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I WEATHER FORECAST
J Oregon: Partly cloudy tonight and J
I Friday i Mattered thunderstorms In
mountain! of eastern sections! not J
f much change lit temperature. Local
weather Wednesday : Mai 100, mln 60,
j Today: mln 65, 1 a. ni., 71!.
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J ' Only Newspaper v J
- Printed in La Grande
Covering Union and
Wallowa Counties
VOLUME 31
ra AMOOUTKD PREM AlfD A. B. O.
LA GRANDE, OREGON, THURSDAY, JUNE 15, 1933
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NUMBER 242
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Picnic To Bring
RIVERSIDE
PARK SCENE
OF PROGRAM
Hundreds of Frm) Folk
; Of Union County Are
Expected ; Friday.
TWO PROMINENT
SPEAKERS HERE
Kicnic Sp o n s o r e d By
; Grande Konde Co-op.
Creamery -and Union
County Grain Growers.
5 ; Despite the heat and the busy wa-
s Yon on the farms, ' several hundred
residents of the Grande Ronde valley
are expected to gather tomorrow t
Riverside park for the Farmers' pic
nic, sponsored by the Orande Ronde
Co-operative Creamery and the Un
ion County Grain Growers. The day's
program will open with muBlc at 10
o'clock, witfc lunch ai 12 o'clock and
prominent speakers representing both
dairymen and grain growers of the
county speaking during the after
noon, beginning at 1:30 o'clock. ...
Orris Dorm an, of Spokane, director
of membership relations of the North
Pacific Grain Growers, will be the
principal speaker discussing the new
farm set-up for the first time in
Union county. He announces his
toplo as "The New Undertakings In
Behalf of Agriculture" and will pre
sent a study of the situation similar
to those -he has been presenting In
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SCHOOL BOARD
ELECnOlTWILL
AROUSE INTEREST
' A hot ' race is anticipated In the
election of the three-year member of
the school board on Monday, June
19, In district number one. Three
new members are to be elected with
Mrs. N. W. Frees uncontested for the
position of two-year member. How
ever, three prominent and able men
and one woman worthy of equal com
mendation are In the contest for the
(Continued on Pace Two-)
j)4
Mercury Reaches
100 For Summer
Record So Far
Wednesday was the warmest day
since Aug. 16, 1931 with the maxi
mum temperature of 100 degrees
above setting a new high mark for
the summer. The highest temper
ature reported officially during last
summer was 99 derzreen nn .Iiilv 27.
F1932, while the highest mark reached
during the present summer Was 95
degrees above on Monday, with
Tuesday slightly cooler.
Yesterday's minimum was 60 de
grees. The minimum last night was
66, five degrees warmer Jhan the
previous day's minimum. At seven
o'clock this morning, the thermo
meter read 72 degrees.
The warmest day during the past
three summers occurcd on July 21,
1931 when the maximum was reported
as 107. On July 25 of the same
summer the temperature was 101,
while It reached 100 on July 19 and
August 16, 1931.
MOTOR GROUP
It VISITS HERE
Ray Conway, manager of the public
relations department of the Oregon
State Motor association, and a group
of Portland business men were ac
companied to Wallowa Lake today by
Harold C. Boone, secretary of the La
Grande Chamber of Commerce. They
are touring' this section to secure
tourist Information, and plan to re
turn to Portland tomorrow.
AVIATOR'S WIFE
BRAVE UNDER STRAIN
WALLA WALLA, Wash., June 15 TO
Mrs. Jlmmle Mattern's stiff upper
Up weakened today and she revealed
outwardly for the first time keen
anxiety for the safety of her husband
as word was lacking of his progress
on tho hazardous flight between Si
beria and Nome.
"Oh my. but that's a long time,"
Rhe snld when informed of the olnpscd
time. "And you say there has been
WILL
ROGERS
'joy:
BEVERLY HILLS, Oal., June 14
The president has been breaking hla
neck to get congress "off the Po
tomac" before Thursday (the day the
debts were due). He was afraid to
have 'em there when the bad news
arrived. He was afraid they would
commit suicide. , ' '
See where some American heiress
gave as her reasons for marrying one
of this 'mess of Mdlvanls, that he
was "smart, cute, amusing, Interest
ing and hangs around all the time."
Sounds almost like the recommen
dation of a good setter pup.
Every one at London says "some
thing must be done,"-and It looks like
It will be us. Yours, 1 -'-
MORE MEN LEAVE
HERE TO WORK IN
NEARBY FORESTS
Two Groups of Woodsmen
Leave Today, Headed
For Frog Heaven and
" Whitman Camps. "',
Thirty-nine men' ' from Union
county were sent Into the.J forests to
day, according to reports' received
from J. H. Peare. chairman of the
county roller committee. They went
out In two groups, 14 this morning
and 25 this afternoon.
Mr. Peare states that by the first
of next week the total number of
(Contlnuod on Pago" Two)
Alyce Jcanette . .
Cooper Dies At
Home Last Night
Alyce Jeanette Cooper, 18, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Cooper, died
last night at 10:30 o'clock at the
heme of her parents after more than
a year's Illness. Miss Cooper con
tracted tuberoulosls while attending
the La aranao High school and was
taken to The Dalles sanitarium for
several months but returned to her
home In La Orande on March 11. -She
was born on March 1, 1B1B.
Alyce Jeannette was a talented vio
linist and placed high In the state
muslo tournament at Eugene, several
years ago. She and her sister, Miss
Maellzabeth Cooper, were ln constant
demand for several years In musloal
circles and played at many functions
both In La Orande and throughout
. (Continued on Page Two)
FORD BROTHERS
ARE PAROLED
Olen and Walter Ford pleaded guil
ty to a charge of burglary not In a
dwelling yesterday afternoon, were
sentenced to five years In the peni
tentiary andi paroled by Judge J. W.
Knowles, In the circuit court. The
conditions of the parole are:that the
two young men. both of whom are
between the ages of 18 and 81. re
port to the circuit Judgo the first of
each month. . -i-
They were arrested for burglarizing
the1 Savoy hotel a few weeks ego, and
were arraigned yesterday on Informa
tion filed by the district attorney.
Both waived indictment and time for
pleading. v n; -
CASE MAY GO
TO JURY TbDAY
Attorneys opened the arguments to
tile Jury In the case of the state vs.
Oscar Avars, F. A. Ingram and Clar
ence Johnson this morning and It was
expected to be ready for the Jury's
consideration late this afternoon. The
three men are charged with extortion
and Arthur Bruce Is the complaining
witness. '
Th case opened Monday In the cir
cuit court before Judge J. w. Knowles
and has created a great deal of In
terest throughout the .entire county.
no word at all?" -
Mrs. Mattern lias felt the stretch
from Siberia to Nome was the most
treacherous of the aroundrthe-world
flight, but she found encouragement
In the report of 1000-foot celling
and only light winds over Bering
Sea.
"Jlmmle often has navigated with
much less celling than that,"' she
observe "and he wouldn't be both
ered by a slx-mtle wind." 11
18
Host Of
HOLMAN HITS
SALES TAX IN
GRANGE TALK
1200 Grangers Hear Him
Speak at Convention (
In Pendleton. ;
SAYS SALES TAX
IS UNNECESSARY
Believes State" Will Be On
Cash Basis Again and
: Crisis. Passed By End
of Next YeaiV . : ; v;
PENDLETON, Ore., June' 15 TO
Further economy-In state government
"by consolidation and elimination of
sinecures" was .urged here last night
by Rufua C. Holman, state treasurer,
in an address to about 1.200 members
of the Oregon State Orange, assem
bled for the 60th annual convention
of the organization. . .
He attacked the proposed state
sales tax, declaring "I see no Justlfl-
(Gontlnued On Page Four)
COX WILL HEAD
MONETARY BODY
AT WORLD MEET
By DcWItt MacKenzle
LONDON, June 15 (P) The United
States achieved a great and hard-won
victory in the world economic confer
ence with the election of James M.
Cox as chairman, of the vital mone
tary committee by the steering com
mittee late today.-. M V v-v y'
The designation- of er1 American
was 'unanimous; His' name was pre
sented by the Frenchman, Georges
Bonnet, who had himself been a can
didate. Bonnet had bitterly opposed
Cox' election until a compromise was
effected among warring groups In
mid-afternoon.
Finance Minister Ouldo Jung, of
Italy, was given the vice chairman
ship and M. Bonnet, the French fl-
(Continued on Page Six
FLAG SERVICE
DRAWS CROWD
The four streets which bound the
Triangle park at the corner of Fourth
and Spring streets were buoy tho
roughfares last night when many
people congregated in automobiles to
witness the most beautiful flag day
service that has been sponsored by
the Elks lodge In several years. Sev
eral civic organizations assisted the
Elks In tho flag day observance and
(Continued on Pago Two)
Farmers
TO ANNOUNCE
FARM PLANS
TOMORROW
Processing Taxes On
Wheat and Cotton .
Important Cogs.
PLAN TO RAISE
' ABOUT $250,000,000
Will Reduce Acreage of
Wheat and Cotton and
. .. Pr eve n t Oyersupplies
and Low, Prices.
By Roy F. Ilendiickson
(Copyright, 1933, by The Associated
- v. . Press)
WASHINGTON. June 15 TO The
administration intends to raise (250,
000.000 by proocsslng taxes on wheat
and cotton, which It will -levy at their
maximum size In a bold program
aimed to better long-range farm
prices by cutting down production:
The government's plans ,; provide
that most of the sum will be used
to reward farmers who agree to re
duce their output In concert with tho
federal drive to halt the piling up of
surpluses, long a price-depressing
problem for growers of the two chief
cash crops of the United States.
' ! Announce Plan Tomorrow
President Roosevelt has approved a
program, devised under powers pro
vided by the new farm act, which
Secretary Wallace will make publlo
(Continued on Page Thre
FOUR MARKSMEN
GO TO KLAMATH
Four 6f La Grande's marksmen left
this morning for Klamath Falls to
enter the Oregon State shoot which
will open there tomorrow. The dope
sters have ranked. La Grande high:
among the gun clubs of the state
and favorable predictions have been
made concerning the local men's
chances In the three day shoot which
closes Sunday.
Nate ana Robert Zwelfel, Floyd
Lannlng and Tracy Holl later are the
marksmen that will represent this
city, shooting for Individual and not
team scores.
GUESTS FROM
ELLEN SBURG
Miss Hazel Halvorson, dean of wo
men In 'the high sohool at Ellcnsburg
Wosh., and Miss Ruth Argoll, bead of
tho English department there.ywere
guests over night at the home ot Rev.
and Mrs. Clarence Kopp. This morn
ing they continued their way by car
to their alma mater, tho University
of Minnesota, where they will visit
friends and attend festivities and
then go on to Chicago to take in the
Century of Progress.
CUT-OUTS FOR TIRED TAXPAYERS
(ERE IS OUR. OLD
UMCLE SAM, AND SOME
OF HIS BUSIM6SS OUTFITS.
HE WILL PROBABLY 8E (M
MORE OF THEM SOONi.
New Leader for
o o o v
o o o o
Sw. ri
High commands In the U. S. navy changed personnel Saturday In col
orful ceremonies in Los Angeles Harbor. Photo shows Admiral Rich- ,
ard H Leigh, left, who relinquished his post as commander-in-chief
of the battle force to Vicc-Admlral David Foote Sellers, right. Photo
taken aboard U. S. S. Pennsylvania shortly before Leigh left to become
a member of the Navy General Board at Washington.
COMPANY E FROM LA GRANDE
WELL ESTABLISHED AT CAMP
By Nolan Skiff
OAMP. OLATSOP, Ore., June 15
(Special) Company E, along with tho
other Eastern Oregon national guard
units, are now well established In
camp and preparing for brigade In
spection Saturday morning, before
the flrsti weekend leave.
The - La Orande outfit, colled out
with the other Eastern Oregon men
to stage the parade tho first after
noon of camp, led the battalion march
at retreat. Incidentally, It Is the only
Eastern Oregon company this year
that will sport two streamers on Its
guidon, which means two straight
years of "very satisfactory" ranking
In annual federal Inspection.,'
" Afcolher thVig that Is tickling the
La Orande boys is that tho company
escapes guard duty this year. This Is
more or loss In the nature of "luck"
as each year few companies are not
needed for guard duty, and this year
It happened to bo E. At any rate,
there'll be no walking posts at all
hours of the night and day for the
Fishing Season
Opens in Lakes
And Tributaries
Today tho fishing senson In all the
lakes and tributaries In Union county
officially ppons, according to tho
regulations of tho stato game com
mission. The season continues until
September 30.
In Wallowa county, though Jco
Lake and Minam lake an open to
fishing throughout, tho year, all other
lakes except Wallowa lake are open
to fishing from Juno 15 to September
30, as In Union county.
All tributaries to Wallowa lake, up
as farns tho falls, will romaln closed
to fishing until July 1 . and will
then romaln open until November 30.
FRieMP,
U. Si Battle Fleet
Grande Ronders. (Tho latter term Is
not In any way to bo construed as
meaning grand rounders)..
Jack Alvoy and Carl Amos, two of
the recruits with the company, got
the first Job of kltchon polloo for
Juno 14. This year the details are
going to the privates by alphabetical
order which makes John asigier reel
pretty good I At any rate, it'll be
few days before ho bets It hi the
neck; f lguratlvoly speaking. Alvoy and
Amos, with their detail finished, prob
ably won't be bothered for at loast
another ten days. r
' comirur down to camp Monday was
a hot lob for the La Orande men
with- the, Minporatiire) nnywnera irom
0 abt ve to-whatever tile Individual
figured It, In degrees or degrees of
polite profanity And fow of thorn
got to sleep beforo about 1:30 a. m.
Also, the onglneer highballed It into
Portland about an hour earlier than
(Continued on Pago Two)
Portland Pastor
Takes Own Life;
Two Boys Drown
PORTLAND, Juno 18 (!) lit and
despondent, tho Rev. Albert T. Foster,
81. leaped Into tho WUlametto river
here last night from the Ross Island
bridge, and drownod. A former pastor
of the Wllshlre Community Mothodlst
church, he was relieved of the posi
tion several months ago because of
111 health. His widow, flvo daughters
and two sons survive.
Two additional drownings occurred
In the Portland vicinity yesterday.
Robert Fisher, IB, lost his Ufa In a
nnrl In t.hn Lincoln Memorial Park
cemetery when ho tried to swim from
a raft In the middle of tho pona
i7nnnif. nnuk on rtt Pnrtland. drown.
ed while swimming in Lake Oswego.
Probation Given
To Arley Murrill
PORTLAND, Juno 15 OT Proba
tion on a ono-year sentence to Mc
Neil Island federal prison was glvon
Arley Murrill, postmaster at Paradise
In Wallowa county, when ho pleaded
guilty In federal court hero Wednes
day to a chargo of ombozzllng postal
fundri. - '
Clifford Wlsoman,' of : Salom, and
aorta Emory who pleaded guilty to
liquor charges, wore glvon paroles, but
Wlsoman was fined ioo ana Mrs,
Emory 600, ' 1
Klamath Battery
Wins in Attendance
ASTORIA, Ore.. Juno 15 OT With
an attendance record of 100 per cent,
tho Klamath Palls battery D, 240th
const artillery, of tho Oregon national
guard, won the Oregonian trophy for
attendance at drill during tho pre
vlous year.
Wheat Today J
CHIOAOO, Juno 16 OT Conflict
ing opinions about market effects of
proponed processing taxes and bonuses
to farmers made whoat prices oscil
late swiftly today, and finish lower.
Rushes to sell overwhelmed tho
wheat pit at times, and at one stago
smashed values 3 cents a bushel, tho
trade being uncertain as to details
of proposed plans of tho Washington
administration. Wheat traders had to
contend also with results of a sharp
downturn In British exchange.
Wheat closed nervous, llo un
der yesterday's f!nlh, corn '4H
up, oats 'i,o advanced, and pro
visions varying from 7 cents decline
to a rise of 3 cents,
JUST BEFORE
PRESSTIME
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UPPER COLUMBIA FLOODS
' ,!- .
MAY HOLD EXTENSION WORK
EXPECT ADJOURNMENT SOON
REJECT VET COMPROMISE
WKNATCIIEE, Wash., June 13 OT
The flooded Columbia- river forced
along Its banks today, and nearly all
tributary streams between here and
tlie Canadian border, more than 50
miles away, were reported going out
ot bounds.
WASHINGTON, June 16 OT The
senate today adopted the conference
report on the 13,600,000,000 emergency
appropriation bill and sent It to the
White House, The house approved It
yesterday. LargoBtl peace-time money
measure on record, It carries funds to
start off the big Roosevelt emergency
reconstruction program, Including
publlo works and the government's
share In the bank deposit Insurance
fund. .;.'.'.
WAHHINOTON, Juno Iff OT Sen
ator Robinson, Democratic leader,
said today that final adjournment of
'the special session of congress to
night was almost certain.
WASHINGTON, Juno 16 OT The
house today rejected the senate .veter
ans' substitute thereby sending the
Independent offices appropriation bill
back to tho sonata for another vote.
The vote was 208 to 177. A new oony
'promiso la looked for.
EXPECT WORLD'S
RECORDS TOFALL
AT CHICAGO MEET
' lly Charles Dunkley '
(Associated Press, Sports Writer)
CHICAGO, . June 16 OT r- Headed
by Cijioh Doan 0jwlPs Trojans
from the University df Southern Cal
ifornia, BOO athletes from all sections
of the nation charge Into action to
morrow at tho twelfth national col
legiate and prep track and field meet
at the world's fair grounds here, with
a rush that threatens to set a mark
for eclipsing world's records by the
(Continued Oil Page Four) ;:
MATTERN LONG
OVERDUE TODAY
SEATTLE, June '16 OT Low
hanging clouds and fogs which would
freeze on tho wings of Jlmmle Mat
tern's piano, "Century of Progress."
may again have thwarted tho efforts
of tho Texas aviator to f!y from
Khabarovsk, Siberia, to Nome, Alas
ka, today.
At 12:30 p.- m., Paolflo standard
time, Mattern would have been In tho
air 24' hours, or seven hours more
than tho 2600-mile route should re
quire In his speedy plane.
. Weather obsorvors hero, - scanning
latest reports from the western coast
of Alaska and tho Aleutians expressed
the opinion that Mattern would not
bo able to find Nome, but would be
obliged to land In the Interior of
(Continued on Page Six)
G. A.R. Commander
Found Dead Today
PITTSBURGH, Juno 16 OT Cap
tain William P. Wright, of Chicago,
national commander of tho Orand
Army of tlie Republic, was found dead
In bed In a hotol today. Ho was B8
years old.
In Pittsburgh to attend tho annual
encampment of tho Pennsylvania de
partment of tho G. A. R., Captain
Wright addressed a gathering of vot
orans and auxiliary organizations lost
night.
Ho also rodo in tho O. A. R.'s Flsg
day parado yesterday, and comrades
sold ho seemed to be In good health
when he retired last night.
INQUIRING
Each day ns the Inquiring Reporter makes the rounds two persons
will he stopped at random nn the street corner ana asked some
friiestlon of the day. Through the courtesy of Manager C. M. Wight
each Interviewed will be granted two complimentary tickets to the
Liberty Theatre. The current attraction la Richard Darthelmcss In
"Central Alrort".
Cordcll Hull, secretary of stato, de
nounces economic nationalism and
the policy of economic isolation
which ho described as one of tho
causes of tho present economic de
pression. International capital and
trade has been obstructed by htRh
tariffs, quotas, cmbargowt, exchango
restrictions and ' depreciated cur
rencies. Mrs. Stanley Mills, 1108 First tst,
soys, "I believe in a low tarifi oe-
causo It Is conducive to International
trade, as well as a feeling of interna
FRANCE AND
POLANDAGAIN
FAIL TO PAY
Finland Only Nation to
Make Entire Payment i
' On the Date u?.. i
ITALY OFFERS f
PART PAYMENT
Rumania and Jugoslavia?
1 Also Plan to .Default;,
Though Rumania Pair
December Instalment J;
, .
" WASHINGTON, June 16 OT Prance
and Poland defaulted again today on
their war debt luLalw6nU to thli
government while Great Britain ar
ranged to pay tlO.000,000 In silver -on
$76,050,000 due and Italy tendered
about a million dollars on Its obliga
tion of 13,645,000.
Barring changes late- In the "day,
Finland was the only nation to meet
Its obligation In full, paying $148,593.
A note of the Paris government's
decision not to make Its payment of
40,738,588 was handed . to Phillips
at, the department by Ambassador,
Do Laboulaye. . . .
Ambassador Patek, of Poland, called
with a similar message, . : . - .
Both France and Poland, .close dip-1
lomatlo allies, defaulted on payments
(Continued on Page Six) ; ,
Post Planning
To Fly Around
; The World Alone
DAYTON, O., June 18 OT A Joint
holder of ..the 'round-the-world record
of eight days, fifteen hours and fifty- ,
one minutes plans to. hop off, from
New York July 1 In a solo flight along
a similar, route- ;i r,A-f-!ii,;m
j Wiley Post, of Oklahoma, who pilot
ed tho airplane Winnie Mae when ha
and Harold Oatty' negotiated a New
York-to-New York trip In 1031 to es
tablish a record for circumnavigating
the globe, announced hla take-off
date when he arrived 'there to have
the rebuilt Winnie Mae equipped with
receiving apparatus for the Journey. -
Although a mechanical pilot will
aid him In guiding the plane, he said
he probably would sleep no more than
00 minutes at each of. his several
stops. ,,,.',... . j
Home of James
Roosevelt Burns
RYE BEACH, N. H June 15 OT
The family of James Roooevelt; son .
of tho president, was staying at the
home of relatives today as the result
of a fire whibhi forced them to mow
from their summer place.
Flames which started yesterday in
an upper story gained headway before ,
firemen from Portsmouth Rye) Beach,
and North Hampton could bring them
under control. Although part of the .
furniture was carried from the 16
room houso by firemen and servants,
damage from, flames and water was
ostlmoed at $6,000. - , '
Today's Baseball
NATIONAL LEAGUE
R. H. B.
Boston 7 0 0
Now York 4 16 ,8
Fatlcnstcln and Hogan: Fltzstm
mons, Spencer, Bell and Mancuso.
R. H. B.
Pittsburgh 0 ' 4 ' 1
Chicago 5 ', 9 ' 1
Smith, Hoyt and Graco; Tinning
and Hartnett.
R. H. B.
Brooklyn 9 9-1
Philadelphia - 3 10 '
Thurston and Lopea: Hansen, Coir
11ns, Plckrel. Llska and Davis. . -AMERICAN
LEAGUE '
New York 6 9 ; 1
Boston 8 11 .3
Allen, Vanatta and Dickey; H.
Johnson, Ellnnd and Ferrell, Oooch.
REPORTER
tional brotherhood. I am a good
Democrat in other words." ,
Packey McFartand, 1705 First street,
"All tariff should be abolished! for
two reasons. Every nation should be
permitted to produce that which It
can produce most efficiently and only
by International trade can this be
dono. Tariff tends to hamper inter
national trade to a- great extent and
ultimately tho consumer pays for
any benefits accrued to Industries,
Secondly, international . misunder
standings result from high tariff.