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Wednesday, June 22, 1932 it. LA' GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER, IX, GRANDE. OREL PageFivtf $ HDCAIL Visits 111 Milton '. Miss Hulda Andoreon Is visiting (or several days In Milton. She Is tt guest there of Mrs. Tom Short. Hume (or Summer Sheldon Brownton, son of Dr. and Mrs. K. 8. Brownton, Is home for the summer holidays. Mr. Brownton Is studying medicine nt the medical school of Washington university In St. Louis. He will complete his course next year. Itenches linker Martin A. Fitzgerald of La Grande stopped hero for a few minutes this morning while en route to Chicago to attend the national Democratic convention as. a delegate from the second congressional district. The convention will open June 27. Mr. Fitzgerald's slogan Is "For the Inter ests of the hotels of the United States by the repeal of the eighteenth amendment." Democrat-Herald. Attend Funeral Service Mrs. Dave Stewart and daughter. Miss Ethel, Mrs. Frank Pike and Bird Lewis attended funeral services for Sam Walker, yesterday at Pendle ton. Mr. Walker dropped dead Sun day in Pendleton. Mrs. Walker, who was formerly Mrs. Bam Eddy, Is well known in La Orando having visited here several times with frlendB. Her children. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Eddy, of Portland: Mr. and Mrs. Miller, of Tillamook; and Mr. and Mrs. Doherty, of Pendleton, 'attended the services. From University Miss Pauline Conradt, who has been attending the University of Oregon the past year, has returned to her home here for the summer vaca tion. She has been visiting a sorority sister in Portland. Back In I.a Grande Mrs. C. T. Bacon, who spent several months at the home of her daughter In lUinois Is back in La Grande again and has taken her room In the Rocsch apartments. To Corvullls Mr. and Mrs. William Moor, and young son, Blllle. left today for Cor vallls where they are to reside in the future. Mr. Moor, with his family have been visiting his sister. Miss Helen Moor, on their way west from their former home in Toledo, Ohio. Birth Aiinomlced Friends of Mr. and Mrs. Eldon Cur tis, of Bnker, have received announce ments of the birth of a baby boy born to them Thursday. Mrs. Curtis was formerly Mary Nelger, of Cove. She attended school at the. La Grande High school and at Sacred HSarc academy and later graduated from St. Elizabeth's hospital In Baker, In 1030. Mr. Curtis is a Baker post office- employe. Paroled Two transients, John M. Crawford, of New York, and Carl Moger, ; of Oklahoma,,, wore , tried this morning before Judge' L,' Detihaiii in the'eo'urt of the Justice of the peace, and were paroled to the court, after being ar rested last night by special agents of the Union Pacific railroad on the railroad tracks near La Grande. They spent the night in the city Jail. Surprised Mrs. May me Johnson was surprised on the occasion of her birthday by members of the Westway club. A feature of the afternoon was the huge birthday cake on which members of tin club placed 62 candles. However, they stated that the number of can dies docs not represent the age of tho guest of honor. In Joseph Ian Thornburg Is visiting with rela tives in Joseph. He has been In the branch town during the past two weeks and plan3 to spend several moro days there. I'lrtilc The Ladles Aid of the Lutheran church will entertain the children of the Sunday school at a picnic tomor row at Riverside park. The picnic will start at 10 o'clock, and the members of the church school, the aid, and their families arc Invited to attend and bring their own luncheon. A picnic dinner will be served at noon and tho afternoon will be spent In games. DAMP WASH Is the delight of the up-to-date housewife The washing mach ine can not compete, in cost or quality. Let us prove it. MODEHN LAUNDRY PHONE MAIN 77 Hooks OiKMied or Closed Financial Statements and tax returns compiled. FKANK L. BLACK 1701 5th St. Specialized Service Speedometers, Fuel Pumps, Mag netos (iciipmlors. Starters and Igniters. Mcdonald electric co. Phone Main 753 1428 Adams 1 Joe i we A license to wed was Issued yester day by County Clerk C. K. McOor mick to Frank Droke, of Union, and Juanlta Hill, Telocaset. Leave Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Putman, who formerly made their home in La Grande where he was a leading busi ness man, left today for their home In Milton after ft ahnrt. ut,it kdiv nivu friends here. They arrived Monday. Injured Mrs. M. B. Swain Is confined to her home suffering from t.uA hr ribs which she received Sunday dur ing a fishing trip on the Wallowa river, she slipped on a rock and fell striking a rock. From Portland L. J. Cascaddcn, of Portland, Is in La Grande today transacting business. Ueeclves Degree Word has been received in La Grande that a Master of Arts de gree was conferred on Miss Elleanor Vernon at the common rum ah. clses at the University of Washing- mat Munuay ana Tuesday. Miss Vernon, who Is Instructor In Latin and dean of the girls - at the La Grande High school, completed' her educational requirements for the degree last summer. At Thornburg Home Miss Anette Flnlavson. of Rnitor Is a eucst at the homo of Mr h Mrs. C. E. Thornburg this week. Visit Miss Houx Mr. and Mrs. F. F. Houx. accom panied by their daughted; Mrs. C. J, Elder, of Tacoma, are guests at the home of another daughter, Miss Kate Houx in La Grande for a few days. They will return to their home In the near future. Miss Houx Is direc tor of training at the Eastern Oregon Normal school. . .'.-' AsHenibly ,Mi ; Comic stunts presented by the students at the Eastern Oregon Nor mal school, formed ..the. assembly which was held this morning at 10 o'clock in the auditorium. The Btu dcntB were divided . according to towns, each group presenting a part of the program. Dean Rhea, Of Boise, Speaks To Rotarians The Very Reverend Prank A. Rhea, dean of St. Michael's Episcopal Ca thedral, Boise, Idaho, addressed the members of the Rotary club at their regular weekly meeting this noon. using the subject: "The Relation of the Church to Present Day Needs." He pointed out that In this ma chine age our' greatest 'need' Is for thinkers, for leaders, In every field of activity. In government, In business, In Industry, In the church, and ex pressed the opinion that the church should not try to dictate the policies of business and Industry, nor the platforms of politicians, but should confine Itself to Its great task of holding high Ideals before men. - The greatest service the church can render the nation under present con ditions, said Dean Rhea, is that of training young people to live up to the Ideals of righteousness, honesty. and Integrity, and preparing them for leadership along those lines. In this way the church can supply the lead ers which the world so sorely needs, and thus enable civilization to solve Its many problems. Dean Rhea, and Rev. Joseph Bwlng, of Klamath Falls, who also attended the meeting today, are members of the faculty of the Episcopal Summer school which Is now In session at Cove. At the close of the meeting lo- tarlan Ray Murphy brought up the matter of furnishing a prize In con nection with the Boy Scout project program which Is being carried on at present In La Grande. The matter was referred to the board for action. From 1'iilon Tex Knight, of Union, Is a business visitor In La Grande today. Former Elgin Minister Has Interesting Life (lly 1'toI Lookley In The Oregon Journal) Dr. J. T. Mpore of 411 East 34th street, pnstor of Antlooh Missionary Baptist; church, was born August 2a, 1864, In Monroe' county; Missouri' Ho was educated at William Jewell col lege, at Liberty, Mo., and at South ern Baptist Theological seminary at Louisville, Ky., and: was ordained to the Baptist ministry at Bethlehem Baptist church in Audrain county. Missouri, April 21, 188S. Soon after his ordination he left for the Pacific coast, landing at Baker City, now Baker, Oro., on July 29, 1886. During that fall and winter he taught school In the valley and at the same time was supply pastor of the First Bap tist church of Baker. He became mis sionary pastor of the Baptist church at Elgin, Ore., in September, 1887. In October of 1892 he became editor of the Baptist Sentinel, a weekly pub lished at Dayton. Wash., in the In terest of the Baptist work in the Northwest. He was pastor of the First Baptist church at Bentonvllle, Ark., in 1897 and 1898, going from there an missionary to the Mexicans. He located at Cucrnavaca, southwest of Mexico City about 75 miles. Here he remained loss than five years and founded a church and built a church houso and missionary home. He then returned to Oregon and was pastor for some time at Baker. Prlncvllle and Fossil and then returned to Arkansas, becoming pastor or Antloch Baptist church In Little Rock. In July. 1910, he returned to Mexico, locating in a large American colony near Tampico. In November of that year the long revolution began and all mission work was hindered. On May 1, 1917, the constitution became effective that forbade all foreign missionaries preaching In Mexico. Hence. In 1918 ho left Mexico and returned to Ore gon, becoming pastor at Cloverdale. In July. 1024, he organized Antioch Missionary Baptist church In Port land and pastored It until in July. 1927. during which time the church houso was built. He then became corresponding secretary-treasurer of the American Baptist association, whoso headquarters Is at Texarkana, Ark. -Tex. This Is a national body of Baptists. In 1931 he returned to the pastorate of Antloch church In Port land. Last March at the annual meet ing of tho American Baptist associa tion at Memphis. Tenn., Dr. Moore was elected president of the body. Tho Missionary Baptist college of Sheridan, Ark., conferred upon Dr. Moore the honorary degree of doctor of divinity. Dr. Mooro has been married twice, first to Miss Mary Alice Howard. July 22. 1888. near Haines, Ore. She lived but a few years. To this union two children were born. His second mar riage was to Miss Idclla Adeline How ard, his first wife's sister, May 16, 1893. In Portland. To this union five children were born, one of these dy ing In Infancy. Question Sanity Of Former Kleagle CHICAGO, June 22 m Edward Young Clarke of Atlanta, Ga., for mer Kleagle of the Ku Klux Klan. submitted to observation as to his mental condition today in the psy chopathlo hospital, to which he was committed last night by a court order. Dr. Francis J. Gerty, superintend ent of the hospital, said Clarke "ap pears to be suffering from paranoia, Illusions of grandeur, for instance the idea of leading the country back to prosperity." . Jj- Gerty said he would be unable to determine Clarke's condition ac curately until Saturday. WINNIPEG WHEAT WINNIPEG, June 22 m Wheat close: July 64 ; Oct. 6657; Dec. 5B68ft.. POLICE FAIL TO FIND CLUE TO SHOOTING (Continued from Page One) chief of police, that she will be un able to defray any of the expenses of the funeral, and asks that her son be buried In Union where he spent many winters of his life, going every summer to Yellowstone Park to act as guide, he told reporters before his death. Capt. Lee Noe, Lieut. Yancey, of tho state police. Sheriff flreshears, Deputy H. A. KUnghammer, and District At torney Carl Helm this morning ad mitted the possibilities of a struggle In murder basing their contention on the peculiar slant Which the bul let took after entering the body, entering the umbilicus In the abdo men and lodging under the shoulder blade. Police Raffled Circumstances which point both to suicide and to murder make the case one of the most baffling which police have confronted recently, they state. The bullet will be sent to Portland where It will be measured. The gun from which the bullet was fired has not been found" although officers have dragged the creek and carefully sear ched the surrounding territory. Mr. Rlcker was in dire financial straits at the time of his death, ac cording to stories which he told dur ing his almost daily visits to La Orande while making his home In Union. He had been here two weeks, and is reported to have tried during that time to borrow money from various local people. The afternoon before his death Mr. Rlcker told an Observer reporter that he planned to secure a marriage license Monday afternoon and that his marriage to Mrs. Mildred Jory would take place the next afternoon In La Grande. Ho did not reveal the place where the ceremony would be performed, stating that he was afraid some of his friends In Union would take advantage of the event to play practical Jokes on them. County Clerk 0. K. MoCormlck states that no license was issued Monday afternoon to Mr. Rlcker.. Officers Hard at Work County, state and Union officers have been in Union almost continu ously since the body was found and have Investigated several clues, all of which have been futile, they state. At noon today, no time had been set for the Inquest, and It Is believed that officers are trying to establish more evidence before definite steps will be taken. HOOVER PLAN TO GO BEFORE WORLD HEADS (Contmued From ftt One) ; There was a sharp difference In at titude noticeable In the reception of the plan by members of the British delegation. Prime Minister MacDonald spoke with restrained cordiality, but Sir John Simon's comments were frigidly polite rather than friendly. The dif ference merely emphasized a division of sentiment on foreign policy which has existed for some time In the British-cabinet. The French antagonism was re vealed even before Olbson presented the president's message. Premier Herrlot and several of his colleagues saw an advanco copy and protested Immediately the French could not accept It. Josoph Paul Boncour, the minister for war, said France would raise the old question of security. ; The reductions and abolitions pro posed by the president, they assort ed, would mterely Increase the French insecurity. As a matter of fact, they said. Germany would not be reduced equally with France In fighting strength, for she does not possess many of the arms which would be affected. .The Germans hailed the Hoover suggestions with enthusiasm, find ing in them much for which they have long contended. They did not consider that ft fulfills all their de sires, especially their demand foe equality In the right to arm. The Italian delegates expressed hearty approval of the plan. In addition to practical objections, the French also professed to be of fended at the manner In which the proposal was launched. They criti cized it as smacking too much of the spirit of an ultimatum; GENEVA, Switzerland, Juno 22 W) Sir John Simon, British foreign secretary, reforred briefly to Presi dent Hoover's new armaments pro-' posal at a press conference this af ternoon, describing It as a valuable contribution which will rccoivo care ful consideration.: WASHINGTON, June 22 (HI Presi dent Hoover. In a sudden and dram atic announcement at the White House today, proposed principles for reducing the arms of tho ontiro world bv nearly one-third..- With Secretary Stlmson at., his sldo, the president road to a small group of newspapermen hurriedly as sembled at the executive mansion a statement saying that "the time has como when wo should out through the brush," and adopt arms reductions calculated to save botwoen $10,000, 000,000 and 416,000,000,000 during the next ten years. Sport Finals NATIONAL LEAGUE ' It. H. E. St. Louis j.. 12 2 New York 9 13 1 Hallahan, Johnson and Mancuso; Hubbell and Hogan. B. H. E. Pittsburgh 7 17 1 Brooklyn - 6 13 2 French. Spencer and Grace; Shautc; Qulnn. Moore, Clark and Plclnlch, Lopez. R. H. E. Cincinnati ....14 17 0 Boston 8 15 2 Carroll, Frey. Johnson and Lom bards Brown, Pruett, Frankhouse and Spohrer, Hargrave. R. K. E. Chicago 2 6 4 Philadelphia 11 15 0 Grimes, Root, May and Hclmslcy; Rhcm and V. Davis. WATCH FOR OUR Serve -Yourself Event THE LITTLE SHOP ' VAL JENSEN LAUSANNE, Switzerland, Juno 22 IP) premier Herrlot of France said today that President Hoover's new proposal for general reduction of armaments is absolutely unacceptable to Prance. Ho had read In advance a copy of the president's proposals to bo pre sented later In the day to the dis armament conference In Geneva. Jo seph Paul -Bouncour had hurried up from Paris to show it to him. It was a proposal for drastic cuts in all armaments, amounting to about one-third. Hugh Gibson, chief of the American delegation at -Geneva, was selected to present It to the conference there. M. Herrlot looked It over and talk ed with M. Paul-Bouncour for about an hour. When he came out he Bald: ''This Is absolutely unacceptable. Prance again will raise the question of security." Joseph Paul-flonnour's statement at Lausanne that President Hoover's proposal Is unacceptable to Prance caused disappointment In - official Washington. But the announcement of the French minister of war is not re garded by the state deportment as indicative that France will not agree to some degree of disarmament. France's opposition on the question of security has never changed mate rially since It was first enunciated by Clcmcnceau at the Versailles con ference. The Idea of a world army under the direction of the league of nations has never been abandoned. France has Insistently urged that unless she be protected against at tack by international guarantee It will be Impossible for her to make material reduction In her armaments. A league of nations without power to enforce Its decrees by physical force has never been regarded by the French as a guarantee that they will not be overrun again from tho east. But the recent declaration- of Premier Herrlot In favor of "a 10 per cent reduction In armaments In dicated a disposition to modify the French position. Mom Secure Mr. Hoover feels personally that the United States, under the proposed slashes In arms, would be more secure In defense than It Is today, since the power of attack of all nations would be reduced. - It was enunciated with great em phasis In the capital today that al though President Hoover's proposals for armament reduction have been discussed at Geneva for some time, they have not been mentioned In connection with war debt reductions. It was stated on the highest au thority that no such suggestions have been made by the United States In order to secure arms slashes. Mr. Hoover Is known to feel personally that such a proposal war debt reduction contingent upon armament reduction would be offensive to the dignity of European nations. President Hoover's suggestion today goes further than the original Am erican nine-point program submitted at Geneva on February 9 by Ambas sador Hugh 8. Gibson, acting head of the American delegation. More NaviU Cuts The Hoover plan' embraces addi tional cuts In naval armaments In the batthuhlp and cruiser classes and Is a radical modification of the program submitted by Gibson. The latter advocated the abolition of sub marines, while the Hoover proposal permits the retention of a small sub marine tonnage, probably a conces sion to France. Gibson particularly stressed the necessity for the reduction of offen sive arms, that is, great moMle guns and tanks suitable for attack upon a foreign power rather than defense. This form of armament has been par ticularly dtBcussed by the Amoeban delegates at Geneva as the cuse of the fear of attack from outside which has prevented European na tions from agreeing to any reduc tion. . Gibson ' and his associates have proposed limitations in various cate gories in a very general way. In addition they favored the prin ciple of budgetary .Imitation and these additional points: Agreements 1. The American government ad vocates consideration -of the draft convention as containing the outlines for a convenient basis for discussion, while expressing its entire willingness to give full consideration to any supplementary proposals calculated to advance the end we all seek. 2. We suggest the possibility of prolonging the existing naval agree ments concluded at Washington and London, and we advocate completing the latter as soon as possible by the adherence of France and Italy. I. We advocate proportional re duction from the figures laid down In the Washington and London agree ment on naval tonnage as soon as all parties to the Washington agree ment have entered this framework. 4. We advocate, as wo long have done, tho total abolition of submar ines. . f Pi 6. We will Join In formulating tho most effective measures to protect civilian population against aerial bombing. 6. We advocate the total abolition of lethal gases and bacteriological warfare. 7. We advocate, as I have already stated, the computation of the num ber of armed forces on the basis of the effectives necessary for the maintenance of Internal order plus some buI table contingent for defense, The former are obviously Impossible of reduction; tho latter Is a question of relativity. 8. We agree In advocating special restrictions for tanks and heavy mo bile guns; In other words, for those arms of a peculiarly offensive charact er. ' 0. We are prepared to consider a limitation of expenditure on material as a complementary method of direct limitation, feeling that It may provo useful to prevent a qualitative race, if and when quantitative limitation has been effected. Five broad principles were laid down by the chief executive and upon this foundation, he proposed among othor things: Hoover's Principles Abolition of all tanks, chemical warfare and large mobile guns. Reduction of one-third In . the strength of all land armies over and above "the so-called police com ponent." The abolition of all bombing planes, and the total prohibition of al! bombardment from the air." Reduction in tho treaty number and tonnage of all battleships by one -third. Reduction in the treaty tonnage of aircraft carriers, cruisers and destroy ers by one-fourth and of submarines by one-third with no nation having more than 35,000 tons of submersi ble a. Simultaneously with the nrcsl- dent'spronoifhclamento today It was learned in authoritative quarters that tho proposals suggested already had been approved fully by Secretaries Stlmson, Hurley and Adams, by the chief of staff of the army and tho chief of naval operations, and by tho entire American delegation at Geneva, that the American navy has not Mr. Hoover's broad and drastic plan been built up to treaty strength, and was placed before the Geneva confer- that the effect of the proposals upon ence today, almost simultaneous with this country would be to bring the his reading of it to a group of hardly a dozen newspaper correspondents as sembled In his private offlc6. treaty limits down to about tho ratio now enjoyed by the American navy. Mr. Hoover feels that since some The principles enunciated by the time wmii h mnuimi tu. n. chief executive for slicing the world's ; tion of nl8 pr0poMiU, there would be armaments by 33 per cent were r""1 1 qrrrmz:- by him as follows; ; First: The Kellogg-Brland pact, to! which we aro all signatories, can only mean that the nations of the world have agreed that they will use r their arms solely for defense. . ' "Second: This reduction should be - carried out not only by broad gon! eral cuts in armaments but by In-' creasing the comparative power of defense through decreases in the power of the attack. ' : I Third: Tho armaments of tho world have grown up in general mu tual relation to each othor. And. speaking generally, such relativity should be preserved In making to- ductlons. i Fourth: Tho reductions must bo real and positive. Thoy must first of-1 feet economic relief. i Fifth: There are three problems ; to deal with land forces, air forces, and naval forces. They aro all Inter-, connected. No other part of tho pro posals which I make can bo dls-; no Immediate reduction of personnel and thus no addition to the uncm : ployment problem. . Several of ' the chief executively aides and cabinet officers have com( piled figures to show that the Unltejfc1, States could save approximately a.;, uuu,uuu,uuu in expenditures over in ' 1 t-W next ten years. associated one from the othor." Tho president paused significantly after enunciating this part of his statement, and then added: i Based on these principles, I pro- pose that tho arms of the world should be reduced by nearly one- third." It was learned from highly authori tative sources In the capital today, that Mr. Hoover has no Idea that tho United States should act alone upon the principles he proposed, but would do so only If tho other major powers should accept them. j As analyzed here today, tho presi dent's proposals would have less ef fect upon the American army and navy than those of European powers. Figures are available hero to show that the American army has been demobilized below tho police com ponent given Germany and the other states following tho war, which Mr. Hoover would use as a yardstick foi measuring tho slzo of all armies. Americas bombing planes, tanks and chemical warfare, of course, would fall under the proposed ban. 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