First Combining Of Wheat Reported On Ruckman Farm
I . WKA'i IIKK KOKKI AST
I Oregon: ? I'og on count, otherwise i
I fair tonight and Wednesday; slightly I
cooler III east portion Wednesday.
I Looul weather Monday: max 100, mln i
I Oil, clear. Weather today: mln , 7 J
! a. m. 79. Clear.
Mercury
WITHIN ONE
DEGREE OF
HEAT RECORD
Sizzling Day Follows
Warm Sunday With Mer
cury Reaching 100 Above
SLIGHTLY: COOLER
WEATHER FORECAST
.Some Relief Due Wednes
day. According to Pre-
f; .diction; Other North
west Cities Are Hot. ; '
Tliii mArriirv Minrpri til 10(1 In La
' VOLUME 31 EASTERN. OREGON'S LEADING NEWSPAPER
Fo Mo (GALL
Vl . .
v Grande yesterday, wltllln one ileRree
'y of lie all-time Heat record for tills
V city, first set In 1928 when the ther
1 mometer registered 107. And another
'storcher was bolnff experienced toiluy,
although the weather man predicted:
8Hghtly cooler In the east portion
Wednesday."'
' .Thn inA.nhnvn weather Monday fol
lowed a warm Sunday with the tem
perature at 100, although It dropped
to 69 above Sunday night. Lost night,
however, the minimum was 69 above,
,ten degrees warmer, and at 7 o'clock
this morning the mercury stood, at
'79 above. .
i La Grande and Union county were
i not the only ones complaining of the
' heat. At Baker, the maximum was
jh02, Pendleton had 107 Sunday and
was much warmer yesterday, Boise ro
w '! ported 108, Spokane 100,' Walla Walla
i 102,-Yakima 102 and Salt Lake City
: loo. i - t -
In contrast, Los Angeles reported
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Two Young Men
Will Enlist In
Coast Artillery
Two more- La Grande young men
left today for Port Stevens, near As
toria, to enlist in the coast artillery
for throe-year periods. They were Al
fred B. Collp and Dallas Bennett, both
members of Company B. 186th Infan
try, and the last of four guardsmen
all six feet In height who made
arrangements for entering the artil
lery while attending Camp Clatsop
, last month.
Previously George A. Courtney and
; Leslie B. Shirley were taken Into the
; coast artillery.
The commanding oincer as
IStevons, because of the physical ap
'pearance of the quartet from La
Grande, and their previous military
experience, expressed nimseii vo iocai
officers as delighted at the prospects
ahead for the four.
PETERSONS IN
. VISIT SUNDAY
Miss Jennie Peterson, director of
music at the Eastern Oregon Normal
school, had as her guests during the
weekend her sisters. Misses Ellen and
Alice Peterson, and her brother,
Robert Peterson, all of whom arc
spending the Bummer with their par
ents In Moscow. Idnho. They left
Monday for Portland and the coast
where they will spend! a few days
before returning to their home. Miss
Alice Peterson has visited several
times in La Grande and has appeared
In piano recitals here. She is a
member of the faculty In the piano
department at the Whitman conserv
atory of music, In Walla Walla.
COUNTY RECORD ON
committments' GOOD
Committments to five state Insti
tutions In Oregon during the past
10 years have decreased from 10 per
1000 population to 18.5 per 1000
population from Union county, ac
cording to a survey Just prepared by
state officials.
The five Institutions are the state
hospital for the Insane, feeble minded.
Institution, state penitentiary, Indus,
trial school for girls and the boys
training school.
Over the states as a whole com
mittments have Increased from 17.69
tner 1000 population to 19.77, which
puts Union county's record In a very
good light. Ten years 9&0 the 19
here was above the state average by
131 persons. Today the 18.5 Is below
Climbs To
WILL
ROGERS
rSjys:
OAKLAND, Cel., July 24 Well, I
am still herding governors. Got to
go by air to keep up with some of
'em. In Roscoe Turner's Lockhead,
headed for Frisco, where I will file
this. ' '
. With Roscoe Is Fred Batear, the fly.
liigi governor of Nevada and Governor
Green of Rhode Island, who .has just
flown all around Central' America.
Governor White of Ohio and family
flew from Columbus yesterday. Gov
ernor Miller of Wyoming flew from
Cheyenne. '
- This herding governors1' a'int near
as bad as I thought It would be. Just
give 'em plenty to eat and let 'em
speak and they don't give you any
bother. . ' 1 -
Green of Rhode Island and Gover
nor Cross of Connecticut are awful
highly educated and speak different
from .these . western and southern
governors. So my Job Is really an In
terpreter for Green and Cross.
I am carrying a proxy from Bill
Murray and Ma Ferguson both, so 1
got a lot of voting strength in tne
convention. Yours,
IW. M.Hl Si-li h
NORMAL SCHOOL
STUDENT INJURED
IN CAR ACCIDENT
Charles McLln, who has tepi -ate
tending the Eastern Oregon Normal
school, suffered a broken leg and se
vere bruises on) his left lup, and Dole
Rhine and Henrietta and Elizabeth
Ashbaugh received minor bruises last
night when their car ran off the
highway above the old Perry dam and
plunged Into the Grande Ronde river
(Continued on Poire Two-
TWO-THIRDS ARE
WITHOUT LICENSES
Unless early action is taken, fully
two-thirds of the automobile drivers
In this vicinity will be subject to
arrest on the morning of September
1 for failure to obtain their new
drivers licenses, according to infor
mation Just received by this news-
papcr-from Hal E. Hoss,' secretary of
state. An official estimate discloses
that barely one-third of the drivers In
this section ore equipped with proper
drivers' licenses.
. Police officials state that no mora.
torlums will be granted and a trlct
enforcement of the law will be ob.
served In their check on all operators.
With the "deadline" barely four weeks
away, all persons still carrying cards
issued before July 1, 1931, should ob.
tain new cards at the first opportun
ity. Secretary Hoss warned. .
Renewal permits are being granted
without examination to all operators
previously licensed In Oregon who are
now under the ago of 70, those with
clean accident records and those
without physical defects. All appli
cations must be made en regular
forms supplied by the secretary of
state and must be signed In the
presence of a notary public or other
person authorized to administer
oaths. Examiners will perform no
tarial duties for all applicants with
out charge. It was pointed outi
C. M. Bentley, examiner of oper
ators and chauffeurs, will be In La
Grande Friday and Saturday of -this
week at the city hall from 8 a. m.
to 6 p. m., according to word from
Mr. Hoss.
the state average by 1.27 persons.
A splendid right-about-face for Un
ion county, and in the right dlrec
tlons, the records Indicate.
Counties In the state showing a
decrease besides Union county In
cluded Marlon. Baker (from 21 to 19),
Ollllam. Harney. Malheur. Sherman,
and Wasco, and Wheeler remained
the same. Of the counties showing
a decrease, all but one are In Eastern
Oregon.
Umatilla sent the most during the
last 10 years, averaging 28 out of
every 1000 population, an Increase
during the period of four persons.
Wallowa county sent an average of
nine per 1000 population ten years
ago but this percentage has Increased
to 13 at present.
(IrattSI
MOTMEE
106 Above In La Grande On
ELLIOTT'S
NEW WIFE
Although she and Elliott Roose
velt professed to be "Just friends"
for a long time. Miss Kuth Goo
gins, above, of Fort Worth, Tex.,
married young Roosevelt last Sat
urday. He was divorced a short
time ago from Elizabeth Donner
Roosevelt in Nevada. -
OFFICIAL COUNT
OF FRIDAY
FINISHED TODAY
Union county's vote in the special
election last FrldaV has been officially
counted, and according to announce
ment of the final figures today, the
Observer's unofficial count was fair
ly accurate. Only In one or two in
stances did the vote vary more than
a few ballots, and in no case d(d the
change affect any outcome.
Several totals were unchanged in
the final count. In the sales tax,
the unofficial vote counted by the
Observer was yes 653 and no 2779.
The official vote was yes 653, no 2780.
The official count of the Beaver
Creek pipeline bond Issue of $257,000
was yes .1002, no 477.
The results of other measures fol
low: i i
Federal repeal yes 1039, no 1294.
(Continued on Page Two)
THE REAL
r
REMEMBER THE
' GOVERNlMENT .
REGULATIONS,'
WE MUST ALL WORK
TOGETHER FOR THE
PUBLIC WELFARE
Itwttttttl
LA GRANDE, OREGON, TUESDAY, JULY 25, 1933
FIRST WHEAT
YIELD RUNS
45 BUSHELS
Variety of Crop Harvested
is Cross Between Forty-
Fold and No. 128.
QUALITY IS ALSO
HELD VERY GOOD
Morris Brothers Combine
Used in Harvesting:
First Wheat Reported
Ripe in This Valley. .
The first combining of 1033 wheat
reported In the unintle Rondo valley
took place on the 1. B. Itucknuui
place west of Alice! on Monday. c
.The variety of wheat, a cross bc-
tween Forty-Fold and No. 128, was.
planted last fall, and. resulted In. a
good yield. It ran from 40 to 46'
bushels. to the aero..: .... .
The Observer waa not Informed as
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Play Presented
At East Normal
During Morning
I --' -ir?t --..;.A-f - i -
"Ttw. Wonder ,Bat:v.by. . Bori Heclit.
and Kenneth. Sawyer, Goodman, was
presented at the Normal school this
(Continued on Page Six)
Oregon Lettuce
To Bring 50 Cents
A Head in China
PORTLAND, July 25 (P) Ore
gon lettuce will 'be selling for 35
to 60 cents a head one of these
days In Hongkong.
A fruit and vegetable distribut
ing company here was today load
ing 15 crates of Troutdale lettuce
for shipment on the General. Sher
man tomorrow to Hongkong. The
cost of transportation is at least
35 cents. Each head is individually
packed in celophdno and! each
layer is boarded so the stock will
not move in transit.
STRUGGLE IS JUST
SENTENCED
R ' " XiT-2T , I Jar I
i Mlll.M W II" I II Ill '
1 .lolin A. lbirrler, 17 (lert) and Harry Bowlm, 21, of Ih Augclos.
s- ulityera of It. M. Itaueom, Oregon state iiollceinnn at ClmnU I'an.s,
i Ore, vewterday afternoon were sentenced to life Imprisonment la
the Oregon penitentiary by Judge Hurry . Norton. Asked If lie
' knew of any reason why sentence should nut be pronounced, .
f . Barrier said: "Not I do not." ,
GOODWILL TRIP ; ,
TO FROG HEAVEN
CAMP ON FRIDAY
The . chamber of commerce today
announced plans for a goodwill trip
to the Frog Heaven camp of the
citizens conservation corps located in
the mountains about 40 miles west of
Uere. Much of the purchase of sup-
(Contlnued on Page Six)
MILTON PEOPLE
. VISIT PIERCE
Mr. and Mrs. Victor H. Chostaln
and nephew. Wayne J. Cliastaln, of
Mllton-Preewater, were callers at the
office of Rep. Walter M. Pierce today.
Mrs. Chastln was formerly a student
of the Oregon representative when iio
taught school at Milton.
BEGINNING
L.ISTEM A SMART GUY
LIKE YOU OUGHT TO BE
ABLE TO GET AROUMP
THAT" INPUSTRIAL COPE
AMP MAKE A LITTLE "
EXTRA PROFIT
MEMBER ASSOCIATED. PRESS
II
Monday
TO PRISON
GRAIN MARTS
LIMIT TRADE
BYAGREEMENT
Fluctuations in Prices of
Wheat 5 Cents a Bushel
Permanent Policy
WASHINGTON, July 25 P Farm
administrators and representatives of
grain exchanges today agreed tenta
tively to limit dally fluctuations in
prices on wheat and other grains to
6 cents a bushel as a permanent
policy. '
The five cent, per bushels fluctua
tion -will apply to wheat, rye and
barley, with four cents on corn and
three cents on oats.
The agreement was reached before
the close of a two-day conference at
which four prlncpal changes In grain
marketing practices were approved.
The second provision will be the
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KLAMATH STRIKE
SPREADING TODAY
KLAMATH PALLS, Ore., July 25 (P)
Uneasiness spread over the lumber
Industry of Klamath county today as
lumbermen saw three- more mills join
tho Weycrheauser Timber company
employes In a strlko for higher wages,
It was expected more of tho 14 mills
In this region would bo forced to shut
down lator today.
La to this morning moro than 700
men wero Idle through walkouts.
ABERDEEN, Wash., July 25 (IP)
With 40 state patrolmen hero at the
(Continued on I'uko Three)
Wheat Today J
CKLCACIO, July 26 MO Wheat re
covered today to almoat 10 cents a
bushel about the extreme low price of
90 contfi registered during recent pan
icky liquidation mI-pa for speculators.
All grain? bounded upward after
evidence that liquidation was virtual
ly ended. liefljvrurlng statemente from
trade leaders led to more cheerful
Tooling, and the market showed quick
responsiveness to pessimistic crop ad
vices from Canada accompanied by
forecasts of unwelcome higher tem
peratures throughout spring wheat
torrltory both sides of tho Canadian
border.
Top prices were not fully maintain
ed, selling to realize profits causing
reactions of about 2 'ti cent from the
aped.
Wheat closed unsettled, lf7-c
above yesterday's finish, corn (if
U'.c, oa is ll4 up and provis
ions 6c to 75o advance.
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AND A. li. C.
PI
JUST BEFORE
PRESSTIME
'.
AHMY PLANE IN FATAL DIVE .
V :"' "
ALEXANDER TO 11E JUDGE , ,
PREVENTS MANUFACTURE
8TEIWER COMING HOME
OCEANHIDE, Oil., July 25 P) A
two motored urmy amphibian plane,
believed to be plane number 7 of
Rockwell field Hun Diego, crashed here
ut noon killing at leant five men and
possibly seven.
' WASHINGTON, July 26 (ff)-r Presi
dent Roosevelt today appointed
George P. Alexander, of Oregon, to be
judge of division one, federal district
court., in Alaska.
SALEM, July 25 W) Manufacture
or Intoxicating liquor will be pro
hibited In Oregon even' though- the
prohibition amendments to the stitte.
constitution and the enabling act for
those amendments have been repeal
ed, state police and legal authorities
(Iculuml here today. This will also
be, true In the event the 18th ameud
lncnt to the federal constitution Is
repealed.
' PORTLAND, July 35 WO Word
was received here today by his friends
that Senator Frederick Stelwer will
reach. Portland, by plane Saturday
evening. He will remain In Oregon
for the summer and, fall, returning to
Washington a short time before con
gress, convenes In January,
WASHINGTON, July 25 W Pub
lic hearings on a code of fair com
petition for the woolen textile Indus
try closed today with a promise by
Deputy Administrator A. D. Whiteside
of the national recovery administra
tion that every effort: would be made
to obtain speedy action. - ; n yt
rVWASIIINaTON, July 25 W) Presl
dent Roosevelt today: appointed ten
regional advisors to the nubile works
administration, Marshall lhina, of
Portland, wuh named for Oregon,
Washington, Malta and Montana.
Regional headquarters will be at Port
land. r
REPEAL CAUCUS
TO BE AUGUST 7
SALEM. July 25 m Date for the
state cy.i8tltuUonil coruvontlon to
vote on repeal of the 18tlv amend
ment will bo August 7, Governor
Julius L. Meier announced) late yes
terday. v
The 116 delegates are called to meet
in tho hall of representatives In the
statehouso here. Ftfty-one per cent
of those attending and voting will
constitute a quorum, ;
Alt delegates to the convention are
under pledge to vote according to the
mandate of their electorate. In 34
out of 30 counties In the state dcle-
latcs pledged to repeal the 18th
amendment wero elected. .
BALBO AND MEN
SAFE AT SHEDIAC
8HEDIAC, July 26 VP) Oeneral
Italo Balbo, leading his air armada
on tho return trip from Now York,
landed hero at 2:66 p. m., E. S. T
today.
Two of the 24 planes were missing
as tho fleot arrived at Shcdlac. its
first halting placo cast of New York,
one of them having oome down at
Rockport. Mo., with a broken oil lino
and the other at Mllledgevllle, N. B.,
short of fuel.
RETURN FROM
WORLD'S FAIR
MisHes Ruth Onrrlck. Norma Maygcr
and Margaret Milne returned yester
day from a visit In the middle west
during which they attcni'ed the
world's fair. They are all teachers,
tho former in La Omiide,
j INQUIRING
Each day as the Inquiring Reporter makes the rounds two . person
will be stopped at random on the street corner and asked Mm
question of the day. Through the courtesy of Manager C, M. Wight
each Interviewed will be granted two complimentary tickets to the
Liberty Thmtre. The current attraction Is Robert .Montgomery In
"Hell IU'low."
Speaking of weather, the question
asked todny was ::"Would you rather
havo the mercury at 10U like yester
day, or 10 degrees below Uko last
winter?"
Mrs. Maude Fines of 1208 M ave
nue soys, "You can keep warm at
10 below but It is rather hard to
keep cool at 108 oboVo. Wo spent
lout Sunday at Wallowa Lako but It
was hot there, too. The. kiddles are
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Only Newspaper , ,
Printed In La Grande , !
Covering Union and i j
Wallowa Counties . 1 '
NUMBER 275
EMPLOYERSOF
NATION WILL
AID RECOVERY
President's Speech to Na
tion Last Night Fol
lowed by Prompt Action :
,. . . ... .; f
300 PROMISES ARE -
RECEIVED IN HOUR
Roosevelt Asks Accept
ance of Plan to Raise
Pay and Shorten Hours
of American Workers,.
By James Cape
(Associated Press Staff Writer)
irj 1 .
WASHINGTON. July 23 W) .A.
flood of telegraphed pledges, hun
dreds upon hundreds of them. ani
wered today President Roosevelt1
appeul to the nation for ImiuedUt .
enrollment of all ' employers under
the blanket agreement to raise Huge
and create new Jobs, v
Hardly had he finished last night
the plain-worded, direct call for pat
riots and unquestioning acceptance
of tho voluntary and Individual
employer-pledges to raise pay ' and
Bhorten hours before the answers be
gan to come in. Within an hour
300 promises had come, a few more
IIUCIIN DELIVERIES THURSDAY
; WASmNCKTON,. July 25 .
Starting Thursday, letter carrier
will begin delivering to 5,000,000
employers the proposed agreement
between ; them and President
Hooeevolt . voliirrtorrty to raise
wages and limit hours at work, "i'
Immediately upon receipt, the
employers have been asked to sign
them and return them', to ' the
president. , .
They become effective August 1
or any time after they are signed.
minutes and the number doubled
and still there appeared no end to ,
the flow. Before mldt-morning today '
3000 pledges had been received, r.
The president and Hugh S. John
son, the . man who Is . running the
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Aimee Still In
Love; Amazed At
Divorce Action
Ily Miles II. Wolff
(Associated Press Staff Writer)
ABOARD THE UNEB CITY OP
HAVRE, OFF NORFOLK, Va July 25
UP) Almce Semplo McPherson Hut
ton, the Los Angelos evangelist, re
turned to America today; protesting
she still loved her husband, David
Hutton, "moro than anything In the
world." : ' '. .
Asked about his rocont action In
stituting divorce proceedings, she
said:
"Oh, I can't believe It. Of course
I still am In lovo with lum."
Attended by a nurse, she lay on a
bunk In tho captain's quartern to receive-
newspapermen as the City of
Havro pulled Into port.
"It Is all so hasty that I don't
know what to say," she commented.
"His last word was that he "woe
counting the hours until I returned.
It lias been a tremendous shock." '
Mrs. Hutton declined to say what
course she would take. "I feel," she
said, "that I am Incompetent to make
a statement. It is like a, bolt out of
tho blue."
The evangelist has been abroad
since January and recently underwent
an operation In Paris. It woe while
sho was on board the City of Havre
that she was informed about her hue
band's divorce action. ,
Tho interview was terminated be
fore she could bo questioned about
tho telegram to Hutton from Pari
Informing him sho had a baby, which
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REPORTER j
li
I
I
lucky that they can go swimming so
easily In this hot weather, t be
11 vo I prefer the 106 above though."
Elmo ciegg, of 2010 Cove avenue,
says, "Considering both sides It la
hard to say. Mountain streams and
the swimming pools are calling, and
personally I would rather go swlm
mlng than be clearing the sidewalks;
of snow and Ice."
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