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! Pare TW LA GRAJB EVENING OBSERVER; LA GRANDE, ORE. Saturday, July g, 1933" As Independent' Nempaptr Food Main 600 BTfrbMU H. W. PRBDBRICKfl . HAROLD M. PWLAY , Published evening!, exception OMatfayiOnfaB. i '. iXateiad tat toe PostoMksa oil aUU Matter under act ot Moron OPFIOIAL PAPER OP ... . , ... CITS' Of LA GRAfJDB MEMBER OP ASSOCIATED PRESS The Auoelated Press is exclusively entitled to use for publication of all newa dlapatcbea credited to It or not otherwise credited If pub Uahed here, rc All rights of republication of apecial dlspatonea la ' tola paper and lao the local news herein alao are reserved. - , . ' " ' 1 i ' National; Advertising- Representative? . i. . M. 0. M0OEN8EN CO., lao. i ; y j an Francisco, Ijos Angeles, Seattle, Portland, Chicago ,-,....., ,. Detroit, New York : SUBSCRIPTION BATES . , . ! t ere ; ,rt, ' e i .1' i By Carrier , ,, . Delia, one month In advance. Dally, alx anomtha In advance Dally, single copy By Dally, , per month in advance- Dally,- per 'all months in advance. Dallyi-per year In advance-- " ( ). . f l; .' ADVERTISINO BAT9 . Display, foreign, per column Inch . Display, local, per column Inch . Time contract prloaa on application - 1 As we have therefore opportunity,, let us, dp good, unto all meri, especially unto them who are of the household of faith. . ;Galatian8,6;?, JO,., . .. - , . ; . ; MORE PROOF OF THE TURf ; That, conditions ju general are, better thti' tney i'vel;,l)een' : for some time and are .continuing to improve is certainly apparent pne believes the statements one reads in the press! ,. of the country. .. J f. According to weekly report funjiphfid; byPfnpiad' f : street, Inc.,' of New York, manufacturing operations are coii- r tinuing Q.iniprove with employment increasing in Jth. follow-' ing industries: Automobile, paper board, barrel, glass bottle, shoes,,cotton goods, woolen yarns,' textile machinery', pot'tery1 and tin containers.. I. , .' ; .. Even more, impressive than increased employment and of particular interest to the average citizen are the announce-1 mentg qf wage' increases by rnaniifactu'rers $t htiayy' iccp-' sciries, .ruDoeivgoocis ana ptner industries, as well as by..the limestone industry cotton mills in' the souths ziri'c and lead smelters and prewers. Larger buying power is a .me.nc, indicated by the constantly widening distributive to tals. Each week consumer demands are .being .extended1 to ' additional items' find , as soon as such' urgent lVquiremehty' -. ss clothes and, shoes' are filledj.'i is. evident' thiit"accumuittte bills .win,.b'ep.aid and a greater interest displayed in such' things as furniture, house-furnishings, radios, .lWsical in y . strum'ents and perhaps,',.eve such luxuries' as jewelry, etc; As the long drama of investigation continues in that , swelterng connTiittee. room at Washington, the ordinary American begins to get a clear picture of a, state of affairs ; vhiclj he had frequently surmised but at which he had never . ' before got a really good look. The financial world is a place of mystery and wonder to most of us. We .have known that it, was a place where vast . sums qf money could be mae and1 iosi, as well an'd vie had a dim feeling that what went on there was ultimately ot : great importance . .even to non-investors ; but the most of us never got more than a confused and hazy idea of Mow it all was donei '. 4 , , ; . Npy .our eyes ai;e, being opened. Security issues that go to insidere at bargain rates before they find their way into the open marketweiilthy men who ; have found a fool-proof way ,of defeating the income tax' by year-end sales of stock; the formation of holding companies with the public's money, devised so that clever manipulators can hold the strings to far-flung industrial combines; inter locking series of loans so complex that even the man wlio negotiated them cannot remember, how it was done without . looking lit his private records Jill of these thing's brought into the open by Ferdinand Pecora's questioning provide us with an invaluable object-lesson in the way our country gets ; run. : . : ' ! Now the general run of thfce operations were not wrong ! legally; most of them, in fact, gauged by current standards, were not even wrong morally. We had devised the.kind if economic and social set-up which made it necessary for !tlje .financing of. big affairs to be comfticted in that way. To get indignant at the individuals directly conceiiied is to mi.s the point entirely. . Forlhe real point of it all, of course,oi8that it was our whole basic system that was at fault. "This has been sajd before, to be sure; but it cannot lie said too often. 'America, . being what it was, and our standards being what they wero, it was simply inevitable that a tangled web of this kind be' .built up ovr our heads. - 4 , What, we face now is 'the j'o'h of 'i'ntrofiu'cing restrictions, and modifying ou'r own viewpoints, so that the important tusk of financing our industries can be crricd on with the public interest Uie main consideration. i When you pet some real money irulo your 'hands it might be a good idea to resist the impulse to "double it" in a few! .Weeks through the purchase of some special stock, offered by a good talker who is generous and wants youto make some easy money. It's funny how a man will grave attention to the art of just the precise, exact style; (incorporated) TO AIOCriIB , Publisher and Oeunl Mngr . , Business Manager Sunday, at 1710 Blitn street, La v.i , .wut k.'S Grande, Oregon, aa Second Clue 3, 1878. - -. - -L. UNION COONTY AMD TBU ,,, ?e M.0 to Mall - MO .(2.W .480 400 . , direct result of this", jnjprpve- slight his 'business Iwill pay hitting a little white hall in ' y. TODAY v AROUND ' AS 'cilBONiCI.U','jlV4TIIB BAILV iieAHBD 11 IKE OF THE AHHOCIATKI)' PItEHS HTOil.M HITS 1IKN1) BEND, Ore., July 8 VP) Hurling lightning iwlta Into the dry woods, a severe electrical storm passed over the southern part of the Deschutes national forest last night. No fires ware reported.. Forest telephone ays-terns- were puj. out .of .order, however, as falling trees curried away 'wires. i v. MJlKA'i H1I'KNIN1 f PENDLETON, , Ore., July, 8 VP) Wheat Is ripening fast In this sec tion with many ranchers preparing to put combines in the fields next week, although .harvest will not .be general before the middle of .the month. . WIIKAT Mill'8 CifAKTKItEl) i PORTLAND, Ore., July 8 (P) The Paelfio Continental Oraln corpora tion announced Friday It has closed options on two freighters to take full cargoes of wheat from Portland to New Orleans.. Shippers said It was the first time In Pacific shipping his tory that ahlps have been chartered to. take .full cargoes of wheat from this coast to gulf points. .. TWO 'MEN JIKOWN THE DALLES, Ore, July 8 UP) Clarence Woodruff, 35, and Leo Denis, 24,--both -of .The -Dalles, drowned In AT THE Sunday-Monday:. , "Story . of Temple Drake" with JVflrlam Jiopklns, Jack ha :Buo. ..wuilnm oargan. William Coltlcr , Jr.; Tliclnia Todd-Zasu P)tts comedy, ,. sneak Easily";, screen Souvenirs: Bobble Jones In "How Tp .Break 80"; Graham McNamee "News. . ... Tuesdsy-Wednesd'y: "Strictly Per sonal" , starring Dorothy Jordan, Marjbrle Kambeau. Eddie Qulllan; "puddy lOiows'Best" comedy; act; news. , .... i; , . , . .. , ( Thursciiy-prlday:, "Made on' Brdiid woy", with Robert Montgomery, Solly, Eilers.' and Madge Evans; comedy; .( pictorial; "Fighting Fins" ;sportlight,. , Saturday: 2ane prey's "Sunset' Pass" with Randolph Scott,, Tom Keeno, Kiithlceu Burke:, Noah Beery, Har ry' Carey; ."Bring 'Em Back a Wife" comedy; cartoon; chapter 6 "Whis pering Shadow"; race night; news. 'The Story of Temple Drake," soreen adaptation of a novel .by Wil NEW OBDKRS ! , SENT BY-F. R. , TO ENGLAND (Continued Prom Page One) . long" . cable. . message from his chief, 'Wh.tch while It bad? not been entirely clecodetl ,at midday, ws known to contain guidance and was expected to tender assistance in carrying the American president's campaign for a world-wide recovery. 4 Mr. , Roosevelt's latest move aroused entirely different emotions In 'the two embattled camps the gold bloc and the country's which support American policy.'- AmerlraiiH Jubilant The American group was Jubilant at the prospect of being able to pre sent concrete proposals to the parley in support of their desire for treat ment of the full original agenda. Leaders of the gold countries, how ever,- declared that the president's program is eslgne to solidify what they characterize as the dollar sterl ing bloc, comprising the United States, tlie British Empire and a number of smaller states, and assist it to oppose, the European gold stan dard nations. flOU) BM)C TO TIOIIT , , PARIS, July 8 P) The fight to maintain the gold standard was for mally oragulzed today by representa tives or six countries hoIcMng two fifths of the worlds supply of the ypllow mctni at tin all-day meeting at . the Bank of Prance. . A secret agreement, signed by offi cials of six banks of Issue, wns un derstood to provide the menns of supporting cumhclcs and direct methods of throttling speculation against gold. The . banks of Prance, Holland, Swltswrland. Belgium, Poland and Italy agreed to enforce Immediately a set of regulations designed to "malutatn uwhlntfivcd the functioning of the gold standard in their re spective countries, at present pari ties," under present laws. ciUU STU.N'GUiS IX CHAIlt NEW YORK Left In her high chair while her mother, Mrs. Jeun Luis, was taking her sister to a nemby set tlement, jitue Mildred Luis. one. squirmed dowfi in the chnlr, became entangled in the chair .'trap and strangled to death" before her moth er's return. o (WNCKUS S'JOO.OOO IN HUNTS 0 CINCINNATI William P. Ek-vou. 78, conceled (300,000 In vent owed him on 800, pieces of property,,, oc oupled by about 800 families, "most of whom ore negroes. Unemployment and hare times resulted in their In ability to pay. (IKoOrT TOO SvS)OV NEW YOIlk F6ur stowaways on the liner Cameronln, two school boys and two "mru, emerged from helr hiding places before the liner passed through Sandy Point and were put eff tlie ship at Stopleton. L. J., there by lost ng n free tri p to O lasgow, Scotland, HORN m,.M: Shi:s MADISON, Wis. Born blind, Pmnk Kent recently received his diploma as a graduate of the Uulver slty ofa Wisconsin Law school. When he was two, an operation was per formed and pupils from an animal were grafted on his eyes. When he was five, he saw dayllKht for the first time and his sight is now grad ually improving. IN BRIEF; IN AND the Columbia .rivor near Big Eddy Fri day, Denis giving his' life in a futile attempt to rescue hie, companion. The nen 'had been fishing with salmon dip nets on the narrow, rocky cnannel which leaves the main river. As they carried their catch to a boat. Woodruff slipped from a rock and fell, into tho channel. Denis then leaped in to savo him and .both wcro carried down the channel. 1IEOIN8 i'ltlSON TEKM SALEM, July 8 VP) Frank Keller Jr., began a five year sentence at state's prison Friday. He was convict ed of violating the;' blue' any laws, while serving as sales, manager for the Empire Holding corporation". yo VHE MOKE SHIPS PORTLAND, July 8. VP) in an ticipation of a marked Increase In transpacific business, the entire Quaker Steamship company fleet of 17 ships will ,be put In operation toy 'Jie end of July, and six lald-up ves sels of the States steamship Un will be reconditioned for trade with the Orient. The announcement was made Friday by Kenneth D. Dawson, gen eral manager of both companies. The demand for intcrcoastal ton nage has sharply lncf eased. LIBERTY liam Faulkner, has been booked for the Liberty theatre, where It will open Sunday. Miriam Hopkins plays the title role, with Jack La Rue, William Gargari, William Colilcr Jr.. Irving Plchcl and Sir Guy standing at the head of the suportlng cast. "The Story of Temple Drake" Is the story of a Southern girl, a curi ous mixture of the sedate and the wanton. A drunken ride with a col lego boy ends up in a wreck outside a bootlegger's house, and,, when the! boy is shipped off back to town, she Is held behind by a sinister, mcnac-' ing big-city gangster, Trigger, who kills the one man who tries to pro tect her; drags her off to a tawdry rooming house in the city, and keeps her there. Blame for the murder is placed on' another man. and p. young lawyer who la In love with Temple is as signed to defend him. The lawyer wuo "B. u luiua xvmpiu witu him. climax in the events that follow. WANDERS IN WILDERNESS i V JH H VV niiliiva (Continued ironi Pag One) Mattern'a ship. As translated from Russian.,, as. it was received, in San Francisco, the message said tlWle ! . was "crushed to pieces," whereas the t ntessage picked up in Moscow by Toss (Russian news OKenov) said thcfller was forced down bv engine trouble, and added ..that a new moior would be supplied to enable Muttern to continue his round-the-world flight. The message received at Son Fran cisco Indicated that Mattcrn had wandered through the Siberian wild Z,,r!.T.,Lt!:r",Zr!;Lt"", the world anxiously awaited news of his fate. It stated that he landed BO miles west of Anadyr June 14, but was not found until July 6, the day he was taken to Anadyr. rNCLE SAM READY TO HELP WASHINGTON, July 8 P The state department advised the coast guard service that it has no objection to the entry of the cutter Northland into Russian waters nt Amu'iyr, Siberia, to reach James Mattcrn, the American filer, and suggested, tnt the officers of the Northland make their own arrangements for the trip with Soviet authorities. -Should Soviet offlcia?s offer any objection, It is assumed by state department officials that the captnln of the American cutter will arrange to have Muttern sent out in a small boat three miles beyond the Siberion coast line and transfercrd to the Am erican ship. The coast Hunrd will sond the Northland to Anadyr, If Mrs, Mattom requests It. kovett Jailed In Strike Row TroT. Robert Morss I.ovelt, above, of Jlie University of Chi cago, Bpent nn hour in a coll after his arrest on a charge ot disorderly conduct growing out of his nppearntico with picket lug strikers nt a Chicago gar ment plunt. Released ou bond, Trot. Lovett, will contest the right ot police to arrest ultn. 'Power Fails : A "Seal of Power" supposedly contained In a piece of dried ele phant hide which she attempted to sell to adherents failed to help Rev. Estelle Barnes when she ran afoul of the law on charges of violating' the state' medical prac tices act. She was convicted of the charges In a Los Angeles court. MORE CONFIDENCE BEING SHOWN IN e danitg WASHINGTON m Indications of returning confidence in the na tion's banks was noted here In fig ures showing a decline In the rush for postal savings depositories. ' The banking crisis swelled) the total of postal savings deposits to -$1,11 1, 675,386 at the end of March, an in crease of $106,002,815 over February, Then came swift efforts to re-open ciosea uaiucs and re-habllitnte the general banking structure. By the end of May the rate of Increase' In postal savings had dropped sharply. The total oh deposit April 31 was 5i.io7,tJ&i,7a8 an increase over March Cf A4Q.070.4O.1. Mnv HI tha tninl nme ?i,i78,342,lll7, an increase over Anrll Postal officials , believe the June total will show nn evon greater rate ox decline. Postal savings have Increased tre- mpnrlmiElv Hiiflt.n. Anvnnntn a. en" or the 1830 tiscal year the j balance to the 'credit of depositors' was n5,27i.86B; at the end of 1031. 8104,765,742; ot the- end of 1033, 784.820,623. , """" lne uinss-owagan DanKing .7,''. .1"')?r uu'iieo uic iiiuuc wine iiiatvim Ol demand deposits, thus making . it necessary for depositors to give 60 ,an5 nonce lor withdrawals under penalty of forfeiting their interest. WHAT'S IN A NAME? LAUSANNE, Switzerland When the former Spanish heir to the throne and his bride-to-be signed their constituted their signatures: Don Al- fonso Pio Christ! no Edouardo Fran cisco Ouillerme Carlos Enrique Eugenlo Fernondo Antonla Venancie Bourbon y Battenberg and Edel-Mira Ignoclo Adrlana Sampedro y Ocejo. How'ro they for plenty of names? .... Your Aims For A Safe, Soundly Reorganized Home flank for Home People Kovlil 1. stoiW.irrt President V. I.. Meyerm V'- j President A. K. Parker, Cashier II. A. Kurbrlrk, Asst. Ca.thlrr I.. II. Hnilhwcll, Asst. Cashier UJDCAIL Prom Cove ' Carl Haog, of Cove, was transacting business In. La Grande Friday after noon. - - ' - Visit In Aitorla Misses Virginia Bra m well and Lu cille Price returned home yesturdav from Astoria where 'they have been visiting the latter's aunt, Mrs. Anna, IVCe&slnger, since July 3. Returns to La Grunde -. Mrs. Dorothy Smith has leen visit ing Jn Palo Alto, Oal. with her'son, Robert, and her s-ster-iri-law. Mrs. Lou Smith, for the past three' months. She ' returned this morning- to- he borne in La Grande. From tvullowa Co. Mrs.'"W. A. "Fay. of Wallowa, and Mrs. W; T. Savage, of Enterprise, were amone; thp , visitors .from Wallowa county today. 'Mrs. Pay arrlverjast night to transact business. wk In Twin Falls Billy Crewe, of the Crewe school i of dancing, Is a visitor In Twin Falls. Idaho for two weeks. From Pendleton Among- the former students at the Oregon Normal school who were here yesterday to attend the funeral services for Leonard Roe were Kenneth Hodgin, of Adams, Allen Car- den and Chris Lassen, both-of ''Pen dleton. Week's Visit Miss Marguerite Brahh, of Pendle ton, spent this week visiting Miss Kathleen Williamson and other friends. On her return to Pendleton she was accompanied by Miss Wil liamson who will be her guest here. Keittirn From Itesort - Mr. and Mrs. Pred: Peterson and their three children have returned from Wallowa Lake where they have been having vacation of several days. They stayed at the Hoyt cabin while at the lake. Church Notice . Church services at St. Peter's Epis copal church tomorrow will includr holy communion at 8 and morning prayer with sermon at 11 a. m. All j other services and activities are dis continued for the summer. REFUSED IIV ARMY AT il8, MAN STILL ACTIVE AT 8ft' ORANGEBURG, S. C. () The' army wouldn't take William Haas 70 years ago at the outbreak of the Civil war when he was 18 years old, because lie had a "weak heart." Life Insurance companies turned him down as a "poor risk" and Haas had to get along without army ser vice or Insurance. He has outlived most of' the men accepted for mili tary service and many a, robust man who was readily; granted Insurance. ( Haas was bom at Buffalo, N. Y., and married there. His wife says she haa "trotted along with him bverten states" in the 04 years they have lived together. Haas operates, 'factories- for the making of handles, and nos established many of them in varl-; ous states. ' TAX ASSESSMENTS DECKEASE KANSAS CITY (iP) The city as sessor has reported that the assessed valuation of Kansas .City property for tax purposes In. 1933 amounted to $465,951,920, a decrease of approxi mately $24,000,000 since last year. Beaumont, Cal., banks have started night banking to accommodate work men on the Los Angeles metropoli tan water district tunnel.-' Montana creameries produced more than 14,000,000 pqundj of butter In 1032, four per cent less than In the preceding year. o YourB Future Your boy's future is a part of your lif& in terest and work those of you so fortunate to he tilessed with a son. His ambitions may call for a professional or technical training, . . ?t special fund to start , him in business f his oTivn. Arranjre now to see him through with an adequate savings program . . . e?ther in your name or hisoovn ... at this homebank.' You'll find us genuinely interested in your plans for your boy. FKST.NATIONALBANK . Of La Grande . OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS Pavld I. Stoddard P. I,. Meyers ' Martin kins; flea II. Hurnhart W. C. Perkins BIROE-FiT German Winner Karl Mater, 14, a San Francisco junior high student, was born in Germany and is being raised by an ex-German soldier who was In the World War. Karl was awarded the American' Legion medal for "service, courage, leadership; scholarship and honor," and he as" pires to gb to Annapolis. 'EDEHAL STOCKADE, RELIC OF OLD WEST, -TO UN DOWN MUSKOGEE, Okla. W Another of Oklahoma's landmarks of the old west has passed with the razing of the federal Jail, usually called the stockade. It was used from the lat ter years of The nineteenth century until 1907, when Oklahoma was ad mitted to the union. Frank and Al Jennings, notorious train robbers, were confined In tse stockade at one time. The jail was In fact a group of tliree small frame houses, surround ed by a high wooden wall. Since It contained but a (few steel cells, pris oners 'made numerous attempts to burn It down. MOTHER FAINTS, BABY KILLED NEW YORK When Mrs. Rose Novick, 25, fainted near an open win dow, her three weeks old baby girl r611ed from her anhs, out of the win dow, falling three stories to. its death. William i rteed,... master dlyer. who located the submarine S-51 after It had been rammed off New York has been appointed submarine inspector for the San Prancisco-Oaklond bav bridge. . ...... , A piece of drill pipe Stuck more than two miles below the earth In on oil well near Coalinga, Cal. Dyna mite was used to blow It out. Books Opened or Close Financial Statements am lax returns compiled, i '(FRANK L. BLACK . 1701 BtU St. oys DlllECTOItS 0 Ernest peLonjt Harry McKtnlay 0 II. J. Green0 . A.o K. Parker OUTPUT OF CARS HEADING TO FIRST'4 RISE SINCE 1929 111 liuvlil i, Wllkle nnrrTjrTT tah .ttt.n..r.i. .... tune of production and distribution still ore far 'from what leaders of tin motor car Industry desire to term "normal," they enter' the final half of 1833 with an outlook more opti mistic than at any time during the lost three and-one-half years. Barring a reversal of the present trend the Industry expects to produco a total of from 1,760,000 to 1,800,000 passenger cars and trucks In the United States and -Canada. mmm,i with l,46i;000 In )933 and 5,621 71s in 1028. . The optimistic outlook of eecu- tlves Is based on several factors, chief of whlclv is that the potential de mand that' has been' accumulating over a period of more than thrco years has! only Just begun to get Into' motion: Increased purchasing. power, leaders of the industry believe, has played only a minor part In the ac celeratlonof, saleB and the conse quent stepping up of production dur ing the lt,rst six months of' the year. no small part or -thai retail demand to date, authorities' In the lmiustry say. has been due to seasonal influ ences, an accumulation of orders dur ing the banking holiday and seme talk of possible higher prices alone with discussion of Inflationary' pro. posals. Current Improvement in bstf. ncss conditions outside' the motor "car Industry, they add, . oan be expected soon to develop a real increase in purchasing power whloh will .be re flected In the buying of motor cars In, great numbers. .' 314,000 IN C. C. C. BY JULY WASHINGTON" More' than-10.000 young -men of the Civilian Conserva tion Corps were transferred! dally from conditioning to forest work camps during last 'days of June, thus com pleting the quota of 274,000 men ser by President Roosevelt for the end of June. ' Enrollment of 25,000 war veterans Is expeoted to be completed by July 0th and about 14,000 Indians will bo added, bringing the total up to more than 314,000., "PIIETTY" BOY A GIRL . ELIZABETH, N.-J. Encountering a "pretty" boy on the street, a police-' man became suspicious and brought to on. emir the masquerade of June Clark, 15, of Needham, Mass., who left her home, Intending to go to Hollywood via Atlantic City. Fifty - three graduates of this spring's University of California school of forestry class entered the reforestation army. SPECIAL! Sunproof House Faint AA ft A per gallon fJUmtj" Plasco House Paint OS AQ per gallon tj) ---' Best, 'Orade' Floor Paint Affm per quart ......... ifuv Close-Out Floor Paint Rkn per quart :... Dlv Pittsburgh Paint Store 111 Elm. St.' i J. A. Bugg, Mgr. Quality' ' , Counts Opposite The. Post Office NELSON Red Cross Drug Store All Types of Repairing By Expert .Mechanics J M. J. Goss tutomooiies Man 83 Listen II,ospital0 Bills are an ex pensive luxury, don't take a chance with im pure ice. i . - . . . 'r is maae from pure water, under sanitary condi-! Hons, pur prices am able, our services are the best. me uasn ana carry trade. Gaither Ice & Fuel Co. 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