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Tuesday, June 16, 1931 LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER, LA GRANDE, ORE. Pae Seven freight Rates -To Calif brnia" Will Be Reduced PORTLAND, Ore., June 18 (P) Freight rates on lumber from Willa mette Valley, Oregon, points to prin cipal cities In California will be reduced materially by the Southern Pacific July IS, J. H. Mulchay, freigbt traffic manager here for the company, announmed Monday. Portland , and shipping points on branch lines of tho company In Oregon, will come under the new order. Reductions on fir lumber will range between 10 and 17 per cent, aver aging about 16 per cent, Mulchay 6ald. ''A greater reduction than the rates may Indicate will result through en largement of the list of articles that will, under the new tariff, be entitled to: lumber rates, either in straight or In mixed carloads" Mulchay said. "T.ie new lumber list will confirm generally to Items allowed to. move at lumber rates under, transcontin ental tariffs. To accomplish this, the new tariff has been built largely along the form of commodity groups A, B, C, D and E." 'i , , t ' Mulchay pointed out that excep tions to the lumber list were gen erally "light-loading" commodities and subject to similar exceptions In transcontinental tariffs. Group A, for , example, covering beehive lum ber, shingles, etc., will pay 7lfa cents over lumber, but will not exceed the present rate. Under group B, built-up woodwork will pay 5 cents over lumber. Group D, will comprise a long list of ar ticles to which lumber rates have not been applied before "because of tho low rates existing between Ore " gon and California territory." the announcement said. The new tariffs will be available next week. Clark Wood Says Poternollsts seem to have in mind a sort of Utopia where everybody will either be working for or working the government. If you call an enemy the Bon of a trlloblte you'll .have scientific back ing, but It may not be enough. The conscientious motorist, if any, will do unto the pedestrian as he would be done by if and when he Is personally afoot. There also seems to be a surplus of, the wild oats crop. Busy Oil Area Put To By Proration OKLAHOMA CITY. Okla. UP) Two years ago a hissing, pulsating, bril liantly lighted area the famed Okla homa City oil field has become a darkened, quietly sleeping giant. Its huge petroleum and gas reserve Bhut down because of proration orders. Little activity is noted In the field now, due principally to the low price of crude, cost of drilling to points be low 6,000 xeet, and. enforcement of a 614 per cent allowable " production regulation. - . A few months before the. oil mar- ket skidded downward the field at night bore the appearance, of a great carnival ground. Scores. of. supply houses, hotels and cafes appeared along the roads crossing, the field. Army Of Unemployed. Only a few wells are-tushlna the field's boundary northward into Okla- noma uity s limits today.-unuers and oil well supply men havo been dis missed by the hundreds: " . Wirt Franklin, independent operat or and head of the Independent Pe troleum troaucers Association or America, In an application recently placed before the state corporation commission, requested an Increase in aiiowac-ie now. He asserted there are f "ur separate areas in the field, and that, water en croachment threatens. He sought to open to, 7& per cent production the part of the field where oil first was discovered. Could Supply All U. 8. Franklin contended tests . showed the 777 producers now In the district still were capable of supplying the auiiy aemana oi xne entire umtea States, estimated at 2,500,000 barrels. More recently Franklin asked Gov. Ross Sterling of Texas to call . the legislature of that state into special session to curb production in the East Texas field. .It Is generally adr mitted that the new Texas field has all but ruined tho market for Okla homa oil. i i , I Treasury War Debt A m u t ; - Axiuuae uncnangea WASHINGTON. Juno 16 UP Under Secretary Mills said yesterday the treasury has not changed its attitude on the revision of war debts. Mills declined to comment further on- this 1 topic which has assumed prominence with the departure for Europe of Secretary Melon and the prospective European tour of Secre tary Stlmson. Germany has demanded revision. For years tho attitude of the ad ministration has been that German reparations payments to other Euro pean powers was a distinctly separate question from war debt payments to the United States. Why bother about conventions and elections when the esteemed Literary Digest could Just as well select the nominees and the winner by means of Its straw votes? One difference between a political platform and a boat is that hokum instead of oakum is used for caulk ing. . ' Litigation over a poisoned cat in Santiago, Chile, has already . cost f $200,000. The feline runs high. JYashington PaperT May Be Purchased WASHINGTON, June 16 (ff) A petition for the sale of the Washing ton Post to David Lawrence for $3, 000,000 was agreed to yestorday by tho owners, and was immediately submitted to the; District of Colum bia supreme court. A New England couple proposed, wed and started on a honeymoon to Honolulu all in 72' hours. Let's hope the return trip won't be made via Reno. Georgia farm land is valued at $10 per acre less tnan pre-war values oy tho U. S. bureau of agricultural economics. NATIONAL UNION PACIFIC STAGES: DAILY SCHEDULES EXCURSION FARES Now I n effect Yellowstone . . . the va cation 'of a lifetime. Happy, carefree, com fortable way to go . . . . ,v- enjoying the scen- if.) . ery at its best !' V from those big. J-Sff easy-riding Union mMmm Pac.tic Mages. Salt Lake City you can Isit the woria- femous Grand Canyon, Zlon, Bryce Canyon National Parks. Dally ervlce to Butte, Montana now In effect. Ask Agent tsr details Stages leave from Singe Depot mm. s 4i,:ri III An ex-motorcycle con won the In dianapolis speedway race. Just as any auto driver would h ave expected. McKelvie Thinks Conference Will Produce Results WASHINGTON, June 16 (ff) A shrinkage of an overstuffed world wheat basket was seen yesterday by Samuel R. McKelvie as a possible re sult of the recent London Interna tional wheat conference. '. Tho grain member : of the farm board, one of the United States dele gates, told his colleagues In a repqrt that "all in all the conference may be regarded as having been worth While." - v ; f 1 McKelvie retired yesterday after a two-year service. He plans to return to his Nebraska farm. - In discussing the problem of over production of wheat,, he said, "Each country will have to approach the question in Its own way. Acreage re duction is coming about in Australia, Argentina and Canada through sheer. , necessity, "It wiU be hastened by a realiza tion that there Is no legerdemain .by which such abnormal , quantities of wheat can be disposed of at a profit to the grower. .It is. apparent that Russia is not so happy with her sit uation, and some of the Balkan states are looking to other crops than wheat. These are encouraging signs." McKelvie asserted that exporting nations at the London meeting favor ing a quota plan for controlling sur pluses would have been well content with recognition of that principle. -'; He added that few, if any, of the representatives had - authority to pledge their governments, to such an agreement. I "We had no intention of abandon ing the world wheat market fiut: we hoped to get back to a pre-war basis," he said he Informed the conference. ''All of this had been-done In the In terest of our own growers and we asked no sympathy or commendation for it." i McKelvie said the proposol to de velop a clearing house ol world wheat information has "very good, possibili ties." . ' " "Russia's approval of this proposal-," bo added, "should mean that Impor tant Information needed from that country will now become available. and if it Is, one of the most highly speculative elements in the market will have been removed." MILLION MEMBERS OF TWO CHURCHES "A TO ! JOIN FflBCES AT SEATTLE MEETING ! SEATTLE, Wash. (AV-More than 1.000,000 communicants of two large Christian denominations will Join forces here in June and July when the Congregational and Christian churches become one. The union, brought to Its final stages after- two years 1 of - work among leaders of both groups. Is' ex pected -to- result lh a greatly strengthened group, lending strength In instances where' the respective congregations were -weak..' - i i :. '' 1 The Congregational churches, for tho most port, ore located ' in the larger cities, while the Christian churches are generally- tn - smaller cities and towns, leaders point out, Sponsors of the movement, which had -Its inception at the general council of Congregational churches at Detroit In May, 1939, proposed the union on the- basis or a belief that the churches "united,: could do more for the Kingdom: of God than they can separated.'"1 i- ne two . denominations are not widely different in principle. . ; ' Farmers' National ' Storage increased PENDLETONi Ore.. June 16 P) Henry Collins announced yesterday he has sold to the Farmers' National Warehouse corporation the warehous ing facilities of the Independent Warehouse company hero at a price not revealed. This brings the facili ties of the national group In the Pa cific Northwest to about 11,000,000 bushel capacity. Richard Rice will have charge of the warehousing cor poration for Oregon, Washington, and Northern Idaho. D 1 f -0,. ' YOU WOULD say she had X-ray eyes . . . was clairvoyant ... a fortune teller except that thousands of, shoppers see as clearly as she into the contents of perfectly opaque jars, and"foretell with the "same, swift accuracy the future of. the things they buy. ' ' . Advertising is her television. Ad vertising gives her complete ad vance information. Quietly, in a congenial corner of frer home, she thinks and determines before she buys. Finding out about the newest foundation cream, the crisp'est breakfast food, the most gossamer brand of hose. ! Comparing these with others. Making selections ser enely. Going forth to buy. ... She has only this left to do. No' worrying or hesitating when con fronted by two jars, each equally in viting. No doubts about their mak ers. Advertisements have told her the invisible merits given her clear true images of the contents of those jars, and the results of their use. Rare is the woman who can boast sh ehas never bought anything she wishes she hadn't bought. But with the aid of advertisements, that sort of buying is almost entrely done away with. A regular reading of advertisements keeps shopping -tempers sweet. Both churches carry oh wide spread activities in foreign mission work.. Tho Congregational church's American Board of- Commissioners for Foreign missions was Incorporated la 1812, .. ;.u :,. ... .... Many of the leading colleges and universities of the United States have a Congregational, origin- and background. . . .... , . Tho-' Christian denomination. Its leaders point out, came Into exis tence as a protest against divisive creeds and names, and was based upon emphasis of Christian charac ter rather than theological opinions. The ' denomination maintains two colleges. Defiance college, at De fiance, O., In the north, and Elon college, In North Carolina for tho south. ' . V 4 from headquarters of the general convention- of , the Christian church here, and from, the seat of the na tional council of the Congregational church In New York, officers of the two denominations have beon di recting the work incident to complete merging of the two groups. Dr. Pred'B. Smith, of New York. Is moderator of the Congregational council, and the Rev. Frank a. Coffin, of Columbus, Is president of tho Chrlsitlan church, general con vention. . ... . The Rev. . Charles E. Burton, of Now York, and the 7&ev. Warren K; Denlson, of Dayton,- respectively, are secretaries of the two groups. Wien tho national council and tho general convention meet here Joint ly Juno 35, they will hold brief separate sessions to clear up legal matters, but tho principal program will be that of the general council. On the program will be represen tatives of both groups from all sec tions of the country. ; Seminars will bo held by six dis cussion groups, and the findings of the six groups will be formulated luto a common set of findings for discussion by the council as a whole. City, that she will arrive June 20 tot spend tho summer with her son and nmuiy. , , ; Word came Saturday morning that fiftV. PntliPi Tlronn. who llverl lift Kn. tei prlee for several years, passed away very suddenly an wasnington, u. u., where he has been living for about .two years. Father Breen waa well liked by all who knew him and all .regret his passing. He was In charge of tho Catholic church at Enterprise for several years.- , ; . - . ,, .. . $ f ' $ 4 "4 ' ! $ $ $ JOSEPH PERSONALS s' By Mrs. Malila L. Stevenson, ? ' (Observer, Correspondent). JOSEPH. Ore. ' (Special) Mr. and Mrs. F. D. McCully were In La Grande Saturday, driving out and back, the same dav. , . .... -v. ... .... Mrs. Lena Fouse and. daughter, of Walla Walla, came in saturday: lor a visit with Mrs. Wnlthy Mitchell and Will. Needhom,' Mrs. fouse 1& -their sister..;. . Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wolfer drove to La Grande Sunday to meet Mrs. William Bales, who has been visiting in Pendleton for the last month. Thursday afternoon Mrs. EW;. Cal vert Rave an afternoon at bridge in honor, of her sister, Mrs. Wagner, of PoHlnnd- Those proRpnfc wnre Mrs. F- - D. McCully, :KrSi" Ed Eben, Mrs. Floyd Oreciu Mrs. Daisy Rumble, Mrs. Stovo Houck, Mrs. F. H. Gaulke. High score prize went; to Mrs. Qaulke and consolation to Mrs, Houck., Delicious refreshments were served by the hostess.., ; . . ' Tho Misses Gladys 'and Gussle Sprague of Los Angeles, .arrived In Joseph Monday to visit their parents, Mr., and Mrs. Bert Sprague, and oth er relatives.-;v ." . , ., Chester Collins worth camo In Fri day to spend vacation with his par ents. Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Colli nsworth. Chester is a -junior at O. S. C' 1 Mrs. W. D; McAllister, of Enter prise, Ore., Bpent the wcekond with Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wolfer. . Mrs. Roy Hogan, of Baker, has been visiting- her parents, Mr. and Mis. George Gray. . . . . . : ,, Norman Gray, who wob so badly injured by getting his artnis caught In an electric clothes wringer, is re covering nicely and 1b able to be up and-around. . t ,, ' W. G. Booth, who underwent an ap pendix operation a week ago at an Enterprise hospital, is recovering nicely and will soon bo able to come home. William Nccdham, of the Divide, was In Joseph Saturday and reports crops badly In need of rain. Mr. and Mrs. F. D. McCully will drive to Portland Wednesday, taking 7r:uik McCully Jr., Kolth Wilson and Billy Kettle with them. The boys will outer the C. M. T. camp at Van couver, Wash. Sunday .was quite cloudy and a few drops of rain fell. All arc wish ing for a general rain as range and crotjS are badly In need of moisture. Tho lake is unusually low for this time oi' year and as so many ditches arc supplied from tho lake, a rain would bo vory welcome Fred Strochel received word from hlfi mothnr.. who lives in Nnw York i PROMISE PERSONALS $ 3 3 3 $ $ By Mrs. ncrlha C'urper '' (Observer Correspondent) PROMISE, Ore. (Special) About 40 of the young peoplo of Promise spent a very pleasant time at the Grange hall hist Saturday evening, playing games and having a good social time. Carl Lively, who bus been attend ing Washington State collcgo, is vise Hiug Boyd Carper this week. Ella Haney, of Wallowa, la spending this week with her grandmother, Mrs, Alma Carper. , . Q. E. Kenworthy still remains quite 111' 'nnd is growing weaker each day. C. P. Carper Is taklug care of him. Walter Carper captured two young coyotes lout week. ; Charlie Wortmnn made a return trip to Wallowa Saturday. Ho took out Charlie Moore's wool. Mrs. Moore and Vivian Anderson accompanied hiin. Thero was a reunion of the J. W. Curper family last Sunday at the Carper home In Promise, It had been tin co years slnco all the fam ily had beon at home. Those present woro Mr. and Mrs. Earl Haney, of Wallowa, Mr. and Mrs. Reuben Bar ton, of Promises Frank. Carper, of Wallowa. Mr. and, Mrs. Ed Camer. of Promise, and Mr. and Mrs. Houry unvper, oi promise, ana u-rcd i;arper, who is nt home with his parents. Mr, and Mrs. J. O, Swcarlnon vis ited Mr. and Mrs. Truman Poulnon, of Powwatka. last Sundav and little Billy Poulson roturncd with thorn to visit for a fow days. Obo Swearimren took nbrfe MKU ' of wool to Wallow Tfednsda$ far ' 3 Charles Corbet t. " Mr. Qorbet ln ir a drove to Wallowa accompanied home J relatives until Sunday. tii Earl Haney this week from; Wallowa fl to Aiaxvuie.. uri is aunering irom, j neuralgia. I 1 Henry Ca.yjr left Friday lor. La Grande where he expects to work on the N. K. West ranch. - - : Melvln and Fred Carper were help- lng Charlie Wortmnn pack a- mow- j Ing machine on horses Monday antA orougnt n out irom une river.- Fred and French Trump and Gil- ,: bcrt Lyons returned Saturday from a visit to Rochester,-Wash. They re-'-port the strawberry crop there quite 1 large. They were unable to find work so returned home; Willa Burnett Is Btaying this week' -V with her sister, Mrs. Ruby Carper. - Clarenco Roby Is working with the' flrest fire service in the national for est near the Ciearwa:er river yla' Idaho.- ; -. -iM ' Mr, and Mrs. Obe Swearlngen and! -I. S. McDonald spent Friday wlth -C. E. Kenworthy. The neighbors are." . 1' taking turns staying nights with hinv. while C. Pi Carper Is there all the time to care for him. His: brother,-tf and wife of Santa Rosa, Cal., are on thoir'way here- to be- with' him. - - Lola and Myra Gorbett and Vivian? Andoi'son visited Duan Gorbett- at . the sheep camp on Middle Point Thursday. x - - o. . The state boiler Inspector was in-frj spec ting the boiler at tho V. R. Hen-, derson sawmill Saturday. . , John Carper Is confined to his home because of a lame back. . (. , ; .. . ,' ir: Pontiac, Michigan, Bank Closes Doors 1 A PONTIAC, Mich., Juno 1ft (ff) ThQ"l Pontlao Commercial and Savings' a bank, the, city's largest Unanoial In stitution was closed yesterday by Its dlrcotors to "conserve the asseto andf prcsorvo the interests of depositors.'. " T)io bank listed resources, of 917,- 0-11,777. Cramor Smith, its president, took his- life, In a pontine hotcL June J C. wfladD stir Mmu tBeBmmim TVTE LIKE nothing better than to induce liartl- to-convincc smokers to switch to Camels for just one tlayj For we know that after they have made a real test, it will be mighty hard to lure them away from this famous brand. It's not easy to smoke parched-dry ciga rettes once you have known the delights of perfectly conditioned Camels. After inhaling the cool, soft fragrance of the Camel Blend of choice Turkish' and mellow Domestic tobaccos protected by tho Humidor Pack, your throat protests against the bite and eting and harsh hotucss that cornea, from crumbly, dry tobacco. ( , ' t No matter where you pick them up, in any land, in any climate, Camels arc the same fresh, factory-prime cigarettes. ' ' For the Humidor Pack of moisture-proof Cellophane air-seals all the flavor in and keeps out weather, dust and germs. ' This is no mere advertising story. It is a reci tation of fact that has made tho whole country conscious of a new superiority in Camels. It you are hard to convince, won't you switch to Camels for just one day? Theu leave them if you can. Si Tunc in camel QUAnTFR noun featuring Morton-Downey and Tony Wont Columbia Itraadcuathig System every night except Sunday (EkMiEILS IV O CIUAHETTY AFTGll.TASTG ,'v.'- Q Don't remove the molf ture-proof Cellophane from your package of Camels after you open it Ttic Humidor Pack U pro lection againnt itvcai, dust and eerms.lt delivers fresh Camels and keeps them right until you smoke tho . last one 1,1 1931, n. i. Rcjatldi T.bteco Crapanr, Wloi!oa.9.lat N. C
