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Grangers Of Union County Saturday
WBATIIBIt FORKCAHT
J Oreeon: Voir tonight mid Friday,
J ,' Only Newspaper '
Printed in La Grande j
Covering Union and
Wallowa Counties
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VOLUME 31
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS AND A. B. Q.
LA GRANDE, OREGON, THURSDAY JULY 13, 1933
EASTERN OREGON'S IiEADINO NEWSPAPER
NUMBER 265
FACTO! PAYS CASH TO MMAPEK
! to moderate winds. Local weather J
J Wednesday: Mux 1)0, mill ISi above.
I Clear. Toduy: mill 54, 7 a. ill. (17
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. Freight Business On U. P.
MANY RETURN
TO WORK IN
LAST 6 WEEKS
Estimate From 40 to 45
More Men Employed By
Railroad in La Grande
WORK TRAIN BUS'S.
ON BRANCH LINE
-A Expected Big Movement
If of Wheat Both East
f. and Vest is Yet to
Begin, Reports Say,
Movement of freight on the Union
0 Pacific system through Eastern Ore
v gon continues to gain, and during
: the last six weeks ,the tmovement
1 has been so marked as to resuft. in
' many additional men. being put to
i ' work. A rough estimate wouA place
: the number at between. 40 and 45.
v Of this number, 13 wero firemen
: and 24 were brakemcn. The gain
f . -been so marked that It Is authorl
) S tatlvely stated, that there atg more
v men on the . P. payroll In La
( Grande at present than during any
-period In the last year.
:;''f Another Important factor in the
situation at present Is that a work
train is now usy on th branch line
: i trk betwet La Grande aif Joseph,
doing repair work, etc., and soon it
will bo transferred to the mainline.
I' 'ii Several "years ago, it was not uncom-
mon for two orhreo work trains tifl
oo in action eacn summer) out aur
' lng the la "two or three "years, j
work trains were on the Job untli
i this summer.
1 The pick-up Is almost 'entirely In
the freight movement. On top of
t that, the big movement of wheat ex
(Continued on Page Four)
Swim Week Will 0
Begin Monday At
Pine Cone Pool
The second ol t series of swim
weeks conducted by the Porpoise
club, loca? Red Cross llfesavlng corps,
will be held at Pine Cone swimming
pool beginning Monday, July 17? it
was announced tocay.
here will bo four classes of in
struction beginners, elementary
fcrvimmlng, advanced Bwimming and
llfesavlng. Woodrow Dame9ell and
Harvey Cartel, who have Just com
pleted a Red Cross course of swim
ming antf llfesavlng in Olympta,
Wash, will be In charge of the swim
week. The beginners' class will fe
taught byIlss IJclene Price.
oStlnued on Page Two)
THAT TYPOGRAPHICAL EKROItf
Tuesday the Observer published
a dty about the typographical
error and yesterday on the front
pftc one of these errors manqyxl
to evade proofreading. In the story
about the First Naiftmal bank
six drged from the $168,000 In
debtedness as of March 1 leaving
the amount In the story at only
$18,000. fttnough elsewhere lb
stated that $125,000 ftf the Indebt
edness had lon wlpedgut, mak
ing It very obvious that an error
had been made.
In spite of the fact that it was
obvious that the $18,000 flie was
in error, the Observer wishes to
correct this -it should have read
$168,000. q
STOCK POPULATION
GAINS IN.40 YEARS
i Livestock In Union county, with
i Me cxcentlon of horses and mules.
.4 have Increase liftiumbcr during the
last two score years.
An old La Orande Chronicle, taken
from a shecpherder's abandoned cabin
back of Hilgard and bearing the date
Oct. 93, 1892, gives the assessment
roll of the county. Including number
of livestock In the county at that
time.
'( Probably most interesting Is the
isct that cattle numbered 18,03a In
1803 compared with 24.831 at present,
according to the federal census. This
represents a gain of about 33 per
cent.
.4 An even greater imin was made by
WILL
ROGERS
BEVERLY HILLS, Cal., July 12
I see by the papers where my old
governor mend, Bill Murray, of Okla
homa, called out the national guard
to keep the folks from voting for
beer.
Now he will have to cal! out the U.
S. army to keep the folks from cele
brating the voting of beer.
The London conference has decided
to hold for two more weeks In order
for the hotels to kinder play even on
the thing, and give the American
delegation a little golf against the
prince of Wales.
There Is nothing as sad, forlorn and
forgotten In the world as a delega
tion returning from a conference. We
have forgot how who we sent over.
Yours,
Let, Koi'
ELECT DELEGATES
TO ATTEND LEGION
MEETATKLAMATH
John R, Garlty, post commander;
Fred B, Read, adjutant, and C. J.
Shorb wero elected delegates to at
tend the convention of the state de
partment of the American Legion at
Klamath Falls on Aug. 10 11 and 12,
when the local post No. 43 met last
night at 8 o'clock at the , Bacajawea
Inn. .The nomination of new officers
was sot over until the nextnoetlng
Of the post..-".-.., : ..'.' '-!. rV'i'
The members of the post Joined the
auxiliary for a children's program.
State Requests
New School Here
On EON Campus
Governor Meier's recon0ructy,n
advisory board, which Is organizing
tmi Oregon public works program for
submission to federal authority for
loans, Wednesday announced in Port
land, according to word received here,
that It has received applications for
more than $2,000,000 of such projects
in addition to the $3,600,000 Oregon
Coast highway bridge program.
At Its meeting yesterday board
received tentative applications from
the state board of hfehtr education
for approval of a $1,066,000 program,
to Include a $36,000 gymnasium at
Ashland Normal, $130,000 training
school at La Grande Noijmal, $100,000
Infirmary and $350,000 library at the
University of Oregon at Eugene, $100,
000 Infirmary at Oregon State col
lege at Corvallis and a 300.000 psy
copathic ward addition to the Uni
versity of Oregon medical scnool at
Port la n).
BIG SCOUT EVENT
. IS BEING PLANNED
Psome nearby date, probablySncxt
week, tho annual Boy Scout court of
honor and picnic at Pine Cone will
be held. It was announced today. This
plan was Inaugurated last year ffnd
was so successful It -is derided tofi
make it an annual eit.
Barents will bring lunches and
stunts and program are being plan
ned. All arrangements are being
worked out by Harvey girtcr and
Norman Frees.
sheep nnd lambs, which number
about 67,600 at present, compared
with 20.330 In 1892. a gain of more
than 200 per cent.
The latest census figures do not
list the number of horses and mules
in Union county, but they are known
tn be quite & bit below the 1803 fig
ure, which was 11,456. factors and
automobiles are theause of; the do
crease, of course.
Swine In 1892 numbered 3912, and
It Is bciltved that the present figure
Is greatly in excess of the old mark.
The 1892 assessment roll showed
net taxable property In the county io
be M.610,735, compared with (3,871,
005 for the year 1891.
18TH GRANGE
PICNIC TO BE
ON SATURDAY
Annual Event to Be Held
At Eastern Oregon
Experiment Station .
BASKET DINNER
AT NOON PLANNED
Judging Contest Also' On
Program; Professors G.
R. Hyslop and P. M.
Brandt to Speak.
The 18th annual Union county
grange picnic will be held Saturday,
'all day, at the Eastern Oregon ex
periment station near Union, and
with favorable weather promises to
be one of tfflj biggest eathfltlnes of
lte kld in theVni 'it f ';' in
years ago, the authority .ta
tlon twanged lovely plcrftci grounds
In a grove adjacent to the adminis
trative buildings which easily aouom
nydates several hundred people
lje picnic dinners, In addition to
making ample room for a program
meeting of tho same proportions.
The program for Saturday opens at
(Continued on Page Three) '
First of Three
Swim Weeks Is '
Closed at Cove
The first of three swim weeks to
be held this summer closed last
night at Cove with 18 passing various
tests. Misses Myrtle Hoyt and Mar
guerite Klcfenstein offerffl the
course of Instructions which Included
.10 evenings of swimming, ,
Walter Dahl was the only one io
passed the senior llfesavlng test. Fred
Hertzog and Betty Vogel, te latter
.of Union, passed the Junior test.
Swltnmefli tests were mastered by
Arlene Conrad t, Virginia Davis, Monte
and Dick Lottes. Beginners who com
pleted thg requirements were Pauline
ponradt Yudlth Victor, Billy Wag
ner, Martha Cmne Clark. Jean Hyde,
Kathryn Davis and Inez Trawl, of 10.
rande; Imogene White and Charles
,Hefty, of Cove, and Betty Estes, of
Portland.
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International
THIMCTS 1M TERRIBLE
SHA,PE AB MEEP
WORLD COMPECE
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DOMT SSE HOW THEY CAM WKnTBA WASHOUT
CMPUSH ANYTHING TRR,BLE'
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THIMGS A.RE InJ SAY WHAT We
SHM,S O NEEP IS A WORLD
THAN) BEFORE $ COMPETENCE
Continues To Improve Here
Seattle Boasts Fine New
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A new Seattle art museum, built in
the gift
PIERCE TO SPEAK
AT THE DALLES ON
DEMO. PICNIC DAY
PORTLAND, Ore. (Special) Walter
M. Pierce, will not be ble to attend
the picnic to bo given hero Sunday
for General Charles H. prtln, his
fellow congressman. Ho revealed this
yesterday while on a visit to Portland
from his homo at La Grande.
He greatly regrets the fact, espe
cially so bi cause he was scheduled to
-nwke me of; Vbe, four, addressee of
U;claK''" But he has found ho lias
a previous engagement and will spend
next Sunday tat The Dalles, he said.
At The Dalles on Saturday, he said,,
thfte will bo a convention of rural
tall carriers, and ho had promised to
make his appearance there on Sun
day. Having tho prior engagement, he
Just cannot "mf:e" tho Martin pic
nic at Viking park no mafcer how
sorry he is about it all. 9
But before ho dertcd fer home
d'ontlnued on Pago Seven)
CAks COLLIDE"
0 ON ADAMS AVE.
Cars driven by Mrs. C. M. Camp
bell, 2014 Adams avenue, and an un
identified lftan figured Jn a traffic
accident on Adams aciue at 3:304nO ftt cove un Sttngkay will bo corn-
o'clock yesterday afternoon. No one
was hurt.
Affairs In Six Installments
1 . w 1
of course:, the a e
COMFtsref6 WILL,
a rAC6 LOT CF
Volunteer Park, U the latest addition to Seattle civic Institutions. It it
of r. illchard E. Fuller and his mother.
Oregon National
Guard Sick Bill
4 Cents Per Man
SALEM. July 13 () The Ore
gon national guard is among tho
healthiest In the nation, war de
partment figures received at tho
guard headquarters here today re
vealed. The sick cost per man
for the end of tho fiscal year was
but four cents. The national av
orago was 60 cents.
: The guardsmen of Oregon rated
fourth In the entire United States,
In the health program, with South
pakota, Kentucky and Vermont
.iftSglng ;them on the Jlst,: . . -
EAGLES TO SEND
WINDERS TO CITY
Tho winners In the recent Eagles
broadcast contest, Gene Bassett and
Bert Wardell, vocalists, and the Bluo
Mountain Cowboys, will go to Port
land on July 28, 29 and 30, where
ft negotiations are under way to broad
cast at leading stations there, ac
cording to information given today
by Arthur Bremer and Roy Case. The
Eagles will meet tonight at 7:30
o'clock, at tho hall, and tho pro
posed Journey will be discussed.
Arrangement for the Eagles 0c-
(Continued on Pago Two)
Art Museum
WASHINGTON
TO RECEIVE
MORE CODES
Steel Inclustiy is Prepar
ing its "Fair Compe- i
- tition" Plans Today.
Vashinoton, 'July 13 (P)-r-Pro.
paratlons for harboring more Indus
tries and businesses under the indus
trial recovery law had Washington
humming . today, while President
Roosevelt kept tub on production and
employment developments.
. Governor Glfford Pinchot, of Penn
sylvania, took a personal report to
tho Whlto House. on unemployment
having decreased four per cent in
Pennsylvania since tho shift of trend
Hugh 8. Johnson, Industrial ad
ministrator, said the "fair competi
tion" code to govern tho stool Indus
try would) bo submitted by nightfall,
Like the many others being or to be
formulated, It will propose minimum
wages and maximum hours for tho
Industry.
Meanwhile, fearful lest increased
production get out of tho bounds
of the ability of people to buy and
constitute a threat to business pro
gress, tho administration Is consider
ing what if anything can be done
on that problem
Johnson stopped in on a group rep
resenting the national retail council,
central organization of most retail
organizations, and on coming out, in
replying to questions, said It looked
as though this group would submit
a deflate code very shortly.
A group of clothing manufacturers
set up headquarters in a hotel and
began the taHk of c'etcrmlnlng mint-
mum wages nnd maximum working
hours for their Industry.
Tho committee of tho National
(Continued on Pugo Two)
URGE HOCKLEY AS
REGIONAL LEADER
PORTLAND, July 13 m Appoint
ment of C. C. Hockley, Portlnnd en
gineer, as regional public works ad
ministrator for Oregon, was urged
In a telegram sent last night to
Secretly of tho Interior Ickcs by
Congressman Plcrco and Martin and
C. O. Donaugli, oh air man of the
Democratic central committee. Tho
three also urged appointment with
out delay or J. P. Lipscomb as man
ager of 'the Oregon branch of tho
Homo Owners' association.
Wheat Today
CHICAGO, July 13 (At Except
for Incorrigible enthusiasts for $2 a
bushel wheat, about ill grain traders
showed willingness todalo taka time
to breathe, and prices avcragocr low
er. All grains except oats, nevertheless,
edged uArd nB times to fresh top
record pfen. Fever to nurchase
calmed down In tho rye mari:t arter
a transient early advance or about 3
cents. Advices from Argon MnQ said
tho ryo crop thero was tho largest In
several, years.
Wheat closed easy, 'afwl'c under
yesterday's finish, ryo & c off,
corn unchanged to 1 c lower, oats
at yA ti c decline, and pfovlslonq
showing setbacks of 6 to lio cents.
JUST BEFORE
PRESSTIME
STRIKE AT KIDNAPERS
DEPENDS ON EXECUTIVES
MNDIIKKGHS ON GKOI'ND
ITALIAN FLIERS IN N. B.
WASHINGTON, July 13 iff) The
udmlnlNtrntloi. is drawing up legisla
tion for submission to the next ses
slon of congress to deal more dras
tically with racketeers, kldnupers and
other criminals.
SALEM, July 13 (P) -i- Tho success
of tho. federal emergency recovery
measures enacted to rehabilitate In
dustry and reestablish prosperity over
tho country, hinges entirely upon the
efficiency and Judgment with which
tho acta are administered, declares
Representative James Mott, congress
man from tho first Oregon district,
who returned home from Washington
last night.
ST. JOHN'S, Newfoundland, July 13
(l IJiiftivorulVIc flying weather along
tho Newfoundland coast prevented
Colonel and Mrs. Cluirles A. Llml
Iwrgli from leaving here for t'ort
wright, ljilirador, today on tliolr ner
lul mapping expedition.
SHEDIAC, N. B., July 13 (P) The
squadron of 24 Italian seaplanes en
route for Chicago arrived hero this
afternoon from Cartiwright, Labra
dor. v
CHICAGO, July 13 (P) Iteprcsen.
tutlvcs of printing! cm ploy era' associa
tions met today to formulate a code
ror mitmitjiHlon to tho fedcrud govern
ment under the nutlonal industrial
recovery act.
SHORTER HOURS
AND MORE PAY IS
AMERICAN PLAN
Uy 1'rwltt MacKenzle
LONDON, July 13 W Tho Ameri
can delegation presented a resolution
to tho economic commission of the
world economic conference today
calling for shorter hours .of labor
and an increase In wages in propor
tion to tho rise In prices.
Bam D. McRcynolds, of Tennessee,
(Continued on Pago Two)
TRIAL OF TWO IS
DELAYED ONE DAY
GRANTS PASS. July 13 W John
Barrier and Harry Bowles, tho friends
of, tho highway, who together shot
State Policeman MUo Baucom to
death, are enemies In tho courtroom
as they go on trial separately for their
lives.
Colled up together for tho start of
their first degree murder trial be
fore Judge Harry D. Norton hero this
morning, It was disclosed first that
they elected to stand trial separately
and second that their defense attor
ney, J. N. Johnston, of Grants Pass,
would not bo ablo to handle both
cases because of the conflict In the
Interests of tho two defendants.
Upon tho announcement Judge
Norton appointed as attorney, W. T.
Miller, of Grants Pass to defend Bar
rier, the younger of tho two prison
ers, and tho state through District
Attorney Sherman S. Smith elected
to try Barrier first as tho admitted
wlelder of tho cheap revolver that
blasted out Baucom 'a life.
Declaring that he could not pro
ceed Immediately lacking both prep
aration and tho co-operation of the
other defenso attorney, Miller aeked
for and received the delay of ono day
in the opening of tho trial.
CLIFF. CONRAD
HAS OPERATION
Clifford Conrnd, of Elgin, under
went a mnjor operation this morn
ing nt tho Grande Hondo hospital.
I INQUIRING
Each day as the Innulrlnr Reporter makes the rounds two person
, will be stopped at random on the street corner and asked some
I friiestlon of tho day. Tlirouch the courtesy of Manager C. M. Wlrht
each Interviewed will he granted two complimentary tickets to the
j Liberty Tlimlre. The current nttnirtlnit Is Hubert Montgomery ami
Sally Kllem In "Made on llruadniij."
A number of American painters
havo formed tho Advanced American
Art commission, to protect native art
ists from competition of "medlocro"
foreigners, advancing the "Buy Amer
ican" movement another step.
Mrs. P. L. Iloblnson, 102 Hemlock,
says, "Buy American always not
only American but our own home
products In our own town. Too many
jcoplo aro buying non-American
FREED AFTER
PAYING OUT
$50,000 SUM
Kidnaped Millionaire Re
leased in LaUrange, 111.;
Tells of Mistreatment
' ' ' ' t
GRANDCHILDREN OF:
PRESIDENT GUARDED
John J. O'Connell Jr. Still
Captive; Omaha , Wo
man Foils Attempt to
Take Her Prisoner,
CHICAGO, July 13 (VP) Threaten-
ed, with death by kidnapers who held .
him prisoner for 12 days, John Fac
tor, .the market speculator, was back
home with his family today, but was
in a serious condition, suffering from
a nervous breakdown,". .X
He disclosed that $50,000 was paid
in 5 and $10 bills to his kidnapers
as tho price of his freedom.
Released Just before midnight last
night In suburban LaGrange, tho
usually debonair Factor, who Is re
puted to have made "big money" In
the markets, told a story of mistreat
ment by his captors.
Unshaven, and Ill-appearing In
oUier.respectsthe.ntan'who Is want
ed by the British., government for an
alleged (7,000,000 swindle in England,
approached. Policeman Cortesi and
Policeman Qorard, of R4ver Forest, at
tho main business Intersection In
LaGrange and announced: :
"I'm John, Factor." . - J
A farm house, northwest of Chloago-,
overrun with cookrooches was toelloV-v
ed b? Factor' to- have been 4ils pttpe;
of Imprisonments but he Waa not pet-'
tain becauso during the entire period
of his captivity he was blindfolded!
with tape, which was not removed
until a few minutes boforo Ills re
lease. C1UAKI) P. K.'S (IHANDL'IIILDKRN
WASHINGTON, July 13 (P) ' Con
cerned over kidnaping, the secrot
(Continued on Page Two)
President Backs
Plan For Dam On
Columbia River
PORTLAND, July 13 (Pi Con
struction or a dam on tho Columbia
river , for development of navigation,
power and to assure flood control, Is
favored by President Roosevelt, ac
cording to a special dispatch from
Washington. D. C, printed in tha
Oregonlan today.
This dam would be between Tide
water and the mouth of tho Snake
river. It would bo financed from
the rivers and harbors fluid. Tho
work would be done without cost to
the state of Oregon, tho money sup
plied by the federal government
which would own the project and
repay tho federal fund from operat
ing revenues.
LUTHERANS TO
HOLD SERVICE
AT CITY PARK
: Members- and friends of tho Zlon
Lutheran church will gather at Rlvor
stcV) park Sunday morning for their
annual out-door service and congre
gational picnic. Tho regular Sunday
morning worship service will be hold
In tho pavilion at 11 o'clock, follow
ed by a plcnto dinner at noon. Evory
ono Is welcome to enjoy this plcnto
service, and those who attend are
asked to bring their dinner to put
on the table with those of the rest
of the congregation.
Thero will bo ' no Sunday school
services Sunday morning, but tho
children of tho 8undny school and
their parents aro urged to come to
tho pork for tho service at 11
REPORTER j
products."
MissMlldrcd Smith, 1311 Adams
avenue, says, "Of course, I bollevo
that peoplo should buy Amei loan
made products whon they aro avail
able, but to buy a nationally mado or
oven a locally mado product whon It
Is of Inferior grado is nonsonso. Feo
plo will buy American If the qual
ity of tlio product Is maintained at a
sufficiently high level.