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CITY EDITION , Full Associated Press Leased , Wire Service 8 PAGES TODAY r Only Newspaper ' Printed In La Grande Covering Union and V - Wallowa Counties ' VOLUME 30 LA GRANDE, OREGON1, THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1932 MKMRFR ASSOCIATED PRESS AND A. B. O. KASTKIIN OREGON'S LEADING NKWSPAPBB NUMBER 165 NEW DISHES PREPARED AT 'CHAUTAUQUA' More Than Half a Thous and Women at Second Day of Cooking School "COOK'S TOUR OF WORLD" NEAR END Miss Hester Heath to Con clude Demonstrations at Observer School Friday Afternoon. Bringing Spain to your dining ta bic, Miss Hester Heath prepared a number of Spanish dishes yesterday afternoon on the second day's pro gram at the "Kitchen Chautauqua" being sponsored at the Sacajawea Inn this week by the Observer. Five hundred attended the opening dem onstration which was devoted to prep , aratlon of Italian food on Tuesday afternoon,' and on Wednesday the size of the audience was far above Tuesday's record. : Miss Heath has taken her audience on a "cook's tour" of the principal countries of Europe: Italy on Tues day, Spain on Wednesday, and today other couuntrles of continental Eu rope. Friday, the ' fourth and last day, they plan to be "home again," when Miss Heath will demonstrate the preparation of - various dishes typical of different sections of the United States. c Prepares Empanatlas To demonstrate the principles "of pastry making, Miss Heath prepared Spanish empanadas yesterday. Em panadas are excellent for a plate luncheon and make dainty food for a party, since they are little meat pies, which may be made economic ally for every day by using leftover meats, or for parties zy filling the Inside with chicken or other more expensive kinds of meat. The outer crust, which Is made from pie crust, was prepared first. The flour, salt and baking powder were sifted together, and the short ening was cut into the, size of large peas and put Into the dry Ingredients. Miss Heath emphasized the principle oi not mixing me Bnortemng too finely : If one -wishes a flaky pastry t, To vary tho. empanada from, other pastry.-' "Miss Heath added"bne ' egg' after which the water was added. An Important factor in making pastry (Continued on Page Flve EAST OREGON ADVERTISED IN NEW BOOKLET The land settlement department of the Spokane chamber of commerce has Issued a 62-page, attractively ap pearing booklet, entitled "A Farm Home For You In the Pacific Nortbl west," which will be given widespread distribution during 1932. Not only does the booklet tell of Washington attractions, but it In cludes Northeastern Oregon, and sec tions of Idaho and Montana. Nearly three pages are devoted to Umatilla, Union, Baker and Wallowa counties, and four' Inches of space are devoted to telling of La Grande. "We want you to see the Inland Empire" Is the keynote of the book let, which sets forth not only the tourist attractions but the many things that each year lure hundreds of .home-seeing families to the Pa cific Northwest. - Baker Elks Will Entertain Lodge A large group of Baker Elks will be In La Grande tonight to present an entertainment at the meeting of the La Grande lodge at 8 o'clock at the Elks temple. Sherwood Williams stated this morning that he was Unable to announce the nature of the program, but has received a let ter from Carsten Hansen, the direc tor, asking that school room chairs bo procured for their performance. All the newly elected officers of the Baker lodge will accompany the actors. ' Dancing for Elks and their ladles will follow the program, and a buf fet lunch will be served by a com mittee headed by Ira Kennedy. S WEATHER FORECAST 4 Oregon: Cloudy and unset- tied tonight and Friday; 8 $ probably occasional rains in $ the west and local snows In the mountains; no change in $ temperature; moderate south winds offshore. $ - ' WEATHER TODAY 7 a. m. 29 above. Minimum: 29 above. 4 Condition: Cloudy. WEATHER YESTERDAY Maximum 43, minimum 28 $ above. Condition : Partly cloudy, cloudy, snow one-half Inch, moisture .08 of inch. Range 3 15 degrees. WEATHER MAR. 10. Ifl3t Maximum 52, minimum 34 S above. Condition: Cloudy, rain .05 $ of inch. Range 18 degrees. Hug Enters Race For Position Of County Assessor Elgin Business Man Seeks Nomination Rumors Are- Heard of Other Prospective Candidates. . H. H. Hug, business man of Elgin, this morning filed his declaration of candidacy for the Republican nom ination for county assessor, It was announced at the county clerk's. of fices. Mr. Hug was the Becond -candidate to file with the clerk. Mrs. Florence Bacon, treasurer, filed her declaration last week. Although only two have filed, a number of incumbents and private citizens have announced their can didacies. . Tho filing of Mr. Hug added a new race to the primary ballot, as It is understood that David Proctor, In cumbent, will seek re-election. He Is a Republican. Hug Makes Statement Mr. Hug, in a statement to the Ob server today, said this Is the first time he has sought any county of fice, although he has held several city positions at Elgin. He Is a pio neer of the Grande Ronde valley, coming here In 1879. His 61 years of residence were spent mostly in Elgin, although he was In La Grande for one five-year period. He was reared on a farmr and p 17 went Into the mercantile buslne. con tinuing in a general store for 17 years and in groceries for an equal length of time. . ' (Continued on Page rour 18 Men at Work On Streets And Dyke This Week S$$$$S$$$83$ FIREMEN MAKE OFFER The La Grande volunteer firemen, acting as a result of a resolution passed at an impromptu meeting after last night's commission meeting, have offered their services to the city free from Mar. 1 , 1932 to Jan. 1, 1933. It was also stipulated in the resolu tion that the firemen be called out for at least three fire drills each month. At the commission meeting the La Grande firemen offered their resignations, they ,,report,. bo-. cause of certain policies rc-:' cently Inaugurated by, the commissioners and city man ager, and the volunteer fire men felt that rather than, take a cut In salary and abide by other certain rules and regu lations, they would offer their services free to the city for the rest of this year. . i Eighteen men are being employed on the relief crew this week, City Manager Angus McAllister reported to the city commission lnexccutlve session last night. No men were worked during the first week of March because of failure of many who had pledged, contribution to make their donations. However, since the first of March enough has been received to pay the men for this week and allow some for next week, Mr. -McAllister said. Part of the men are hauling gravel and the others are working on the dyke on the Grande Ronde river near the city dump, which Is nearing completion. ' Firemen Resign The volunteer firemen handed In a group resignation last night, the result of a decision to place then (Continued on Page Three) Board Calls For Bids on $80,000 Blocks of Bonds The school board of La Grande 1b re-advertlsing an 80,000 block of bonds, with bids to be received at 7:30 o'clock Mar. 17 at tho board of education's office in the High school building, It was announced today. The bonds were voted as La Grande's portion of a $130,000 amount for the erection of a new training school building on the Eastern Oregon Nor mal school campus. The state legis lature appropriated J60.0OO for the purpose, provided the sum of $80,000 was provided by the La Orande dis trict. The bonds are serial bonds of $500 and $1000 denominations with a maximum rate of b'A per cent inter est. Principal payments would be gin in 1935 and end In 1051. Gangster Eludes Posse of Officers SALEM. N. J., Mar. 10 JPl A man believed to be an underworld execu tioner, who killed a negro woodcutter who happened to spy him dumping a "ride" victim's body Into the woods nf hero, had eluded a cordon of state troopers and a posse of citizens today. The slayer fled In a rea coupe ai t ninain. th bodv into a clump of bushes, shooting Irving White, the 49-year-old woodenopper, ana. inreav enlng the negro's wife. The first victim was a well-dressed white man about 25 years old, who y.bj han .tint. Coroner Rov Allen said he believed the man was a gang ster who had been taken for a ride." He had been dead about two hours. ONLY UNDEFEATED CAGE TEAM Elgin High school has the only undefeated basketball team among; the High schools in tills section of Eastern Oregon but It Is a . sextet, not a quintet. The Elgin girls, coached by F. C. Smith, , won nine games and scored 311 points to opponents 54. The , coach mid team members, reading from left to right, are: Couoli Smith, June Hug, Jessie Jones, Cleo Jacobs, Frances GllkLson Ida Phlppen,- La u rase Harris, He mad en n. Uruggcr. Murle Harris and Delphla Beam. Scores of games played follow: " ' - ' Opponents MOST OF NATION IN WINTRY GRIP East Has Coldest Day of Season Snow Falls in Eastern Oregon. By The Associated Press Winter's pennons still fluttered angrily over large slices of Uncle Sam's domain today. Cold winds swept the south; snow swirled in parts of , the northeast; northwest blasts chopped the Atlan tic; and the frigid wave which push ed the mercury to season's lows in many areas showed no sign of letting up. The death list In the storm which began Sunday stood at about 40. A crew of 34 abandoned the Collier H. F. De Bordcleben after running for nearly three days with a broken rudder. They transferred to the British motorship Laganbank. Off Cape Sable, N. S., the German freighter Harburg, endangered by a broken rudder, sent out an S O S yesterday, t - " Hoy Frozen to Death A blizzard blinded autolsts about Buffalo. A boy was found frozen to death In Pennsylvania. Cold con) tlnued to damage southern crops. In Ontario the snow was eight to ten feet deep.. ' I . . ..WW, i New York Clty.with 14 above. zerp, had Its coldest day of the season yes terday. Automobiles In the northeast were still marooned by snow. From tho northwest yesterday came reports of sub-zero weather. (Continued on Page Four DEATH TAKES SHIRLEY ANN SHERWOOD, 6 Shirley Ann Sherwood, six years of age, passed away at the family home at 1605 Sixth street enrly Wednesday evening of nephritis, which followed a six-week Illness. Tho body of the little girl is at tho .Walker Funeral Home and ar rangements for funeral services will be announced later. Shirley Ann is survived by her par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Sherwood; two brothers, Gerald, 6. and Doug las, 2; her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. -Henry Ritter, of La Grande; Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Sherwood, of Eugene; and an aunt, Miss Esther Sherwood, also of Eugene. Shirley Ann was a student at the Ackerman Training school and a member of the Presbyterian Sunday school. She had many little friends who Joined with her relatives today in sorrow, at her passing. Gorilla Dies Of Pneumonia Today At Capital Zoo WASHINGTON. Mar. 10 (P N'gi. the baby gorilla, died of pnemonla today at the Washington zoo. Death followed a three weeks' fight by doctors and zoo ' attendants to save the six-year-old animal. Oxygen tanks were brought from New York to aid in treating him. N'gi was one of te few gorillas In captivity and spe cial efforts were made to save hi mi A $3000 Insurance policy had been taken out on N'gi by the Smithsonian Institu tion, which is in charge of the zoo. The body may go to the national museum or Johns Hopkins university. 100 Fishermen Are Rescued From Ice HELS INGFORS, Finland. Mar. 10 UPt Hardy boatmen accustomed to the northern winter today rescued about 100 of the 700 fishermen stranded on great ice floes which broke loose yesterday in a storm in the Oulf of Finland. Tho others, with a hundred horses, could be seen from Suursaarl is land, halfway between iHelslngfors and Leningrad, huddled together on two huge floes, unable to help them selves. The island inhabitants could not reach them. Tho wind was still high today but the storm had broken. Elgin Score 28 ...Enterprise 12 32....;. ..-..Union 8 ' 38.. .....Alumni 2 " 24 Enterprise 11 44 North Powder . 3 41 Cove 1 " 23 North Powder 3 33 Imbler 7 - 48 Imbler 7 Legionnaires Of Baker Give Play At Post Meeting S ... RKSI'ONSB NOT STRONG RESPONSE NOT STRONG The hearty response which was expected to the American Legion drive to relieve un employment has not been The hearty response which 8 S received by the La Grande 3 post, Raymond O. , Williams, $ publicity director, announced this morning. Five hundred 4' questionnaires were sent to La S Grande home owners, asking that they list the jobs which $ they have around their homes $ and which will be distributed by the legion committee to unemployed men. Only a few answers have been received. S Harry Miles, commander of 3 $ Baker post, reported last night $ 3 while visiting the meeting of j the local post, that his city f ,! had stood behind1 the lglon& 4 In their drive, and that em- J $ ployment had been Increased g 30 per cent. Tho American Legion urges S that all who received tho questionnaires return them $ and help rollevo some family who is In distress. S ' "Guilty or Not Guilty?" A group of Baker legionnaires were found guilty of presenting a comedy by that name last night, which proved to be one of the funniest events in legion history. The One-act play was given at the Sacajawea before the La Grande American Legion and auxiliary, following meetings which opened at 8 o'clock. The comedy took place In Judge Applejack's courtroom, when court was called for the trials of Oliver Simple, charged with stealing the shoes of legionnaires; Scarf ace Boloney, a hard egg; George Wash ington Jones, a victim; and Lucy (Continued on Pago Five) Mrs. Northcott, Pioneer, Will Be . Buried Saturday Lucetta Walker Northcott, a pioneer of Union county of 1875, died at Hot Lake last night about 10 o'clock after a long Illness. Funeral services will be held at the Snodgrass and Zim merman mortuary at 2 o'clock Sat urday afternoon with Interment to take place in the I. O. O. F. ceme tery. Rev. W. H. Hertzog. of the First M. E. church, will officiate. Lucctia Walker was born In Mis souri Aug. 31, 1852 and married Leon ard L. Northcott Apr. 2, 1868. Her husband passed way in 1010. To this union was born 11 chll dren, five of whom survive. They ore Mrs. E. E. Bonham, of Pondoaa; Mrs. J. E. Smith, of Union; Leonard North cott, of OJai, Cal.; Mrs. C. N. Vine core, of Pondosa; and Robert L. Northcott, of Bnkar. She also left 10 grandchildren and 14 great-grand children. ( Mrs. Northcott crossed the plains with her husband In 1875 settling at Perry, where she resided until four years ago when she moved to Pon dosa to live with her daughter, Mrs. Bonham. 44 Rioters Freed At Detroit Today DETROIT. Mar. 10 tft All but four of the 48 persons arrested in connection with the riot at the Ford Motor company plant Monday were released today on orders of the prose cutor's Investigators. Before being released they were served with subpoenas to appear be fore the Wayne county grond Jury which next Monday will start an In vestigation of the riot. The four men still held are Karl Most,. Danlal Gray. Peter Topek and Ben Miller. Investigators indicated they appeared to know more about the not than the others. EXCISE TAX PROPOSED AS ALTERNATIVE Plan Suggested in Case House Opposes Manuf ac- hirers' Sales Tajx. CONSIDERATION OF MEASURE STARTED Crisp, of Georgia, Pleads For Patriotic and Non Partisan" Action on Revenue Bill. WASHINGTON, Mar. 10 (JP) The tax bill now before the house was assailed In the senate today by Sen ator Dill, (D., Wash.) as "dangerous mid burdensome upon the poor peo ple." ! WASHINGTON, Mar. 10 (P) A program calling for heavy excise taxeB on several big Industries was offered as an alternative to the house today In the event it declined to favor the 2.25 per cent manufacturers' sales tax program of the ways and means committee. Acting Chairman Crisp said the committee believed the sales tax the most Just but that If It, along with the levies to return $676,000,000 were defeated, the house could adopt the treasury's program. Heavy Tuxes Listed It calls for heavy taxes on tobacco, automobiles, gasoline, radios, phono graphs, electricity, household gas and taxes on bank checks, real estate transfers and by Increasing first class postage. Tho house today began considera tion of the new $1,096,000,000 tax bill with Acting Chairman Crisp of the ways and means committee de claring It the "duty of congress to raise revenue to meet government ex penses." Tho Georgia Democrat said he re gretted tho necessity for the bill but that a $1,241,000,000 treasury deficit was in prospect for 1033 and the bud get "must be balanced to aid econ omic recovery, give employment and make effective emergency relief legls- .(Qontliiued on Page Five) ,s. I JOBLESS MEN HELD THREAT TO FORESTS PORTLAND, ORE., March 10 (ZD Firing of forests by unemployed men In the hope that they may get work aa flre-flghtcrs was seen as one of the chiof threats against western forests during the coming year by foresters who attended the Western Forestry and Conservation associa tion's annual conference here thlB week. The three-day conference closed last night with the election of of ficers and adoption of numerous reso lutions pertaining to forest protec tion. Widespread Incendiarism last year was attributed by many of the 150 foresters attending the convention to unemployment. Although no def inite plan to combat this menace was developed It was the concensus that strinnent measures would bo necessary to protect standing timber this season. 40 Men Taken From Burning Freighter MANILA, Mar. 10 (P) The de stroyer Tracy, racing ahead of four other . vessels of the ' United States navy, saved forty or moro Japanese ftrom the burning freighter Kaku Maru, off the Island of Mlndoro to night. r:(n,i,ii:it ahanhonkd ABOARD COAST GUARD CUTTER OSSIPEE, Mar. '10 (JP) Abandoned by her crew after three days of Intense hardship, the disabled collier H. F. Do Bardeleben wallowed forlornly today on the storm tossed Atlantic 600 miles cast of New York. During a temporary lull in tho Rdlo tho collier's crew of 34 weary men took to their boats shortly af tcr midnight and were picked up, uninjured, by a freighter. President of Chicago Livestock Exchange Accuses U. S. Farm Board WASHINGTON, Mar. 10 ryp Charles Wilson, president of the Chlcngd livestock exchange, told the house agriculture committee today that the fnrm board "Is vrlng hand. In hnnd with the packers to depress prices." Wilson headed a group of live stock dealers from Denver. Omaha, Kansas City. St. Louis and St. Joseph, Mo., who protested livestock activ ities of the board. As the first witness, he said: "Co-operative marketing is 25 years old. The exchanges are handling 85 per cent of the co-operative busi ness, that Is, as distinguished from the politically controlled and polit ically dominated co-operatives set up by the farm board. Our customers hAve made rr complaint. "Farm board agencies have been a disrupting influence and have done the producers Incalculable damage. Wo are for an open market. The REGIMENT TO CONTINUE IN SETTLEMENT Government Decides Not to Withdraw 31st Infan try From Shanghai. UNEASINESS EXISTS : . IN MUKDEN AREA At Geneva, the League of Nations Decides Not to Recognize Any "Out law" Treaties. WASHINGTON, Mar. JO (VP) The government Has decided that the 31st Infantry will not be withdrawn from Shanghai immediately. Conditions 'are quiet at Shanghai, according to reports to the state de partment, but there la still uncer tainty as to when tho Chinese and Japanese may arrange a truce. The weather 1b bad there, being very rainy, and it was suggested in official quarters that the uncom fortable conditions undor which the 31st infantry has boon living in spired the desiro of officers to re turn to Manila. After considering tho situation, however, officials concluded It would bo best to make no chango for the present. The department was Informed to day that Irregular Chinese troops operating around Mukden are caus ing much uneasiness there. Myrl S. Myers, American consul (Continued on Pago Ptve) ENGLAND LOWERS DISCOUNT RATE Second Reduction in Last Month Follows Cuts in 0 ther Countries. LONDON, Mar. 10 (ff) The Bank of England reduced Its discount rate from 6 to 4 per cent today. The bank's former gesture of con- fjdence . when tho bank rato was re duced from tT'to pbf cent on Feb.' 18 received such 'a favorable reac tion overywhero that the further re duction today was decided upon by the directors. The lower discount rate also was brought about by a rush of funds for deposits in London which forced up tho quotation of the pound, ster ling. Tho hands of authorities were forced by the discounting of bills in the money market at rates so low as to make the official minimum of 5 per cent Ineffective. Other Countries Ixwer Kate A reduction of the rate had been confidently oxpected since the fed eral rescrvo rate in tho United States was lowered two weeks ago. This was followed by a reduction of the reichsbank rate in Germany. At tho same time, authorities said, Great Britain had completed purchasos of francB and dollars to repay Its French and American credits and so there was no real necessity for maintain ing a higher bank rate. The move toward choaper money, aided in the last fow weeks by an Influx of gold from India, already has onabled the treasury to borrow (Continued on Page Flve MORE CASH IS APPROVED FOR VALE PROJECT . WASHINGTON, Mar. 10 ifP) The senate today approved amendments to tho Interior department appropria tion bill, increasing funds for the Valo reclamation project in Oregon by $674,000 and the Yakima project In Washington by $60U,ow. TEN STATES TO GET WHEAT WASHINGTON, Mar. 10 (P Gov ernment wheat will be given to farm) ers in ten western states to feed starv ing livestock. A list of the states Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, Nebraska, North and Soutn Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, Montana, and Now Mexico which woro-ravaged by last year's drouth was furnished tho Red Cross today by tho agricul ture department, farm board tends toward monopoly. Wo oppose manipulation. The farm board has promised the American people to manipulate prices. "They are endeavoring to drive us out. They havo adopted bulldozing tactics to get the business. "The board has used Its funds to depress the price of hogs through direct marketing. By their direct marketing program the price on hogs has dropped out of line about $5 a head in the lost eight months." Greece Will Have 3 "Meatless" Days ATHENS, Oreece, March 10 W) Tho government announced today that beginning March 14 Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays of each week will be "meatless days" except for these ill in hospitals and invalids Bill on Public Works Receives Okeh Of Labor IjaFollette : Measure En dorsed Calls For Fi nancing Program By $5,500,000,000 Issue. WASHINGTON, Mar. 10 P) The principle of the LoFollette bill for a huge government program of public! works was endorsed today by the Am erican Federation of Labor with the prediction that otherwise unemploy ment will continue without marked diminution through 1933. The federation's approval In gen eral of the LaFollette plan, which calls for financing the program by a $5,600,000,000 bond issue, was mado known by Edward F. McGrady, its .eglslatlve representative, at a hear ing before the senate labor commit tee. The principal criticism we have heard of this bill la Its cost," said McGrady. "Our answer is that the cost of unemployment will far outstrip even tually the cost of creating employ ment." He added that It has "already hod serious consequences" on the Ameri can home in the form of bitterness, loss of courage, disrespect for law and order, suicide and insanity. "We do not seo up to the first of this money any increase in employ ment in spite of the measures passed by the present congress," he said. R. O, Marshall, Jr., of New York, who bossed the army's construction works program to relieve unemploy- work during the war, . testified In favor of a large public works program to reliece unemployment but said a huge new govern ment bond Issue to finance It would be "a mistake." ' Marshall recommended that the government InBtcad create a "financ ing corporation" to loan money to states, counties and cities which have been forced to our tall public works because of inability to obtain credit. A similar position was taken by John P. Hogan, New York engineer and contractor, who presented a de tailed plan for a "federal construc tion corporation" similar to the re construction finance corporation with capital of $100,000,000 and tho right to sell $500,000,000 of securities. The bill was endorsed by Merryle B. (Continued on Page Five) . Nation Is More CheerfurAbout "Business Ahead WASHINGTON, March 10 (P) A more cheerful feollng throughout the nation regarding business Is dtB corned by Secretary Mills as a result of the reconstruction finance cor poration and the Qlass-Steagall act. The treasury department head told newspapermen today he felt the re construction program was causing a more optlmlBtlc outlook and proving beneficial. . Regulations putting Into effect the Glass-8 ten gull bill to liberalize the federal reserve rediscount facilities havo not been Issued. He believes, however, the fact that they are to be announced has result ed In improvement in banking con ditions, i Consolidation Of Schools Appeals To Lyle Spencer SEATTLE, March " 10 Ml The move of . Orcgon'B board of higher education toward unification of In stitutions of higher learning in the state, appeals to President M. Lyle Spencer of the University of Wash ington as "ono of the moat effective statesmanlike and scholarly plans In. stltutcd In the Northwest In the past years." Dr. Spencer made this statement Wednesday in declaring that tho only way out of the retrenchment that fnces Washington educators during tho next two years Is through unification of schools under a single board of regents and the elimination of duplication In tho state's five In stitutions of higher learning. Tho Washington president praised tho reorganization of tho Oregon oducatlonal facilities undor a central control. "Tho Oregon plan," ho said, "In prlnclpio may well be adopted to tho profit of tho taxpayers of tho state of Washington." War-time Premier Of Italy Is Dead ROME, Mar. 10 (Pi Paolo Boselll, war-timo premier of Italy, died today at tho ago of 03. He was prime minister In 1018 and 1017 but was forced out as a result of tho Italian defeat at Caporotto in October, 1017. Death resulted from Influenza. His political csreer began In 1888 and he held cabinet posts under half a dozen premiers. He con tlnued active in politics until his last Illness. Wll.m it'S OIUIDIt lKOTKSTEl KLAMATH FALLS. Mar. 10 OH) A protest against Secretory Wilbur's order denying to white stockmen crazing rights on Indian reservations, was telegraphed to members of Ore gon's congressional delegation last night by tho Klamath county cham ber of commerce. Senator Smoot of Utah was sent a copy of the protest note. BABY STILL MISSING, SAY AUTHORITIES Rumors of Recovery of Lindbergh Heitf in Con necticut Are Denied ' MOORE BELIEVES ? " BABY NOT HARMED Mysterious Morris Rosner Connected With Case, According to New York Daily News. SSS8S .4 . P . SPIT ALE, BITZ ARRESTED? NEW YORK, Mar. 10 W J The Brooklyn Eagle said today that two of 16 men. brought Into federal court to face trial for conspiracy to smuggle liquor were Salvatore Bpltale and Irving Bltz, the men with alleged . underwork! connec tions named by ' the Lind berghs' as go-betwens In the kidnaping case. ; ' They were arrested and ln dloted as James Martin and Morris Grossman, , but . the Eagle says the; were . really Spltale and Bltz. -. - , Alter a whispered confer ence between prosecutor and Judge the trial was postponed until tomorrow. . HOPEWELL. N. J., Mar, 10 ' Police at the Lindbergh home an nounced today that they knew noth ing of- a rumor that, the . Lindbergh, baby had been found In Connecticut ; The following question was sent to police over the special teletype sys tem: , 'Reports from Bridgeport, Conn. 1 aro to effect that baby was found In . Westport, Conn.,-by Sheriff Thomas ; Retlly and County Detective Will tana . Koarns. Taken to a hospital in Nor walk, and Gov. Moore will announce recovery tomorrow. Reason for with- ' holding, bauy, too 111 to be removed,; homo. Is this report true?" And from headquarters, of the search, came back the .answer: f'We have; not. .yeceive.Jf'. '' important tips Bene sue nope bB1 (Continued From Pago Four)(1, j:,. , FOUR FLIERS ARE SAVED BY VKtiW Ut iSUAi; The predicament of being lost In an. , airplane over a body or water ana having the englno Tall was experienced by three Salem, Ore., men last nigh. All were rescued and suffered little from submersion and exposure. TbA. . plane sank. , , Loe Eyerly. head of the Eyeny Air craft -corporation.-of Salem, pilot of the ship, was accompanied by B. r. iiiininBriimii ttuu eiuu. n.w.wi v- Salom, and J.-W. Eeed, of Oakland. They wero returning from Los, An- shortly before dusk. Near the San Francisco bay region they encounter- od severe fog..- ' f ror more viiuii iui.uuui .row ovor the bay district trying to locate tho Oakland airport. Then tho mot- tor failed. The plane dived. Eyerljr saw the lights of a ferryboat, pulled -. nna- .ha nl.n. fin Anri Mud Into tho water near the. bpat.'l e Chinese Kidnapers ! Face Firing Squad SHANGHAI, Mar. 10 VPh Pour Chinese kidnapers faced a firing squad today at the Tsao Ho-KIng prison In Shanghai. ,Two of the men wero convloted of kidnaping a compradore (native commission merchant) of the British American Tobacco company in March, 1020, and the others were convicted of kidnaping a compradore of a Brit ish company In 1030. " Wheat Today OHICAOO, Mar. 10 ( Steadiness chiefly characterized groin market today, with wheat fluctuations keep ing Insldo Of a half cent a bushel range. Prospects that not only Italy but Germany and France would enlarge their Import quotas of foreign wheat did much to give prices an undertone of strength. There also were Indica tions that further quantities of United States hard winter wheat had been taken for export, and that this grain was now available at somewhat bolow Canadian wheat of equal qual ity. Wheat closed Irregular at de cline to VBc advance compared with yesterday's finish, corn a shad down to a shade up, oats unchanged to V4 higher, and provisions showing; a rise of a to 10 cents. PORTLAND, Mar. 10 (P) Practical stagnation was reflected in the do mestic wheat trading Thursday. Thl applied to the Chicago as well as the local market for options and cash. On tho local futuroa market there was no trading and no price Changs. Cash .was unchanged on the mer chants exchange.
