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VOLUME 30
la gJrande, Oregon; Friday, june 17, 1932
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NUMBER 249
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Army Mills
Capit
Debates
VETS CAMP ON
CAPITALSTEPS
AS BODY VOTES
3,000 Marchers Packed
' In Senate Building;
Police Watchful.
LEADERS STILL SURE
BILL WILL BE KILLED
Brookhart Declares Ar'my
: Within Rights in As
sembling at Doors of
Legislative Session.
WASHINGTON, June 17 P With
the galleries packed by war veterans
and several thousand more massed
outside, the senate today pressed to
ward a vote on the $2,400,000,000
.bonus bill, which leaders predicted
faced certain defeat.
' As many as could Jam Into the vis
itors galleries did so when the doors
were opened.
- Leaders of the former service men
counselled against any disturbance
but extra police were on hand to take
care of any emergency.
Senator Brookhart (R., Iowa) an
advocate of cash payment of the
bonus, took the floor at the start
of discussion.
"The bonus army might as well as
semble here as anywhere," Brookhart
said.
Let 100,000 Come
' They have no Jobs," he continued.
"I can see no reason why 100,000,
200,000 or 500,000 shouldn't assemble
here."
- Shortly before the senate met, Doak
Carter of Cleveland addressed a crowd
of veterans, across the street from
the senate steps. -
"We are making history here," he
shouted, adding with a wave-of both
arms:
"The kind of history people don't
like to read!"
Shouts of applause Interrupted.
Police Superintendent CHassford.
after an Inspection of the gathering,
ordered 35 additional metropolitan
police to the scene to augment the
35 he already had stationed, there
.to assist the capjlgrt police. '
Police Ready
- Police precincts in -the vicinity
were ordered to keep a full quota of
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GUN CLUB TO
HAVE SPECIAL
SHOOT JUNE 19
A registered shoot will bo held by
tho La Grande Gun club, Sunday.
June 10, at the gun club range, with
100 16-yard targets and 100 handicap
targets, Tracy Hollistcr, president of
tho gun club, states. Tho program
will start promptly at 0:30 In the
morning, and during the afternoon
the handicap targets will be shot.
Awards will be made.
The program for the morning, when
100, 16 yard targets will bo used in
cludes: Entranco Inc.
Evt.
1
2
3
Targets Targets Only Targets
25
25
25
$1.00 $3.00
1.00 3.00
1.00 3.00
1.00 3.00
4
25
P.I.T.A. Feo for day .50
Oregon Stato Fee
for day .50
.50
.50
100 $5.00 .13.00
For the afternoon the program Is:
Entrance Inc.
Evt. Target Targets Only Targets
6 25 1.00 .3.00
0 25 1.00 3.00
7 26 1.00 3.00
8 25 1.00 3.00
100 $4.00 $12.00
Summer Concerts
To Start Tonight
Musical selections by seven com
posers will be presented tonight by
the La Grande band at the Triangle
Dark at the corner of Fourth and
Spring streets, under the direction
of Andrew uoney Jr. -. ine prugriuu
will begin at 8 o'clock ond arrange
ments have been made for seating
the audience and for parking auto
mobiles near the concert stand.
The program includes "Nlebelun
een," a march by R. Wagner; "Maxi
milian Robespierre," overture by
Litolff; "When Day Is , Done," by
Haach: "Slngln' In the Rain," by Ed
wards; scenes from Zlegfeld's "Rio
Rita." by Tierney; "Down South,"
an American fantasy by Mydclleton;
and "Bollet Egyptlen," by Lulglnl.
The program will be closed by play
ing the Star Spangled banner.
WEATHER FORECAST
Oregon : Fair tonight and S
Saturday but overcast, at times 8
near the coast; moderate tern-
perature; gentle changeable S
winds offshore. 3
WEATHER TODAY
7 a. m. 56 above.
Minimum: 44 above.
Condition: Clear.
WEATHER YESTERDAY
Maximum 78, minimum, 44
above.
Condition: Clear. Range B4
degrees.
WEATHER JUNE 17, 11)31
Maximum 67, minimum 46
above.
Condition: Cloudy. Range
21 degrees.
Daily Trains Are
Reduced to Four;
Schedule Altered
Portland Rose Combined
With No. 6 and Moved
Up to 6:15 a. m, on East
Run.
Changes In the train schedules In
La Grande have been announced by
tho Union Pacific company, and four
instead of six trains will pass dally
through La Grande from, the east
and west, two each way, beginning
on Sunday.
no. IB, ine rortiana nose, wnicn
formerly left at 6:20 a. m. will com
bine with No. 6 which went east
at 7:30 a. m., and will leave at 6:16
in the morning.
No. 20 east bound, will leave at
7:25 p. m. Instead of 7:45 p. m.,
and No. 21 westbound, which for
merly left at 6:35 in the morning
will leave at 12:35 o'clock at noon.
No. 17, the Rose, will combine with
No. 5, which formerly left for ,the
west at 8:05 o'clock, and will leavo
at 9 :20. No. 17 formierly left at
10:20 o'clock.
Grange Urges
Schools To Stay
Within Millage
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8ILVERTON, June 17 (P) The
state grange after a heated debate
late yesterday did not vote recom
mendation to abolish the millage tax
for the State university and State
college, but did urge by resolution
mat expenditures ior inese scnoois
be kept within the limits of the
millage tax. Arguments of many
grangers were to the effect that aboli
tion of the continuing appropriation
would cripple extension service of the
two schools. 1 j
Oregon state normal schools, which
do not carry a standard rating,
should be brought up to standard
lmmediotely, the grange voted in
accepting a report of tlie education
committee. Discussion of the pro
posed initiative measure for consoli
dation of higher institutions of learn
ing was not put up to the conven
tion, wnicn adjourns uinignc.
. Leaves of absence with pay and
pensions for faculty members should
bdotcrmtned by legislative: action
Instead of by tho university admin
istration, the- granger, voted'"- A
Emaller board of education, contain
ing two "dirt farmers," should also
be organized, ine legislative com
mittee of the grange was instructed
to draft a bill to this end. Two
members of tho board would be selec
ted from each congressional district
if the grange suggestion is adopted.
Abolition of the entiro appropria
tion of $1,085,000, of which Governor
Meier vetoed $500,000, was advised.
Grangers were Instructed to vote
"no" on the referendum measure
this fall.
Results of the election which was
divided into two sections because
sevornl officers foiled to receive a
majority In the first balloting, fol
low: ,
Steward, S. J. Howard. Service
Creek; assistant steward. Henry Gus.
tafson. Coos county; ceros, Alice
Hamilton, Lake county: Pomona,
Dorothea Mack. Klamath; Flora,
Mildred Crow, Umatilla; lady assist
ant steward. Alice Goff, DouglrJi;
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Youngster Stops
Bunker Hill Show
BOSTON, June 17 tJV) His name
was not on the program nor was
his event scheduled, but Llnwood
Wayman, 8, attracted considerable
attention at Bunker Hill monument
today as Boston celcbroted Its pri
vate holiday "Bunker Hill day." Lin
wcod stuck his head out between the
bars of a window at the top of the
monument and It took a couple of
crow bars and husky men to Ret It
back in. It all happened Just as
Mayor James M. Curley was arriv
ing to place a wreath at the foot
(it the monument and LimyoodV
cries alienated attention from the
mayor to himself.
A parade, which was to have been
one of the chief features of the cele
bration had to be postponed because
of rain.
Hoover Set For Campaign
Newlin, Twins Will Be Regiment
Color Bearers At Camp Clatsop
CAMP CLATSOP. Ore., June 17
(Special The two Newlin twins, Paul
and Vincent, for which Company E
la somewhat famous, have been ap
pointed as regimental color bearers
which is quite a distinction and
another good mark on the scoreboard
for the La Grande unit.
They are Just as hard to tell apart
as ever. If one says "Hello, Vincent,"
the reply usually is "I'm not Vincent,
I'm Paul;" or vice versa.
Incidentally, one of the twins has
chargj of the 100 and 220 yard dashes
for the brigade field meet the ast
week of camp, but lacking an order
covering the subject, the writer Isn't
sure whether it's Paul or Vincent.
The other twin plans to run in the
440 -yard dash. Corporal Phil Beau
mont has charge of the tfall scaling
teams for the 186th Infantry.
The weather has been spotty, but
nothing to kick about. Sunshine is
u-juaKy followad by a bit of Oregon
mist or a rain and then It's clear or
cloudy again. The evenings are not
too cold Just cool enough to make
the three blankets very acceptable.
Charles L. Lilly (whose picture was
snapped by an Oregonlan photograph
er while on guard Wednesday morn
MERGER PLAN
BACKERS ISSUE
NEW PETITIONS
Ramage Says Tax League
Will Have 520,000
Names in Week.
THREATEN BURDETT
WITH FIGHT ON TAX
Money For School Fight
Said Coming Mainly
From Portland Expect
Some From Corvallis.
SALEM, June 17 (F) Circulation of
700 new petitions throughout the
state to place on the November bal
lot the proposed Initiative measure
for tho consolidation of schools will
bo under way today, John Ramage,
member of the executive committee
of the tax league sponsoring the
move, announced.
"We will have 20,000 signatures on
theVnew petitions by the end of
next week," he said. "On the old
petitions I estimate we had received
upwards of 40,000 signatures when
the supreme court ruled the title
out." I .mM
Will Knife Tax Plan
Ramage in his statement made here
said that unless James E. Burdett,
president of the Oregon tax reduc
tion league, cease his attack on the
measure for consolidating the higher
institutions of learning, iv propon
ents will "knifo the gov : or's tax
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LABOR COUNCIL
FAVORS THREE
IN SCHOOL RACE
A-3 favorable to organized labor, the
Central Labor council last night en
dorsed W. D. Hanks, Mrs. Floy Wetzel
and Ed Moon, three of the six candi
dates for positions on the school
board, tho others being- P.- J. Lilly,
Gtme Valkor and Chufles B. to.hi;
Two positions are left vacant by the
retirement of ur, j. u mgie aha w.
C. Perkins. '
Election will be held from 2 until
7 o'clock at the Greenwood and Cen
tral schools on Monday.
The contest for school board posi
tions became greater wnen Mr. Moon,
Mrs. Wetzel and Mr. Hanks filed their
petition of candidacy shortly after
Mr. Miller, Mr. Walker and Mr. Lilly
had accepted nominations on the
board. Dr. Lee B. Bouvy was sug
gested for the position but declined
tho nomination.
Economy is the keynote of the
greater -number of the piatrorms or
tho candidates. .
Dorothy Manciet Is
Killed In Accident
MARSH FIELD. Ore.. June J 7 'ZD
Dorothy Manclct was killed and How
ard Collins was injured seriously in
an automobile accident on the coast
highway Just south of the Calltornla
line today. Collins was taken to a
hospital at Crescent City.
Miss Manciet and Collins, both of
Bnndon, were driving to Crescent Olty
to visit friends. Defective steering
gear threw the car out of control, re
ports here said.
Walter Winslow Is
New Grand Master
PORTLAND, Ore., June 17
The grand Masonic loege of Oregon
yesterday elected Walter C. Winslow.
of Salem, grand master. He succeeds
Herbert L. Toney.
Other officers elected were Leslie
M. Scott, Portland, deputy grand
master; Ezra M. Wilson, Mcdford,
senior grand wardon; H. Wayne Stan
dard, of Brownsville, junior grand
warden; John B. Cleland, Portland
grand treasurer J rmd D. Rufus
Cheney, grand sectretary.
ing) was among the men in the com
pany to receive a "100 Per Cent Spe
cial Privilege Pass" in this company.
Pvt Firstclass Lilly received the pass
which Is good from retreat to 1 :30
a. m. dally because or special recog
nition of soldierly qualities in at
tending all drills and formations of
hl3 unit' during the year ending April
30. 1032.
Others in the company receiving
100 per cent passes follow: 1st Sgt.
Robert R. Carey, Sts. Raymond C.
Orlffin. William O. Bean, Olm R.
Nlchoald-3. Clyde C. Penlngton. Fred J.
Wells, Howard C. Olenn, Corporate
Robert R. Swan. Paul T. Walker and
Howard M. Peterson, Privates Flrst
clasa Clelland B. Jennings, Adam R.
Lelghton, Walter P. Chad wick and
Pvt. Leonard Fields.
Since arrival at camp schools have
been unusually plentiful with the
lineup about as follows:
Ouldon bearer: Pvt. Robert L. Blan
chard, 1:25 to 3 p. m. on June 15,
16, 17, 20 and 31.
Ordinance school June 16, 17, 20, 21
and 23, with Sgt. Clyde C. Penlngton
and Pvt. James D. Burke attending.
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BLAZE FROM
EXPLOSION IS
FATAL TO 23
Terrific Blasts Tear Open
Oil Tanker Cymbeline .
in Montreal Harbor.
FIFTEEN CANADIAN
FIREMEN KILLED
Injured List .Mounts Past
60 As Recoveries Are
Made From ' Wrecked
' Ship's Hold. . . ?.
MONTREAL, June 17 W) A series
of terrific explosions tore the oil
tanker Cymbeline wide open in
Montreal harbor today and brought
death to an estimated total of 23
men, and Injuries to 63.
Ten bodies had boon recovered at
noon, nine hourB after the first blast,
and 13 others were believed to he in
the wrecked tanker's hold.
Fifteen of the Injured were fire
men called out to combat, flames
that followed the first explosions.
Flaming oil shot 100 feet In the
air when the first blasfr-occurred as
100 workmen were rushing, repairs
on . the Cymbeline in . the Great
Vlckers drydock.
A number of minor explosions oc
curred and an hour later, while fire
men were fighting tho flames and
searching for victims of the blasts,
another detonation, more severe than
any of the others, shook the damagod
ship. -
In this final blast flrq Chief Rnoul
Gauthler was killed with four of his
men. " 1 . ' ' '
Tho bodies recovered were those
of Gauthler, his four men, and five
employes of the Vlckers company.
MONTREAL. June 17 W Four
men were killed, sixteen others were
missing, and some 36 injured today,
the rtoult of two explosions aboard
the oil tanker Cymbeline at the docks
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PIONEER IDAHO
TOWN WRECKED
BY BIG BLAZE
SPENCER, Idaho, June 17 W Vir
tually the entire buslnes-3 section of
this pioneer Idaho town was wiped
out-by fire early today.- Property
owners estimated the damage between
$10,000 and $15,000.
The blaze started about 1 a. m
and raged four hours before the vol
unteer fire fighters brought It under
control. A garage, two general stores
and a pool hall were destroyed, leav
ing only the postofflco and a hotel In
the business section.
Eight automobiles stored in the
garage were also destroyed. Origin
of the fire, which was believed to
have started In the garage, was un
known. Every able man in town and many
women Joined In the bucket brigade
when the fire alarm spread. The
town has no organized fire depart
ment. Port lander, In
Best Polka Dot,
Calls on Mayor
NEW YORK, June 17 m Mayor
Walker had a caller todoy but he
wasn't In. Mrs. Marie Ewying of
Portland, Ore., wanted to see him
about the bonus. She said she would
come back Monday.
Mra. Ewying hitch-hiked from
Portland to be "mother of the bonus
expeditionary forces" in Washington,
she wore a polka dot dress, battered
opera hat, carried a banjo made of a
dlshpan and was flanked by a "color
guard."
She said the boys In Washington
promised to bo orderly while she was
gone.
Congratulations,
Cameramen Take
Up Opening Day
WASHINGTON, June 17 fP Prcsl
dent Hoover today launched a new
plea for the creation of a flvo day
week for government employes, say
Ing he hoped the house and senate
conferees now at work on the na
tlonal economy bill would agreo to
such a stop.
The president, sneaking orally to
newspapermen, for the first time Blncc
his renomlnatlon, replied Indirectly
to a senate resolution asking him to
suggest specific economies to help in
oainncpig ine duo get.
Although he made no mention of
the senate request, the president said
ho hoped the conferees on the eco
nomy bill would adopt not only ttie
furlough plan but would grant him
emergency powers to reorganize the
federal government.
WASHINGTON, Juno 17 (fl A
meeting with tho cabinet, receipt of
congratulations, and posing for the
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HOOVER LAUDED IN KEYNOTE G.O.P. SPEECH
1 Ho
By wire from Chicago to San Francisco sped this photograph of Senator L. J. Dickinson of I own, as lie
iiiatlo the keynote speech nit tho opening session of the Republican national convention in Chicago
Hlndlum Tuesday morning.. Dickinson lauded President Hoover's record as president. Ills was the first
y ':: ; of several orations leading up to the successful nomination of Hoover Thursday.
John J. Raskob
Named With Fox
j In Stock Query
WASHINGTON, Juno 17 (P) Testi
mony that John J. Raskob partici
pated In a short selling pool In Fox
theatres stock, which made a profit
of nearly $2,000,000 was. given the
senate banking committee today by
William 'A. Gray, committee counsel.
The' chairman of the Democratic
national committee was named as a
participant along with William Fox
head or tho fox. mm ana rox.tneatres
corporation in the committee's 1 in
vestigation of the New .York stock
exchange. .-
William. F. Kenny, Mrs. Elizabeth
Meehan, Joseph E, Hlgglns, Bradford
Ellsworth, Walter P. Chrysler and
Nicholas F. Brady were others named.
Raskob, Chrysler, Brady and fox
were described as the largest par
ticipants having assumed a liability
of $750,000 each.
The participants in tho pool were
named by Gray after Senator Wal-
cott (R., Conn.) asked him directly
who they were.
The pool was described as. operat
ing in 1020.
WILLIAM FOX ILL
WASHINGTON, June 17 Word
that William Fox is still 111 and will
not be able to appear today for ques
tioning In tho senate stock market
Investigation was brought to tho
committee room this morning by an
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Fiction Cowboys
Really Live, Says
Tex Ricker, Guide
Hard riding, straight shooting cow
boys, who rope a mean steer, much
in the style of a western novel, really
llvo In Jackson Hole, Wyo., one of the
sites In the West where tho old ro
mantic spirit still prevoils, Tex Ricker,
who Is a visitor In La Grande and
Union tills week from Jackson Hole
country, says. Mr. Ricker Is one of
tho most widely known of all tho
guides of Yellowstone Pork, b pend
ing his springs, summers ond au
tumns guiding pnrtles through the
park and tho high mountains of the
Jackson Hole country on Hunting ana
fishing trips.
Jackson Hole Is ono of the most
beautiful sections of Yellowstone
park, -and tho little town with
winter population of 500 swells to
40.000 and 50.000 people during the
summer. Easterners and Westerners
hired by the tolcs of the high moun
tains, tho J. Y. Dude ranch, the fish
ing and big game hunting, come to
Jackson Holo bnforc entering Yellow'
stone Pork, and for days beforo tho
opening of tho national playground
the Jackson Hole country Is thronged
with fishermen and hunters. After
the season closes In the fall, the Hole
country lends Itself for a winter play
ground where skliers make Jumping
records and tobogganers slide down
the natural runways, exhilarating In
the thin pure air.
Rodeos are a common occurrence
In the Jackson Hole. country, and Mr.
Ricker, between trips guiding tourists
or sportsmen through the park, helps
stage the rodeos, having received his
early training In staging rodocs from
Fred and John Spain in union, wnore
he has since spent several of his win
ters. For big game hunting and for trout
fishing, Mr. Ricker boasts that Jack
son Hole affords tho best In the
country, and he has convinced many
nationally known celebrities of the
fact, since every year he guides mo
tion picture stars, governors, prize
lighters, noblemen, newspaper editors
and hundreds of others, including
Wfdlaco Beery, of motion ' picture
fame. Jack Dempsey, prize fighter,
the governor of Nevada, the editor
of tho New York World and French
noblemen, all of whom have mode
his 28 years as a guide extremely
interesting.
Mr. Ricker will bo In La Grande
and Union for the next four or five
days visiting with friends and staying
at tho Union hotel.
GANGSTERS KILL
PAL OF CAPONES
"Barker The Immune"
Riddled After Years .
.Of Violence. '
CHICAGO, Juno 17 W) - A tor
rent of gangland bulleta has drum
med publlo enemy Georgo (Red)
Barker, associate of the Capones. out
of the ranks , 'of- underworld leaders.
Today vacant was trur-throno no
was reputod to have reared on labor
racketeering, terrorism, bombings and
a multitude of crimes of violence .
' The death volley was fired from
a flat across the street where the as
sassins apparently had lain In wait
for hours and left empty cartridges
and remnants of ft dinner about. Two
young men mid a young woman
rented tho flat two weeks ago,
Tho gunmen pumped 18 rifle and
pistol bullets Into tho body of "Bar
ker tho Immune," whom until
last night . neither the foes of
gangland nor the arm of Cook county
law had been able to check In tho
career of crime which he began In
1016.
Two men wero held today for In
vestigation In the slaying Larry
Evans, a waiter, and George Blck
ford, hotel clerk, who helped three
others pick up the gangster's lifeless
body.
Barker had never been convicted in
Cook county through -yeors of persis
tent harassment by police oi a cnarge
more sorlous than larceny though
murders and all forms of labor
war violence had boon laid at his
door.
He "muscled In" on ono union
after another till at the height of
hlo checkered career ho was reputed
to hove had an Income of $200,000
a year. '
Michigan brought him his only
major conviction and put him be
hind the bnrs or the Marquottc stato
penitentiary from 1020 to 1020 from
Detroit for assault to rob. Ho onenprd
In 1022 but was at liberty only six
days.
It was oh his return to Chicago
from Marquotte that tho hoodlum
begun laying the groundwork for his
vast racketeering siruciuro.
CHICAGO, June 17 (P) A gang
of oxtortlonlsts walked Into a police
trim laid In a loop gumming csion
llHhinent yesterday and three of Its
members were shot to death with
shotgun and pistol fire. A fourth
escaped.
Todoy the police revealed tho three
men killed had been warned of their
fato by a police lieutenant at a show
up Just a week ago.
"Some day the pollco are going to
got tired of bringing you fellows in
hero and tnoyii suna you 10 me mor
gue" Lieut. Edward Birmingham told
them. -Tho
warning wns prophetic.
Harold Partner, 20, Samuel Kotz,
27, and Frank Rogers, 31, all minor
gangsters and police characters, wero
mowed down by the oiiiccrs.
Tho fourth who escaped was not
Identified.
COUPLE STARVE
MAN TO DRIVE
AWAY 'DEVILS'
UALTIMOKE. Juno 17 lPl I'ollro
today ptcc-ed together a Htory of tho
Btnrvlng to denth ol a 20-yenr-old
cripple by hlR mothor and brother
"to drive out devllfl that poHHenfted
him." Tho body kept on u couch
In their home, wwt found yesterdny.
A dlnry kept by Uio brother re
corded that death occurred April 4 nnd
predicted that "he will anno from
tho dead" Juno 26."
Tho cripple. Grant Aubol. was
found by officer InvcftllKatlng hla
dlnappoarance. reported by nolKhbom.
The mother, Mm. Annie Aubel, 65,
who a few daya beforo had turned a
health officer away from the hoUHO
anylng "Ood won't let you In." wa
nrrealed with her aon, Paul Aubel, SO.
Mussolini Flays
U. S.As Country
With "No Policy"
LONDON, Juno 17 m Premier
Mussolini waa quoted in an Interview
published by the Daily Express today
as caustically criticising tho United
States and democracy generally and
predicting a long series or "politico;
economic and military wars" for the
worm.
America has no nollcy!" the cor-
reanoudent auotod him aa saying, bit
teriv-and witn "iMiraonio oonwrnpti."
This was in renly;'to:.a suggostion
that tht? Unlts.1 States was "ono of
the life belts to which Idealists aro
clinging for solvation In the world
criBis."
II Duco Bummed up his Impression
of America, tho correspondent said,
In two worda prohibition and iina
bergh. "(Evidently referring to the
kidnaping of Charles Augustus Lind
bergh Jr.)" '
"Drv America win never una ner
self," he was reported as saying. "She
must go wet to find hersolf. In the
maantimo Europe Is drifting to dls
astor and revolution,"'
Smiling derisively, tho correspon
dent said, Mussolini then turned his
guno on democracy.
"Democracy is nothing," he sold
"The people ore nothing. In every
country they ore weary of talk. They
need men of action. They cannot
save themselves; they need saviors.
And he added: "There aro no sa
vlors."
For the future, he was quoted as
saying, he foresaw a long werles of
wars. "There's war now," ho added.
Tho era of reparations is ended, ho
said, and added that "if Germany
aaya 'no' Italy also will say 'no' I"
Franco Molds Hack on Cancellation
LAUSANNE, Switzerland, June 17
(fit Groat Britain offorod to wipe
the slate clean of reparations and war
debts at the International economic
conferenco hero today, but France
insisted that elimination of trade
barriers was more important thau
cancellation or the war payments.
Germany's spokesman, in a temper
ature address, made no reference to
repudiation or reparations but Indi
cated that It might be necessary to
docloro a moratorium on private
dobls, most of which are owed to
Americans,
Tho most important concrete
achievement of today's session was
the accoptanco by Great Britain.
Franco, Italy, Belgium and Japan or
a temporary agreement to suspend
reparation payments from June 30,
when the Hoover moratorium onds, to
the close of the present conferenco.
This sidetracked a suggestion that
tho Hoover holiday be extended an
other six months. It assured contin
uation of the conferenco at least un
til next month.
Nevlllo Chamberlain, speaking for
tho MacDonald government, assorted
that Great Urltnln Is ready to waive
her claim to 2,000.000,000 In war
payments provided all the other gov
ernments concerned will do tho same.
(Continued on Page Vour
Child Drowns In
Willamette River
PORTLAND, Ore., June 17 W'
Clavtoti Emerion. B. of Portland
allppeil from a lot! boom nnd fell Into
the Willamette river and drowned
horo lnut liliiht. Tho body wns re
covered 20 minutes later by tho liar
bor nntrol.
While returning from tlio sccno of
tho drowning the harbor pntrol found
tho body of an unidentified man
floating In tho river.
Amelia Is Given
Rumanian Order
DUCHAHEST, Rumania. Juno 17 Ml
King Carol today conferred the or
der of Merrlt for aviation of the
Rumanian government on NTtb. Amelia
Earhnrt Putnam, American woman
transatlantic flier.
Mrs. Putnam Is now on tho way
from Franco to tho United States.
to. p. show :
VACATES FOR
DEMOCRATS
Opposition fParty Ready
To Commence Great
Parley June 27. . '
CURTIS AND LIQUOR
SESSION HIGHLIGHTS
Dolly Gann Leader in Chi
cago Fight to ;Fut Over
Brother Against OppoV
sition From Wets. !
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By Byron Price 1
(Associated Press Staff Writer) !
CHICAGO, June 17 UP) The bl .
Ropubllcan show is over, but the
Democrats are movlnor In with an.
even more imposing array of political
stage -trimmings, and, the pause will .
od oiuy uiinpomry, l( j
Having renonunatea Hoover ana
Curtis, chosen Everett Sanders of In- '
dlana their campaign manager, and , .
melted down the great variety of prof t
hlbltlon views into a plank, prom lay
Ing submission of a plan for mod It
flcatlon, the hosts of the G. O. P.
evacuated their Chicago haunts dur4
Normal Life - Resumed t
Todav nearlv all of tho Mlchiaan
avenue hotels which house them, du
Ing the three convention days were
bock to the normal ways of life. , 1 .
Within a week, the- Democrats will
be In Chicago, In the same hotels,
preparing for the 4 opening of thelt
own convention, in the 'same oveitf
grown stadium on the. west side, on
Monday, June 27. The vanguard wa
here before the Republicans were be T
yond the city limits. Advance agents
of a dozen presidential4 candidate
will be getting headquarters space1
in shape over the present weekend;
and then It will be a matter of steady
lly increasing activity until the gaye
drops, , . . i t: v . .- i p
'ine Kepuoifcans leit psnina tnem
tho memory of at least-two event
which bid for place In political nty
tory. Ono, of course was the sun
den upward sure $1 . ..sentiment for
prohibition repeal, 'Viirtotftt only after,
a real ' 'convention .battle. Ji Tho'-othef
was tho final victory yesterday jo -Vice
President Curtis In his candid- -apy
for renomlnatlon. ' ! '
Defeat Threaten Curtis !
For a time, even toward the end
it appeared that Curtis was on the
verge of defeat, despite the fact that
every key man- in the convention
understood President Hoover wanted -his
running mate of 1932 'kept oh
tho ticket. There was, wet oppoal-
(Continued on Page FlTe'
Monthly Luncheon 't
To Be Island City
Island City will be the meeting
ploce for the Chamber of Commerce
when they hold their annual chicken
dinner and monthly luncheon meet
ing, at the community church on
Tuesday, June 21. The luncheon will
begin at ia:iu ana win sojourn uc
12:60 allowing time for members of
tho chamber to return to La Grande
by one o'clock.
ino luucneon win oe servoa uy wv
women of Island City. J
Michigan Man To
Head Police Chiefs
PORTLAND, Ore., Juno 17 (fl -
Alfred Seymour, chief of police of
Lansing, Mich., was olected president
of the International Association ox
Chiefs of Police at tho closing session
of tho unnunl convention of the as
sociation hero today.
Other officers . elected, included
Chief of Pollco L. V. Jenkins, of
Portland, sixth vlco president.
Chicago was selected as the 1033
convention city. . ' i
Wheat Today J
CHICAGO, June 17 W) Selling
pressuro brondened and buying sup
port gave out In wheat late today,
with tho mnrket falling more than 2
centfl from the day'fl top.
Weakness of the wow xoric biockb
hnd considerable boarlsh effect, and
ao did good ruins In parts of tho Am
erican northwest as woll aa at some
points In Canada, together with fa
vorable weatner. ior narvest opera
tions southwest. North American ex
port demand for wheat was slack.
All deliveries of wheat eold at a new
low for tho season shortly before
trading ended. Wheat closed nervous,
iy(2'.& under yesterday's finish,
corn 1142c down, onto !4V4 off,
and provisions at a rlso of 2 to 7c. ,
CHICAGO, June 17 (IT) Drain
values sagged today after a show of
firmness at the'outeot. Traders took
their cuo from downturns of securi
ties, and almost Ignored a rlso In
wheat quotation at Liverpool. Open
ing unchanged to c higher, wheat
afterward declined all around. Corn
started unchanged to J4c up and
subsequently undorwont a general
setback.
PORTLAND, ' June 17 Wl Wheat
lost In both tho cash and future
market today. On the futures mar
ket July was off c, September lo
and December lo bu.
On tho merchanto exchange cash
Wheat lost iC bushel.
Hmoll lots of established brand
flour was reported sold to North
China but prices, whlls not mad
public, are understood to bo without
profit to miller. f