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About La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 19, 1926)
Tlini-srtnv. August 10, 1926. : Pasre Four EX GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER Princess Meets Sinclair Lewis . La Grande's Leading Store (Incorporated) An Independent Newspaper " FRANK B. APPLEBY.. ..Editor and Publliner H UtVET F. MATTHEWS ...Uulnes Managor Published evenings, except Sunday, at UK Adam. Avenue, ' La Orande, Oregon, The Observer-Star published every Friday. Entered at the Postof f Ice at La Grands, Oregon, s Second Claaa Mall Mattf under act of March 2, 1871 OFFICIAL PAPER OF UNION COUNTY AND TUB i CITY OF LA GRANDE MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press la exclusively entitled to use (or pub. ' llcatlon of all news dlspatchea credited to It or not otherwise .'. credited If published therein. All rights of republication of special dispatches In this paper, and also the local news here . in also are reserved The Arrival of a Number of New Fall 11 . . ANNOUNCES SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Carrier Dally, por month In advance. ....... ......... Dally, per six months in advance. .......... ....... Dally, single copy. ..-.....m... 760 t.l0 l0 By Malt : Dally, per month In advance.. Daily, per six months in advance- Dally, per year In advance.. Weekly Observer-Star, per year... (AO ..12.R0 ..16.90 ..12.04 ADVERTISING RATES . Display, foreign, per column Inch Display, local, per column lnoh......H..M...m.... Time contract rates on application ite . 40c 1 : BLUHHINO OH CUIIK13 "lluhold, I ml" before you this day u Mi'sNlnff nnil a. curau: A bli'sslng, If ye obey Ihe coin- mundiiK'nts of the Lord your God . . . , u curse, If ye will not obey."-leut. 11 20, ST, St. ' Frocks in the Increasingly Popular Colors . rrliieesrf Miuiji de llourbon, u ineiiibei- or tile KpunlKli rrtyal '' , Hoiihc, who Is vIhMIiik Mm H. C!. Dahlliurg at International' .-"Fullsj .:' 1 Kllim l.u in. l Uln..l,,l. I mi' lu A iiii.i-li.n'u fi.lunila uillhiii ' i.iVill " IIMirit lllliuyui ni'l llllHI. ( lllia ni:iinc nn,jn mini jjhii ui-i t? BIJO leu; ivir. i.ewis in me center aim ine iirinee ui uie.riKm. -. '' "'It's a struggle of darkness against light," says Presi dent Calles, of the religious war in Mexico. Both sides will agree on that. , . ;,rv,If Governor Pierce is interested in the telephone busi ness, we suggest he do something to improve the service at Baker. That's a job worthy of his best vocabulary. GET STATE MuIi ; A DANGEROUS EXPERIMENT ' With some nineteen different measures appearing on the , November election ballot the voters of Oregon are asked to decide many questions about which the average citizen' can know but little and which can, unless aire is exercised, create a tremendous amount of trouble for the people of the state. The Eastern Oregon normal school bill is, '.one of the worthy measures and the state hydro-electric bill of the Housewives' Council is one of the objectionable ones.- Y. Seldom in a slate's history is there a measure urged i upon the people that has such possibilities of danger as this .1 housewives' electric bill. Seldom in a state's politics are tliere found politicians who possess such a combination of nerve ana oaa judgment as to perpetrate such a bill on an unsuspecting and normally trusting public. If it were the (ifllv mnasiim imnonrimr nn thn Imllnt c. tlf .v.;i.i. rj I VllfiV TUIUIO llllglll, ; give some time and thought to its provisions, there would j be: no need to entertain fears regarding its fate. It would ! b assured an overwhelming defeat. But with many bills j to; consider and interesting contests between . candidates, only the proverbial "safe 'No' " can be surely counted on as ; protection. j f, There is much to be said on both sides of the state hydro-electric question in the abstract, but when presented .in the concrete form approved by the Housewives' Council 'arid offered to the people of Oregon there is no favorable argument of which we can conceive. The bill, whir-.h wmiM 'plunge the state into ownership of power and water, names .a 'board, of five citizens to control this' ownership and spend Uc insignificant sum of forty million dollars to make j water and power development and the board is not ro ' sponsible to anyone but can do as it sweetly pleases with tho taxpayers' money and the state's properties. - ;The guise under which it appears,' of course, is to de Ivclop power and water right and sell to Oregon's citizens i.t a' nominal rate' the electricity and' water thus controlled. Wlmt II, Kill ,.l,..,ll,. . :.. i.i i "'""'i.' niv;iia i.i iiiiu u wtiuin mm over i these four men and one woman the power to build a great ! 'political machine, to control the irrigation of the state, to uiiiiu ana operate power plants whenever and wherever they jsiiw fit, to run the state into debt and gouge the taxpayeis ;uiew tor any cieiicit thai might attend their operations. The bill would give these five "housewives" more power than all the rest of the state agencies and commissions fonibined. And any mistakes or catastrophes they might cause could be corrected only by another vole of the pooplo after the damage had been done. We would not expiess any doubt whatever of the sin cerity of the five citizens who have sponsored the bill and seek to have themselves mimed on the all-powerful board. They may . be entirely loyal to the best interests of the state of Oregon and may think that our water power can best bo developed through public enterprise. But we are not will ing to give them a trial to the tune of forty million dollars of taxpayers' money. It may be a fine idea for these five "housewives" but it's too dangerous an experiment for Oregon. One would think that sinners of snrh n not i linn umiM have . experienced enough lax burden already without con sidering a freak forty million dollar Ixind issue, that they would have had enough of political inefficiency and non responsible public boards without wanting to provide a cuper-opportunity for repetition. It is commonly acknowl edged that a private business would be bankrupt in six months if run as inefficiently as most of our government;:! affairs. What hope could there be for a forty million power project operated by the same kind of politicians with no KUDerrision at nil? Oivrrnll ni:iv' nviini-imnnl n,.ai..,...ll.. . . - . r. i iiii.ii, i,v vti., 1 1 , 1 1 ii 1 1 with legislation, but we are confident she will not go to' bucn insane extremes as invited by the Housewives bill ui the coming election.- 1 HAI.KM, Ore. A up. 1 II. (Al) Oih hundred thousand tlulItirM worth of United H tales .Treasury eertlf kalta. mailed Cor Unlivery to the. Oregon state I reinjury here ttnd to be paid for from funds of the world war veterans state aid com mission, were stolen I'rcni the. reg istered mail pouches on Union was hcldun uud robbed .bv.1 wo-, tin masked bandits near . " Raw Wyo., shortly before J o'clock at- 11 may uiornui, accordinjf, o wora, received here early .this ufte,l'n,oonj by Major W. It. Himusorl, sqcretary or the commission. . , The 1'iivelopo had bvvi carefully ; opened the contents removed arid' the empty contulner put- hack Into, its place. Word of. the loss was re- ceived lure following the arrival at -Portland of the empty envelop.' The. amount contained in Ihe. single package Is us lurpfe us poalul authorities had unofficially est!-' mated the entire loss from the rob-' bery. at which time 23 pouches of1 mail and 60 packuges were, ojtened by the bandits. Pacific train No. ft when that train1 "It looks as If somebody :. a(. 1 ' .-f 111 'ruin I V- " ' I: wa ..... . . 11 l id 1 mm'- - " r 1 11 ui J IP iih kii vn if r I Ills. 1 El JL9lB l Mft I i .: II Kill III " Ww Rtd and Jungle Green r ' at v p ,; ; jJ If Very Popula I ' If 1 m : - ' '. i-1 - ; y ' 1 l I I I 1 1 I I 1 I I 1 J-l 11 II I ,11,111 gB f I I 1 'J! of cyg dy Red, Camel r Prices See Our Windows N. K. WEST & CO., INC. La Grande's Leading Store For 25 Years , ' hire tipped thrm off, and ' tlmy . MeiTCnger, AlTested v jCar' said major HlmpHon this uf , ernoon. They apparently took , plenty of time to do the job.. Jt ' j looks very much as though they nvust hnve had help from the In side." . . The emct denomlnntlons of the Individual certificates fs believed to be JIO.OOU each. They would be reudfly nugotlabUv and the bandits would have little dlilieulty my dispersing of them' for spot casli. authorities lie re slate.-. . BOY "BANDITS"- In Murder Case, Freed MAKE ESCAPE i - I IN COLORADO 'i M'lit, Wtul,.cliurt!a . wuiiith .Iniilttv I'nlk'il Stales Is about )3,3UU,U0U,- (Mill. . ' 8BATTI.K. Auir. 1; (AP) Harry Marrciiffcr,'- hold hero uClo.rj : poRuiuinuun nuics accusi.-u nun 01 (Continued from Pago 1) THIS 1.0(1'' l.llil'. A ()Vl:H KOIt A S(IN(1. Tlip hiirk trrnuiid .art nf utllorn CaliforniA fluat In I lip touriiAitifni ' hM nl I'ssarieilH dolner nuy with Hurry Ollmoro. ,,,,. . ... ... ,. alias Charlus 15. O'Hcrn. a waiter. uZv Ihn,,",,n,,'r1"R ? '"" . released today Btier DetectlvJ .,I M " ' s,"'",f' Ken. declared no evidence -.. """, ""' found to connect Marrenser llh V"0" ' "K; J r '" " ';- the death of Gllmorc 1 Mil e resort own and "I ues.lay lllBllt elluuixed their efforts with a Kent ordered the release, after real old fashioned wesli rn "slU k visltlns In Vancouver, II. a. mun up", of the v. M. f. A. sinunier named lu notes by T. H. Seymour. ralI1,p ,K,P )yt, A u.r ,,,. t hud already - been urenared how- . . J ":! 7 ,ulu UL " "wompiished ;. The OreBon stale treasury yioaes nttmcU hl nolra oy T mlllilnir Itir ItiLVnlilmfv . ..A nlwl ! . ... . ever. In .readiness to puy for the uunuivawa us soon us iney umycu. . symour charccd that Mrv search that. The certlficules were beinir sent1 V i . . ""' ine tiepuiy sner Tf. iao ccniucuus wtre ucinp scnL vcnirer nnd her son had done awav iis.- ...... .11.. hero by ClillJs and company, Chicago. Fire Fighter Overcome 4 By California Flames Mviui UN mote, whose body was found In a lake here last Novum- rtSr - x y ' i . i ' , N ' , It i - : U ;) i fa"$KV 11 ,y vx,sst3y III ri luiiii.ii 111 '1)1(11 Itii rvls ii Vi VAi rrk. w III Ik uir imrnt Jii'irwm itiiiMr ti lite imrtmti f.Tv 7 ' III . PAN FltANVISrO. A hit. 1 (Al) t'alirornla's forest fires, which have been - asserted by Htnte and federal forest offtidnls. to be 60 per rent Incendiary, lodav eltUmed the - niore's life lire of a fire fighter. i Mr welly n Al. Koster. . Ited Mli.rrj STVA SI.OIT IUKS, liUMlness man. dropped dead after i htt and his purtnur. John Morse. HA I. KM. (he.. A up. 19 (Al'). 1 had been battling thr-e houri to W. Hh-usloff. pnslden" of the (avert flaim's approachlui; a farm Valley I'aeKtnjr company of this I . rtv iinil ilKiiirinnilli' nrimhi.x. r..c UUUBl'i t 1 " " - , - j state representative from Marlon ; I county, dropped dead of heart ltclgium bus recently panned n 1 fall nr. In the waiting room of a lar provhlliif? for compulsory in- j local physician's office this morn- suranc of workers aalnnt ohl In p. Prior to comintr to S;ilem age and premature death. j he was a resident of l'etidleton. Iloth boys ore nrmed heavily and ..rri........ ber. and whose aulu dlsimueiir.td 1. aamjmnnry bat- nt the sumo time..,. . .'.u may ensue once they are cor- .nered.- " Seymour . told the secretary of; the cooks and waiters union here Monday that "the police will soon know all ubuut Ctllmore's missing automobile." Mrs. Marrenirer whs a benefi ciary in a policy for $5,Uno on Oll- K-jvcnit biui (jeese l.uve ,..,n succefsfully ritled in captivity- by the United States national zoolog ical park. This in the fir.st I hue this lias ever been done. AmerlciinH living number C.Tmm. in London now III'8 Complete with Battery Alt rirst-class New York btirjrliu s use. Yale and . Ev eready Klashllffhts. Heason Is thai they are dependable, handy size. . and economical. . . ,i Sec Our Window ; Red Cross Drug Store Blue Mountain Butter and Blue Mountain Ice Cream Arc the Very llcst Obtainable BLUE MOUNTAIN CREAMERY K. F. T LER, lYom Telephone Main 60 1109 Washington At. $1 SALE Thursday - Friday Saturday VALUES TO $6 TO BE SOLD FOR ?l HATS, CAPS, SHOES DRESSES, WASH SUITS A?t 8"c, al ol,,cr ilcms (o c,HSc ouL . . , 1 Ta,,lt,s r Cenuinc Bargains. See Window Display Buy What You Need Norton's Kiddy Shop Infants' and Children's Wearables
