La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, June 26, 1933, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Texti f ,. WEATHKH FORECAST Oregon: Generally fair tonight and Tuesday) normal temperature s gentle J changeable winds. Lousl weather I Sunday: Mux 18, inlii 60, rain .OB i Inch. Today: Mill SO, at r u. in. 60, J clear. r Only Newspaper Printed In La Grande . Covering Union and Wallowa Counties ' VOLUME 31 MKMBKR ASeKXXATKD HUDH ADD A, B. O. LA GRANDE, OREGON, MONDAY, JUNE 26, 1933 ASTERN SRBOOira UBADIMO KSWtPAFKB NUMBER 251 MEAT AFFE0AiE BOIMf 1 1 w m fl H i 1 i f Mr. and Mrs. Pierce Welcomed Home PIERCE SAYS NATION NOW ON UP GRADE Roosevelt Won't Hesitate To Use Reserve Forces to Push Improvement IS IN ACCORD WITH PROGRAM Believes Recent Session of Congress Was Most Im portant in History of the Nation. Representative and Mrs. Walter M. Fierce, expressing themselves as de lighted at being home again, arrived In La Grande Saturday evening on the Portland Rose and were welcomed at the depot by the Blue Mountain Cowboys and a large, delegation of townspeople. The ex-governor who suffered an Illness while in Wash ington, D. C. has made a remark able recovery and feels only slightly weaker than before, he said. Mr, Pierce expects to be In Union county until next December when congress convenes for the regular session. He will maintain an office in the federal building with a steno grapher to take care of hlB corres pondence, while he will make his home at their ranch near La Grande. . "I regard the recent session of congress as the most important ever held," he declared. "The people of the west little realize the disaster that faced the country when Roose velt was sworn Into office In March. The entire business structure was trembling and) about to fall." The first bill passed was the banking bill and It could not have ..been -passod without any d!scussi6n'"6n the floor or careful analysis unless It were ab solutely necessary to save the busi ness structure, he added. Representative Pierce was the only man In the Pacific Northwest who voted for the presidents program on every issue. Representative Lee, of Los Angeles, had the same record. "The bill for farm relief, by some called the omnibus bill, was far from being what I wanted," he said. "However, it was the best that could be obtained." Representative Pierce was given a place on the agricul tural committee, an exclusive body which ranks high In the house. No representative living west of the Missouri river has been on that com mittee since Hawley's term 12 years ago. It was at the request of Mr. Hawley that Mr. Pierce was given the position. The work of the commit tee was very enjoyable, the former governor said. The group Is com posed largely of lawyers and repre- (Oontlnued on Page Two) MR. SPECKHART RETURNS HOME John Speckhart returned Saturday evening on the Portland Rose from Quincy, 111., where he had been since the first of the month, having been called by the tragic death of his brother. His nephew, Paul Speck hart, who has visited in this valley, Is In a hospital at Jacksonville. He received a fractured pelvic bone in .addition to other injuries in the same -accident which took the life of his i lather. LOCAL MAIL RATE DROPS Official orders from the postoffice department for the decrease of the local letter rate from 3 to 2 cents, effective July 1, have been received . at the local post office. This decrease applies only to letters mailed in La Grande for delivery in La Grande or on La Grande rural routes. Let ters mailed in La Grande to out side addresses will require 3 cents. WHEAT PRICE BRINGING CHEER . The seven-cent Jump In the price of wheat on both the Chicago and Portland market today la bringing considerable cheer to the farmers oi the Grande Ronde valley and the whole northwest. . Today's sensational rise, due mostly to continued hot, dry weather over the great mid-west wheat belt, with prospects for poor crops there, brings the local quotation to the fifty cent mark, the highest of the year. This will enable many who have been holding large, quantities- of the golden grain to make a little profit on their operations. An increase of 7 cents per bushel In the price of wheat here means ROGERS SANTA MONICA, Cal., June 26 VP) You talk about an earthquake hit ting California, that was kindergar ten stuff compared to the news that some nut sent over the cable that Sister Almee had had baby. It looked like a case of maternity by remote control. i-v. Science is so marvelous It Is be ing confused with miracles, and It looked like birth control by electri cal transcription. i ;r - , But now that the facta are all In, we find the visit tothe hospital was to beautify fhe present' genera tion and not to perpetuate the fu ture. Yours, LOCAL EAGLES DRILL TEAM WINS STATE CONTEST Trophy Awarded La Grande Mixed Team in Face of Stiff Competi tion.' . The drill team' of the La Grande aerie of the Eagles lodge placed first In the mixed team competition at the state convention which closed Saturday in Burns, and will receive the large loving cup which Is the trophy awarded for the honor, Judges described all the drill work at the convention as excellently presented, returning members of the local team report. Members of the team .-are: Mr. and Mrs. Ed Schulte, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Anderson, Mr. ,and Mrs. Steve Htattl.''. MP. ano- Mrs.s Jake Clower, Mr. and Mrs.. Oscar"; HobaonT John Hopkins, John Lambert, Mrs. Mabel Miller, Mrs. Reba Hough, Mr. and Mrs. Mike . Marovlch, Mr. and. Mrs. Ray Patten, Mrs.. Erna Giltner, Mrs. George Frees and Fred Hof mann. captain. ; D. D. Hall,, of Portland, was re elected state president of the Eagles lodge at the concluding session. The Portland mens drill team, In Its natty uniform of blue and white, made an Impressive picture In drill competition on Friday evening, It Is reported, and was awarded first place In this class for the third consecu tive tune, thus taking the cup Into (Continued From Page Four) DR. E. G. KIRBY IS TAKEN BY DEATH Dr. E. a. Klrby passed away at, his home here last night about 11:30 o'clock, following an Illness of nearly three years. Edwin Graves Klrby was born In Blair, Nebraska on Nov. 11, 1869. He attended grade and high school there. At the age of 17, with his parents he moved to Oregon, settling In the Willamette valley near Salem. He entered the Oregon Normal school at Monmouth and graduated from that Institution. ' For a num ber of years thereafter he taught school. He then entered the University of Oregon Medical School, at that time located at Willamette university and received his M. D. degree In the class of 1900. Immediately after graduation he movedt to Elgin, Oregon where he set up his practice. On Sept. 2, 1902 he married Anna May Pepper. The some year they went to New York where he took a post-graduate course in the univer sity of the state of New York. From this union four children were born. The first child, a boy, Werle M.. died when he was three years old. The remaining three children sur vive him. They are, Dorothy M. (Continued on Pace FourV more than $50,000 Increase in local income for the coming season, basing the estimate on an expected produc tion of somewhat less than the aver age production of a million bushels In Union county. 50,000 may not seem like a very large amount of money when spread over a whole county, but that sum would buy a lot of goods In tocal stores, ana would stimulate business considerably. And then, too, remem ber that this Is Just ONE day's In crease and the market gives every evidence of continued Improvement I German Star to Wed Schmeling l 1 Si Miss Anny Ondra, above, one ot Germany's most beautiful film actresses, will become the bride ot Max Schmeling. former, world heavyweight champion, in July, Max announced on the eve of his departure from New York for . hla homeland. - S. P. INCREASES SHOP SCHEDULE .SAN FRANCISCO, June 26 (Jp) Southern Pacific company announced today it was speeding up Its work ing schedule in shops, putting 2052 (Continued on Page Four) RECITAL CLUB MEET TONIGHT The La Grande Recital club will hold its regular monthly meeting and program this evening in the studios of the Eastern Oregon School of Music. A program, of Instrumental and vocal numbers has been arranged, and will be divided Into two parts; the young folks will prewnt their program at 7:30, and the advanced students and admits will begin their program at 8:00 o'clock. THE BARTER ISItl INDIA AGREES TO PITTHAN SILVER PLAN Will ' Co-operate in The Rehabilitation of Monetary Silver. COUZENS SPEAKS ' AT CONFERENCE Australia May Oppose .Plans For Reduction.' of Wheat Acreage as Sug gested by U. S. ; -" By Dfwltt MacKenzle (Associated Press Staff Correspondent) ' LONDON, June 38 ) India in dicated to the world economic con ference today her willingness to co operate in the rehabilitation of stiver, as projected in the resolution of Sen ator Key Pittman. ThlB was authoritatively disclosed after a meeting of the conference sil ver committee, at which Sir George Shuster, secretary of the treasury for India, was present. - f- - -Americana and others interested--In the rehabilitation of silver said this was the most important event which . (Continued on Page Four) LOCAL GOLFERS ARE DEFEATED - Pendleton golfers defeated a group of looal men yesterday 88 to 17 on the Pendleton' Country club 'course. rTBtrtjhlhe players comprised the" Lu Grande team. J. M. Watson was !the low scorer among, the local golfers, shooting a 75. The scores were: - J. M. Watson, 75-0; O. H. Reynolds, 77-1V4; L. Bay, 70-3; Hal Boone, 82 V4: P. E. Lanzer, 83-0; Jack Murphy, 84-0; C. W. Bingner, 84-V&, B. Reyn olds, 84-; K. siegrlst, 85-1(4; I. K. Kinzel, 85-14. W. O. Williams, 85-0; W. Siegrlst. 87-2 ; A. W. Nelson, 87 0; N. W. Frees, 87-&; W. Dolan, 88 1 '4 ; J. Haun, 88-0; A. Moore, 02-0; O. P.. Seltz, 02-'A; W. Ross, 03-01 H. Siegrlst, 03-0; O. W. Thompson, 95-0; H. V. Leffel, 96-1; Fred Spaeth, (Continued On Page Four) ENJOYED HOTEL MEET Don McKay, Nesdon. Foye, manager of the Union hotel and Mrs. Foye at tended the Inland Empire Hotel as sociation convention Saturday at Wallowa Lake and report a most en joyable as well as profitable session. MOVEMENT IN ITS TAKE THESE 13A.CK AMP SEE IF VOU CAM -TRADE 'EM M FOR A BOTTLE OF BLACK IMK AMD A NA LEDGER I cji &.r-t- iml' AMD A. I y i-M rS?7,. I HERE IS THE PRESIDENT'S YACHT l . Here Is the yacht Amuerjack II on which President Roosevelt Is ' taking a rest from his arduous three months lit office 011 a vaen . tlon cruise from Marhlcliead, Mass., to Iluzzurd'S' Bay end thence nortlimird to his summer home at Camno lleMo, N. II., oft the ' coast of Muliie. Ho Is accompanied by his sons, Franklin' Jr. and John AUMSVILLE BANK ROBBER CAUGHT Nervousness Leads. State ! Detective to Arrest "Man in Restaurant. 1 MKDFORD, Ore., June 26 (ff) Frank Wegener,' 30, was arrested here at 12:10 a. m today as 'he stepped1 off a southbound stage, and shortly after-' i i Continued on Page Two) Bomb Explosion In Vatican City Does Little Harm By Aiulrue Herding Associated Press Staff Correspondent .VATICAN CITY, June 28 W- The bomb whloh exploded yesterday In the portico of St. Peter's wus manu factured In Spain and brought here by Dometrlo Sol anion, who carried .a Spanish passport, the police declared today after they had. arrested Sola mon, charging him with planting the explosive. - The authorities asserted the explo sion was the result of the present strained relations between the vatl can and Spain following the pope's encyclical of June 3 and tho late eon tentlae excommunications of mem bers of the Spanish government. The bomb caused panic In a crowd of Holy year pilgrims. Four persons were injured but there was little property damage. LAST PHASE M Aimee In Paris Hospital; Hoax Was for Purpose PARIS, June 26 (P) Mrs. Almee Semplo McPharson-Hutton, on Am erican evangelist, may not receive visitors or communications for at least three weeks because of a serious, Illness necessitating an operation ten days ago to -remove an intestinal obstruction. . " Her physician Dr. Charles Bove is sued these orders because, he, said. tlie seriousness ; of her., condition muitva uuswuuj quivo assentim,' -al though she is slowly improving and Is expected to get 'well steadily. She is on a liquid diet. Dr.- Bove, a .well known gynecolo gist and sufrgeon:,' wpfi quoted. In published statements as saying he personally sent a telegram to David L. Hut ton, the evangelist's husband in Los Angeles, Saturday as a hoax telling of the birth of a son to Mrs. Hutton. He was quoted further say ing the message was sent at the evangelists request to discover a leak In private messages to Angelus Tem ple in Los' Angeles. ' The trick was successful, he was reported to have said. STEEL SLIVER DESTROYS EYE Ous Seroukes lost the Bight of one eye Saturday when a piece of steel about three -fourths- of an Inch long and a sixteenth of an Inch In dia meter was removed at the Grande Ronde hospital. It was necessary to remove tho entire eyeball, Mr. Seroukes was working at the Mt. Emily camp and was pounding' on a rati when the piece of steel dis lodged and struck straight into the eyeball. Flour at Highest Price in 3 Years MINNEAPOLIS, June 25 (P) Flour broke through the 90 mark today for tho first time in nearly three years. After an almost steady climb the last few months with temporary and minor setbacks, prices for family patents today reached 0.06 to 96.16 a barrel. Tho last time family patents were quoted at 96 a barrel was In July. 1030. As flour prices kept pace with wheat In the upward surge millers hare were besieged with shipping orders. Wheat Today OHICAQO, Juno 20 m Kxcttod trading which In voluno surpassod wartimes accompanied ' prices that soared moro than 7 conts a bushel today for wheat. Widespread conditions approaching crop falluro seldom equaled In tho United States were reported as a re sult of threo wcoks of abnormal heat and drought. Approximately 160,000, 000 bushels of all grains changed hands here today as prices shot sky ward. ' Violent fluctuations took somo de liveries of wheat to within nearly im mediate reach of $1.00 a -bushel, a riguro that seemed Impossible of realization a few months ago when wheat was worth less tlian half that price. In the last minute of trading. May wheat touched 00 cents a bushel and closed at that figure. Tho wheat market as a wholo closed flurried, 6, to 7o abovo Saturday's finish, corn 23o up, oats 4H'l6y,o advanc ed, arid provisions showing a rlao of 7 to 48 cents. JUST BEFORE PRESSTIME BRANCH BANK IN PENDLETON . . ' MASSACHUSETTS GOES WET . HANK CASHIKK IS KDXEP ' WHEAT SELLS AT fl.00 ' PENDLETON, Ore., June 2(1 ff) Ward reached here today that the comptroller or currency has approved the application - ot the United States National bunk of Portlund for per mission to open a branch bank In Pendleton. Details of the plan are to be worked, out soon, the announce ment sold, Pendleton has been with out normal banking fucllltles since last October, , BOSTON, Jur.'o 26 F) Massa chusetts, through a constitutional convention, today, ratified the amend ment repealing the 18th amendment, becoming the seventh state to take such action. The vote was unani mous as the 46 delegates were elected on their pledge iu vot toi' ratilloa tlon. . . , ; .','. i ( LACROSSE, Ind., June 20 P Wil liam IS. Tennel, cashier of the La crosse State bank, was killed today by one of five bandits who attempted to rob the bank. Tennel was slain when the bandit became angered be cause the safe In the bank was locked with a time look. r FORT WORTH, Tex., Juno 26 (ff) Dollar wheat appeared on the grain market here today for the first tune In three years when ten cars sold for Texas gulf port and common point delivery at 1.00'A peri bushel. V HUGE WHEAT SHIPMENTTO ORIENT SOON . SEATTLE. June 26. W) - Fv jnll- llon.bushes of, wheat. WJU.be loaded here for the orient, we Beanie por commission announced -today -as a 'result of a contract entered Into with the newly organized Continental Paclf lo Grain corporation. - Full- cargoes for twenty 8000-ton ships will be Involved, the commis sion said In making publlo the deal. The wheat Is part of 12,500,000 bushels sold! by the U. 8. government to China, the commission said. . A one year lease ot the Hanford street grain elevator was made by the commission. A previous lease to the Farmers' National Warehouse cor poration expires the end of th! month and the facilities . will be taken over Immediately by the new organization. LIONS CLUB IS GROWING RAPIDLY ' Parker Cook, of the University Lions club of Seattle, entertained the members of the Lions club here today with a group of vocal selec tions, accompanied by Miss Vivian Jordan, of La Grande. The following men were intro duced as new members of the club: Raymond O. ' W 111 I am b, M. E. Huff man, Don H. Fowler, and Fred Sie grlst. A communication from- the state secretary was road. It showed the La Qrande club as leading the state in the Increase of membership so far this year. IN LOWS LEAVE FOR STANFORD President and Mrs. H, E. Inlowond children, Burko and Joan, left yes terday for Stanford university for an Interesting summer. Mr. Inlow Is president or the Eastern Oregon Nor mal school. The prenldont plans to take ad vanced courses in comparative edu cation and attend the 10-day confer ence on counselling and guidance which will be held on the Stanford campus, submitting data regarding the counselling program at the local Normal school by request. Mrs. Inlow will do advanced study In volco during the summer. INQUIRING Each day as the Inquiring Reporter makes the rounds two persons j will be stopped at random on the street corner and asked some I question or the day. Through the courtesy of Manager C. M. Wight j each Interviewed will be granted two complimentary tickets to the . j Liberty Tneater. The current attraction Is Llche Daniels In '"Cock- tall Hour." Tho grango power bill, designed to provide for state development, distri bution, sale at cost of water power and hydroelectric energy, will bo put before the peoplo on July 31 and In the meantime arguments are being offered pro and con. EcV Mace, 906 Washington, says, "If and when a bill Is offered where in a commission can not give away, sell or lease to any prlvato corpora tion a public utility, then It deserves our vote." MAY WHEAT SOLD TODAY AT 99 CENTS Excited Trading Raises Prices 7 Cents Abovq ; Saturday's Finish. HIGHEST PRICES IN THIRTY MONTHS Trading Volume Reached , 150,000,000 Bushels To Rival War Time s , ; Drought is Cause. .. ' : CHICAGO, June 28, m A spec taculor seven cent advance today, earned whrt prl to within viUs- perlhg distance of the dollar a bushel lino. '. -v v -jv. - ''. t: The May (1034) delivery sold at 09 Vi cents a bushel 'a few mlnutaa , before the close with, the December up to 94fto. . . All groins reached the highest price of the season at the opening and In , most coses the highest In 80 months . or more, - Reports of wnahated heat and drought over the "bread basket of the world" Indicating sharply abridged crops ot all grains were re sponsible for thai wild rush to touf evinced by all interests. The May (1934) delivery of wheat, a little quoted option at this tLtne of year, sold at 88 cents early, but this was not considered representa tive of the market as usually May fs not actively traded In until autumn. Corn surged up 1V4 cents with, De cember touching ta'A cents. . Oats were 3 cents higher with) the Decern ber reaching 43o. -.; When. July wheat opened at 840, , It was almost exactly half a toUor a bushel higher than 44 c -which was the final quotation December 31, 1933. July corn- at 48o was WV40 above the 27o paid on the asms date. Other grains were .up In o After the first half of tremendous; , ly board trading, grains had main- tained their initial bulge and some were selling even higher. .Trade was of vast proportions. QUAKE KILLS 67 : IN MALAY PORT B ATA VIA, Java, June 26 (ffl Sixty seven persons were killed today In a severe earthquake which struck Soutjlt, Bencoolen, ' a seaport on the - west ly quivering over a wide area of California and Nevada. The tremors, which at some places Joggled crockery off shelvps and rat- ' (Continued, On Page Four) i FIRE DAMAGES RESIDENCE HERE Damages amounting to $300 re-' suited from a fire this morning at a house on the corner of Greenwood and Monroe streets, owned by Prank Richardson and occupied by O. R. Palmer. The fire department rushed to the blaze at 11:16 o'clock and the recall was sounded lets than an hour later at 13:00, firemen extinguishing tho fire quickly and efficiently. Tho blaze was caused by. a defec tive flue in the kitchen and was put out before It spread to the rest of tho house. American League R. H. 8. Washington i 4 9 1 Olovoland 3 9 0 Batteries: Crowdor, ' Russell and Bewell; HUdcbrand, Hudlln and Hy att. B. H. B. Philadelphia 8 14 0 Chicago - - J 10 I Batteries: Freltas, Peterson and Mattjeekl; Wyott, Ilevlng, Gregory and Orubo. REPORTER Miss Burmallne Hall, 1806 Second street, says, "Big business may have its faults but It also has Its virtues In that the present Industrial sys tem of the United States has been built up through the efforts, of the capitalists. Public utilities should be controlled by unbiased federal authority but at tho same time they can be run more efficiently by prl vato concerns. I'm In favor of pri vate owned but federal ' regulated electricity," Today's Baseball rvx f...