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Page Two Are Lovely and Less Expensive Such Smart Styles as these Will Be Much in Favor This Spring Brightly colored fabrics in prints, Roman striped, plaids these models have nil that fashion de crees in spring: modes. . $(j.90 to $29-50 HILL'S La Grande's Own Store ROGER. HORNSBY REAL LONE WOLF His Vocation and Avoca . tion is Baseball O'ther Games Bore Him. Ilv Taiil MlrkolKOii CHICAGO, Fob. 24 W) A horo worshipper on ft visit to Ciiiiillna is land, training Kwuincl for the Chi cago Cubs, Bkllccl up to a rookie one ,tlay. "ay7 he said, "who in the world If. that guy over thoro by the fire place? ?'ve been In this hotel for days now and every time I come Into the lounge I sco him sitting and staring at everybody. He isn't a ball player, Is he?" "A ball olavcrl" canned the amazed rookie, "why mister, that's Rogers Jlornsby, probably the greatest right hand hitter the game hns ever known." IU'IIii'h In Confusion The horo worshipper rotired In con fusion, but ho had seen a real pic ture of the rajah, perhaps the strong est personality In baseball. He has been booed and cheered alike by mil lions of fans and has broken record After record with his big stick, and yiiti he acts just as ho did 10 years ago When he cwno up t to the major leagued a raw-bouca, Inquisitive kid Irom Texas, Ho is a lone wolf because of hab its, rather than preference. Ho doesn't chew, smoke or drink. He doesn't dance, play cards or golf. His busi ness Is baseball and so Is his hobby. Ho will talk of It for hours with any one who will listen. If the conversa tion is switched to soino other sub ject he to apt to walk right out of the discussion. He sits for hours staring out of a chair In hotel lobbies like a farmer boy on his first trip to n big city. He rarely reads cvon baseball stories In the papers, sav Jng his eyes to watch for pellets curving across the corners of n platu. Rarely does he go to the theatre. Ho doesn't know a brass ie from a niblick, but he raises sod for put ting greens on 87 acres of his Mis souri farm. Ho lias never seen a putt mado on his own grass. Twice, out of curiosity, ho has hit golf balls. He dubbed the first drivo In the park at Catallna and hit tho next ono 250 yards and out of the lot. Ho never hit another. He wasn't In terested. Keen Sense of Humor , HIb sense of humor Is keen and , sly. By organized cheering he piloted Andy Lotshaw, Cub trainer, and Hank , Granuip, bull pen pitcher, a couple , of left footers, into a dead heat for j the annual cump dancing cham pionship at Catallna. Once he asked i sports writer's wife to tench him I to dance. She agreed but when the I music started up he reddened and j said: "Aw, I was Just fool in." I could I never learn to dance." Ho likes to watch airplanes flying around. Someday he'd liko to own and fly one. He likes to farm. If prohibition hadn't becomo a law he might have been as good a bar tender as he Is n ball player. No matter how fine the mixture he won't drink It. He Is one of tho most difficult men In sport to inter view, He will answer questions fully and clearly but volunteers little in formation. Ilelfevrs In Lots of Kmul He believes In lots of food for ball players. Warren Brown once asked him tho secret of his punch nt tho plntc. "Them steaks," he answered. Tho next clay he took urown and Reveral players with him to a dil apidated lunchroom and fed them steaks the sire of dish pans. "Just eat them steaks awhile and you'll hit." ho Insisted. "They glvo you something to work with. They give you beef and power.'" Behind his seriousness is a back drop of meluucholy. He doesn't care what Is said about him,. Whether ho '8 liked or disliked, cheered or booed, he gets ttred of being in the limelight. One day last summer I asked him to go to the horse races an Interest he has given up because of difficulties that once hert him. "I'd like to go," he sighed. "There's lots of things I like to do. But I can't. People would say 'There he Ik back at the honso races.' Some times I wish I was Just a bat boy. -men x couiu uo a jot oi things l want to do." STOVER WINS V DOG DERBY AT ASH TON, IDAHO , ASHTON, Idaho, Fob. 24 WJ-Roy Stover, of McCall, Idaho, held the championship of tho 11)31 American dog derby and a new course record lor tho 25-mile raco today. The veteran driver mushbtl''hls string of setters and fox hounds over tho course for three laps in one hour, 53 minutes and 42 seconds yester day beating out Warren Cordlngley, Ash ton, who finished second In 1:64:51. His time also was better than tho previous rocord of 1:65:35 set Jn 1020 by Bill Trude's team. Tho only woman entrant in . the race, Thuln Oeelan, McCall, winner of. the Talioe race this year, finished Blxth In 2:03. Third place wont to Gil McCoy, Casade. Idaho, winner of tho Ashton derby five times. His time was 1:57:20. Charles Kennedy and White MtoNair of Big Springs finished fourth and fifth respectively. Stover, winner of the Tahoe derby last year and second in the Ogden raco tills year, received $800 as first prize. SKIPS 18,500 TIMES ON HIS 61 ST BIRTHDAY CHICAGO. Feb. 24 (P) Women, who would grow thin, may get a tip from a Chicago skipper. Just to celebrate his 01st birthday anniversary, 'Chester Lovore skipped a ropo 18,500 times without stopping, without any idea of cutting down tho waistline. , i ; When he started ho weighed 140 pounds. At tho finish his weight was 142. His time was three hours, fifteen minutes and thirty seconds. "I could havo skipped 6000 more times ho said," os ho started eating a sovon-course meal, "but I'll dq that next year." It's Just an old custom of his, to break his skipping record eaoli year. Last ysar he skipped 16,000 times. Yanks To Get Only Two Meals a Day ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.. Feb. 24 Tho Now York Yankees, who In the past, nave noastcd of nomo of the heartiest caters in major league base ball, are bearing up as well as might bo oxpectod undor the shock of hear ing that thoy aro to bo limited to two meals a day during spring .twin Ink'. "Marso Joo" McCarthy, new Yankee monager, has ordered his charges to lorcgo tho customary noon meal and do all their eating In the morning and evening. Believes New Ball As Lively As Ever SAN ANTONIO. Texas. Feb. 34 Ml Having given tho new ball a pre liminary test, Tom Clarke, veteran coach of the New York Olants, (omen tip with Iho opinion that It's an lively ay evor. "1 hero may bo better pitching this year and nioro accurate throwing by tho. ticklers.'' says darks, "but the ball travels as far as ever. There won't be so much wlldncss on the mound but tho line drives will bo Just as wild as over." What's In a Name? Wilbur's Not Sure CLEARWATER. Kla., Feb. 24 .F) When hakcspoaro wrote about "What's In a Namo" he must have had Wllbcrt Kobtuson. portly man ager of the Brooklyn Hoblns In mind. Names never havo been Bobbys stronit suit. "They're not all here." he com plained yesterday. "That Lumbago, must still bo holding out somewhere. Saute Is hero ami so Is Monday." The boya finally discovered' he meant Lombardl, Shaute and Van Muuko. When You Say "LIBERTY" lo Your Coal Denier II Menus freedom from Vwl orrle. Try 'Hit clean Uah Coal GAITHKR & WALLER Phone Main 528 Jefferson nt Kim BASEBALL'S BABBLING BROOK - -fte wcAir OaeatY To - s. The Phillies, tioeCANiWsMm..- SLfWr "xW ,-F TUB ' lfi soMe You fevv) X .To nice me Ate- Rixzr I've oust sioi-- , Meiq to bppa amo -The oTmez. olo riutuzs q "'Sv 'Sx WRESTLING FANS MAY FILL HOUSE Tickets Going 'Rapidly for Mmr-rlansen Match to be Held Wednesday. Wrestling fane will In nil likelihood fill .vartf .Ml. In Pa. Imll Inmnrrniu night when Bon Mulr, Australian heavyweight champion, will meet unnney Hansen, Beauie wrestler the man most feared by Ted Thye and ranked among tho caglest in the West. Ray McCarroll, promoter, said to day that If tickets are taken be tween now and tomorrow night on pur with demands utready made, there will be no vacant seats. Every seut In me uouse win do reserved, lor. tins match. . Mulr is due in La Grande todny and will workout, according to present plans, at the Rex tonight. Ho was to have worked out with McCarroll, but the latter has an Injured hand and will be tumble to go to tho mat with tho Australian. Hanson, who wrestles in Spokane tonight, will arrive here sometime tomorrow. This match may bo tho last held within the city limits of La Grande if the city commission passes tho box lug and wrestling ordinance now be-. foro It for n third and final reading. A number of good preliminaries havo been arranged by McCarroll. including a "League of Nations" battle royal. Jerry Evans, Jim White, pate lu this event. Arrangements havo been made for a wrestling pre liminary. Tho curd will begin at 8 o'clock and the two heavyweight grapplcrs expect to enter the ring about 8:40 o'clock. Joe Malcewicz Is Winner Over Kruse SEATTLE, Wash., Feb. 24 A') Joe Mnlcewlen, Utlca Panther, won a two fall out of three victory In tho main wrestling event here last night over Bob Kruse, Portland heavyweight. Malcewicz evened tho count In the fifth round by a backward body slam and clinched tho nuitch in the sixth with a head lock and slam. Kruze scored his full In the third stanza with a flying wrlstlock. Half tho time the two wrestlers were bat tling out of the ropes. John Freburg. Seattlo heavyweight, lost a flvo round bout on a foul to Dan Koloff. Bulgarian. WALLOWA PERSONALS lly Mrs, ('. A. Hunter (Observer Correspondent) WALLOWA. Ore. (Special) Eight years ago Jessica chapter. O. IS. S.. decided upon Febrnory tt'J or nenr tnat ditto for an annual gathering of Stars and Masons and their families. Each year a Washington birthday pro- gram is given by tho Star children ' and n family supper enjoyed. The event took plftc Friday evening, Feb. ju, tins year and tne exceptionally i interesting and well planned program. directed by Miss Ruth Hayes was as follows: "America," audience; festoon I il IT nltrttf uitMilt o 1 i-l Ml mm c.ili-. Shlrlev Peffer; "Enjovlng the Tele-'! photic. comic reading by Ijuira rump; Grandmother s uance by cnuuren in costume; piano soio. cien evr. Sutphln "Bargains." one -act ccmeuy by a group of girls; piano solo. Cmuttuneo McKlnele; minuot, in costume. Supper followed tho pro- IflUtn witlt Mi't FT .1 Rlliknr Mm John Bratton and Mrs. C. A. Hunter i eervlng on the refreshment commit tee. Thero were about 7o present. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Noregaard spent Tuesday night 111 Wallown on their way home from Grande where Mr. Noregaard had been re- cttvlng medical treatment. While Jatlng on Wallowa lake hist Sunday! tlon of the Amerlcan ltVltm and ux he had the misfortune to fall, rutting' n,.... t firrf vv.i..-Jt-.; ",r ,WPl i",lB wiy u" w"B nose. Mr. and Mr. Noregaard ore j living on their heep ruuch J5 miles Irom Enterprise tills winter. James Pltuts, who has been visiting relatives In Wallowa for the lost two weeks, returned to his homo In Klam ath Kails Wednesday. He wna accom panied on the drive home by his brother-tn-iaw. Vern McKiiueie. Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Hunter And crftndson, Charles Dale Hunter, were j LA GRANDE EVENING ; - . . ' ...:...., 1931 Heavyweight Season To Open. In Miami Tonight Hy Alan (ioulil ' MIAMI, Flo., Feb. 24 iV) Promoter "Pa" Strlbllng will try to pry tho lid off the 1931 heavyweight outdoor sea son tonight with a card featuring Mlokcy Walker and Johnny Risko In the ten-round final, besides exhlbit- I ' performances by the forthcoming championship rivals. Yoiuig Strlbllng and Mux Bchindlng. He expects 25,000 customers to con tribute 960,000 to $60,000 at the bar gain scale of $2 to 5. If It rains tonight, the show will bo Wednesday night. The weather has been threatening. There was no hitch In the ar rangements otherwise, Strlbllng said, despite mysterious reports, emanating irom new Yom, mat a cancellation was likely. These reports appeured more concerned with the fate of the return Carnera-Malonoy -bout.fsched- uled as tho second o the winter's fistic festivuls in the Madison Square Garden arena here on March 5. Hoys skeptical. Ever since a craci; tiovelopcd in Cur noru's tenth rib, the boys have been skeptical, despite the flat statements of Promoter Frank J. Brucn that un- der no circumstances would he coa- Bob Beaton, of Union, spent Satur stder calllnrr his show off. With Car- dnv nnd Snndnv visir.ino- with my nem signed to meet the winner of the oLummy-ovuniuuiifi uuuv m u ,ac;uiiu viiiuiu wiKgieswurtn ana uorotnea title contest in September, it Is no' McCourey spent the weekend at Vlr scci'ct that the Italian's board oftglnla's home-In Kamela. managers, led by Dili Duffy, has no ; Mr. and . Mrs. M. Broms, acebm deslro to run unnecessary risks. j panled by Bob Sen ton and Alta Wig Walker and Blsko meanwhile, are glesworth, drove to La Grande Satur reudy for just an old-fashioned sock-, day. Ing bee. Walker won the last time Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Kelly and Mr. tliis pair collided in Detroit, but Rls- and Mrs. Kenneth Pierson, of Perry, ko. with a 25 pound pull In the, spent Sunday at the H. J. Horstman weights, looks to be In condition to l home. spring one of his typical upsets: Mrs. Emma Brown went to La The preliminaries tonight, includ- .Grunde Monday to visit with Mr. ing five six rounders, are slatod fori Brown who is a patient at the Grande 8 p. m., the main go at 10. guests of Mi, and Mrs. Harold Ham street at their farm home near Joseph Sunday. Miss Katheryn Galbralth, wjio has been a member of tho Wallowa high school faculty for the last two years, has accepted a position as Instructor In music in the Pendleton schools for next year. Mrs. George Dale left Wednesday for Eugene to visit with her daugh ter, Lillian, who Is a student at tho University of Oregon. Mrs. Dale ex pects to roturn about tho first of March with Mr. and Mrs. L. F. Al len who ore in Salem during the ses sion of the legislature. Mr, Allen Is a respesentatlve from this district. Mr. and Mrs. Lawton McDanlel and small son. Richard, and Mrs. C. T. McDanlel drove to Portland Monday to visit for a week with relatives In tho Roso City. t Mrs. Edgar Mitchell, of Enterprise, spent Wednesday in Wallowa visiting her sister, Mrs. E. A. Seurlc. Mrs. Cressie Fllley entertained' the Ladles' Aid of the Presbyterian cluuvh Wednesday afternoon at the linnit nf Mh TJnuj Hrnvl Mrs. Tjw1s Carpenter had charge of tho meet- ' 8 wnic" was louowca oy social I " Mrs. J. B. Gregory was hostess to ! tho members of the M. E. Ladles' Aid socloty Wednesday at her homo. Mrs. Gregory wws assisted in serving by hor niece, Mrs. Clyde Ronnie. Mrs. Julia Thomiwon underwent an operation at the Wallowa hospital Tuesday. She is reported to be re covering satisfactorily. E. 8. Thomp son came over from La Grande iUa lo. . , S "t"1"' to Wallowa Monday to spend a week with Mrs. Ottmar Frtck. Mrs. Frlck Pini a numoer or mentis at lunch and bridge on Tuesday lu hon or of Mrs. Rohr. Guests included Mrs. A.- B. Conoway and Mrs. A. M. Amonino. of Enterprise: Mrs. Edwin Marvin. Mrs, John Bratton. Mrs, J. B. Gregory. Mtsa Eula Marvin and Mrs. Rohr. Among thofco attending the conven- Mr. and Mrs. John Bratton. Mr, and Mrii wii.u xirRuth m... M..,h mugneny, o. r. Campbell and Rc IlCOfl l An 8i pound von was born to Dr. I and Mv. Jaiues Haun. of La Grande. At the Wallowa hospital Wednesday. Feb. 18. The baby has been named ! Thomas Milton. j Barton Wade was called to Enter- I pruo Friday morning by the serious ! illness of his father, Aaron Wde. OBSERVER, LA GRANDE, ORE. By Pap All HUbt" Rtn4 " Four Inches Of New Snow Falls At Kamela, Ore. Hy Mrs. Bertie hlKija , . (Observer Correspondent)' , KAMELA, Ore. (Special) Kamela residents awoke Monday morning to about four more lnohes of new snow followed by a dense fog which lasted several hours. The snow scraper was lu use on the highway clearing off tho snow. , . I Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Horstman and ecu. Jack, Bpent the weekend visiting in La Grande. . . . Mr. and Mrs. ' Denver Charlton wero pleasantly surprised on Sunday when unexpectedly visited by Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Denny and son, George, and Mr. Denny's mother, Mrs. Fish er, of Long Beach, Cal.. and Mrs. Charlton's cousin, Laurel Baker, of Portland. , . J . . . KT, nurl Urn W. . T. T.nna nnri dav,BiUeri Helen Mae, wore La Grande visitors on Monday. . ' - - - Fireman Rav.Coak. of . La Grnndo. lr. employed at Kamela- at present. - Harvey Hood spent Saturday eve : nlng In La Grande. , . ' i. Mr. and Mrs. Guy Tamerls . drove to La prando on business Saturday. i'wenuiy names spent tne wook- end with his family in Kamela. i and Mrs. M. Broms. Ronde hospital. M and Mrs. Walter Denson were La Grande visitors Sunday evening. Maxine Casteel. who lias been vis iting Mr. and Mrs. Walter Denson In Kamela, left for a short visit f in Mcocham before returning to her homo in Pilot Rock. Albert Kennison spent a sliort thno in is.ameia sunciay ana Monday. Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Lane accom panied by Mrs. F. P. Brooks, and grandson, Francis, drove to La Grande Saturday. Kenneth Pierson, of Perry, spent Mommy in ivameia, visiting Mr. ana Mrs. H. J. Horstman. Foreman Lloyd Blckford Is another Kamela employe at present. Mr. and Mrs. Guy Tamerls spent Sunday in Elgin visiting Mr. and Mra. R. H. ainsson. Jack Riggs spent Friday night and Saturday at his home in Kamela re turning to Pendleton Sunday morn LA GRANDE WILL PLAY WALLOWA (Continued trom Page One) will result in the elimination of two teams. euwrauy me imai games win ne eliminated, leaving three, in the tournament, all of whom will be eligible to play in the district tourna ment at Union Mar, 6, 8 and 7. Two of the teams will play hero Satur- unj mmifc xw nio igurnumeni cnam plonship. Jackson, Jenne to Officiate Rein Jackson, of Portland, and El don Jenne. coach at Pacific univer sity, will referee the sub-district tournament In La Grande. Nolan Skiff will score and Dr. W. M. Peare will serve as timekeeper. All games will be played In the L. D. S. Recreational hall. Drawings for positions were made last night at 8 o'clock at a meeting held In La Grande High school, with E. D. Towler in charge. Representa tives trom most of the schools. In cluding La Grande. Cove. North Pow der. Iniblor. etc., were in attendance. "NOT GUILTY" IS PLEA OF MRS. FOWLER (Continued form Puge One) 3Q0 to 335 persona, filling the little ccurl room almost to capsctty. Following the hearing Mrs. Fow ler wis relumed to her cell, where site has been confined since Feb. 4. Many Dramatic Incidents Mark Career of Melba LONDON. Feb. 24 P) Many Inci dents In Dome Nellie Melba's long career pathetic, humorous and dramatic were recalled here yester day in connection with the diva's passing. She once related how the great and austere Lord . Kitchener was moved' to tears. It happened at a dinner-where . she. Kitchener and two or three others were guests, i After the meal came the Inevitable j request for a song from the silver throated artist. f She begged off, since she was not: feeling well, but Lord Kitchener, with whom she was well acquainted. ! pleaded hard on the ground that he j had been an exile from home for such a long time. "Eventually I j censented and sang him Home, Sweet f Home.. When I had finished, Lord Kitchener said not a word but com- j ing up to me, bowed and kissed my . hand. As he raised his head I saw j the tears stream down his cheeks." One of the most touching inci-j dents occurred In Belfast. After sing- ; Ing In Ulster hall one wild winter j Uigiib aim wun aiwuv w kh hotel and found herself . confronted with a pool of rain water. She hesi tated,' whereupon Jack Pollock, n small newsboy, took his bundle of papers and laid them down in the best Sir Walter Raleigh style for her to walk -upon. Melba Inquired his name and sent him a five-pound note. It was by special invitation of King Alfonso that the diva first went to Bpain. Hearing her in Lon don, Alfonso asked, "Why have we been neglected, madame? How is it that- you have never been to Spain?" "Because, sire, nobody ever asked me," replied the great singer. "Then I ask you now," said the king-. , She went and scored another big success. She used to laugh merrilly over an Incident at Salt Lake City, where her special car was parked on a rail way siding and she was unable to sleep because of continuous ringing cf switch engine bells. After stand ing the clamor for a long time the singer took to shaking her fist at the engineers. "Give us passes for tonight," one of them yelled as he swept past, "and we will quit ringing." On. one visit to Chicago Melba got a letter from a schoolboy asking for a ticket for the night's concert. "I havo hoard you oh the gramophone and want to know whether you can really get in all those trills," he wrote. Two free passes were his re ward. v Generosity was one of Melba's great virtues. Naturally she refused many appeals for help but she did not always wait to be asked before extending aid. It was only a short time ago that she read in the papers cf a distressed woman in Paddington district, London, threatened witti starvation. She promptly sent the sufferer five pounds and a hamper of provisions. Envy of All Sujicrlur inces me those Hint give mii h publicity to n uiiiu who run JiiKick n MiUo bull In a lioli'. Sun - Fi'iincis Chronicle. ' 'l " THE slogan "Richfield Wins Again" has been for years a ringing challenge in the world of motor events. That "Richfield is Winning Again" is even mote significant and more important to western prosperity and to western industry. It signifies that Richfield is out after the greatest victory in its history. It epitomizes the fighting spirit' that built Richfield from a small marketer to one of the nation's greatest oil companies. 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It dries almost as quickly, and hard as lacquer, yet it does not become "tacky" nor "sticky". Hex is self-leveling. That means brush-marks disappear. It forms a lus. trous surface, eve.i smoother than the' finest enamels. Flex is non-chipping. Water-proof. It comes in twenty modern colors. JLet us show you how easy it is to redecorate the interior of your home.. Put a new finish to your automobUe. Come iiiodaj and get a trial can of Flex. ; TTT TT TTTTTlTiTT7' A T irm if at any Richfield sta tion. Reporter" KXL, 7:30 sharp, even- ni.ht ih,.. O F TjjcsdjQebr u ary ZUm U. .S. L. Batteries Sold oil Insured ttt We buy or trade for your old battery BURGESS BATTERY & ELECTRIC STATION opposite La Grande Oro ; WEDNESDAY, FEB. 25 REX HALL Bon Muir vs. Charlie Hansen Good Preliminaries , W R-a K! H WWW 14 I III MILK) POWER
