe." K H. REYNOLDS "The Inauranoe Man i Worth Knowing" V '-A lie broiiKht In wltH a powerful nearby station funollonlnK, On local silent period this clam of re ception equals If It duet, not sur pass thn so-nillcrt Ideal conditions r tho winter. , lw pownrcd transmitters, m iln ly operntliis; on the -lowor wavc lenifthB wliern thn Ijitrr.Ktutlon In terferenc.o Is tho urealest, worn most dirrlcult to In Ink In liut winter;' Now they tumble In al most on top of one another, U'.x Ktolli' and "l"adlnit." One of Ihn Rreatest drawbacks to Ideal summer reception Is thn increased aitkoutil of static, attrlb ilteil lurirely to thilllderstomui. While static Is ever In evidence, both In winter and summer, It dies out ennuirh between summer Ihunderstorms so us to leave many ; periods wherein conillilons ure s nearly Ideal o could pn hoped for. Another dlslurhancn known uh "failliiK," wherein the alKnals comn 'and no wllh vnrjlna; Intensity, this j summer has been em of a mur to reception than Hie fading; of last I winter. Relieve American Indian Immune to Scarlet Fever I.AWlllINCl:. Kan., July K.. (AD The American Imllnn is naturally Immune to searlot fever, believes Hr. N. T. Sherwood, of the I nlyerslty of Knnsns, wnn ha.i iimdo an extensive slndy of the disease anions; Indians. Dr. Sher wood base his conclusions on ob servations made nt Haskell tnstl. lute here, on iiuiatlonhalrc sent to nearly I no Indian aifcnclce, nil on the testimony of ilKhty-rour physicians who have had many yi-ura of experience In treating in. dlans. Only twelve of tho eighty-four physicians reported ever havtnK found (he disease among tndiaiw, six were In doubt, and slxty.slx re. ported (hat Ihey had never ob served It nning their patient, MII.US Mi:n;i: Kin: vs. rrmiKoitK McMINNVILLK. Ore. A Jack knlfo and a pitchfork werr wep. ons used In an altercation over a iay crop between William McKsb n and Jni - W.l'or. and hi. two eona ihaa TVatOra It, and Me. Kaben were wounded In (ha fray, P.nlah iirs are numbered by a special systrm. whereby each ege; ran be traced to the farm from , which It originated. j Round Faces Best Ret For Facing the Camera CULVER CITY, CJal,. July 16.' (AI) la your facft round? Then your chances of success In Ihn nmvle is (creator than if your faco were long, If you are one of (he vust armlif of people tohosn auihltions lio along- this direction. Thn perfect camera facn must bo round, say Motro-doldwyn-Kayer nxier(s. It ntnltes little dlfferenco how exmlsltn Hie col oring or how perfect the features, Iho contour of the faco actually decides one's fn(e In the movies. : The -color of the hulr and the eyes doc. not matter. There arc Just .us many blue. eyed girls on Hie screen ns there are brown. eyed ones. Norma-Shenrer. l-:tea-nor lloardman, Lillian Cish and .May McAvoy are only a few who have blue oyoe. yet each one Is a distinct photographic type. Should the features be regular? That is a disputed point. .Many stars and pluers have capitalised certain defects. A pug nose, a crooked evebrow. a very deep dim ple hiui often characterised some star or player and made her more interesting than If she hud ab solutely perfect features.' A long, narrow face, II Is point ed out Is never effective on the screen, because (he lights servo to accentuate Hits longness. The face does net need to be plump, but must bn rounded In conlour. Sal ly O'Nvll, (lertrude Olmsted, Orctn (larbo, Jonn Crawford, (he newer faces on the screen, all have pns. ed I he acid test of screen tet., be. cause of (heir well modeled, round ed faces. In 1714 (he Itrltlsh government offered a prlo of Hoo.nna for the most accurate mnrlne watch. Tho prlre was won by John Harrison, whose timepiece performed three times belter than tho standard Specified. Where Did She Get That Graceful Figure? Vou r member her, of course not so long ago she was a regu lar scarecrow skinny is a mild word for the way she looked. Just look ut her now If ever n Ionian had a perfect figure she has ll-ahe Is Ihc eiivy of half the girls In town. It's nothing to gel excited uhoul - all she did was to taken on weight- filled nut Iho hollows In lace, neck and chesl any skinny, weak rundown woman can do lle same and gain a clean, clear com plexion at (he name lime. Just grt CO M(-i,u a Cod Liver OH Compound Tablets for 60 cent.v at ltd doss Drug Siore or nuv druggist anywhere take 3 after each mesl and two a,l bedil n and If any exccMively thin woman or man either, for that matter, doesn't gain at least five pounds In JO dye! Why! Money back. One vry thin womaa trained in pound. In sj days. Ask Mr lc(;vAdv. t7A GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER Flashes of News From T.N. T. Explosion Near Dover, N.J. (lly .In ini'N llnxui'U and lon M. Kihi) NKA ffc-rvlcp Writers at Disaster DOVISH, N. J, July IT. Kince 1 Kf2 Morris It. rttor hnrt lived, nil unconrcrnffl, right nxl door to siulrlrn death. If ut v. In n lb dlMfihlnr " Iouk pro dh'M il dy tho countryHfrjiV linaJly ruino, ,14 your ui"hr the (cowrn-nif-nl built lis arsenal at I.nkn I Jen mark, l llr-r'H fail h wenn'd juatl-fk-d. For tho vast oNpUiHlon, which rocked I ho land Tor rnllPH arountl, hy soriM! Irciilt left himself and hU Utile home itn-trathed. "Hut It wuh r.v.ic sonjo Jar,' Uc says. The. old man, 77, lives nlono In a larnihouw loO yards firiin the urur nal Rules. I'n'imrliiK Supper The fli-Hl hlasl found him pre. purlnj? HiipiHT. l-'rom hlu doorway he walelH'd down tint 'road to J)o ver, riceinif women and children, Hit: uuurnhd, rnuliiird, and, final ly, the icarrlson In retreat. All iiiKht Ion ho watched the fireworks. 1 le naw flames townr Into Ihc darkness nhove tho - IiIIIh, and felt their hen,1, Jli tremhled at dear'-nliiR blunt ufler hlasl from the plied exploNlves. lie saw hous es fall, walehfd firry (hell frriK pienls dlK holt s imtomH the road. He saw tlx- soldiers return, mvit Iiik tln lr dead. Went Id Daimtiter Late the next day he mounted his bicycle its usual and set off on his Hiinday visit tu his daiiKbler. Hhe, of course, hn.l Klvn him up fur dead. Two inlles down the road he caino upon the deadline of safely set by lullllary nulhorllles. A vast crowd of newspaper men, residents of tho vicinity, and tho curious Waited beyond. "Why didn't you leave with the rest?" he was ask'd. ttn.., " ,lp!iivl..,l 1'ller. tuk- en back, "I don't know, I never thouKht of It. . ' Aboard an NKA Service airplane Robert 1'. Iiorman. photographer. ' exchanKed shots with the burnlliK naval munitions plant as he sailed over tho desolate scene with tho sunrise of the morning- after. Hut Dorman's shuts oil were of the camera variety, while those coming Ids way from the smoklnK ruins were six to IC-lnch shells not quite un even.Klve and take. Domini) ami Ills pilot dived thrnuirh billows of smokn and hot sulphuric lumen to within ROD feet of Hie bla.lnK ruins. "Ft wasn't healthy to dive any closer than thai," Oorinon explain ed. "The place resembled the j Claiei ol ail ciiihiiik vuu-auu. ,ti- iiiau's-lund Is thn word." ilow two nun, commanders of 1heIrtVltows, dashed --nnnuoatlon-lugly to almost certain death is Alohl in one of (ho rnro cyewllness 'stories of the lAike Ponninrk dlsas I ter. I Th y were f'lipl. Harwell II. jlarko, of Ihe Marino Corps, and i.ieuiemini t omi.iunner n. a. llrown. chllf medical officer of the station. It Is told by Viola McConnell, 17, who lived wllh Iho lliowns. Thn llrown and Clarke families oc cupied a double house on the res ervation. "When the first llash came, Ihe fire siren blew," said Viola. "Conl- Thoro wan wmtr ooHinpnt I around Iho Vrntt UimlM-r IVmt- imny. ('limit I'm It ran out ' Hum omen mill hehl hN hat In his haiul nud nsktil ClmrUn Mlhl-I hmnt, the pmilVr, tn X)k. hi FUti ihrotiKlt it fh'iir up to hl.s shotil-dvM-rt. Our thlnl tirload of it pol lute linn already pat Aliland aim! will soim ho lit l- (irandi.! Wi limo hi'vi. Itnhllntc off Mir shift-1 ntriil nnd bltf onlors ftr a couple of wrlut, Nw wp An goLnx' to turn them Ihw Tlun aro no "IfM anil anils" alioui It, Wo am Imto to con i pet o with ntati order piioca fiont tho word jro. If Om havo ntado a WMVftw wo oau nuiko a mmiyw and w don't nwl to put Aity ifs And and," about that rltlu'r, N'4'anio tho kwr lnAivln nmfli Ium K-on oit. Ion tho ' day that Tlio (lorr. said UiaC J tho bulldliuc hail sloi'kotl down In J tho Hty of U tirando wo look hi IMH, oaslt -and that a on hluo Monday, too, Woll. ono thin tlml holiM ii4 out v mHI into liakorj l".ntorpri4, ronilloton. Walla Wal- la and Mand ttty. Jittt coninarol our mail onh-r prkx? on roofttiK now and nrlnjr ns In your slip, , and Aro horo to sa joii intmoy. Claude C Pratt Lumber Co. "TIhs Foot Slan'l mraa- Near P-sundry. IMkumi Mala t4S: No Sunday nualiKn nmnder Jlrown was In the front room. . "Jle jumped up and shouted to Capt. Clarke.. They hoth met on the, porch, and ran off In the pour In tf rain toward the powder maKU- (alne. ' . . , They his llan "They didn't slop to say Roodliy or anything, Just rin. "Jn it minute, from whero they'd gone came a tremenlniiH red blunt that Hhftiored thinws and deafen ed us. The house nearly fell In. V couldn't hear iinyf hfnf? more for bourn. ".Mil. ffurke ran In from nrtft dnor aj)d we almoKt fell into t ho cf-llar-i-Mra. Brown and 11 is. jClarke, Harriot llrown, 3. Orville jflarkfl, 6, and Mavdeit Clarke, 6, a iiehtrhhur asd I.'. A second blast . followed, and 'Mrs. llrown wiur. cut hy flying Klat-M, . The fuinlltc: atumhled out j doors, just uh two marines ran up 'uhoutinf; that ihey must fly. Thty (knew what had ' happened to the joi'l'lcerH. j AIT piled into tne llrown auto. Tho marines c-Iuiir to the runuii.K hoardH.' Mrs. llrown drove. j , Flro Kvorywhoro I "She uiiB hleedinRt" says Viola. I "Kiro seemed everywhere and tho earth rocked." ho.spltat at Newfoundland, 10 A i i. i"- ii i ii tA n ii - -"wraiav I aab V1 U B !fta Bfrt53 i.'.WI I welcomed Hip refu- I Nearly a dmcen New Jersey towns and villus sat for forty years on the great powder keff that wax the urmy-nnval arsenal and munlilons depot at I'lcatlnny and loike J)enmark. Unlet. eaay-Roinfr, ihey took lor granted the :i.00 ncrrt of potential death and deat ruction. Tens of thousands of recreation seekers thronged these mountain communities in tho summer, iltuiy came and went without learning of the arsenal's presence. The arsenal hadn't amounted to much at first. Tti'a when the ord nance department of the army laldished shell-loading and pow der storage plant there In the "Sa's. lint tho powder keg: prow. Hack ihero In tho hills with hut a sparne civilian population lor inlles around seemed the most appropri ate of places for It. No hostile warships could bom hard it. for the seaeoast was a full ,a miles away, Powdor Kc Went Off Tho navy came and hullt u depot for tfnnt shells, smnkoles.i powd er, depth bombs, and the like. A hundred million dollars' worth of explosives were hidden away Tor-a wartime rainy day. Slill the communities which clustered about the Martian camp took it for granted. And then the powder keg went off one night. "A safe place to manufacture tnuntllons? There isn't any," con eludes Major Hugh Itamsey, t he (i'leallnny arsenal's conn murder, nsj ml l r-s Qvt-ny, ffCOR. 1 iTO f Ww 1 v M 1 II 11 1 II If you aren't equipped to save all your grain-to save time, save money, save work, save worry, see us now-regarding the prompt delivery to you of a "Holt" Combined Harvester. The Bunting Tractor Company La Grande, Oregon Combined Hanestefs w he survey's th ruin the naval mu nitions depot bloat had wrought. The major's own coat is ped-staln-d from the dlwi-dcr. "Hearch Yourself for Matches" read n sign near the entrance. "Leave Vour Mulches Here" aald another a, little farther down the road. UnlMing nrcroor Lightning rods tipped the roofs of all the hulldlngs the army and navy had put up. They called the buildings "fire proof." Day and night soldiers and ma rines kept guard. Commanding officers , Imposed the most rigid rules. ' The wailing Zeus must have laughed as his lightning bolt shot through the man-made foil. MILL WOltKKK lKOVXS KI'OKNK. Ore. July 1 R (AH) Alfred Carter, 5, a Hhingle mill worker of Maptoton. was drowned in a slough near that city yester day afternoon. H nud gone swim ming arter his Hhift. and was mli ed by his fellow workers at dinner I line. 1 1 Is body A as found two hours Inter. ' I'l'M'.ttArj SIOXKAV I'Oll'If.ANn. Ore. July 15 (AD The funeral or ('. W. Taylor, exi'ciifive s'-cretary of the Oregon Slate I'Vih'rutlon of l.tthor, .who died Tuesday, will be held Mon day afternoon July 111,' from the Moreland Community church Port land, at :l::ia. The body will be taken to the Portland crema torium. .v REG. U.S. PAT. OFF. Thursday. ' July 15, 1926. Priscilla's Heauty Aid- Was Snow It Was Free rri.VKn' PITY, Onl., July 10. (Al-) Vimlly, vanity. "II In van -liy! Kven h rtomiirn. modest PuM liin mul'lpn. II va rnwntly dluoov- , prril. ho'l tier beauty "niiwlion and uiuwrr box." l'nllkP flappon, o( ihc modern day, with their roufrew,' lip Hllrlts. mairnriis and what not, i the I'lirluin flapper's ronmetlea did nnt enKt a ntmny. ' lM...nren for Lillian OlHh'H new Jletro-Ooldwyn-llnyer picture -I'he Scarlet letter." Phown (hat the only means allowed younir ifirln of the lime for embellishing their complexion wax a ralher nevere form of endeavor. "Kor ye complexion," Bays ai old manuscript In thn nrclllvoK, Ye young- iflrl may Ttsh the fire in snow, the tineliiifr cold hrlnff- . intr forth ye blood and Injparttnjr a rich blow of health which Is je true ht'iiuty." "Vllil MAX" TAKKV PAX HA KA I'M. After a flvc mllc chase thtniiKh thn wlldornenn, the "wild man of Tomalcs Hay" lias been caplilretl. t'nltept. and with liair hancini; to his shoulders ho jjavc tho name of Itlciiard N'or- man. A store of foodstuffs round , In his "nest" was said to havo born stolen from tourists camps. Thlrty-eiKht American artists aro. on their way to a point w(thlll , tho Areto f'licle to record on canvas Icebergs, Ksklmos and animals.