WEATHEU 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
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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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.
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: ;
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
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ROOSEVELT FOG
BOUND IN MAINE
LAKEMANS BAY, Roque Island,
Malno, Juno 2& ( President
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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
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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 """-""