La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, June 24, 1933, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Textmvihf Stiwtttt WEATHER FORECAST ! J Oregon: Shown tonight and Sun-1 toy; cooler In tout portion tonight; J moderate south to west winds. Local J I weather Friday: Max 84, mln 48 above, cloudy, today: Mln 5? above, at 7 a. J J m., 60, clear. j Only Newspaper Printed in La Grande Covering Union and Wallowa Counties www VOLUME 31 HTfiMBKB ASSOCIATED AKS A. B. a LA GRANDE, OREGON, SATURDAY. JUNE 24, 1933 BASTKRN SJUOOON'S I.RADINO FTEWRPAFER NUMBER 250 10AD MILMNG TO AMD) t ECOYffif it 1 if Heavy Registration Recorded For i lore WATC LHIVUL fVlli is wmw OVERSTATE More Than Seven Thou sand Voters Registered In Union County. IMPORTANT BILLS ' FOR CONSIDERATION Prohibition; Amendment, Sales Tax, Power and Other Issues Will Be Prominent.' , A total of 7265 voters have regis tered at the office of O. K. McOor- mlck, county clerk, for the special election on July 31, 1933. Registra tion closed on Wednesday and the lists have Just been received from towns throughout the county, show ing 3932 Republicans, 8203 Democrats, seven Progressives; 18 Prohibitionists; 30 Socialists, and 75 miscellaneous. - The voters will consider seven bills on the ballot at the. special poll. One of the bills which Is perhaps causing the greatest amount of Inter est generally Is that designed to In struct the delegates to the constitu tional' electors as to whether the elec tors of the counties of the state of Oregon desire the amendment of the constitution of the United StateB to repeal the 18th amendment; to pro hibit the transportation or Importa tion Into any state, territory or posses sion of the United States where' laws prohibit It for delivery or use. An amendment to repeal the pro hibition amendment to - the consti tution of Oregon will also be passed upon at the same tlmft. Sales Tax Up Next .to the prohibition question, the sales tax Is probably .causing the greatest furore In , voting circles throughout the state. . The purpose , : (Continued On Page Four) . . NEW FARM PLANS ARE EXPLAINED A group of farmers of the Grande Ronde valley who met yesterday af ternoon were quite optimistic over the benefits possible under the new federal farm set-up, as It was ex plained to them' by E. C. Adams, of Spokane, manager and treasurer of the North Paciflo Gralngrowers as sociation, with which the Union county organization Is affiliated. . As Mr. Adams went over the new plan In detail and explained the dif ferent parts of It, the farmers present realized that while there might be no advantages for them this year, It would doubtless bring benefits , next year and years following. Interest at the meeting was keen, It Is stated, with all taking part In the discus sions. A number of other meetings are scheduled for the futuro with all farmers Invited to attend. FARLEY SEES HIGHER MORALITY NEW YORK, . June 24 (P) Post master General James A. Farley ex pressed the hope today that "we have seen the last of the days when nearly everyone had the notion, that whatever they could get away with legally was all right." "I think If there Is any one rea son why the people of this country have responded In 1 the remarkable way they have to the efforts at start ing a new deal," he said, "It Is be cause they realize that not only In conventions of this sort but In the very seat of our government Itself the notion Is spreading that sound busi ness and sound morals are one and the same thing. Cash Prizes For Observer Readers Who Join Beginning today 6n Page Three of this issue, read ers of The Observer will find an interesting as well as entertaining and instructive page of advertising deal ing with the entei-prise of certain local business nouses. And in addition there are cash prizes to be given each week for the next 16 weeks for thosje readers who play the game most successfully. , The page of advertisements today announces the first of series of Merchants Essay and Misspelled Word contests. In all $96 in cash will be given during the 16 weeks of the contest, $6.00 cash each week to those contestants who in the opinion of the judges submit the best work. "" ' The plan Is easy. No artistic' or special work is re 28 MO RE MEN ARE CALLED TO WOODS FROM THIS AREA Twenty-eight experienced woods men have been called front Union county ' to the Whitman . forest to work in the reforestation movement there. They will meet at the court house Tuesday morning, -June 27, at 7:45 o'clock, from where they will leave for Baker where they are ex pected to arrive at noon, J. H. Peare, chairman of the Union county relief committee, announces. ' - The majority of the 28 workmen have already been chosen and they are Harlln .Lovely, Alfred Searles, Clyde Robertson, Carl Houser, Wil liam Kelly, Fred Balmes, William Hasbrouck, Harold Houstln, L. C. Hen derson, BUI Bohns and Ellsworth Herder, La Grande; Harold Fowler, H. A. Watson, Qua Fowler, Arnold Mas ters, Imbler; Wesley Smith, perry; John Hacker, Paul Churcnill, Charles Kennedy, John F. Hall, Gerald, Clark, Elgin; Glen Lewis, Fondosa.t tv ; v DRAMA PROGRAMS COMING TUESDAY From blackest treason . to lilting love scenes Is but a step for Rich ard B. Evans who will appear in two programs Tuesday at the Eastern Ore gon Normal school auditorium.' Mr. Evans, who resides In Pendleton, has studied drama both at Oregon State college under Miss Elizabeth Barnes, and at the University of Oregon where he is now studying lor his master of art degree. The first recital will be presented lr. the morning before the assembly of the formal, school for the students only, while the sec ond presentation of the day will be a public recital Tuesday evening at 8:15 o'clock. La Grande Is one of -the cities of the state which Mr. Evans, accom panied by - Boyd Jackson, of La Grande, stage technician, ana; John Richardson, of - Prospect,. , advance agehti ' will tour during the summer; The gamut of emotions Is runIn Mr. Evans' program, which Includes ten scenes from the most lasting writers, of the past few ages. To prove the versatility of the dramat ist's experience and his varied reper toire is but to review the numbers of his program, Shakespeare, Rostand, the Bible. Chekov and Sophocles. From Shakespeare he has chosen two scenes from "Henry VI," the first In which Richard, Duke of Olouccs (Continued on Page Four) MRS. BUSSEAR PASSES AWAY Mrs. Mary Isabelle Bussear passed away at her home on Indian creek yesterday afternoon, following a short illness. . . She was born in Indiana June 22, 1850, being 83 years and 1 day of age. She has lived In this district for the past 35 years, and leaves to mourn her loss two sons, W. F. Bus sear, of Bremerton, Wash., arid'-Ar-thur Bussear, of Elgin, 6 grandchil dren, and 4 great-grandchildren. .. Funeral services will be held from the Christian church In Elgin Sun day, June 26, at 2 p. m., with Snod grass & Zimmerman In charge. "There are a great many human ac tivities which it Is utterly Impossible for laws to reach and covotv .More over legislation Is always slow In catching up to the latest efforts of human beings to evade responsibility and to grab the biggest share of pow er or profit for themselves. "The greatest single assurance that wo could have of business recovery In this country and throughout the world would be a fully awakened pub lic opinion, ready to back up sound economic measures because they are morally right and Just; and ready to enforce responsibility. In high places and low places alike, for the proper conduct of business affairs." Calls FDR's Son 'Just a Friend' ' Miss Ruth Googln, above, pretty 25-year-old brunet of Fort Worth, Tex., regards Elliott Roosevelt "highly as a friend" but regrets reports that he Intends to marry her when his wife has obtained a divorce. Miss Googln's mother an nounced. Miss Googln previous ly had denied the reported ro mance saying: "I really couldn't say anything about that. You' see, Elliott still Is married." Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt character ; lzed the reports as "ridiculous." LEGION JUNIOR TFJUOORKENG Has Good Chance to Get , Into Inter-district . Tournament Play Fifteen potential big league champs are training daily at the High school athletic field and promise to put La Grande on the map in the American Legion Junior baseball tournament. The first game has been scheduled with Walla Walla there on July 2, a practice game, the outcome of which, will have no bearing on the tourna ment since Walla Walla Is outside the seventh district. Jimmy King, of Imbler, and Raymond O. Williams, of La Grande, ard coaching the team. La Grande has the only team In the seventh district, Mr. Williams be lieves, and will represent this sec tion In the lhter-dlstrict tourna- (Continued -on Page Four) DR. KIRBY VERY ILL Dr. E. G. Kir by who has been 111 for more than three years suffered a severe stroke yesterday and 1 now paralyzed completely, unconscious and in a critical condition. Dr. Klrby has been paralyzed on the left Bide for almost three years and bund dur ing the past two years, as thej result or former paralytic strokes, LEAVE FOR WORLD FAIR Misses Mildred McGee, of Longvlew, Wash., and Marylou Myers, who teaches In the public schools In Eu gene, were guests of Miss Jean Wil liams at the home of her parents, Mr, and Mm Sherwood Williams, last night. Miss Williams has been visit ing with her brother-in-law and sis ter, Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Hanson, In Tacoma, and returned to La Grande with the visitors. This morning they left for Chicago where they will attend the World's Fair. Miss Williams and Miss Myers will return to Oregon, and Miss Mc Gee will go on to New York and sail for Germany, where sho has a schol arship in Y. W. C. A. work. quired. The prize winning essays will be judged not upon fancy work but upon simple presentation of facts concerning the particular La Grande business house given as the subject of the essay for the week. First In six of the 16 adveHisenients on the page, the contestant must find six misspelled words. List them on a sheet of paper and tell in which ad ; vertisement on the page they occur. Second Then, in not over 150 words write an es say about the particular store named as the subject for the week. Mail or bring the list of words and the essay to Essay Contest Editor, The Observer, on or before the following Thursday of the next week. Winners will be announced each Saturday for the previous July OREGON GETS SIX MILLION ROAD MONEY Federal Funds Will Be Available for Use Early in July STATE COMMISSION i IS MAKING PLANS Many; Highway, Bridge Construction Programs . Will Be Considered For - Immediate Work. SALEM, Juno 24 (P) Plans for al location of $6,106,896 highway con struction mnds allowed Oregon under the federal public works bill will be commenced at a state; highway com mission meeting In Portland next Wednesday providing regulations are announced by that time. - Announcement of regulations of construction and details regarding ex penditure of the money are expected almost any time by the bureau of publlo roads at Washington. "We hope to receive the Instructions be-, fore Wednesday so that the work may bo planned at once," . said R. H. Bal dock state highway engineer..! Oregon's allotment of highway con struction funds was 950,000 more than had been expected. A half dozen highway and- bridge construction programs, proposed un der the provisions of the federal pub llo works bill, are ready for considera tion by the commission Wednesday. - Walter Pierce Will Arrive In ' La Grande Today Walter M. Pierce, representative from the second congressional dis trict to the national congress, will arrive In La Grande tonight at 0:20 o'clock by train, and a delegation of local Democrats will be at the, Union Paciflo depot to greet him upon his return to his home here. Notifica tion of his return was received today by friends in La Grande. . Mr. Pierce has been active in his sponsorship of the Meadowbrook flood control project aahd .farm relief In general while In Washington, and he ls expected to be able to furnish In teresting accounts of the session, the first held during the Roosevelt ad ministration. ROPER SAYS OUR CREDIT IS SOUND MILWAUKEE, Wis. (ff) The essen tial soundness of the credit situation in this country has prevented tho ut ter prostration of the American eco nomic situation, Daniel C. Roper, sec retary of commerce, told the annual convention of the National Associa tion of Credit Men. "Statistics reveal, convincingly that the credit of our country la sounaer today than In any previous major slump," said Roper, "Bad debt losses In the retail trade have only in creased from six tenths of one per cent in 1030 to ono and one half per cent In 1932 an adverse change. In view of prevailing circumstances, of a wholly Inconsequential character. 'PEPPER1' COMBS IIP KMIMNO TO MASTER THIRD-UAHE JOB ST. LOUIS P) "Pepper" Martin can "take It" and come back for more. ,. , A disappointing 1032 season, dur ing which a' let-down from his amaz ing world series performance com bined with Injuries to make him look bad, had some of tho fans "riding" him this spring. To make matters worse he failed to show up well In early games after being shifted from the outfield to third base. Special Tragic Symbol of 11 "--k-rv. TO" This charred crib is a .rnutn symbol or tho tragedy which cost tho llvos of ntnd pnrsons. Injured .75-imirn and. loft four unaccounted : for in MM sxnlfmfhn -nf Mm A I hint fr Pyroxylin Waste Company ; -plant, ht Nnrlh. ArliiiKtnu,.'N -.1- The burnt wmit a iiiiihh or blax .iw;!rplliilnll lurn thn nlr in luntln nrnrhv homes WlllmruApplo- 'VHr,1 .lr ; 4- hiirnpf tn.dnntlf In thn crib pictured hnr whlln thrnr ' ; . nlhfi. ncriipnntH .of tho hnugn unn intd thfttr llvos 3 DROWN IN LAKE MICHIGAN AFTER AIRPLANE FALLS Woaiiift Rescued f ter 34 - Hotuls of Drifting .On Improvised Raft; Men Die in Cold Water. FRANKFORT, Mich., Juno 24 (iP) Mrs. Charles Ronnie ' Jr., 27, who clung for 34 hours to the 'wreckage of an airplane that crashed Into Lake Michigan, Thursday and watched her husband: and two other men slip to their deaths, was brought to Frank fort today, weak from exposuro and on the verge of hysteria. She had been picked up at 8 p. m. Friday by the Ann Arbor car ferry No. 7, which sighted her clinging to a raft fashioned from a cushion of tho plane and a one gallon gasoline can. Mrs. Ronnie told how first tho mo- chanlc of the plane, Peter Keller, 24, loosed his hold on tho raft, then Its pilot, James Gillette, 28, and finally her husband, Charles Rennle Jr., 20 vice president of tho Ronnie Oil com pany of Traverse Oity, slipped to their deaths. Tho light raft was too fragile to hold all four, and tho men clung to Its sides after lifting Mrs. Rennle (Continued on Page Two) Chemawa Indian School Will Run On Reduced Scale PORTLAND, Juno 24 VP) A pc clal dispatch to tho Journal from Washington, D. C, today said "Sen ator McNary was advised Friday by Commissioner Collier of the bureau of Indian affairs, that plans have boon worked out to continue opera tion of tho Chemawa Indian school on the basis of $75,000 In expenditure for education of approximately 200 students of high school and vocation training: clauses,' This would mean, the dispatch said, a reduction from about 080 pupils or moro than 400 from tho lower grades. "Collier said his plan for elimination of Indian schools ha been sustained by Comptroller General McOarl as a measure within tho economy act, but that ho plans to continue Chemawa and two other schools on reduced schedulo," tho dispatch said. week's contest is also the merchant subject for the next essay. . Cash prizes will be paid as follows: First, $.'1.00; second, $2.00 j third, $1. The first prize essay will be published. : Turn today to page 3 and get in the game. Head each merchant's .ad thoroughly, not only to ascertain whether or not in his or her advertisement appears one of Ihe misspelled words, but to get a better line on the character of the various businesses so from week to week as each different store is presented as the sub ject of the essay you will have that much ready made idea of your essays to come. Kcmember, if you don't win the first week, there Election Celluloid Blast - ii . IM Methodists Will Seek Retention ; , Of Amendment PORTLAND, -Juno; 24 '.(ft Mettu dlst daymen of OrcganvwfU campaign -jlgoriislyrfoiv'reitlon of tho -18th aiuendnnV and ;have eflrmed. their Intention of voting "for anything that looks dry." - Dr. E. Stanley Jones, world famous Mothodlst - missionary, flayed the liquor trafflo during tho day. Ho ro marked that In some Chinese prov inces the only means of raising taxes Is through production of opium which. In turn, Is tho ruination of the people. i "And I want to say," ho declared "that I can ace no difference between paying taxes with opium and paying them with beer, "The only dlf forenco Is that tho Chinese don't know any better. I never saw a nation that drank Itself Into prosperity and I never will. MI am deeply chagrined at my no tion, which Is going to tho ballot box to. vote back ono of the scourges of tho ages trying to get back prosper ly through tho tears and suffering of our people.' Ernest W. Peterson, of Portland, was ro-oloctod president; .of tho Oregon Laymen's association of tho church, a separate organization of tho con ference. PRINCE OF WALES HAS ANNIVERSARY LONDON, Juno 24 (r) The Prince of Wales varied tho routine Of his busy Mo but llttlo yestardny In celo bratlon of his 30Ui birthday. Ho siwnt the morning at his Port Bclvedcro homo, and motored to Xork House to rend hundreds of greetings from all parts of tho world. ' Then he visited Buckingham palace to receive tho congratulations of his royal parents. . , The prince witnessed the night be fore a moving-picture of his own life, tho exhibition of which is expected to raise at least 9260,000 for charity. Tho prlnco appears In tho prologue delivering a speech on tho unemploy ment problem. Tho picture was gathered In all parto of tho world and cut undcf tho prince's direction from 80,000 to 6.000 feet. Ono section shows his Investi ture as prlnco of Wales at Carnarvon catrtlc whon fio was 17. 1 In Merchants Essay Contest JUST BEFORE PRESSTIME ' ii ; : . .;.; WOULD PUNI81I PIUCE IIIKBR8 . , . , : . , BANK ROIII1KR OKTS (800 , CABINET OK'S FRENCH STAND DELAWARE GOES FOR REPEAL , 4 WASHINGTON, June 24 Vet Sona. tor King (P., Utah) planned today to recommend to Attorney General Cununings the prosecution under the anti-trust laws of 'wholesalers and retailors who he said are "hiking prloea without reason. "There has been an unwarranted Increase In commodity prices without benefit to the producers," King said, citing particularly rubber products, Dread and otner commodities, SALEM. June 24 OT A lone rob ber who entered the AumsvlUe State bank shortly before 11 o'clock today and held up Mrs. Edgar T. Pierce, wife of the bank's vice president and cashier, made his get-away with ap proximately WOO. . , PARIS, June 24 OT The cabinet today unanimously approved the French stand at the world economlo conference for the gold standard and for regulation of world production. 'The acton was taken at a three. hour Besslon after a full report on the London parley had been made by Finance Minister Georges Bonnet, one of the French delegates to the conference. . DOVER, Del.. June 24 VP) Dela ware today formally ratified the pro posed amendment to repeal the eighteenth amendment in the federal constitution. It was the sixth, state to take such action. . . . : ' WHEAT GOES TO SEASON'S HIGH TODAY J OlltoAOO. 'June 34 ' " Grains awepb :upwtfd to -the,' highest, price levels of the 'season today, following crap reports from tne west and north west which said crops .were -more se verely damaged than had been be lieved. All grains were affected with all de liveries of wheat well above 80 cents. Huge waves of buying were followed by large profit taking sales, but' these (Oontlnued on Page Two) , Wheat Today CHICAGO, June 24 VP) Enthusi asm for higher prices blazed furiously In all the speculative pits on the board of trade today, with wheat soar ing a maximum of 314 cents. May wheat, In which trading for mally commences Monday crossed to above 00 cents today. Persistent ab normally hot temperatures and dearth of adequate molsturo brought In new floods' of. sensational crop damage suggesting that United Btates grain yields this season would prove the smallest In 80 years. Official advices Indicated that Ne braska small grains were beyond re demption. Wheat closed flurried. 2-2' above yostoroay's finish, corn 1-1)4 up. oats 2S4-2VS advanced, and provisions at a rise of 6 to 20 cents. j INQUIRING will be stopped at random on the street corner and asked some) t' Question of the dar. Throutrh the courtesv of Manacer G. M. Wliht I Liberty Theatre. The Men." Do you think that tho benefit do rlvcd from swim week Is sufficient to make the expenses of the Red Cross worth while, tho Inquiring reporter asked toaay. Hurloy Richardson, 1313 Ponn, Ave., who Is very much Interested In swim ming snys, "There Is no finer oxer clue than swimming. It promotes a self confidence In young folks. Young people should tnko advantage of swim week and learn to swim, because when they aro older It Is much more difficult, Tho benefits derived from will be 15 weeks more to participate in a prize. Write In poetry or prose or any style you desire. Keep at it each week. Persistence must have its reward. Each, ono of the business houses represented on the page will be the subject of the essay some one of the 16 weeks the contest will ran. Get around and get ac quainted first hand with the businessmen and their', stores. In that way you will be better prepared to write Intelligently concerning them. . Turn to Page 3 of today's Observer and find the business and subject of this week's essay. Get out your pencil and paper and who knows -you may turn up the winner. ' .' . ' ' : . ' . : i BIG PROGRAM 1YILLSTART NEXT MONTH Large Sums Allocated To btates for Highway And Bridge Work $400,000,000 TO J, BE DISTRIBUTED , .. - - .. ... f Rules Require 30-Hour Week With Fixed Mini mum W.age; Hand La bor Where Possible, i WASHINGTON, June 34 yp Road building on s huge scale will get under "-ay early next month, to !T come the first big expenditure In . . President Roosevelt's campaign for re employment and economlo recovery. Allocation to states of the- Ho,. 000,000 highway fund has been com. pleted by the publlo works board. Promulgated today were rules for spending It: Thirty. hours work. a week with fixed minimum pay will govern all contracts,, no' convict la bor will be permitted, machinery must , give way to pick and shovel, the ac- . tual projects must be widely scat tered. '',' :The road money will be available on July 1, when President Roosevelt returns. He expects to be able to ap prove Immediately thereafter appoint-' ment of state publlo works adminis trators who will direct expenditure) of more than $1,000,000,000 under the entire 43,300,000,000 public works program. ' , Army and Navy Work : Meanwhile,, pressing, close behind the roads plan for an Immediate start, the army has drafted a 130XKK),000 housing and construction plan, now . being scrutinized by. a works board . : (Continued on Pag Four) ATTEMPT CANNERY WAGE AGREEMENTS PORTLAND, June' 24 (P) State , welfare commissions of Oregon, Wash ington and California met Here to-. day In an attempt to agree with can- ners and cannery workers on uniform minimum wages for. women employes of cannerle. on the Paciflo coast. It was the first time, as Governor James Rolph Jr., of California said in a message he addressed to the con ference, that the -three,, states have met "In a trl-state gathering to dis cuss wages and conditions In an .in dustry upon, which each state de- ' pends In part for its prosperity. , . The message was brought to the meeting by Mrs. Mabol E. Kinney,- (Continued on Page Six,. NEW BEAUTY SHOP HERE The Cinderella Beauty Shop will be open for business Monday morning in the Cinderella dress shop, with Miss Edell Martin and Miss Mabel MacNell, of Tacoma, as operators. The shop has been established In the back of the store, and will specialize In all types of beauty work. REPORTER j The current attraction Is Kulpli ItcIIaniy In "Under swim week aro worth every dollar that is put Into It." Miss Myrtle Hoyt, 603 Main St., says, "As Instructor I think It is very worth whllo because we teach young sters . to Bwlm, and those who can swim, how to rescue a drowning per-, son and how to make him breathe again. When you learn to swim you should teach someone else to swim. I think that tho swimming classes at Cove aro making real progress, be cause the boys and girls take so much, Interest In them."