La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, January 22, 1929, CITY EDITION, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextJ EASTERN OREGON'S LEADING NEWSPAPER EIGHT PAGES TODAY FULL ASSOCIATED PRESS LEASED WIRE SERVICE CI T Y EDITION THf! WRATHF.fi ORKOON: Generally fuir but unsettled south and east portions tonight and Wednesday, continued cold. Moderate northerly winds on the coast. VOLUME XXVII. MKMBER ASSOCIATED tREB8 TUESDAYJANUARY 22, 1929. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS NUMBER 102. IRRIGATION HELD GREAT LOCAL NEED Discussion of City's Fu ture Featured at cham ber of Commerce ,-. GREEN POINTS TO SHEEP OPPORTUNITY Attorney Urges Irriga . tion for More Alfalfa and the Development of Outside Territory With It. J. Oiwn, l.n Grande at torney., calling attention to tho need fiil development of irrigation, mort alfuliu., tiiifl a multiplied sheep Industry, and F. H. Apple ly, prbltahcr of The Observer, em phasizing; the need for optimism to promote .he growth and expansion of the community, the proKram at the chamber of commerce luncheon this noon took the form of a dis cussion of community problems by these two men. ' . The meeting wus held at tho Suc ajauea Inn with Judiru Hush K. Brady, president, of the chamber, presiding. Preceding the discus sion, George Blrnle led the group, which was tt record attendance for the year. In ringing a pnrodoy. Mr. Green appeared before the chamber several weeks ago and his talk today was In the nature of a sequel to the previous speech. He succeeded Mr. Appleby, who gen eralized on the need for optimism . and Its effects on a community's . advancement and prosperity. ,-' will agree that we must have optimists in a community." Mr. Given answered, "but there comes a tlmo when It Is vitally Important . to call a halt and a few pessimism are a pretty good thing to have. "We have enough paving, plenty of stores, and we don't want any more competition for awhile. I would rather see stores filled with prosperous buyers than a line of "Stores down Adams avenue to the highway. Competition is all right to a certain extent but we have Touched the point where we have ' enough."'. - .. ; " v ' ' Three I'ulnlK Submitted ' , Leading up to the main points of his talk, he declared that this community's prosperity rests on these three things: 1. Industries' of the city.' 2. Size of the sur rounding community. 8. Prosperity . of the surrounding community. Ho pointed out that timber Is being cut at a farther distance from the i-a Grande mills each succeeding year and that in the future. Ia Grande must turn to something else. As his solution, lie submitted Ir rigation. ('irteon thousand sheep were wintered here five years ugo, ho . said, and now the number Is from 3(1,000 to 35.011(1. He vlsloned a time when, through irrigation and alfalfa, 15(1.0011 would be wlntcnl ., which "would mean a million dol lar payroll increase. If we get It. the chamber of commerce or some other organization must take the loud." He expressed the hope that l.a Grande's future will lie prosperous and declared that l.a Grande Is a fine town. "hutHhut does not pre vent me from looking things In the face. Now Is tho tlmo to get be hind an ''Irrigation program that will make this a city of 50,000." ,' . ij-.-fs fit't Together" "What 1 um preaching," he em phasized, "is let's gi t together and do something let s Investigate the Peace Officers Elect For 1929 At Baker Meet Chief Clint Haynes of La Grande, Continues As President of Organization With tho exception of ono di rector, till oft Ice i-a of the Kustern Oregon Ptuco Officers C'b-Operu-tlvo ussociution, which lie Id Its Junuury meeting In linker yester day, were re-elected to office. Tho officers re-elected follow: president, Clint Haynes. of Ia Grunde; vice president, Henry Mc Kinney, of Buker; secretary, Syl vester Burleigh, of Enterprise; as sistant secretary and - recorder, Amos Helms, of La Grande; mem ber of executive committee, Jcsso B reus hers, of Ijt Orande. Fred Farmer, of Ontario, wus elected member of the executive committee, succeeding Mr. Blodgett of Nysuu, , .-. 115 In Attendance Tho association . members, S5 strong, represented Malheur. Bak er. Union, I'matllla and Morrow counties. Among those in attend ance were: T. A. Haffety, chief of the state traffic department, of Salem; Jay Saltzman, of The Dal les, and F. A. Hazletine senior prohibition , Investigator, of Wash ington. . . , , Besides the business meeting", a banquet was served at the Baker Hod and Gun club house with entertainment by the Baker cham ber of commerce vaudeville troupe. Walter Lansing, traffic officer, was toastmaster. Talks were made by Mr. Hafrety, District At torney Carl Helm, of La Grande; District Attorney Leland Finch, of Baker; Mr. Hazletlne and others. General discussion of law enforce ment problems was held during the day's meetings. Mayor J. B. Messick welcomed the visiting officers to Baker. Th ose from La Gra n de were : Police Chief Haynes, Mr. Helm, Deputy Sheriff Hugo Klinghaui ni er, Policemen Bill Howard and Fred Gaskill and Deputy Sheriff Amos Helms. All reported an ex cellent meeting. 18 PERSONS KILLED WHEN BUSBAR HIT Tragic Accident Occurs in Snow Storm "Near Bellevue, Ohio , STAGE RIDDLED BY INTERURBAN None of Victims ' Identi fied ; Numler of Pass- ; engers Seriously .Hurt Taken to Hospital. 'Less Divorces And Marriages Here Last Year Cupid Scores 152 Times While Total Separations Equal 58, Court Records Reveal J In Union county during the iHtU year both the number of divorces und the number of marriages have i decreased. The decrease in the I number of marriages is in propor tion to the decrease number of di vorces, according to figures com plied at the office of the county chtk in i.u urauue. During 1U27 a total of CG di vorces woro granted In the county and In ltf-iS tho number was fcH which was eight less than In the past fear. i .. In 1927 there were 178 marriage lice uses issued in the" county.und In but 152 were Issued which Is a decrease of 26, the records reveal. - , , . . ' Many TvaciitM-n Marry " A cross section estimate of the occupations which are the moat popular for the women who get married shows school teaching in the lead, with clerking a close sec ond. More teachers and more store HISLLKVPB. Ohio., Jan. 22 (AP) High teen persons wore killed and eight were seriously Injured today uhnn u 1 naoVwiitiwl nitniiiunv lin I en route to Pittsburg was struck J by a westbound Iake Shore eleatric itnterurhan at a crossing a mile and and half eust- of here. . A number of. others less serious ly Injured were taken to Bellevue clerks married during tho last year hospital Officials nt the funeral homes: said It would be Impossible to Iden tify any of the dead for some time. Of the known dead, four were, women Fourteen of the bodies had been brought to the three un-. dertaklng establishments In Belle vue, When four more had been lo cated In. the wreckage. JA III Hospital Fifteen persons were taken to the Bellevue hospital, ' v As far as could be learned, none' of the passengers on the tnterur ban car was hurt, All of the dead were In the bus, which was demolished when struck in the center by the electric car. Tho driver, who escaped injury, was believed to have been blinded by the snowstorm und fulled to see the approaching cur. . Four ambulances, ull that were available here. wor- Hont to the , year there were no contested dl- than members of any other occupa tion. Students, nurses and ate no grnphers also show a largo per centage. More women get married In this county before they reach the age. of 30 than men. About 3S per cent of the women were married during the 'teen ago while - but three per cent of the men were under 20 years of age. More men were married In their 20s than In any other age group, More women were also married In the 20-age group. Few Older Women Wed About 4 per cent of the women were more than 40 years of ago and about 11 per cent of the men were more than 40. About 33 per cent of the men were In their 3oh and about 19 per cent of the wom en were in that age grqup. The figures show that during the WEDDING BELLS TO RING QR BEBE I it t k Seattle's Cold Snap Cause Of Four Fatalities Children Drown When Ice Gives Way; Three Are Caught in Green .Lake - Late Yesterday LEGISLATURE TO CONSIDER TAX PROBLEM OTHER BILLS TO i BE INTRODUCED Telephone Report Expect ed Shortly C a r k i n Hesitant About Joining in Recommendations First of So-called "Big hkati.k, Jan.. S3 (aim i-'uur Stuff " of 35th Assembly Iimth by breaking ' ihroiiRli Ice! P0nUno Hnno. wrh the toii of scutiio's coid mmp, . rvedtnes nopjier which camo to an end with fitting; ' liin)eratureB late yeitterday unu to day. Continued ruin or snow wim redlrtid for today by weuther I oliHerver M. il. SumniorH. I John llacr. 10: (Mtarleti IMuKh-' erty. U. and Hobert Soiciihoii, 12, wero drowned In Clreen l.ako hero J late yesterday when they walked I too far out on the thin ice which fringed the shore. Klromcn tnude a vuill effort to rescue Korcnson. rZ "".uJ. SALKM. Ore.. Jan. ()- hln. by crawling along planks. T,h ' ' ' ! ?! "w Karller in the day Winston "tutf uf ,,n 6llJ lWatlve , Churchill. 20, im'ssenger boy. '"""L y . 11 ivov ln", the hopPr crashed through while attfcnu.t- 0' tno ,u,ua' tot",' "'" "itro Ing to cross the Ico on Mud lako """"un ' t. read- near hero on his motorcycle. Tho J'"l"ient bills sponsored by tho bo"die of llaer and Morenson wero "l"0'"' Property tax equalisation recovered yesterday. Dragging was .committee. following the outlined program of the committee In developing Its tax equalization schema the bills will he presented In the order their uuujeci matter Dears to tne enron . oloKirnl sequence of the program. The first topic in the committee's bills today provide fur centralised control of asHesanienta In the state 'tax commission by conferring on CONHYANTINOPl.U, Jan. 82 tho commission supervision over (AP) Boveral persons wero killed the -operations ot oounty assessor and a thousand buildings destroyed and oounty hoards. of equalisation. In Ihn nnmllnny rir.tnk rilutt.ir.t nf .. .. . ..... .. . . .. . ... ...w . . UL unu ior u paiu siaie tax commission ' ... i,uuU. luuujr u, or ln,.ef, members appointed by the a terrlflo flro fanned by a high Htllte board of control and drawing xalarlcs of 14000 a year each. continued for tho others. Constantinople Fire Sends 5000 Into The Street Great Progress Made in Medical Work at Present jncene of the crash u .begun Utk , ing tho deiid and . d to the I morgue und liellevue hoji'ltul. The J Uuh wua, completely nmnnhed. I The tnterurbun oar hurdled on top ot tho bui Which wuh lyintf injs flitch .. bjr, th( ; m;u8liut V38il u- kiimh Aia to mvnc . (Continued on Fuse 6) UNION MEN TO HOLD ANNUAL CLAM DINNER The, Union Sportsmen's club of t'nlon will hold its third annual clam feed at the club housi on Monduy. Jan. 1!8 at 7 o'clock in the pvenlnK. according to an nouncement by It. H. Bonney. president. "ClumH and all the fixln's will be served und anyone wlshinB to join our club will be welcome to attend," Mr. Bonney afd. It U expected that d-U-gations will be In attendance from Baker. I-a Orande and Knterprise and pos sibly ftome state game officials. The club house will be nicely dec orated for the occasion. The Union club, which has a feed a' each meeting besides the umiiukI clam feed, now has So ac tive members. "More progress Is being made In. the medical scientific world dur-: Ing the present day than ever be-1 fore in the world's history," is the1 be-llef of Dr. Ie Bouvy, of l.a" Grande, eye, ear, nose and throat specialist. J)r. Bouvy 1ms Just re turned from a -trip to Vlotona where he uttended a meeting of the western section of the American Oto-rhtno-lsuryngiiloglcal s o e i eC y which was held ut the Kin press ho tel. The meeting was attended by members' of trie organization from the I'nlted States and Canada. 1'robkius Involved in the treat ment of eur, eye, nose and throat' ills were discussed with spuclul re ference to ear infections and i.asai sinuses, according to J Jr. Bouvy. ' rv nil 'louui-fl I rcventicii : The trend of modern medicine Ik toward preventative methods and trculmenL rather than surgery. Klve years ago I he trend was re versed, with must ut ten tion given to surgery. The purpose of pre ventative treatment is to conserve the tissues of the body, he says. During the last year Or. Bouvy has attended more than 15 medi cal conferences and meetings. He 'is also president of I ho Oregon State Medical society. In Victoria there was no snow, he reports. People were playing eo1 f t here ii nd the weather was , balmy, like a spring day In Ja' i Grande. Mrs. Bouvy accompanied htm on thu trip. vorce suits, all that were granted having been non-contested , ! The oilK'i' nigiil vT at Marlon Buy Ion' bench homo In Holly wood. MiniiNMin noiiccil thiit Beho Inn.eiH or tlia inovien wun wear 1 1 it, a Hiarkler on her riugcr. A-ked about It llehe wild lvn l.yon, aUi ol movli not:, gavr tl lo her, him! what do yon Him" for? Why, lo Ik married! They my It's lo bu scon. Hero tint lkd)i and wind, At least 5,00 A persons were driven from thoir homes to tho frceslng streets and suffered from AH In Ton Dnys The remaining hills denlgned to W. D.Long Passes Away m Portland Xone of the passengers on tho in terurban was seriously injured, ac cording to first reports. All avail able city officers went to uld in extricating those under the wreck ago and the definite number of dead and Injured , could not be learned ut once. JOight bodies were brought to one piuo at tne U.-W. siiops here for undertaking establishment, two 20 years. Mr. und Mis. iong mov more to unother, und four bodies ed to Portland seven years ago to a third. In addition, an umbu- when he was pJt on u pension by htneo crew for one of the under- , the U.-W, He was ubout 78 years In kern .reported one more body hud of age and he leaves to mourn hi been recovered and that it wus be- death besides his wile, a daughter, A telegrum wue received here this .morning' hy Airs. Barry Gib son tolling of the ueutn of her ( bother-m-law, W. l. isong, Portland, this morning. Mr. long Is a foimer iu Grande resident huviug resided here more than 2b yeurs und being un em Former American Minister Tells ; 0f Irak Ambush IIAKItA. 'Irak, ICIiui'lis It. C.'innc Jul.. i2 (A I') former American llllster to China, today told his own story of the desert ambush in which ills companion, the Ucv. Henry A. llllkert: all AniiM-lcim missionary ol Kalamazoo, Mich., watt slain hut Irom which .Mr. Mr. Crane said that when the the distinction of milk disllliel American parly left .ubelr, a trail- for the ChlciiKO market, was ended llil.- town 12 tulles from llama on at u conference of n'odurcrs, dls- CALL ARMISTICE . IN MILK STRIKE Producers and Distribut ors Agree to Arbitra- i tion in Chicago CHICAOO, Jan. 22 (Al1) Clll caKO's milk Htrlke, . with its at tendant displays of violence - and exposure HKKiavatod by a violent jcurry into eneci me committee h . bllssard which swept the quarter, recommendations will be introduc- ed two or three each day, the eom- Constantinople has boon tho mltteo has decided, to allow their sceno of many disastrous fires, tho ''Jeet matter to be more readily most sevoro of which havo usually .assimilated by the lawmakers and been caused by earthquakes. to Permit the newspapers to place The most recent serious fire dls- ,"'' before the public In an or aster was In Auuiist, l!ii7.-when derly and comprehensive manner. Hcutarl. Asiatic siburb of Conslsn- Under this whedule all of this se tlnopln and famous In,, JlyinnUno r'" of '". will he bsfme the blslory us Chale.edon. ''the oily; of house In a week or 10 days.. The.- tho blind" was desOpyail In u KriHt-, much il I xti umiiti) excise tas on imnss fire. 1'he flro destl-oyed ubout 40u and cororatlons and the commit old wooden lattice houses and drovo 2. Olll) rcfUKfcs to tho famous Hcu tarl remetry, ruinous for Its cy presses, whom they encamped, , (Continued from i'aflre Four.) MILITARY HONORS FOR DEAD EIER Mrs. Kd Culp, ulso of Portland und re i a 1 1 vwi In the east . Mr. Long was unusually active for his age und his deutu comes us a sudden shock to his many friends and relative;. T Funeral services will be Thursday In Portland. held Harold E..Buckner's Body Will Find Resting Place in Presidio Hoover Arrives In Florida Today Harold K. liiickner, lll-futed Var ney airmail pilot who died of In juries Thursday evening in a lonely , cabin in the hills 35 miles above Cove, will be burled In Presidio. 1 ': MIAMI, Klu., Jan. 22 (AP) The special train bearing I 'resident elect Herbert Hoover and his party inlo Miumi for his prc-lnuugurul visit lo Florida arrived heie ut 2 p. m. The parly disembarked from Hie Hie edge, of the desert, they saw hoi no lraiiui tribesmen making ex citedly for Kubeir with their cam els and flocks. , News (ravels (juh'kly in Hie de Hurt and tho tribesmen undoubted ly hud heard or the raiders' ap proach. "Wo weren't warned at Zube-lr," continued Mr. Crane, "ho naturally tributors and city health ofrlcciH eurly today. - 1 Dr. Arnold Kegel, commissioner of health, announced that tho two factions, at loggerheads for weeks over the price to bo paid for mw milk, hod agreed to submit Iholr differences io arbitration. Dist'OMtiiiiio Picketing. Officials of the pure milk asso tee's income tux measure are ex pected to appeur next Monday or Tuesday. Once the bills have been Intro- . duced action upon them will be speeded up by un agreement reach ed bet woe n senate and house lead ers Monday evening whereby all healings upon tax and revenue measures will he conducted Joint ly by the senate committee on us- . sessmont and luxation and the ALBANY, N. Y.. Jan. 22 (AP) house committees on assessment (lovernor Jtoosevelt today faced tho 'and taxation, and taxation and rev- possibility of being tisked by the jenue. The Joint uutlon will apply ROOSEVELT IS i "CALLED" BY LEGISLATORS thu 1 Local M. I. A. Teams Trim ML Glen, Union In a fust, clean game played lust night ut Mt. Olen, the Second Ward basketball team defeated the Mt. Glen team 27 to 12. Tave llendrickson wus high point mart with H points. The Im Grande Plrst Ward team defeated Union in a game played here last night. with full military honors. , nine car train, preceded Into Miami This morning his body was pine- by u pilot train and Immediately ed on train No. 24, by Snodgruss & las plunged into a statewide wel Zlmmerman. and It will continue come which had been prepared on to Kan Francisco, accompanied through several wwks by u gener- Walton Officers i WKATIIaKH TODAY 7:30 a. m. M above. Minimum: 1" above. Condition: cloudy. nine inches snow (from 7:J a. m. Monday to 7:30 a. m. this morning.) WKATIIKIt VIXIi;it!AY Maximum IS above. Condition: c-loudy and snow. WKATHKK 4A.N. SS. 1JH Maximum 35, minimum 22 above. . Condition: clear. Talk Trap Shoot A special committee of the buiak Walton league of La Orande met( last night to formulate plana for a statewide telegraphic shoot to be held early In February- Prlxes will be awarded for the high point men in the contest. .V discussion was held as to the possibility of securing a club house for the us of members. Plans were ulso considered to Improve hunting, fishing and other sport conditions In this section. CHAItOKK -KSOltSI!ll WASHINGTON'. Jan. It (AP) A rhanie that newspaper articles written aboard President-elect Hoover's shlim on his South Ameri can tour were censored by mem bers ofhis staff was made In the senate today by Senator Harrison, dc:nocra., Miecislppt. by Mrs. Anna Huckner and one of Mr. JUtckner's pals, Lieut. C. C. 1 'rice. I n Poise, M rs. Charles Wrightson will Join ho train. Mr. Huckner was In the K. O. T. C. aviation during the World war. Hurial in the government cemetery will talte place Frlduy or Kutur-day. I committee of prominent citizens. (J! ITIOX MAHK LANDS HHHKVKPOHT. Lu Jan. 22 (AP) The Q ties tion Mark, army endurance plane, arrived hero at 2:55 p. m. today after a flight from Midland, Tex. thought that Hie danger was not clai.on, repi eseuUng Ihu striking immediate und delcimlncd to pro- idatryuteii, agreed lo order Hie dls ceed, continuance or picketing pending "Wlicn wo were about 50 -jtilh-a nettloniMt. 1 ' ' ' ' south or Zubelr, shuts rang out,) ' The dairymen's demand of 2.Hf, fired ut u distance or abo:it 2"ii a hundrodwrighl lor mil and the yards. The drivers of the two distributors counter. proposal uf cars with great presence-or mind $2.6(1 wi re to bo submlU.'d for ar swerved and went full speed. Hut .bltiutloii j today at u meeting be Ihe shots were wlilsttlng about us tven -ii.'preseuliitlvcs or tho two and Mr. Hllkert wus hit in the. factions. shoulder. Hie bullet probably uf-J. The eonfcrcnrl' was called ufter reeling' the spinal cord." jltO" si rlklng dulryim-n last night t pon receipt of the news of thu 'added to the thousiuids of pounds ambush, ait force machines wei-e of milk that have been dumped by stmt in pursuit of tho raiders but seizing t wo Hon lino milk trains at saw nothing. I iMkt; Villa, III." They cowed tho .. frre-ws wllh clubs, hewed their way iniu tour cuis with pick-axes, und (destroyed ', (too pounds of milk. Chief Outbreak. It wus the chier 'Outbreak or u duy ' or violence in whh'h truck Pastor Turns Cop And (his His Man i Nine Inches of Snow During Night; City and Citizens Work Overtime H a thing Is generally done. It is the temperature has been season -orten described as "popular." j able, ranging from 10 above to as Hut shoveling snow, which is be- high an 25 or SO during the last Ing generally done in Im. Grande, several days. Iast night's mini- WACO, Texas. Jan. 22 (AP) Dr. .1. Arthur Stout, pastor of the Central Christian church here, quit a funeral procession to chase an Intoxicated driver, caught tho driver and held him until the police arrived, Tho drunk man had n loaded shot gun, which tho pastor wrench ed from him, police said. State Rests Case Isn't so popular, at thut Huring the last week, more than a foot and a half of snow has fallen In this city, coming In spurts that ran from three Inches In depth to last night's fall, which was of ficially measured at 7:30 o'clock this morning as nine Inches. Piled mum Mas Hi above and at 7:3 o'clock this morning the mercury stood at 1 4 above. This is the heaviest snowfall in 1-a Grande residents have experi enced In several years and If the snow continues for a few more days, weather forecasters say rs-c- on top or the white blanket already 1 ords may be broken. The weather laid by Old Man Winter, and the . forecast (or tonight and tomorrow extra nine Inches mude quite a for Kastern Oregon is "unsettled, respectable (?) showing. continued cold." so that It is uncer- Mi sides the frantic efforts of j tain whether to expct more lm many citizens to keep their side- ! mediate snow. walks cleared, tho city street de partment Is working overtime In the game of "digging out." The im;mli,to know ii;i;p PKNHLKTON. Jan. 22 (AP) streets are being cleared off for. Snow fell throughout the night automobile traffic and sidewalks in UUs section andwas six Inches drivers went kidnaped and beaten and 272, ihw pounds or milk dump ed ut lili- Villa, Haiti. 41. Hair luy, Klgln, Luke Geneva, III.: Hnr llngton, Klkhorn, and Kprlngrield. Wis.; Gary und Miller, Ind., and other dlsti lets where tho dairy men's fight for an increased price has been most pronounced, I Mir ing the last few days an averagf. of 4m,titHi pounds of milk dully litis I .It. I r..t... 'I.l,.,,,r. .ttulrl. In Asa Keyes Trial, i"i". cmmbsi.ner KeK.ri rn- , j mated. Thirty-one receiving sta tions handling th" product of Mil farms have cloned, In said. legislature to produce proof 6f stutempiit that a feeling was prev alent after the last election similar to thut which "followed the theft of HlA lirHtrlnliev In tltn Tilrinn Miun" A resolution Inviting the gover nor to produce such evidence was j Introduced by a republican ussem- I hlyinun, Hie hard 11. Hmlth of Otinn- j daga county. The resolution said i Hint Governor Hooscvelt's statu- J meat "challenges the honesty of tho election of Herbert Hoover, and ' casls a cloud upon his right to as sume office of the president of the Hnlted Slates on March 4th" and that "tltn plain Import or with statement Is to cast reflection upon the method employed by the sup porters of Herbert Hoover In. the last election." Criticism, . of the governor was mud a in the resolution for giving Hie Influence of his office to the statement bused on what the gov ernor said was an expression of opinion of his correspondents. To Limit Debate On Prohi Increase only to hearings to eliminate the necessity of each committee going over the same ground in hearing testimony and examining witnesses, and tho committees will retain their Individuality und make sep arate reports. Under tentative plans thu chairman of the committee to which each hill Ik assigned will pre side over the Joint hearing upon that hill. , Phono lU'iKirt KxMM'(h1 ' Another of major problems alat d to drop into the legislative mill today or Wednesday Is the formal report of the commltteejappolnted by the house during the 1927 ses sion to Inquire Into the rates and practices of the telephone monop oly. The report has been complet ed and needs onty the elgnatun of Representative Carkln to attirr tt on Its w-ay to the printer. , Car kln-is hesitant ubout Joining In th recojnmenduttons, particularly lis Iho matter of advising thut au thority for prescribing the rules, regulations and rates of telephone companies be taken out of tho hands of the stale public service LOH ANGKLKS. Jan. 22 (AP) The Htiite rettfed Its r-HHo In th bribery trial of Asa Keyes and flvo co-defendants toilay after it had presented two witnesses. wili.iamk i;i,i;rri;i HOLLYWOOD, Cal Jan. 22, f A P) Harry Williams, presi dent of tho Pacific baseball league, was re-elected to of fice for a two-year term at his present salary or IHi.nOO year ly, directors or the baue un noiinecd in a sinbb ii adjourn ment shortly after 2 o'clock this afternoon. men mh ii Hp.ri LH PA KIM, Jan. 22 (AP) Marshal Youlh, Four Girls Drop From Sight PITTSItl'HO, Pi., Jan. 22 (AP) Four girl students or pea body HlKh school here dlxappearcd hint j Thursday, the a me day Harold ' Gra hum. 2 a -your -old employe of jthe Mellon National bank, dtopned jfrom slKhl. detectives said today. I but declined to dlviilue the girls' jmi me and reftis d to dlxeoss their j disappearance In t onne-lion with Graham's. InventlKatorrt doiih!ed that Gra' WASHINGTON. Jan. 22 (AP After several unsuccessful uttcnipls Senator Curtis, of Kansas, the re publican leader, obLulned an agree ment today In the senate to limit debate on the proposal of Senator I larrls, ileiiMocrut, f ieorulu, for a $2fi, 00(1,000 Im-reuse In the prohi bition enforcement fund. A vote late today was made possible by the agreement. Night Session Is Faced Hy Senate In Ihc rKlli-nllal districts have nl. d-p on lh- rroiind h-ro today. In F" h's d.H tors this mornlim lsu-d hum, u mi-mlmr i.f h iininilncnt Un ready iMH-n dnncKMl. ('urlilnxs. I the forest sround Mi-ttchsln snow """'-"n: livnr. i s., i.iinii. m mi ruiiuiuiicu wheru tlm lino Is idled two and i was four feet dw. and two and a I "The :onilliion Is very much l( t- su!:lile. three t,-l deep, appear as mlnla-1 half feet In depth In the town of ter. The patient Is allowed to "It . (irahnm'K iiffulr" lit the hunk, lure mountains. I Meachain. It wss five degree up r, full hour toilay. A vlxlt hy where he held a depart menial po- KsreptlnK the to.heloar mark above in lh Meachawi district last anyone remains absolutely forbid- sltlon. were In exrcllem condition. rci-iaU-rcd early Sunday uiornlns". niht. den." .hank official mlU. WAHHINfiTON. Jan. 22 (Al'l With i-oiiKlderalloii of the crulia-r eoiistrill'tlon bill blocked by the peniilnv ilcfli-lency appropriation bill and ila'aceolnpaiiylllfr debate on prohibition, the seliato was In formed toiluy that It mlKht hnv lo stay In session Mirouicll Ihc liiKht to paHM (ho supply lili-iisurc. WAKHINCITON, Jan. 22 (AIM I'lirlna the remain Inif few weeks of the CnolldKe admlnistrittlun Kec relary KcIIokic hopes to complete Hie comprehensive proai'Slit he laid out more than a year aao In tho ncuoltatliin and siKlilnir of treaties or arbitration und of com-lllittlon with practically every nutiou in the world. (Continued on Fags 1 STAGE CANNON , ENDS LIFE OF NEGRO ACTOR HAVANA, Jan. 22 (AP) A stago cannon, which for onco wus loaded with real shot, dramatically ended the lire of a negro actor known only as "Baltimore" and pollro today believed that he had ehefen the climax uf his act to commit suicide. o "Haltlmore" stood before tho cannon, as he had done hundreds of times before in the MlunilVol lies minstrel show. There wan a flare us the gun wus touched oTf and u dull boom and tho actor dramatically fell. As thu curtain descended, the audience applauded what seemed to them to be a good bit of acting. While the shouts o approval still sounded from th ho use, . "Haltlmore" 1 1 ragged h' -shot-torn body to the wlnga un died. i Police at first suspected that tt cannon had been loaded with rJ; ' shot by some person other thai ihu ui ior, t iii-j ii"i if l ill' - from the owner of the show tho "Haltlmore always Insisted or charging the cannon hlmaetf foi his uct. Kurlter In the show another ac tor, Milton Salomon was kicked by a inuU, and seriously Injured.