La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, June 27, 1933, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextWill Ask For Fede "1 J Oregon: Purely cloudy tonight and I Wriliirailiiy; ,Jocal tliunclrrturnia In j mountains of mist uiortlonp; little J I chunge In temperature. Lwul wrath- I at Monday: .Mu K3, mill SO, clear. Today: Mln 81; T u. in., 01, clouily. J Only Newspajier Printed in La Grande Covering Union and Wallowa Counties VOLUME 31 NUMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS AND A. B. O. LA GRANDE, OREGON, TUESDAY, JUNE 27, 1933 EASTERN ORHMON'S I1HADIIC3 NEWEPAPKR NUMBER 252 w mm eloc scie mining m .FAILS Company GUARDSMEN HAVE MADE FINE RECORD Win Highest' Company Score in Annual Track Meet With 13 Points. SET RECORD IN TENT PITCHING . Company Spending Day in Portland and En trains Tonight; Arriv ing Home Tomorrow. CAMP CLATSOP, Ore., June 27 (Special) The 186th Infantry over whelmed the 102nd Infantry In the annual track meet here Friday after noon. 04 to 30, with the 249th Ar tillery and the 82nd Brigade trailing the two rival regiments. And Company E, of La Grande, won two firsts and one second for a total of 13 points and high company scoro of the meet I Fifty-two companies are in the Oregon national guard and the La Grande unit scored two of the 14 first places Friday, for one of the best records of any company athleti cally, since annual meets began to be held. ,, The second place victory of Jmeph O. Williams, .private first class. In the 220-yard dash, would undoubtedly have been a third straight victory had the race been. two. yards Jonger, Ho" was beaten to the tape by a, foot or two bj Smith, also of the 180th Infantry, with Williams gaining stcadllv. ' The pup tent pitching and display equipment team Sgt. George u. un veil and Corp. Howard. M. Peterson represented the 180th regiment ana toot first In the meet with a margin of 3-6 of a second. The other first place was In pyra midal tent pitching, with the eight men from La Grande leading all con testants with the fast time of 2:00 flat. The team consists of Sgt. Wil- (Contlnued on Page Two) MILTON MILLER HERE LAST NIGHT Milton A. Miller, sometime state senator, andi former, collector of In ternational revenue, passed through La Grande last night from Washing ton. D. C. en route to Portland. If ho had any ulterior motive in his visit with high government officials In Washington, Mr. Miller refused to divulge It and described his visit as a "pleasure trip Just to look around Mr. Miller had two Interviews with President Roosevelt while in the na tlonal capitol, and congratulated him on moving the center of the nation's control back to Washington. The president received the commendation heartily, Mr. . Miller said. The former state senator, who was a cancMdate for United States senator against McNary In 1024, attended the Democratic convention at which Roosevelt was nominated to the presidential candidacy. He was slated for nomination as a Democratic can didate for the vice presidency of the Unltjed States, Through an interven tion, Mr. Miller was not nominated. He has also attended five other na tional conventions as a delegate. among them the 1800 convention (Continued on Page Two) CHAIN LETTER POPS UP AGAIN One of (America's most popular superstitions Is the chain letter, the "fortune chain" that practically In sures that "a happy event Is going to take place and fill you with Joy." A "fortune chain" Is making the rounds of La Grande at present be fore It starts on Its Journey around the world again. According to the letter it was started by an American general In Flanders In the American artillery and must go around the world three times. Participating in ft fortune chain Js really a complicated process, since upon receiving a copy it, is necessary to make nine copies and send them to nine persons of the most Intelli gent among your friends to whom you vlsh happiness. If the receiver breaks the chain he Is doomed to 'E' Coming Home WILL ROGERS SANTA MONICA, Col., June 28 Did you read this fellow Hugh John son's statement ln today's papers? He Is the dictator of the new "re covery act." It sounds awful good, and It mads sense. Instead of letting a big concern take all the money they make and build a bigger factory, why Just give the workers a little more, the stockholders a little more, and Just keep the factory you h&ve. I have heard a lot of this fellow Johnson. Barney Baruoh thinks he Is one of our most able men. He must be on the right track. . I see whero some of the "big In dustriallsts" are kicking on him al ready. Well, the president couldn't have appointed a wet nurso for any more needy group of people tnan tne 'big ones." Yours. 50 EXPERIENCED WOODSMEN CALLED FROM HERE TODAY 28 to Whitman Forest Today 22 Will Leave Tomorrow to Work in Umatilla Forest. . Fifty experienced woodsmen will leave Union county this week to Join the reforestation workers In the na tional -forests, J. H. Peare,' chairman of the Union county relief commit tee, announced today. Twenty-eight of the group left this morning at 8 (Continued on Page Two RECITAL CLUB HOLDS MEETING A fine' program of musical selcc. tlons was enjoyed! by members of the La Grande Recital club lost night when they met for their regular monthly meeting In the studios of the Eastern Oregon school or music, The little folks began their pro gram at eight o'clock with a piano duet, "Humoresque," Dvorak, by Jean Wetzel and Janice Moon. Other num bers were "Doris Waltz," Gurlltt, by Ian Thornburg; "Rosy Cheeks," Em erson, by Dorothy, Jean Lester; "Meal Time at the Zoo," Williams, by Juan Ito -Brown; "Andante Pastorale," Hunter, by Lela Brown; "Skipping Rope," Williams, and "Merry-Go- (Contlnued on Page Two) HIGH MASONIC OFFICIALS HERE Two high Masonic officials and their official staffs arrived In La Grande today and will -be entertained by the local Knights Templar this evening. John K. Kollock, of Port land, grand commander of Oregon of the Knights Templar, and w. P. wn Hams, grand commander of Washing ton, will be the distinguished visi tors. . , .Dinner will be served at the Ma sonic hall at 8:30 o'clock after which the order of the temple will be con ferred on a candidate., Knights Templar , from Pendleton and Baker have been Invited. bad luck according to the letter's prophecy. But If It is continued It brings luck. "These predictions arc always true," according to the letter. "If you take this as a Joke and Co not send out the copies correctly, bad luck will befall you. Mr. Karress, of Victoria, on the ninth day, won the big prize of 200.000 lire. Mr. Wilson's house was destroyed on the sixth day due to not taking notice seriously of this chain. Mr. Weiss of Lisbon lost his only son three days after re ceiving the chain without forward ing the fortune copies. Mr. May and Mr. Schnasitry won WOO. Pola Negri owes her fortune to having carried out these Instructions in the most conscientious way." la STATE BOARD DECIDES ON BUILDINGS Approves Plans Calling For Million Dollar Building Program E. O. N. TRAINING SCHOOL INCLUDED Would Finance Building Here By Federal Grant, State Appropriation and Bond Sale. PORTLAND, Juno 27 (PI A million-dollar building program for Ore gon's Institutions of higher learning, undertaken through use of federal grant and loan money, has been ap proved by the state board of higher education. The program may ultim ately call for expenditure of $1,600,- 000. With twl members absent, the board at a late afternoon meeting hero Monday agreed: to request $300, 000 as a direct federal grant, and $700,000 as a self-liquidating loan from federal funds. With this money the following pro jects would be constructed: A $300,000 psychopathls ward wing for the children's hosplta' building at the University of .Oregon medical school center in Portland.! '. A $300,000 psychopathic ward wing Minn for the same hospltaSfivyuoturo, (Continued on Pago Two) MAKE CHANGES IN STAFF OF E. 0. N. Three changes in the faculty of the Eastern Oregon Normal school for the next school year were settled yesterday by the , State Board of Higher Education at their meeting in Portland. Miss Ruby Day will succeed Miss Lethal Kiesllng In the training school; Miss Mildred Pierce will succeed Miss Hildred Atkinson; and Miss Marjorle Horton will place Miss Madeline Larson who was given a year's leave of absence with out pay. ... . Miss Pierce 'Was secretary to Presi dent Inlow two years ago before go lng to Columbia University to study. Last year she spent teaching In New Jersey. Miss Horton 'is a graduate of the university of Oregon. Cruiser Indianapolis Ready for The new cruiser U. S. S. Indianapolis had an appointment with her commaiului'-lu-clilof when xhn Eteame out of the Philadelphia navy yard na picture here after undergoing minor repairs. The Indlantfbolla Is to moot President Roosevelt at Caiiipobello Island, N. Ii June 28, and carry Kim ' down the coast to tlio moutti ot the Potomac for Ills return to Washington from his mention. COTTON INDUSTRY AGREES ON FAIR COMPETITION PLAN By Cecil 11. Dickson WASHINGTON, June 27 (Em barked on the tremendous experi ment of lifting wages und reducing working hours, federal administrators of the industrial recovery law heard from the textile Industry today that its "code of fair competition" would make jobs for more than 100,000 now Idle. ' Tho increased employment, if real ized, would raise to 515,000 the num ber at work on spindles and looms In north and south. ' George A. Sloan president of tho Cotton Textile Institute, said appli cation 'of. vtUe. .minimum ,, wag - pro vided $11 a week In the north and a dollar less in the south would greatly enhance the purchasing pow er of all the workers affected. Sloan predicted that within 60 to 00 days after adoption of the pro posed code, child labor would be eliminated from the industry. Mrs. Thomson Of Lower Gove Dies. At Johnson Home Mrs. Sarah Thomson, pioneer of the Grande Rondo valley passed, away at the home of Tom Johnson, of Lower Cove, Tuesday morning at 4 o'clock. Mrs. Thomson has made Jicr homo with Mr. and Mrs. Johnson for 20 years and is a iploncer of. this val ley, having crossed the plains in 1802. Sho Is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Tom Johnson, and was 00 years of age. The body rests at Walker'B Funeral Home and funeral arrange ments will be announced later. NOW DON'T ANYBODY SAY sir. --C Wheat Countries Keeping Eyes On Improved Market LONDON, June 27 (JPi What one of the "big .four" chief delegates called an "act of providence" has so altered the wheat situation that the conferees decided todny to wait until Crop prospects are better manifest before approving or disapproving ft plan to restrict wheat acreage. '. Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald, in an hour-long discussion of the problem with leaders of the "big tur" delegations, asked for and re ceived information as to the near breakdown of the negotiations at the morning session of, the conferees. f; Tho "big four" are the United (Continued on Paso Two) tlWRCHILL VISITS HERE J. A. Churchill, director of elemen tary teacher training, Oregon state system of higher education; president of tho Oregon Normal school, and director of the Normal schools sum mer sessions, was a viBltor In La Grande where he conferred with President H. E. Inlow, head of tho local normal. Mr. ChurclUU and his three daugh ters have been visiting in their for mer homo in Baker where they were widely feted. They left yesterday to return to Monmouth. Knowles to Open Court in Wallowa Judge J. W. Knowles, circuit Judge, has called the grand Jury for Wal lowa county for Wednesday, July 6, Motion day will bo held on the Bame day, while tho circuit court term will open on Mondny, July 10, with Judge Knowles on the bennh. A WORD! I THIMk BUSINESS HAS T-U-R-M-E-P TUP C-O-R-M-E-R the President PRICE RISE WON'T ALTER WHEAT TAX WASHINGTON, June 27 ( Ad ministrators of tho farm act plan to levy n 30-cent a bushel processing tax on wheat, despite tho recent Bharp rise In grain prices. They have authority to put a pro cessing tax on wheat used In milling flour and manufacturing other food products for human consumption equal to tho difference between the "current form price" and the "parity price" based on pre-war farm prices. Tho rise in wheat prices has nar rowed the gup between current and pre-war average farm prices. If this Is recognized It would cut the tax rate substantially. There Is no provision In the farm (Continued on Page Two) . England Retains r Possession Of RyderGolf Cup SOUTHPORT, Eng., Juno 27 (P Great Britain today regained) posses sion of tho Ryder cup, emblem of Anglo - American professional golf rivalry, defeating the United States 6ia points to 6', In two days' com petition. Syd Eosterbrook, British pro, scored the deciding victory by de feating Densmoro Shute, ono up, 36 holes, as the climax of ono of the most exciting international golf battles over waged, with tho out come In doubt until the last hoto of tho final match was completed. Tho British divided tho eight sin gles matches played today but won tho foursomes, yesterday, 2',& to 1. Tho Americans were In the lead only once during tho two days, when Captain Walter Hagen vanquished A. J. Laccy, 2 and 1, with tho Prince of Wales as an onlooker, but the team scoro twice was tied by the Invaders before tho decisive British blow was Btruck by Eosterbrook. SWIMMING CLASS STILL GROWING Thirty swimmers are enrolled In tho Red Cross swim week classes bo lng conducted tills week by MIsscb Myrtle Hoyt and Marguerite Klopfcu stein at. Cove. Many are being taken to and from the natatorlum In a truck by Frank Tyler, who has been taking them to their homes follow ing the swim. However, beginning this evening, they will all bo deposit ed at the Bacajnwea Inn, niil parents of smaller children are requested to meet the children there, the Instruc tors announce. Wheat Today CHICAGO, Juno 27 (P) Alternwo wild advances and setbacks swept wheat up more than 0 centfl today abovo yesterday's 7 cents gain and at times took ubout 2 cents off tho maximum. At the extreme top figures today, wheat showed a liwo of about 21 cents over -last week's low, and more than 62 cents since tho beginning ot tho season. Indications of showers over part of tho wheat belt, In addi tion to huge prof I taking operations resulted In temjxrary downturns from maximum prices, but highest prices of tho day wcro reached in the final quarter of an hour. Just before the closing gong, wheat showed 7 cents addition to exactly an equal rise yesterday. May wheat today touched a plnacle of 91.00. Wheat closed excited, at somewhat below now top figures, but to 6c obovo yesterday's finish, corn 3 to 8o up, oats 2 to 3. cents' ad vanced and provisions at a rlso of 6 to 30c, JUST BEFORE PRESSTIME 9 ll.VHITL'AL CltlMlNAL OKI'S LIFE tiikee caks wiibat hixl at 91 TO REVIEW VRTEUANS CASES AHTI1U11 HAY CIRCUIT JUDGE OUKUON CITY, June 27 OP) A sentence of life imprlsoiuueiit tu the Oregon penitentiary was given Eu gene 8. Vuleivtlna here Alomluy when lie was fxmvlcted of kill imp lng Ills 13-yeur-old niece. Tlie sentence was under the habitual criminal act. The court was told Valentine hud served tlmo-lu Colorado and Missouri pris ons. . KANSAS CITY, Juno 27 VP) Three cars 01 fancy milling wheat brought. 1 on the Kansas Olty cash grain, market today. It was tho first tlmo wheat had sold Sor $1 Bluco June 10, 1030. : WASHINGTON, June 7 (A") A general review of upwurds of 300,000 .ULKeti of veterans ui lowed oonieuKa tlou claims was announced today by tliu veterans administration. PORTLANd. Juno 27 m Gover nor Meier today announced the ap pointment of Arthur D. Hay, of Lnke- vlow, and former Klamath Fallsi at torney, to succeed tho late Judge Cork t us as circuit Judge of Lake county. -,.', STOCKS AND WHEAT JUMP MORE TODAY NEW YORK, Juno 27 () Heavy trading at? rising. (prices again swnmp cd the country's leading financial markets today. - Chicago grains iboomcd upward, May (1034) wheat opening ut $1.01 a bushel, and going as high as 91-00. On ft strong New York stock mar ket, many leading shares showed early gal) :b ranging up to about $fi In a huge illume of transactions. Cotton climbed approximately v a bale in a very active market here fol lowing Monday's advances of more Uian 94. Silver futures wcro around a cent an ounce higher and sugar futures made moderate gains. Speculative enthusiasm In all mar kets was at a high pitch. Heavy realizing appeared at Intervals, for traders had handsome profits, but fresh buying was aggressive and turn overs on tho leading exchanges wore enormous. HARD WHEAT AT $1 IN PORTLAND PORTLAND, June 27 (P) Better than dollar wheat was shown for hard varieties today whon Montana 10 per cent moved up to 91.0614 per bushel. This Is 7 cents bushel high or than the previous high mark reached yesterday. . Local cash wheat advanced 3 to 4 cents a bushel during the day with the best quoted to 83 centfl bushel. The difference between local wheat and Montana (Continued on Page Four) Indict Capone's Successor Today On Same Charges CIIIOAOO, Juno 27 (in Murray Humphroyu was Indicted today for violation of the tncomo tax lnws. Successor to Al Capono as Chicago's arch gangster and "publlo enemy No. I." ho. was accused on tho same chargo that sent Capono to Atlanta federal penitentiary. Tho government alleged tliat (Continued On Pago Four) j INQUIRING Each day as tho Inquiring Reporter makes the rounds two persons will be stopped nt random on the street corner and asked some I question of the day. Through the courtesy of Manager c. M. wigr I each Inti-rvleived will be granted two complimentary tickers to the J j Liberty Theater. The current attraction Is llelie Daniels In "Cock- tall Hour." I 1 ' 1 1 W Whether a trlnt by Jury Is Just hasbecn a question muchly discussed for years, tu fact probably since the Magna Carta or even earlier fight for rights. Today the questions as well as the Institution remain. Grace Oullen. New Poloy building, says, "I brlleve thcro should be a commltteo : of Judges to decide the outcome of a trial. They are familiar wltli the law and would not be sway FRANCE AND OTHERS IN NEW ATTEHPT G r e' a t ' . Britain Refuses To Co-operate With i Gold Countries. ' ; WANTS TO KEEP !' HER HANDS FREE Still Hope Tor Success In Deliberations On Economic Issues Now Facing World. By Hewitt Mackenzie ' LONDON, JUno 27 (ff) The world economlo conference this morning was In the throes of a fresh dramatic development precipitated by "the un expected action of gold .bloo coun tries In trying to force European," monetary stabilization Irrespective of American desires or what happenB to the American dollar. Great Britain was understood In well Informed quarters tonight how ever, to have ref usedl to commit her self to the ' European gold bloc scheme. In responsible British circles this move, headed - by France, was de scribed as an effort to deal Independ ently on stabilization. :v - ' . England, It was stated, wants to keep her hands free so that she can deal directly with America on stab ilization when the proper time comes. . Hrttiilii Sits Tight V ' Britain's position at the moment,, therefore, Is that she Is sitting tight. : Meanwhile 'gold' bloo -bankersC were meeting aaala 1U tin -the -day ..t. consider what new move they .could make to force stabilization. , - McReynolds, chalrmar of the house-' of representatives foreign- affairs commltteo, agreed- with foreign, spokesmen that the American tariff act of 1030 was unjust andk he ex plained It was a Republican measure The conference will not fall be cause It dare not fail, Secretary of State Cordell rHull told a luncheon of the Pilgrims Society in honor of tho American delegation to the par ley. . (Continued On Page Four) STUDENTS ENJOY EVANS PROGRAM Richard B. Evans, dramatist, who Is a whole play unto Blmself, pre sented a portion of Ills program, "Dramatlo Echoeo," this morning at 10 o'clock before the student body ot tho Eastern Oregon i Normal school. Each of the numbers was given In appropriate costume, with Mr, Evans furnishing the background for the piece while changing his costumes between numbers behind the Bcenee. . His full program will be presented this evening at 8:16 o'clock In the Normal school auditorium for the benefit of the publlo. Tho characters he presented this morning were Hamlet, Prince of Den mark, from tho play "Hamlet," bjr Shakespeare; ,Ivan Ivanovltch Tolko ohov, from "The Tragedian In Splto of Himself," by Chekcov; Shylock. from "The Merchant of Venice," by Shakespeare, and Richard, duke of Clouccster, from "Henry VI." i Today's Baseball Natlomiil Icaguo '. i B. H. E. Cincinnati 8 10 a Brooklyn 11 14 t Batteries: Johnson. Kolp and Lom bardl; Bcnge and Lopez, Outen. i ' , , " B. H. B. St. Louis 0 8 1 Boston - 13 0 Batteries: Walker, Johnson, and Wilson: Mangum and Spohrer. REPORTER i ed by emotional appeals as are a conglomeration of people gathered In to a Jury panel." Marjorle Concltt .Hot Lake holds the opposite view. Sho soys, "Circum stances regulating various crimes dif fer and thcrororo the crime shouldn't always be decided exactly according to law. There arc too many things that enter Into a trial to be con sidered In that manner. Justice would become stereotyped."