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CITY EDITION Win flwto Only Newspaper Printed in La Grande Covering Union and ' Wallowa Counties SIX PAGES TODAYi VOLUME 30 mmnmra assooutkd huh) and a. b. a LA GRANDE, OREGON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 13, 1932 CANTS RN OHMGON'8 LiKAJJlNO VBW8PAPHR NUMBER 296, Zook Warned by Joe Purine ABOLISHMENT OF BOARD IS HELD FORTH State Senator Advises Ak ron University Head Out- side, Man Not Wanted. DECLARES ACT NO PERSONAL ATTACK Dr. Zook Going to Eugene - Today to Inspect the University of Oregon . and Meet Burfch. PORTLAND,. Aug. 13 (iR - Dr. George, Frederick Zook, president of Arkon university. Invited to Oregon witl, view to his becoming chan cellor of the state's, system of higher educuUon( was to go to Eugene today to Inspect the university campus, and confer with Albert Burch, of Med ford, chairman of the unification com mittee of the board of higher educa tion. , ' . Dr. Zook will motor south with Dr. ' E. B. Lindsay, secretary of the board. They will stop at Albany to confer with P. E. Calllster, another board member. Before returning to Port land Monday Dr. Zook will visit Cor vaUis .and Monmouth. State Senator . Joe E. Dunne, who several weekB ago sent Dr. Zook a telegram advlBlng him. not to come to Oregon, sent the educator a let ter which, he received, today urging htm to disregard any Inclination be might .have to accept the chancellor ship "because any action taken by the board, which has Invited, you here will bo nullified by abolishment of the board at the next session of the Oregon legislature, and all acts done In its. name will be cancelled." -Continuing, Dunne said "You could not sustain an action in court be cause you are now notified and could not approach court with clean hands. XXX. 'Thp people of the state are deter mined an: Oregon man shall head our institutions no matter what somp member' or membersi o the "board may think, and we intend to be heard. , ' ., i "'I am partisan for an Oregon man, not a partisan for an individual and will labor constantly to accomplish such a result. The pledges to assure this- action and to accomplish the results above are now given me and I can assure you that even if yon consent to take the place and are elected, you will never sit as chan cellor. "Please bear In mind that this Is no a personal attack nor affront to you as, an individual; It wouldn't make a bit of difference who came; we will not permit this board to jam down the throats of the people' of Oregon any man from the outside. "Take due notice and govern your self accordingly." " . 6 TRANSIENTS FREED FRIDAY IN SMITH CASE Six or the transients held here since the killing of Eldon L. Smith, Union Pacific railroad detective, at Hllgard a week ago Thursday night. Were rclcasod from custody Friday af ternoon, ' according to information from the sheriff's office. Five transients remain in the coun ty Jail, to be held ponding develop ment in the case. "The search for "Shorty," a transient believed to bo corthected with the slaying, Is con tinuing. Democrats To Form Pendleton League PENDLETON, Ore., Aug. 13 VP) A Pendleton chapter of the Young Democratic league will be formed here. It was announced today follow ing the visit of William Gosslln. presi dent of the state league. R. Wayne 8tevens. treasurer, and John J. Ore den, publicity director, were confer ring with younger Democrats here today In the hope of adding to the proposed one million militant mem bers by Nov. 8. WEATHER FORECAST Oregon: Fair tonight and Sunday, but cloudy or foggy on the coast; warmer In the interior Sunday; moderate northwest winds offshore. WEATHER TODAY 7 a. m. 58 above. Minimum: 44 above. Condition: Clear. WEATHER YESTERDAY Maximum 74, minimum; 45 above. Condition: Partly cloudy, range 29 degrees. WEATHER Al'O. 13, 1031 Maximum 87, Minimum 60 above. Condition: Clear. Range 87 degrees. 4 Boys Will End -Camp At Resort Sunday Morning Breakfast Will be.. Final Meal at Wallowa Lake Campfire Ceremonies Held Friday. After two weeks of work and play the boys at the Win t Iowa lake camp will return to La Grande tomorrow. The breaking of camp 1b scheduled to take place Sunday morning Im mediately after breakfast, and their bedding and equipment will be brought home on a truck furnished by Hal Bohnenkamp and by their parents. It Is urged by the camp committee that as many as possible of the boys parents plan to go after their own sons since a large number have no means of transportation and the truck will be heavily loaded. Friday evening the honor campfire ceremonies were held and various camp and scouting awards were made. Several passed their Junior and senior life saving teste and others relieved themselves of their "sinkers badges,", the names to be released after their return to La Grande. Keen compe tition also marked the tent contest which was conducted through the past iwo weeks. ' Three, new boys were enrolled for the last week, Dell Kennedy, George Rousch and Billy Frees. ' Harvey Carter, of La Grande, was director of the camp and was assist ed by an enthusiastic group of eagle scouts and others. Sage Hen Open Season Ushers In Nimrod Sport Less than two more days, and East ern Oregon's annual hunting season, one of the outstanding sports of the year, will get under way. -' Hunters, who have been content so far this season with trapshootlne. squirrel hunting, etc., are oiling up their weapons for an attack on the sage hen population of the county, beginning Monday morning with the opening of the seaoon. Sage hens- are- fairly plentiful this season, it is reported, and hunters are eagerly awaiting the time to-gti out after them.' The season opens Aug. r16 and closes Aug, 26, with hunfeug allowed on both the opening and clos ing day. - -i i t 'ji i The grouse season recently was an nounced by Game WRrden Frank Os mond as opening Aug. 20 and con tinuing until Sept. 20. However, no announcement of open seasons has been made generally by the state game commission. In phamplet form. It Is understood that some sections of Eastern Oregon arc anxious to (Continued on Pane Four) Prink Callison Optimistic As To Grid Outlook According to football etiquette, s coach never brags about his prospects, but P. R. Callison, football mentor at the University of Oregon, states he is planning on staging a good fight during the coming season with 11 or 12 of last year's lettermen and a number of good prospects, from the 1031-32 freshman team vicing for first string honors. "Prink," accom panied by Tom Stoddard, former La Grander and assistant graduate man ager, Is in La Orande today calling on university alumni dlscutalng foot ball prospects. The freshman players of last year are a little green for coast conference games, but will put up a stiff fight against any team, he believes. U. of O. va. Santa Clara college will Du played in Eugene on October 1, while the Webfoots will meet the Washing ton and U. C. L. A. aggregations In Portland. Nine cames have -been scheduled, six of which are conference contests. Police Puzzled By Weird Death DENVER, Aug. 13 VP) Circum stances of the weird death of Dr. Hugh Powell, 33-ycar-old prominent Denver dentist, whose nearly nude body was found hanging from a den tist chair In his office here, puzzled authorities today. The body, with nothing on but a pair of women's black silk stockings and a new pair of women's shoes was found last night after his wife be came alarmed when he failed to come home for dinner. A towel was tied to the head rest of the dentist chair and suspended his body by his chin. Police orflccr Charles Burns In charge of the In vestigation said that If It was a case of suicide It was the strangest case of self-destruction In the annals of the Denver police department. Mercury Drops To 45 At Pendleton PENDLETON, Ore., Aug. 13 (" The temperature dropped sharply here again last night, touching 45 degrees after a fairly warm day In which the mercury hovered in the 80s. Tho weather turned warmer to-. EARLY ACTION ON WET BILL HELD LIKELY Senate Republicans Intend to Get Busy on the 18th Amendment DECEMBER VOTE ON REPEAL SEEN Pending Motion and Pio posal is One Advanced By Senator Glass, Vir ginia Democrat, ' liy Francis M. Stephen Ron (Associated Press Staff Writer) WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 (P) Spur red by President Hoover's call for prohibition reform, leaders of the senate Republican majority Intend to go to work on the eighteenth amend ment at the coming December ses sion. f ' Senator McNary, of Oregon, the as sistant Republican leader, says the order of business when the senate reconvenes is a vote of taking up prohibition repeal. The pending motion and proposal Ir. one advanced by Senator Glass (D., Va.). The Virginia Democrat as serted last night that Mr. Hoover'B prohibition recommendation , "Is Identical with the proposal offered by me." He facetiously denied writ ing this section of the president's (Continued on Page Four) DONOUGH EXPECTS DEMOCRATIC -WIN Oregon Party Chairman Writes to Martin Fitz gerald From New York . "Unless conditions change material ly, Hoover will bo defeated' as badly as Taft In lDia,"' Carl C.'Donough,, Oregon state Democratic chairman, writes to Martin Fitzgerald, delegate from the second congressional dis trict to the recent convention In Chi cago. Mr. Donough Is in New York City for conferences with James A. Farley, national chairman. "Have met a number of Republi cans," he adds, "who say Roosevelt will carry such states as Ohio, In diana, Illinois, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Nebraska, etc." Mr. Donough is quoted in the New York Times as asserting "that the prospect of Democratic success -In his state- was so bright that he had no hesitation in declaring that Its elec toral vote would be cast for Roosevelt and Garner. "I believe Roosevelt will carry both Oregon and Washington," Mr. Don ough said. "Roosevelt Is very popu lar In both states because of his pub lic record and his progresslvlsm. "Of course, . Oregon Is Republican by registration and has not cast Its vote for a Democratic nominee for president since 1012. However, there is now a strong feeling in Oregon for a change, which was expressed two years ago by the election of an (Continued on Page Four) SWIM WEEK TO OPEN SUNDAY AT POOL HERE Red Cross swim week will open to morrow afternoon at 2:30 at Crystal Plunge when Dr. W. K. Ross will lecture on arttflctal respiration as sisted by llfesavers who will demon strate. Miss Louise Kennedy, exam iner, and Woodrow-Damerell, Arthur Steffen and Ben(Ocsterllng, llfesavers, will be the assistants. During the coming week classes for beginners, Junior, senior and ad vanced swimmers will be conducted at 0:30 a. m., 1:30, 3:00 and 7:30 p. m. Swim week is sponsored jointly by tho Red Cross and Lions club. Refuse Martial Law Proclaimed in Chile; Short-Lived Rebellion Put Down SANTIAGO. Chile, Aug. 13 Vfi Martial law was proclaimed through out Chile today after police and sol diers had put down a short-lived re bellion against tho government by 400 students of the University of Chile. The government explained that the proclamation of martial law was a precautionary measure. A police aorf leer, a student and a boy bystander were known to have been killed In the hour and a half battle last night -and there were un confirmed reports that five others were dead. Twenty were wounded. The students seized the university buildings, demanding the restoration of Col. Marmaduke Orove as head of the government Instead of Carlos VEILED HINT FOR LENIENCY ON WAR DEBT British and Canadians Make Definite Bid, Americans Believe. . RETURN TO GOLD BASIS FAVORED In Meantime, British Newspapers C r i t i c i ze Hoover's Reference to Debts and Tariffs.' By Frank I. Wcller OTTAWA, Out., Aug. 13 VP) tAmerl cans observing the work of the Im perial conference Interpreted a final report of the monetary committee to day as a definite bid for continuation of currency on a gold basis and for leniency by the United Btates In set tlement of war dobta. The report was prepared for the plonary session expected to end the conference next Thursday. "Tho conference," the report said, "recognized that the ultimate aim of a monotary policy should be tho restoration of a satisfactory inter national standard." It added that trying to achieve low interest rates and an abundanco of short-torm money for restoration of trade should not be predicated on "Inflationary creation of additional means of pay ment to finance public expenditures." Uold Not Mentioned 'Gold was not specifically mention ed, but Americans read into It a sug gestion that a new par value be estab lished on a gold basis for depreciated eirtplre currency. The report recommended creation of an area of stability among coun tries regulating their currencies in relation to sterling and avoidance of wide day-to-day fluctuations be tween sterling and gold. ' It said also that a rise In the gen eral level of wholesale prices was the most desirable means for facilitating such a result, but that international aotlon was urgently necessary in that connection. This was Interpreted as bringing the United States directly Into the . ; (Continued os. rage Four; HEAVY CUT IN U. S. EXPENSES IS PREDICTED WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 (ff At least another $800,000,000' reduction In federal expenses Is expected of the next session of congress by the cham ber of convnierce of the United States. Henry I. Harrlman, president of the chamber, said so in a statement to day as the executive committee of the non -governmental agency met. Federal appropriations for this year are 9800,000.000 less than those for last year, he said, adding: "Analysis of the appropriations made by congress for the current fis cal year x x x makes it clear that It Is reasonable to expect congress during the coming-winter x x x to reduce them - further by at least xxx $800,000,000." Flames Do Damage In Walled Manila MANILA, Aug. 13 (II Piro swept through three blocks of the old walled city of Manila tonight, de stroying the buildings of the Insular bureau of public works, two colleges, the Atcneo mfuseum and other struc tures antedating the American re gime. The loss was estimated as high at $5,000,000. Smith 8 Son Weds Schenectady Girl SCHENECTADY, N. Y., Aug. 13 (ff) Police held back a crowd which filled the Church of the Immaculate Conception to overflowing today 'or the wedding of Walter, youngest son of former Governor Alfred E. Smith, to Miso Florence E. Watson, of Sche nectady. The former governor, his wife and members of their family occupied a front section of the church. Hitler's Da Vila. Col. Grove was a colleague of Senor Davila In the first socialist revolution several weeks ago, but was. outed by a counter-revolt. Two reglmonts of troops were called out Immediately and ft red upon the students. As soon iw the firing be gan the students abandoned their barricades and fled. All but 60 of them were captured. Before the soldiers arrived, a com pany of police had rushed the ad ministration building and made pris oners of 36 of the students after a sharp battle. An officer of the carlblneern was killed during an exchange of snip ing between the police and the stu dents, who fired from the windows of the university building. U.S. Divers Sweep Olympics THEY TOOK'THE 100-METER HONORS These girls took tlie three top places In the 100-meter free style finals at the Los Angeles Olympics. Left to right, llelene Madison, U. S. A., first; WUIemlJntJe den Ouden, Holland, second; Elouior ' Uurattl-Havllle, U. 8. A., third. : . . ' " , Union Officers Carry Insurance It. 1 TtM 1 iviuraer OHIOAOO, Aug. 13 VP) Chicago's long and bitter fight against the gangster today was marked by a new development Insurance against mur der byhoodlums. Officials of the milk drivers' union, which gangsters are reported to have threatened with Invasion, aro the men imnui '.'.:v--'-.-,'. 'Theunion voted to pay16,000 out of Its 1800,000 fund to the family of any of Its officers killed by hoodlums. The money Is payable within 24 hours of ouch a crime. - So far as could be learned, it. was the first time In tho history of Chi cago's struggle against tho racketeer and tho gunman that it was deemed necessary to Insure the families of labor leaders against the possibility of gangster guns. The Chicago Dally Tribune said It was understood the fund was Intend (Continued on Page Pour) . F. C. Heffron, Dry, Enters Campaign EUGENE, Aug. 13 (P) tCampaign lng as a bone-dry independent Re publican, F. C. Heffron, Eugene at torney, will oppose James W.' Mott, Republican, and Harvey Starkweath er, Democrat, for congressman from the first Oregon district. Heffron announced his candidacy Friday. He said he will support Presi dent Hoover in everything except his stand on prohibition. Before coming to Oregon Heffron was attorney gen ernl of North Dakota. Mott defoated the veteran Congress man Will I a C. Hawloy In tho May primary for tho Republican nomina tion, and Btarkwoathor worn from W. A. Delzell of Salem. Ben Sholdslrom Funeral Tuesday Funeral services for Ben Sholdstrom will bo held Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock at tho chapel of Walkera Funeral Homo with Rev. Edwin Brach- cr In charge of tho services. Burial will be In Masonic cemetery. Mr. Sholdstrom was killed earlier this week In an automobile accident on tho highway Just wost of La Orande. Request Von Hindenburg Keeps von Papen As Chancellor BERLIN. Aug. 13 UP) Presldont von Hindenburg talked for 18 min utes this afternoon with Adolf Hit ler, head of tho National Socialist party, and announced after tho con ference that the present cabinet under Chancellor Franz von Papon will remain In office. Hitler reiterated his demand that on the strength of his party's power In the relchstag he be mado chancel lor of Oermany. The president refused "for moral (Continued on Page Four') OPPOSES GRAIN TRADE PRACTICES Max Gehlhar Protesting Against rresent bmut ting, Discount Charges SALEM. Aug. 13 VP) Although, Max dehlhar, director, of agriculture. announced ho would, bo unable-to at tend tlw . mooting '6f gTaln.v growers and dealers at, Pendleton today, he did ask their co-operation in a oonv pie to investigation of grain, trade practices. ;.'. In a telegram to David H. Nolson, of Pendleton, Inst night Gehlhar In dicated strongly that the department was opposing present smutting and discount charges. "Discounts used by tho grain trade are In cents per bushel the same rate as when wheat was high," Gehlhar's telegram read. "This works a special hardship on account of the light wheat this year. ; Fifty-two pound wheat discount Is 12 conts. "I am also advised that the grain trade Is making smutting and ware house charges In excess of tho rates fixed by this department. Municipal warehouses at Astoria and Portland adopted our schedule, but others are charging In excess." MKKTINO TONIGHT PENDLETON, Ore., Aug. 13 ff Prominent whoat ranchers of Ore gon, Washington and Idaho were ex pected hero tonight for a meeting with congressional delegations, busi ness leaders and bankers In the hope of obtaining general support of their dollar wheat plan. Invitations wore sent to senators and ropronontatlvos of tho three states but It was not known defi nitely today how many would attend. Representatives Butler of Oregon and Summers of Washington Bont word they would ho hero. The plan to obtain (1 a bushol for wheat already Is being followed gen- (Continued From Page Four) NEW MINISTER TO HAITI IS NAMED TODAY "WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 (At ifcsl- dent Hoover today appointed Norman Armour, of New Jersey, to be minister to Halt). Amour Is 43 yearn old, a graduate of Princeton university and a career man In the dlplomntlo service. Beginning his professional career as a lawyor, Armour entered the dlplo matlc servlco In 1013. Since 1028 he has been counsellor of the American embassy In Paris. Professor's Wife Hurl in Accident MED FOHD. Ore., Aug. 13 UP) Mrs James H. Gilbert of Eugene, wlfo of Dean Ollbert of tho University of Oregon, suffered severe head Injuries, cuU on tho face find body and fractured knr-o last night when her automobile, driven by her daughter, Madeline, eraahed Into another car on tho Crater Lake highway 15 miles from Med ford. A tire on the Ollbert car blow out, causing It to swervo Into a machine drlvon by W, W, Olll, of Los Ang.ios, Mrs. Ollbert was on her way to Union creek to visit friends over tho wek end. She was taken to a hospital here whero her condition was said to be serious although there were satis factory signs of Improvement. Urge De Valera To Proclaim An i Irish Republic Mere Abolition of Oath of Allegiance to King George Fails to Satisfy Army Organ. DUBLIN, Irish Free State, Aug. IS VP) Eamon De Valera, president of the Free State, was beleaguered from. two sides today to deolare the In dependence of a republic of Ireland. The An Fhoblacht, organ ot the Irish Republican army, an unofficial organization which demands inde pendence, said In an editorial head ed "An Emphatic Answer to De Va lera," that the mere abolition of the oath of allegiance to King Oeorge would not alter the Republican position'.'- The Irish Republican army," the editorial continued, - "has entered solemn compact to guard and defend the1 Irish republic against all enemies, foreign and domestic, and It cannot lay ' down its arms or rest until the republic la a reality." At, the same time the newspaper United Irishmen, organ of former President William T. Coegrave, con- servatlve leader, attacked De Valera as aotlng Uloglcally In not declaring a republic. Such a procedure, It said, "would certainly be damaging, but would probably be less so than De Valera's policy, of governing the Free State by . a sort of . conspiracy with the Irish Republican' army." - - - Both, incidents followed the an- (Continued on Pag Four) Courts May Get "Last Word" In Walker Decision ALBANY, N. Y Aug. 13 VP) The courts, and hot Oovernor Roosevelt may have the last word in the Walker ease, That the defense Intends to turn to the courts If the governor's deci sion . is against Mayor Walker has been Indicated by the legal' excep tions taken to two of Mr, Roosevelt's rulings at the hearing on the charges against the mydr. if. wow . The defense has challenged the governor's right to scrutinize the mayor's first term and also his ad mission of , Hofstadter committee findings as evidence. John J. Cur- tin, Walker's attorney, took excep tions yesterday -' on both these grounds, - There was no hint as to how such an appeal would be taken. The governor has been reported as Intending to give his decision in- the Walker case before going on any. ex tended campaign trip In the Inter ests, of his presidential candldaoy, and. litigation might delay his deci sion even beyond the November eleo tlon . The hearing Was In recess today until . Monday. Governor Roosevelt was In Hyde park and Mayor Walker had gone to Now York. Mrs, Walker, who has been 111, remained at her Albany hotel. The strain of the first daysi hearing, Thursday, which she attended, was more than she had ex pected Kidnaping Theory ' 'Dropped by Police WARSAW, Poland, Aug. 13 VP) Po lled;' after a night spent In seeking a man they bollovod kidnaped flve-ycar-old Patricia McMlllln, daugh ter"' of United BtatoB Consul Stewart B; McMlllln, of Lawronco, Kn said today they bellovcd the child had merely been lost and found. SWo dfcappoarod yoslorday In a publlo park whero sho had gone with a nursemaid to play. Found a lew hours later In a shop, she said she had beon takon from, the park by a man. Police said they believed Patricia had strayed away and the man was a pedestrian who tried to show her the way homo, but was baffled by ln ability to understand English. Tiny Frogs Invade Vancouver, Wash. VANCOUVER, Wash., Aug. 13 VP) Unheralded. JtheTteason for the strange and unprecedented migration a mys tery, hundreds of thousands of tiny frogs Invaded Vancouver today. ' Highways and strcete within the city and to the east wero swarming with the little creatures and motor ist on the Evergreen highway said the frogs were so thick over some sections as to give tho appearance that tho highway wo In motion. He Watched Guards Hunt For His Body CHICAGO, Aug. 13 UP) Unlike Mnrk Twain, Kenneth Eckholt, 11, nevor read his own obituary notice, but he had a lot of fun anyway. He disappeared on tho shoro of Lake Michigan yesterday, and a com panion reported he had been drowned. For two hours ho watched fire men, life guards, coast guards and police grapple for his supposedly drowned body. In the excitement nobody noticed he was on of the Interested spectators. SWEEP MADE IN ALL FOUR COMPETITIONS Harold Smith First in High Platform Diving, ' Contests Today. 1 GALITZEN SECOND ! AND KURTZ THIRD Fourth Sweep; Sends Am erican Team Back Into Point Lead With 65 to ; Japan's 56. , . . :',' .i . ; OLYMPIC SWIMMING; STADIUM, ' Los Angeles, Aug. 13 VP) Harold - -(Dutoh) Smith brought the high platform diving championship of the . tenth Olympiad to the United States . today aa Unele Sam's trio of acrobats - swept the event. It was the fourth clean sweep for America's divers, in the current games. Smith's winning total was li.80. : . ;, yi ', .. Mickey Riley Oalltaen, who ' won the springboard championship a few days ago, finished second,' only a ' fraction of a ' point behind with ', 134.38, Frank Kurtz was third with 131.98 point. .' - . . . ,. ' America's sweep sent Its team back '' into the point lead with a total at ' ' 65, while Japan was unable to better . ' Its total of 68. , This was not. ex-', peoted .to stand through .the after- '' noon, however, with the . Japanese V heavy favorites to win both the 1500 ' meter free style and 300 meter breast ; stroke finals., ' " '. ' . " - , ' :'''l V. 8. D1VEKS SUPREME r : '- '. Regardless ot whether the Japanese',, aquatlo team takes . tlie. Olympics ' title from the American- team;' -the outcome of today's; .diving - evsnts.-, leaves the American f diving ,, team, with a "grand slam.". .V' - In all four diving events, the men's Z and women's 'springboard' and1 high' ! (Contlnutd ori.Pam Pour) .' RALPHFORBES' GETS DIVORCE: FROM ACTRESS HARRISON, N; It, AoY 18 .VP) Ruth Chatterton, octrees who' was divorced yesterday from Ralph Forbes, was married shortly after noon today to Oeorge Brent, movie - actor,- at: Harrison, N. Y. .. - - .- i't . MINDHN, Nev., Aug. 13 (IP) An-. other shattered actor-actress comance that of Ruth Chatterton and Ralph Forbes was sealed and filed away -in the court records of this "Reno' annex" divorce center today. The decree was granted to Forbes . yesterday after he made a quick auto-' mobile trip from Reno, tiled hi com plaint and went through the formal ity of a hearing before Dlstrlot Judge Edgar Eather. Judge Eather then or dered all papers in the case sealed..- '' Two attorneys, Oeorge A .Bartlett, ; of Reno, and Walter E. Burke, .of . Los Angeles, represented Mss Chat terton at the hearing. The aotres was reported to be In New York, ' Prevloua plans, the. attorneys Intl- , mated, wero for a friendly arrange ment along the UneB of the recent Ann Harding-Harry Bannister divorce,' Motor Company Official Drowned CHATHAM, Out., Aug. 13 VPtXMJ A. Graham, 45, socretary-treasurer of the Graham-Paige Motor company ot Detroit, drowned today in McGregor's creek. . . , , r Police said witnesses told them Gra ham had returned to his hotel after attending a church service. He re mained there only a few minutes be foro he ran out and Jumped Into tho creek. The body was recovered 30 minutes later. . FILM PLAYER AT KLAMATH KLAMATH FALLS, Aug. 13 VP) Wallace Beery, the film player, ac companied by Mrs, Beory, loft the lo cal airport thl morning before S o'clock for an unnamed destination. He said ho might visit Crater Lake but took off toward'Mt. Shasta. Beery, piloting hi own plane, arrived last night. Wheat Today CHICAGO, Aug. 13 VP) Unable to stem a decided downward trend, whoat tumbled in the lost hall hour of trading today. Advances were difficult to main tain, and served but to bring about Increased pressure to sell. Stop lr orders wero forced into execution, d. spite prospect of a further decree of the amount of wheat on ocean passage to Importing countries. Wheat closed unsettled a 1140 under yesterday's finish, corn V Vio off, oats at V4 H decline, and pro vision unchanged to a setback of 39 cent.
