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Only Newspaper
Printed in La Grande
Covering Union and
Wallowa Counties
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VOLUME 31
K.VKTKHN OHKGOVH LEADING KKWSPAl'ER
LA GRANDE, OREGON, TUESDAY, JULY 18, 1933
MKMHKR ASSOCIATED I'HEHS AND A. II. C.
NUMBER 269
POST
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Training
FEDERAL AID
SOUGHT FOR
SCHOOL HERE
Board of Higher Educa
: tion Re-elects all Offi
cers at Meet Monday ,
MRS. PIERCE LEAVES
'f BEFORE THE VOTE
Student Fees at All Five
Institutions of Higher
Learning Are Reduced
'$3 to $5.
The proposed training school on
the campus of the Eastern Oregon
Normal school, to cost $130,000. was
given formal approval at the meeting
of the state board of higher educa
tion In Portland yesterday. The pro
ject was the largest of five placed on
the preferred list seeking use of fed
eral aid) money. Confirmation of this
action came to the Observer Irom the
Associated Press today.
Other projects on. the preferred
list for public works money 30 per
cent outright grant and 70 per cent
to be self-llquldated or paid out of
tax money fololw: .Infirmaries at
Oregon and Oregon State college,
each to cost $100,000; gymnasium at
Oregon Normal school at Monmouth
to cost $50,000, and a gymnasium at
r-the Southern Oregon Normal at Ash
land to cost $36,000; ;" V
Citizens of school district No. 1
already have voted $80,000 bonds, this
city's share of the $130,000, and a
$50,000 ' appropriation by the state
will be available at tho beginning of
(Continued on Pngo Two)
Students Stage
1-Act Play And
Musical Program
The students of the Eastern Oregon
Normal school and of the J. H. Acker
man Training school collaborated this
morning at 10 o'clock In presenting
a one-act play and a musical pro
gram before a group of students and
townspeople.
Miss Jennie Peterson, director of
music at the Normal school, assisted
by student supervisors, presented a
group from practically every grade
In the training school in one or two
group numbers. Student teachers
who assisted her were Misses Irene
(Continued on Pago Six,
JULY 21 ELECTION POLLING
FLACKS IN LA GItANDE
1 Prank Cleavinger residence,
503 Third street,
2 City hall.
3 Stanley D. Jenkins, 2009
Cedar street, small building In
rear of residence.
4 Lane Chapel, First and Crook.
5 Frank Woods residence, north
of Riverside park.
6 Tom Strand residence, third
house on Portland street north of
Cove avenue,
7 Charles Stoop residence, 1604
Washington avenue.
8 Court house.
9 House at Presbyterian church,
on Washington avenue.
10 Methodist church, Spring
and Fourth,
11 Packard garage, 808 Adams
avenue.
12 H. W. Riley residence, 1409
Madison avenue.
13 Church of God, Spring and
X.
COLUMBUS DAY WAS
CELEBRATED IN '92
Columbus Day Oct. 12, still remains
a holiday In many states and Is gen
rraly observed In some circles, but In
La Orande and no-res of other
Oregon cities the day comes and
goes with the majority of the people
unaware of Its significance, unless
they read about It In the papers.
This wasn't the case In La Orande
n 1892. "The 400th Anniversary Is
erly Observed In La Orande"
V a yellowed, worn copy of the
tytilcle of Oct. 28, 1892, obtained
mtly from the wall of a sheep
fler's abandoned cabin back of
School
WILL
ROGERS
SANTA MONICA, Oal., July 17
Will Hayes was out to see mo yester
day. Between, working on a mole
"code" and roping calves, (BUI doing
fine on the calves) wo' had a hard
day. "
Jack Dcmpscy getting married In
Nevada today. Theso Is an Idea for
Nevada. If they could build up their
marriage Industry like their divorces
what would be the matter with guar,
anteelng everybody a wife, or hus
band, after six week's residence.
Much Interest In Wiley Post's trip
from Koenlgsberg, Germany, to Mos
cow. Eight years ago I mode It with
a Russian pilot. Ho kept pulling the
blinds down so I couldn't see . any
thing. I dldnt care, I was asleep,
anyhow. Yours,
SCHWEITZER
IS GUEST OF
Grand Patriarch of Ore-,
gon Speaks of. Junior
"Branch, Odd FdlioAVship-
Joseph E. Schwoltrer, of Portland,
the grand patriarch of the Encamp
ments of Oregon, was a distinguished
guest In La Grande last night and
addressed the Star Encampment No.
1 during an official visit. . P. J. Bar
ron, chief patriarch of the local
group, presided at the meeting.
Dr. Schweitzer , devoted the major
portion of his address last night to
a discussion of a Junior branch 4 of
Odd Fellowship,' for young men be
tween the ages of 14 and 21 years.
The Junior branch has not been or
ganized as yet In La Grande.
Refreshments were served to all
the members In the banquet room
(Continued on Page Three) -
EAGLES LAUNCH
NEW 'BROADCASTS'
Much Interest is being shown In
the new series of weekly Eagles
broadcast programs, which began last
night, drawing an audience of more
than 1 450. Arthur Bremer and Roy
Case are arranging the programs
which will be furnished every Mon
day evening at 8 o'clock at the hall.
Bill Sloper, harpist, who was ac
companied by Bud Shldeler on the
guitar, was awarded the first place
among the entertainers last night and
(Continued on Page Threo)
GUARD RESUMES
REGULAR DRILL
Regular drill was resumed Inst
night at the armory, by Company E,
188th Infantry. The La Grande unit
of the national guard spent the drill
period a week .ago checking over
equipment after return from Camp
Clatsop, and with that completed,
the usual routine has been resumed.
Next Sunday several members of
the company plan to fire on the out-
( Continued on Page Three)
The paper devoted a complete
column to the celebration, starting
the story with this scntenco: "La
Grande yields to no community of
equal proportions In the extent and
interest of her celebration of Colum
bus Day." The story proceeded "The
celebration was of a most Imposing
character, and came as a gigantic
surprise to many of our people. Those
who have been engaged In the dally
routine of business, and who hud
given but a small share of attention
to the event, could hardly credit
(Continued on Togo Six)
on State Board's Preferred List
PIERCES ON
PROGRAM AT
PIONEERMEET
Congressman and Wife
Will Speak at Picnic
at Riverside Park.
DUNHAM WRIGHT
TO HANDLE GAVEL
Union County Pioneers to
" be Guests of Sons1 and
Daughters in Annual
Event Here Thursday.
Representative Walter M. Pierce,
Democratic congressman from the
second congressional district,' will be
the principal speaker at the annual
picnic of the Union County Pioneers
Thursday at the Riverside park. The
picnic Is being arranged by the Sons
and Daughters of. the Pioneers for tho
benefit of the old .pioneer residents
of the county.
Mr. Pierce's theme has not been
announced. Mrs. Cornelia Marvin
Pierce, who Is vitally Interested In the
history of Union county as well as
the entire state, will discuss the Un
ion County Historical society, an or
ganization formed to collect data and
relics on early pioneer days In this
section.
1 'i Musical Trent Promised
An unusual feature, of the program
promises to be the musical treat fur
nished by two. f owner wsldents of. -thfc
county who have become well known
(Continued on Pago Two)
Bellinger Will V
Make Plans For
T. B. Clinic Here
After meeting with local physicians
at dinner tomorrow evening, G. C.
Bellinger, M. D superintendent of
the Oregon .Tuberculosis hospitals,
will address the picnic sponsored by
the Union- County Public Health as
sociation on the lawn of the S. E.
Miller place at Union. Mr. Bellinger
and Mrs. Saictfe Orr-Dunbar, execu
tive secretary of the Oregon Tubercu
losis association, will be the principal
speakers at the picnic, each talking
on some phase of public health.
Mr. Bellinger, who spent the week
end at Wallowa, is expected to arrive
in La Grande on Wednesday after
noon for the dinner meeting during
which he will make advance arrangc-
(Ccntlnued on Page Two
WHERE PRESIDENT'S SON WAS
- .i ' ...
itt Ji I a" l,:llgle' mmty court- I w." k
(HI j. V I house i at Mliulen, Ncv., I'- iJflJp' x
V ?P'k, 4 where BHIott Roosevelt, son II , . .
I"' S Ml .lronIdoiv " and his , V
I jjrfcjSa1 wife, the former Hllzabeth " I g$S&
I r JZZtFg4 Homier, ': of I'hlludelplila, I ifflV
pL 3 ,Wcre divorced Monday. "It I M
1"' JrW wff Jj tvas at this courthouse that 1 g f
ft&L 0 I Jpffl Mrj Pickford,, using her pW fi OK
jlfW- jl t Mfy' I ruo ,uimc "Mary . Moore," & 8 tfr2j8il '
If&P f lfvl wmi a-Nvorco from Owen 4?Jb ff J IfiC&SSS-
,K W f 1 Woow lit Voumg Raose. 9mT I ''"ilBMffi&
!"! I i J'dt Is shonn at tlia.Wt as ""' I 'lHflm
' X jff J jio sojourned lit BUs Point, -i ' fl '"yfiWff
M- sMwrfp C gfyUfi ' 0,1 Utkt Talloc ostHbllshliig " I VWm
t ' ,jsjf W fl'o six woekK residence re- . if- ' A'jiw
IjP'ltef'sS f "."'red by the Nevada law. . JWSS
IP -T fk r 4 A' "Snt ls Mrs. itnoscv'clt, ' J Ssa8&
'. whose coillllcr-coin'plDliit, tpW T1 '' - '858l8l!r
Mtw V, . jimriflng cvtrenio crueltj, I J't; yr " I '
1. ' followed lUKWevelt's oom- i Jr . f J w 1 )
, gj''y-wiisissin iliilnt and she was granted jfcwwiiswwj
City Commission Explains Position
On Beaver Creek Pipeline Project
Editor's note The following stato-1
ment was issued Monday by the city
commission, referring to thd Beaver
creek pipeline project, which will be
voted' on at the special election Fri
day, ' July 21.
We are submitting to tho voters of
La Grande on July 21 a bond Issue
of 9257.000.00 for the renewal of
Beaver creek pipeline and the In
stallation of a power plant. Tho rea
son for this ls, that wo have been
asked by a good many pcoplo In La
Grande, ir wo were not going to take
advantage of the opportunity offered
under the public works program.
On May 15 we received a letter
(Continued on Page Four)
OUTLINE. OP OUR FOREIGN
FERRIS' LEGS
s BOTH BROKEN
IN ACCIDENT
Grovcr Ferris is in the Grande
Ronde hospital with both legs broken
following an acclcficnt at Mt. Emily
camp yesterday afternoon. He was
brought to the hospital about .six
o'clock last night and his fractured
legs were set.
Mr. Ferris was skidding logs at
the camp when one slipped off the
skids and crushed him against a
small tree. He is the brother of Mrs.
Jake Clark, who lives on D avenue.
POLICY
DIVORCED
TWO STATES
DECIDING ON
PROHIBITION
Vote Light ' in Arkansas
But Alabama Precincts
Report Heavy Balloting
By (lift Associated I'resH
Prohibition repen lists took the lead
in first returns from referenda In
Alabama and Arkansas today, forg
ing ahead 244 to 1GB on meager re
turns In Alabama and registering a
44 to 1 vote In tho only precinct
reporting in Arkansas upper Hill
township in Prairie county.
Arkansas voters were alow In cast-
(Contlnucd on Pago Six)
BEGIN PINE CONE
POOL SWIM WEEK
The second of tho threo swim
weeks planned by tho Porpolso club
of La Grande was launched at Pino
Cono Monday with about 45 enrolled
In the classes.
Beginners are in charge of Miss
Helen Price. TIiIb class meets rcgu-
(Continued on Tajro Threo)
Wheat Today
CHICAGO. July 18 P A big
AxX ta friends of higher prices
came trxluy from reports that Argen
tina was offering to ship wheat to
New York and undersell domestic
grain.
Despite assertions that the United
States government would likely in
tervene with measures to proven t
wheat Imports Into this country,
prices turned sharply downward from
new record high quotations including
sales of wheat as high oh $1.28 a
bushel.
Sensational gyrations of the ba-ctey
market over a rango of 10 cents were
associated In some quarters with
prohibition repeal elections in Ala
bama and Arkansas, but appimrccl
more nearly related to an accumula
tion of buying orders for barley In
tho hands of a single broker and to
a simultaneous temporary dearth of
offerings.
Wheat clowd nervous, J iu I'jO un
der yesterday's finish, corn la'c
down, oata & o off, ryo and barley
showing gains respectively of 1 o
2c and Twlct and provisions
unchanged, to lOo higher.
JUST BEFORE
PRESSTIME
U. 1. INCOMti, lltl'Oltl KU
KI.KS ELECT V: F. MH1KU
IlliSll'ShV IS MAItHIED
. i 1
HOOSEVELT TO SPEAK
NEW VOltK, July 18 ,(P) Cnion
lliolf Ic, the first major railroad to
mako puhllo June flffiirni, tiHluy re
iwrtcil net ruilnny oiienitliiK Income
for .III UK or $!,I30,0. ugalllst 800,
810 a year uro. dross was $9,072,3-14
tuiniHircd with $8,8ua,82u.
MILWAUKEE, July 18 (R Waltor
P. Meier, of eoattle, Wash., was elect
ed grand oxalted ruler of tho Benev
olent and Protective. Order of Elkii
by unanimous vote of Its national
convention today.
ELKO, Nov., July 18 ffl jack
Demiiscy, former IieavynnlRfit cham
pion, and Miss lluiinuli wullanu, of
Uroaihvay musical ooiuedy fame, were
married hero ut 0:30 a. in, today.
WASHINOTON. July 18 (fl Presi
dent Roosevelt plans to gtvo a full
exposition of his recovery hopes and
policies In an address a week Jrom
tonight directed to tho governors'
conference In San Francisco.
PORTLAND, Oro July 18 vr
Htute police unil city detootlvos moved
In today u main with more careful
attention the dot4ills of a ' reputed
alMluotloii reported to tlicin ymter
day Uy ltev. 1U E. Close, sunerlhten-
leugue. There us frank' skepticism
in soma quarters of offlclaiaonH
SAN FRANCISCO, July 18 (ff)
Major General Charles O. Morton, U.
S. A., retlrod,. .72,' former commander
of tho ninth corps area, and voteron
of threo wars,! died' here early to&ay
from mood poisoning:
HARRIMAN AGAIN
IS RETURNED TO
HOSPITAL ROOM
NEW YORK, July 18 (P) J. W.
Harrlman, Indicted banker, was re
turned lato today to the nursing
homo from which he disappeared yes
terday. Federal Judgo Francis C,
Caffcy ordered forfeited tho $25,000
ball under which Harrlman had been
at liberty pending trial on charges
he falsified tho books of the Harrl
man National Bank andi Trust com
pany.
The courts action camo when the
inquiry ,'to' determine whether Harrl
man was mentally fit to stand trial
on the Indictment was scheduled to
be resumed.
Capt. John W. Johnston, railroad
police official at Jersey City, said last
night that Harrlman, soon after he
walked out of a Manhattan nursing
homo, made two attempts to Jump
from ferry boats into the river.
.The banker, who Ms 6B years old,
made six ferry trips across tho river
between Manhattan and Jersey City,
Johnston said.
"THE AFTERMATH"
HERE WEDNESDAY
"Tho Aftermath". an epochal
religious, economic, educational, and
temperance drnma-debato which is to
bo presented by two famous actors,
author and lecturers hero Wednes
day cvonlng Is really tho third epi
sode off a cycle, two similar programs
having, been previously presented
throughout the nation.
When tho states were fighting out
tho liquor problem back In 1014-18,
Henry li. Hall and Judge M. C. Sum
mers wrote a timely two-character
ctrama-debato entitled, "Wot vs. Dry."
The two characters were "Judge
Wood" and "Tom O'Ncir, a saloon
keeper; and the drama was presented
by Hall and Summers all over Am
erica. In the period of 1023-27 theso two
men were asked to enter the war
(Continued on Pago Two)
j INQUIRING REPORTER i
P.acli day an the Inquiring Reporter makes the rounds two persons ,
! will be tunned at random on the street corner and asked some I
will be topped at random on
. . . ... . . . .
question or me any, iiimiiKii me cuunraj ui miwf, v.. .
each Interviewed will be granted two complimentary tickets to the u
Liberty Tluiitre. Tile current attraction Is Waltrr Huston In "Gabriel
I
I
Over Hie Willie House."
!...- '
With around-the-woild bound air
plnncs almost as thick as sea gulh
theso )nys, many jjeoplo are Inclined
to ask, "What's the use?"
Mis Vivian ClalleKhor, 12JB X ave
nue, snys, "Around tho world flights
oro helping to show what tho air
plane can do. Some think that the
airplane can never be what the auto
mobile Is In modern civilisation. But
then, there wore somo people who
ROUND-WORLD :
FLIER STOPS
FOR A SLEEP
Oklahoma Aviator More t
Than Halfway Around j
Globe With Good Margin
LITHUANIA PLANS '
STATE FUNERAL,
Lindberghs at Cartwrighti '
, Balbo to Fly to New;
York No Late .Word'
From Jimmy Mattern.
. By the Associated Press
Wiley Post, Oklahoma speed filer,
was 16 hours and 34 minutes ahead,
of the record) when he dropped down .
at Irkutsk, Siberia, at 7:33 a. m:.'
Eastern Standard time, today on his1
flight around tho world.
His elapsed time from New York
was 73 hours and 25 minutes. The.'
elapsed time at the same place for
him and Karold dotty In 1931 was
01 hours and 60 minutes.
Post, punishing nerves and flesh in
his swift circling of the world, drop-'
ped down upon Novosibirsk at 7:37
p. m. Paclflq Standard time, last
night after a flight from Mlscow. He'
was than 10 hours and .10 minutes
ahcadi of the Post-Gatty time. He "
stayed only two hours and 35-mln--utes,
and when he left at 10:02 p. m.
ho added six hours and 38 minutes to
Ills lead. ' ; ' -
Lithuania I'repurlng Funeral
Lithuania was preparing a state
funeral today for Stephen Darius and
Stanley Glrenas, Llthuanian-Amerl-
eons who attempted a flight from
Nowyorkitp thelr;natlYo land only to
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Danubian Wheat
Producers Will (
Restrict Exports
By Alvln llnllman .
LONDON, July 18 (flV-Henry Mor
genthau, Ameiioan wheat negotiator, -announced
today that the "Big Four"
wheat producing nations had reached
an. agreement with the i Danubian
countries providing for restriction of .
exports from tho Danube area to
64,000,000 bushels this year and 50,
000,000 next. .
From other sources It was learned'
that Thomas A. Lc Breton. Argon- -tlna's
representative, and Stanley M.
Bruce, Australia's delegate, had beon
presented at the negotiations only by
proxy. It was said, however, that,
they were likely to agreo to tho
scheme published by Mr. Morgenthau.
The accord ls held to be of the
highest Importance since It repre
sents the keystone of provisos set up
by Australian t-ptcgates to participa
tion in an acreage restriction scheme,
which American representatives con
sider necessary to use up the largo
existing wheat surplus In order to.
raise prices.
Today's Baseball
Americuii league
B. It. E.
Cleveland 2 6 0,
Boston 14 0
' Batteries: Pearson, Harder and Py
tlak; Drown, Ling and Forroll.
R. it. B.
Dotrolt 0 0 1
Philadelphia 3 6 0
Batteries: Borrell and Hayworth;
Walbcrg and Cochrane. i
B. H. B.
St. Louts - 8 1
Washington 3 10 a
Batteries: Blaeholdor, dray and
Shea; Ilusscll and Scwell.
National lacue
B. H. E.
.17 0
Boston -
.4 7 1
Batteries: Cantwe'.l, Maimum ana
Hogan; Warncko and Hartnott, . i
the street corner and asked some
. V . .. 1' u vlah.
thought tho 'horseless carrlago' would
never replace tho hack and the horso
drawn carriage." t
Raymond O. Williams. 1301 O avo
nue, says, "There always has to be
some one to pioneer in any field and
In the event that landing fields are
established In the middle of the
ocean 1 think that the around-the-world
flights are really accomplish
ing something." ,