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LA GBANDE h . NING OBSERVER, LA GRANDE, QBE. Page Five Tuesday, January 21f 1930 LOCAL O'Cnlluliau Arrested Jerry O'Callahan, charged with embezzlement, wua arrested here Hat unlay !y tthe Hlieilff's urftere, according to announcement tuduy. A preliminary hearing will be ar ranged as noun as District Attor ney Carl llulm, returns to La, Oramlu from a trip to Western Oregon. O'Callahan was arrested on u warrant.-. lleelvo Pay Ohwks A largo attendance, considering the cold weatlier, was present it Iho national guard drill last even ing, when pay checks were issued. Tho time was spent In general re "f view of the work learned during tho past; six months In prepara tion for tho federal Inspection which wll take place in aho.ut a month. S Jrf-rt 'lliis Morning; Miss Josephine-Mills, a gnidu ato nurse of .Glentlulo Hunatorlum, Cal., and a sister of Stanley Mills of La Grande, who has been visit ing hptf mother and other rela tives in, this city for two weeks, left this. morning for College 1'lace, Wash., where she will attend tho Walla -Walla college. f'OKtX)nu Dunce The dance of Iho Cloud Times (Mub scheduled for this evening at tho La; .Grande hotel 1ms been postponed due to the cold weath er and illness, ; Jt ' was announced by the committee today. Itcturniiif- Home J'his Kvenlng t Mrs. Jydia Grundy, who. 1ms been visiting in- Scuttle and Port - land for the. last two weeks, is re turning liome this evening. . At the Hotels K. Rnll. Seattle: A. J. De merit. YVUilu Walla; Afr. and Mrs. (Jeorgo lHarmong, Taconwi; Glenn T'3. ,Kox, Htoughton; K. 11, Botch, Salt Lake City; G. A. Al bright, Portland; K. J. KIrh:(. Boise; K. H. . Huskin. Pendleton; are registrants at tho local hotels. I.ert Yesterday Mrs. It. H. . Turner left yester day mornlng'en route to lienton, Wash., 'whore she expects to spend a month visiting her son George. Illness . Mrs. K. K. Heassler was absent from her classes at the Central school yesterday due to illness. Mrs. H. If. Cleaver substituted for her. Itctiirnctl to Work Miss reBK-y Hess returned to work yesterday following a two weeks vacation spent visiting rela tives in l'ayotto and Portland. j I let u rued to Work . it. J. kitchen returned to work yesterday after of illness. eeks absence Improving . Mrs. 1,11a Kingsley returned to her work at Green anil Hess yes terday after an absence due to illness. 111 at Home Alfred Herry, sou of .Mr. it ml Mrs. C. U Horry, is. ill with the rlu at homo in MViy l'nrk. He hopes to lie nlile to return to. school the last of this week. I'Yoni Portland Miss Wilnui Smith returned Monday1 moriilnt,- front a two weeks vacation spent in l'ortlunil. Hack nt W"rk .Miss I.eona Waldroft lias re turned to .work following the re covery of her knee which she acci dentally BPiained. ' To Kluin Mrs. Myron Greenough went to VAgin today where she was called by the illness of her son. ,tln Itusine.ss . R. I.arliln went to Uuntinslon yesterday on business. Ueturui'd t Klitin .Mrs. Dorothy Harlow, who has been visilini; in l.a Grande since Sunday, returned to her homo in Elgin today. InipmviuK it. 11. Hill, mail Is hmirovlnir after carrier No. & several weeks 1,'llness at. his home at 7U4 Fourth street. Trairir. Accident Two. cars, ono driven by W. H. Hunch and tho other by a woman whoso name had not yet been learned, fimired In a minor acci dent at Hemlock and Washington lliis morning. .Ml Day .Meeting The Island t'ily Ladies Aid will have an all-day meeting Thursday at the bolno of Mrs. John Scliroc-d.-r if the weather permits. Ill at Home , Tom Deliorde, janitor at the SOunty court house, is 111 ut Ills hoiue. It Is reported today. Iletllrned Yelenlay .Morning .1. !. .'.Myers returned yesterday niiirililig from Portland where he spent several days on business. Here 'l liis Week It. Owen, supei-visi.il- of time M-i-viro of the lT. 1'. railroad from Omaha, is in li Grande and vi cinity this week on business. Here l-'itini Demci Mrs. Kalherine Winters, of 1'en- r. a sister of Dr. J. A. Wonder Hek. arrived here this morning for an indefinite stay nt his home. Itaby Son Horn Mr. and Mrs. A. I Harmon, of UI" X iivinue. are the parents t' a nine and three-iiilarters pound ; on lKrn .to them Jun. 2V at the T.-t:ai.rlul Uo;MU!. BIRD Elf JT Itetmii to I J t.miuK' Mr. and Mrs. llacon have re turned from Portland where they have been tor the past woek, Mrs. llacon attended tho annual treas urer's convention tho first part of tin week and Mr.i llacon received medical attention. Mrs. llacon re ported a ver ylnterestlng time at tho convention. She ulso stated that tho weather was very cold and that eight Inches of snow fell in ono day, which is quite a record for Portland. I to views .Piny Robert Guild, of La Grande, repo.rti-r for the Oregon Dally K mora Id, w rote an Interesting re view In a recent issue of the school paper of the play "The Last of Mrs. Cheney," for which he . re ceived a by-line. Lust year Mr. Guild participated in school dra mattes. Jiultro lit linker Judge Knowles was in Haker Monday trying a crlminHl case for Judge MlcCollach, and will go. .to Vale from there to try n case for Judge Woods. He Is expected to bo gone three or four days. . To Portland I E, Hobinson, of the H. and S. electric shop, left Sunday on his way to Portland on business. While there he will attend a ban quet given by the Mia jest ic radio company. 22 Below Zem At Baker, Ore., Today BAKER, Ore., Jan. 21 (TAP) The trmncr.itum nt linker dronued to 22 degrees below zero today tor the unusually lurge number of ycl tho second time this winter. It lowjackets, etc., are having the last nniinloil the .r.iniouv eold reeurd laugh. December's. warmth almost . established In 1924 and falling within two degrees of the coldest temperature recorded during tho last 40 years. The coldest weather on record, 24 degrees below zero, was registered December 13, 1919. MOVIK COVPLK MARRIED H.oi,I-,YWOO), Cal., Jan. 21 (AP) Ooorgo W. Hill, film direc tor and his bride, Frances Marian Thompson, scenarist, are back at work today, hurrying to complete present miotion picture assign ments in order that they soon may begin a round-the-world honey moon. Tho pair revealed last night they had been married in Phoenix, Ariz. Saturday. NOVO WRITER .DIMS NKW YORK, Jan. 21 (AP) The author of "Goodbye Dully Gray." "Waltz Me Around Again, Willie." and other popular songs of bygono days is dead. Will Cobb spent his last days 111 a state hospital. Uo was 53 years old. LA GRANDE HEARS KING OF ENGLAND. (Conllnucd on l-aBo Two) . ; v .Mitchell, also dressed for the medicine hall game, Justico Stone of tho United States supreme pourt. Dr. Joel Hoone, the White House physician, Lawrence Kichey nnd Walter Newton, two of the I president's secretaries. ,.... r ,1... .lSfTei'ent ! tile different.! speeches .was as clear as ir they had been made in the next room. The small group, so vitally inter ested in the success of the con ference, sat completely silent dur ing the entire ceremonies. Immediately after the last speech the president and his com panions went to nu enclosed court for the regular morning medicine ball game. While the president was listen ing to tho broadcast Acting Secre tary of the Navy Jahneke and two. admirals were In a room at the Mayflower hotel listening to tho conference. Tho reception at the Jahneke party was so clear that sound mo tion pictures of tho group were taken. COLD RECORD FOR JANUARY ESTABLISHED (Continued from rage One) And. chuckling to tliemselves- For Winter Comfort Try . Goodrich Zippers and Galoshes Prices $1.05 to 3.25 Agents Rollins Kunstop Hosiery Burnett Shoe Co. 3t 'Baby or Divorce I Is Bridal Contract Jliiflftlll!il A baby within two years or a divorce! That was. tho unprece dented contract attached to the marriage license of 25 -year-old Ethel Oen, nbovo,- of Sun Prairie, Wis., and William Kenneth Meyer, self-styled radicnl poet, when they wero married by a magistrate in ( Philadelphia. Rebelling against ine companionate marriage lueu, they agreed that if a child has not been born to them by January, 193, either may apply for an ab solute divorce. ,-;'. 1 most of the time local weather observers who lust sununor noticed made the ycllowjackets look llko jokes, but January gives tho little yellow and .black thermometers new sigiiiLiciiiici;. CroiM Protected ' The snow thnt fell . over- tho weekend, in spit of drifts in most sections, is believed to bo udequato to protect tho winter wheat, and with fruit trees dornvint, the chances of much damage to them is now believed to be great. . ; La Grande, however, was com paratlvely moderate compared with other nearby towns and cities. - Up at Meacham, the mercury sank to 42 below, and at Knterprise tho minimum was 35 below. North Powder reported a low mark of 38 below and Kigln was 30 below. Other Eastern Oregon marks in cluded: Teloeasct 22 below und Echo 20 below. . xo ki-:i.ii:i-' l.v sight lOH.'Pl,A!NI, pre.. Jan. 21 (AP) -TIkv eleventh day of freezing I temperature brought Western Ot:e- Igon today clear skies and a pre dict ion from - the Kovcrlinient. weather bureau tlhat the -cold "" "" Karly this muniing tho ther- momeler stood at 1 degrees above, and weather Ijilrenu olfl- ' cials Issued a forecast they could see nothlnfi hut clear skies and ! cold weather in any direction they looked. Hundreds of men were put to work In the city cleariim" tho streets of tho snow which had fallen on the city during the pasl two weeks, ley pavements sent several citizens to hospital with broken and bruised bones. . Six miles of power line between Hull Hun and the headworks of the 1'ortlnnd water system went down Sunday night because of trees fallinK across them. Water Shorliute A waler shortaKO was roporled at Albany. Ore., where, the canal of ment or salve, but a scientific, new tho Mountain States l'ower com- emollient that Is entirely different puny froze solid and had to be j rrom anything you have ever used, dynamited. Don't suffer any longer. Got n sup The temperature ranged steadily 'ply of Tysmol at any good drug downward at Klamath Kails. It store. Always on hand at Glass readied 22 degrees below zero at Drugs. Inc. Adv. HEM THEY ARE - Back Assam Fiqhtitm -Loving . presents rififb0 1 . W -CfV IWr-l - BK .... I III. tf. H I .-VWV 'f V In XV5ia jfmSl JfcLuSS' iTi S Paramount wilhibmiiKlHy MIOIV Vll.a ever crealed, Uin Nl.w . ' -fl We f resources Is now produe- -1,7' T', V"'' ''"o " - d-Te 2 rkClO ti 1 .cr.o.cn.cr.a.nmcn.s CLTLaXTjZ ' """""" hi a r n a r. T? A It LAD & NOW PLAYING BARTHELMESS in "DRAG" Crescent lake and zero In Klftiyy ath Fulls. Kirk, Ore., reported 10 bolow this morning. Residents of Tho Dalles sought tho aid of plumbers to mend urslfd water pipes today after an other cold morning. Grain was 1 is patched by automobile to vari ous county points for 'feeding pheasants and other wild birds. Traffic was moving over all high ways. Ieiulleton 2U iiehnv : Pendleton experienced the cold est night since 1119 last night when, the mercury dropped to 2G bolow zero. It was 24 below at H o'clock this morning. Plows were working today on the Ifeppner, I'kiuh and other highways. The cold wave reached rt new mark at Corvallis where tho Oro gon Slate college station registered 4 nbovo zero which was tho low point since HIM. Tho campim was covered with four Inches of snow. FLYING SAFETY IS ON INCREASE Federal Accident Report Shows Big Gain in Num ber of Miles Flown. WASHINGTON' (Special) market increase in the number of Vor t10 corresponding period of miles flown for each accident In , 1!)2gi however, tho number of fatal civil aeronautics in the United lluciaen(ii in nil classes of opcro. Hlates for the first six months of ,onH wus 97, tho miles flown were 1929 over tho same period In the , 1C.4S4.U1 2, giving a total mileage previous year is shown in the semi- ep flUnl nI.C(iffnt tn n classes of milium ici'uu ui uiiuiuii iiui'iui'mn mado public today by Clarence M. Youny. assistant secretary of coiu merco for Aeronautics. ; A total of f6,2ul,33$ miles was flown by civil nlrcraft in the Unit ed States between January and Juno of 1928 In air transport and miscellaneous operations. A i r transport operations, it was stated, includes those In which nlrcraft carry passengers. mall or express on scheduled service over regular ly established routes, and miscel laneous operations include student instruction, . experimental, com mercial and pleasure flylnfr. Ono Death to 1,000,000 Miles In scheduled air transport oper ations for this period, the report shows thero were !), 201,338 miles , flown with nino fatal accidents re j ported, tho mileage flown for each fatal accident therefore belnff 1.022.371, For tho samo,perfod of 1928 there wero 4.484,(112 miles flown and five fatal accidents, the miles per fatal accident bolntf SUG.922. Considering all classes of- acci dents, Including those referred to abovo as well as all others, tho miles flown per accident In sched uled air transport operations for tho first half of 1929 totaled Hi3, 300 as thero wero CO accidents. 'For the corresponding period In No More Neuritis l.V ARMS, NKCK, liHUS OH 'I'HKillS i If you want to get rid of Iho agonizing pains of neuritis, neural gia, sclnliea or rheumatism, ju.-.t apply Tysmol to the affected parts and see how quickly all misery will cease. Tysmol is a powerfully poiiotrsl ing absorbent, soothing and healing in lis action, which goes in through the pores and quickly reaches the burning, aching nerves. Those stub born pains in the back of the neck, about the shoulder blade, face or head, In the roroarm and fingers, or extending down the thigh lo the toe tips, will soon disappear. Cramping of the muscles will stop and you will no longer be bothered with soreness, swelling, Miriness, numbness or tenderness of the joints and ligame nts. Tysmol is not. an ordinary nni ,)AYS starting Wednesday 1928, tlio total number of acci dent reported was 36, which placed the mllvi per accident nt 188,132. Ah there was a total of 47.U00. 000 mile flown In miscellaneous oeratlons In tho 1929 period, and an thero was a total, of 118 fatal accidents, the miles flown per fatal accident In this class of flylnlr nmounted to -398,306, while in tho mono period In 1928, tho total mllinito was 12,000,000, tho num ber of fatal accidents was 92, and tho mites flown per fatal accident numbered 130,130. The total number of all classes of accidents reported In the 1929 six-month period in miscellaneous operations, was 714, which brought tho miles per accident In miscel laneous operations to G5.826. This mileage per accident was moro than twleo that for tho santo per iod In 1928, as tho records show but 30,380 miles flown per acci dent In that period. Tills latter flh-uro Is based on a total number of accidents for that period o.t 395. liniiul Total Averuito Carried out further to take In tho total milcaito flown In all class es of aircraft operations for each fatal accident, tho fik-ures show that thoro was one fnl accident I during tho first half of 199 for every 142,630 males, flown. Tho total number of Tutnl accidents for thin- period was J?7. while tho total miles flown 'was moro than 60,1100.000; as previously set forth Hal Starting TODAY A PARAMOUNT flying of 10 VH1. credited to power plant " .m. hiiimi i i ' l.'roin the standpoint of mileage which amounted a H.lp.s per cent. , . . Dazzling l-LJr I 1 1 L-y BS1 All-Shng ...... scenes in m - mm raw pjr ' All-Duncinp Technicolor (TD Ir" H i P"-All'SUU' ' V flown por uccidont in nil classes of civil aircraft operations and for all classes of accidents throughout tho United Ktntes for tho first half; of 1929, tho' figures show an In crease of utmost 100 per cent over tho corresponding period of 1928. Thero was a total of 774 accidents In tho first six months of 1929, which placed tho total mileage pur accident at 72.012. For Uho first half of 1928, thero wero 430 acci dents of all kinds, and a total mile age of 38,337 per accident for all classes of operation. Weather (ioutl Lain in Year It will bo noted that direct com parlsons only huvo been mado be tween tho"inllongo flown and tho number Fpf 'accidents in the first half of 1929 and tho first half of 1928. This was done becauso weather conditions during tho hut six months of tho .calendar year are moro favorable for flying than during tho first six mouths, and obviously, tho last half of tho year has tho advantngo over tho first part. Tho aeronautics branch be hoves that duo to tho shortage of fiold personnel for carrying on tho work- thero doubtless wero some unreported accidents in I'J-h. In which event tho increase in mile ugo flown por accident lor over 1928 would bo even greater than shown In this report. Tho causes of tho accidents are divided into four major classifica tions personnel, power plant lall ures. alrplnno failures, and miscel laneous. Thoro Is n fifth category Riven over to undetermined and doubtful causes. Tho largest percentago of tho incidents was attributed to per sonnel, the totnl being f.9.04 per cent. Tho next largest cause was credited to power plant failures. which amounted o 18. 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ItastNl on Export Finding Tho accident report is based on tho findings of tho accident board of tho aeronautic branch, which Is composed of two expert pilots, a flight surgeon, an aeronautical engineer, a lawyer versed In nlr law, ami u statistician. This board Investigates and determines the causes of all civil aircraft accl- SPECIAL -ONE WEEK ONLY Hats Cleaned 50c SL- 50c ANGEL'S Across From Itohnenkiimp's Finest Work m Town Shoes Dyed by Expert stage success "Burlesque TECIIMCOl.OK with marvelous melodic?, such Hcnsutioiiid hits as "True Blue Lou" and '"I'lippiiy Mop." All this in a picture Ihttl wus the Hiipreiuu uchievemeiil in ultra modern bhows . . . thai will give you the best two hours entertainiiieiil you have ever hud. jl! It's u iiiiceiuttker . . . revolutionary! Sound Cartoon PICTURE "BEST O II-"1. P-ir-'inount Fumoiw dents; unalyzes all accidents re- : ported from the field and rcducjs thorn to their causation factors ex pressed In percentage. Tho statis tics Ki'-ihercd from tho work of; this uccidont analysis have proved,? to bo of great value, particularly by pointing to ways and means of decreasing tin.' number of aircraft accidents. They aUo aro of groat asslstanco in tho development of curtain structural and flying char acteristics in aircraft. ; . Printed copies of tho comploto report, giving comparative statis tics and analystH of accidents In civil aeronautics for tho years 1927, 1928 and tho first six mouths of 1929 aro available without euargo upon request to tho aero nautics branch, department of commerce. and Blocked Don t mius Contract Admissions for This Attraction Matinees 35c Evenings 50c Children 10c SHOW I'Vy Corp., P' IN TOWN" .t New Yotk City - 772