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Tuesday, July 12, 1932 Page Four LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER, LA GRANDE, ORE. (Incorporated) An Independent Newipapt Phone Main 600 HAROLD U. FINIiAT , Published evenings, ezoept Sunday, - at 1710 Sixth street, La Grande, Oregon. Entered at tbe Poetofflce of La Grande, Oregon, aa Seoond Olaaf MaU Uatter under act of March 3, 1870. OFFICIAL PAPER OP UNION COUNTY AND TEM CITY OP LA GRANDE MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to use for publication of all news dlspatobes credited to It or not otherwise cerdltedlf pub llshed herein. All right of republication of special dispatches In this paper and also the local news herein also are reserved. National Advertising Representative M. O. MOOENBEN CO., Ino. Ban Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland, Chicago, Detroit, New York SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Dally, one month In advance Dally, six months In advance Dally, single oopy By Dally, per month In advance . Dally, per six months In advance , Dally, per year In advance ADVERTISING RATES Display, foreign, per column Inch Display, local, per column Inch , , . aoe Time contract prices on application . The Lord is my shepherd : I shall not want. Surely good ness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever. Psalm 23 : 1, (i. THE "GOLDEN" HARVEST A few years ago, about this time of the year, newspapers throughout the great Northwestern section of the United States the wheat belt of the continent devoted a great deal of space to stories of the beginning of the "golden" har vest. The wheat crop was about to be harvested, in other words. It had a double meaning, this adjective that was so ofton used. Anyone who has driven through countless acres of ripening grain, accepted without question the appropriateness of the term; and when wheat was selling at $1.50 to $2 a bushel, the growerand the buyer alike agreed on the effec tiveness of the word "golden" from a financial standpoint. The first of this week the annual harvest started in many sections of the northwest, although in the Grande Ronde valley and other wheat centers located in higher altitudes the crop will not be ready for the combines for some time. But the word "golden" is not being used in this year's news stories! ,, . ' Th yields may not be of normal size, due to weather con ditions occurring between planting mid 'harvest, but in most sections the quality will be excellent. The great grain bins of the Northwest will be nearly as full as usual yet there is no rejoicing. The practical side of that adjective "golden" is no longer fitting. Wheat at loss than 50 cents a bushel at Portland and Chicago and other marketing places, does not mean profits in the pockets of the grower in many cases it means losses ! I But there is a ray of hope ! The price may increase ; and on this thin possibility, the farmer continues to do his work, store his product, and patiently watch the market quotations day by day. Someday the long predicted upward trend may begin (there are indications that it already has) and Ihun wheat also will recover its normal value. It seems to us that that would be one of the first signs that we can depend on that the silver lining is about to come through the clouds that have hovered over the world for the last three or four years. When the farmer once more can realize a substantial profit on his year of labor, then the "good-time" period will come into existence again. There is no question but that the farmer is the "back bone" of the nation and when the backbone begins function ing, then the rest of the body will spring into new activity. Then the lumberman will reopen his mills, the merchandiser will find a market for his goods, the now idle labor will be sought after to oil up the wheels of industry, and the con stant need for relief and more relief will fade into a normal oblivion. When the newspapers begin to use that adjective "golden" again, you can smile all you want to. For there will be something to smile about! When a man gets into a doubtful scheme for making money, his assets are likely to depend upon his lie-ability. In Washington By Herbert l'lummcr WASHINOTON If Mogmis John son, one-time, farmer lubor senator, comes back to Washington us n mem ber ol coiigrwa from Minnesota, lie will be realizing an ambition of some seven years' standing, lie lias wanted to get back ever since ho had that fling at national politics as a sen ator. Johnson has held several public of fices during hl-3 career, but ho likes the legislative side tho bent. "I am a better legislator than exe cutive," he aays. Ho doesn't know exactly how he'll fit If he comes back to capital hill. "Old Bob" LaFollette will be gono. And so will his other good friend, flrookhart of Iowa. "But then, 1 may not go myself," adds the skeptical Magnus. Fights. For Fanner If he does, he knows what ho will do. It's pretty much the old story, He'll try to do something for the farmer Just as he did when he waa senator. He's against tho farm board and the Smoot-Hawley tariff. As to the latter ho would like to see the enact ment of the flexible clause In the old , Business Manager Carrier , 8o M.0 - DO MaU 000 -M.60 -8.00 Fordncy-McCumbvr bill providing for Increases and decreases In the Uirlft when necessary. Ami. to be uure. ho will do what he can to help tho laboring man and the merchant. Wife Ukes The Farm As for Mrs. Johnson and how she'll like the return to Washington. Mag nus la not so sure. "She Is a farm woman," he says. "She Mkea the farm. She'll decide." Within a short while he will start making a round of the atate. for he la running for a soot an oongressmnn-at-large. When a friend suggeiecl that ho would have to buy a new suit, he laughed at the Idea. He says he'll go right on wearing the one ho has. ; Hut hi-.) campntgntng equipment will be right up to tin to. He hits an i automobile equipped with a total - spenaer. Aim wnn uiai no is going 10 take another whack at national poli tics. Biblical Augury j nibllonmncy Is tho not or art of foretelling (ho future by means of hooks, especially by passages from the llihlo. It la usually dmt by opening tho hooks am) choosing n passu ue at random, Tho passage Is refiimk'd ns nn nugury. Other Papers Say: WHAT A JOKK! There Is considerable doubt as to who financed the college-unlverblty consolidation measure, and Ju3t what Interests are behind It, but there Is no doubt the campaign in Its favor Is being engineered by a group of Individuals who regard themselves as very slick politicians. First there was that melodramatic hold-up at the point of a gun In the Portland office building, when 20,000 plgnaturcs were stolen. This clever bit of otoge management, put tho meas uro on the front page, without ex cxtractlng a dime from the advertis ing fund. Then came the usual "follow-up." Tho completed petitions wero rushed from Portland to Sulem, In an armor ed car, with machine guns at tho port holes, amid a bullyhoo, that would have made tho publicity man of u Hollywood "First Night", envious. Again the front pagel Just as ex citement over this coup d'etat started to die down, It was announced that tho armored car contained only blank petitions, while tho real petitions wero sent through the ordinary chan nels. (Ah I Comic relief!) Now comes the Inevitable clean-up by one Henry Zorn, who broadcasts to every newspaper, mimeographed before the "shilling shocker" started tho following significant statement: "Tho bill will bo on the ballot in tho November election and be cause of tho last Incident In its preparation the holdup and stealing of 20.500 names at the point or a pistol It Is openly asserted that It goes before the people with the support of thou sands of voters who would have probably been against the bill In the election, had It not been for the employment of thugs to ob struct filing the petitions." Oht YE-A-H? Why should thousands opposed to tho measure, before tho holdup, be in favor of It now. Did that holdup change tho character of tho bill, or do the allck poll tlcl ana behind this measure, think the people of Oregon are a lot of unthinking rural saps! It IS to laugh! Medford Mail Tri bune. Mil. ADAMS 1H VS STOCK James Truslow Adams 13 America's most distinguished historian. He has been awarded the Pulitzer prize once and It would have been awarded to him this lost year, without question, for his book, "The Epic of America," Instead of to General Pershing for hte World win memoirs, except that the judges did not want to give it to one man year after year. Furthermore. Mr. Adams Is no mere academic his torian. Before giving himself to writ ing he had operated successfully as a member of the New York stock ex change for a number of veara. Therefore, as both historian and fi nancier, he Is better qualified than ' any other man In the country to ad vise U3 on how we should feel about . tho depression. His reply Is that the United Stotes ' wos worse off In the hard times that extended from 1837 to 1841 ond In tho hard times extending from 1873 to 1870 than It is now. Ills analysis 1 of tho present reaction Is aa follows: 1 I find In New York now precisely the same attitude, precisely In reverse, that I found hero in 9'29. I wrote i in an article published In December, 1 1)28, that a business depression was under way: that market values must come down; that thero was no "new ; era." I was Belling my stocks then, f Now I am buying. Tho situation to- ; day Is no more new than waa the situation in 1020. Individually we cannot make the ; Investigation necessary to compare the business cycles of the poat with tho business cycles of the present. Individually wo are not so well quali fied as Mr. Adams to make the com parison, even after study. But it should bo cheering to us all that tho fotvmost student In the country is out today among his long-faced fel lows, not selling stock as they are. but buying, in full certainty of tho upward turn. Portland Oregonlan. A I'OUCKMAN WITH INTKI.I.HillNCK Gen. CKnssford. head of tho police force of Washington, D. C. is one po liceman with something between his ears. He has had as hard an assign ment as any officer in the country in handling the bonus army: and haa done the Job skillfully. A a result so far there have been no clashes with authorities, the men have been treat ed decently, and yet they haw not been coddled. The arm of genuine authority was at all times upheld. When the food supplies wero ex hausted, Glassford went down In his own pocket to buy bread and meat for them. When there was dissen sion in the ranks and a radical speak er WB-.i about to bo assaulted. C, lass- ford shouldered his way through the crowd and secured for him an audi ence. It appears that the army is break ing up and that most of them will return to their homes, taking advan tage of the money advanced by tho government for transportation. The country will breathe a little easier to have the men In their home com munities where they will fare much better than on the muddy flats of Anacostia. If the army does finally disband without rioting or outbreak, a great deal of the credit should go to Glassford for the intelligent man ner In which he has controlled the situation In Washington. SaJcm Statesman. MOI1AIH S.W.V.H ANNH'NCKl BOSTON. July 12 Tho Na tional Woal Marketing corporation has announced tho sale of 14.000.000 to 15.000.000 lbs. or adult mohair in the original bag, to one manufactur ing concern. This ole. It was stated, comprised the remainder of the adult holr of 1930 and 1931 clip, consigned to tho national co-operative organ ization. No advice relative to prices reollved In this transoetlon was re ceived. It is understood tho terms of tho sale carried no stipulation of the tise to bo made of the mohair. OUT OUR WAY IM ATURMiKJ 'im Loose.; SHORE AGOINJ JO BOCK . FREE HEIR'S WIFE AND FRIEND GET FREEDOM (Continued From Page One) wise refused to cast out the stories of Libby and Walker, and left the case open for any further Investiga tion authorities might wish to make. Tho Jury heard the 20-year-old widow, daughter of a Cincinnati at torney, describe unhappiness which prompted young Reynolds to make suicide threats on several occasions. Some of these times, she said, she war, led to believe he was crazy. At least onco, she said, she expressed the belief to him. That was the last Sun tiny night he lived. It caused him, she said, to leave her and spend tho night at a hotel, from which he said ho would go next morning to "have his head examined." Sho explained that he was melan choly, fearful that a lapse of virility would cost him her love. -' Once, she said, he urged her to have an affair with another man. She Refuses To this suggestion, sho said, she replied: "No. no. I told him my love for him was too great to be impaired by any one thing." -i Coupled with her revelations :of . her brief wedded life was- Walker's'jctbry or tho tragic night when, after Smith had been "peeved" at Llbby all night, the tobacco heir announced he was "going to end It all." Reynolds rushed upstairs. Walker said, and the sound of a shot was heard immediately af terward. Questions by Solicitor J. Erld Mc Michael wore directed at uncovering all possible Information concerning tho relationship between Walker and Libby. Miss Ruby Jenkins, nurse at Bnptlst hospital where the dying Reynolds and his hysterical wife were taken early tho morning of July 0, was a witness. She said Libby. clad in negligee, wos taken to a room and that Walker soon made his appear ance. The nurse and MJss Ethel Shore, night supervisor, said they heard a commotion In the room, and, investigating, found Llbby and Walk er struggling to arise from the floor. "Oh my baby, my baby," Llbby was quoted as saying, and "don't you know I'm going to have a baby?" in reply to Walker's question of what she meant. Miss Jenkins said she heard Walker tell Mrs. Reynolds not to discuss the shooting before others. Libby's testimony that she could remember nothing save the actual shooting between 11 p. m.. July 4 ond tho afternoon of July 6, was coupled with evidence given by others of continued heavy drinking at Rey notda for several days. During her one lucid period during the time of the mental lapse she de scribed, Libby said, she saw Reynolds kill himself. Coming to Monday night, ill hours before his death, when he said he was going to end their marriage because ho was not able to make her happy, she broke down. As she told of the physical handicap which she claimed had not Impaired her love for him, or caused her to entertain his sugges tion that she have on affair with an other man. she cried: When Walker reached the night of Where Death Struck Youthful Heir to M..rli.u tRigruj lun CUM u slmilow ovrr this limir. II Has Ihr Home ti tiihnmi million-, who fminil rutallv -.hot on lil linlroom li.il.ony, l.lliliy llolman. the, former Itroaihvny "lorrh slnsw." vln...u-s:iloin. , mjMpry of the shooting. WAiT-WAiT ! WUH GOTVOOE. OE iki FEE.T IM Ti4' TOO STRROPS,CV ? L-ANClNJCr Ferebee Boys Of f er Six-Strong in NEW BERN, N. C. M "Daddy Sam" Ferebee haa provided, what Is perhaps the meat pretentious "bro ther act" In southern sports. At any rate, Samuel W. Fetebee, New Bern' business man, Is the father of aix sons who ure at home on the baseball field, the basketball court and most of them on the gridiron. Bill, the eldest, who was christened Wllloughby, waa an ace hurler at the University of North Carolina. Since graduation ne has been with the Raleigh club of the Piedmont league and holds two no-hlt, no-run gomes to his credit. Bill Is 27 years old. Emmet t, 23, better known as "Smokey." broke into the football spotlight last fall when he took Johnny Branch's quarterback! ng Job on tho Tor Heel football team and starred at the position. Francis, 21, starred In three sports tho death In his testimony he swore that the hospital Incident happened after he and Libby hod helped the mortally wounded youth, and that he became faint and fell to the floor, the nurses entering as Ubby was helping hipi up.,'. .', . . , , ;J Ho testified he had seen nothing out of the ordinary pass between young Reynolds ond the brunette torch singer the fatal night, although he admitted Smith hod told him a night or two before that he had be gun to question his own sanity. At this time. Walker said, he and Reynolds went to a hotel and drank themselves to sleep. Walker suld later, at the party. Lib by threw her arms around him and cried: "Smith doesn't love me." Walker said she was "very tight" at the time, but denied she kissed him. About midnight, ho said, Reynolds entered tho house, and was Joined by his wife. Entering Walker's room, the witness said, they remained about 15 minutes, when Libby ran out, fol lowed by Smith. Walker sold Smith returned to the reception room In a few minutes, the young millionaire saying he. was going away and not coming back. Threatened Suicide "I'm going to end it all." Walker quoted Smith as saying following an nouncement that a trip around the world lio had planned was "off." As he made the suicide threat he pitched his pocketbook to Walker, told him to wait and went ups-'tlrs. A moment later came the sound of a shot. Walker said Blanche Yurka. New York actress who was a guest In tho home, began calling him. Then came a scream from lobby's room, and she 'ran out, dropping on a bench en the mezzanine balcony. Investi gation revealed Smith, near death, lying on a bed on a sleeping porch adjoining the bedroom used by him and his wife. Walker said he cautioned Llbby not to talk at the hospital when he heard her telling everybody how Smith had several times placed a gun to his head and threatened to shoot. Walker explained that Mrs. Reyn olds shoes and sweater, found in his room, must have been left there while J By J. R. Williams OATS Too ComFimim'- H06S M ITS- M oe. same. Place OFFEM, DAT ERWAyJ ' -x- . J? WIULIAM3 - r 1932 BY NCA SERVICE. INC. REG. U S. PAT OPF q.ft "Brother Act" Southern Athletics in high school, and, later played base ball and football for Oak Ridge In stitute. Hamlin, 25. was a three letter man In high school, and one of the fastest backfleld men ever to play In North Carolina. Ho was later aa athlete at Wake Forest college and Is now playing semi-pro baseball. Billie not "Bill" Is next to the youngest of the Forebee fraternity. j He, too, 13 a three-letter man In high school, and last fall called signals for 'the New Bern nigh eleven. He is 19 land scales a mere 112 pounds. He Is a j clever inficlder and already a big j league scout has an eye on him. Edward, .17, is the baby of the : group, but from on athletic view- i point, may bo the black sheep of th family. He has played, half back on the high school football team, but his inclination to sports Is weak com pared with that of the five older bro thers. she and her husband were there. Admits Secret Walker admitted that at the hos pital he said "Whatever happens, there's some secret about this mat ter I'm going to carry to my grave,.", Ho denitd, however, -that there'-'Was, any truth in this statement, or that ho had withheld anything from In vestigators. W. N. Fulger. night watchman at Reynolda. contradicted other wit nesses regarding the time of Mrs. Reynolds' retirement the fatal night, saying sho was in the yard about 12:30, a half an hour before the shooting. Ho said Walker came up and Joined her. and that in a moment Smith called out from the upstairs porch, asking what the noise was. Within 10 minutes, he said, he heard a shot, and then heard a car drive off. He said he did not in vestigate the shot. Tho next move. If there Is to be one. In the case, was expected to be made by Sheriff Scott or the solicitor. Meanwhile, the staff guards thrown about the Reynolds estate was great ly diminished, -and comparative quiet settled about It. ( ; MARKET IN Dl'LL DAY I NEW YORK, July 12 The stock I market waa unable to break out of its extremely narrow groove today ond ;rau Into a little discouraged selling i late which depressed some leaders l from fractions to a point undc- yes-' j terday's close. The late tone waa j easy. Turnover- was roughly 700.000 shares. . . ' CAMISMdN LAI 'NC'IIKIt JERSEY CITY, N. J.. July 12 W) Amid a cheering crowo of 3000 Hud son county Democrats, Mayor Frank ; Hauge. leader of tho Alfred E. Smith j forcc-3 at tho Democratic national con j ventlon, started the New Jersey cam j palgn for Franklin D. Roosevelt. I.IYKUPOOL WHEAT LIVERPOOL, July 12 Wheat closed: July 48"2; Oct. 5034; Dec. 5214; exchange $3.55. IH'TTKHFAT SAN FRANCISCO. July 12 (T Butt-erf at f. o. b. San Francisco 18c. Tobacco Millions of Smith KrvnoMs, youthful liflr ami of hl hrlclr of llirrc uiontlis, K.Hro -might to unrad the Nelson Staging Real Comeback As High Jumper INDIANAPOLIS. Ind. m Bert Nel son Is back in form, which means that all other high Jumpers seeking places on ' the United States Olympic team will 'have more competition to think about. It took nerve and determination in face of repeated setbacks for the Butler university athlete to regain the class that made him ft country wide Intercollegiate sensation two years ngo.'v' Nelson ' as a sophomore first at tracted national recognition at the Mlllrose invitational games in New York when ho out-Jumped the Olympic' champion. Bob King. He established a new world's Indoor high Jump record the same year when a leap of six feet, six and three-fourths Inches. Then the elongated Jumper hit the skids and hit them hard. He Jumped so poorly In his Junior year that he dropped virtually to athletic obscur ity. He failed repeatedly to fulfill his reputation as a Jumper in meet after meet, and try as he could, he could not regain-his form. But Nelson refused to give up. He hod said he wanted to be a mem ber of the next Olympic team. So he began nil over, adopting a methodi cal training program under direc tion of Hermon Phillips. Butler coach who In 1028 was a member of the Olympic team. Back in the winter, Nelson began his careful training schedule. He looked fine in the Millrose games a few months ago when he cleared the bar at six feet, five Inches the same height that won for him In 1930 but his performance was eclipsed by. the record-breaking leap of George Spitz of New York univer sity. Nelson could get no higher In the Armour Tech relays and in the Cen tral Intercollegiate meet, but with the advent of the outdoor season, his diligent crusade for height net ted him .on Inch a week Increase. After, trying for first place in the Kansas Relays, he Won the event at the Drake Relays, the Indiana conference, and the Missouri Valley conference Nelsou Jumped six feet, six and one-fourth' inches at the Indiana "little state" meet recently, and Just failed in an attempt to establish a world record. His best performance was six feet, seven and seven-eighths Inches for. a new national intercol legiate record made at Milwaukee. Fighting Must Stop, American Leaguers Learn CLEVELAND. July 12 (fP) Base ball players of the American league were advised today that the days of rowdy demonstrations on the playing field are over. Diamond stars who attempt to set- tle nrgnrtneiils by -wielding their fists. herealtei "win- facfe 'a 'minimum' bus pension of 30 days without pay. Owners of the league clubs voted the penalty yesterday as a conclusion to their hearing of the case involving Bill Dickey one of the main cogs In tho championship aspirations of m New York Yankees. Dickey was suspended last Saturday for 30 days and was fined $1,000 by President Will Harridge, for his at tack on Outfielder Carl Reynolds of the Washington Senators, whose Jaw was broken in the assault. In addition to taking their Gtand against fighting, the owners adopted penalties . for "bean-ball" pitchers. Under these rules, an umpire will be expected to remove from the game, on first offense, any hurler who heaves a ball aimed at the batter's head. The second offense will bring a 10 days suspension, and a third offense will lay off the pitcher for a month. Double-Headers Face Giants NEW YORK m New York Giant hurlers had better get to bed early these days heavy work Is ahead. When the club's Fourth of July games with the Brooklyn Dodgers were rained out. the Giants found themselves 'with 13 double-headers In store, seven at home and six on the road. STOMACH TROUBLE? MAC-SMITH TABLETS (Julcklr Relieves the Discom forts of Excessive tins. Belching,- F I a t u 1 enee. 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