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Monday, June 15,1931' Pasre Foot LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER. EA' GRANDE,-ORE. Mxnvitt gating (Bterfor (Incorporated) " An Independent Wawspapct P. BKHLAY . editor and PubUahat HAROLD M. PINLAY . . Bualnwaa Manaftt Published erenlna. except Sunday, at 1710 Birth itreet Qrande. Oregon. Entered at the Postofflce of La, Orande, Oregon, U Second CUaj Kail Matter under act of March 3, 1879. OFFICIAL PAPER OP UNION COUNTY AND TEE CITY OP LA ORANDB MEMBER OP ASSOCIATED : The Associated Press la exclusively entitled to use (or publloa tlon of all news dispatches credited to It or not otharwlae credited If published herein. All rights of republication of apodal dis patches in this paper and alas the local news herein also are reserved. National Advertising Representative M. O. MOO ENS EN CO., I no. '; Ma Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland, Chicago, Detroit, New York ' SUBSCRIPTION RATES " Br Carrier Dally, two weeks in advance Dally, alx months in advance Dally, single copy Dally, per month In advance . Dally, per six month In advance , Dally, per year In advance By Mall ADVERTISING RATES Display, foreign, per colom inch Display, local, per column men . "in RECTANGULAR HOME ! I . .--JfOil III - ls-iJ,", I "I 1 I asB-fH I T I I - I 1 -c-J-T 1 - , I ' I J Liiidy's Modern Plane Makes Pacific Flight Safe Compared to 1927 Feat . 900 -3.60 Time contract prices oa application -460 Fear thou not; for I am with thee; be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee, yea, I -will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness. : Isa. 41:10. QUACK PANACEAS j Many people in this country claim to have infallible cures for business depression, unemployment, and the economic ilia of the world. Government officials complain that these business "doctors" have become a nuisance. They flood the mails with their nostrums and pet schemes, and fill the re- ception rooms of men in high places, wasting valuable time, and hindering those who really can do something to encour age prosperity. - Does it never occur to these dispensers of economic patent medicine that nobody is more eager than Hoover and the men of his administration to bring dull times to an end, and that with the. best brains in the world at their service, it is extremely unlikely that they would overlook anything good? (By the Asswliitetl Press) That It is possible to follow an economical rectangular plan without sacrificing architectural beauty is a iact happily apparent in this attrac tive little six-room house. On the one hand, the regular shape of the house cuts construction costs, while deft interior planning utilizes space without waste. On the other, the exterior treatment makes the most out of the shape by supplying those little touches that lift It out of the mere box-like type that other wise might be the result. The exterior is clapboard witn about . nine or ten Inches to the weather and painted white or cream. The shunters are dark, blue -green, effectively set off by the lighter clap board and the, white of the windows and other trim. Most effective is the entrance, the top of which Interestingly breaks the long sweep of the clapboards across the front and under the two windows. The roof Is of wood shingles In various tones such as sepia, gray brown and warm grays, while the brick chimney Is of whitewashed brick with an unwhltewashed coping. The house, exclusive of the porch, occupies a space of only 22 by 36 feet. On the first floor there Is o large living room with a fireplace on one of its longer sides, the porch opening from the other. It has ventilation from three sides. The dining room, also cross-ventilated, and the kitchen, conveniently placed near the front door, complete the first floor layout. One of the bedrooms upstairs has four windows and three exposures, while the other two, though smaller, are cross-ventilated. The single bath connects with two of the rooms and has an opening into the hall. If the house faces the east, the living room and porch will receive the southern sunshine all day. Proper planting will bring out its good points and add others. A lot 50 by 100 feet Is needed. Cost will range from $6,000 to 8, 000. depending upon local conditions. NEW YORK W There is less peril in Colonel Lindbergh's Pacific 'adven ture than confronted rum when, in 1927. he conquered the Atlantic in the spirit oi at louis. With a motor nearly three times as powerful and a plane embodying de velopments oi i our years oi aviation progress, today's flight appears far less hazardous than his first ocean crossing. Lindbergh's new low wing mono plane has a speed of 220 miles an hour, but since he has equipped it with pontoons It can make only 175 miles an hour on the ocean trip. Landing fields are few across the North Pacific route. The pontoons will enable the plane to land and take off on water, and will contain additional gasoline tanks. The plane has a wing span of 42 feet, 10 inches with a length of 27 feet. 6 inches. Its fuselage and the cantilever wing are of wood construc tion. . ; ' Broke One Record A year ago, with, the colonel at the controls, it spanned the continent In 14 hours and 45 minutes, a record later broken by Capt. Prank M. Hawks. Its retractable landing gear, only recently replaced by pontoons, made a speed of about 220 miles per hour possible. It was an idea credited i largely to Lindbergh. At. the time of 'the transcontinental i flight the plane had a 425 horsepower Wasp engine, which has been re placed by a 600 horsepower Wright Cyclone motor. The low wine monoplane Is fully streamlined in design and the en gine Is housed In a cowling that minimizes air resistance. He bought the ship In January. 1930, after testing - ft In California. The cost was $17,825. The license number obtained for It was NR-211. That of the Spirit of St Louis was XNR-211. .More Costly Ship The price was in excess of that of the trans-Atlantic plane' which now reposes in the Smithsonian Institu tion at Washington. The "Spirit of St. Louis," exclusive of motor and instruments, cost $6,000 while the 225 horsepower Wright Whirlwind J-5 radial air-cooled nine- cylinder motor and the Instruments brought the total cost to about $13,000. The Spirit of St. Louis was a stock model Ryan monoplane with a wing spread of 46 feet and a fuselage 27 feet three inches long. .The cockpit was glass - enclosed and . Lindbergh saw through a periscope. But he used equipment which was the very latest in -1927. There were the earth inductor compass, tachom eter,, bank and turn - indicator, air I speed Indicator, magnetic compass, speed and drift indicator, altimeter and oil gauges. Carrying no navigator and without a sextant, Lindbergh in bis Atlantic flight arrived" over Ireland within three miles of the point at which he aimed. "Detective Story" Cop Head of City of Chicago's Scotland Yard ported to be quite 111 at the home f CHICAGO W) Chicago's police de of his daughter, Mrs. Dewey Cassidy, j partment has gone London, and a In Baker. j two-fisted detective-story "copper" of Miss Athena Charlton and George j the old school will head its newly cre- uross. ot Atnena, wno were guests ', THE PRESENT GENERATION - Some time ago someone made the statement that inter marriage of Americans with people from other races would result in an American race much smaller in stature than heretofore.. ' Z-) Now that sufficient lime has elapsed to permit reliable observation, we have before us a scientific study made by an anthropologist, which proves conclusively that the present generation of Americans is taller and heavier than any of its predecessors. The findings are based on measurements of three genera tions of college men, including 2,000 pairs of fathers and sons, and '501' mothers and daughters 'm-three' generations "oT graduates of three girls' schools. ' The present generation of college men is one of the tallest groups in the world, averaging in height five feet, ten and one-tenth inches. The growth in comparison with ancestral generations has been at the rate of one inch every thirty two years over a period of eighty years. As for the modem girl, she is one and one-tenth inches taller, and seven and one-quarter pounds heavier than her grandmother. THREE BUILDING PERMITS IN WEEK Total Amount of New Construction in City This Year $43,595. Building permits for the current year passed the $43,000 mark last week, and this morning the records at the city office revealed a total of $43,595 spent this year on new con struction in La Grande. The total for the month of June, now half over is enly $600. much be low the usual figure: Permits issued last week follow: June 10 O. M. Holmes, to erect a garage on Jackson between Fir and Depot streets, to cost $200. June 12 Ed Hickox. to alter and re pair a two-story home on O avenue between Fifth and Sixth, work to cost $300. June. 1 2 Er nest S, Ca rmo n, to erect refreshment 'stand on Adams avenue between Willow ana Bairn streets, to cost $100. Livestock Show Given Praise By Seattle Visitor ated "Scotland Yard.' He Is big. burly grey-haired Capt. William "Shoes" Shoemaker, and they call him an "iron man" of the force " It will be his Job to uncover cor ruption in the police department, to Sam Bannister and Max Bower, of conduct secret investigations inde Enterprise. j pendently of the rest of the force Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Murphy and I and he reports only to one man, Act- at the W. O. Haggerty home last week, returned home on Saturday. Stock show guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Grant Tucker last week were Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Wade. Mrs. daughter, Mrs. Jane Temple and the latter's son came over from Pendleton Friday to visit Dr. and Mrs. Geo. Hoff man and attend the stock show. Marie Smith came In from Boise ing Commissioner of Police John Al- cock. ; A veteran of 'the force, he has a "card index" mind that has every nrnmlnmu. Hhiracrn rrlminnl nnri Thursday evening to attend the stock I gangster catalogued. He knows them show and visit her parents, Mr. and j au their records, pedigrees, height. A REAL ADVENTURE "Professor Piccard and Dr. Kipfcr return to earth in their queer, air-tight balloon basket announcing; that they made highly important scientific discoveries and experiments while drifting about nine miles above the earth's surface. For most people, however, the interesting thing about the flight will belts purely spectacular features the enormous height to which the balloon ascended, and the strange peril into which the two scientists put themselves. These things, surely, were spectacular enough for anybody. The two men went more than two miles higher than any one had ever gone before. They sailed up beyond the ordinary atmosphere into a queer region where the air has only one tenth of its ordinary density, and where the thermometer sticks at 148 degrees below zero. They looked down and saw Ihe earth vanish in a copper-colored cloud. No living mortals ever came so close to wandering off into the empty space between stars. In view of this, the ordinary man can be pardoned for ig noring the scientific aspects of the affair. The important thing is that they made the trip. By making it, they helped to swell the pride of all of us. .1 For there is always something oddly encouraging about the spectacle of men composedly risking their lives; and the reasons that impel them to do so are not as important as some would have us think. W'e get a new confidence in the human race when we see a man calmly take his chances with death, especially if he 1 a scientist trying to broaden the scope of human knowledge. We are debtors to such men. They prove to us, over and over again, that the race can, if it wants to, set itself free from its oldest and most powerful compulsions. All learned men agree that self-preservation is the first law of human existence. We have scriptural authority for the belief that "all that a man hath, will he give for his life." But as we digest this axiom, along comes someone to upset it Baker Juniors Win Sunday At Baker, 9 to 5 The Jack Allen American Legion) Junior league baseball team of Union i county took one on the nose Sunday I afternoon at Baker, the Baker coun- ' ty nine chalking up a 9 to 5 victory ' and evening the count In an exhlbl- j tlon series. Recently Baker lost at La Grande 16 to 10. Another game '; may be arranged between the two teams before they go to Burns. July ! 11 and la, for the district finals In! the Orepon series. Prisble. Baker pitcher, held the locals to eight hits and five runs, j while La Grande used three hurlers , McKinnis. Tutsch and DeBorde. j Teutsch was nicked for all of the runs made by Baker, but La Grande errors, at crttU-al moments, made j most of the scores unearned. I Baker was playing a much better j brand of ball than In the recent game j In La Grande, while the local boys i were apparently not up to nuff. j J. R. "Toots' Garlty accompanied j the boys to Baker, those making the, trip following : McKinnis. Teutsch and DeBorde. pitchers: B. Fowler. catcher: Irwin and Simmons, first base; Jones, second; Frizzell. short-j stop; Smith, third base: Blokland. Stanley and Richards, right field: ' R. Fowler, center field; Bosquet and 1 Richardson, left field. I McXAKY TO SPKAK SALEM. June 15 ( Senator 1 Charles L. McNary will be the main ' speaker of the day at the Fourth oi July celebration to be held at Salem i by the local post of the American ' Legion. The speaking program it , whs announced, will be held in the ) forenoon. i One of the features of the day, as ! arranged by J. T. Delnney. chairman t of the program, will be the welcome ; to the Elk s caravan, traveling about ' 1000 cars strong from California. The ; lodge visitors-will be officially wel-; coined to the state by Governor ; Julius L. Meter. Other events are; 'also being arm need In addition to trie sporis ana amusements cusiam-: Though B. D. elley. of Mt. Holly.! IS. C . has 40 cows, he has grown more feedstuff this season than he can use. ; A group of duck-ralsins farmers near Springfield. O.. have provided tcam-hrated quarters for t h c 1 r fowls. scientist in a balloon, or an Arctic explorer, or snniMnp1 the thpv srt on rr nv.; ' By Sirs. L. Z. Terrall (Observer Correspondent) UNION, Ore. (Special) When man who has traveled much and who has seen the big stock shows all over the country, says that he has never seen better stock than was exhibited at the Eastern Oregon Livestock show last week. Union accepts the statement with considerable pride. That is the remark that W. H. Hewitt, prominent lumberman-from Seattle, made when he returned from the show grounds Friday. He, together with Mrs. Hewitt and children, were driving through from Arizona where they had spent the winter and stop ped at the Levy home for a visit. Mrs. Hewitt was formerly Elizabeth Barker, who had the task of trans cribing the records In the county court when the panhandle . was cut from Union county. J. B. Weaver, veteran fruit grower here, had a stroke of paralysis" wijlle visiting In Boise and was brought home last Monday, by his son.' John, who was with htm at the time.; He has improved slightly but still has not the use of his left arm. He went to Boise with his son who had been visiting here from College Place. Wash., and was only there over the weekend. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Weaver, who are visiting from New York, ex pect to be here until about the first of July. ' i ' Mr. and Mrs. Otto WH1. of Nam pa, came to Union the first of last week to visit relatives and attend the stock show, returning home on Saturday. Mrs. Lulu Handrlhan, of Belling ham, arrived in Union Saturday for a two weeks visit with her mother, Mrs. Maggie Mitchell. Mrs. Sarah Shappat has been In La Grande under the doctor's care since early last week. Mrs. Oscar Crosland. who had been visiting her daughter in Pendleton since Decoration day, returned home Thursday with Mr. and Mrs. Jock Coleman. Mrs. Coleman and the children remained here until Sunday. Mrs. Effie Hose wall and grand daughter, Lucille Sturgill, who had been visiting at the home of the for mer's daughter. Mrs. Bert Tucker, for sometime in Walla Walla, returned home on Sunday. Mrs. Chris Johnson and family. 1 from North Powder, and Mrs. Mayme Bobbins, of La Gnukde. visited here Thursday, and some of them attended! the stock show. I T. B. Johnson, of Cove, again filled the difficult task of announcer of; events at the Eastern Oregon Live stock show. Hs ha occupied this position so long that the stock show would not be a stock show without Tom in the "crow's nest." Dunham Wright, pioneer from Medical Springs, who has watched the Ea-stern Oregon Livestock show grow from ita infancy, was an interested spectator in the grand stand on Fri day. He gave a short talk Friday night during the distribution of tro phies to the successful winners of anous contests, at the Union hotel. A. B. Davis and daughter. Mrs. Ed na Buslck, drove to Portland Friday for a visit. Mrs. Will Hermsen, of Baker, visited with her slsterf Dorothy Buslck, on Sunday. The Misses Elida and Bethene Mil ler drove in from Seattle Sunday in time to have dinner with home folks. They were unable to attend stock show ns school duties lasted until three o'clock on Saturday. Mr. and Mrs, Joe Som mors and Mr. and Mrs. Henry Sommers, of Elgin, visited the Levys" Friday and attended the stock show. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Jacobs, of North Powder, were Union visitors on Fri day. Her mother. Mrs. Josephine Graham, spent the wvck with Mrs, tC J. Marten here. Fred Nod t no. of Island City. Is re- Mrs. Ralph Smith. Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Heyse and Mrs. Bernard Rose, of Colorado Springs, came in Saturday and were weekend ! guests of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Cock. The three couples, whose friendship I dates back to school days in Colorado j f rm anybody.' Springs.' left Monday morning for a sight seeing trip that will take them victoria ana Vancouver, a, weight and appearance. Independent, deliberate, with a flair for studying a case in the detective- story manner. Shoemaker is known as a policeman who "won't take a nickel Once he conducted a secret investl- ; gatlon for the state's attorney's office that brought the indictment of six i-v. tics r-jitTAt-v mri nthor nnrt.i ' police captains in a million-dollar of Canada. They will also visit Gla-1 slot machine scandal. oIot. noimnoi mrV nnH VpHowRtfnt ! Chicago's Scotland Yard, however. park. Mr. and Mrs. . Cock and Earl i 15 onIy P"t of the plan to put the Dlan to return In about two weeks. Mrs. Edith Phy, accompanied by Miss Maggie Bell. Mrs. N. L. WarU and daughter, Virginia, drove to Eu gene Saturday to visit her daughters, Margaret and Mrs. Paul Ager. and attend . the commencement exercises of the university. Miss Bell will re main in Portland and Mrs. Ward and Virginia will visit relatives near Salem. Mrs. Phy planned to meet her sister. Mrs. Ina Herbst, of Spo kane, at the home of her brother. Elmer Wright, in Portlnnd. police force on a more efficient basis. When Mayor Anton J. Cermak was inaugurated, he gave Commissioner Alcock carte blanche to run the de partment as he saw fit. Alcock has been doing it. "The real crime preventative." he said, "is uniformed men on post. I Intend to keep as many in uniform as possible.'.' . His latest move in that direction was to replace inefficient detectives and plain clothes men by others who were ordered to patrol duty in uni Mrs. Will Haccerty returned to her (forms. . His shakeuos. of Deraonnel home In Burns Thursday, evening af-Uiave included, hundreds of policemen ter a ten-day visit at the W. O. Hag -Tm the last few weeks.- gcrty iiome, Several game wardens were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Bonney at the hatchery Thursday evening. They were George Rogers, of Wal lowa: Art Fish, of Portland, and Mr. and Mrs, c. C. Franklin, of Baker. Mr. and Mrs. Max Jensen were here from Pendleton Thursday eve ning to attend the stock show dance. Mrs. C. M. .Pratt, cnanotte ana Under the new system." he said. "every captain Is held responsible for conditions in his district. He must make a report every 15 days of the number of crimes commltteed In his district, and the number that have been ?leaned up." places with Paul Bunyan. He said he was attracted to the Baker country Homer and Helen Harsen. of Medical ! in 1862 y the Sold boom and for 57 Springs! visited Mr. and Mrs. Mark i yea a resident in that section. urosiaua inursaay. iner umiier ( , - guests that day were Mr. and Mrs. breeder. Jock Coleman and children, of Pen-' Virginia Wright, who recently dleton. and Mrs. O. M. Crossland and j graduated from the Ellison-White sons, Lloyd and Pat. conservatory of music in Portland. Guests of Mr. and Mrs. 5eoorge ( came to Union Friday with her grand Moffit during stock show time were : parents. Mr. and Mrs. L. L. McKen Merland Moffit, of Enterprise; Low- i non, of La Grande, for a visit at the ell Roupe and Mr. and Mrs. George ! Bell Wright home. She was on her Hook, of Wallowa. way to her home In Mandan, S- D.. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Delaney left Sun- J where her parents. Mr. and Mrs. day for San Jose to bring his mother ; Charles Wright live. oacx to union, mis sister, utneno i Est Johnson, of Wallowa, was a guest of Mr. and Mrs. Dick Benson from Friday until Sunday when she left for La Grande to enroll for the summer course in the Normal school. Delaney. accompanied them. Malcolm Nice, of Wolf Creek, brought some exhibits down for the 4-H pig club division of the stock show and visited with his brother here. Gcorce Chandler and son drove ud We haven't seen any clear explana- from Portland Friday to attend the I tion of the surplus of wool in the na- stock show and visit the formers son. tions warehouses this year, but after Herbert, at Baker. Mr. Chandler Is i looking over some of those new 1931 hale and hearty In spite of his 86 j bathing suits that the girls are wear years and says he wouldn't changeling we have our guess. risking his life for another. They ruffgest the existence of a different set of values. Coroner Believes Vance Was Slain VANCOUVER, Wash.. June 15 U Expressing his "personal conviction" that Ray Vance. 34. Vancouver musi cian, "met with foul play. Coroner W. E. Casa said today Clark county officials were endeavoring to account for the discovery of the musician's body in a slough near Ridgefield lh.st Friday. The body, apparently, had been I in the water since Vance disappeared 1 Feb. 20. :t was badly decomposed and the hr.id was missing. Coroner CaA Mid it was impossible to deter mine how Vanre mrt death, but he based his theory that the man had been murdered upon the premise that there was not motive lor suicide. Officials were today tnvesucatlni; a report that Vance's wife. Mrs v.c let Vance of Portland, received a note from a Seattle girl a few dan before her husband disappeared. ; It was hinted that this note told of relations with the musician. 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