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Friday, August 11, 1933, , Page Four LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER.. LA GRANDE. ORE. (Incorporated:) i Independent Nemptper Phona Main 600 Ui VIII EL W. FREDERICKS . , Publisher and General Manager HABOXjD U. FINLAY . , Bualneat Manager PubUabed evenings, exception Bunday, at 1710 Sixth itrwt. La Orande, Oregon. Intend at the PoetoMlce of La Orande, Oregon, aa Second Claaa Mall Matter under act of March a, 1870. OFFICIAL PAPER OP UNION COUNTY AND THB CITY OP LA OBANDH uwniim OP ASSOCIATED PRESS The Aaaoolated Press la exclusively entitled to use (or publication of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited U pub lished here. All rights of republication of special dispatches In this paper and also the local news herein also are reserved. National Advertising Representative M. O. MOOENSEN CO., Ino. Ban Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland, Chicago Detroit, New York SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Carrier Dally, one month In advance- Dally, six months In advance- Dally, single copy 4.60 - SO By Mail Dally, per month in advance- Dally, per six months In advance Dally, per year In advance 80o a.M -to .00 If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall lie done unto you. John 15: 7. STERN REMEDY NEEDED No society in which kidnaping1 for ransom becomes as common a racket as it has become in the United States re cently is offering; its citizens anything very substantial in the way of security. No crime emphasizes the helplessness of a community as does kidnaping. There will always be human passions that will result in murder, there will always be desperate rrien who commit robbery, there will always be weak men who commit forgery and defalcation, there will always be gamblers and panders and confidence men. The most society can hope to do is keep such crimes at a minimum. But kidnaping is different. It cannot be organized racket unless the society in which it thrives has demonstrated its utter inability to protect the lives and persons of its citizens. Its appearance is the gravest symptom that the machinery of law enforcement cum display. Today we have just about reached a point at which we must discuss some extremely revolutionary revision of our whole system of law enforcement. , Police methods could not be more disorganized than they are now. From New York down to the smallest hamlet, each police force is entirely independent. There are 48 states, each with a separate jurisdiction. The powers of the federal government to co-ordinate and direct the war on crime arc very limited. The cards are stacked in favor of the racketeer. He could not ask for a bettor set-up. : The editor of the Daily Post-Tribune of La Salle, III.; re cently suggested to President Roosevelt that changes be made in the law so that federal agents could take a hand in (ill kidnaping cases, and not just in those where the victim is transported over a state line. This is an excellent proposal, but it may be that we need to go even farther than that. It may be that we need to follow Attorney General Cum mings in his scheme for a nation-wide federal police force. It may be that we need to surrender our old fondness for local independence and make every cop in the land part of a great, centralized organization, just as we have already put our national guard under federal authority. It is perfectly obvious that we have got to do something. The kidnapers could not operate as they have been operating if the existing machinery had not , proved its utter inadequacy. It is said that members of the Senate consumed 500 aspirin tablets at the expense of the taxpayers during the past year. But just think how many aspirin tablets the taxpayers had to consume because of the Senate. The Weather Recovery's Off-to a Flying Start OliKUON KOItHCAKT Oregin.; Fulr tonight and Hut unlay, but foH near the fUMwt; no t-lmngtt In temperature; iWMlerultt imr.huet ulmfN off (shore. LOCAL WBATIIKIl Thunulay: maximum ly, minimum 58 uhove. Clear. Today: minimum J3, 7 a. m. 71 above. Clear, What! No Pension? Yet Gen. Hines Served 35 Years lly Herbert IMiimmer WASHINGTON Amid all the clamor which accompanied the re duction Jn compensation to veterans, nothing much was 'heard of the plight of tho man who. since the Harding administration, has admin istered the affairs of the veterans' bureau. During the past 10 years or so, Brig, Oen. Frank T. Hlnes has super vised the expenditure of around $7,000,000,000 for pensions and oper ating costs of Uncle Sam's agency to care for his ex-soldiers. Yet when the general retires short ly, as ho Is expected to do. after 35 years of service In the government he will not be eligible for a pension. Of course, In a technical sense It's the general's own fault. Immediate ly following the close of the World war, Hlnes was tempted to quit the army and venture out on a private enterprise. He surrendered his rank as a brigadier general to become vice president of the Ill-fated Baltic steamship lines. His company soon encountered bad luck, however, and he re-entered gov ernment service as administrator of the veterans' bureau. In 1028 two bills were Introduced In congress looking toward his re lief. One would have retiredi him with the rank of major general In recognition of his long service. An other would have given him an an nual pension of $5000. Both failed of passage. Then again In 1030 his friends in congress renewed their efforts. A llttlo different strategy was employed this time. A rider was attached to the veterans' disability allowance bill seeking a straight $5000 annual al lowance. But this also failed of passage. Honor Not Voted Back In 1808 he enlisted as a pri vate in artillery for service In the Philippines. He participated In 24 engagements during the Insurrection with such distinction that he was recommended for a Congress Ion Medal of Honor. Congress never got around to vot ing him the honor, however. The promotion that came to him was a commission In the coast artillery. -, ; - ' lx& - ' In line with President Koosevelt's effort to "speed" the recovery pro gram, Cen. Hugh S. Johnson, rlRht, administrator of the National Recovery Act, and Secretary of Interior Harold L. Ickes, In cockpit, flew to tho president's yacht in Chesapeake Bay to map out with him the next steps In the administration's dual endeavor to put purchas ing power In the hands of termers and wago and salary earners. They are shown with their pilot lcaviug the capital. WHEN "EAGLE" GOES, THERE IS NO RETURN (Continued Prom Pngo Ono) GET YOU PAY FOR THREE THINGS OF THEM I III I The plu. mifrty of I I r. 'UfYi 1 inside with I he I J n, T;rrttti, M I cord-the .train,. "?Jf If, '7 I c.t u.rd in lite Itr'f ,,'.l?tC'' tftl ..dei.lheiuifrtv I f tSlv"C Wt, - tuuinl lubber I I by Vui," '".J. A -Vji black., I he bc.t f,B ?.""'-.,'(!'"'en, r,,ip known. J I'Zlk m m 9 mi ma build with TEMPERED RUBBER Larison-Frecs Chevrolet Co. H14 Adums Ave. Phone Main 12 Ration by tho president. A cotlo for barbers waa forwarded to Washington today from New York. If approved, the minimum cost of a hnlr cut will be 60 cents and, a shave 26 cents. It provides for a 48-hour week of six days, a minimum wage of $25 and 00 per cent of . chair re ceipts of $37 weekly wage. An Intimation was forthcoming to day that the federal government would provide for rigid control over oil production In the petroleum trade practice plan now near lug completion. Tho Intimation camo from Oen. Johnson, whose aides are writing the plan. Concerning revocation of the Blue Eagle for violations. It was said that alter any revocation, the Blue Eagle would be removed permanently from any placo held guilty. There would be no return for the Insignia of the N.R..A., government officials said. Johnson, In connection with his warning that pledge signers would bo t'llBclpllned If it were found they were not complying with their agree ment to raise wages and Increnwi em ployment by Hhortenlng work hours, said that he Intended to lot the sit uation rest Tor a brief period in the hauda of local committees. Violations of permanent codes, where they arc not cleared up after conciliatory ac tion by the administration, will be referred to the federal trado commls Nlon and then to the department of Justice If nervssary, the administrator explained, but said: "Wo are going to assume good faith until wo see some thing different." TODAY IN BRIEF, IN AND AROUND AS C1IKONICI.EI) BY THE DAILY LEASED Willi? OF THIi ASSOCIATED PRESS I'M AT ILL A CONVICT FREED SALEM. Aug. 11 tJPy Lee Dale will doubtless find the world much changed during the IB years he has been living apart. Governor Julius L. Meier granted Dale a conditional pardon from a life term In the peni tentiary for second degree murder. On October 0, 1015 Dale was re ceived at the Oregon penitentiary for conviction of shooting and killing a couple by the name of Ogilvy In Um atilla county. Consideration of Dale's case was recommended by Frederick Stelwer, who prosecuted the defend ant In the Umatilla county circuit court. Other persons also InterceCcd in behalf of the prisoner. L Under provisions of the pardon Dale will go to Kansas City where he will make his homo with a brother, Harry C. Dale. - . i , ; forfeited. As a consequence Baldock I ordered three shifts a day and Sun day work. The Sunday work was de clared justified even though traffic would be inconvenienced. TUITKMEN IN' NO AGREEMENT SALEM. Aug. 11 Ui f Salem truck, men who met yesterday to consider regulations in connection with NR. A provisions adjourned at noon with out coming to any agreement. EXTORTION PLOT BAKED BEND, Aug. 11 (!) Jack Duck worth, 18. waa held in tho county Jail here today accused of attempted extortion and threats on the life of Dr. J. C. Vandevert, member of the state game commission. Police said ho attempted to extort $5000 from the doctor under threat of death. Duckworh was arrested last night at his home In the Tumalo com munity by state and county officers after they had taken his brother-in-law, Clarence Parsons, 15, In custody. Police said that a "week ago Dr. Vandevert received! a letter demand ing that he place $300 In an old shack north of Bend. Unless the money was delivered, the note wild, antic vert Vand his son. Jack, would be killed. Police placed a dummy roll In the hut and It disappeared. A second letter then demanded that $5000 bo left In a Tuirmlo gravel pit. For two dnys federal, state and county officers remained on watch. Late yesterday a boy on horseback rode to tho pit. grabbed the clunmiy roll and hurried away. The officers overtook him. PLAN RIVER STI DV PORTLAND. Aug. 11 W) A tho rough study of sulphide wastes from pulp and paper mills on the Willa mette river will bo unc'prtaken at onco by a technical committee of seven experts, in connection with sewage disposal work. Tho committee was appointed by the board of consulting ejijrlheers'-on sewage disposal, appointed by Gover nor Meier at the request of the re construction advisory board.: An ex penditure of $0,000,000 is planned to free the Willamette of pollution. Wallowa Valley Pioneer is Dead (Continued from Page Ono) f TO SPEED ItOAD WOltK SALEM, Aug. 11 m Pacific highway grading and surfacing be tween Salem and Can by will be speeded to forestall loss of $50,000 federal emergency money. Highway Engineer R. H. Baldock announced tocay. Unless the work Is completed before January 1 tho federal funds will be Pto his brothers, ho, Joined Jarnqs Tul- ,ley and together they canto into the Wallowa valley In the year l72, bring ing the first wagon and carrying the first plow with, him. Ho struck the first furrow in1 this fertile country and became one of Wallowa county's first white settlers. On Jan. 21, I860, Mr. Masterson married Miss Aim Ira Blanchard. at Cove, and four children were born to them, three of whom with Mrs. Masterson survivo him, Mrs. Hattle Mayes and Mrs. Re tin. C; Parks, of Portland, and 11. Glbens Masterson, of Wallowa. A son, Daniel, diedyin early childhood. For a number of years Mr. and Mi's. Masterson mado their homo in Elgin, but on account of advanced age and ill health, returned to their old homo in Wallowa a few years ago to livo .with their non. Mr. Masterson has been bedfast for over two years. Funeral. services were held, in Elgin today. i - Mrs. Hattia Mayes arrived In Wal lowa Thursday ' from her home in Portland to attend the funeral. In Washington By Herbert PI u miner " WASHINGTON i Political observers, despite the fact that the next session of congress Is as far distant as Janu ary, already have begun to 'peculate as to what stops the Democratic lead ership In the house will take to wold Itself Into a more compact align ment. That a crucial test Is to come early In the session is a prediction heard often. Speaker Ralney, Floor Leader Byrne and others high in the couitcils of the party had a comparatively easy time of It In tlie special session. Party leadership came from the other end of Pennsylvania avenue In the person of tho president himself. This la perhaps no better Illustrated than what happened in the closing days of tlie session when the presi dent's economy program was endang ered by the rebellion on veterans' compensation. It was following a Whit House conference with house 'leaders that word went out that either the houso would stick by the president on the veterans' proposition or else It must levy Increased taxes on its consti tuents. 1 ' y They Bad To Choose The house reluctantly accepted tho former alternative, but not without rumblings of discontent. Ralney succeeded to the speakership and Byrns became floor leader after a party battle that left scars. And almost immediately they were hurled into so swift-moving a legislative drama that there was little oppor tunity or need for compact leader ship. In the first stages of the game, tho Democrats unhesitatingly approved legislative procedure that had the ef fect of throttling) debate and permit ting legislation to be enacted often without so much as a change of a word. Looking Ahead Howovcr, when the regular session convenes in January thing3 are likely to be different. Permanent legislation then will bo enacted. The maglo word "emergency" which, had so much to do with the success of tho Roose velt program In the special session is nob expected to carry the c&mo weight. It may require tact and skill then on the part of the leaders to keep the house in line. 3)$8$$$538$St$$ I Health I DEATH FROM BUBBLES Tho writer of a detective story In which murder is committed by tho Injection of a small quantity of air Into the body of the Intended vic tim has possibility but not prob ability on his side. It Is known that the entrance of air Into the circulatory system may cau&c death,, and mystery writers have not overlooked this possibility. Tho air bubble might be carried Into an artery leading to the brain and there become lodged in a still smaller artery, plugging up the chan nel which carries blood to some vi tal' riervo center. This mechanism, as Is evident, calls for an extraordi nary conspiracy of events. Experimentally, it has been shown that animals can withstand as much as 300 cubic centimeters of air in jected Into their veins, provided the Injections are given slowly. On the other hand, It Is definitely known that death can be produced by the rapid injection of large quantities of air into the circulation. Tho question therefore Is not whether air in tho blood circulation can destroy life, but rather whether minute air bubbles can cause death. This question arises not In connec tion with the writing of defective stories, but aa the possible explana tion of certain fatal accidents which occasionally occur when surgical op erations are performed on the chest wall, Occasionally, In the course of In jection of artificial pneumothorax, a treatment employed in collapsing tho lung affected by tuberculosis through the injection of air into tho space between the lung and the chest wall, the patient develops tho symp toms of shock and collapse. Medicine has been at a loss to ex plain this rare but serious reaction. A number of scientists have con tended that collapse la due to the accidental entrance of air Into tho circulation, the air bubbles ultimate ly reaching the circulation of the brain and causing the train of symp toms described. Fortunately, the number of fatal accidents of this kind Is exceedingly small. Nudist Miss Finds Life Good in Camp (Continued from Pago One) fruit, sourdough hotcakes, coffee and toast. Following the repast, some of the colonizers settled down to read or write letters. With the coed I start ed out to leisurely inspect the 20 acres owned by the colony. Returning to camp wo found five of the inhabitants going through various health exercises. I remarked that, as a whole, figures were better than I expected to find them. My companion laughed. "Naturally they are." she said. "Haven't you become more conscious of your own physical defects and aren't you striving to eliminate them? It's the same with everyone here." We watched Jack Austin, owner of the camp, vigorously massage a 25-year-old stenographer. "Thls'll help,"' he said disgustedly, "but unless you get out and hike exercise it off, all the massage in the world won't remove those hips." - A bang of saucepans signaled lunch cold meats, vegetable salad and fruit. Some of the plates omitted meats because of Individual diets, or dered by Charlotte Austin, registered nurse and dietitian. After a rest period five of us hiked a quarter mile to the swimming pool. A neighboring farmer and his wife Joined us as did six men and a woman from a "dude ranch" up the moun tain. A few minutes later more peo plo arrived from the colony and a game of water tag was soon in pro gress. Wo hailed dinner gratefuly on our return to camp after all the exercise. It was a hearty meal but composed mostly of vegetables. After we fin ished a campflre was built but most of the nudists retired for the night. I was Introduced to a well-known college athlete. I asked him If he'd mind me using his name in this story. He studied it over: "I'm not ashamed of this or I wouldn't be here," he salt! finally, "but most people think differently than we do." That Is the attitude in a nut shell of most of the nudist, While not ashamed of going nude they feel It is a personal matter. They do not want personal acquaintances and business friends, who might feel dif ferently on the subject, to know. Seventy per cent of the youths in tho civilian conservation camps in tho Santa Barbara national forest had never seen an ocean prior to en rollment. . There will be 2.804 steel towers, 65 to 00 feet high. In the power trans mission lino that will transmit elec tricity from Boulder dam to Los Angeles. 73YearsanM.D. He Likes Today's WaysThe Best BETHEL. Ohio m Being a doc tor today is not so hard as it was 73 years ago, says Dr. W. E, Thomp son. 98-year-old physician. And he ought to know. He's been a practicing physician 73 years, end ex cept for the tlmo of hla student days at Cincinnati College of Medlcino he lias spent all his llfo hero. When he began practicing medicine 73 years ago. he rode horseback to see his patients, and then after about 12 years the roads became good enough for him to use a horse and carriage. Fifteen years ago ho switch ed to an automobile. A chauffeur drives him from patient's door to pa tient's door now. "Many times I had to swim my horse across tho streams and hotd my kit of medicine high to reach my patients," he says. "When the streams were too high I would have to learn tho symptoms from a member of the patient's fam ily standing on the other bank, and then I would take my medicines, tie them to a rock and throw them across the stream." In those days Dr. Thompson was a surgeon as well as a physician, and many of his instruments had to bo made by himself, because It took less time to make them than it did to go to Cincinnati, the nearest place where he could buy them. , Although liking the old days, he has a preference for modern life. "Llfo was too hard in those days," he says. "Today the practice of medl cino not only is more interesting, but is not so hard on the doctors. When I came out of college I had to be pre pared to take care of anything that came up. And a very 111 person hod to bo treated on the spot." . r xuui "NECCESSITY" TOYS By Brooke Peters Church My mother who was a little girl In the south during tho war between tho states used to describe to me some of the hardships which she en dured at the time. What seemed to have Impressed her most was the lack of toys for the children. She showed me how they made dolls out of the twigs of the white pine until I was inspired to make a family of them myself. Necessity has ever been the moth er of invention and now when funds aro not generally over-abundant It might be well to cultivate our own ingenuity and our children's imag inations by a little clever contriv ing. Excellent blocks con be made out of the left-overs of carpentering Jobs. If the children are old enough they can easily make them themselves either for their own use or to bo given to smaller brothers and sisters. Doll houses made of packing boxes aro well-known to us all, but to put tho entire family to work on long rainy days to furnish and equip tho house as a Christmas present for a small sister, or to start a com munity of children working on it to make Christmas happy for some child whom Santa Claus is likely to forget may bo a new departure. Paper, which seems in the average household to be consumed by the ton, was supplied to my children by a devoted aunt, who saved all the en velopes of a bulky mall and silt them down the sides, so leaving an unused pago for the endless drawing and scrlbbllngs of a household of young sters with literary and artistic leanings. i 1 1 1 I I 1 1 GEO. T. COCHRAN'SSAYS: "What a Difference!" Mr. Cochran is just ono of hundreds of satisfied users of Super Shell Gasoline in La Grande who are saying the same thing. Try The New SUPER SHELL Without the Former 3c riemiuin Fill Up at Any of the Following Stations: T.A (iUANI)K City Service Slatimt Ailams at Nnimil 1 1 -a (Jntntlc I'IIHmr Co, ,lefrrinu A HeiuliH-k tirllhiKH ,t Hunk I Ml JpfforMMi Aw, Sum Ju wen tinnier Kmr Such Jn w en Hot el Ed lUe.oluml Adams Avenue . s. ('reus '2HV! Adaiut Ate, I'NION. OKK. Mn I til Auto Camp KI.CIN. OKK. iiiu;ako. OKK. Con ley's SerUce Mutton rovn O. M. (ianlnrr H. T. 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