La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, June 28, 1933, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextWEATHEU FORECAST Oregon: Generally fulr tonight anil ' Tliur. cooler In east tonight, warmer I Tliurwliiy. Local weather Tuesday: Mux HI, rain SI above, ruin .64 of an Inch. Today: Mln 51, 7 a. 111., S3, J cloudy. Prints in La Grande' i ; wverinjf union and , J j Wallowa Counties VOLUME 31 MEM H EH ASSOCIATED JPRB88 AMD A. B. C. LA GRANDE, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28, 1933 EASTERN OREGON'! LEADING. NEWSPAPER NUMBER 253 LB MEET W TO (BOLD mm BflJ National CO; E ENDS SUCCESSFUL CAMP PERIOD Some Members of Unit Remain in Poi'tland on Leave For a Few iDays ; TUESDAY SPENT IN THE ROSE CITY r Guardsmen Still Talking About Sea Fishing Trip Sunday Pay Checks Cut 15 Per Cent. . cm.tnnnNl and hardened from 16 days of regular work at Camp Clat sop. Ore., Company , mum imanuy, ranpil In La Grande at 8 o'clock this morning' and today were return ing tp their usual manner or inc. t AnHDH nrnlmhlv the most SUC- cesslul Heidi training period for the La Grande national guuru uuiv i in history. Approximately 60 members of the company arrived here on the special troop train this morning, the other ten remaining at Portland for a few days on extended leave. Those In Portland included First Bgt. Howard C. Glenn and Bgt. Raymond C. Grif fin. All of the officers, Capt. Walter A. Bean, First Lieut. Jesse V. An drews and Second Lieut. Robert R. Carey, accompanied the unit home. Colonel Ralph R. Huron, command ing the 188th regiment, was in charge of the train bearing the Eastern Ore gon men. - The guardsmen broke camp Mon day and slept In pup tents Monday night; entraining' for Portland' at'" 0 a. m. Tuesday. From 0:30. to 11 o'clock, the company, was on leave in Portland shopping, enjoying shows, a few attending tho night baseball game, etc. The pay checks, more than $1300 for Company E, were distributed on Monday ofternoon, but each check was cut 15 per cent by federal act. Only a few of the guardsmen grum bled, most of them taking the cut as no more than right. La Grandcrs at Camp Clatsop tried some sea fishing Sunday, accompany ing a group from Tho Dalles. All (Continued on Page Two) HEALTH GROUPS ARE ORGANIZING Several communities throughout the county have organized their local officiary of the Union County Public Health association under the reorgan ization movement now under way with Miss Edna Plannagan. represent ative of the state organization. In charge. Accompanied by Miss Alice i Marquardt, Mrs. L. Denham, and others. Miss Plannagan Is visiting each district, setting up in confer ence with local people, the personnel of the county wide committee, of which the county chairmen have al ready been selected. Each district will have representation on the fol lowing committees, of which the various county chairmen ore Indi cated below: Advisory, W. C. Perkins; finance, H. A. Zurbrlek; education, E. A. Sayre; nursing, Mrs. L. Denham; supply, Mrs. George Lyman; publi city. A. W. Nelson. Among those districts already or ganized locally, Is Island City which perfected Its organization at the Fred E. Kiddie home yesterday after noon. That commltteo personnel consists of tho following: advisory, Fred E. Kiddle," education, Bennie Hicks; supply, Mrs. Ray Blokland; finance", J. J. Schroeder; nursing, Mrs. Isaac Shafer; publicity, Mrs. Fred E. .Kiddle. SOCIAL JUSTICE PLANS MAY FAIL GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., June H8 m Senator Arthur Capper told the Advertising Federation of America tcaay that a wide-spread campaign already Is under way to defeat the recovery program1 of President Roose velt. The Kansas Republican said that despite such a campaign, "we may be sure that business big business and little business will never again be exactly the same as it was in the booming 20s." "Of ono thing wo may! be sure." he "Id. "there will be there already Is J sharp reaction to many of the plans and policies proposed. Many of the Guard Company Returns To WILL ROGERS BEVERLY HILLS, Cal., June 27 Had lunch today at the studio with Udet, the greatest -living! German ace, with 63 planes to his credit, a mar velous stunt flyer, and Lieutenant Falconl, Mussolini's crack acrobatic ace flyer, a young fellow . Just 25. Both speak English. A couple of fine young fellows. Saturday we see these .babies do their stuff, along with all our crack boys. During the war we wouldn't let our boys have parachutes, for some body "decided they wasn't safe." The latter part of the war Germany had chutes and Udet had had his only 11 days when his plane was shot down. Had there been no chute, there would have been no Udet today. It makes you sick when you think of the boys we might have saved. But they was afraid maybe one of the chutes wouldn't open. Yours, lsjnlt.MlmfMSnkst.b ' PENDLETON IS MAKING MONDAY A CITY HOLIDAY PENDLETON, July 28 Following a meeting of Pendleton merchants earlier this week, announcement Is made that the greater majority of business houses of this city will closa Monday, July 3, making a three-day holiday for employees. Stores will close Saturday night and not reopen until Wednesday morning, July 5. No local Celebration Is planned. BEAUTY PAItLOKS IIKItK WILL CLOSE JULY 3 All beauty parlors of La Grande will be closed on July 3, enjoying a three--cjay holiday, on the occasion .gfi.tho. Fourth of July which this year.;6bmes on Tuesday. . THUNDERSTORM STRIKES VALLEY The Grande Ronde valley was treated to one of those rare thunder storms last night, with brilliant flashes of lightning and considerable rain, between the hours of eight and ten o'clock. The rain, which measured slightly over six-tenths of an inch, was greatly appreciated by gardeners and growers of all crops except hay; un fortunately considerable numbers of farmers were caught with their hay cut but still in the field. Weather forecasts for today Indi cate gradually clearing weather with somewhat warmer temperatures to morrow. , The storm, which reached here last night was evidently the tall end of a very severe electrical storm which struck Burns yesterday afternoon. Seven-tenths of an inch of rain fell there in one hour, which was the hardest rain experienced in Harney county In 19 years. WOODSMEN LEAVE FOR CAMP TODAY Union county's quota of 136 men to work in the national forests un der the national reforestation pro gram was filled today when an addi tional 22 left on the 1:05 o'clock train for the Prog Heaven camp in the Umatilla forest. They will leave the train at Pendleton and make the remainder of the trip by bus. Of the total, 37 are members of the citizens conservation corps, between the ages of IB and 25 years and the additional 99 arc experienced woods men. Those who left today from Union (Continued on Tago Two) high hope3 now entertained for the establishment of social Justice doubtless will end In bitter disap pointment." Nevertheless, the senator said, he hoped for an end of the philosophy of "every man for himself and tne devil take the hindmost." "I want to say that radical and rev olutionary as much of our legisla tion may appear to the future his torian," he sold, "it was not taken as the result of ai whim or caprice of oersonal ambition. The situation call ed for heroic action, and I lor one have no apology to offer for the sup port I gave to the major measures HOOKS ONE A left hook to the nose, ami that llttlo white pellet Primo ' Camera Is so anxiously watch ing sailed far down the fair wny. The big Italian, a tiny beret atop Ills massive head, . wan golfing nt Pomoton LakO), ' N. J., whore he is training for his heavyweight title fight withy Jack Sharkey, June 29. GRANGE POWERS ACT OFF BALLOT jI--VS-'!. Restraining I n j u net i on , Granted By Circuit Judge Lewelling. SALEM, June 28 an The gTange power act which abolishes the present (Continued on Pnjre Two' MISS STEARNS GOES ON TRIP When Mrs. Ella Doty and her daughter, Miss Mabel Doty, city lib rarian, left this morning on the Port land Rose for a trip to their former home in Michigan and a stop in Chicago on the part of Mjss Doty to meet friends and take In the fair, they were accompanied by Miss Mae Stearns who decided at the last min ute to take the trip with Miss Doty. Her old home is In Michigan, also. At Boise they were to be Joined by Mrs. Bertha Hayes, high school teach er who will go to the middle west with them, i HEAT BAKES LARGE AREA' OF COUNTRY Central and Southwestern States Suffering Long Continued Drought CHICAGO MERCURY CLIMBS ABOVE 100 Southwest Also Reports Abnormal Temperatures Though Showers Bring Some Relief. By the Associated Press Mother nature baked a large area of the nation, striking particularly at tho central and southwestern states, and no general immediate re lief was In sight today. Torrid temperatures yesterday broke records throughout the sec tion, crops were seared and prostra tlons were numerous. In Chicago an all-time June peak was reached when the mercury shot up to an official 100.1, breaking the previous maximum of 99.8 registered last June 7. At least seven persons died from the heat In Illinois, (Continued on Page Two) , BUILDING PLANS BEING HURRIED PORTLAND, Juno 28 ffl E. O. Summons, chairman of the finance committee of thq board of education, tald, . todays the. applicatIon .!fojr ...tha. ioan to finance construction of sev eral buildings on campuses at Eu gene, Corvallis, Portland and La Grande will be made to the recon struction flnanco corporation as -soon as possible. Chancellor W. J. Kerr, who .Is working on the plans, -will turn them over to Governor Meier's committee within a fow days, Sam mons said. . The application will be handled through the governor's advisory com mittee and not through the, board or higher education. Price of Wheat Loses Most Of Tuesday Gains CHICAGO, Juno 28 (P) Wheat broke sharply from its newly acquir ed dollar price at the opening of. the board of trade, snapped back to prices close to yesterday's high top within a few minutes, and later In (Continued on Tafre Two) STRONG MAN HUH? La Grande Today 'Paper Boy' Weds Doris Kenyon ; fclL'lk , -SnlyL Arthur Hopkins, who as a boy delivered papers to her home In Syra cuse, N. Y., 30 years ago, now Is the husband ot Doris Kenyon, movie star, widow ot Milton Sills. ' Hero are the bride and groom at their wedding la Los Angeles. WALLACE STILL PLANS WHEAT TAX KANSAS CITY, June 28 (P) Henry A, Vallaoe, secretary of agriculture declared today "It is, speculation that la putting the price of wheat up." The secretary offered noi opinion as to whether a deliberate attempt had been,' made to Increase wheat values in an effort to defeat tho adminis tratipn's processing tax. J.pn't know," Wallace said, "but wc am going ahead with our plans (Continued on Pago Slx Bridge Olympic World Champs Are Announced NEW YORKfJune 28 (ff) Mrs. J. H. Slager and Fred Levy of Mont gomery, Ala., are world; bridge Olymp ic champions. The National Bridge association announced today that they hod the best score of north south pairs in a world wide contest May 1 in which moro than 100,000 players participated. Leo D. Cralne and J. Prederlo Bene dict, of Sherburne, N. Y., were tied with Otto Krefting and Isak Nellsen of Oslo, Norway, for tho Internation al championship of east-west pairs. Mr. and Mrs. J. Matt Jolinson, of Cottonwood, Idaho, won the United States north-south championship. Continued on Page Two) : ; West Virginia ,: And California Join Wet Parade Ity The Associated Press ' One third of the 48 states have now voted to strike the 18th amendment from tho constitution. West Virginia and California made tho score 16 to 0 in favor or repeal when their voters returned majori ties yesterday for trie 21st. amend anent, which alms to doloto the 18th, In West Virginia, a border state which hod been dry for 20 years, the margin of the repeal victory was about'- 70,000 with approximately three-quarters of . the ballots counted. California, which had wiped Jts own prohibition law from tho books last year, was giving repeal a lead of about 3 to 1 as tabulations poured fn today. . . Rcpcalista must win 20 more states to delete prohibition from the con stitution. ' The states which havo voted to ratify, besides West Virginia and California, are: New York, New Hampshire Indiana, Connecticut, Iowa, Michigan. Wisconsin, Rhode Island, Wyoming, New Jersey, Dela ware, Illinois and Massachusetts. COTTON WORKERS ASK HIGHER WAGE . Ity William L. Heale , WASHINGTON. June 28 () Or ganized labor, having already tasted victory on important points of the competition code formulated by the cotton textile industry, concentrated today- on demand for a $14 weekly minimum wage. The case reached tho open with Thomas P. McMahon, president of the United Textile Workers of Am erica, making tho recommendation at the second day of hearings under the Industrial control act at the com merce department. Addressing Hugh S. Johnson, ad ministrator of the law, tho labor exe cutive also advocated that hours of labor In the Industry .bo restricted to 35 and that there bo no differential In tho minimum wogo accorded for northern and southern mills. Tho code as drafted provides for minimum wages of $11 a week for northern millfl $10 aveok for south ern mills, and a 40-uour week with machinery operation roHtrlcted to two shifts dally. Wheat Today OHIOAQO, Juno 20 Ml Dollar wheat went Into tho discard today, recent big upturns In prices being suddenly wiped out by sensational reverKO market action. Uncertainty attending tho effect of quick application of tho government's new process tax and farm bonus sys tem was asserted In some quarters to bo largely responsible for tho up set of values. All tho grain markets, however, had been honeycombed with stop loss. orders to sell on price set backs, and as soon as these ordcre were dislodged, on avalanche of prof it taking Miles carried tho markets downgrade, with wild rallies Inter vening but failing to last. Wheat clotted wild at almost the day's bottom prices, with all deliveries below $1.00, and May contracts at 09 o. The wheat market as a whole fin ished 5 A & 6 cents under yesterday's finish, corn &i o down, out 3f 4c off, and provisions varying from 6 cents, decline to a rlso of 20c. JUST BEFORE PRESSTIME I'HK DALLES TO HAVE HANK - T '., CLAIM KA1IN PAID NO TAX ...... . VOLSTEAD LOSES POSITION ailAIN TARIFFS REDUCED THE DALLES, Ore., June 28 VP) Paul H. Dick, preHlilent of the United SbUea Nntlmuil bank or IMiXImhI, annouueeil here toduy that a brunch of the Portland bunk will be opened here July S In the building formerly occupied by the First Nntlonul Hunk of The DuIIfh. Authorization was received today rroin the comptroller of currency. WASHINGTON, June 28 P) Ferd lnand Pecora, counsel of the senate banking committee, . said today hie evidence showed Otto H. Kahn, senior partner of the Kuhn, Loeb & Co., paid no Income tax In 1930, 1931 or 1932. ST. PAUI, Minn.. June 28 m Andrew J. VoLsteati, co-author or the prohibition enforcement act bearing his nuine, lost Ills Job today as legal advisor to the eighth district dry ud mlnlstnitor. He m Indefinitely rurloiighfil, cf rectlve July 1 tilong with the district udmlnlKtrutor Robert I. Ford, and six state deputy administrators. PORTLAND, Ore., June 28 (ff) A general reduction of 20 per cent In the grain tariff, effective July 1, at tho municipal terminals here, with wharfage and some minor charges expected, was voted today by the commission of public docks as a means of furthering the cause of the Pacific Northwest wheat grower. BLAME NAZIS FOR BOMBING IN AUSTRIA VIENNA, June 28 (&) -r-' A borm) exploded today on the Vienna-Baden suburban electric railway tearing up a stretch of track. The explosion occurred during the early hours when no trains were run ning. The track was repaired! and the train schedule resumed, at the usual hour. ' An unexplodcd bomb was found on the city railway. (A series of bombings beginning two weckB ago was attributed by .of ficials to Austrian Nazis, who sub sequently were outlawed by govern mental decree. Nazi leaders, said they took tho edict as a challenge for further activities.) The greatest police . precautions (Continued on Page Three) ROOSEVELT FOG BOUND IN MAINE LAKEMANS BAY, Roque Island, Malno, Juno 2& ( President (Continued on Page Six) TOWLERS HERE ON VISIT FROM . ASTORIA, ORE. Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Towlcr, of As toria, were in La Grande for a short visit with friends on a tour which Is taking them to several different cities both In Oregon andt Washington. Mr. Towler was principal of the La Grande High school until he ac cepted a similar position in Astoria more than a year ago. Funeral Services For Mrs. Thomson Funeral services for Mrs. Sarah Thomson, of Lower Covo, will bo held tomorrow afternoon at 2:00 o'clock in tho Christian church, with Rev. Paul Do P. Mortlmore officiating. Friends may view tho body at Walker's Pu noraS Homo. Burial will follow in tho Cove cemetery. INQUIRING REPORTER j Each day as the Inquiring Reporter makes the round two persons j will be stopped at random on the atreet corner and asked some I fHirstlon of the day. Through the courtesy of Manager C. M. Wight J each Interviewed will be granted two complimentary tickets to the jj Liberty Thnilrr. The current ul tract lem Is William Powell 111 "The I Lawyer Mun." As tho price of gasoline goM up and up both dealers and consumers aro beginning to question tho right of tho oil companies to ralso thi. gasollno fee. J. P. Hcasty. 303 Spring, says, "I do not bcllcvo tho oil companies are Justified In raising the price of gaso line. In addition. It curtails the amount of gasoline sold, and the dealers , suffer. Automobile users Just don't buy as much as formerly." William Collins, 1017 Adams ave ACKNOWLEDGE NECESSITY OF STABILIZING Steering Committee Said To Have Weakened On Former Decision, f DOLLAR EXCHANGE IN SUDDEN DROP American Delegates Still Stand Firm Oh Opinion That Stabilization Of Gold is Unwise Now. I LONDON, June 28 (AV-Hlgh Flench sources said tonight that the world economic conference steering com mitter had approved a resolution as sorting that whether the parley sue- ceeda or falls In, the economic phase of Its labors depends on currency stabilization. . The Americans failed to partiolpeto in this resolution. Some important conference quar ters interpreted' the resolution as an Indication of a British cornproanlJw with the gold countries, headed by France, which have been attempting to force the United States to stabil ize. ' v It was authoritatively stated that the American, stand against stabili zation remained unaltered. . The steering committee meeting was held after a sweeping decline In the dollar exohange. In axer hours trading the dollar plunged to 4 3B14 to the pound, a new low since abandonment of the gold stand ard by Great Britain, The committee's : resolution'1, also followed further efforts by the con tinental gold nations to obtain Brit ish support in their fight for ateblll zatlon, , One high continental statesman sold after tho committee meeting that tho conference is approaching Lte erlslsu.thla, nelc, ..V.,, , ESTONIA OFF OOLft TALLINN, Estonia, June 38 UP) Estonia 1b to abandon .the gold stand ard, Premior Tounesson announced today..- ' Tiie Estonian crown will be placed by the government at a . level with the Swedish crown, devaluation ot 36 per cent. Aftor debating.', throughout the (Continued on Page Three) , FLOUR TO BE .DISTRIBUTED Tho U Ion County Red Cross Will make a distribution of flour' next Friday afternoon at 4:00 o'clock' in the La Grande Investment company office. This distribution will be In tended to supply users for the month of July, and no further distributions will be made until the first of Aug ust. No flour will be Issued to any one who .has secured employment, according to a statement from head quarters. Today's Baseball NATIONAL LEAGUE R. H. K. Puttsburgh ., 1 11 1 Now Yorlc r. r 3 7 0 Swetonlc and Plclnlch, Finney; M'uhhnll Pj.11 nnri Mnnminn. R. H. E. St. Louis - 3 9 1 Boston - 4 10 1 Hr.llnhon. Carleton and Wilson; Brandt and Bpahrcr. s . R. H, E, Cincinnati 8 11 0 Brooklyn 1 8 i Derringer and Hemsley, Manlon; Carroll, Shauto and Lopez, Outen. R. H. B. Chicago 9 14 1 PhlludelpJila - 5 11 8 Mnloncl Nelson, Orlmes and Hart nett; Jackson, Llska, Collins, Moore and Todd. ; AMHIMCAN LEAGUE , R. H. B. Washington .......... .16 15 0 Cleveland ; :. 3 9 2 Stewart and Bowell, Berge; Perroll, Cralgheadi, Counally and Pytlak. nue. Is also Incensed over the In- crease In tho price of gasoline. He says, "It Is absolutely unwarrantea. It appears that the oil companies are taking advantago of their price cut ting activities to eliminate the small dealers during the past winter months and aro now exercising a near-monopolistic price control. Leas gasoline will be sold under thq new price and It Is working a hardship on people who do not have much buying pow proposed oy m """-""