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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.