La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, July 31, 1933, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextTwo Union County Creameries May Consolidate " t " " " " HSaHH I -SS. III mill III V WOTH III I II I II IBVSWB-WWVMBBBM ! . La Grande I The !' di Y47 V Tr . J Only Newspaper Printed in La Grande - Coverintr Union and Gateway to Wallowa, J 'The Switzerland . of America" Wallowa Counties VOLUME 31 EASTERN OREGON'S LEADING KEWSl'Al-EB LA GRANDE, OREGON, MONDAY, JULY 31, 1933 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS AND A. H. C. NUMBER 280 TALK MERGER ATCREAMERY MEET, PICNIC Would Consolidate Co operative Creameries in Union and La Grande. COMMITTEE OF 4 ., MAY BE SELECTED Two From This District And Two From Union Would Consider All Phases of Plan. Discussion of a plan to consoli date the two co-operative creameries In Union county occupied an Import ant place In the annual meeting and plcnlo of the Union county unit of the Farmers Co-operative creamery held Saturday at Union. The business 'meeting was In the morning in the U. H. S. auditorium and three directors were elected: j. A. Kofford, Union district, 're elected: J. A. Nice, North Powder, re-elected: W. J. Case, Allcel, to suc ceed Mr. Austin, who has moved away. , fallowing a noon lunch, an after noon program was held at the city park, consisting of Instrumental and vocal solos and talkB. Manager Jack son, of Union, .and W. B. Wagner gave reports, and talks were given by Walter M. Pierce, A. E. Engbrctscn, of Astoria, secretary of the Inter state Associated Creameries, and by Mr. Wagner. Engbretsen explained In detail the workings of his association and how through its efforts, the Port land butter market has been put on a parity with the -Seattle and Los Angeles markets. He expressed a de sire to see the two co-operative groups (Continued On Page ux) Boy, Girl Hurt f Slightly Sunday In Car Accidents Jean Splvey, 5. was lnjuredl Sunday at 6:50 p. m. when struck by a car driven by C. I. Splker. The accident occurred on Spruce street and Mr. Splker reported that the child ran out from behind a parked car. The little girl was taken to the Orande Ronde hospital where It was found her injuries were of a minor nature, consisting of -cuts about the face. Wlllard Linn Cutler, driving on Y avenue near Fourth, at 4:30 p. m. yesterday, hit a bicycle belonging to Olen Young. The boy was bruised slightly. Mr. Cutler reported that trie boy dropped a loaf of bread andi swung his bicycle around in front of his car to recover It when the acci dent occurred. MISS MUNSEY GETS DIPLOMA Miss Harry C. .Munsey, 807 Divi sion street, La Orande, will receive a the diploma of the Moody Bible In- stitute of Chicago upon completion of the general course, August 3. She will receive also the diploma of the Evangelical Teacher Training Asso ciation, which provides an exception ally high standard in teacher training. BABY DAUGHTER ' BORN SATURDAY A baby daughter was born Satur day to Mr. and Mrs. Sylvester Bur leigh at Enterprise. Mr. Burleigh has been living In La Orande since he purchased the law practice of the late R. S. Eakin. Mrs. Burleigh and daughter will come to La Orande in the near future to make their home. UNION COUNTY RANKS FIFTH IN WHEAT Now that wheat Is so all-important in the American newspapers due to the new processing tax and acreage reduction benefits, the frenzied fluc tuations in the grain market, etc., It Is Interesting to note that Union couny Is fifth largest wheat produc ing county In the state of Oregon. Umatilla ranks first with 6.225.807 bushels, Sherman next with 2,109.895. Morrow third with 1,944.685, Gilliam fourth with 1,718.345, Union fifth with 1.264.330 and Wasco sixth with 1,222.251. Wallowa county produces 754.961 which gives It a ronk of seventh. Baker's crop of 542,303 places It In thirteenth place among the 36 coun Timely 'Economy Tuesday" WILL ROGERS SANTA MONICA, Cal., July 30 Roger Babson, who savles a lot about things beforo they happen, says peo ple are going back to the old-fash-loned investments, that they are starting In tb raise children, figuring on the children raising them In their older years. it was becoming a kind of a lost art. Babson figures that If we will Just deprive ourselves and furnish the children gas now, that they will do the same for us In our old days. That's about all there Is to support ing anybody nowadays. You .never hear, "Who will board, me, who will room me?" It's always "Who will fur nish the gas?" - If we could get the state to furnish the gas instead of the school and the teacher, we could really put on a child raising campaign. Yours, : tfch- for? AUTO WRECK HURTS FATAL TO UNION MAN James' Edward Allen Dies Here Saturday; Funeral at Union Tuesday. James Edward Allen, of Union, known to his many friends as "Blackle," died at the Orande Ronde hospital Saturday night following in juries received in an automobile acci dent near Haines Thursday night. Friday he underwent an operation and apparently was recovering but his heart Is reported to have weak ened. The car which he was driving fig ured in a collision, with a machine driven by; a - Mrs. 'JS'aAet, - of Stills water, Okla., who Is reported to have admitted blame for the accident in reporting at Baker, Ore. State police are now seeking her arrest, accord- (Continued On Page Pour) FOUR PERMITS TO BUILD ARE ISSUED ' Building permits issued during the last week called for $330 In new con struction, bringing the total for the first seven months of 1033 to 835.603. Two permits were Issued to E. 'R. Rlngo, to alter and repair a dwelling place on Sixth between O and Penn sylvania at a cost of $100, and to alter and repair a home at 1503 Fourth at a cosi of $150. A permit was Issued to Harry Pat rls to alter and repair a home on Second between Adams and Jeffer son at a cost of $30 and another per mit was issued to W. C. Freiberg to alter and repair a shop on Adams between Chestnut and Fourth, work to cost $50. WEATHER HERE TURNS COOLER OVER WEEKEND The weather turned! a bit cooler over the weekend, with a maximum of 79 Sunday with clear skies, and a minimum this morning of 47 above. The minimum equalled the' lowest reading of the month of July in La Orande, and was eight degrees cooler than the minimum Sunday morning. Cleor weather Is expected to con tinue in Eastern Oregon with little change in temperature, according to the weather, bureau's prediction. ties. Lincoln county, with 714 bu shels, Is last. The crop Is figured on a five-year average from 1928 to 1932, Inclusive. Union county has had crops that reached the million and a half fig ures, and probably this year's crop will be around a million bushels, al thought definite figures are not available. ' Incidentally, the Eastern Oregon wheat belt Wasco, Sherman, Mor row. Umatilla, Gilliam, Union and Wallowa counties produces 15. 240.234 bushels, nearly three-fourths of the state's average yield of 21,204, 994 bushels. Economies For Thrifty Housewives Tomorrow See Page 3 Low Prices, Effective For The One Day Only, Are Again Offered To La Grande Shoppers By a Group of Local Merchants Co-operating In Special Selling LA GRANDE BUSINESS ORGANIZES FOR ADHERENCE TO F. HOLD THREE IN O'CONNELL KIDNAP CASE Arrests Made in Albany, N. Y. But Identity of Prisoners Secret. O'CONNELL FREED AFTER SUM PAID David Kahan, Once Wealthy Real Estate Man of Brooklyn, is Re ported Missing Today. By The Associated Press . Three; men whoso names were kept secret were In custody In Albany; N. Y., today for questioning regarding kidnaping of John J. O'Connell Jr. O'Connell, youthful member of a po litically powerful Albany family, was freed Sunday after 23 days' captivity. The kidnapers were paid $40,000 ran som in marked bills. Cl.... Urschel, miUlonoho oil man w id by machine gunners from hit'' Oklahoma City borne on July 22, was still missing today. There was no word from hla captors. A fusillade of shots on Saturday night riddled the Denver home of W. B. Ellsworth, whose wife, .. Frances, supplied police with information that led to arrests in the kidnaping sev eral months ago of Charles Boettcner, (Continued on Page Two) 300 Gather For Pierce Picnic Sunday at Park Three hundred loyal friends of Rep. Walter M. Pierce, ex-governor, con gressman from the second congres sional ' district and one of Eastern Oregon's most popular political lead ears, gathered yesterday at Riverside park where the representative re counted his adventures in Washing ton, D. C, at his first session of con- (Continued on Page Oix) MAYBE WE'D BETTER FORGET THE CONFERENCE IDEA RECEIVES AID IM RUSSIA MEVMS OF 86LCIvM BM.10ONIST A.WMTEP IN MANY I-AN PS ASIATIC? AND EUROPEANS MEET TO STUPY GEOIjOCY tjeegiepcK R3CEI!M AUTHORS WIN , YvDRLPWIPE POPULARITY FOUR STRATEGISTS OF N. R. A. "Sales nmnufjers of Die New Deal" are these four strategists In the Nit A proiKigundu cnniNilgn, pictured In Washington shaping plans to enlist 125.0O0.0U0 Americans In the drive to rout the depression. Left to right, seated, Louis J. Aluer uml Charles F. Horner; standing, Lubert Bt. Clair and Frank It. Wilson. 200 SPECTATORS WITNESS DIVING SUNDAY EVENING More than 200 spectators gathered oft tne "side lines at Crystal Plunge last night at 7 o'clock to witness the exhibition diving and racing meet sponsored by the plunge under the direction of Edwin Ktrby and Don Johnson. Kirby ,was announcer for the meet. Exhibition diving from the 25-foot tower was a feature of the meet, Herblc O'Connell, 13-year-old diver who placed In the exhibition at the World's Pair recently, executing a Jack knife half twist and a Jack knife swan dive. O'Connell, Bob Webb and Maurice Weiss also dived simultaneously from the high tower. (Continued on Page Six) (TERRAIN! SCIENTIST WELCOME P IN SWlTZ.ERV.ANP g - U U n ITALIAN HEROES GIVEN OVATION IN UNITED STATES CHICAGO SORROWS' PAINTINGS FROM THE LOUVRE. AUSTRALIAN TENNIS STARS GREETED IN FRANCE . EVANS IS HOME FROM PORTLAND :' Herbert Evans, superintendent of city schools, returned Saturday from Portland where he attended the Unl-' versity of Oregon summer session andi will be in his office for the remain der of the summer getting ready for th-.oncnlog of school on Sept. H. ; Mr. Evans said this morning that he and his staff expect to be In their rcmodled quarters at the High school building by the first of next week. LEGION TO MEET THIS WEDNESDAY 'Ordinarily the American Legion meets on the second Wednesday of each month but because of the state convention in Klamath Falls next (Continued on Page 81xy FOREIGN MOVIE STARS POPUIAR AROUND THE WORLP FOREIGN GOLFER? CHEERED IN ENGLAND AND SCOTLANP INTFf?MATIONW- PlPLOMATS FIMP IT IMPOSSIBLE TO GET TOGETHER MUSIC BY GR?rviAN COMPOSER APPLAOPEP IN POLANP R. RECOVERY PtAN CAMPAIGN RETAIL CODE FINAL DRAFT BEING DRAWN Officials of Recovery Ad- ministration Working With Industry Heads. WASHINGTON, July 31 m Of ficials of the recovery administration today were whipping together a final draft of a code for tho retail Industry, under which mcroluuvts would oper ate pending Its formal consideration and approval instead of under Presi dent Roosevelt's blanket wage and hour agreement. A premature announcement was given today that all retail stores would be permitted a 48 hour week instead of the 40 hour week specified In the president's agreement. (Continued on Paso Slxi COUNTY TO HAVE RELIEF MANAGER Members of the Union, county re lief committee, particularly the chair man, J. H. Peare, will be relieved of much of tho tremendous burden of responsibility beginning tomorrow. The state, recognizing that commit tee members hnvo been forced to de vote much of their time without fin ancial remuneration to relief work, time taken from their own business, hns decided to Install specially train ed men In the larger counties. These men, who will manage tho relief activities, will be In charge of the staff of paid workers, but will be responsible to the relief committee. Hereafter the committee will not be (Continued on Page Four Wheat Today CHICAGO, July 31 W1) For tho tlilrd successive day, grain prices to day fell tho maximum amounts per mitted under new regulations of the leading American exchanges, 3 to 6 cents. Liquidating sales were strongly in evidence, and despito numeroun rat lies proved poi-Hlstcnt enough to dom inate over all other factors. During much of tho day, business was vir tually at a stAiitlstUl, with brokers holding quantities of. .selling orders, that could not bo executed. August monthly unofficial domes tic crop summaries to bo issued to morrow wore expected to show tho smallest aggregate yield of wheat and oats since 1893. Wheat closed almost llfcloHS, 4$r 6o under Saturday's finish, corn 4 cents down, oats 3c off, and provlslon-i at 12 to 50c decline. LOCAL RETAILERS ADOPT TENTATIVE WORKING CODE; : SOME START IMMEDIATELY All 'Department, General Mercantile and Grocery Stores 'Asked to Close at 6 p. m. Weekdays, Including Saturday; General Mercantile to ' Open at 9 a. m. ; Food Stores at 8 a. m. ,-;V : Many to Start New Hours Tomorrow. v .; Following a meeting of a retail merchants committee this morning, a tentative code of operating hours for some lines of local business houses was agreed upon and a telegram, dis patched to Washington, D. C, asking for complete 'informa tion and suggestions in order that a general meeting for final adjustment may be called at as early a date as possible. Previous arrangement to have a general meeting this evening was deemed inadvisable until complete information and BUg gestion could be received from Administrator Johnson's of- JUST BEFORE PRESSTIME NORTH Ill.M) HAS RIQ FIltE . MOB HEATS POLICEMEN FRUIT MEN CO-OPERATE . . . . , . , ' m BLAST FATAL TO TEN , NORTH BEND, Ore., July 31 () Fire which Is believed to have been caused by a short circuit In power wiring, last night destcuyed the ll-K-V veneer plant, bunted three giant shlpwuj'H ot the Krtise and Banks shipyards and swept through port of the Mountain Htates Power company plant, musing loss estimated by own ers nt approximately $300,000, BROOKLYN, N. Y., July 31 (P) Two policemen were beaten and their uniforms torn off today by 300 men. women and children who had gathered In front of an unemploy ment and home relief Btatlon for their day's supplies.' Police ascribed the trouble to Commtunlst agitation. SEATTLE, July 31 m Repre senting nn Investment or $250,000,000, northwest fruit Industries, organized under thn agricultural adjustment code uml representing the tree fruit growers of Washington Oregon, Mont ana ami Idaho, today pledged full uo-opemtlont and complete support for President Roosevelt's Industrial recovery program. BR.UNN, Czechoslovakia, July 31 (P) The front of tho four-story hotel Europa was blown off today and about ten persons were killed and 60 Injured by a bomb which, police said, may have been exploded by a man who wished to kill himself, his wife and his child. SAN FRANCISCO, July 31 P Governor ltoilph signed the st-ato kiiIcs tax hill today. The measure goes Into effect at midnight tonight. Eagles Winners Provide Music At Lions Lunch Music by Gene Gnssett and Bert Warden, two of the winners of tho Eugles broadcast series, was enjoyed by the Lions club at Its luncheon today In the Sacajawea Inn at noon. Homer V. Leffel gave the main talk speaking on the local plan for busi ness people to operate under the provisions of tho national recovery (Continued on Pago Two) ! INQUIRING Each dny as the Inquiring Reporter makes the rounds two persona will be stopped at random on the street corner and asked seme question of the day. Through the courtesy ot Manager C. M. Wight each intrrvieivtMl will ue graiimi two complimentary uukcui 10 in. I.lherly Theatre, The current attraction Is Marlon Davie In 'Teg O' My Heart." And thon there's the man who wasn't nfraid of work. He could go to sleep beside a woodpile any time. Martin King, 1605 Adams, says, "A suro euro for laziness Is to go to work. I'vo worked for wages since I was 16 and I'm GU now and think ficq at the national capitol. Acting upon advices from Washing- ton that the hour scale In stores of smaller communities . had been changed from 40 to 48 hours, the local committee this morning voted a tentative 48-hour working maxi mum for employees. Opening and closing hours under this plan will go Into ' effect Immediately tomorrow morning, some stores agreeing to thifl (tentative agreement. Others say they are perfectly in line with the national plan but prefer to await final local arrangement. r , , Department stores, clothing stores, drygood stores and other general iner NBA. INSIGNIA HERE j;r ' N. R, A,. Insignia .has arrived the post office and first, dlitrlbu-J" tlon will begin at 8 o'clock tomor.- row morning at the general de livery window. Quantity of in signia due each signer of a certi ficate of compliance has been re duced to the following: one han ger, two. large 'cards, five large stickers, five small stickers, 10 con sumers statements of co-operation and 10 consumers stickers. Any one that will require less than the above to properly Identify his place as an N. B. A. pledge, Is urged to leave the balance of In signia at the post office for the benefit of other places, who may requlro additional Insignia. The. ,equiro additional inslgna. , cantlle stores It was agreed upon by a representative committee will, be ginning tomorrow morning, - open at D o'clock In the morning and close at 0 o'clock in the evening, Grocery and food markets will open at 8 a. m. and close at 6 p. m, This to Include (Continued on Page Four) One-Day Super Values Again At Stores Tomorrow "Economy Tuesday" proved pop-, ular with La Grande shoppers on Its first appearance last week. Several of the participating mer chants reported their , one-day super values snapped up quickly by housewives and others who appreciated the extremely low prices on timely merchandise Items offered. One store was sold out by 10:30 a. m., even though it had a stock of over 100 of the items on hand. Another week has rolled around and tomorrow is "Economy Tues day" again. In this Issue ot the Observer on page 3, thrifty shop pers will find new values at the special one-day prices. Careful reading of the boxes on that page will undoubtedly uncover' most Interesting economies in all lines of merchandise. REPORTER j I'm nbout the best man In town. sitting arouno on corners gives peo ple high blood pressure." William Arrlrey, ha arande, says a sure cure for laziness "Is to go to sleep and then one doesn't have to think about work."