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Newspaper Page Text(Ob CITY EDITION MltHOeWMFiMiUHil win Service Only Newspaper Printed in La Grande Covering Union and Wallowa Counties amm SIX PAGES TODAY VOLUME 30 MICMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS AMD A. B. O. LA GRANDE, OREGON, FRIDAY JULY 22, 1932 EASTERN OREGON'S LEADING NEWSPAPER NUMBER 278 350 MR. WRIGHT REELECTED ! PRESIDENT Crowd Enjoys Delightful ; Dinner at Riverside Park at Noon HouV PROGRAM FEATURE PF THE AFTERNOON 'Address of Welcome Made '-By Colonel Ed Eckley . Medical Springs Sage Gives Response. The Hon. Dunham Wright, sage of Medical Springs, was once more elect ed president of the Union County Pioneers association, at the 42nd an nual pioneer meeting held yesterday at Riverside park. J. D. Slater, of La Grande, was elected vice president, Col. and Mrs; Ed Eckley. of Fruit dale, historians, and Mrs. Mattle Golden, secretary. Owing to the Ill ness of Mrs. Golden, which kept her from the meeting for the first time In many years, Mrs. Anna Boesch was made secretary pro tern. . Election of officers was the chief Item of the short business meeting held Immediately preceding the big pioneer dinner. The crowd was vari ously estimated, yqsterday, but at tho program an unofficial count placed the number at something over 350. No effort Is made any more to have the pioneers seated In one group. Rather the smaller group Idea is carried out and Riverside park, even to the new portion, was filled yesterday with families, neighbor hoods, old neighbors, etc., having their dinners together. The associa tion supplemented the food brought by the visitors with ice cream and coffee. Program In Afternoon The formal program of the after noon was given in the pavilion and the platform which, had been so tast ily decorated with young fir trees, many flowers and national colors, modo a beautiful setting for the dif ferent numbers on the program. J. Bj(. Reynolds, president of the Sons and Daughters of- Union County- Pfo-; neers association, presided during the afternoon and announced the dif ferent items. The program wqb in variably par excellent and only- space forbids complimentary comment on each of those who contributed. It follows: Oroup of songs, the Blue Mountain Wranglers. Song "America" led by Mrs. Etna Hill, of Elgin, With Mrs. Fred Huff man at the piano. Address of welcome. Col. Ed Eckley, Response, the Hon. Dunham Wright who remarked in the course of his historic address that 70 years ago yesterday, even as he was speaking, he was on his long trek from Iowa to the Grande Ronde valley. Mrs. Ed Eckley gave the historian's report. Recitation, Barbara Roberts. Groups of original songs, M. L. Car tel', the Sandrldge poet, accompanied ( Continued on Page Three ) JUNIOR TEAM ON WAY TODAY TO THE DALLES The La. Grande Junior league "jase bnll team, sponsored by American Logion pout No 43, left today for The Dalles to engage in a three-game aer ies for the championship of the east ern section of Oregon. The winner will enter the state finals at Portland. If cither team should win tht first two games, a third game would not bo necessary. The team of 14 boys was accom panied by Coach John R. Garlty. The first tilt will bo played tomorrow af ternoon at 2 o'clock. Pierce to Speak In Baker August 3 BAKER. Ore., July 22 (Special) Walter M. Pierce, or ua. urando, ior- mor governor of Oregon, will deliver the principal address at the monthly luncheon of the Baker county cham ber of commerce and Lions and Kl- wanls club In the Hotel Baker Aug ust 3 on the subject of the Demo cratic national convention. Mr. Pierce attended the convention as a delegate from the second congressional dis trict. Mr. Pierce is expected to rcv?al In an Interesting manner the sessions at the tumultuous convention. Mr. Pierce Is well known as a speaker In Baker county. The musical entertainment for the luncheon has not been arranged. 4 6 $ g g $ WEATHER FORECAST Oregon: Fair tonight and Saturday, but overcast on the coast; cooler Saturday In the extreme east portion; gentle to moderate changeable winds offshore. Fair over the week end. WEATHER TODAY 7 a. m. 71 above. Minimum: 62 above. Condition: Clear. WEATHER YESTERDAY Maximum 93, minimum 63 above. Condition: Clear. Range 40 degrees. WEATHER Jt'LY 22, l3l Maximum 98, minimum 58 above. Condition: Clear. Range 40 degrees. J f $.$.$$$$$.$$ Attend pioneer Meeting Normal School Completes First 6 - Week Period Training. School Closes Until the Fall Season New Term at E. 0. N. Opens Monday, After six weeks of study and activ ities the Eastern Oregon Normal school and the J. H. Ackerman Train ing school closed today and many students In tho former will enjoy a weekend vacotlon before attending the second six-week session which opens on Monday. Many additional students from Eastern Oregon are ex pected to enter the second period of the summer quarter, while Training school pupils will spend the rest of the summer in vacation. Full credit will be offered-In tho second session in art under the direc tion of Mrs. Caroline Williams; edu cation, John Miller; English. Miss Amanda Zabel; health and physical education. Miss Madeline Larson: sociology and history. Edward G. Daniel; psychology, Roy L.' bkeen; science, Elmo Stevenson. Training school teachers who have completed their work for tho sum Lethal Klesllng, Miss Mayme McCar ter, Miss Margauct Cars tali's. Miss mer arc Miss Arta Lawrence, Miss Continued from Page Six) Get Equipment Together For Labor Exchange With a cash register, scales, desks, counters and oth?r equipment donat ed and negotiations under way for ono of several available warehouses, the Union County Labor exchange is al most ready to begin operations. The exchange has been adopted by La Grandcrs as a means of taking care or local reller problems ior ine com ing winter, and tho governor's relief committee expects the plan to relieve mucti cr the local looa ana iuci shortage. Lester H. Bramwell, manager of tho exchange, states the scope of tho movement Is comparable In a way to tho federal farm board. , Tho movement Involves tho Issu ance of labor certificates, to . farmers in payment for produce.-.-The- farmer, can In 'turn -pay hired farm helpers with the labor certificates and "the men who receive them for wages can turn tnem m at tne excmuiyc ior (Continued on Page Three) New Game Birds Are Released In Wallowa County ENTERPRISE. July 22 Hunters will find a new game bird at large when the season opens this fall. This is a phcasnnt, dark brown In color, and somewhat larger than the Chinese pheasants, and with longer legs. Its scientific name is mollanistlc mut ant, says tho Record -ChlofUUn. From tho state game farm at Pen dleton, 100 of these birds, six weeks old, were brought in Tuesday and half were released. The others were placed In the pens built by sports men on the fish hatchery grounds. The gamo farm also sent 100 regular chinas, and half were released and half put in the pens. All the roosters, it is expected, will be turned out this fall but the hens now in the pen will be kept until spring and It is hoped they will lay eggs and help propagate more birds ror tno luture. The new addition makes 13 varie ties of game birds In the county, with out considering waterfowl, according to George M. Rogers. The natlvo birds are: (Continued on Page Three) "Crusaders" Seek Repeal of Dry Law PORTLAND. July 22 MP) Repeal of the state prohibition law and repeal of the 18th amendment are the two goals sought by the Crusaders, the Oregon branch of which was organ ized here Thursday with C. F. Ad ams, Portland banker, as state com mander. Authority to form the unit was received from Fred G. Clark, of Cleveland, -national commander. Adams appointed the same com mittee to represent the Crusaders which has been sponsoring the move ment to repeal the state liquor laws, a measure for which will appear on the November ballot. Chairmen will be placed In every county in the state. Markis D. Ramey To Be Buried Here Markis D. Ramey, a veteran of the World war', died at the home of his sister, Mrs. Henry Frctwcli. In Huron, Ore., after a lingering illness. He wap 41 years and seven days of age at the time of his death. Mr. Ramey has been a patient at the veterans' hospital In Portland. The body will be forwarded to Port land, for cremation Sunday evening. Snodgrasn and Zimmerman are In charge of arrangements. $27.50 Stolen From I m w ww i ne noover Mar net Boring a two and a half Inch hole In the back door and then reaching I through to unlock the door, some 4 one probably a boy entered the ! Hoover market about 1 :40 o'clock this $ j morning and escaped with 127.60 In a I cash and a carton of clgarots. Police are Investigating the case. MORE DEATHS CAUSED BY HEAT WAVE Appalachian Watershed buffers Under Scorching Rays of Old Sol. MIDDLE WEST IS SUFFERING AGAIN Thirty-Six Die Over Na tion Thursday ; Tem perature in La Grande At 93 Above. By the Associated Press Tho Appalachian watershed smoked like a furnace today, Its residents still awaiting showery weather such as relieved the Great Lakes region and the southwest recently. Temperatures ranged from 100 de grees at Charlotte and Raleigh, N. C, down Into the nineties. High humid ity abetted the oppressive boat, caus ing Washington to swelter at 92, New York at 87, Baltimore at 91, Pitts burgh at 93, Cumberland, Md., at 98 and- most of West Virginia at the same broiling point. Death List High - ' Deaths due to the heat totaled 36 throughout the land. Lightning and drownings claimed at least 27 others, while rescue workers at Pontlac Lake, Mich., feared they would never find ten to 14 persons missing from boats overturned during a squall. Tho upper Mississippi valley and Great Lakes region, assauged - by thunder showers Thursday, suffered an immediate renewal of the heat wave. Federal observers promised temperatures "not so warm" in most of the mid-west today. The Missouri valley was slated to be an excep tion. A hot weekend was Its pros pect. Unlike Pittsburgh, no other cities reported new highs for the season. St. Louis, customarily hot, said It was 97. Louisville 96. Milwaukee 90 and Des Moines, 96. Showers brought (Continued on Page Three) ; BOLIVIAN PAPERS URGE WAR STEPS Situation in South Am erica Eapidly Approach ing a Critical Stage. LA PAZ, Bolivia. July 22 (Boli vian newspapers demanded today a declaration of war against Paraguay ar. "the only stop Bolivia can take." "With on adversary," said La Re- publlca, "nothing remains but radl cal measures. War Is the only digni fled step from Bolivia as a reply to constant bloody aggressions by Para guay. It is necessary to prove once and for all that there- is sufficient spirit in this country to secure re spect for our rights." The eovernmcnt appointed a com mission to undertoko measures for the national defense. La Republlca said a cabinet shake-up might bo necessary to give President Salamanca a iree nana. UKHKLS DKFEATKD RIO DE JANEIRO, July 22 m The government announced today that federal troops, moving against the rebel forces in Sao Paulo state, had (Continued on Pago Three) BAKER WOMAN, HURT IN AUTO CRASH, DIES BAKER, July 22 (VP) Mrs. P. M. Howard, 60, died this morning from injuries sustained Sunday night wnen she was struck by an automobile driven by J. S. Wood, Portland sales man. She had been unconscious most of the time since the accident. Wood Is at liberty under $500 bond on i charge of reckless driving. No addl t tonal charges had been filed today. Woods hearing will be held Bat urday afternoon In police court. Elgin Man Kills Minnesota City Aroused By Slaying Of Two Young Women; Police Puzzled LAKE CITY. Minn.. July 22 (Af Death of a third woman today fur ther aroused this area for a time, but Investigators decided she was a sui cide and not connected with the mys terious deaths of Louise Prlgge and Frances Pollkowski, both 22 With one hand an the wheel of her automobile and the other holding a pinto'., Agnc-i Stevens. 22. of MelroHe. Maso., was found dead near here to day. She had a bullet wound In the head. Miss Stevens registered yesterday for summer school at the University of Minnesota. No motive for sulci do was known. Officers attempting to establish how M1&.1 Prlgge and Miss Pollkowski met death awaited reports from Rochester clinic specialists examining their Internal organs. Th-3 scantily clad body of Miss Prlgge. 22, farm girl living near Roch ester, Minn., was found Wednesday Federal Hand To ! Stretch Out To Aid The Hungry Signing of Relief Bill By Hoover Opens Way tor Work For Jobless, New Energy in Business. WASHINGTON, July 22 UP) A mighty federal hand holding food for the hungry, work for the Jobless and new energy for business extends to day Into every corner of the land the new relief bill Is law. It was signed yesterday by Presi dent Hoover, without comment, so the reconstruction finance corpora tion Immediately could begin placing its 91,500,000,000 In new funds where the money would do the most good. Mr. Hoover delayed final aonroval of the bill several days after he pub- iiciy canea it a "step toward recov ery." One reason for the postpone ment was to let tho corporation pre pare for a flood of loan applications already -on the way to the capital, promising tnac oeiore long money would begin to be spent on - the things the president and congress alike thought would bo beneficial. The corporation was ready today for Its new work, and It was Indi cated the- chief executive might be ready soon to announce successors to Governor Eugene Meyer of the fed eral reserve, board and Paul Bestor, form loan commissioner, whose retire- (Continued on Page Four, Leader of Smith Movement Will .Meet Roosevelt SPRINGFIELD. Mass., July 22 P uovernor josepn a. Ely. leader or tne antl-Rocuevelt forces In - Massachu setts, agreed today during a two-nour ccnicrence with James A. Parley, Roosevelt campaign manager to meet tne Democratic presidential nominee In Albany next week. Governor Ely nominated former Governor Alfred E. Smith at the Democratic national convention. In a statement issued at tho close ! of tho conference, Farley said: "uovernor Ely and I havo gone over the situation very carefully and -I have arranged for Governor Ely to meet Governor Roosevelt In Albany someday najth wek;,Vand alter, that. visit uovernor Biy.-TViH issue a state ment." '-;- ' Farley declined to amplify that statement and Governor Ely made no comment. However, It appeared that an accord between Governor Ely and the Roosevelt forces was Imminent. Farley, In Governor Ely's presence, read a statement In which ho said: "I am statlsflcd the New England states will glvo to Governor Roose velt their wholehearted support and wo look for an entirely satisfactory result in every state." Governor Ely grinned, but said nothing. During the conference Farley was Interrupted frequently by telephone calls from his lieutenants In New York. Regarding the national campaign, Farley snid the only definite appear ance scheduled for Governor Roose velt was for Governors' day, August 27, at Sea grave. N. J. . 1 Vines Wins From Prenn, of Germany 8TADE ROLAND CARROS, Paris. July 22 (P) Ellsworth Vines Jr., American and Wimbledon champion, today defeated Daniel Prenn. ranking German star. 8-3, 6-3, O-0, 0-4, to give the United States an even break In the first day of play In tho lnterzonc uavio cup iinai. Philadelphia Man Kills Wife, 2 Sons PHILADELPHIA. July 22 fP) Apol Inar Sostena, a machinist, killed his wife and two small sons, Paul 6, and Raymond 4, today and then ended his own luo with a bullet. Tho wlfo and children had been stnbbcd to death. Sostena had been out of employ ment. IIOM.K LOAN HIM, H KINK I) WASHINGTON, July 22 W President Hoover today signed the big $125,000,000 home loan bank bill, which carries with it as a rider the Borah-Glass cur rency expansion measure. In the Zumbro river, 22 ml lea west of here, by campers. Thursday searchers found the body of Ml-js Pollkowski, 22. her chum. It was not far from where Miss Prlgge was found They had left the Prigge home with two men. Officer said they had not been able to learn who tho men were, or to establish a povjlblc motive for slaying. W. H. Prlgge. father of Louise, said he did not know who tho men were and did not see them when they call ed at his home after making an en gagement to meet the girls Tuesday evening. He presumed they were friends taking them out for the eve ning. Mlis Polikowskl's body was found on the river bank, also partially clad. The coroner said ho had been unable to determine how the bodies were taken ttw re, but expressed the opinion that the Killings took place elsewhero.ZlnimerrnAn are In charge, "NOT GUILTf IS STATEMENT OF BROWNELL Insurance Man Accused of Larceny of 20,500 Peti tion Signatures. TALLMAN OFFERED $1000 FOR SILENCE Failed to Receive Cash, However; All Details of Alleged Transaction Not Available. i PORTLAND, Juyl 22 (P) Refusing to offer any statement other than the declaration "I am not guilty and I emphasize the not," Cyril G. Brownell, prominent insurance man, today awaited examination on a lar ceny charge accusing him of the theft of 20,600 signatures to petitions urging the consolidation of Univer sity of Oregon and Oregon State col lege on the Corvallls campus. Pre liminary 'examination will be held early next week. Taken Into custody by police de tectives at his home late ' yesterday, Brownell, i former state legislator and candidate', for congress, was released to his attorney after a conference with the district attorney. Ball, sot at $2500, was later reduced to $2000 and Brownell was given until Mon day to furnlBh It. . MacPherson Signs Complaint. . The warrant for Brownell 's arrest on the larceny charge was Issued on complaint of Hector MacPherson, co author of the Zorn -MacPherson bill which proposes the higher education consolidation. Brownell had no con nection with the consolidation move, it is said,' but occupied offices Joint ly with Sam Slocum, head of the Portland pfllce or the consolidation crouD. ' ' Brownell 'a arrest resulted from the startling disclosures of Robert Tall man, night watchman In the Slocum Brownell office, who finally admitted to police that his original story that two men had held him up, looted the safe of the petitions, and caped on the night of July 4, was a hoax. He1 cbnfessed, police said, that the petitions were taicen oy tnree men under a pre-arranged plan. Police say the motive behind the lleged theft has not yet been re vealed,, and as a matter of fact, Is at this, time' unknown. ,v All Details Not Revealed Wnr"-Hiuui , nil rint.nlln of tho notl- tloh transaction been revealed by, tho, district attorney's office. From an authoritative source, however, it has been learned that Tallman was prom ised $1000 in cash and regular em- (Continued on Page Three? AGREEMENT ON PEACE REACHED AT' COAL MINE DUGGER, Intl., July 22 P) More than a thousand union sympathizers wnose presenco about, tne Hoosier coal mine nem unorgamzea wortcmen In tho shaft for two days, slowly broke camp early today as officials supervised removal of tho besieged diggers. Under terms of an agreement reached at a conference last night be tween Governor Harry G. Leslie and representatives of tho two labor groups, tho mlno will be maintained, but will not be worked, temporarily. It has been running on a co-operative basis, to which unionized groups ob jected. A detachment of national guards men will bo brought to maintain or der. Governor Leslie Intervened In the controversy at tho request of Sheriff Wesley Williams. Had peaceable meth ods failed, the governor said. It would have been necessary for the stato to dcclaro martial law. Chevalier Files Suit for Divorce PARIS, July 22 (!) Maurice Chevalier, the actor, today filed a petition for divorce from Yvonne Vaileo Chevalier. . , It was said at the palace of justice that no decision was expected until the end of the summer. Chevalier charged dosertlon. Friends of his wlfo said she probably would flic a counter suit. Chevalier was married In 1927 to the French actress Yvonne Vaileo before he began hla career in Ameri can (Urns. Himself Illness Cause Of Suicide, Is Officer's Belief John Garrett, of Elgin, committed suicide last night by shooting him self with a .22 rifle, according to a report mado by Coroner F. L. Ralston, who Investigated the death. Mr. Oar rctt, who was 7ft years of age. had been suffering from a lingering Ill ness. He Is survived by one sister and four brothers; Mrs. S. A. Tuttell. Bob Oarctt and B. H. Oarrctt. all of El gin; C. F. Garrett, of Fossil, and O. L. Oarrctt, of Med ford. Funeral services will be held Sun day afternoon at 1 o'clock from the Christian church In Elgin and In terment will be made at the 8um- mervllle cemetery. Snodgrass and Both Parties Face Problems : : " v ' ' t BECORD VAULT Here Is Hill Graber, or the Uni versity of Southern California, as" he leaped to a new world's rec ord polo vault of 14 feet 4 Inches In the Olympic qualifica tions ut Stanford stadium. Palo ' Alto. G ruber, who was Intercolle filitte. pole vault champion In 11KU ami 11)32, shattered the old record of 14 feet l6 Inches, set hy - Lee Ifcirncw, to lead Uncle Ham's vim it er In the coming . ' 1 f Olympic games..' , BERLIN CHIEF IS - LODGED IN JAIL Suspected of Actions in Contravention W 1 1 n Martial Law Orders BERLIN, July 22 W Hugo Helm ansberg, chief of tho Berlin police,. was tumbled out or oca at live ociock. this morning uy a squad of soldiers and led away to tho military prison on suspicion of action in contraven tion of the presidential decroo im posing martial law in Berlin, A major of police and a member of tho reichsbanner whose name is Carl Bcrgh were arrested with him. Holmannsbcrg, one of tho most popular members of tho police force, wart arrested on Wednesday, along with Albert Graeslnskl, commissioner of tho Prussian police, when Grezea Inski and his chler assistants refused to relinquish their Jobs at tho de mand of General Von Rundstedt who Is In charge or the execution of mar tial law: They wore liberated In a few hours. Tho specific charges against the police chief were not dlaclooed. At Kocnlgtibcrg lakt night Karl Jaecker, socialist member of the rrlch stag. was severely beaten by a group of national socialists. There was another affray at Ham burg where throe policemen and seven others were Injured. 'LAST MAN" OF CLUB ON WAY TO HIS HOME STILLWATER. Minn.. July 22 Captain Charles Iyx-kwood, "last man" of tho Last Man's club, started homo today after closing tho records of tho old organization of Civil war veterans for what ho bcllovcs wan the final time. Thirty-three chairs draped In block, each representing a charter membor of tho club which rallied for four decadta around a bottlo of burgundy wlno. stood before the 8f)-year-old veteran last night as ho paid tribute to his deported comrades. Tho wine was saved art a toast for tho last man when tho club was formed In 1885. Lockwood sipped a toast from It In 1030 when for the first time he was alone. Lost night ho drnnk hln toast In water. He feels he will bo unablo next year to come from hla home at Chamber lain, S. D., for another meeting on the ground whrno the club was found ed, and tho toast conceived In Jest. Red Johnson On Way to Norway NEW VOIIK, .July 32 1Ti Henry (Red) Johiuion, former nnllor nuilor of Betty Oow, the kidnaped Llnd bcrKh bnby'A nurMimald, In on hlii wity to Norway. Before he nnlled yen tnrday an unidentified Klrl klftncd him good-bye. Blnce he waa cleared of any know IcdlfO of tho kidnaping, he lia been held at Ellin Inland for aliened Ille gal entry Into the country. Tho clrcumitancca of nil leaving, or whether he will be allowed to return, were not made clear. H I I Von Groneau To Attempt Third Atlantic Flight German Aviator Takes Off From Island of Sylt if or Lmcago To Stop At Iceland. LIST, Island of 81yt, July 22 Captain Wolfgang von Groneau, Ger man aviator, and hero of two previous transatlantic flights from Germany to the United States, took off from here again at 11 a. m. today for Chi cago. He was accompanied In hlB sea plane, known as the Greenland Wal, by a orew of three, Including a sec ond pilot, a mechanic and radio op erator. Hie route will be substantial ly the same as that followed in his two previous xitgnts in itiao and 1931, by way of Iceland, Greenland and Labrador. Hla first Btop was planned for Ice land. His first stop In North America was scheduled to be at Montreal. The sea was so calm at the takeoff he waa obliged to launch another plane-, to churn the mater so his heavily laden machine would lift from the surface. - - Franx Hack, the mechanic, and Frlta Albrecht, the radio operator, participated in Captain von Groneau 's two previous flights. The second pilot on this trip Is Gert von Roth. unptain von uroneau's iirst ingnt to New York was made In a five-year- old plane which once had served Cap tain Koeia Anuinasen in tne Arctic and which had drifted In the Atlan tlo for four days two years before when Captain Frank P. Courtney, English aviator, was forced down In it near tne Azores. Von Groneau covered the estimated (Continued on Page Three Chinese Agree On Resistance To Jap Invasion NaNKINO, China, July 22 m Tho Kuomtn, official Chinese news agency,-reported today that "armed resistance without -neglecting diplo matic methods" lb the poUcy decided upon, by the nationalist government with regard - to what, a termed a "Japanese Invasion" of the province o? jonoi, . . ' .-,'( i Tlu) - agency said the government had ordered Tang Yu-Lin, governor of Jehol province, and Chang Hsiao? Liang,, former Manchuria war, lord, to mpblllzo "strong forces" against the Japanese, At the some 'time pro tests were lodged at Tokyo and with the league of nations. A small Japanese expeditionary force was sent Into Jehol several days ago. .Japanese authorities said It was Intended merely to rescue Gonshiro Ishlmoto, a former Japanese army of ficer, captured by Jehol troops. The Japanese said yesterday that they expected no trouble as Jehol authorities had promised to liberate Ishlmoto within a: few days. Jehol, really a province of Inner Mongolia, lies on - tho Manchurlon border and when the new state of Manchoukuo was established recently was claimed by Manchoukuo as a port of Its territory. Recently Chinese gov ernment circles have expressed alarm over what thoy termed japan's deter mination to seise control of tho prov ince. There-' woro reports yesterday that Chiang Kai-Shek was returning to Nanking because of the Jehol crlsw. Alarm and confusion woro reported to have been caused throughout all Northern China. RUHHIANS, JAI'.ANKHK CI.AHII TOKYO, July 22 () A brief en- ( Continued on Page Three) Germany Demanding Equality in Arms GENEVA, July 22 vw Qormany'a dclegato Informed tho world dlaann nment conference today that hla country will not partlclpato In fur ther dellberatlona aftor thla aummer's reccHH unlcan tho conrorenco i-ecog nines Oermany's right) to a position of equullty among tho other nations or tno world. "Tho right of equality," ho said "Is a fundamental princlplo on which tho Icaguo of nations rails. "If this conference wanta to untab llsh tho rulca and principles of gen crat disarmament and at tho sumo tlmo excludes Oermany or othor atatcs from theso rules and principles, sub jecting any stato to discrimination, such, an attitude would bo Incom patible' with sentiments of national honors and international juauco. 50 Picnickers In Capital Hospital WASIIINOTON, July 22 Ml About 80 of tho hundred picnickers Btrlck en with ptomaine poisoning follow lng a boat trip down tho Potomac yesterday remained In tho hospital tcdny, but apparently nono was In a serious condition. Hospital reports Indicated most of those still receiving treatment prob ably would bo discharged later In the day. Health authorities pursued an In vcstlgatlon to determine what food caused lthe sickness. Borne of the picnickers blamed a deviled -fug salad Greta Garbo Will ' Visit Home Land HOIJ.YWOOD. Cal., July 22 Uft- Plsnnlng to travel Incognito, Orota Oarbo, Bwedlsh-born film star, will leave Hollywood within the next two days to sail from New York for her horns land on her first vacation in several vears. Harry Eddlngton, her business manager, said the star had refused her Itinerary and had made steamer reservations under an assumed nam. PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN! RAPID STRIDE How Far Will G. 0. P. Go Toward Bidding For Prohibition. Vote? . HOW ATTRACTIVE ; V IS WEST TO DEMO? These Two Questions (Jause Much Uuessing-r ; Hoover to Make Ad-, dress on August 11. I ' By Byron Price (Associated Press Staff Writer) WASHINGTON. July 22 VP) The ' rapid pace of the presidential cam palgn is forcing toward decision these two highly in teres ting and possibly dominating questions, of party strat egy: ' How for will the Republicans" go toward an affirmative bid for tne prohibition vote?, And how far will the Democrats go In seeking the sup- ' port of the west at the sacrifice at . certain strength In the east? i- .; 1 For the answer to the first of these: questions, the country Is looking to President Hoover's acceptance speech . August 11. Aa he begins its prep-, ; aratlon,. he Is besieged on the one.' hand by pleas that he show a definite . personal Inclination to the dry . side,'', at the same time that he accept thV ' submission plank adopted at Chicago; , ( and on the other hand by advisers who think the party ought to cut: loose entirely from the organized V drys, and stand for submission and,' nothing else.- . . No One Knows 1 - m t, . It probably Is true that not one of ' the president's Intimates knows to- day what he will decide to say. He Is listening to' both sides,' and keep- . lng his own thoughts to himself. .All that can be sold with certainty Is ' that he has no lntentlon of. declaring' -for repeal, or even by inference put-,, ting himself definitely on the extreme . anu-proniDition siae oz tne cam v v Similarly, many politicians expect , Governor Roosevelt to Indicate whethV-' -: er he intends 'tf. follow-the- strategy - Oarner." in the' closing, davs of the!-. session of congress and In the home- .-.' coming speechea in Texas. ' , , oarnora thrusts at "Wall streeV' ,; and his denunciation of President Hoover as the special friend ot big,; business, havo aroused questionings.', among many eastern Democrats. ' Al-1 ready Republican speakers have sought to attach the tog of "radical" V to the Roosevelt-Gamer ticket, and' nave used the utterances of -the . Democratic vice presidential nominee in tne nope or irignterung tne east;. (Continued .on Page Three) "". 215,000 VETS TO GET LOANS ON WAR BONUS WASHINGTON July 22 WP) Ap proximately 216,000 World war vet erans will bo able to borrow ' half the valuo of their bonus oortlft cater, from tho veterans' admlnls? trntlon offices after Monday. July 25, under the terms of an act signed Thursday by President Hoover. The new law extends the borrowing prlvilego to those excluded from , benefits of previous legislation, and Frank T. Hlnes, administrator of vet erans' affairs Immediately announced arrangements had been made for Vet erans to obtain loans from their nearest reglonol offices next week. ; Tho measure, besides removing the previous requirement that two years elapse before certificates 1 could be borrowed on, reduces the Interest on such loans to 3! per cent from A, Klamath Man Dies i In Vancouver, B. C. VANCOUVER, B. O. July 22 W -i-A man who had registered as C. Bar rett, about 66, and In whose hat a tag was found showing It had been bought at Klamath Falls, Ore., was round dead of gas poisoning In fc rooming house here last night. ' He came here two days ago. The body was found covered by bed clothes and was lying on a mattress on the floor, with a gas plate with tho Jet open beneath the bed clothes. Ho had been dead many hours. NO SKKIAL TODAY Because of lack of space to day It wan necessary to hold out today's Installment of the serial "Gambler's Throw." To-, morrow the Obsorver will print the withheld Installment, and continue on with the story, from day to day. Wheat Today CHICAGO. July 32 W Enlarged, buvlne: bv commission houseo ancu speculators gave a hoist to grain val ues today. Especially late. Purchases broadoned owing uu-goly. to recent advanc.es In securities, sugrl and livestock. Sovoral brokerage Ilmul Issued statements suggesting that" government financed holdings of do mestic wheat went commencing to Icoo effect as a markot guidance. Wheat cloned firm, S10 above vesterdaVs finish, corn V4T4o up, oats a shade to V. 9 H sn.Ui. and pro. visions showing a rlw of 13 to no.