La Grande !Legion Drum Corps Wins First Place
La Grande Is The
Gateway to Wallowa,
, "The Switzerland
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VOLUME 31
EAHTKRX OltKOON'S LEADING NKWSI'Al'EH
LA GRANDE, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 11, 1933
MEMHKR ASSOCIATED PKES8 AND A. II. C.
NUMBER 290
STOCI SH0W1
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Final Approval Given Part of Elgin- Weston Project
BIDS TO BE
ASKED SOON
ON HIGHWAY
W. H. Lynch, District En
gineer, Approves $50,
000 Grading Project.
WORK SCHEDULED
FOR THE EAST END
Provides For Grading of
4.5 Miles of Portion of
Forest Road Nearer to
Elgin.
Eight Orcson forest highway pro
jects to cost $(MO.IKI0 and to be un
dertaken with federal money under
the lmtlonull recover)' act, hnvc been
approved by W. II. Lynch, district
engineer. iMireiitl of public works, antl
bids on the work will bo called soon.
One or the projects approved was for
grading 4.5 miles near the eastern
end of the Weston-Elgin highway, at
a cost of $50,000.
Earlier this week It was announced
that $100,000 hod been allocated to
the Weston-E'.gln highway, and It
waa presumed locally that the ap
proval of the grading of the eastern
end of the road that portion nearest
Elgin represents only one-half of the
work to be done this year. No furthcr
details were available today, however.
The new work approved by the bur
eau of public roada also Includes:
Surfacing of 8-mllo section, of Pen-dleton-John
Day, highway near Range,
an rtno ' . 1 ' ' "
Oiling 10.2 miles of Canyon City-
Burns highway near uanyon ivy,
$40,000.
Front Wheels
Stolen From
Andrews' Car
An unusual theft was committed
near La Grande about (I o'clock this
morning, when both front wheels of
Al Andrews' car were stolen while the
owner was working his two bird dngs
In a field not more than ISO yards
distant.
Mr. Andrews drove out to about a
mile from Oekeler's lane, parked his
oar on the right hand side of the
road near a gate, and took his dogs
Into the field. Part of the time he
was unable to seo his car because of
vegetation between' him and the gats,
tout ho says ho wasnt In the field
more than 35 minutes.
When ho discovered his loss, he
could see an old automobile going
cast near Lone Tree, and believes this
was the machine whoso occupants
took his wheels.
He was forced to walk about a mllo
and a quarter when he got a ride tho
rest of the way Into La Grande, and
reported the theft to tho state police,
who notified Baker to watch for tho
suspected oar.
Mr. Andrews roports that his car
was not damaged except for the loss
of tho wheels.
TWO CARS IN
MINOR SMASH
Automobiles driven by Wayne Rea
vls and Oscar Hobson figured In a
minor acoldent at 6:35 o'clock yes
1 tcrday a mile north of Island City
on tho La Orando-Wallowa Lake
highway. No one was hurt. The ao
cldont was reported to the police.
PLENTY OF SCENERY
ON THIS LOOP DRIVE
Another loop drive from La Grande
is attracting some La Grandera, al
though road conditions are not of the
beet.
The 60-mile drive from La Grande
and back via Mount Emily and Ka
mela Is, in the opinion of Joe Ruck
man, the most scenic drive anywhere
in this section, and if It were im
proved, ho says. Union county woula
have a scenic loop second' to none In
the United States.
Wednesday Mr. and Mrs. Ruck man.
their daughter, Mrs. Edwards, and
their granddaughter. Miss Virginia
Edwards, the two latter from Califor
nia, drove to Mount Emily and In
WILL r
ROGERS
SANTA MONICA, Cal.. Aug. 10
Everybody knows Mr. Roosevelt don't
want any armed trouble with Cuba
or anybody else, but when you start
telling somebody what "tile;' must
do," why you got to back It up with
something.
You can't teli the bully to quit
picking on the boy unless you are
prepared to do something to huh-In
case ho don't quit picking on nlm.
Trouble is we never did ' set Cuba
plum free. Wo kept a clauso In the
contract whero wo were to remain
the guardian. Take tlie sugar out of
Cuba and the sugar out of the Philip
pines and our altruistic feelings would
kinder cool off. Yours,
2 ARRESTED
BY OFFICERS
FOR BAKER
State and City Policemen
"Frisk" Train to Capture
Alleged House Robbers
Slate and city policemen, working
together under the direction of Lieut,
Warren Yancey, urrestcd two men on
a freight train here about 11 o'clock
last night, both of whom were want
ed In Itakcr In ooiuieottoiiwltli a
house .robbery,.. .. 'x'.'' i 'v' v-
The two, George Waltkm of Spring
field. 111., and Albert Jensen, of Sea
tonville, 111., were taken to Baker be
fore daybreak where charges will toe
lodged against them.
State police here were notified toy
telephone last night that a Baker
house had been robbed of two suits
of clothing, several shirts, some un
derwear and other articles. Two men
suspected of the robbery were be-
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BOYS' CAMP EAST
OF UNION READY
FOR DADS' NIGHT
Numerous parents spent Thursday
afternoon and evening at the Cather
ine nrppic hrwa' enmn where 39 Union
county and 19 Baker county boys are
having a delignnm ouung. iuiub""
Is the big dads' night with a pow
wow on the program beginning about
7:30 to which all parents and friends
are invited. Many are planning on
remaining over night.
Those who visited the camp which
is located a short" distance above
Thompson's Meadow, on the site of
a former boy scout camp, came home
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EIGHT MORE MEN
WORKING FOR U. P.
The Union Pacific rallrond has put
an additional eight men to work on
the section near Wallowa, on the La
Grande-Joseph branchllnc. It was re
ported today.
For a time this year only two men
were engaged In woik on tho right
of way. then later two more wore
added. Tho newest addition brings the
crew to 12.
stead of returning the same way, tools
another road to Kainela and then to
La Grande.
After leaving the Mount Emily for
est station the road is a little rough
for a while, but after that it Is a
good mountain road on which one
may average about 15 miles on hour,
It Is reported.
The day was ideal for the drive
and the travellers were greatly im
pressed by the wonders that Union
county has but has not yet exploited.
Mr. and Mrs. Ruckman have been
taking their visitors to several other
Eastern Oregon points including Wal
lowa lake.
ASTORIA WILL
BE HOST TO
LEGION MEET
La Grande, Through Fred
y E. Kiddle, Plans to Bid
For 1935 Convention
DRUM CORPS MAKES
SPLENDID SHOWING
Wins Phillip L. Jackson
Cup Was First to Be
gin Parading in Klam
ath Falls Wednesday.
WINS PHILLIP L. JACKSON CUP
The La (irnndo American Legion
drum corps last night won the
Phillip L, Jackson cup for the best
drum corps In the annual con
vention parade, the first night
parade in the history or the Am
erican Legion In Oregon. The
drum corps was led by John L.
Oarlty. Var several years it bus
been near the top, hut this was
the first state victory Tor the La
Grander!.
Delegates to the Amcrlcnn Legion
convention nt Klmuatli Fulls today
unanimously voted to hold tho 11)34
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No Public Works
. Action Due Until
Engineer Named
Before any further action can be
taken on the proposed expenditure of
nearly 920,000,000 of federal public
works money for projects In Oregon
including the E. O. N. training
school and the Beaver Creek pipeline
project a supervising engineer
must be appointed for this state by
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SON IS BORN
TO CHIDSEYS
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Chidsey aro
the parents of a son born Wednesday
evening at the home of Mrs. Dave
Rogers In Pendleton. Mr. Chidsey is
an engineer for the state highway de
partment with headquarters In La
Grande.
The baby has been named James
Edward.
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Nudists Work and Frolic In California
Above, three
members of the
Shasta colony
ready for a hike.
Lower, Mlgnon
Beck. Right,
cleaning up the
nature camp.
NUDIST MISS FINDS LIFE
GOOD DURING HER FIRST
DAY IN SHASTA COLONY
r,!: What :H.lfc . like ,.ln OaUfonjAa'
firBtj nudist colony? Mlgnori Beck,
San Francisco girl, herewith tells of
her first day in the nuc'flst camp
noW flourishing in Shasta county.
The Editor.
By Mlgnon Beck
ROUND MOUNTAIN, Shasta Coun
ty, Aug. 11 The sun shining In
my face and the chirping of birds
awakened me from a sound sleep.
It was early, but already nude fig
ures were Jumping from hillside beds
and making their way towards . the
cabins.
Without dressing, I followed hast
ily to find 13 men, seven women
and three children standing In three
rows .awaiting their morning exer
cises. They were lined up without
regard to height and made a queer
picture, with tints of skin ranging
from a light pink to a bright coral
and various shades of beige and
brown.
Exercising vigorously for 10 min
utes, we then ran down to the creek
SAYS IT WON'T BE
and plunged, Jnto thft'icy watersfor
a dip. " V
Meets II. C. Coed
At the pool I met a young attrac
tive girl. She turned out to be a
University of California student. "My
family thinks I'm In a conventional
summer resort," she said. "They'd
have a fit if they thought I'd gone
nudist."
A brisk run back to camp and we
found breakfast ready to be served
on tables on the ground in the largest
log cabin. Breakfast consisted of
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GRASS FIRE IS
EXTINGUISHED
The fire truck, wan called to Wash
ington and 15th street yesterday af
ternoon to extinguish a grass fire.
Thirty-five gallons of chemicals were
required! to control tho blaze. There
wo3 no damage.
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BEN "EAGLE"
GOES, THERE
IS NO RETURN
Gen. Johnson Makes State
ment Today; 201 N.R. A.
(Signers in La Grande.
A flat prediction (hut ti ciisc nt re
vocation of the Blue Bugle, cmblcm
atlo or compliance with the national
recovery ndmlulHtrutloii, will arise
mid 1 lut t It will liifii n "econoinle
death" to the of rentier, was made to
day In YVuMliliiKtou by Hugh H. Jolm
son, N.lt.A. mlnilnlHtrutor.
In the meantime. La Grande busi
ness and professional woplo con
tinued to sign the N.R.A. agreement,
and tho post office reported that tho
number enlisted under the Blue Eagle
stood at 201 early this afternoon. No
Insignia was on hand but signers
during tho shortage will bo given
Blue Eagles upon their arrival. Tho
first official 'Honor Roll" was posted
in tho post office today.
Word also was received from Wash
ington that four industries were au
thorized today to operate under modi
fied presidential ro - employment
agreements pending final action on
their codes. The four arc: boot and
shoo, drug, cheese and cotton bnt
tlng. These codes will bo in effect
pending hearings, after which final
stipulations aro drafted for promul-
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ANXIETY IS FELT
FOR 8 CATHOLICS
HANKOW, Hupeli Province, Central
China. Aug. 11 (P) Anxiety was
felt hero today over tho fato of eight
American Catholla prlcstn and sisters
or mercy marooned In Yuunehow,
which rebels captured from provin
cial troops Juno 27.
fllnco then tho government wo! tilers
have been unsuccessfully trying to
recapture tho town, whlcJi )a in Hu
nan province and 400 miles south
west of Hankow. Communication fa
cilities are disrupted.
Wheat Today
rillCAfiO, Aug. II Ml Wheat
late today Tell .1 ci-nts a bushel to
the tmttomiuosl point which rimTg
ency rtilm would penult for a ninglo
day's fluctuation.
Sensationally bullish crop report
from Kovernnii'iit sources fell flat as
n market Influence. Slop ) selling
and lack of speculative buying sup
port was evident.
Wheat finished grogey at 1he day's
extreme low point, fi; under the uvcr
age of ycstcnlay'H closing (UolJitliitH,
corn Pf,";'io down. ouU '4t&2a
off, and prmhlniiH Khowltig 7 to
decline.
w -. , a i
JUST BEFORE
PRESSTIME
BAKER COUNTY MINE SOLD
OIIDKK Ol'AKDSMF.N KKMOVKll
I.INDIIEKOIIS PLAN FLIGHT
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TUKKS SHOOT AMERICAN
PORTLAND, Aug. 11 im Tilt. mir.
vliaso of the Hull Itiiu nilno iienr
Unity, In Uakcr county, at a price r
f 100,000, mis announced here by A.
O. Duncan Crux. Vancouver, n. r.
torney.
HABrUSBURO, Pa., Aug. 11 (P)
Governor Plnohot todav nnt.lrinH
office from Ma hums in. Mil ford he
had ardcj-cd tho removal tomorrow of
328 national guardsmen from the
Fayette county coal etrlko field.
JULIANAIIAAn. Greenland, Ai.jr. 11
OT Colonel and Mrs. Charles A.
Lindbergh hoped weather conditions
would favor a flight today to Ang
nuigKiillk, whence. - they planned to
mntlnue to Reykjavik, Iceland, on
their northern, nlr mapping tour.
Otlierwlse, It wiw Niild, tliey may re
turn to the United states aboard
their supply ship.
ISTANBUL, Turkey, 'Aug. 11 P)
Raymond 8. White of Wlnflcld, Kan,,
an Amorlcan teacher of tho Smyrna
IntorndUonal college, waa wounded
In the foot last night by Turkish
gendarmes who mistook him for an
escaped brigand as he was motoring
at high speed from Bcrgnma to Smy-
SALEM, Aug. 11 (P) The state
bond commission acted tvlthln Its
authority In purchasing Oregon City
refunding bonds in the nuinner It
did. Attorney General I, II. Van Wink
le held lu answering the question of
Governor Julius L. Meter as. to tlie
legality of tlie purcluiso May 17 f
fllO.OOOO refunding bonds. , :
WALLOWA VALLEY -
PIONEER PASSES
AT, AGE OF 91
WALLOWA (Special) James A.
Masterson, the lost of Wallowa coun
ty's earliest pioneers, died at his homo
east of Wallowa Thursday morning at
the advanced age of DI years.
Born in Lexington. Kentucky, on
Oct. 10, 1842, he, with his parents,
camo to Lone county. Ore., In 1851.
When just a younginan starting out
in Ufo for himself, he engaged for a
time In mining activities, then re
turned In it ho fall of 1804 to tho Wil
lamette valley and In partnership
with his brothers fitted out wagons
and camo to The Dalles where thsy
engaged In freighting to the mines
In Idaho for seven years. Selling his
freighting interests, also a blacksmith
shop, he had boon operating at Cove,
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MILTON A. MILLER
NAMED COLLECTOR
WASHINGTON, Aug. 11 (P) Presi
dent Roosevelt today appointed Mil
ton A. Miller of Oregon, as collector
of customs at Portland. Tho an
nouncement was mttde at the White
House.
PORTLAND, Aug. II (II Real
astonishment was expressed hero to
ddy by Milton A. Miller, former state
senator and collector of Internal reve
nue under the Wilson administration
when he was advised ho had been
appointed collector of costumes for
Oregon .
"Well, well," ho told a reporter over
tho telephone. "I wonder how that
happened." Ho explained the ap
pointment came ns a complete sur
prise, but he hastened to ac'ri "of
course I am very much pleased. That
Is a very fine appointment." The
Job carries a salary of $0000 a year.
I INQUIRING
Each day ai the Inqulrlnc Reporter makes the rounds two person
will be stopped at random on the street corner and asked some
question of the day. Throup;h the courtesy of Manager C. M. Wight
each Interviewed will be granted two complimentary tickets to the
Llhi-rly Theatre. The current ill I rail Ion Li Xnsil Tills and Hllm
Hiuiiiiirrvllle III "Out All Night."
Whether or not the United Stntcs
should mcddlo In atfalrs of Amerlcnn
countries to the south has long been
a debated question. Civil war Is
raging In Cuba and again the ques
tion Is raised.
Myrtlo Russel, 402 Fourth streot,
strongly dlsravors United, State's par
ticipation In Cuban aflnlrs. She says,
DECIDE ON
DATES FOR
IIMON MOW
Meeting of Eastern Ore
gon Association Held
, Thursday . Evening. . ;
PREMIUM LISTS IN
V. Mill M, JJAWJI
Teams Being ' Organized
, to Make- Advertising
Tours of Various Near
by Communities.
The Eastern Oregon Livestock show
will be held at Union on Thursday,
Friday and Huturday, Aug. 24, 20 and
20, it was decided at a meeting of
the association held at Union last
nlcht. . . ,
For awhile there was some question
as to whether the 1033 show would
be staged, but It was decided to go
ahead with the Eastern Oregon ex
position. .
Premium lists aro now with the
printers and will be ready for distri
bution in the near future.
' Teams are being organized also to
make tours to various localities for
advertising purposes.
Herbert Chandler, of Baker, Is presi
dent of the association and Tony D,
Smith, of Union, la secretary.
This Is tho first year that the as
sociation has . elected to hold the
snow in August, usually it ib staged,
about the second week of June. . ,
Cubans rresent ;
New Proposal To';
wUtik Government
HAVANA, Aug. 11 (IP) Troops
armed with machlno guni,and rifles
surrounded the 'presidential palace
this afternoon after roports had been,
received that a mob planned to at
tack It.
The special guards were placed af
ter the executive committee of Presi
dent Machado's own Liberal party
had submitted to United States Am
bassador Sumner Welles a counter
proposal for peace by which tho
president would surrender his office
to General Alberto Herrera, now sec
retary of war.
HYDE PARK, N. Y Aug. 11 (ff) .
Prcsldont Roosevelt packed his bags
for tho return to Washington today,
ready to act to end the Cuban poli
tical turmoil by whatever means de
velopments made necessary, t
Oregon, Washington
Lumber Cut Nearly
Four Billion Feet
PORTLAND, Oro. The lumber
production of Oregon and Washing
ton in 1932 amounted to 3,867,826,000
feet according to tho preliminary re
port of a recently completed can
vass of tho Industry by the Pacific
Northwest Forest Experiment Station,
Portland, Oregon. This was 41 per
cent below the 1031 production, 68
per cent below that of 1930, and 68
per cent below that In 1929.
or the 1932 cut, Washington pro
duced 2.2G0.892.000 foot and) Oregon,
1.606,934,000 feet. Douglas fir con
stituted 72 per cent, ponderosa plno
12 per cent, and western hemlock 0
por confc of tho production. Mult
nomah county reported the largest
cut in Oregon, or 320,642.000 feet,
and Plorco county the largest Itx
Washington, or 353,164,000 feet. In
1029 both these counties reported a
cut of over 000,000,000 feet.
Only Co 4 mills of tho 1240 on rec
ord reported as operating at some
time during tho year,
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American Ijcaguo
Washington
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Boston
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REPORTER j
"Tho U. S. should adopt a laissez
faire attltudo toward the South Am
erican countries and surrounding
Islands."
J. J. Williams, Depot and Fourth,
says. "I believe that America should
Interfere In this event in order to
force Machado out of office. Peace
could be restored more or less easily
with him out of the way." k
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