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Lightning Kills Cattle On The Alex Robertson Farm 5 .-! : : La Grande Is The Only Newspaper Printed in La Grande Covering Union and ',; ' Wallowa Counties Gateway to Wallowa, "The Switzerland of America" i VOLUME 31 EASTERN OREGON'S LEADING NEWSPAPER LA GRANDE, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 1933 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS AND A. 11. C. NUMBER 283 FAIT OF MWffi IS UNDEt WAT 'FOUR BOLTS HIT MARKS IN THIS DISTRICT Mortier's Bam on North Side' Hit by lightning; k. Small Fine Started. TWO TRANSFORMERS ARE BURNED OUT Three Separate Storms Hit County Quarter of y an Inch of .Rain Falls in La Grande. Thrco separate electrical storms swept over Union county yesteriluy af ternoon, the first resulting In Jlfjlit- iiiar utMlHn,, nt-. Hpniit-. Tmir t.lmm. E. Mortier's 'barn bock of McClay's store on Second street was struck ana set on fire, but the blaze was qulck lv Yt.1nmilfihed. Two cows at -the Alex Robertson farm In the Orange Hall district near here wero killed toy a bolt. The cows were in a field and were about 30 feet apart. The owners were unaware of tho loss until a neighbor called to .aii t.Vim nf thu lichttmr's destruc- tlon. of the two animals. One of the two was listed aa their best cow. i Tu-n Transformers lilt Two bolts struck along the Eastern Oregon Light & Power Co. lines out city service was not interrupted. In each case a transformer was burned out. Accompanying tho storms locally 0 a niinrtor of an Inch of rain, the first slnco the middle of July when more than naif aa..incu. leii ..auruig an electrical storm. ' ' Another electrical storm, accom panied by heavy showcrB, hit La Grande shortly after the noon-hour today. Three Separate Storms The first storm hit La Grande. Is land City, Imbler and Elgin, accord'ng to reports. The second storm went across the valley between Elgin and Union, striking In the Cove district. Tho third started In the Bock Crock area and went Into the North Pow- (Contlnued on Page Six, Favors New Law To Stop Buying From Children A suggestion by City Manager An gus McAllister that the city draw up a new ordinance relative to second hand stores purchasing articles of merchandise from minors was re ceived with favor at tho city com mission meeting last night, and E. R. Rlngo, city attorney, was authorized to prepare such an Instrument. To day he is going to Portland and hopes to examine the Portland ordinance while there. The city manager said that tho police was having somo troublu from children stealing merchandise and then selling It under assumed names to some of the second hand deaicrs. He suggested that the ordinance make It unlawful for stores to buy mer chandise from minors. It was brought out that not all of tho second hand (Continued on rage Seven) COUNTY COURT STILL BUSY ON MONTH'S BILLS The members of the Union county court met toctey for the second Cay of their monthly session and spent tho entire morning auditing July county bills. They expect to get to the docket this afternoon. They are meeting In the office of County Judge U. O. Couch at the court house. MANY LOOP DRIVES BECKON ON SUNDAYS Where to go Sunday? 1$ It is Isn't too hot to enjoy a long ' car ride, there are a number of lnter- I eating loop drives In tills section which may appeal to the week-ender . who doesn't plan on taking too long tk trip. f Just for example. If you've never -made the trip, the drive to Medical iCpiings might be Interesting. But dont figure that the highway Is a ' oed of rose," because there are .plenty of rough spots both coming and going, although nothing to wor ry about. The road from La Grande to a point WILL si ROGERS 'cnut SANTA BARBARA, Oal., Aug. 2 IX It's as hot back east as the Cali fornia papers say It Is, there Is no use me writing yon: I should Just send flowers to the funerals. (Excuse me while I put somo wood on this fireplace here In tha room; looks like we will never have any summer). This Is fiesta woek In Santa Bar bara, the most colorful event In Cali fornia, the home of yellow horses and silver saddles. Yours, lull iiUiiiiuiu LEGION SHOW AT ZUBER SATURDAY The American Legion vaudeville which will be ft feature of the open ing of tho remodeled Zubor hall Sat urday evening Is assuming large pro portions, according to .Raymond O. Williams, chairman of the commit tee, ant) additional numbers are yet to come. Among the additional numbers will be Lou Levitt and his Dragons who will be featured on the stage and also furnish music for dancing. Brick Anderson will be . master of ceremonies. He had 'charge of the Engle broadcast programs, and had some experience as a radio announcer and entertainer. ; " Jane Smith, Fawn Geertsen, Leona (Continued on Page Pour) DEFINITE & ON LOAN BRANCH OFFICE LACKING Matters concerning- the branch of the Home Owners' Loan corporation of tho federal government, to be established In La .Grande, remained indefinite tocTay, along with similar branches to be established at Eugene and Klamath Falls. Oregon headquarters of the home loan corporation will be opened In Portland in about a week, John P. Lipscomb, manager, said upon his return from Washington, D. C, Wed nesday. "rJhfc matter wf organization ip (Continued on Pajro Eight) NESBITTS IN CITY ON VISIT FROM CANADA Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Ncsbltt and children, Lee and Donna, of Cal gary, Alberta, arrived yesterday to spend a few days In Eastern Oregon. While tn La Grande they arc staying at the M. W. Huffman home, but plan to spend the remainder of the week at tho J. H. Dobbin home In Enterprise. Mr. Ncsbitt Is publicity manager of the Canadian wheat pool. Mrs. Nesbltt will be remembered as the daughter of Bert Huffman, form er resident and editor of La Grondc. WALLA WALLA PRISONER AT, LARGE TODAY Mike Krlskovlch. ftged 30 years, es caped from the Walla Walla peniten tiary about 6 o'clock last night, ac cording to word received here by state, county and city officers. He is described as 5 feet 11 inches tall, brown eyes, dark brown curly hair, white shirt with collar of shirt having clothing department printed thereon, occupation waiter. a few miles this side of Medical Springs Is In good condition, but the last few miles to the community made famous by its springs and Un cle Dunham Wright, are rough and Ousty. Once at the springs, on may enjoy a picnic lunch, a swim In the pool or a, trip over to Pomioea, about a mile farther on. ' Coming back, for variety, one may take the road to Telocast-t. which leads by much of the lake created by the Thief Valley dam. There is a turn off that goes to the dam, it la (Continued on Page Seven) Wins in Cactus rlSl ft ... uuyd. HO, ol Pnoenix, .. -seletEed as "Miss Arizona' la' .v beauty show held amid a park of thorny cactus. NOMINATIONS ARE MADE BY LEGION Nomination of officers for the American Legion was the main busi ness transacted last night at the August meeting at the Sacajawea Inn. Elections will be held in Sept ember. The nominations were not announced to the public. The La Grande post will send Its drum corps to the state convention at Klamath Falls on Aug. 10, 11 and 12, when the post will make a bid for the 1934 meeting. BAI1V I)AU(JHTKIt HORN AUOUST 2 Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Laughlln, of Elgin, are tho parents of a baby daugh Wr bqrn sterclay at the Grande Rondc hospital. ANYHOW, HONESTY IS THE BEST POLICY RESPONSE TO MA. PLAN IS SPREADING Additional Business and Prof essionaj Men Sign Certificates Here. LABOR CONTRACTS TO BE UNCHANGED Interpretation Also Clari fies Retail Code; Phar macists, Executives, Etc., Not Restricted. Response to tho N. R. A. plan In La Grande mis' more general today, With many additional Blue Kogleti posted yesterday afternoon and this morning. At 1:30 o'clock today 1S8 certificates of compliance had been signed and presented to the post office, representing a large majority of local business and professional men. The post office was forced to get additional Insignia from Island City. In the meantime, additional Inter pretation of various questions ,con- .' (Continued on Page Thres Mrs. E.L. Haliey Dies Wednesday At Valley Home Maude Bosemond Haliey, wife of Edward L. Haliey, died at her farm hctie ihtho valley .Wednesilay after 'noon at T:60 o'clock, after a long Ill ness, She suffered a sever stroke Sunday morning) - Her death was a (Continued on Page Eight) Lightning Takes All Nine Lives Of Local Feline A cat may havo nine lives, but lightning; can take 'cm all In one swift move. No casualties wero reported X first when a 'bolt struck the E. Mortler barn on the northsld. yes terday, but later It was learned that a cat was killed. A child saw tho feline tragedy, and his story was that the cat, near the barn, leaped Into tho air, turning over and over, and hit the ground dead. The Observer was unable to learn how close the cat was to the barn, or was It able to get complete verification of the death, stoiy. ;nnTER HOURS I HIGHER M MONEytM CIRCULATION yip i MONEY AWY 1 Carole Lombard Plans Divorce ink jEu fc m gr- if t r :k uNej Pt k jx Oarolo Lombard, niutlon nicture dence on the Nevnda side of Lake Tahoe preparatory to suing her antor husband, William Powell, lor divorce, and spends her ttie rid ing, "sun-tanning," and staying away Irom the public. Photo, shows . -A her on steps ol her cottage. SETS RAILROAD PERSONNEL LIMIT WASHINGTON'. Aug. 3 (fl - In working out economies In co-opera tlon with Joseph B. Eastman, federal co-ordlnator of transportation, the railroad must not reduce personnel below 933,400, the number employed during May. . J Tho" May employment totals, an nounced today by the Interstate com merce commission, were set out In the new railroad law as those under which tho carriers would have to "freeze" their personnel rolls In cllm inatlng duplicating services and adopting other cost reducing steps. The only way the roads may re duce personnel is by not filling va cancies caused by resignations, re tirements and deaths, and these may not exceed five per cent of the em ployed during a year. Tho 038,408 employment figure for May was a gain over April, when em ployment was 925.485, and March. 919,881, but a reduction of 126,753 under May a ycaf ago. scar, nas ejir..imi.mpri n nnini-. resi COORDINATOR PLEADS WITH 6IGRAILR0ADS "Spend Every Available Dollar in Putting Men Back to Work," He Urges WASHINGTON, Aiir. 3 (P) .Joseph It. Eastman, fed cm I co-onllna(or of tnuiNpitrtntlnn, tcloRmplied the pnwl (IcntH of nil Haas one railroads today urging them to "spond every avail able dollar In putting nfeu hack to work," under the ndmlulHtratlon'b re covery program. Eastman sold reports to him Indi cated the railroads had restored, about forty thousand men to work slnco June 1 and in many instances had Increased the hours of employment of men already at work, but added this was not enough. ' "This Is good," his telogrom said, "but Is It all that can be done? A countrywide drive is on to Increase employment, build up purchasing power, increase production, and sus tain It by consumption. "If all pull together this drive will Buccecd, but It may fall if some hang back," KIDNAPED MAN IS FREED ON 'CREDIT' NEW YORK, Aug, 3 P) Nathan BnskowlU was home today the first kidnap victim to bo brought back on credit. Shortly after police proclaimed that Bnskowltz, a sports promoter, "hasn't got 35 cents to his name." kidnapers released him last night under a nothlng-down-nhd-casy-pay- (Contlnucd On Pago Five) Wheat Today CHICAGO. Aug, 3 (ff) Extremely bullish crop reports both from tho American and Canadian northwest gave wheat prices a brisk upturn late today. The wheat market earlier advanced lower, tnflucnnod a good deal by trad forecasts that world import require ments for 1933-34 would bo tho smallest met with in years. World Import wheat needs wero put at 670. 000,000 bushels, against 704.000,000 last year and 770,000.000 two seasons ago. a circumstance attributed large ly to determined governmental ef fort likely to result In Eurojw (ex clusive of Russia) raising 00,000.000 bushels more wheal tlian !ast year. Wheat closed unsettled, ifr lc abovo yesterday's finish, corn un changed to jO lower, oats y4 lc down, and provisions varying from 22c decline to a rlso of 6c. JUST BEFORE PRESSTIME MAYO ClIIMIKtlX MENACED McNAIIYg ON WAY IIOMK ACCIDENT NEAK PENDLETON FLOODS FATAL TO 1000 ROCHESTER, Minn., Aug, 3 P All unpurent attempt to kluimp one ot inure or tlio three children or Dr. and Mm. ClutrleH W. Mujo curly Tues day, wns roveulnl today. The clUl tlren, rouging In age rrom to six ycimt uro gnimltditldreii or Dr. Charted 11. Mayo, world ruinous nurgcon. PORTLAND, Aug. 3 W) A Wask lmrton. D. O.. dlfipatoh to the Journal today said Senator and Mrs. Charles L. McNary left this attcrnoon ifor Oregon. They will stop brlofly in Clilcago en route. ' l'HNDLETON, Ore., Aug. 3 VP) Hurl Wnrdlclgli, or WoUs, Nov., was in a lliwpltal hero today undergoing treatment ror severe ruelal Injuries and body bruises received in an auto mobile accident on the Old Oregon Trail lust night. Mm. Edna Stanton, n putiKcngcr, was bruised and slmkcn. PEIPINO, China, Aug. 3 VP) Floods caused toy a collapse of dikes along the Chiang river near Sonyuau caus ed the deatlia of 1000 persons and a great loss of livestock, dispatches from Slan reported today. EASTMOKELAND MUNICIPAL LINKS, Portland, Ore., Aug. SOT Tab Unycr, Portland aoe, was tha first player to advunce to the second round In the national publlo links goU tournament today when he camo from behind with three brtlllant birdies on tho second nine to conquer Jimmy Decble, 15-yenr-old Minneapolis star, and 1 .III the 18-holo match. . . ; . YOUTH CONVINCES OFFICERS HE IS TIEND MURDERER' BAN DIBOO, Oal.,' Aug. 3 m -Phillip Charles Edwards, 19-yoar-old high school graduate was bolng held tn Jail as ni suspect In tho mutilation murdor of little Dalbert Aposhlan to day wlille pollco checked the clowlng episodes of Ills story of the crime. Captain of Doteotlves Harry J. Kel ly today checked tho story In Its broad outlines and sold he discovered facts which partially verified It. Edwards first told his story to de tectives In Los AngoleB where 1io wai, picked up as a loltoror lato Monday night, and repeated It when (brought hore. Kelly said the youth told offi cers lie mot Dalbert on a downtown (Continued on Pago Two) KANSAS ROBBERS ELUDE OFFICERS COFFEYVIIjLE, Kan., Autf. 3 (IV Tho robbers who stole tho sain from tho Weir City state bank after lock ing 10 cltlzons in the town Jail, to day appeared to have made good their escape from peace officers, posses and national guardsmen. With no hot trail to guldo them tho officers gave up their search last night after failing to find tho two men who earlier in the day hod aban doned near hero, a truck, carryli tlte 8 to! on safe. Tho truck, containing tho bank's safo and $3,000, was roturncd to Weir City under guard. I1KTS AOAIN8T (15000 lli;'l,I, SWIM Till: (.'IIAXNI'X DEAL, England Capt, George Dixon Morris accepted a bet of $5000 a Rn Inst his $5 while playing cards with a friend that ho would swim tho Channel Homo time In August Ho Is In training and generally has three swims a day. Ono day recent ly ho swam out four and one-half ml tea to the South Goodwin light ship, hailed tho crew1 and swam back to breakfast. I INQUIRING Each day as the Inquiring Reporter makes the rounds two person will be stopped at random on the street corner and asked some question of tho (loy. Through the courtesy of Manager C. M. Wight each Interviewed will be grunted two complimentary tickets to the Liberty Tliwitre. The current attraction Is ( hurlle Itugglcs In ".Murders In The Zoo." fa Carnora, king of tho heavy weight ring, Invulnerable or Is there a lighter who could defeat Mm? Martin Fitzgerald, 805 O avenue, believes that Max Baer could do It. Baer", according to Mr. Fltr.ncrald, 'has more science nnd moro boxing HEAVY RAINS CAUSE ROOD IN BIG CITY Two Deaths Reported and 5000 People Are Driven From Their Homes. UNRULY TORRENT GOES OVER WALLS Downtown Business at Standstill Several Bridges Washed Away; Those in Danger Warned DENVER, Aug. 8, m Two deaths front the flood that lilt Denver today wero known after a check. The body of Tom Casey, 80, ,wa found In a deep hole at the rear or Ills ratldenr nt 1(110 Heventh street. The body of Mrs. Iicrtha Catlln, HI, employed on a ranch ut Frnnkton, was found float ing In a swollen creek. DENVER, Colo., AIIR. 3 VP) Koar liiK threa feet above the tops of eight font high retaining walls floouwatcrs or Cherry creek, swollen by! heavy rnliiB lust night and the breaking of Castlcwood dam east of Denier, to day were swelling Into streets for from the creek's ordinary course anfl forcing city dwellers from their homes. Uusually a friendly stream running little more than a foot or two deep, the creek from which Colorado pio neers panned much, gold, was on un ruly torrent of muddy floor, carrying tons of debris as It swept tbrougb V BuslncB8' -was '-at " V MfcanfiAin In, downtown Denver as power and tight oorvico was out oir when the flood waters demolished transmission lines (Continued on Page Throe) Navy Department Awards Contracts For 2INew Ships WASHINGTON, Aug. S VP) The navy department today awarded con tracts "to the lowest responsible bid dor" for 21 naval vessels. The department also allotted 16 vessels to be constructed In navy yards. Bids for the vessels awarded pri vate yards wero opened July 26. Announcing tho awards, officials said charges .by Senator Trammoll, chairman of tho senate naval com mittee, of collusion between the bid ders had not ibeen substantiated. Meanwhile, In view of the hip building cods as to wages and hours In private yards, tho navy today or dered a five-day week of 40 hours for civilian employes at all short stations. Tho now work week will replace the present 6V4 day week for which six days pay Is given. . , Pay will now bo on the oasis of flvo days wnges for tho flvo day week. Somo 44,000 omployos will bo af fcotcd. . Today's Baseball American League NEW YORK, Aug. 3 mi LoftJ Orovo handed tha Yankees tholr first shutout slnco Aug. a, 1031, today as ho pitched Philadelphia to a 1 to 0 victory, giving only five hits. Tho shutout was tho first for tho Yanks after 308 consecutive scoring games, Tho Yank's feat of scoring In 308 games, established a new nll-tlmo rec ord for major leaguo clubs. Jlmmlo Foxk aided orovo In Ms victory by -walloping his 30th homo run of tho season with two on toaso In tho seventh whllo threo more Philadelphia ruuB camo In on an error by Den Chapman. Tho score: . B. H. B. Philadelphia - - 7 8 0 Now York - - 0 5 3 Batteries: Orovo and Cochran; Al len, Ponnack, Dovcns end Dlokoy. REPORTER ! experience. When they are matched Baer will defeat the champ, I pre dict." t James Leslie, Sommer hotel, says, "I'm not much of a fight fan but from what I've heard other people say I believe that Mux Bncr can bent Carnora," ,
