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Only Newspaber
Printed in La Grande
.: Covering Union and
Wallowa Counties
VOLUME 31
mwmhith AaaOCIATfZD PRESS AND A. B. O.
LA GRANDE, OREGON, THURSDAY, JUNE 22, 1933
EASTERN OIUCGON'g IiKADING WWKPAPKR
NUMBER 248
AGREE TO DEFE1 SlIIIi
femur
Ml W
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Commission Considers Water Problem
PREPARING
PIPE LINE
ESTIMATES
McAllister and Stockman
Working On Beaver
Creek Project.
GROUP REQUESTS
LOWER WATER RATE
City. Will Furnish The
Water For Operation of
Crystal Plunge; Lions
. Pay For Pumping.
Estimates on replacing the Boavcr
creek pipeline from the intake to the
reservoir, are being drawn up by Olty
Manager Angus McAllister and L. R.
'Stockman, of 'Baker, who told mem
bers of the city commission last night
at their meeting at the city hall
that the data will be completed for
presentation at the next meeting of
the group on Wednesday, June 28.
The project Is one of six which are
being worked on by a committee
selected from seven city organizations
and which will .be presented under
the national public works program.
' The project will be submitted to
the vote of the people-at the Bpeclal
election on July 21 and will be ready.
(Continued on Page Eight)
AMERICAN LEGION
HAS 100 MEMBERS
With , the membership in the Am
erican Legion aggregating 100 as the
result of . a recent 'drive, the' post
will hold a "membership feed" to
honor the new legionnaires Friday
evening at 6 o'clock at Riverside park.
It was decided last night when they
met at 8 o'clock at the Bacajowea
Inn: The Dutch lunch will be for
. members of the legion only.
' Action on the Fourth of July cele
bration was not taken lost night but
is expected to be settled tonight at
a meeting of the executlvo board fol-
(Contlnued on Page Slx(
EAGLES ATTEND
BURNS MEETING
' The mixed drill team of the La
Grande aerie of the Eagles lodge,
winners of the district convention
banner for the exhibition drill, left
this morning for the state convention
.at Burns where they plan to com-;
pete for the state banner. ..They plan
to return on Sunday. -l .
' : Those attending the convention are
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Bchultz, Mr. and
Mrs. Frank Anderson, Mr. and Mrs.
Steve Hiatt, Mr. and Mrs. Jake
Clower, Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Hobson,
John Hopkins, John Lambert, Mrs.
Mabel Miller, Mrs. Reba Hough, Mr.
and Mrs. Mike Mnrovlch, Mr. and
Mrs. Ray Patten, Mrs. Erna Giltner,
Mrs. George- Frees and Fred Hof
mann, captain.
LOCAL BOYS
START TOUR
Russell Nelson and Robert Oesterl
Ing are starting east this afternoon,
destination New York City, if their
"campus heop" will - make It. They
carry their pent house with- them
rigged out on the model T Ford.
They plan to visit with relatives
along the way and with Mr. Nelson's
brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and
Mrs. Winchester ' Helcher, if they ar
rive In New York City. .
' They : will ajjso see the World's
fair and scenic spots along their
route.
Both attended the Eastern Oregon
Normal school last year. Mr. Nelson
is the son of Mr. and Mrs. A. W.
Nelson and Mr. Oesterllng's parents
are Mr. and! Mrs. W. E. Oesterllng.
LOCAL PEOPLE
USING MUCH WATER
Llko the boarding house patron, It
oil the water used in La Grande In
one day. were piled up it would reach
and reach and reach. About two mil
lion gallons are used dally, one and
one-half million coming from Beaver
creek and the other one-half million
Is pumped from the city wells.
Two million gallons of water, fig
uring 16 glosses to. the gallon, would
total 32 million glasses of water
used dally In La Orande, or 3073 per
person, using the last census, which
quoted la Or nee as having a popu
WILL
ROGERS
BEVERLY Cel., June 21
Did you read this In the paper .this
morning? There are 800 people (get
that eight hundred) working In the
library of congress.
Dldnt know there . was anybody
there but a watchman. Why that's a
librarian to each book.
Well, the Democrats have found
that there la only 40 of these that
are Democrats. The total salary In
there is 778,360.
So the Democrats figure- there Is
about 1760,000 of this a total- waste
to the country, unless they con get
Democrats In there to help read the
books for the congressmen. " i;
The American dollar Is down to 76
cents abroad. Be a good time to go
over and, buy some, for they are still
worth 1.80, over here. Yours,
RAILROADS WILL
DEFER PROPOSED
WAGE REDUCTION
. WASHINGTON. June 22 UP) Rail
roads have heeded a plea of the ad
ministration to postpone until June
30, 193, a proposed new 13 V4 per
cent pay cut for their workers.
As a result, organized railroad labor
until the middle of next year will,
continue to work on the present
schedule the old basic wage, less
- (Continued on Page Six;
BOYSCOUTSPASS
BOARD OF REVIEW
' Merit badges will be awarded to a
group of eight ' Boy Scouts at the
court of honor to be held during the
middle of July at Pine Cone. The
boys passed the board of review last
night at 7:30 o'clock at the office
of Charles H. Reynolds.
They are Dick Worrell, safety first;
John Brlggs, scholarship; Eugene
Winters, first class and first aid to
animals; Don Brlggs, first , class;
Frederick Loyd, second class; Don
Miller, . second . class; Billy Hesse,
pathfinder: Ray Witherspoon, tender
foot. ' .
Youths Refused
ByC.M.T.C.To
Receive Letters
Hugh E. Brady, agent for Union
ccunty in the public contacts of the
Citizens Military Training camps, has
received a letter from Lieut. Thomas
J. Cross at Vancouver Barracks In
regal d to the reduction of the appro
priation for the camps this year,
making necessary a nearly. 60 per
cent cut In the ranks to be trained
this summer.
The officer in charge says that he
is writing personal letters to every
boy wno wob not accepted this year,
explaining that the boy's failure to
be chosen Is In no way , a discredit
to him, but Is simply due to the
unusual financial circumstances.
He also wishes all boys Interested
to loo!: forward to application for
next, summer's camp which, It Is
hoped, will not be curtailed.
OPEN BIDS ON
IMNAHA ROAD
PORTLAND, June 22 (Special)
Bids will be opened July 6 by W. H.
Lynch, district engineer of the fed
eral bureau of public roads, for grad
ing the Enterprise - Imnaha forest
highway, a distance of B!4 miles. This
project known as the "Sheep Creek
road," was on the program for Im
provement early this spring but was
postponed when unobligated funds
were called In a few weeks ago by
President Roosevelt. These funds have
now been restored to the forest high
way fund.
lation of 8056, as the basis. Natur
ally no one person could drink 3073
glasses of water a day, so a part of It
Is utilized for bathing, washing
clothes, dishes, sprinkling lawns, and
what -not.
If all that water were piled In a
column one square foot In cross
section It would reach approximately
50 miles Into the sky. If the column
should fall, water, a foot In depth,
would cover an area of 360,000 square
feet. Or if piled five feet high It
would cover an average city block.
Degree at 16
Joseph Graves Jr, . Salinas, Cal.,
who entered Stanford University
at 13, has graduated at 18, com-'
pleting the four-year course in
three to get his A, B. degree.
SWIM WEEK WILL
ATTRACT MANY
Swimmers from Cove, Union and
La Orande are expected to receive
Instruction during the annual swim,
week, which opens tonight at 7
o'clock at Cove natntorium. Misses
Myrtle Hoyt and Marguerite Klop
fensteln will have charge of the In
struction In the correct swimming
strokes demonstrated by E. R. Carl
son, representative of the Red Cross,
when be visited in La Grande last
fall. : ;. l. ..-.....
' Instruction will continue every ove
nthgr'xcepBtttuMayftrid '-Suridfvy,--for
10 days. A fee of $1.50 is being
charged to .cover the complete course
of instruction, the entire amount
being used to pay for the swims.
Instruction will be' given in be
ginning. Junior and senior life saving
ancfl swimming.
Those wishing transportation to the
natatorlum are asked to call either
of the instructors.
.
Vegetables And
Fruits to Come
Under Farm Act
WASHINGTON, June 32 ( Ad
ministrators of the farm act have de
cided to apply it to fruits and vege
tables and other special crops which
were not listed as bos to commodities
(Continued on Page Eighty
MITCHELL IS
ACQUITTED
OF CHARGES
Jury Returns Not Guilty
Verdict! After 24-Hour
Deliberation.
MITCHELL IN :'
TEARS AT VICTORY
Free of All Indictments
In Trial For Alleged
.Evasion of Federal In
come Tax I jaws.
NEW YORK, June 33 UP) Charles
E. Mitchell, rormer chairman of the
National Olty bank, was acquitted to
day on all counts in the Indictment
which .charged him with lncoma tax
evasion. The jury took the case at
11:25 a. m., E. S. T. yesterday.
It returned the verdict a little
more than 24 hours lator.
The charges against Mitchell, for
many years one.ofthe most powerful
figures In the banking world, were
briefly that ho had Illegally failed to
(Continued on Page Seven)
G. A. R. OF STATE
SELECTS OFFICERS
FOR NEW YEAR
SALEM, June 22 VP), At an im
pressive ceremony, Henry G. Gates of
Hlllsboro, was today Installed as Ore
gon commander of tho Grand Army
ot thoRepubllow.He succeeds1 James
W. Jones, of Portland. 5 '
The Grand Army men named W. T.
Small, of Corvaills, senior vice com
mander, Delos Carpenter, of Portland,
Junior vice commander and George
(Continued on Pago Seven)
Methodists Hear
Stanley Jones In
Portland Session
PORTLAND, June 2a 0P Metho
dist ministers of Oregon who yester
day were admonished! by their bishop
that there Is no Justification for their
attempting to compete with the pro
fessional "gagj men" of tlie stage and
screen In an attempt to attain popu
larity, continued their sessions here
today as the 81st annual Oregon con-
(Contlmiod on Pago Seven)
THE GATES OF PARADISE
- trt'ljieri
Johnny Lands
For several years, Johnny Goodman, Omaha golfer, lias upset open
and amateur champions to scramble golf dope, and yet Just missed out
on a title himself. He's shown a champ at last, with the trophy he
won in taking the national open in Chicago.
MIDWEST STILL
SWELTERS TODAY
Death Lists Increasing
In Many States As
- Heat Continues.
By The Aftsocatcd Press
' Anotlier day of scorching tempera
turoa and roourtfttifc death lifjta. led.
many necwons 01 nuwuu aj un
tie t pa to with, ferver today promises of
relief from tho heat ware.
New fatalities were reported yester
day to bring: the Wisconsin total up
(Continued on Page Two)
Vines and Helen
Wills Moody Win
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111 LOndOn lVlaijSjEU
i ' n
LONDON, June 22 (P) H. Ells
worth Vines Jr., the American and
Wimbledon champion, -rallied after
dropping the first set today to defeat
A. A. Fyzee, veteran Davis cup player
from India, 0-8. 6-2, 6-3, and Join
three compatriots In an all-America
semi-final round In tho London tcn
nls championships at tho Queen's
(Continued on Pago Two)
the Open Title
Mysterious Fire
Takes Lives Of
4 Near Tacoma
SEATTLE, Wash., June 22 (ff)
Pour persons, a husband and wife
and their two young daughters, were
burned to death early today in a mys
terious fire that destroyed ' a , farm
house in the Hording district in King
count elaht milea east of Tacoma.
" ThM eod 'are t Arthtur tofe its ' febouH
33; Mrs. Vera fitone, hia wife, about
the triune age; Jean, 7,, and Gloria
May, 6, their children.
George Coyne, about 35, Tacoma.
owner of the form, was being detain
ed by doputy sheriffs for question
ing. He sold ho eecaped from the
burning home. "
The Stones lived In Tacoma until
going to Coy no's place as caretakers
three months ago. .'. ""
Owner Is Held V
Coyne was detained by : deputies
"jy appeared at tho farm in a
tlcatx seven hours after the isre.
Coyne was detained by : deputies
Ho told officers the house was In
(Continued on Paeo Seven)
FARMERS GIVEN
JAIL SENTENCES
PR1MGHAR, fowa, June 22 (P)
Jugo Earl Peters today sentenced
20 Northwest Iowa farmers to one day
In Jail and a flno of (50 for partici
pation in a riot during a farYn mort
ignge foreclosure sale at O'Brien
county courthouse here April 27.
- Some of the 20 admitted during
their trial two weeks - ago before
JudKs Peters that they also were
members of tho group which went to
Lcmars, southwoBt of here, and drag
ged Judge C. C. Bradley from his
court room, carried him Into the
(Continued on Page Six)
U. P. toMeet2-Cent
Fare Competiton
OMAHA, Neb., June 22 (A) Al
though, no definite plans have been
made, officials of the Union Pacific
system today said they will "meet
the competition" of two other rail
roads that havo announced An ex
perimental passenger rate of two
cents a mile on one way tickets,
"Wo plan to apply for a similar
rate at points where wo compete with
the Santa Pe and the Southern Pa
cific,", said one authoritative spokes-
Wheat Today
CHICAGO, June 22 VP) Air the
grain markets were bro;td affairs to
day, with rushes of buying meeting
with heavy profit-taking sales, but
prices averaging higher and breaking
records.
Wheat come within a cent of reach
ing 90 cents a bushel, as compared
with highest previous quotations this
season of Wi cents. Today's acme
for wheat, 89 cents was attained on
tho purchase of 100,000 bushels of
May wheat, fordelivery! next year.
Transactions In May wheat were ex
ceptional and trading in that deliv
ery almost a year In advance was
unusual. Closing quotations on suly,
September and December, were firm,
unchanged to v, higher compared
with yesterday's finish, corn unchang
ed to c off, oats Mt$ra up and
provisions varying from 7 cents de
clino to an equal advance.
JUST BEFORE
PRESSTIME
ANOTMf.lt WAGE INCREASE
CHERRY GROWERS SET PRICE
v.j
FOUR DIE IN NAZI RAID
MITCHELL NOT. THROUGH YET
NEW YORK. June 21 W - A ten
per cent wage increase for household
lighting fixture fiutory workers
throughout the United States was
voted todny by the wholesale lighting
fixture manufacturers division of the
Lighting Fixture Merchants associa
tion. The increase will affect be
tween 25,000 and 30,000 employw.
WENATCHEE, Wash.. June 23 m
Seventy-five Wenatehee valley cherry
growers will not (market a cherry at
a loss this year, they agreed at a mass
meeting last night called In on effort
to see that an equitable price Lb paid.
Five to seven cents a pound was the
price mentioned for Royal Amies and
six and eight centa for black cherries.
BERLIN, June 82 Four deaths,
including u ttulcide resulted today
from a midnight apartment searching
expedition by storm troopers In the
suburb of Koepeiilolc, One nazl and
an unidentified man were kDled when
shots were fired and another nazl died
later from bullet wounds.
WASHINGTON, June 22 (P) -Attorney
General Oummlngs sold today
the, fact that Charles E. Mitchell hod
been acquitted In New York of, tax
evasion oharges did not' change the
duty of the department with respect
to the prosecution of such charges
and that it would continue this ac
tivity, .
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PUBLICWORKS
PLAN TAKING
FORMQUICKLY
WASHINGTON;. ' June' 22 (P) '
President Roosevelt's public works
board today informed the nation that
"we are proceeding as rapidly as pos
sible" to set flowing the $3,300,000,000
appropriated for construction activi
ties by congress.
An official statement said "ah effi
cient organisation" Is being set up
to carry out the program for which
funds were provided In the industrial
recovery bill.
Secretary Ickes, chairman of the
cabinet board, will be in charge. Un
der him will be tho public works
administrator.
Colonel Dona let H, Sawyer, the
present temporary administrator, to-
, (Continued on Page Eighty
OPPOSE COLLIER
IN REVISION OF
INDIAN SCHOOLS
WASHINGTON, June 22 P Op
position from congressional spokes
men of various states today was said
In authoritative sources to be vir
tually blocking efforts or John Col
lier, new Indian commissioner, to
ro -organ 1kg the school system for In
dian chlldron.
Collier himself declined to com
ment, but It was understood that
plans for closing boarding schools are
(Continued on Page Six)
President's Yacht
Continuing Cruise
PORTSMOUTH, N. H., June 22 iff)
President Roosevelt sailed out of,
Little harbor shortly before noon to
day after a visit with his 14 -months
old granddaughter, Sara Delano
Roosevelt.
. Arrival at Portland harbor was ex
pected In the early evening. There
John and Franklin D. Jr., younger
sons of tho president will Join the
crew and complete the trip up the
coast to Campobello Island, N. B., site
of tho Roosevelt summer home.
! INQUIRING
Each day as the Inquiring Reporter makes the rounds two persons
I win no Biropncti at ninuom on mo Bireoi earner una uirq nni i
I question of the day. Through the court eny of Manager C. M. Wight L
J each Interviewed will be granted two complimentary ticket to the g
J Mhrrty Theatre. The current attraction 1 Lee Tracy In "The
I Nil tenure". I
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England has paid $10,000,000 on
her war debt to tho United States,
acknowledging her obligation. Presi
dent Roosevelt stated In a recent
news reel at the Liberty theotro that
the United States would be willing
to negotiate at a conference at the
While Houso later in the summer
with debtor countries as guests.
' Buck Anderson, 3705 North Second
street, suys: "I bellovo the war debts
should bo paid and If countries are
nut ablo to pay now somo plan
AMERICA TO
LET DOLLAR
SEEK LEVEL
Delegates Receive Fresh
. Instructions; Gold
1 Bloc Gives In.
AVERT COLLAPSE
OF CONFERENCE
U. S. Insists Stabilized
Dollar Would Cause a
Violent Recession in
Commodity Prices.
By p. o. Vmburgh
(Associated Frees Staff Writer)
LONDON, June 22 m Th Am.
erloan delegation to the world eco.
nomlo oonf erence said In a statement
today that the United States gown
menu feels currency stabilization now
wou)d be untimely and possibly would
"cause a violent price recession" to
the detriment of the conferences. -
The statement tsald that "undue
emphasis" had been placed upon pro
posais for temporary, stabilization, and
asserted this' matter was never an af
fair of the delegation itself but rath
or of the' treasury and the central
banks of the United States, Ore
Britain and ftance. , . .
To siaise traces
.The American government, thai
statement oontinued, feels "that Itm
efforts to mlse prices are the most
important contribution Itt can make."1
Simultaneously with the publica
tion of the American statement U
was authoritatively said that the con-
(Continued cl Page Two).
629,000 PERSONS
RETURN TO WORK
WASHINGTON, Juno 33 VP) Una
American Federation of Labor says
that 628,000 persons went back to
work in April and ;u smaller but
as yet undetermined number in
May. , ... , j ..'' :-::,J;;;j"
Any further, progress, the federa
tion said, must depend upon. the ex
tent to which the purchasing power
of the laborer Is increased,' -v
In 'April, unemployment was' said
to have decreased -from 13,369,000 to
13,730,000, or 4.8 per cent of those
out of work regaining Jobs. ,
"Trade union reports for May show
another gain, not so large. This la
the most significant' of all busmess
gains reported this spring; It Is the
-largest since depression began,
"But unless employment gains more
than this it will take nearly two
yeare to got the unemployed back to
work and business cannot wait two
years." ' '. ' '
To provide the necessary purchas
ing power, the federation places most
hope In the national : recovery act,
which it describes as ''tho most ad
vanced and forward looking legisla
tion for recovery yet proposed.".. ,
Today's Baseball
NATIONAL LEAGUE
B. H. B.
St. Louis 3 14 1
Philadelphia B 14 i
Mooney, Johnson and Wilson,
O'Pnrroll; Holley and Davis.
B. H, B.
Pittsburgh 0 4.3
Brooklyn - 9 11 3
Mettle, Hoyt, Chagnon and Padden;
Bcnge and Lopez.
R. H. B,
Cincinnati 0 6 1
New York '. 4 6 0
Lucas and Lombardl; Hubbell and
Mancuso
B. H. B.
Chicago - 17 1
Boston 3 11 0
Bush, OrlmcB and Hartnett: Brandt
and Bpohror. i
REPORTER i
should be laid down whereby they
could pay inter. . Howover, the war
debt question should be settled be'
cause it is constantly bringing on
more difficulties, financial and other
wise. The present unsettled condi
tion will persist until something la
dono about them."
Mrs. J. P. Stalcup, Fourth and Ad
ams, believes "The war debts should
be paid because they, are an obliga
tion that tho people of the United
States can not afford to have repudiated."