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VOLUME 31
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRBM AND A, B. C.
LA r.RNHE, OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 7, 1933
ASTERN SRBGON'g MADI-VO NEWSPAPER
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MOVES AHEAD
ON SCHEDULE
Contractor E x p e c t s to
Have Building Com
pleted During August .
MOST BRICKWORK
HAS BEEN DONE
Finishing of About One
Third, of Secrnd Floor
' Interior Has Been Com
pleted, Report.
Work at the La Grande High,
school building, which Is being recon.
structed this summer with Insurance
money received after' the lire last
September, Is progresslngaat an excel
lent rate of speed.
A. Ritchie, the contractor, expects
to have the building completed some
time In August.
At present all of the brickwork on
the main building and the annex on
the north side Is completed, and
about one-third of the Interior of the
' second floor has been finished. No
finishing work has been! done as yet
on the first floor.
Brick laying Is still under way on
the northwest corner annex, which
will house the girls' shower rooms
on tho first floor and the music de-
partment on the second floor. Old
brick Is being utilized for the second
floor of this addition, which was voted
by the schood board at a recent meet-ding.
Continued on Pace Throe)
Rep, Pierce Tfi
Speak on Sales
Tax on July 15
Representative Walter M. Pierce, of
tho second concessional district. Is
taking an emphatic stand against the
Bales tax which will be submitted to
the people for voting on July 21. The
sales tax and other measures to be
decided In the special election and
governmental measures will be dis
cussed by Mr? Pierce on Saturday,
July 15, both before the Union grange
picnic In the a f tor noon and the
Pleasant Grove grange In the after
noon. .
BREAKS WRIST
IN AUTO FALL
Mrs. T. E. Plerson, 1205 N avenue,
broke her wrist In two places recently
vE5en she fell while stepping frorA an
automobile. Her heel caught on the
metal strip on the car floor and Mrs.
Plerson fell to the pavement.
Her condition, is entirely satisfac
tory no-, It is . announced.
HE DECIDED TO
HIT TH' TRAIL
Frank McCallonof La Grande, ap
peared in police court Wednesday in
Pendleton on a vagrancy charge and
was given his choice of paying $L0
anj serving 10) days in Jail or leaving
town for good In 10 minutes. He de
cided to leSve town.
Portland Fears
A New Tong War
PORTLAND, July 7 W) Prepared
for riot call action, a suad of police
mnlntjtlnfkt a , airiest urnt.h nn TVirt
land's Chinatown today. A tong warn
the officers believe, la In the making.
NEWSPAPER OF 1885
PRINTED0N CLOTH
Did you ever set a newspaper
printed on cloth? Cloth a lot like
that used to make flour sacks? '
On August 14, 1885, the Issue of
the La Grande Gazette, published by
W. G. Snodgrass, was facing a major
emergency. It was nearly time to go
to press and' there was no paper!
Freight was uncertain in those days
and on this particular occasion, there
seemed nothing on which to print
the day's news. . .
Many an editor would either have
sprouted gray he'.- or else closed up
Bhop and gone fishing. But Mr. Snod
grass, who was the father of Lot
Snodgrass, La Grande mortician' of
today, did neither. He merely moved
over into his dry goods store, got
some bolts of cloth, and out came
the edition!
Mrs. Nelll G. Nelll, who had come
WILL
ROGER?
f$gys:
BEVERLY HILLS, Oal.. July 6
The morning papers said the London
conference blew up, the afternoon
papers say Its blown back In again.
They ought to put thab thing on the
stock market and let people make
bets on what it will do next.
Well, the boys got to see the king,
and that was about all the trip over
was for, anyhow.
The whole thing don't seem to toe
worrying Roosevelt. He has galneu
eight pounds since Its started. . I'll
bet Prance has perspired away 26
pounds per diplomat in. the same
time.
They are going to yank her off that
gold. Just as she yanked England and
America off. One wolf can't be In
a pock and have a bone all to him
self. Yours,
MILL TO RE-OPEN
MONDAY IF LOGS
EXPECTED ARRIVE
The Mount Emily Lumber Co,
sawmill, which re-opened In May tout
which was shutdown temporarily a
few weeks ago .because of Inability to
get sufficient logs from the woods 'be
cause of weather conditions at that
time.' plans .to resume operations next
Monday morning. This, of course,
depends upon whether sufficient loss
arrive between rtow and then to war
rant re-opening Monday.
One trainlond of logs has arrived at
La Grande from the woods already., ;
WARM DAYS BRING
MORE GRASS FIRES
Warm wcathSr. with the mercury
high In the 80s regularly during .the
warmest part of Set day. Is drying
out grass and weeds over the city
and as a result, several grass fires
have been extinguished recently by
the fire department.
At 5:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon
t.hn rionnrtrrittnt wa called to the
Normal school hgl to put out a gnfM
blaze ' caused - Dy cnnoren p;aymg
with matches. No damage was done.
The maximum here yesterday was
88 above with clear skies and tho
weather was unchanged this morning.
NEPHEW VISITS
R. A. WILKERSON
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Ralph Oalthcr, nephew of R. A.
Wiyerson, who lives In North Caro
lina, arrived unexpectedly In La
Oranc'ta and made a surprise visit to
the homy of his uncis lasts night.
Mr. Oalthcr enlisted during tho World
war In tftio navy and has served nce
that time. He Is now stationed t
San Diego.
This Is the first time that Mr.
Wllkerson has seen Mr. Oalthcr since
tho latter was a small boy.
SCHOOL CLERK
TO PORTLAND
Raymond O. Williams, tA of tho
school district, left this morning for
Portland . whero ho will Join Mrs.
Williams end their daughter and
spend the weekend. Mrs. Williams
has been visiting since before the
Fourth of July with her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. O. E. Happersett. '
He will be accompanied from Pen
dleton by his sister, Mrs. Mabel Rob
bins, of Milton. ; . '
to this valley by stage from Walla
Walla as far as Meacnam, and then
boarded a freight of engine and ca
boose. one of two white passengers
aboard tho trail?, has a copy of the
cloth, paper In iier possession, and
loaned it to the Observer. 8he re
calls the day she arrived hero she
had to walk from the place she left
the freight, at the railroad tracks
and Fourth street which was just
beyond the old G randy home on the
corner of Adams and Fourth and had
a rail fence all around It, up to Old
Town. Their home was in the vicin
ity oC the Central school.
She tells the story of how the cloth
paper was printed that day back In
1885. Mr. Snodgrass owned a store
on the comer, then next was his tin
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Boiler Mount'
an
NBA
Presenting a radiator mountain
part of a lot of 500( discards
shipped from Los Angeles on the
steamer Santa Teresa to be melted
for metal
EDGAR KNAPP IS
BURIED THURSDAY
Edgar Knnpp,son of Horace Knapp
and Mrs. Fred G. Smith and one of
two young men who were killed in
an automobile accident between Im
bler - and 'Rlnehart the-morning of
July Fourth, -was buried yesterday
nitcrnoon nt the Odd Follows "'ceme
tery, after funeral services were held
at Walker's Funeral Home with about
300 attending.
Rov. J. George Wnlz, of tho Pres
byterian church, officiated at the
services. Raymond O. Williams sang
Beautiful Isle of Somewhere" and
"Lead Kind Light," accompanied by
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ASSEMBLY TO
BE SATURDAY
AT ACKERMAN
The first ngjfembly of the children
or the J. H. Ackerman school to be
held during the summer term, !s
scheduled for tomorrow morning at
11 o'clock in the Easljgrn Oregon Nor
mal school auditorium.
, All grades, from the first to the
eighth, will bo represented. Children
will read favorite selections and the'
olghtti grade will furnish special
music. Parents and friends arc in
.' n RECOGrJIZaS THE 'AK7 $J.
iU - - Gentleman from k. 17(0 y'.'lnf
f'QU' LOUISIANA. , YW-jfcrj$$&
PIONEERS TO
HOLD PICNIC
ON JULY 20
Sons and .Daughters Asso
ciation,, to Ai'Tange.
Program Tomorrow
DUNHAM WRIGHT
PLANS TO ATTEND
All-Day Picnic Planned at
Riverside. Park; punch
eon at Noon Hour -Arranged
For. .
Tho annual Union county pioneer
picnic will be held on tho ' third
Thursday of this month, July 20, at
Riverside park, it was announced to
day by J. E. Reynolds, president of
the Sons and Daughters of the Un
ion County Pioneers.
Mr. Reynolds has called a meeting
of tho association to be held tomor
row afternoon at 2 o'clock at tho
Sacajawea Inn Jor the purpose of
arranging the program for the all
day picnic.
Dunliam Wright, sage of Medical
Springs and one of the most widely
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Eagles To Hold
Annual Picnic v
In Near Future
Tho annual summer picnic of the
jFa gif a. lotf e; ,wl 11 bo held ,1 n t he -near,
luture ana pittus lor uie ouung were
mado'lnst night when tho lodge met
at the hall. Members of the com
mittee in charge are John Hopkins,
W. P. Blanchord, Oscar Hobson. J. H.
Proffitt, Charles Hildebrand, repre
senting the lodge, and Mesdames May
Parker, Frank Seward, Pearl Patt,
Mabel Harris and Oscar Hobson, the
auxiliary. They will-select date and
site for the picnic.
Donald Gnttschalk was tnltlto$
Into membership by the Engles. -
The weekly broadcasts also wll be
continued during the coming week
and until the opening of the local
station, if local artists ogreg)to re
spond. LONGFELLOWS
LEAVE TODA
Mr.. and Mrs. J, T. Longfellow plan
to leave this afternoon for Oregon
City where they will' make their
home. Mr. Longfellow, formerly su
perintendent of schools in La Grande,
has accepted a similar position in
Oregon City.
FORCE OF HABIT
A RECORD
lWxt; aim . I
court names 3
jto give report
Son perry road
J. A. McKenzle, Charles Playle and
S. B. Morgan, county road master,
wcro appointed by tho county court
yesterday at the closing session of the
July term to vlow the road ori tho
upoe,r flat at Perry, assess tho dam
agi.4f any and report back at- a
futuro meeting. The court met in
tho office "of County Judge U. J.
Couch, at tho court house.
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GIRL ENTERS
W. B. COLLEGE
Miss Veda Slrrlno loft this morning
for Seattlo to rttend the Wilson
Business college. Bho drove with hei
undo and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. D. 8.
Fullmer, who have been visiting rela
tives hero for a ,wcek. They wcro tho
guests of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Full
mer and Mr; and Mrs. Seth Slrrluc.
Carole Lombard To
Divorce W Powell
LOS ANGELES, July 7 (P) Wil
liam Powell, debonair screen actor,
and Carolo Lombard, actress, aro go
ing to be divorce1? in NeVrida on her
complaint, Mrs. E. C. Peters, her
niothe disclosed lalo last night.
IN 'B' FLAT
Eleanor Holm, swim champ.
Is versatile, to suy tho least,
what with her swimming, movlo
acting, nnil othor accomplish
ments. Slio showed further tal
ent nttor equalling nor world
bnckstroko record ot 1:11.2 In
Lea Angolos. rocontly. She
hopped out ot tho wator and
strummed a banjo, as shown
nbovo.
CONFERENCE
GOLD BLOC
LOSES TILT
Monetary ; Questions; Not
-to be Excluded; Thumbs '
Down on Tariffs, Quotas
LONDON. July P) Tho Europe
an gold bloc lost lta fight for exclu
sion of monetary questions from the
renovated agenda of the world econ
omic conference today when the sub
committee on Immediate measures
for financial reconstruction voted 26
to 15 to continuo to discuss monetary
problems. , ' '( ,
The vote camo after nn all-t'tiy
battle over the proposal by Ncvlllo
Chamberlain, British chancellor of
the exchequer, that the full agenda
bo continued including monetary
matters which the gold countries
have been fiercely opposing.
JTho British dominions. Scandinavia
and tho countries of tho Par East
and Latin America lined up almost
solidly with Chamberlain's position
which supports tho American thesis.
Among those supporting tho gold1
bloo In demanding elimination of
monetary questions until currency
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WOOD AND SHITO
IN GOLF DEADLOCK
ST. ANDREWS, Scotland, July 7
(yn, Two youthful American' pro
fcKBlonalfl, Densmoro Shute. of Phila
delphia, and Craig Wood, of Deal,
N. J., today tied for the British open
Kolf champlonflhlr0 with totals of
292 each for 72 ')ics In one of ihe
.noat Bpcctacular finishes In the tour
nament's history..
Shute and Wood will play off at
30-hoIcn tomorrow for tho title lout
by Oono Sarnzen by a slnglo struko.
jHyd Ettsterbrook, lant hojjo ot, the,
BlTtlsh homebredH, took, a 77 for his
ijhI round and Ml Jut a stroke
short of tying Wood and Shute. His
total or 203 put tho Briton In a dead
Iock for third place with Gene Sara
ztn and Leo Dlcgcl as the American
homebredH took four of tho first flvo
places In a riotous finishing drive.
WILL A TTEND
BEND MEETING
h. A. Kennedy, mull carrier at the
local post office, plans to leave JLhls
cvcnlwHgfor Bend to attend the state
convention of mall carriers there.
Wheat Today
CHICAGO July 7 Wi For the
first time M 1033, all dellvorlesof
wheat here sold, above $1.00 a built el
today, and some climbed as high as
1.10.
Big profit taking and timely rains
caused reactions later. The main
Immediate Impulse toward higher
prices came from wild fluctuations In
foreign currencies following President
Rooscvolt's stand as to the money
policy of the United States,
Wheat closed unsettled, tflc
under yesterday's finish, corn 114 9
2c down, oaU wla orf, and
provisions 7 to 22 conts up.
JUST BEFORE
PRESSTIME
MASKED UOmiKK SHOOTS 2 .
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CANCEL CUT IN WAGK8
JOHNSON ISSUES WARNING
STOCK SALESMEN CONVICTED'
LA JUNTA, Colo., July 1 (IF) j- A
nviHktNl robber shot Mary Russell, -50,
to death, woumtal her brother, John
(ill, set fire to their house Hera curly
today and tied, apparently leaving
his partner to dlom tile names.
PORTLAND, Ore., July liin There
were smiles on the faces of employes
of the Sperry Flour company hero to.
day. They were advised the company
not only has cancelled the order ot
lasv February for a 10 per cent r.
auction' In salary, but that this 10
per oent reduction will bo restored
In -full. ;! w . -
WASHINGTON, July 1 m Hugh.
a. Johnson, ' national recovery aunuu
Istrator, warned anew today that un
less Industry moved promptly ot In
crease puroliaslng power through In
nrnnu.il wuirptt t.i ftfiiuitartinlanm tho
inoreused "speculative production" a
new COIIUKrO IIUSiil. n:Biui,
"NEW YORK, July 7 (T) Otto
Ooebel and eight others .were con
vloted today of using the. malls to
defraud In the solo of stock of the
National Diversified corporation. The
trial lasted 100 days. ;;.;' "
CIIICAOO, .Iirly 7m Resolutions
condemning cities which have "railed
unnecessarily to pay their teachers,"
and urging school hoards to refrain
from further cuts In costs or salaries,
wero before teachers or the National
Kducatloii'nssoclutlon for approval la?
day.- " '..' ' ' ' ' ' . ''
BUSINESS GAINS
ENCOURAGING IN
THE LAST WEEK
NEW VortK, July 7 Tho past
week was marked by further sharp
gains In many lines of Industry and
trade, said tho Dun & Bradstroet re
view today." ,
"It Ms no longer an opinion," as.
sorted tho agency, "that business Is
on tho upgrade; It Is a fact. The
complete reversal of trade trends dur-
Ine the first slit months or tno our.
rent year,; with tho precipitous "and
unprecedented climb of productive
and distributive totals, bos left oven
loaders of Industry mystified. .
"In addition orders aro being, re
ceived from unexpected sources, and
many for amount unequalled in
years, whilo unemployment Is being
reduced each week and Is accompani
ed' by the encouraging announce
ments of more firms granting pay In
creases. "Tho buying wave has now reached
such proportions that It has swept
asldo all the suspicion and lack of
confldcnco sd prevalent threo months
ago, and tho weekly Increase lit tho
backlog of unfilled orders Is consider
ed unquestioned proof of tho por
maner of tho general Improve
ment. "Whllo speculative buying is not
absent In current operations, whole
salers as well as retailers are placing
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SEARCH FOR FLU
CURE PROGRESSES
LONDON, July 7 - Tho pros
pect of producing scrum to make
humans Immune to Influenza has
been brought nearer by tho dlscovory
that ferrets can bo Infected with the
Influenza, virus.
Tests confirmed tho belief that In
fluenza Is partly duo to a genn that
can pass through filters, from which
scientists hope to prepare an effec
tive scrum. The experiments aro con
I iNQUIRING"REP0RTER I
l-.... I. Ann a. 1 InnoMn. anflri Mot Mi. nitnili ,m Mnmi
Each dev. as the Inquiring Reporter makes the rounds two persons
will beSftopped at random on the street corner and asked some I
question of the day. Through the courtesy of Manager C. M. Wight L
ouch Interviewed will be grunted two complimentary tickets to the ,
Liberty Theatre. .The current cttnictlon is Nancy Carroll In "Tho u
lVuiiHill Accused." ' . ' , '
Sixteen young men from New. York,
stationed ot the Bull Pralrlo foresta
tlon camp in Orant county. Umatilla
national forest, will soon be on their
way homeward, tho result of discharge
from camp following fighting and
rioting which occurred Wednesday,
an Associated Press dispatch reveals.
Camp officials describe those from
New York City as "very troublesome."
M. O. Wobb. 00S O avenue, says,
"They should be sent back. In. somo
crows the C, C. C. Is a great benefit,
FLIER SENDS i
MESSAGE TO!
HIS HOMELAND
No Further Details Are
Available; U. S.Ship
Rushing to Scene.
MATTERN'S WIFE'
REJOICES AT NEWP
Flier,' in Attempt to En
circle Globe, :-Missing
For Many vDays; Ail
World Was Anxious.
iy The Associated. Press
i Jlmmlo Mattern, world filer xlvtin
up for dead by all but a trusting few,
Is safe In Siberia, '
Prom the little trading post of
Anadir brief word came today of the
safety of the aviator who disappeared
Jlmmie Mattern
June 14 while making the, first solo
flight around the world, ' '
The good news was dispatched by
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Army of Sheep ' '
.Buyers Invading
Western Oregon
PORTLAND, July 7 P) In antt-,
clpatlon of a sharp advonco in sheop
and lamb prlcos, an army of buyers
Is invading the Willamette valley with
Instructions to grab ivory offering.
Lambs, especially, aro In keen de
mand. This activity was confirmed
hero today by one largo packor and
several othors. 1
SalcB of great volume aro reported.
In the valley at prices somewhat be
low what Is available at the stock
yards hero. Prieiay carload receipts of
all lines Included four loads of sheep
and lambs, direct from a valley point
to a killer. .Thsro was yet no change
In general quotations. . "..j
Today's Baseball
American tongue
B. H. B.
Chicago ' - , BIB 0
Philadelphia 1 8 0
Batteries:' Durham and Qrubo: Ma
haffcy, Froltas and Mudjcskl.
R. 71. K.
Dotrolt 9 12 0
New York ., - 4 8 3
Batteries: Praslcr, Hogsott and Hay
worth; Ruffing, Brccnon, Brown and
Dickey.
National lcague -
R. H. B.
Boston .'. 8 la 0
Cincinnati 8 13 1
Batteries: Zachary, Starr, Botts and
Spohror, Hogan; Benton, Qulnn, Kolp
and Lombard!.
especially to the type of boys who
wero sent from La Orande. but tho
boys from tho Eastern states hava en
tirely the wrong Idea of the west and
aro tuklng advantage of a free excur-
sion for a good time."
H. J. Rltter, 1700 sixth street, says,
"They havo sloughed off the riff-raff
of the cost on the west and are send
ing nn entirely different type of per- ,
son to work In the forestation camps.
A lot of those boys do not evon In
tend to work," " , .
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