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Printed in La Grande I
Coveiinj? Union and
Wallowa Counties
VOLUME 31
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PIUSM AJfD A. B. U,
LA GRANDE, OREGON, FRIDAY, JUNE 23, 1933
EASTERN OREGON'S LEADING NEWSPAPKIH
NUMBER 249
WOULD M
EET MAKING FEOGflffiSS
i. . i . 1 r , -r - ; n 1 i ' ,
i
s
State Bank Plan
TRANSAMERICA
PLANS OREGON
BANK SYSTEM
Expect to Extend Branch
Banking Outside of -.-City
of Portland. '
NEGOTIATING FOR
ADDITIONAL BANKS
Would Give OregoniBank
System Similar tq bank
of America Chain in
California.
- By Walter Warren
Associated Press Financial Writer
SAN FRANCISCO, June 23 VP)
Transamerlca corporation revealed
plans today to , build a state-wide
brunch banking system throughout
Oregon. .
The disclosure came from John M.
Grant, president of, Transamerlca, In
-the course of comment on the
acquisition of the American National
bank of ; Portland. Grant virtually
admitted negotiations have beenl well
advanced for acquisition of other; In
stitutions In various Oregon cities.
After explaining the main points in
the American National acquisition by
the First National bank of Portland,
a Transamerlca unit, Grant forecast
continued, expansion when he said:
"Since' the passage .-of -the". Oregon'
(Continued oh Page SlxV
Members of Game
Commission Stop
Here Yesterday
Members of the state fish ' and
game commission 'passed through La
Grando yesterday en route to Wal
lowa county where they spent the
day Inspecting conditions, there.
While In the city they calledi on
J. H. Peare and other local citizens.
Ex-State Senator Burt Parrell, of
Portland, has Just returned from the
Orient. He Is now a member of the
commission, but Mr. Peare recalls
when he and the former senator, both
track men, ran In races at the Mult
nomah Athletic club.
Matt Byckman, head of the fish
department; Carl Sllven, game com
missioner, of Baker: and Ernie
Crockett, of Portland, office man
ager, were other members " of the
party.
i PHILHARMONIC
CHOIR IS COMING
The Philharmonic" choir of Willamette-
University, Salem, Ore., which
Is coming to La Grande on June 30
is one of the outstanding singing
organizations on the Pacific coast
and Is known throughout the North
west by' Its weekly radio programs
over the Portland station. The choir
will appear In La Grande under the
auspices of the Methodist church to
help finance the Epworth League In-
(Continued on Page Six)
KIDDLE ON
AIR TONIGHT
Word was received here today that
oenawjr j-rea B. Kiddle, of Union
county, president of the senate, will
deliver an address In defense of the
sales tax over radio station KQW7 to
night at 9:46.
EAST OREGON
WAS BANDlVcENTER
Quantrell, the guerrilla leader who
ravaged many towns In Kansas dur
ing the Civil war. Prank and Jesse
James, the Cole brothers, the Younger
brothers legends to present day
Eastern, Oregonians. but a reality to
old timers In this section, according
to an old timer who now makes his
home In Wena tehee. Wash. After the
Civil war, he says, Quantrell and a
group of his men spent their Uvea
around Eastern Oregon and Washing
ton. He even declares that the rob
bery of the North Held, Minn,, bank
WILL.
ROGERS
r5gys:
' BEVERLY HILLS, Cal., Juno 22
There la one line of bunk that this
country falls for and always has, "We
are ljoklng to America for leadership
during the conference.' She has a
great moral responsibility.!' ' '
And we, like a big simp, Just eat It
up. Our delegates swell out their
chesta and really believe that the
world is Just hanging by a thread
and the American delegates control
that thread. ' '
Why, they didn't discover us till
1492. And the world had 'had, 1492
wars and -1492 peace and economlq
conferences. All before we .was ever
heard of.
England controls all the oceans,
half the land, over half the world's
international commerce. Prance la no
babe In arms. Japan and Russia are
of age. Yet It's America they kid
Into thinking she Is the whole cheese.
. Yours, ; .
' 111. K.HMrtl " :
PRIZE PAINTING
COMES HERE FOR
PUBLIC LIBRARY
Awarded to Mrg. Moss
man in Recognition of
Her Efforts On, Behalf
Of Art in Oregon, f "'.
--'' ; ' ' ' tiKWHciv
For more than 30 years activity In
fostering an appreciation of art In
Oregon, a former La Grande woman
has been honored and the public
library here has been named' as the
proper setting for the fine picture,
"Snow Clad Maples", by Harold D.
Marsh, Portland artist. The ' paint
ing has been purchased With Ore
gon's Penny Art Fund and awarded
to Mrs. E. P. Mossman, now of Amity,
and at her request will be. hung In
(Continued on Pane Six)
SMALL GIRL HIT
BY AUTOMOBILE
June Pyle." seven-year-oid daugh
ter of Howard Pyle, 1804 U Avenue,
sustained a broken ankle and body
bruises when she was hit by an auto
mobile Wednesday evening on the
Island City highway near the Mt.
Emily Mill. She was taken to the
Orande Ronde hospital for x-ray and
medical treatment. -
A. R. Huffman, of Boring, was the
driver of the automobile that struck
the girl. City police Investigated and
found the accident to be unavoid
able, Mr. Huffman was coming Into
La Grande and the girl ran out from
behind two cars that were going the
opposite direction. She was under
the wheels before the automobile
could stop. '
20 ENROLL IN
SWIM CLASSES
The annual Red Cross swim week
opened last night with 20 potential
mermaids and mermen enrolled for
the 10-day course In swimming and
life saving. Instruction will con
tinue dally, except Saturday and
Sunday, for 10 days uncter the direc
tion of Misses Myrtle Hoyt and Mar
guerite Klopfensteln. Classes open
at 7 o'clock at the Cove natator turn,
.'instruction Is given In breast, back,
side and crawl strokes.
Frank Tyler Is taking a truck to
Cove every evening and the Instruc
tors announce -that there Is room
for about 16 or 30 additional persons
who arc Interested In swim week.
waa plotted in Eastern Oregon by
part of that old guerrilla band.
Quantrell. following the Civil war,
came to Walla Walla, Wash., where
he took the name of Tim Burgess
and ' for years ran a saloon. , The
former guerrilla leader later joined
the Baptist church and became quite
a devout member of that organiza
tion but told other members that he
was unable to become entirely at
peace with his "Maker", owing to the.
(Continued on Page Six)
Revealed
BUSINESS
EXPANSION
CONTINUES
Seasonal Influences 'Fail
To Interrupt Progress
Of Economic Gains.
employment and
Wages increasing
Consumer Trade Extends
To New Markets Each
Week as Buying Power
Gradually Improves.
NEW YORK, June 23 11- Busi
ness In the past week continued Its
expansion, wholly unaffected by sea
sonal Influences, said the . Dun 6c
Bradstreei review today. , . ,
Expected hesltonoy from uncertain
ties regarding the application of com
modity processing taxes, the agency
asserted, was not apparent In manu
facturing schedules which were gen
erally above those of a week; ago..
"The broadened sweep at whloh
trade Is now progressing," continued
the review, "Is eliciting astonishment
from even the most time-worn veter
ans of Industry, as the sustained
strength of the. upswing 'has passed
boldly beyond even the most sanguine
expectations. ;
' "The further -widening of employ
ment and, the continued rising trejid
of wages form' tha base' of h larger
(Oontlnued on Page Biz)'
Sharp Increase
In Lumber Trade
Felt Last Week
PORTLAND, Ore., June 23 (iF) A
sharp Increase in new business for
the week ending; June 17 was report
ed today by the Western Pine asso
ciation. The new business! amounted
to '62,243,000 feet about 8 per cent
above the three-year weekly average
for June, xnd 22 per cent greater
than the previous week. During the
week 73 of the 11B member mills
were In operation..
Shipments for- the week are 60,260,
000 feet, and production 43,250,000
feet, putting production at 81.8 per
cent of .capacity as compared, with
30.1 per cent for the previous week,
and 14 per cent for the year to date.
Current orders' were 46 per cent of
sawmill capacity.
TIMES
1
' 'y..i Kiss, '"(yy r . "
fyjr QHE VOUMG HECO WINMIMG THE 1
rflK I HANI? OF THE FAIR LADY AMP
AMERICA'S ENVOYS AT ECONOMIC
.. , '.. ....J .. . - ' NEA Bnrvlco Telephott
Presenting the American delegation to the world economic conference, as It arrived In Plymouth, England.
Picture by steamer to Now York, arid by telephoto to San Francisco, shows, left to right: "Key Plttman,
Nevada, chairman Senate foreign affairs committee; Cordell Hull, secretary of state; Sam D, Reynolds,
Tennessee, chairman House foreign affairs committee; Ralph Morrison, Texas.
LA GRANDE COMPANY JOINS
IN BRIGADE MANEUVERS
DAMP CLATSOP. Ore..- June 28
rtSpeolalJ JTho: 'entire ' 82nd -brigade,
more than 800 men, participated in
the -brigade field maneuvers held be
tween camp and the beach along a
three-mile front Wednesday after
noon. "
The 186th Infantry took up a posi
tion somewhat northwest of camp
but, under sealed orders, were driven
Murderer Sought
For Mysterious
Deaths of Four
SEATTLE, June 23 VP) Threats to
"wipe out" an entire family, Sheriff
Claude O. Bannlck said today, were
mode about two weeks ago against
four persons, whose charred bodies
were found yesorday In the ashes of
a burned farm house, near the south
ern limits of King county. .
Coyne, who was arrested when he
returned to the scene of the fir sov
eral hours after he had escaped the
flames, was held In the county Jail
(Continued on Page Six)
HAVE CHANGED A
QHE VOUMG
PlFRCULTies VJP WINNING THE
HAMP OP"
1 1 1 i i l , , U, : ' - I - "."."! '.' i-.i
from their defensive position, and,
twoSt-'to'' withdraw .Jor a two-mile
stretch south, where they repulsed
further attack by the 102nd Infantry.
Incidentally, orders revealed 1 that
Company B lost three sergeants, two
corporals and. six privates In action,
men In the company marked on the
(Continued on Page Threp)
Eopewell Given
To Use as Child
Welfare Center
JERSEY CITY, N. J., Juno 23 ()
The Hopewell home of Col. and Mrs.
Charles A. Lindbergh, from which
their first born son was kidnaped In
March, 1032, will become a children's
welfare center.
Incorporation . papers for "High
Field," tho corporation which will op
erate the property, wero filed today
with County Clerk dustav Bach.
James M. Phelan was listed as
statutory agent with the statutory
' (Continued on Pago Six)
LITTLE
HERO FACIMG GREAT
THE FAIR LAOy.
CONFERENCE
ROOSEVELT
T0L0ND0N
NEW YORK, Juno 23 m In.
copyrighted dispatch from Province-
town, Mass., tho Dally News said to
day the navy waa prepared to rush
President Roosevelt to London aboard
tho crulsor Indianapolis, If Prof. Ray
mond .Moley, assistant secretary of
state, now en route to tho world eco-
nomlo conference, deems such action
necessary for the president, ,
Tlo paper's correspondent at Prov
lncetown said tlUs Information was
obtained desplto repeated official de
nials that Mr. Roosevelt Is considering
such a trip.
; Tho paper declares that U Moloy
believes after reaching London next
Wednesday that tho president can
bring about world economic accord
by a dramatic tour de force, then
the Indianapolis "will pick up the
president and hit for London."
Hl'MOIlH ON SHIP
PROVINCETOWN, Mass., June 23
(p) Although tho possibility of tak
ing President Roosevott to London
was the chief toplo of conversation
today of the 700 officers, and men of
(Continued on Page Six)
Oregon Home Loan
ww v a s
Head in rortiana
WASHINGTON, June 23 W) The
Federal Home Loan bank board .an
nounced today that tho headquarters
for the Home Owners Loan corpora
tion In the state of Washington
would be In Seattle with a branch
at Spokane, and headquarters' for
Oregon will be in Portland. Man
agers for the offices have not been
announced.
State Warrants
Being Retired
SALEM, Juno 33 (A1) Call today
by the atate treasurer of $06,000 war
rants will care for all Issued, up to
and including May 20.
Wn Iran t stam ped ' ' not pn id for
want of funds" amount to $2,708,378.
08 or which $1,850,268.01 have beea
called.
Wheat Today
OHICAOO, Juno 23 W1 All fu
ture deliveries of wheat, oats and rye
Jumped lalo today to beyond season
high prico records.
Reports were current Indicating
tremendous crop damage had been
dono northwest by recent heat and
drought, especially In the Dakotos
and Minnesota. Unofficial estimates
were that the 1033 production of
wheat In the United States would fall
below the actual domestic production
In recent yoara. V
A rush of genoral commission house
purchasing lilted prices sharply late
and far more than offset early do
cllnos. , ' ,' " . ?
JUST BEFORE
PRESSTIME
. i
QUOTA TRUCE PROPOSED
' " .7-
SKCUItn V DEMANDS GIVE WAY
, i
RAILWAY TO SHOW PROFIT V (
..
REPORT TAX DELINQUENCIES
LONDON, June 23 (ff) France
proposed a quota truce at the world
economic conference today which
would enable countries using quotas
or weapons against Importations to
keep them Indefinitely., The resolu
tion Im considered counter-proposal
to the Intensive drive by the United
States for abolition of all embargoes,
quotas and arbitrary restrictions. ,
NEW YORK, June 23 () Norman
H. Davis,. United mates ambassador
at large, hinted on his return from
Geneva today a belief that demands
for security pacts stumbling blocks
to previous Disarmament agreements
are giving way to sentiment favor
ing International supervision of arms.
CHICAGO, June 23 .(P) The Chi
cago and Northwestern railway will
show profits for 1933 lf present traf
fic trends continue, Samuel H. Cady,
vice president and general counsel,
said today. ' eri , i
SALEM, June 23 P) With three
comities yet to report,'flrtit-ha1f times
delinquent In the state for the year
1033 aggregate $9,078,888.08 or 44.73
pe cent, it was announced at the
offices of the state tax commission
late today, . . . , '
Ask Permission
To Reduce Fares ,
On Coast Lines
"'taALBM, June 23 ypj Permission
to' rodurconcnatid itourlae sleeper
fares 46 per cent between alf stations
on its Pacific lines has been request
ed by the Southern Pacific company
from the Interstate commerce oom
mission and various regulatory bodies,
it was announced, here late yester
day, i
The proposed tariff would, establish
a basic one-way (rate Oi1 two cents a,
mile for such' transportation as com
pared with tho present first-class rate
of 3.6 cents a mile. If approved it
will be made effective July 1,' an
nounces Felix S. MoQiimis, vice presi
dent in charge of the system pas
eenger traffic. , , . r , .
Rogue River Mayor
Convicted by Jury
MEDFORD, Ore., June 23 (P)
Walter J. Jones, Mayor of Rogue
River, was found guilty by a circuit
court jury at sir o'clock this morn
ing of complicity In the theft ofj bal
lots from the Jackson county court
house on tho eve; of a recount order
ed by Judge Gcorgo P. Skip worth In
tho sheriffs raco In the last election.
. Jones Is tlie second to be found
guilty In the series of prosecutions, J.
Arthur La Oieu, .former business man
ager of the Dally News here, having
been convicted last week. .
John Glenn, former county Jailer,
will bo the next to go on trial.
Plane Plunges to
Ground in Flames
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa,, June 23
TP) Three Council Bluffs men wero
killed near here last night when their
plane suddenly caught fire, glided
earthward Jn flames for 600 foot and
then dove 200 feet to crash on the
farm of John Lee, .
Dick Mason, 21, the pilot; Jamea
Hitchcock, and Charles Fries wero tho
victims.-
HKI'OKT ON' K1LMNUS
TOKYO, Juno 23 WThe foreign
office announced today the Japanese
destroyer Tachlkazo had obtained a
copy of an official soviet ruport
"proving that RusBlan coastguards
had killed three Japanese fishermen"
In Russian waters near Kamchatka
peninsula June 14. A spokesman said
Japan considered tho affair as very
serious.
INQUIRING
Bach day as thu Inquiring Reporter makes the rounds two penoai
will be stopped at random on the street corner and naked some
j-j, question of the day. Through the courtesy or Manager v. M. wifns
each Interviewed will be granted two complimentary tlckots to the
! Liberty Theatre. The current attraction Is llalph liellamy In "Under
The Hen."
Bidding for High school athletes to
play for tho glory of the old college
and Incidentally for a neat little re
muneration has gone on for soveral
yoars in all American universities
surreptitiously. However, the Uni
versity of Callfornlo. has not let the
cat out of tho bag to put a paid
worker In tho field to solicit athletic
stars ftom the High schools openly.
, Mrs. Percy Reilman, 903 Lake St.,
says, "Being Knullsh It Is very dif
MACDONALD
OPTIMISTIC
AT OUTLOOK
Asserts Uncertainties
Of Currency Cannot !
Block Progress.
UNDERSTANDS (
U. S. ATTITUDE
Committees Hard at Work
On Many Problems For
; Submitting to. General
, Conference Later. -, -,
. By Claude A. Jagger ,
Associated Press Staff Writer
LONDON, June S3 () The dlffl
oultles of the United States in stab-
Hissing the dollar are "very real,"
Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald
said today In a press . Interview, but
currency uncertainties will not be
permitted ,to blook the world econ
omic -conference. , ,.,..',''.:,.. .
The prime minister explained that
the difficulties of a big conference
are 'at the maximum when It lu-ln
progress a fortnight, for then pes
simism breaks out. ; But committees :
now are getting down to work, he
Bald,- and no major delegation will
thwart efforts by an 'Irreconcilable
attitude. .
Understands U. g. View '
He characterized the American fail
ure to agree on stabilisation of the
dollar as a "setback" 'but said' the .
situation .had) been clarified by the
American . statement 'yesterday, . In
whloh. it. was set orth" that -Washington.
comldoreAJabWailtioii. to b ,
(Continued on Page Six),; '
RAILWAY SHOWS .
PROFIT IN MAY
SAN FRANCISCO, June 23 (iP) -Southern
Pacific odmpany's operating-
revenues ollmbed to $11,110,377
in May, lifting income sufficiently
to bring the-system) out of the red
and . nearly a million dollars Into the
black. Not ratlwav oneratintr income
was 9070,402, compared with net
operating loss for April of 107.389.
May operating net waa well above
last year's level, of 592.709. but was
insufficient to wipe out the loss ' of
the preceding months. , The - five
months' operating deficit was 2,192,
307, an Increase of 91.860,852 over the
loss of the preceding year's like per
iod. - . , .
. The May gain resulted chiefly from
a rise In freight revenues to 98,630,
061 from the April figure of 97,203,
727, Today's Baseball
AMKKICAN LEAGUE
(First Game) R. H. E.
New York 10 13 2
St. Louis - 6 IB 0
Pennock, . Brennan and ' Dickey;
Blaeholder, Coffmnn, Stiles and
Shea. .
Philadelphia 8 8 4
Clevoland 4 10 a
Mahaffcy and Cochrane, Madjeskl;
Harder and Spencer,
R. H. E.
Washington ; 7 18 .1
Chicago 3 8 1
Thomas, Russell and Be well; Lyons
and Orub
NATIONAL LEAGUE . .
St. Louis : - 4 11 0
Philadelphia 0 IS ' 1
, Dean, Haines andl Wilson; Elliott,
Llska, A. Moore and Davis.
' . : R. H. E.
Pittsburgh . - 4 10 1
Brooklyn 8 0 2
French and Finney; Carroll, Mungo,
Shaute and Lopez.
REPORTER j
ficult to pass an opinion on an Am
erican 'Institution. However, t be
lieve that the athlete, like other
people, should not bo given special
privileges." v '
C. Lawrence Oraham. 1301 Seventh
street, say.,. "The primary purpose
of tho collogo is for educational ad
vantage. My opinion Is that ath- .
letlcs should be a sideline and not
Interforo with the educational value
of the school."