Wheat Hardest Resumed Over Valley After 3-Day Halt
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VOLUME 31
KASTKItN" OIIEGON'S LEADING KEW8PAFBB
LA GRANDE, OREGON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1933
MEMBER ASSOCIATED I'KESS AND A. B. C.
NUMBER 287
DISCI
KANSORH MONEY LOCATED
' Wants Everybody
' ;
NEW WARNING
IS ISSUED BY
GEN. JOHNSON
' Check in La Grande This
Afternoon Reveals Total
Signers Here1 185.
POST-OFFICE OUT
. OF N. R. A. INSIGNIA
- Forced to Send to Port
land For New Supply of
Stickers; Beauty Shops
Here Sign Code.
To employers the country over
went today an Indirect lint renewed
warning that Hugh 8. Johnson; na
tional administrator, wants everybody
under the Blue Eagle In two weeks
time. And at 1 o'clock this after
noon the total of La Grande signers
of the president's employment agree
ment has Increased to 185, a gain of
five In the last. 34 hours. Today
marked the- first or the second week
since distribution of the Bine. Eagles
was start oil and the local post office
has been forced to send to Portland
for a new supply of Insignia. Portland-also.
Is out. of Insjgnla, hut a
new shipment Is en route.
Word from Washington toc'jay said
that Johnson hns appointed a spe
cial Hoard to consider and speed
temporary application of the many
pending, codes that fix minimum
wages and minimum hours for as
many trades. When, the two weeks
time has expired, the administrator
now plans a concerted appeal for
consumers to buy only from the mon
(Continued on Page Three)
Request Return
Of Rev. Hertzog
To Church Here
By a unanimous vote of the mem
bers of the quarterly conference In
session last evening, Dr. C. A. Mc
Calllster, district superintendent was
requested to return Rev. W. H. Hert
zog to the pastorate of the First
Methodist Episcopal church of La
Grande for another year's work. The
request will be presented to Bishop
Titus Lowe, who Will toe the presid
ing officer at the approaching session
of the conference which convenes
August 31 at Rupert, Ida.
Mr, Hertzog came to La Grande
1 from Salem somothing over three
years ago to fill -the pastorate left
vacant by the death of the late Rev.
Vernon E, Hail. Prior to that time
he had been a member or the faculty
of Willamette unlversLty, connected
especially with the Kimball School of
Theology which had been discontinu
ed a short time prior to his appoint
ment to La Grande.
In addition to this piece of busi
ness, the reports of the work done
by the several societies during the
year which Is about to close, were
presented. Each organization was
found to be In an exceptionally good
condition, with increased member -,
ships In all Instances, and also In
creased interest and activity.
VEDA HOGENSEN
GIVEN SCHOOL
Miss Vccta Hogenscn, of La Grande,
has been elected to teach the inter
mediate grades at Pondosa for the
coming year. Sho Is a graduate of the
Eastern Oregon Normal school.
95 PCT. POPULATION
HERE BORN IN U. S.
; What percentage of Union county's
, population is of native white paren
tage? What percentage is negro?
How many foreign born whites?
The population of Union county
stands at 17.492, according to latest
accurate figures, and of this total ap
proximately 80 per cent is white and
of native white parentage. In other
words, four out of every five in Un-
Ion county were born Americans and
are of white parentage.
Going a bit further Into the statis
tics, one finds that nearly 95 per cent
of Union county's population is either
of native whit parentage or of for
eign or mixed white parentage. The
WILL
ROGERS
r$gys:
BEVERLY HILLS, Cal., Aug. 7
Cordell Hull, a mighty able man, ar
rived and told Roosevelt what the
London conference had done. That
took the first five minutes.
Then he told Roosevelt what could
have been done If the nations had
really wanted to do something. That
took hours.
Mr. Roosevolt and Mr. Moley are
trying to discourage the kidnapers.
When Missouri hangs that one that
they sentenced, It's going to be tcrT
riblo discouragement to one of 'em.
This Oklahoma boy, Johnson, that's
running this NRA, you hotter not
monkey with him. He is hard-boiled,
and Is liable to make you do what
you are supposed to do. Yours,
LEGIONNAIRES TO
LEAVE TODAY FOR
STATE CONVENTION
Delegates, members of the drum
corps and others of the American Le
gion and auxiliary will leave late this
afternoon lor the annual conclave of
the veterans' at Klamath Palls. La
Grande will make a bid for the 1934
convention for which the legion al
ready has obtained the backing of
local merchants.
.., The American Lepjon rum corpd,
which ranked high oowi m tne na
tional and state! competition In 1D&J.
will participate in the state drunv
corps contest. The corps has 'been
among the leaders In the annual
state contest for many years.
Before leaving for the convention,
legion leaders suid It was almost cer
tain that a $'2500 fund for entertain
ment of the 1934 convention would
bo underwritten by local business
people.
JULY FIRE LOSS
IN LA GRANDE AT
FIGURE OF $793
During the month of July fire loss
in La Grnnde amounted to only $793.
07 and or that loss, $783.07 was pro
tected by insurance, all of which has
been collected, according to Fire Chief
O. T. Lindsay.
' Nine fires were answered and of this
number, one was ibelleved to be in
cendiary. One was caused by an open
flro and seven by rubbish and sparks.
A total of $6625 worth of property
,ra nf 1-lctr rill rl II IT tYin mnnt.Vl y'
Of the nine fire calls, four were
answered on silent alarms.
ML EMILY REFUGE
1 WILL BE POSTED
Signs, warning campers and hikers
against the carrying or use of fire
arms in the Mt. Emily game reserve,
will be posted in the very near future.
Frank B. Wire, of Portland, state
game commissioner, and Ralph Cow
gill, engineer for the commission,
wero here yesterday to go over the
posting of signs.
The Mt. Emily game reserve was
created in the last session of the
legislature, making It illegal to hunt
or carry firearms there.
word "mixed" In this sense applies
to marriages between foreign and na
tive born whites, all citizens of Am
erica. Of the total population, those white
people who were born In foreign
countries amounts to only a little
more than four per cent.
The negro population of Union
county la only about two-tenths of
one per cent. ,
Here are the figures:
Total population 17,492.
Color: white 17,373; negro 41,
Native white 16,516.
Native parentage 13,935.
Foreign or mixed parentage but na
tivo born 3.581.
Foreign born white 856,
Under Blue Eagle In Two Weeks
: ;
Heads U.S.Power
Commission
Prank II. McNinch. above, who
lias been a Democratic member,
of Hie Federal Power Commis
sion since Jan 1, 1031, is tho
commission'!! new chairman,
succeeding (Jcorgo: Qtls Smith,
Republican, who fastened the
(posl but will remain on the
, commission. -
GUARDSMEN WILL i
DO THEIR PART IN
BALANCING BUDGET
Members of tho national guard, do
ing their bit for national recovery,
will drill 48 times during the fiscal
year starting July 1, 1933 but will
receive pay for only 36 drills.
This was the word passed out to
tho members of Company E, lBGth
(Continued On Page Five)
MERCURY UP
TO 95 ABOVE
HERE MONDAY
The weatherman's prediction yes
terday morning that temperatures in
Eastern Oregon would be above nor
mal, were borne out in La Grande
when a maximum of 95 above was
chalked up late Monday. It was the
first above normal weather since be
fore the storms of last week.
The minimum for last night was
63 above and at 7 o'clock this morn
ing the mercury stood at 75 above, in
spite of partly cloudy skies;
The weather forecast for tonight
and Wednesday is for partly, cioudy
skies in Eastern Oregon, with local
afternoon thunderstorms In the
mountains, and temperatures gener
ally above normal.
When Summer
Collapse of Casticwood Dam
loosed a heavy flow of water upon
Denver and Cherry dreek valley
causing $1,000,000 property dam
age, stalling traffic, menacing
bridges and flooding some Den
ver streets before it subsided.
Above, the flood pounding Broad
way bridge. Seventh and Broad
way, Denver. Below, an air view
of Casticwood Dam, showing the
destruction there.
v ... 'aw.
fan-: kJkmim
FALL WHEAT
HARVEST ON
FULL BLAST
Spring-Sown Crop Will be
Ready Within Another
Week, is Report.
LAST WEEK'S RAIN
RESULTED IN HALT
Harvesting Resumed in
Union County Yester
day at Noon ; No Esti
mate on Total Yield Yet
Harvesting or Union county's crop
nf fall wheat, Just becoming general
tho miiliUe of last week, started full
blast yesterday at noon, after a three
day halt due to wet weather. Clearing
skies Sunday and warm weather the
last two days allowed the grain grow
ers to again begin to take In their
yield.
No estimates as. to the extent of
the Union county crop are available
as yet, but within a week or so,
enough Information will be available
to determine the approximate yield.
Most all of the fall wheat is ready
for harvest now, and the spring wheat
harvest Is to begin in another week,
it is reported. ,
Up In the North Powder section, a
bit removed from the Grande Rondo
valley, , harvest also is under , way,
where It Is.: said that the long, -hp
(Continued on Pago Flvoi
Rotarians And
Lions To Meet
At Kitten Ball
According to rumors floating
around La Grande the greatest "Ctvlc
Upheaval" since some 2 exhilarated
citizens peremptorily transferred the
Union county courthouse to La
Grande in the days when men
wore hair on their chests, and women
wore bustles will take place at
the High school athletic field next
Monday afternoon, Aug. 14, when the
Lions club and Rotary club tangle
bats In what Is purported to bo a
scheduled kitten bull game.
Two weeks ago the Lions club, In
a somewhat reckless mood, hurled
the defy to the Rotarians. Two or
three days later the Rotarians, with
blood skittering through their ar
teries, replied with a packet of fixes
wrapped In snake skins,
The war was on! I
The Lions, none too gentle when
their' ire Is on the up and up, and.
(Continued on Pago Two
Flood Invaded
L,.., ..
SSf 1 jMt I ifeS j lit Sfwel
FRENCH FLIERS
X 4Jt ? ' 4 ;
'Two Frenchmen, Maurice Hossl, left, und 111111 Codos set a new -11011-Ktop
long- distance night record from the United State to ..
Jtayuk, Syria yesterday, landing nftcr flying .aliout 51)00 mil. The
above picture was taken at Floyd Bennett airport, New York, where
.they were testing their cabin monoplane, Joseph Lcltrlx, pletuml
.'; below.
ITALIAN BIRDMEN
COMPLETE FLIGHT
TO HORTA, AZORES
HORTA, Azores, Aug. 8 (P) Gen
eral Italo Balbo's Itnllan air armada
of 24 seaplanes successfull 'com
pleted tofpy the longest hop of their
long Journey from Rome to Chicago
and back again.
The general lea nls snips from
Shoal Harbor,, Newfoundland, to the
Azores, where he and his men re
ceived an unparalleled welcome. At
Horta, where nlno of the squadron
alighted, thousands of persons were
out to see the filers. They greeted
the Italians with rockets and sirens.
The breakwater and the quay were
massed with blue hydrangeas.
The other 15 ships of the armada
were provided! with landing places
at Ponta Dclgada on San Miguel
Island.
POLISH I LILICS CRASH
HARBOR GRACE, N. F., Aug. 8 P)
The polish-American fliers, Benjamin
and Joseph Adamowicz and Emll Blr
gon, escaped serious Injury when
their monoplane ''.White Eagle" crack
ed up In a landing hero this after
noon, Joseph Adamowicz suffered an cl-
f Continued on Page Flve
Denver Streets
BREAK RECORD
GROCERS AND
ACCEPT CODE
Maximum Hours of Labor
and Minimum Wages
Are Fixed Definitely.
WASIIIM1TOX, Aug. 8 (P) Oro
ccnt and retallrrs, under fair prac-
(Irc codes siihinltleit to the NRA,
luive agreed to regulatluiiH for their
Industries for the purpose or Indus
trial recovery.
Maximum hours of labor and mint
mum rates of pay for employes def
initely are fixed.
Here is what Is expected of those
engaged In food and grocory distri
bution trade:
Maximum hours of labor shall be
48 hours per week. No one shall be
employed more than eight hours In
any 24-hour poriod, excepting on the
day preceding a legal holiday andt on
an additional 12 days (when tho max
imum hours In any one day shall not
exceed 10 hours) In any six month
porlod.
In tho presidential agreement, the
minimum hours of any store which
customarily operate more than 62
hours were set at 62 hours. The
average number of hours In which
retail grocers were open was said by
their national commit teo to be 73.
Contending to shorten hours might
lose business, tho grocers wero al
lowed a 48-hour work week for em
ployes. NRA officials, however, have ex
plained If store hours arc reduced by
agreement to below 63, tho reemploy
ment which Is anticipated through
the allowance of the 48 hour work
week will not be obtained, and1 the
understanding upon which the food
and grocery distributors and the re
tall codes were based will not have
been carried out.
(Jrocers Warned
Tho NRA orrinlnls have warned re
tail grocers against making Joint
agreements to shorten store hours.
(Continued on Page Two)
Wheat Today
CHICAGO. Aug. 8 (P) Grain val
ues crumbled Into today, Influenced
by sympathy with cotton market
weakness and becauso of increased
hedging sales of wheat at Winnipeg.
A rally, however, ensued at tho fin
Ish and left the market a trlflo above
yesterday.
Late declines of grains took place
not wl thstand I ng an earner ad vnnce
that accompanied reports President
Roosevelt and economic advisors were
to dlAcusa the commodity dollar. Vol
ume of grain trading was somewhat
larger than yesterday, and until near
tho clone the prevailing sentiment was
less pcmlmlstlo.
Whoat closed nervous, 14 c off to c
up compared with yesterday'!? finish,
corn unchanged to c down, oata at
140 decline to o advance, and pro
visions showing 7. to 20c setback.
JUST BEFORE
PRESSTIME
SIGNIFICANT CONFERENCE
CUBAN MEDIATION CONTINUES
ROAD COMMISSION MEETS
...
SEEK ALLEGED KIDNAPER.
HYDE PARK, N. Y., Aug. 8 (P)
President Roosevelt discussed the do
mestic and Inter national moneUtry
problem In a significant conference
today with. Ms experts, but the meet
ing was offlcUilly described as un
related either to stabllixuUon of the
dollar or Inflation,
HAVANA, Aug. B (P) 'United States
Ambassador Sumner Wolles, who is
seeking, to end Cuba's political tur
moil, which resulted yesterday In a
casualty list of 21 dead and 130
wounded in street demonstrations, de
clared after a lone Interview with
President Mac had o today that
"mediation is not ended."
PORTLAND, Aug. 8 (P) Cost or
completion of the north and south
Kant lain highways will range from
$2,560,04)0 to $2,030,000 predicated up
on abandonment or the railroad af
reetlng the North Kuutlum, the state
highway cwiuiiHsnIou announced liere
today. The meeting, called to con
sider road matters, almost turned In
to a mining congress when A. D.
Coulter, of Baker, urged Improve
ment of rivo miles of highway be
tween Carson and Cornucopia In or
der to bring out gold ore for deliver'
to the smelter In 'J'aconut,
ALBANY, N. Y., Aug. 8 P) Dis
trict Attorney John T. Delanoy an
nounced today a warrant had toeen
Issued for arrest of Mannoy Strowl
charging him with tho kidnaping of
Llout. John J. O'Oonnell Jr. Strowl
acted -as go-ibotwoon In dell very log
tUo $40,000 ransom, monoy and. ar
ranging for ounjr O'Connoll's release.
' NEW YORK, Aug. H (T) Eligcno
S, Duulell Jr., Boston lawyer aouused
of placing two tear gas bombs In the
stock exchange last Friday and mus
ing' employes to flco from the build
ing, was Indicted today for malicious
mischief, a felony.
CHILDREN SWEPT
TO SEA BY WAVE;
ONE KNOWN DEAD
NEW YORK, Aug. 8 (P) At least
one child was drowned and six wore
missing today after a big wave swept
a large group of children off of a
sandbar at Rockaway Beach, Queens.
The children caught by the wave
and carried to the sea by Its under
two wore part of a picnic party of
100 from tho Pride of Judca orphans
home In Brooklyn.
About a scoro of children wore on
the sandbar. Thlrtoon were dragged
quickly from the water, all suffering
from submersion. Four wero sent to
a hospital and lnhalators were ap
plied to tho other nlno on tho beach,
to at least ono of them In vain.
Tho dead was Ray Evans, 10.
In counting six of tho children
missing, the police said they did not
(Continued on Tngo Six)
20,000 MINERS TO
RETURNTOWORK
Ity Mil r he it Oral mm
UNIONTOWN. Pa., Aug. 8 (ff)
More than 100 ihcadn of United Mine
Workers locals, representing about
20,000 miners voted unanimously to
day to return to work in tho soft coal
fields of Southwestern Pennsylvania,
Tho action was takon In a rising
voto after Edward F. McOrady, labor
advisor of the national recovory ad
ministration, delivered a stirring ap
peal to tho mon to support President
Roosevelt's recovery program.
.McOrady flew to tho coal fields
from Washington at request of Gen
eral Hugh 8. Johnson, recovery administrator.
j INQUIRING REPORTER I
I Each day an the Inquiring Reporter makes the rounds two person! j
j will be stopped at random on the street corner and asked some I
i (locution or the day. Throutfh the courtesy of Manager C. M. WlRht j
I fjii-h lntirvl(wfri will hn minted two com 11 men tar v tickets to the
J Liberty Theatre. The rnrrent ntlrnrtlon Is Frederic March and Cory s
I (irnnl in "The Eagle and the Hawk.' J
"Men seldom make passes
At girls who wear glascss."
According to Dorothy Parker. That
nroblem has been solved for the sex
by the Invention of "contact glasses"
In Germany, One pnlr hns entered
the United States and photographs
re von I tho glasses to be conical pieces
of glass, ground to the proper de
NARKED CASH
DISCOVERED
BY BANKERS
Several AiTestS. Made in
Minneapolis -'Group
.,. Held Incommunicado !
STACY ARRESTED
BY U. S. OFFICERS
Held in Chicago as the
Man Who Plotted At
tempted D e 1 iv e r y of
Frank Nash in K. C.
By Tlie Associated Press -
Two ilovcUopniento In the crime
Kitimtlon today were In favor ot law
enforcement officials. Part of the Urs
chel ransom 'money was discovered In
Minneapolis and several arrests made, -and
In Chicago federal authorities
wero holding a man they sold plotted
the attempted delivery of Frank Nash,
convict, at the Kansas City union sta
tion recently.
MINNEAPOUS, Aug. 8 P Fart
of the ransom money paid kidnapers
for the release of Charles F. Urachal,
Oklahoma City oil millionaire, has
been discovered In a Minneapolis
bank, federal Investigators sold, today.
Reports as to tho number of men
held Incommunicado In connection .
with the finding of tho money varied ,
from three to five.; r v
Bank officials Identified that part
of the currency that passed, through
their hands as part of tho Urachal .
ransom by sortal numbers on the Bills.
Ursohol, 40. oil millionaire, -was
freed toy -Ms kWimpere-Juiy
CHICAGO, Aug. 8 m Federal
authorities announced today they
were holding Louis (Doc) Stacy ha the
man who plotted tho attempted de-.
livery of Frank Nash, a convict, at
the Kansas City union station recent
ly and that they had learned! the
Identity of the gunmen who killed -five
persons In the attempt.
Melvln H. Purvis, chief of . tho
United States Iburoau of investigation
here, named Verao Miller, notorious
South Dakota outlaw, as one of. the
gunmen who killed Nash, and four po
lice officers In a wild shooting fray
at tho union station in Kansas City.
(Continued on Page Throo)-
Oregon Is 14th
State To Ratify
21st Amendment
ralem. ' Auk. 8 VP) Yesterday
'Oregon became tho 14th stato to for
mally ratify tho aiBt amonamenc,
which calls for repeal of the 18th
amendment to the federal constitu
tion. Tho voto was 110 yos, flvo no,
and one absent.
Organization of tho convention and
vollnir rcaulrod only two hours and
seven minutes, 44 minutes under the
previous short repeal convention rec
ord set by Massachusetts.
Tho official certificate setting out
tho action of tho convention was duly
signed, filed with tho secretary, of
stato's office, and today forwarded to
the secretary of stato In Washing
ton. On July 21 Oregon became the 20th
stato to vote In favor of prohibition
repeal. The voto was 138,713 yes to
72,854 no.
A onc-mlnutc time limitation on
speech from tho floor accelerated, the
convention. Following the roll .call
on tho repeal voto, a resolution to
outlaw tho saloon In Oregon and
calling for tho state legislature to so
enact was dcfcatcclj. . t
BARBER SHOP
IN NEW ROOMS
. i
The Oregon Troll Barter shop has
mover! across Adams avenue from Its
old location to tho Lottos building,
It was annouueed today.
gree, that fit Just over tho eyo ball.
Miss Mae Stearns, 1010 Oak street,
say.$ "At least you would not get
your bows knocked crooked every
time you bump your head."
Miss Wllma Smith, 109V4 Depot. Is
apparently from Missouri and will
have to be shown, her reply being,
"For crying out loud, It sound fool
ish to me."
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