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About La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959 | View Entire Issue (June 17, 1933)
(Bfarrtrcr WEATHER FORECAST Oregont. Generally fair tonight and I Sunday. MUle change In tempera- , I lure. Local weather Friday: Max 78, mln SB, partly cloudy. Today: Mill J I 61 at 7 q. m. BO, clear. i mmmmmmmmmmmmmmK,mmmmmmmmJ . Only Newspaper Printed in La Grande , f- J Cqverintf Union and Wallowa Counties . I........ VOLUME 31 m km mat associatkd puna and a. m. t i GRANDE, OREGON, SATURDAY, JUNE 17, 1933 ASTERN OREGON'S liMADWO tTBWBPAPEB NUMBER 244 INITIATED PfilMM DeLong New Head ANNOUNCE HONORATBIG PICNIC HERE Farmers Picnic Friday ' Attended by Hundreds Of Valley People. BROWN SURVEYS DAIRY INDUSTRY Ballard, County Agent Leader, Brings Report of Improved Condition in the East. Ernest H. DeLong, . ' prominent Grande Rondo valley farmer, presi dent and manager of the Grande Ronde Co-operation creamery was elected president of the board of di rectors of the Interstate Associated Creameries at a recent meeting ac cording to an announcement made yesterday at the Joint picnic of the Co-operative Creamery association and the Union County Grain Growers. The news was enthusiastically re ceived, for his fellow dairymen. In his own home valley were confident that It was a responsibility well plac ed and that DeLong merited the hon or. Another Eastern Oregon man, M. Thomas, of Redmond, was elected vice president. The board which DeLong heads Is composed of 60 members, 45 of whom are active dairymen, repre senting a membership of 6000, while .the other IS members are from other businesses of varied types. The new president was master of ceremonies at yesterday'3 picnic with 600 people being served at the din ner at noon, and remaining for the program of addresses, andjnuslo - In the afternoon. D. A. Brown, manager of the In terstate Associated Creameries, gave something of the present status of (Continued on Page Two) CIRCUS IN TOWN TODAY; WEATHER IDEAL FOR SHOW Wheeeeeo! Today Is circus day. Since about 7:30 this morning when the circus train pulled into the yards eyes have been dancing, and kids shouting, "I Just saw the tall man I I saw 14 elephants and were they ever hugel" Everybody is' going to the circus, many this afternoon and the others will turn out tonight for the Al o. Barnes show at 8 o'clock at Oak and Jefferson streets. The circus came from Ontario, where It exhibited yesterday, the first of the three long trains coming in shortly after 7:30. It seemed as if half of La Grande was on the spot to meeting the incoming gaudily (Continued on Page Four) BOWMAN-HICKS MEN IN WOODS The Bowman-Hicks Lumber com pany is already employing about 60 men In the woods, according to word from H. N. Ashby this morning in prQaratlon for the opening of the sawmill about the first of July. Logging operations are now being carried on in Wallowa county, he said, and a crew of men Is building a road in the woods east of Elgin in preparation for logging there. . Mr. Ashby could not state the ex act date on which the sawmill will open here, but said It would bo very near, the first of July. The opening of this mill will Klve emolovment to nearly 160 men, which will be of material tffneflt to the community. TRICK ROPING EASY FOR CLANCY With a good natured grin, a Texas drawl and a well-trained roping hand. Fred M. Clancy Jr., 28-year-old trick rider and roper, has appeared In ro deos and horse shows throughout the south and west during the past 12 years. In between Jobs he roams about seeing the country and It is one of these between-show trips that brought him to La Grande whore he is stopping at the Arthur McCall farm near the city. The young showman Is the son of Fred M. "Foghorn" Clancy Sr., of Fort Worth, himself a rodeo promoter who has arranged some of the biggest WILL ROGERS BEVERLY HILLS, Oal., June 18 Have seen three brand new pictures. There Is an epidetmlo of every fe male In every new picture now to try and act like Mae West In. "She Done Him Wrong." So If you can't see all the new pictures, why,' Just go see Mae's and then you will have seen 'em all. They even got toe going around saying "You can be had." - Give a big hand to little Finland, The only one to pay all she was sup posed to. So In picking, up hitch hikers along the road, give preference to any one of Finnish descent. The slogan Is, "Haul nothing but Finns all the way; Englishman, a 10th of the way, but a Frenchman, a Pole, a Czecho-Slovaklan or a Belgian, let 'em take a bus. Yours, ih. fa- EXPECTING GOOD ATTENDANCEFOR SUMMER QUARTER Many Teachers Will Take Advantage of Advanced Work at Eastern Ore gon Normal ; , Everything Is in readiness at the Eastern Oregon Normal school for. the opening of the summer, quarter next Monday, June 10, It Is announced from the office of the registrar, Miss Helen Moor. . . . ; Numerous Inquiries Indicate an ac tive enrollment of teachers In the field who wish to take advantage of the opportunity for professional study and. recreation during the summer term. In addition, a considerable number of undergraduate studente will continue through the summer to complete the requirements toward (Continued on Page Four) P. D. Q. Club Will Affiliate With Pi Delta Kbppa The former P-. D. Q. club will be installed as Oregon Epsllon chapter of PI Delta Kopps, national social non-academic Greek letter fraternity, tonight at 6 o'clock at the Sacaja wea Inn, with about 20 dignitaries of other chapters in the west In at tendance. Installation will be fol lowed at 8 o'clock by a banquet, also at the Sacajawea, and a dance at 0 o'clock at Zuber -hall. William J. Hogan,- of Stockton, Cal.V, grand notional president, who was feted widely while In Portland (Contlnuod on Pago Two) Five Candidate Seek Election To School Board 1 MRS. NORMAN FREES Possessing a very considerable knowledge of child education and welfare as well as known business generalship and clear understand ing of school problems both as pi entj and former teacher. Successful leader of vorlous community or ganizations. DR. JOSEPH L. INGLE Successful In his own , business and successful In his connections with other business, both public and private. Has served In thest with merit In school board activi ties and therefore a ready trained, thorough, complete under standing to meet problems that will confront the board.. Likewise (Continued On Page Four) shows of the south. Candy Hammer. Hort Campbell, Bassett B'.akely, Al Ohase. and other names that are well-known to exhibition riders and ropers, are among Mr. Clancy's list of employes. In 1928. he roped the second fastest calf ever roped In the United States, his official time being 11 2-5 seconds. During the same week, Johnny Bow man established the world's record at Hupup, Cal., roping a calf In 11 sec onds, two-fifths of a second shorter than Mr. Clancy's record. (Continued On Page Pour) Ot Interstate Associated Creameries TRUCK OWNERS ORGANIZE TO FIGHT BILL Local Operators Oppose Exhorbitant Fees of New Legislation. GROUPS FORMING ALL OVER STATE Northwest Association of Highway Contractors is Filing Suit to Prevent Operation of Law. At a meeting of the truck owners and operators of this vicinity held! In the La Grande hotel Thursday evening, a group of well Informed men from Western Oregon explained many features of the new bus and truck legislation and showed how It will affect the various classes of trucks. . The result of the meeting was the formation of a local branch of the Truck Owners and. -Farmers Protec tive association, which Is organiz ing branches throughout the state. (Continued on Pas Four 31 GET HONORS IN SPRING TERM Thirty-one students, fourteen men and seventeen women, have their names on the scholarship honor roll of the Eastern Oregon Normal school for the spring term. Harry Dawson, of 'Joseph: -next year's student body president. leads the list with eighteen hours of A 'a. Robert Bakln, of La Grande,' carrying sixteen hours, like wise has no grade below A. Others receiving grades of A and, B (Continued on Page Four) Will Hold Scout Summer Camp At Wallowa Again A general summer camp for Boy Scouts will be held at Wallowa Lake in August, and announcement was made this morning of the final board of reviews and court of honor which will be held before the .boys leave for their outdoor trip. The board of reviews will be held Monday eve ning at 7:30 in the offices of Charles Reynolds. The court of honor will be held during the middle of July at Pine Cone, the exact date to be set later. o We are Oi a time of strict economy in all Hines of business, and particularly the public's Dusiness city, county, state and national affairs. Public offices, departments and in stitutions must be operated along most rigid lines of economy the same as is necessary for private businesses to survive yet the public institutions must continue O serve its public to the highest extent of efficiency and purpose possible. O In La Grande at the present moment there exists in the city schools the need of most care ful manipulation of thorough business policies. La Grande schools must continue to serve to the fullest extent the needs of education, yet give that service on the most scarcely provided budget of expense ever faced in the history of the community. Next Monday the citizens of La Grande will select at the polls from a group of five pro posed, three candidates to join with two hold overs in the manipulation of school affairs for the coming terms. This newspaper believes that probably at no other time in the history of school operation in the city of La Grande has Here's the Infant Ward, With the Coyote' Wild Doc Stork has been so busy around the Flelsh backer Zoo1 at Ban Francisco, that attendants just gathered up the babies of carnlverous fam ilies lor convenience in handling.' The. baby lions. Jaguars and tigers, seem contented enough, but the coyote puppy sole canine of the lot seems determined to leave the cat ward. .,:' X.FfT :'f A A.' .V 'i. V'. . BILL OF SALE CASE IS SETTLED OUT OF COURT The case of Arthur Bruce vs. Oscar Ayars and M. J. Goss for return of an automobile In the letter's posses-, slon, and scheduled to come before Judge J, W. Knowles In the circuit court yesterday afternoon was set tled Vout of court," Bruce this morn-, lng showed papers where the defend ants of his suit had relinquished the oar to him) and likewise, released notes which Ayars, Clarence John son and F. A. Ingram were acquitted previously by the grand Jury of a charge of having extorted Bruce to sign. . i . , - This case, In which M. J. Goss, lo cal auto dealer figured simply as the place' of Business "whore the other defendant had placed the car, grew out of a cose which has occupied considerable attention . of late In which Bruce charged Ayars, Ingram and Johnson had forced him to sign certain papers in connection with a power plant installation by the com pany which Bruce represents. ' (Continued on Pago Throe) MISS GAVIN HERE MONDAY Miss Jane D. Gavin, executive sec retary of the Oregon State Graduate Nurses association, will pass through La Grande on the Portland Rose next Monday morning,' and will be greet ed at the Depot by her sister, Mrs. Charles Gump and a group of friends. Mlsa Gavin Is a delegate to the In ternational congress of nurses In Paris and Brussels, July 10 to 15. She Is a former La Grande resident. For Harmony, Efficiency and Business-like Conduct of La Grande's School Affairs Let Every Qualified Citizen Cast a Vote In Monday' 8 School Election 1 VV fV 1 -M Normal School Annual Is Ready r For Distribution An interesting and. attractive rec ord of student activities at the East ern Oregon Normal school Is given In the 1033 EON, which has Just been received from the press and. Is ready for' distribution, I The volume is bound in an ivory valour cover with an artistic cover design, and Is dedicated to "that in tangible quality known as school spirit, which is evidenced by the pur poses, activities, and achievements of the school to which it belongs."- Photographer of student groups and accompanying comment make on in teresting story of events' of the year. ' - Darin Poor oh. is the editor and Roy .Kelson, business manager. Miss Thel lia4 -Wnaley, . director; of wWtv the 'Normal school, is faculty adviser. The normal school office announces tliat local students may receive their copies of the annual by calling dur ing regular office hours. DOG CATCHER IS ON THE JOB NOW Before most La Granders were out this morning, W. B. Evans, dog catcher, had Impounded five dogs, three Llewellyn setters and two pointers, who were running the streets in violation of the city law requiring aUvdogs to be licensed and to be kept at home during the hours from 6 in the evening until 8 In the morning. The escriptlon of the dogs is posted at the city hall, and they will bo kept at the pound for three days giving their owner an opportunity to claim them. there been a greater necessity for harmony and complete understanding of school and child education problems upon the part of the school board membership. Matte of grave import ance in best conduct of our city schools under a necessitated slim budget will require not only this harmony and understanding but clear, careful business judgment as well that will give to the community the best school service possible. With this feeling, this newspaper believes it expresses the hope of every interested citizen of the community that candidates be selected at Monday's election who will have received the careful consideration of every one going to the polls. That the qualifications arfd characteris tics of each candidate will be carefully studied and decision reached in each voter's mind that in giving the vote to the individuals of their, selection, that they will have cast a vote for harmony and efficiency in manipulation of school af faira bound to keep the educational fa cilities of this community in complete step with the new progress of the times. in KELSO FLOOD DRIVES MANY FROM HOMES KELSO, Wash., June 17 (P) The dangers of disease, together - with losses through the looting of aban doned homes, were added - today to the flood menace, and 1500 persons remained homeless. : While the waters of the Coweemnn river still poured through a broken dike onto a flooded area of 600 acres in the city's suburban areas, sewers backed up Into the residential and business, districts. The waters, which first swept over the area two days ago, , still -remained high. , - A warning to-persons not-to use water without, boiling, for fear of contamination, was Issued last night by Dr. A. P. V. Davis. ... Meanwhile, the necond night passed with less looting than on the pre vious night, when thieves who made their way about in boats, stole ra dlos, washing machines and other valuable articles left behind In their homes, when the owners fled. A force of 75 jnen, aided by six state highway patrolmen, guarded the area during the night. The repairs to the 120-foot section of the dike which gave way proceed ed slowly. A crew of 100 men were at work, and) piling was being driven while trucks dumped rock and grav el Infy the gap as filler. i State ' Sanitary Superintendent NlRhtlncale, of Olympia, was at work with relief agencies, .co-operating with city health officers. The 1600 homeless were being taken care of In the high school, In tents on high ground, and In prlvato homes. JIMMY MATTERN LOST TO WORLD ON THIRD DAY NOME, Alaska. June 17 WV-The third day brought no word of the fate of Jlmmle Mattern, globe-glrd-llng airman lost on the trans-Pa-ciflo leg of his world flight from Khabarovsk, Siberia, but Alaska air-, men said that was not unusual In flying in the far north. , . They reviewed the perils of the long 3600-mile flight, much of It over water, but they also pointed to the difficulty of communications had he made a forced landing anywhere along the Aslatlo coast, In the Aleu tians, or on the shores fringing the Bering sea. with the "Century of Progress". reported by him to have been In "fine shape" before taking off on Wednes day at 2:30 p. m. (E. s. T.), mechan ical trouble was not feared. Ice forming on the wings was his great est menace, but It was also brought forward that his gas supply was great enough to take his plane dou ble the dUtonce of the hop, 'had he remained) aloft. A Japanese wireless station at Tok yo was getting in touch with small fishing vesselB and settlements along the Aslatlo coast, and powerful wire less stations In Alaska were doing the same. At Walla Walla, Wash., also, his wife remained confident. , "Deep down, I don't foel that any disaster has overtaken Jlmmle," she said.'..: - . :.; , ,. '. ,i OFFICERS SLAIN IN KANSAS CITY BANDIT ATTACK fcV KANSAS CITY, Juno 17 (P) Four officers wore slain by machine gun tire and another was ' wounded, in front of the Union station here to day - by gunmen who ' apparently sought to ef feat the release of Frank Nash, i Oklahoma mall train robber being returned to Leavenworth fed eral prison.' ,. ' ' i. ft c -.' :' NashL, one of the lew surviving :members ot tho Al "Spencer gung'of .train robbers, also, died In the hall of bullets. The killers fled in one or more automobiles after pouring a murder ous fire Into parked car which the officers and their - prisoner were boarding Just south of the east door of the station. Accounts differed as to the number of men In the killers' party. One wit ness said he saw only two men. Another reported the firing ' came from two automobiles, and some of ficers expressed the belief four men were Involved. The assailants fled west, but elud ed police cars which rushed to the (Continued on Page Three) Idaho Court Rules Against All Liquor BOISB, Ida., June 17 W) The state supreme court today ruled that beer, near beer or any kind of malt, ylnous, fermented or splrltous liquors are Illegal In Idaho. Who, Why, When And Where of the School Election WHO can vote In Monday's school election? Everyone over 21, a resident of the school district for 30 days. It ' is not necessary to be a registered v' voter. WHY should a vote bo cast? It should be the Intercut of every citizen of the community to give his or her voice on the ballot to the end that particularly at this tlmo candidates be selected for the promotion of best harmony of op eration and business management that can be effected In La Grande ' city schools. WHKN must the vote be cast? Polls will be open from 2 to 7 o'clock In the afternoon. Will-; It K will the voting be done? Persons living on the south side . of Jefferson avenue will vote at the Central school; those living on the north side of Jefferson avenue at the Greenwood) school. j INQUIRING Each day as the Inquiring Reporter makes the rounds two persons will be stopped at random on the street corner and asked soma question 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 is Richard Daithelmess In "Central Airport", The shortest cut to restoration of the economlo balance, Henry Ford ays. Is the elimination ot the "dole system," and one of the quickest ways to eliminate the dole Is to "get rid of the Reconstruction Finance corporation." Edwin Klrby, 002 O avenue, says, "I do not agrco. The Reconstruction Finance corporation Is one of the greatest aids In getting the country out of the depression. It Is not a SEEK SHORT HOURS fflTII LIVING WAGE President Calls on Big ; Business and Industry To Give Employment ASKS PUBLIC CO-OPERATION Purchasing Power Must Be Increased Before. Prices Rise in Order toi Benefit Most WASHINGTON, June 17 WV-President Roosevelt Intends to put all . the Immediate . emphasis- ot the ln dustrlal control program' on rlw-', tlon ot working hours with payment of a ."living wage" for the shortened: labor week. - ' - . This purpose was Indicated clearly In a publlo statement, Issued Just . before starting on his New England vacation, in which he coupled the declaration that the bill's purpose was ."to put people back to work, with an urgent request that Industry forego quick profits and devote It self to Increasing the country's pur- , chasing power before- raising -prices. Limitation of working hours- and Job spreading 1 to be an . Integral -part of the Industrial codes under which the government will let relat ed businesses oo-operate without In terference from the anti-trust laws. Eventually, the- presUtent- said,- he wants to use the law "to plan: for a better future" but the first emer gency Job la- going- to be "to t many hundreds of, thousands, ol the (Continued on Pag Tbrst) ' PRESIDENT TO . -TAKE VACATION :'": :-yl - BOSTON, June 17 (P) President Roosevelt, vaoatl on-bound, arrived In Boston by train this morning. -, He remained briefly for breakfast and -then prepared to travel by automo ' bile to Orotoii, about 40 miles dis tant, where he planned to visit hut . son, Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., who graduated from the . Groton . school yesterday. ; v After his vlttlt at Groton, the pre Ident motors to Marlon, Mass., wher he boarc'B the yacht Amberjack IX. He starts at dawn on Sunday on his sailing cruise with his own crew up the coast he knew of other years. The trip will last two weeks. . :r James Roosevelt accompanies him from the start with two friends, George Brlggs and John Cutter,: of , Boston. At Portland, Me., next Fri day, after school Is out, Franklin Jr. and John Join the president as a part of the crew. Mr. Roosevelt hopes to navigate ' the ship, as he has in former dsys, -but he admitted that he might be sleeping much of the tlme. It was 1 along this same rock-bound sea coast that Roosevelt as a boy of 14 first ' skippered bis own first vessel. ; .Ha knows the swell of the sea here and ,. he knows his goal Campobello Island, N. B., the family summer ground near the tip of Maine.' , Twelve years ago this summer Franklin Roosevelt, defeated, . canctl- , (Continued on Page Three) Wheat Today CHICAGO. June 17 VP) In a rush of selling, wheat prices tumbled al most two cents a bushel today, but. lator recovered In full. A majority of tradors construed the processor tax play as bearish1, but a flood of crop damage reports from spring wheat territory both north and south ot the Canadian boundary . led afterward to rallies. Estimates Indicated the 1933 Canadian spring wheat crop would be less than har vested Inst year. Wheat closed firm at the same as yesterday's finish to o higher, compared with yesterday's fUUsh, corn sl(4o up, oata lVi&iy&o ad- i vanced, and provisions varying from a cents decline tor a cents gain. REPORTER dole because the money Is being used for public utilities as a means of relieving unemployment." Mrs. Ed Q, Rlcsland, 1808 West street, agrees also that the Recon struction Finance corporation Is a commendable project; she says: ."It creates employment for many men and they can make a living without having tho nvoney handed to them outright," ... i
