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CITY EDITION roll Associated Prau Leased Wire Service 8 PAGES TODAY Only Newspaper Prated in La Grande Covering Union and Wallowa Counties vstvst. VOLUME 30 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS AND A. B. C. LA GRANDE, OREGON, FRIDAY, MAY 6, 1932 KABTKRN OPrOON'8 UCABINO NRWHPAPKR NUMBER 214 pi I1 I mil i 1 9 Police Fire On Crowd SIX MEN IN CHICAGO HIT BY BULLETS Officers, Attempting to Disperse Meeting, Forced to Use Guns . REVOLVERS FIRED AT POLICE FIRST Thirty Others in Mob Ar rested Meeting For bidden by Authorities But to no Avail. CHICAGO. May 0 Six men were wounded by police inncliine gun fire on the principal thoroughfare of suburban Melrose Park today when, they resisted police orders to break up a demonstration. Two were shot in the head and four received leg wounds. They refused to give their names. The police had forbidden the gath ering and when an attempt was made to disperse the demonstrators, the officers said several llred at them with revolvers. They turned a ma chine gun on the crowd, felling five. Thirty others were arrested. The meeting was first scheduled in a hall in the adjoining western suburb of Bell wood. Warned not to gather there, the men marched to the hall at Lake street and 23rd, In Mel roso Park. rnuntv flf f loru Aid Pnllnn ' Police of ''the" western suburb of Maywood, Melrose Park, and Bell wood went to the scene and state and county highway officers reinforced them. Orders to the demonstrators to disperse met with resistance. Shots rang out, and the police, leveling their machine gun low at the legs of the crowd, let go a charge. Fire Deportment Called Clubs were swung and the fire department hurried In and turned water on the rioters. Between 700 and 800 persons par ticipated in the meeting wnen xne fighting began. Nearly 80 police and firemen were mobilized to disperse them. , (Continued on Page Four) POLICE SEEK AUTO BEARING TAGS 262-860 Police today were searching for the owner of a touring car bearing Ore gon license 202-860 in connection with the burglarizing of a La Grande home last night. A neighbor saw some thing suspicious at the Hazel Watkins home at 1322 Z avenue about mid night and went to investigate. Some men ran from the house and entered the old car and escaped, although the neighbor managed to get the license number. Three sniris were t-asen from the home." Another robbery occurred last night. M. C. Nessley, of 1325 V avenue, re ported a sewing cabinet and electric reading lamp stolen from his home, Harold York Sent To Insane Asylum ' Harold York, of Delano, Cal., con tinued hearing "voices in the air which told htm what to do," while held In the county Jail pending a sanity hearing, and so today he is en route to Pendleton. He was found insane and, accompanied by officials from the state hospital, left today for Pendleton where he will be placed In the insane asylum. York was arrested last week by Sergeant J. A. Robertson, of the state police, while driving in a strange manner along the highway, and was held in La Grande for several days at the request of Judge U. G. Couch, county Judge, before final Judgment was passed on his mental state. When questioned following his ar rest, York told officers that he hird "voices In the air" which told him what to do. 8 WKATHKR FORECAST Oregon: Pair tonight and 8 Saturday but cloudy near the 3 coast: little change In tern- 8 perature; moderate to fresh north winds offshore. 8 WKATHF.lt TODAY 7 a. m. 48 above. Minimum: 41 above. 8 Condition: Partly cloudy. ? S WEATHER YESTERDAY S Maximum 62, minimum 42 above. " Condition: Partly cloudy. Range 20 degrees. WEATHER MAY . 1931 8 Maximum 80, minimum 47 S above. Condition: Partly; cloudy, 4 high winds. Range 33 de- S grees. $ Concert Given Thursday Night At Local Church Program Arranged by Mrs. A. L. Richardson Final Program of Music Week is Tonight. . A concert program! remarkable he- cause It maintained a high quality of excellence in spite of a great vnrldiv rf nnmhlnntlnnR. ' was nre- sented last night at the Presbyterian church as the sixth event of music week. Mrs. A. L. Richardson, who ar ranged the program, selected only talented and popular musicians to appear and displayed her knowledge oi music in tne selection oi xne pieces which formed the program. Tho L. D. S. tabernacle will be the scene of a concert by the La Grande High school rrfusic department to night at 8 o'clock, under the direc tion of W. W. Nusbaum. The band will, play a group of numbers, the orchestra will participate and the re mainder of the program will consist of solo events. The program as an nounced by the Music week com mittee, headed by Mrs. R. S. Eakln, follows: "Royal American March" Clement "A Japanese Sunset" Deepen "Simplicity" Dorothy Lee "Andante" from "Surprise Symph- . ony" - Haydn Band Vocal solo, "My Love Is Like the Red, Red Rose" Macdermld Bob Ward, baritone Girls quartet, VMy Lady Chloe".... Clough-Lelghter Virginia Bramwell, Alice Jeanette Cooper, Ruth Magulre, Betty Ruth Bohnenkamp. ( Continued on Page Five) . ; r- : ttt tr-r . . Hoover Firmliir: Economy Drive; Wants No Delay WASHINGTON, May 6 - (flV-President Hoover, In a fighting mood, today called again for a speedy bal ancing of the budget through the enactment of a reasonable revenue bill and a reduction of federal ex penditures. Hoover is going to carry to the country the drive he opened yester day on congress for prompt balanc ing of the budget. . A new statement directed to the public Is in preparation at the White House. . The president is represented, by advisers as determined to go through for vigorous and prompt action on Capital Hill. He called in leaders dnrin the day, Including Senator Watson of Indiana, the majority chieftain. ItKPLIKS TO HOOVER WASHINGTON, May 6 (P) Reply ing to President Hoover's ,. charges against congress on economy. Chair man Byrns, of the appropriations committee, presented figures to the house today to show $563,601,223 had been saved by reductions in supply bills for 1D33 compared , with 1932. . M'KELLAK CHALLENGES HOOVER WASHINGTON, May 6 (T) Senator McKellar, (D., Tenn.), challenged n the senate today a statement In President Hoover's message of yes terday that the executive's recom mendations for expenditures have been $309,000,000 below those of the last year. Red Cross Gets Supply of Flour For The Needy A three months supply of flour Is now In the hands of county officials for distribution to those in Union county who have no other means to secure food. Eieht hundred 25-pound sacks of flour have been received here from Baker nnd the Pioneer Flouring mills have completed milling 50 bar- (Continued on Page Two) New Direct Relief Drive is Launched WASHINGTON. May 8 (IP) A new drive for direct federal relief for tho unemployed was launched in the senate today as Senator Costlgan (D., Colo.) Introduced a bill calling for a (500.000,000 bond Issue for the purpose. Tho bill also is being Introduced in the house by Representative Lewis (D.. Md.). It differs from the direct relief defeated in the senate early In the session mainly in that the money would be raised by a bond Issue rath er than by a treasury appropriation and that It calls for 125.OO0.O0O more than that measure would have pro vided. Costlgan said hearings are to be started Monday. Treaty Navy Bill Passed by Senate WASHINGTON. May 6 (IP) The senate today passed the Hale bill to bring the navy up to treaty limits. BONUS PLAN REJECTED BY COMMITTEE Action Taken Today, Vote 15 to 10 -Adverse Report Planned. SUPPORTERS NOT TO DROP EFFORT P a t m a n , Chief Bonus . Advocate, May Force House to Vote Through Use of Petition. 4 $ 0 HOW COMMITTEE VOTED $ . The committee vote on 3 making an adverse report to; & 4 the house on cosh bonus plans ' 4 was: , For (IB) Democrats: (5), 3 g Collier, Crisp, Ralney, Ragon & and Lewis. Republicans (10), $ 4 Hawley, Treadway, Bacharach, 4 Hadley, Tlmberlake, Watson, $ 4 McLaughlin, Chlndblom, Crow-. $ ther and Aldrlch. " 4 Against (10): Democrats: $ S Doughton, Hill, Canfleld, Cul-. len, Sullivan, Sanders, ELsllck, $ 4 McCormack, Dickinson, and $ Vinson of Kentucky. . ; . g Ragon explained that he had $ g favored the Patman bill but S when it was rejected he voted . to make the adverse report $ 4 to the - house. ? t , ' WASHINGTON,, May 6 P) All plans for cashing the $2,000,000,000 soldiers' bonus were rejected today by the house ways and means com mittee on a 15 to 10 vote. Tho committee further voted to re port the new money bills to the house adversely. . . (Continued on Page Four) WORK PROMOTION PLEDGES MOUNT Total Now at $38,569.60 Unemployment Already J Kelieved Some. Although , $38,660.60 has been pledged In work In the La Grande Work Promotion Plan, It was said today, this still falls short $11,340.40 of the quota of $60,000 set by the city wide organizations which are sponsoring the plan. Solicitors are urged to bring in their pledges and wind up the program as soon as pos sible. The plan already has relieved the fOontlnued on Page Tour Marvin Refuses To Resign Democrats In Critical Times But Republicans Are Finding Harmony By Byron Price WASHINGTON, May 0 W) An other parade of Democratic favorite sons and. dark horses Is beginning, stirring the dust of new uncertain tics for the party Just as the Repub lican stalwarts show notable signs of consolidating their position behind President Hoover. At no previous time since the pre conventlon campaign began has there been a more varied and conflicting discussion of candidates among the Democrats, or greater outward show of hopefulness among the Republi cans. In both cases the California pri mary is largely responsible. Gover nor Roosevelt's defeat there Is stim ulating both his friends and his enemies to redoubled exertion. Presi dent Hoover's unexpectedly large vote, coupled with other develop ment, is greatly encouraging his supporters. Acknowledgment by Senator Norris of Nebraska, last night that he would support a -Roosevelt ticket as against Hoover was hardly a surprise. He deserted the Republicans In favor of Smith In 28. . Crisis Loom for Bourbons The Democrats have come to a critical time. As the California re turns rolled up the margin of Speak er John N. Garner's victory over Roosevelt, many of the New York governor's opponents sold in their haste and exuberance that this was the end of the Roosevelt boom. The tendency has been to amend that Judgment after more careful con sideration, but the search for a com promise candidate Is going forward with great diligence as the Roosevelt men prepare to fill up the gaps and COMPROMISE KEVENUEPLAN IS ACCEPTED Senate Finance Committee Rewrites Measure in ' An Hour's Time., .. . BILL FAVORED BY SECRETARY MILLS Import Duty on Rubber Offsets Elimination of Almost a Dozen "Nuis ance" Taxes. WASHINGTON, May 8 VP) Acting In the face of administration warn ings that their tactics were disturb ing the country, the senate finance committee today accepted a com promise tax plan -designed to produce a billion dollars In revenue. The plan, carried to' capitol hill by Secretary Mills, was estimated to yield $1,004,000,000 in the 1033 fis cal year. . It again changed the In come rates to provide for normal taxeB of 3 per cent on the first $4000; (Continued on Page Flve Marion Walker Must Serve One Year In Prison Marlon Walker was sentenced to serve one year In the state peniten tiary at Salem, after he pleaded guilty to a charge of obtaining money under false pretenses before Judge J. W. Knowlea in the circuit court yester day afternoon. Walker acknowledged UOrUUttK-uiecKB WHApu lunas. - Jesse Breshears, Union county sheriff, will take Walker to Salem within the next few days. It was 'an nounced this morning." " DR. NICHOL, OF HOOD RIVER, IS FACING CHARGE HOOD RIVER, Ore., May 6 tJP) As serting that a Mexican divorce is not valid In Oregon, District Attorney John Baker Thursday filed a warrant, accusing lilm of polygamy. Dr. Nichol was arrested and was re quired to post $1000 bond. On March 0 the physician filed a divorce petition, in Juarez, Mexico, and on April 20v the divorce from his wife, Mrs. Elizabeth O. Nichol, was granted. On the same day he married Mrs. Anna Mae Klngsley, of Portland, at Vancouver, Wash. District Attorney Baker held that under the Oregon law Dr. Nichol may be prosecuted for polygamy contending that Mexican divorces are not valid here, although their validity has never been adjudicated In the courta of this state. A divorce proceeding begun by the doctor In the Hood River county circuit court to which his wife filed an answer is still pending. Dr. Nich ol's attorney, however, has filed a motion for dismissal of the complaint because of tho Mexican divorce. This motion has not yet been heard. carry on with more determination than ever. Among the favorite sons, the pres ent speculation of the anti-Roosevelt leaders centers around Governor Al bert C. Ritchie, of Maryland, and former Governor Harry P. Byrd, of Virginia. There is even more talk, however, of bringing definitely into the field someone with no delegates now pledged to him, and trying out party opinion. There Is a revlvnl of discussion about Newton D, Baker, Owen D. Young, and Melvln A. Tray lor. One of the greatest evidences of the dominant position still occupied by Roosevelt, however, lies In the fact that nothing like an agreement is In sight on any one candidate to oppose him. darner's friends seem to have little hope of nominating him, despite California. Few re sponsible leaders believed Alfred E. Smith can repeat. The talk goes on, but It is largely on the same old lines, getting nowhere In particular. (Continued on Page Four) Attempt To Kill Premier Fails CAIRO, ligypt, May 6 W An at tempt to bomb a train on which Pre mier Sldky Pasha wan traveling near Tor, on the Sinai peninsula, failed today when the bomb exploded pre maturely. The premier's train was held up for a short time while repairs to the track were mode. Two watchmen were killed and three others Injured by the explosion LOUISIANA'S . g MMIW. I Here's the first woman governor of Louisiana In the hlstury of that -I state. Alice Lee Grosjeiui, 25, Is acting chief executive of the Creole slate during the 10-duy absence of Oovemor Alvln O. King, who i Is attending governors' convention nt Richmond, Va. Miss Gros i Jean wos mails LoulHlniia'g secretary of. state liy (Senator lluey .Long ij when lie was governor. She still holds that otflce. ,. As Paul Cyr has vacated the post of lieutenant governor, Miss (irmjeall automatl- ii cully stepped into the governor's chair at llnton IUiiiro when Gov-jj- . ,. emor King, Senator Long's successor, went away. . , Apprdve Measure Concerning Rail Holding Firms WASHINGTON, s May 6- Pi Legis lation to place railroad holding com panies under the Interstate commerce commission, was approved today by the senate interstate commerce com mittee. . Tho committee authorized intro duction In the senate and approved the bill which already has been ap proved by the house interstate com merce committee. The bill woujd permit the inter state commerce commission to super vise the operations and issuance of securities by railroad- holding com panies. It would prevent the future ac quisition of stock by a holding com pany In a railroad if the commission found acquisition might interfere with Its own consolidation plans. The commission might also, after hearings, order a holding company to stop voting stock it now holds In carriers if it found the stock was being voted In contravention In its consolidation plans or tho public in terest. The house bill was drafted after a year and half investigation and has the approval of the Interstate com merce commission! Voters To Make Recall Decision On 20th of May WALLOWA. Ore.. May 0 (Special) County Judge Edgar Marvin has re fused to resign within the five days allowed by law, following the filing of the recall petition, and the ques tion of whether he will bo recalled will be passed on by the voters at the primary election May 20, states the Wallowa Sun. A separate ballot for this purpose will be printed by the county clerk and given to each voter along with the regular primary ballot. Judge Marvin has given to the county clerk the following two-hundred word statement to be printed on the ballot as provided by law. The statement which Judge Marvin has asked to have printed upon the ballot along with the reasons assigned for his recall is a follows: "The first two reasons assigned for my recall are without any basis of fact and are disproved tT the rec ords. Wallowa county's "administra tive expense Is the lowest of any county in the state. These claims of extravagance are made to mislead the voters. "The third Is also untrue and mis leading. Tho county Judge has no say a to where county funds are de posited. Wallowa county did not lose ono'cent In the failure of the Joseph State bank. "The fourth is unfair. I have been found not guilty of the main indict ment brought against me and have had no chance to meet the others. Xf I am convicted of a crlmo, that (Continued on Page Six) GOVERNOR! YOUNG WOMAN IS VICTIM OF FIEND Body of Miss Winifred Kaiierty, 22, Found Police Blame Maniac, TOLEDO, Ohio; May 6 (Stran gled to death and criminally os saulted, the body or Miss Winifred Rafferty, 22, dietician at the Robin hood Hospital, was found early today In an exclusive Toledo -residential section. Pollco blamed a maniac for the at tack, and said tho young woman was killed only after a terrific strug gle. Almost all of her clothing was torn from her body, tho buttons were off her coat, and her shoes had been hurled several feet away. The" body was found by Richard Carr, son of W. O. Carr, prominent Toledo banker, on the front lawn of his father's home, only a short dis tance from the hospital. Carr ob served the young woman's form when tho headlights of his automobile shone upon it as ho drove into the driveway, returning home from De troit. . Mrs. William Greer, mjother of the slain girl, said her daughter and oth er nurses had been annoyed numer ous times in the same vicinity by a man who gavo evidence of weak- (Contlnucd on Page Three) GRAND JURORS INVESTIGATE MEANS CASE WASHINGTON. May 0 OP) A grand Jury investigation was ordered today into charges Unit Gaston B. Means obtained $100,000 in false representa tions that he could obtain tho Kid naped Lindbergh baby from his ab ductors. This nroccduro was decided upon, officials said, partially to prevent tho evidence' against Means from becom ing public. A hearing before a United States commissioner had been originally scheduled for next Tues day. Mrs. Edward B. McLean, wife of the publisher of the Washington Post, from whom Means is alloged to hovo obtained the money, was sum moned to testify before the grand Jury whose proceedings are secret. Tho investigation was scheduled to begin today. Several other witnesses were ex pected but their identity was kept secret. Officers Arrest Salem Quartet PORTLAND, Mny 0 (P) Jane How ell, of Salem, was charged with reck less driving, nnd three passengers tn her car were charged with drunken ness after the machine she wa driv ing crashed into another car at an Intersection here late Thursday. Her bail was set at 81000. Arnold Plttman, of Portland, riding with her, suffered severe head in juries. He wan charged with drunk enness, and taken to a hospital. The others In the car were Mrs. Plttman and Olcy J. Lefflngwell, of Balem. both of whom were accused of drunkenness, The car driven by the Salem wo man, police said, crashed into a park ed car waiting at tho intersection for a traffic light change. Norris to Bolt G.O.P. Party To Aid Roosevelt "History . . . Demonstrates I Was Right in Oppos ing" Hoover, Nebraskan Announces. WASHINGTON. May 0 P) That veteran Independent warhorse from the wide . spaces of the Northwest, Senator George W. Norris of Nebras ka, will bolt the Republican pasture once again to support Franklin D, Roosovolt If the Democrats nomin ate him. He gave assurance last night that ho would back the New Yorker, even as In 1B28 he stumped for Alfred E. Smith against President Hoover. "History," he said, "has demon strated that I was right In opposing him (Hoover) ufour years ago. He has not done anything he Bald he waB going to do." Senator Huey Long (D- La.) had said Norris would do this in passing through Atlanta yesterday. In the same breath he pledged his own support and practically that of the Louisiana delegation of 20 to Roose velt. ... It was Norris who about a year ago started talk by asserting at a "progressive" conference here that the times called for another Roose velt. But' he explained then that he was thinking of a reincarnation of the noted president, and not so mucn, it at an, oi nis namesaice and distant relative. Kscapetf Unpunished His Smith support In 1028 came close to costing him dearly, but he escaped unpunished by the party to which he owes nominal allegiance. A threat to take- away his Republi can committee assignments, includ ing ohalrmanship of the very im portant Judiciary committee, petered out. Placing . another George W. Norris In his 1030 race for renomtn dtion was attompted to destroy him, but tho other Norris was ruled off the ticket, and the attempt wound (Contlnuod on Patro f wo) i A. - ' Freight Truckr; Trailers Hit By West's Proposal PORTLAND, May 8 (P) Plans to submit to the voters of Oregon at the November eieotion a proposal to re move heavy freight truck trailers from the highways and to bring contract carrier operation under regulation of the state utilities commissioner, were announced here last night by Oswald West, former governor, and now presi dent of the Highway Protective asso ciation. West proposes a vote on his sug gestion to Impose a fee of 1 14 mills per ton-mile and to increase to 1 mills the ton-mile fee for commercial freight common carriers. He said his association plans to cir culate Initiative petitions to put the proposed law an tho November ballot. The measure has been Bent to the secretary of state for a ballot title. West said "the purpose of the bill Is to bring about better regulation of the operations of commercial trucks and buses on our public highways and eventually to obtain lower license fees for automobile owners. It supplements rather than disturbs our existing mo tor .vcmcie laws." Doukhobors Given Terms In Prison NELSON, B. O., May 6 (P) Peter Voregln, leader of the Doukhobor sect, 118 members of which havo been sentenced to prison for parading un clothed in public, was sentenced to day to three years in Prince Albert penitentiary for perjury. He was con victed by a Jury yesterday. He was charged with having sworn falsely at a hearing last January in a suit growing out of a split In the sect. Eighty-four men and 34 women among Veregln's followers pleaded guilty yesterday to having paraded unclothed and were sentenced to three years each In prison. Altoona Storage Plant Destroyed ASTORIA, Ore., May 0 OP) Fire today destroyed tho Klevenhauser cold storage plant at Altoona on the north shore of the Columbia river. It was one of tho largest and best equipped plants of lut kind In the district. Owners estimated the loss at $50,000. The building was used largely for storage of mild-cured salmon, but since all of last season's product hud been shipped, tho loss was confined to the machinery and building. The company was owned by the Asaorla Savings bank. Klamath District Gets Moratorium KLAMATH PALLS. May 0 CP) A moratorium on Irrigation charges on the Klamath irrigation district. In cluding a 40-year postponement of charges totaling $150,730, has been granted according to a telegram re ceived by the district Thursdoy from Roy Lyman Wilbur, secretary of In terior. The telegram said that an act signed by President Hoover April 3 granted Irrigation districts a moratorium on construction charges due for all of 1031 and half of 1032. Additional relief was left to the discretion of the secretary of interior. CONDITION OF EXECUTIVE IS VERY GRAVE Paul . Gouguloff,' Russian fhysician, Confesses 1 to the Police. ; SHOOTING OCCURS ' NEAR TUB PALACE Nine' Doctors Sign 5:30 Bulletin Two Trans fusions Made in At tempt to Save Life. I'AItIS, Mny Q m At 8:30 o'clock tonight President Mourner underwent third - transfusion. - ioss of blood from a severed artery-under his arm was! causing the doctors considerable concern. PARIS. May em At Beau ton hospital this statement was Issued: at 6:30 o'clock by the physicians at-. tending resident Doumer: - ; ; The president . was struck . twice' by bullets, once at the base of the, cranium and the other Just under ' the right shoulder blade. ' . "There was extensive hemorrhage and a pronounced state of shock. ''Two transfusions have been made. "The situation is very grave." It was, signed by. nine 'doctors." - TWO BULLETS TAKE EFFECT PARIS, .May. 6 UP) President Paul Doumer, white bearded, 74-year-old head of the French Republic was shot two times and desperately; wounded today by an assassin as he- opened on exhibition of books by war veterans. ? .. ... . . He had come from the Elyeee pel- . ace with Claude Parrere, noted author. Together fliey-ntered the grand hall of the- Baron -De Roths child foundation near the palace. - Farrere walked with him ub the- grand staircase- where the president, paused to sign a copy of a book. by- a contemporary autnor. Then the president moved over' to a table and stood talklnn With Parrere and Madame Parrere. " Five Nhots Fired ' i Suddenly a man sprang, seemingly out of nowhere, leveled a pistol at tne president and fired five times. M. Doumer 's knees crumpled- Ha: sank to the floor. There were bul lets in his head and In the chest.1 (Continued on Page Pour; NIGHT SHIFT IS ADDED TO WHITNEY-MILL BAKER. Ore.. Mav 6 fSoeclill ' The Oregon Lumber company's new mm at wnitney, tn tne western pare of Baker county, has Just added a night shift, giving employment to about 36 additional men, N. E. Qur ney, superintendent of the plant, said whllo in Baker. "We now have about 80 men em ployed in the mill and woods," Mr. Gurney added: "This has given work, to nearly all the men formerly em ployed at the Bates plant whloh wu; closed down when the smjaller mlU at Whitney was completed. We still have some unemployment in the Whitney-Bates area but most of the lumber workers are now on the Job." The company hopes to operate conn tlnuously on this basis for six months. - i, . c ; I Ambassador Drinks Whiskey And Soda LONDON, May 6 (P) Ouests at a luncheon of bankers and business men where United States Ambassador Andrew W. Mellon spoke today ob served that the ambassador drank , whiskey and soda during the meal. When ho first came to London re cently Mr. Mellon, questioned as to whether there would be a cellar la the embassy, said he would follow, tho custom of the country. ' Wheat Today CHICAGO. May 6 UP) ChancM that Prnnco-Busstan governmental difficulties might result from the shooting of President Doumer by a White" Russian Rave more than II cents hoist to wheat values today. . Trade uneasiness over possible In ternational complications because of the shooting was emphasized by Lon don reports that Russia had con tracted for 40.000 tons of Canadian wheat and 7,000 tons or Australian wheat. It was further reported from ' London Russia was In the market for 100.000 tons of wheat. From a low of 63 cents. May wheat ran up to 66. Wheat closed firm, at vlrtuaily the day's top, l!c above yesterday's finish, corn 9lo advanced, oats showing o gain, and provisions varying from 3 cent decline to a rise of 6 cents. PORTLAND, May 8 (IP) While May was hard to dispose of and. showed a net loss of io bu. at the finals of the Portland grain exchange, other wheat options were higher. JzAf was up lie and September o bu. December was unchanged. Sales total ed 800 bu. May and September. On the merchants exchange cash wheat was unchanged.
