La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, May 25, 1932, Page 3, Image 3

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    Wednesday, May 25, 1932
LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER, LA GRANDX ORE.
Page Three
SOCIETYNOTES
Miss Bess nuke. Society Editor
Telephone Main UOO Until 9:30 a. m.
Party Compliments. Mrs, Finlay, . . ..
Who Will Leave Soon For Visit
With Her Parents in; Keokuk, Iowa
Mrs. Harold Finlay, .who is leaving
soon for an extended visit with her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Krlchel,
In Keokuk, Iowa, was complimented
at a party for which Mr. and Mrs.
Chester L. Thompson entertained last
night at their home on N avenue.
The rooms were decorated with a
profusion of purple and white lilacs.
Guests were invited to form five
tables for bridge, and the prizes for
high score were awarded to Mrs. H.
V. Leffel arid Nolan Skiff. Mr. Pin
lay received consolation.. . -
The guest of honor was presented
with a gift; 'Refreshments were serv
ed by the hostess.
Mrs. Finlay will be accompanied to
Keokuk by her son, Allan, and
daughter, Kathryn.
i i
y Swastika Club -
Is Entertained
The Swastika club enjoyed the
final party of its winter season Mon
day evening whan the members were
entertained at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. George J. Tiss. Flowers decor
ated the rooms and furnished a de
lightful background for the piayers
who spent the evening at bridge,
Home Department
. In All-Day Meet
Sixteen members of the Presbyter
ian Home department were enter
tained' yesterday at an ail-day meet
ing at the home of Mrs. Mamie Lewis.
The day was spent quilting and tying
quilts; and a potluck luncheon was
served at noon.
Plans for the next regular meet
ing of the department are Indefinite.
However, If the weather permits, a
picnic probably will be enjoyed at
the next meeting on June D.
The quilts on which the member!
worked yesterCTy will be used in re
lief work next, winter.
County Council To
Install Officers
lng lor seventy years. The: American
people will never repeal the eighteen
th amendment until Its enforcement
has had a fair trial, and it has never
had a fair trial. "'
"It Is true that the prohibition law
Is not fully enforced. No Jaw Is en
forced up to the point that It Is
never broken. All criminal law. all
penal statutes are violated. To say
the laws of our country can not be
enforced Is cowardly and un-American.1
If our government can not .en
force Its laws, then It is no longer
a government. .
"The llouor fraternity cry: "Pro
hibition Is the cause of crime In the
United States, abolish prohibition and
eliminate crime.
Gatusi Camp Fire
Elects-Officers
Miss Jane Williams was elected
president of the Oatual Camp" Fire
group yesterday afternoon at a meet
ing held at the home of the guardian,
Mrs. Raymond O. Williams. Miss
Kathleen Williamson la vice, prcsl
dent: Miss Betty Jane Orlce,
tary: Miss Verna Lee Hanford, song
G. E. Convention
To Begin Here
Friday, May 27
The annual convention of the
Grande Ronde Christian ?' Endeavor
secre-Union opens at La Grande Friday,
May 37, and continues through sat-
lpnrtpr. Misa Adelftido Zweifel. scribe, t urday closing with the evening ses-
Plans were made for a picnic which ommuy. ncv. uu "'"v
Ol .rviiuiuiuu, la w uc uio vinci
speaker Friday 'evening at .7:30 -at
the Christian church. Mgr.- Cornell
son has been a missionary to the Cay
use and Umatilla Indians In Oregon
for the post 33 years. With him on
the Friday's program will appear sev
eral Indian boys and girls to assist
him in presenting his story of his
work among them,. ,
Saturday morning, the field secre
tary for Christian Endeavor,;--Rev.
Ross Gulley, will arrive and conduct
several conferences, as well as be one
of xhe chief speakers. Several state
officers of -the Oregon Christian En
deavor are scheduled to arrive some
time Saturday, among whom are state
president, Edgar Hoover; state sec
retary, Viola Ogdeii, arid ex-state
will be held at Cove tomorrow after
noon. - ,
Mrs. Reynolds To i : '
Entertain Club
. Officers of the Union County Coun
cil of Pnrnnt. Tdnrhpr nssnrfntlnns will
be nominated and Installed Saturday to hls or her duty.- We have
afternoon nt 2 o'clock, when the made moral cowardice respectable and
council meets at the Prultdale school, nave capitulated to tne lawless.
Mrs. Nellie Reynolds will be hostess
Wftn,.n( nv, finrtrf ' to the Westway club of the Women's
the land with bW to reduce m"
would be as Illogical as throwing
gasoline Into a blazing building to
extinguish the fliunes. Crime is a
business In the United States. It Is
organized upon the same plan as big
business, to secure efficiency. The
most i perilous -lawlessness In this
country now is in high circles,;' ,
"Crime flourishes in cur country,
not because of prohibition, but be
cause our criminal courts have failed
and they have failed because the cltl-
Mrs. Lewis Wetzel will act as install
ing officer.;
" A program being arranged will in
clude numbers bv dub Us of Frultdale
Mr. arid Mrs. Harold Finlay and (school, of which John B. Bennett is
Mr. and Mrs. Chester L. Thompson
were guests of the club for th eve
ning, and Mr. Finlay and Mrs.
Thompson received the prlze3 - for
high score among the guests. Hugh
Leonp.nt and Mrs. Charles Graham
were h.gh scorers for the club.
Mrs. Tiss served a luncheon at a
Into hour, s
' ' ' .-
Delightful Party
At The Ray Home
Ut a delightful e
principal,
council.
and by members of the
Prohibition' Theme -
Of W. a T. U. Meet
delightful evening bridge
p&rty, Miss Constance Ray and Ml3s
Mildred Smith entertained last night
at the home of the former. Twelve
were invited including Miss Maxinc
Phillips, of Bnker, who is the house
guest of Miss Smith and Miss Bess
Duke. ' I
. Prizes were awarded to Miss Eva i
Rlggs, for ' the club members, ana j
Miss Duke, for the guests. j
Refreshments were served at a late
hour by the hostess,
i
Piano Students ''
Appear in Recital
' Sixteen who are studying piano un
der the direction of Mrs. Clifford
Sloklancl were presented In a piano
i'ecltal last night at the La Grande
hotel ballroom. A large group of
parents and friends of the musicians
attended the event.
' Those appearing In the recital were
Lillian Hill house, Barbara Counsel!,
Jean Jnsper, Margaret Helen Hale,
Leola Miller, Ruth McClure, Eloise
Stein, Grace Johnson, Edna Jasper,
Eileen Winn, Donald Jasper, Margaret
Zurbrlck, Nadlne Zweifcl, Alma
Schroeder, Nela Smith and Annie
Moore. v i -.
There la -little or no thought of
God. Every consideration is given to
the body: alone.-Money and pleasure
1008 Fourth' street Fridy evening at
7:30. All members are asked to at
tend since Important business will be
discussed and a social hour will be
enjoyed, Mrs, Reynolds states.
Altar Circle Of V i
Church in Meeting
Eastern Oregon
School of Music j
Program Pleases
One of the most classical and
pleasing student programs ever .given
in La Grande, was presented to a
most appreciative audience last eve
nlng, in the ' Sacajawea . ballroom;
when the advanced piano aiid vocal
students of the Eastern Oregon School
of Music were presented In their an
nual spring recital of solo and en
semble; numbers. ri '
Six grand pianos, against a back
ground of many baskets of beauti
ful flowers, made a rrioet artistic-setting
for such a program. . J
The solo numbers', : both -vocal an4
Instrumental, were of widely varied
types and all so well done It would
be difficult to pick' the outstanding
6nes. ' The ensemble numbers moved
along with 'such smoothness and pro
fessional' precision -one almost forgot
the performers were only students,
with but few years study and "very
little experience In publto perform
ance. The Schubert' Symphony, while
written for symphdny orchestra. Is
very well adapted to the piano or4
chestra and the .rendition of;' this
B.' Hubbard, the Vglacler "priest," "on
a flight over the smoking cone.'wnloh
lasted an hour and resulted In. top
spotting of several burled villages. , ,
-: -Returning to the Harris . cannery
headquarters of his party on Unlmak
Island, the Santa Clara university
geology professor found Porbandt had
landed. .. ';: :
The . pilot, took . off with Father
Hubbard and' Kenneth Chlsholra, one
of' his assistants, and afC6r circling
the Intervening mountains, flew
around Shlshaldln.
the Villages' 'are nowr being? Mca'r
vaied by members of the expedition.' '
; iDorbandt " landed; lit : ft' lagoon' oh
Bering sea, where some of the'partyy
equipment was stored, lashed Father
Hubbard's sled to the pontoons, hust
led the 11 slcH dogs !n the plane's
cabin and; In two trips had the "gla
cier priest" and his party back to the
cannery1: A full week would have been
necessary to eirect tne same trans
pbrtatlbn'by TSoaf . i
Delta Remy and Aiitolite
StarUr,. (lenentoc and-, Ignition
Repairing.. ,, ,,';
f,i vCeuulne., Factory, Parts
BUROBSS BATTERY 4 ELECTRIC!
-Phone -MalB-t 1S0T Jelf.-AW;'
i Decoration Day
Thursday Friday Saturday
Mrs. G. A. Barron and Mrs. Henry
Hill were appointed members of the
altar committee for the coming
month at St. Peter's Episcopal
church, yesterday afternoon -Aat a
meeting of the Altar circle at the
home of Mrs. C. C. Bull.
The next meeting of the circle will
nresldent. James Henderson. .Each' of
these will occupy a prominent place, number was very pleasing! ; This la
In Saturday's and Sunday's program, cuusiuereu win uufii luim.ui
Delegates from -the entire union,
Baker, Union and Wallowa counties,
Prohibition was the theme of the
program enjoyed-by the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union - yester-
doy afternoon at the home of Mrs.
T. E. Plerson, .1205 N avenue. Mrs.
Howard Smith led the devotional ser
vice; Mrs, E. L. Woods spoke on "Why
Wet Millionaires Fight Prohibition
Mrs. Smith also read an Interest
ing article, on "Resubmission," aftar
which Mra. Plerson presented the fol
lowing article, taken from, a Callfor
nla paper, in which H. J. Ogilvle, of
Fresno, Cal., states his belief that
prohibition Is not to blame for crime:
"America faces a possible catastro
phe. A. civilization Is striving des
perately to save Itself, Strong men
are in perplexity and fear before an
unseen but stern -Justice. The penal
tics of moral laware terrific and tne
modern 'cleverness of men can not
evade them. Those penalties are clos
ing In on the .wrongs of men with
no uncertain' exactness. In the faoe
of a serious economic depression and
Industrial breakdown, the wet ele
ment wants to flood the country with
booze. To do so would be abject fol
ly and the- outcome national suicide,
"Prohibition did not come
thief In -the night,
are the idols of the time. The world be held on June 28.
has apparently gone mad," pleasure
mad, money mad; sex mad, and is
moving farther from the lessons . of
morality that were the strength of
the founders of our nation. God
only knows what the end of all this
madness will be. . v ,
"To abolish prohibition means the
ultimate return of the saloon, with
all its damning Influences, to again
drive virtue to the haunts of shame
and pave the pathway to hell. Some
moderniBts say "there is no hell," but
they won't be dead on minute un
til they realize there is.''
The program was interspersed with
appropriate musical selections. I
A short business session was held
and plans were made for a social
meeting at Riverside park early next!
month. Mrs. a, W. Masten prestdea
at the meeting in the absence of the
president,. Mrs. Alpha Victor.
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Swimming Party; :
,,. , Picnic Postponed
' Because of the Inclement weather,
the picnic and swimming party plan
ned by the Order of Rainbow for
Girls has been postponed Indefinitely,
It was announced thlB mornlnir by
Mra. Florence Bacon, mother advlso?,
from -the entire union, " " ? .-,' """' " "
ObUUCllUt MJ W' W DVUUJ Vina
will be present. Election of officers
for the ensuing year-and their in
stallation by the state president and
his assistants will occupy ; quite 'a
prominence on the program. This
will be followed by a banquet Sat
urday evening.
The public Is cordially Invited-to
attend any .and all of the meetings,
all of which will be held at the
Christian church.
DfcLZELL'S LEAD
27 VOTES TODAY
(Continued from Page One)
Pythian. Sisters
Club Entertained
An Informal afternoon of sewing
and visiting was. enjoyed yesterday
when the Pythian Sisters Social club
met nt the home of Mrs. Winnie Oli
ver. Mrs. Oliver was asslstr y Mrs.
Lvda Onenl. Mrs. M. Purkhlser was
a guest.
v. After refreshments were served by
the hostesses, it was announced that
Mrs. Wesley MoDonald will be tho
a next lostcss,..asslsted .by. Mra. Walter
It-had.;beon -com-. Jonca; on June 14. . . v..
POET'S CORNER
IN MUMOHV M
Confidence Is the foundation of
business. Tho establishment of con
fidence takes "time and it can only
be done by fair dealing; Such was the
foundation of our true and beloved
friend and brother, Frank E. Schooler.
The lives you have touched were
mado brighter,
Life's trials made easier too.
Ajar are the gates of that haven of
- rest ;:
For us all since you have passed
thru.
While our hearts are torn and blced-
v ing
O'er the splendor death has won,
Blessed memories - shall we ever
cherish
As we meekly submit "Thy Will
' .done.'.'. r.. .. ,.,', v..
' A Friend,
official returns from' Friday's pri
mary' election were received at the
state department . here today from
Benton and Polk counties. Partial
returns were received from Jackson
county.
The work of canvassing the vote is
now In progress in. the state depart
ment under the direction of; Dave
O'Hura, in charge of the legal divi
sion. He sold it would probably re
quire two weeks to complete the task;
' Special interest is being manifested
in tho official canvass as it effects
the contests or both the Republican
and Democratic nomination for rep
resentative in congress from the first
congressional district; These con
tests are clo.',e, and the results will
not bo determined ' definitely until
the official check is completed.
type of composition.'
J , The MkuzkowskL -waltz, sung by ,
the Vocal quartet and assisted by the
violins. Is a beautiful number and
was very well givenii: ?
'.'The beginners ipiaha ensemble, ot
five little girls, Which was presented
Monduy night, appeared again on this
program' by( request," i . 'y i ;
I-. Th& students presented last eve
ning' were, all pupils of MrflV WilllarA
H. Parkinson and were as 1 follows.
Pianists: Loretta Btltt, iGedrgeanna
Lock wood, Mildred 'Stoddard, - Clara
Norris. ' Bethel Trill- St.' Mmi Vocal
Ists: Mesdames1 Christina Lester, Man
ley Arant, Bethel St. John, Mter villa
Moore; violinists assisting, Jennie
Nlelson, Edna Turner,- Anita Herman
and Ernest Brlggs, former students
of the violin department .of the
school.
,101; uitowN UNm:it KNiri:
HOLLYWOOD, Cal., May 26 '(pj
Joe E. Brown, film comedian, under
went two operations today, one for
appendix Ms and. another lor a
minor leg Infection. Physicians said
his -recovery was expected.
Airplane Spots
Buried Villages
; t On Unitnak Island
FALSB PASS,' AlaskaV May 25 ()
supplementing the arduous '21-hour
climb of Shlshaldln volcano, on Unl
mak'.'island', ". a, wepk ago,,' Pilot Prank
Dorbandt has taken Father Bernard
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SOCIAL CALENDAR
Wednesday, May 25
,: 6:45 Rotary Ladles' night, at the
La Grande hotel.
8:00 Order of the Eastern Star,
at the Masonic hall.
'-'';
. Thursday, May 20
. Women's day at the La Grande
country club.
1:00 Thursday club, with Mrs.
J. C. Gulling. -
1:30 Country Women's club,
with Mrs. Mabel McAllister.
2:00 Francis Brown auxiliary to
the Daughters of the Union Coun
ty Pioneers, with Mrs. J; E. Foley,
1906 Fourth. '
2:00 Ladles Aid of the Luther
an church, with Mrs. Charles Han
sen, 2512 North Second street.
8:00 Bridge club, with Mrs.
Jack Hlatt.
" 1 " Friday, May 27
1 :00 Luncheon and bridge, with
Mra. A. M. Moore.
7:30 Westway club, with Mrs.
J. E. Reynolds,
8:00 Bridge club, with Mrs.
Charles Graham.
'
Saturday, May 28 '"
tj 2:00 Union County Council of
P. T. A.,,, at Fruitdale school.
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:" Monday, May 30
12:00 Dinner for all veterans, ,
by the women's patriotic organ
ization, at the knights of Pythias '
hall.
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