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Thursday, February 20, 1930 Page Four ? LA GRANDE 'EVENING OBSERVE.. LA GRANDER ORE. i, , , in . I . " I (Incorporated) An Iodepeodetit Newspaper PRANK a APPLE BIT . ..Editor and Publisher HARVEY F. MATTHEWS , .Bulnesi Manager Publlnhed evening, except Sunday, at 1416 Adami Avnu, L Grande, Oregon, The Observer-Star published every Friday. Entered at the Postoffice of Ia Grande, Oregon, as tfecond Clasa Malt Matter under act of March 2, 1879. " OFFICIAL PAPtfR OF UNION COI'NTIT AND TUB " CITV OF LA GRANDE MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The AocIatcd Pre In excluetvely entitled to ue for publica tion of all news dispatched credited to It or not otherwise credited If published herein. All right of republication of special dis patched In this paper, and also the local news herein also are reserved. National Advertising Representative) M. C. MOGKNSEN CO., Inc. Ban Fraociico, Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland, Chicago, Detroit, New York SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Carrier Dally, per month In advance .. Dally, six months In advance . uany, aingie cupy . 75c ,44.60 6c Abe Martin II r Nail Dally, per month In advance ... Daily, per aix montha In advance Dally, per year In advance . Weekly, Obaerver-Star, per year ... . 50c .12.60 ..ts.oo ..12.00 ADVKRTISINO RATES Display, foreign, per column Inch LMfpiay, local, per column men Time contract prices on application. -.410 ..4 So l'BAC'K ASSURKO Tlieae things I hnve spoken unto you. that In mo ye iiilcht have pence. In tho world ye Hliall have trlbutation: but bo of good cheer; 1 have overcome tlio world. John 10:33. ' Great inventions are often the simplest: The architect took the door off a clothes closet and called it a breakfast nook. ' h Charles Evans Hughes was the logical successor to Chief Justice Taft, but in the opinion of thousands who fully appre ciate the unusual qualifications of that veteran statesman, jurist and lawyer Justice Holmes is his superior in everything but the deciding element, age. Were this nestor and dean of United States supreme court only a few years younger the nation could not ignore his claim to the post of chief justice. Justice Holmes will observe the eighty-ninth anniversary of his birth on March 8 and he will soon enter upon his twenty ninth year of service in the' highest tribunal in the land. He is the son of a great poet and philosopher, and thrice wounded hero of the Civil war and an able jurist. For these the American people honor him, but he is best known and most honored as' the foremost living apostle of liberal humani tarian thinking in the United States. He is a great liberal in a wilderness of mediocre radicalism and conservatism. The attack of Representative Garner, of Texas, on f resi dent Hoover and the republican "lack of leadership" is typical of the purely political type of mind. He charges that the president does not make "his position unequivocable on any imatter of great importance." Yet the Texan is too small to see that Hoover's greatness as a chief executive lies in lhat specific characteristic. Hoover, with the ntind and training of an. engineer, knows that every groat ueslion has two sides, that every great problem cannot be properly solved by 'opinion, can only be solved by sound fact. He does not say ; that 'this measure or that policy will prove a cure all for present difficulties. lie says only that the facts indicate a certain method should be tried in the attack of a certain problem. The Texas gentleman is not used to an efficient approach to administrative affairs, his experience has been with politicians who established a policy and followed it, whether right or wrong. That Hoover undertakes his work with a different viewpoint is disconcerting for the politician, but it is extremely fortunate for the great mass of American citizens. THK THICK OF PROSI'ICKITY It would be interesting to study the exact relationship that exists in America between prosperity and crime. It lias been staled that a city which enjoys a business boom is bound to suffer, also, an increase in its crime. Just how far this assertion holds good is problematical ; but there are signs that it is true to a great extent, at least. Chicago, of course, is the city everyone thinks of when crime is mentioned. And this rule seems to apply directly to Chicago's situation. Chicago has beeil an enormously busy city, growing by leaps and bounds. All kinds of industries have, centered there. There has always been ".something doing" there. Job-hunters have flocked in from all parts of the country. This has made for a large floating population, unstable and without roots. The ranks of the gunmen and bootleggers are easily and quickly recruited from such a field. Further more, under such circumstances money is plentiful. There is money for liquor, for gantbling and other underworld com modities. There is money, loo, to be taken by main force by bandits. Detroit seems to bear out the theory also. The automobile industry has nuido Detroit an ininiensley busy place. It has been expanding rapidly for years. And, like Chicago, it has drawn on the rest of the nation for a huge floating popula tion. Consequently, one need not be surprised by the charges that are now being made in connection with Detroit's police department. If half of these charges arc true, Detroit has an underworld situation as bad as Chicago's. There are the same stories of friendship between policemen and gangsters. There are the same boldness and daring on tho part of the underworld. Detroit and Chicago, then, apparently bear out this theory. It is a matter that ought to get detailed study from our criminologists. Lawlessness of the Chicago-Detroit variety is a high price to pay for prosperity. m:,viti,i; woman mi.u;ii ,,DKATTLK. Waali., IVI,. 211 (AD A tioattlt) woman una killed tu nlic hiih IfavlDK Si. JaiucH Calhe. ilral here today and nrvri' damage Worn dono In tint city iiml nlowt ruirnt aoitnd by a nuutliMvnuirly gale. M Htl l lM, COU Al.l.ls ftllt VAI.1.1S. On.. IVI,, (,l' The third tni'inlicr of thr feuVrul farm board to vlnlt thia wiiilf, w. I' Hclillllnir. rvnrvwiitlna; dairy ami poultry Interests, Oregon State college laM ulKltt and Ki'e.tt d people. ir Ort-Koli over the cullcgn rudlu station. Bluebirds And . Robins Appear . In Wallowa Co. (Observer Correspondent) VA M0 WA, Ore. Kpt-clal ) iJtirlnff the pant few days various iHpL'Ck-8 of Hprlng Mrds have math? their appearance in thin coimnui. lly, urnong them being robins. Mm; birds, etc. This Ii.uUh many tu be lieve that the hardest purl of tliu winter witwon (h over l,OKKii)K operations at koiiio of the camp In thin Hectiun hiivu been greatly retarded by tint soft weath er conditions With the froal Ipuv intf the roudH rapidly, it has been Impossible to do any hauling of Iokh with trucks. Some of the con tractors who did not get in very many of theli1 Iokh during the Holid weather HtiJI have, a large amount of logs in the woods yet and in omo cases will probably not be able to get them out. until the roads become dry in early sum mer. Joseph TeaRiim and his mother were visiting ut Jiruco Kisher'a of Leap Sunday. u. W. Minor lias been busy the past several days building some Columbia Defeats College of Idaho PORTLAND, Ore.. Feb. 20 AI') Culuiiihia university's basketball auintet defeated College of Idaho 2 If to Zrj, hero Jast night. Columbia got off to an early lead, the score being 17 to 7 at the half, but was forced to battle It out to retain their slight lead at the finish. SAi;W)l.lS WINS I'OKTLA.VIJ. Ore., Feb. 20 (A I') In a rough wrestling match. Or. Karl Karpoli;, Cleveland, Ohio, medic, defeated Dick Oavlscourt, Ijik Angeles, former Jl ultnomali club amateur wrestlry making his local professional debut, here last night, two out of three falls. "Tin? MorM thing about an in dustrial slump Is bavin' a big, rest less husband Jianghi' around home under your Jiwis," says Mrs. Km Moofw, J Yk'iidH o' prohibition don't vein to he as smooth as tlm friends iluinbing sheds at tho .Margaret Alc- b;ty, India. - While going down the Atlantic coast on il vessel bound for Venp zuela. Haker said he put poison In the coffee, causing the whole crew to become 111. Three men died, ho said. the spring of 192S, Baker Kald he puisoned a man at lioilo. ; FARM 1 . I., U small seaport lumi on l it n,.v iult.nH imn uf tho I'hllliininn sroup. ! MADE BY BANKS The poisoning of Oaw took place J shortly after midnight December i Continued from Pago One) 27. l'J2S, linker sain, once again . At' this Junef ur Baker iffHd" tiro j rH' PW. W rent Jn advance, truck drivers entered tpe la bora-Tho California Pine Box coin tory and he held them unnd lieUpany,.the CrowiirWillametm Papr them. Ho aid he had Intepdod )t.oinmny )imi the Kehmidt Lltlm. i gra piling cumpany, me cumimilnt stated, refused III in credit for packing supplies, and one of them refused to dell him supplies Tor "cash or otherwise.' in kill them hut one of them plead ed that he had a wife and chit Uren, INTERESTS AGOG AT CHARGES In l!ltM. as n rruult of tlwt a). IrKcd conaplracy, llank-3 stated hu financial condition liccatno prr. cariouu und a board of creditora with John A. 1'lKc ut Ita head, waa nppolnted to take over hla lnisl- tho polBOn waa put In coffee. This ' accused by Bnnks of dlscrlirllnallnK j '1e- I'o churned the board look II,. tier tn tr.v.n ,, I ...... it hi. frtllt and Ca US HE 111 111 , "" ' v,wu lll time, not have the desired effect, so he i to loe larce quanllties inrouwi , , , . placed some more on the barrel of UpolluK. because of delays In de- son f ull land t pay de bis ,, his, evolver and shoved It down the! livery. Also the road Is charged L ' man's throat, holding It there until with renllnB him, a packinu shed j$lU0.Utlll. Ihe land he su.id was he died. and evlctlns him because he would worth 1 .JllU.DOO. o' tho tariff. THE OPEN COURT CORRESPONDENTS MUST SUBMIT THEIR NAMES TO THE EDITOR IK THEY DE SIRE LETTEItH PRINTED, j J'oiial. pjLsture (n the hills a few I miles east of town where he h is I been feeding his band of ewes dur ing the winter. JK expects to com mence lambing during the latter part of- the month. Merlen Iiooertson, of Corvallls. was visiting relatives in this county during the early part of the week, j Mr. Bobertson is a nephew of U, 'Couch, of this -placA, . and John ! Couch, of I,cap. Miss May Bales, of Knterprise, open! a few days the p;it week visiting at the Bruce Fisher home at Leap. ' ' John (.'ouch., who was ill several ) days last week suffering from "DIKTINtil ISHKD SI RAXiKR" JUNK SOKJIIT BV WOMEN .LONDON (AP) English women who can vote, sit in parliament an 1 hold cabinet portfolios, now seek the right to be DistingulsheJ I Strangers. . j Thirteen of the 14 women mem- hers of the hoUKQ of commons have signed a letter to Ike house speak- er, pointing out that, while womm; are admitted to the public gallery j of tho house on eiual terms wit a linen, tho Distinguished StrangerV M gallery is still burred to them, i Why, they want to know, isn't aj distinguished woman us dlstin-1 guMhed as a distinguished man? i The-'ine(ualiLy" of the gallery u tho illustrious, they say, frequently causes the memlarrassinent when" ' j i commons hy distinguished women , from England or abroad. ! 2"o;i Adams Ave., Ji (;rande. Ore. Keb. 17. 193(1. To whom it man concern: Seeing mv mime in ltin icinei- and myself having gone through (fathering in his head, is rejiorted a- very unpleasant first experience ADMITS SLAYING EIGHT MEN WITH POISONED COFFEE (Continued from Pago One) to be considerably improved Muriel, l.athrop and Clarice and Lois Couch, who uttt nd high school here, spent the weekend ut their homes at TA-ap. tjulnten l.alhrop, of l.ap, was a visitor in town the first of the week. .Mrs. Giles I'lass. who has been ViHlthll' It,. I Mnn I f.Dn., I,t....u trust people who know !wr(. of Knlttl lirise ml tlrn'nii ' here my friends anil all fair minded tho illl(or ..,., of ....,. s,. people, will not let things done by oxK.,.ts lo vi(lil ,.,. so ,,.,, people lhat have y, t-ndency to ,, ,,,.. :l rw ,,.ly ,'.ro-1T. RO, mane any (inierrnee. Imunitv ! oiirtii: rnere is no just per- t sou living whom 1 will not he If if , In my power to do so, but. my own 'umily comes first. C. C. I LLOYD. ! of the kind for me, I beg to state; t havo been misinterpreted or mis- j quoted, as the disiuisNal of the case j very clearly shows. First: I owe no one any ill will, not my woj-Ht enemy. j Second: I will never wilfully and j maliciously injure anyone. Third: me. er home in the Leap com- ind R-it down beside n man. He; had a cup of coffee in front of him. While he was looking away, j 1 had a sudden impulse lo put some ' poison in his coffee. He died al- " most at once. learned afterward that his name was Ifconeycut." Baker said that after this first experience he had other unexpected impulses to poison persons, "no one in particular, but Just anyone w ho happened to be near." In !.:'(! I taker said he poisoned a man In Hamburg, Germany, and in IHI'7 poisoned a Hindu in Bom- A Way to Stop Attacks of Fits KATISEIKI) WITH LIEK NEW YORK (AP) There litis been nothing in the life of Charles M. Hchwab which he would change could he live it over again, and friends are more Imporlant than so-called business success. So lie remarked on his 68th birthday. ' John Couch was busy btiteherlns hogs the hitter part of the week. A. W. Harmon and Joe Kcagins. j of Leap, wen; business .visitor at j Reports are received by an ninuz- ' Euterpriso the latter part of ,, lh j ing treatment that epileptics slate week.- has proved .successful in stopplng The dirt roads in this community their attacks. H. Lepso. Apt. 62, are becoming quite muddy in many j Island Ave., Milwaukee, Wise, has places, making It, tmpoMsible to use j been supplying sufferers with this cars much off the highway and i treatment. He now wishes to reach market roads. ' all those who have not been helped and to do so Is making the start-. Gloria Gould, who recent ly 'pa I.I i offer of a generous treatment- it was "stupid to wed." has been j free to all sufferers. Anyone afflict-: married again. Oh well, maybe she "ed should write for this free treat changed her ' mind. fneijt at once,- giving age. Adv. i The Dy namic When you mlc for action, you get it in the Dynamic New Erslcinel No other car under 1000 delivers so much power per pound. Enhanced by die new full -power muffler, which releases the full 70 horsepower of this big car. Its 14-inch wheclbase low-swung and steady, provides rare comfort, beauty and safety. It is a fine car, evident in such features as Duo-Servo 4-whccl brakes - hydraulic shock absorbers fuel pump gasoline filter oil filter force-feed lubrication thermostatic controlled cooling waterproof ignition. . New I 1 '895 to 1125 at Ihe factory M. J. GOSS Fir & Adams HUT BY STUDEP.AKER BUILDER OF CHAlClPIONS FAIK'S LA GRANDE STORE- Successor to N.K.WEST & CO. NEW AND EXCITING FASHIONS TO HERALD THE SPRING FROCKS for AH Occasions STJS Such tantalizing clothes! With the fascinating sil- . houette modified just enough to be more' becom ing to more women. And the colors . . . well you just must view them yourself. Other Frocks $8.75 to $65. SPRING COATS ARE VARIED IN FABRICS AND IN ST YLING What a joy a smart spring coat is . . . many days of comfort and satisfaction when you say "It came from Falks." Mere words fail to depict the charm of these newest arrivals. Other Coats $10.95 to $79.50 THE NEW CHAPEAUX f OFFSPRING WEAR sir They are snugly fitted and ap parently are simplicity itself, but so very chic, and their develop ment requires workmanship of the. very highest type. In all the newest materials and colors." $3.95 to $22-50 PEACOCK SPONSORS THE "ELSA" AH Over Black Mat Kid Seamless Opera Pump no. The smart, trim lines of this newest spring pump adapt themselves readilv to the mode. In all sizes AAA to B 4o to TV
