La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, August 15, 1933, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextState Promises Investigation f "I La Grande Is The i Gateway to Wallowa, Printed in La Grande J Covering Union and : : I Wallowa Counties . 1 "The Switzerland of America" VOLUME 31 EASTERN OIIEQON'S LEADING NEWSPAPER LA GRANDE, OREGON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1933 MEMBER ASSOCIATED I'KKSS AND A. II. C. NUMBER 293 m JiU 11 Union Fish Hatchery m a mm AUA mm in f m iiVUllJ CLOSING PLAN PROTESTED IN . MONDAYMEET Union and Baker Sports .men Seek Continuance, of Hatchery at Union. GROUSE SEASON TO OPEN NEXT SUNDAY Game Commission Moves to Allow Hunting in Un ion, Wallowa, Baker Counties Aug 20-Sept. 20 Definite progress In a Union county Baker county protest ngalimt contein nlntMl oloslne of the slate flail hatch ery at Union, and a change In the grouse season uates lor union. Hatter and Wallowa counties featured a meeting of 4 lie state game commis sion In Portland yesterday. A delegation from Union and Bak er counties presented a strong pro test against proposed discontinuation of the Union hatchery and enlarge ment of operations at Enterprise. As a result, the commission de cided to have an Investigation of water conditions mode by a represen tative of the federal bureau of fish eries and the engineer of the commis sion. Grouse Season Earlier The open season on grouse In Wal lowa, Baker and' Union counties will be from Aug. 20 to Sept. 20, accord ing to a .resolution adopted by the commission. In other counties of the state the grouse season wilt bo con- 8 current w"u mv m -' ' ' Thchinge" waT faWMd-iJrttnwrtljf by Wallowa county sponsmen, i& i reported, and Union county sports men in many cases did not concur believing the later open season on (Continued From Page Two) WALL0WAC0.F0R BURFORD ROUTE A group of Wallowa county cltl ! zens, headed by County Judge Edgar Marvin and County Commissioner Ernest P. Johnson, were In Pendle ton Monday In connection with the routing of the proposed! Lewlston Enterprlae highway. The state of Washington Is build ing Bouth to the Oregon line and the Wallowa county officials favor the Burford route In Oregon. They met with E. B. Aldrlch, state highway commissioner, to go over the subject. Others In the Wallowa group were J. D. Walker, county engineer; D. B. Heavls, county clerk, and I. E. Sny der, chairman of the roads commit tee of the Enterprise chamber of com merce. FUNERAL FOR E. T. ANDREWS ON THURSDAY Funeral services for E. T. Andrews, retired clothing merchant of La Orande who died Sunday, will be held Thursday morning at 10 o'clock at the chapel of Walker's Funeral Home. La Orande Lodge No. 433, B. P. O. Elks, will have charge of the ser vices at the chapel and also at the grave. Burial will take place In tne family plot in the Summerville cemetery. LIONS WIN FAMOUS KITTEN 'BALL CLASSIC The big Rotary-Lions "kitten ball classic" came to a hectic finale yes terday afternoon at the High school field when the score stood 11-11 in the last half of the seventh Inning, with Curley Isbell camping on third, two outs, and Hall at bat with the count 3 and 2 . , . wham I I I Hall lifted a high long one to Bunting In centerfleld who muffed it. Isbell scored, andl Hall was safe at first, and the game all over with the - score standing Lions 12, Rotary 11. However, many rumors were heard on street corners throughout today that the Ro tartans were not daunted by the slim margin by which they went down to defeat, and Its ex pected In some corners that the Ro tarlans will challenge the Lions to n another game, to be jAyed either the latter part or this week or early In next. Some definite Information may be forthcoming afterthe Rote's luncheon this week. WILL ROGERS SANTA MONICA, Cal., Aug. 14 Course I could talk about "Our, War ships Going to Cuba," "Our Foreign Trade Picking Up," "Sixteen Nations Bought More." "President of France Knocked Down by o. Bicycle." That's not as bad as me the night I landed In Yokohama, Japan, ' and, got run over by a rickshaw. But the real bit of news was some Ingenious Swiss from Switzerland. He wanted to smuggle some Swiss watches Into Spain so this old "yod dler" drove a bunch of geese afoot from Switzerland dear across France to Spain, and he had the watches tied under the geeses' wings. , Think, what a fellow could bring Into this country, If he had himself a good bunch of trained whales. . Yours. HEAT CAUSES 7 DEATHS IN WESTSTATES Temperatures as High as 114 Above; Maximum for La Grande Monday 99. Another scorching day was chalked up for the went Monday, with, tem peratures ranging as high as 114 above In Red Bluff, Cal. The extreme hent Sunday and Monday caused a death toll or Beven in. rauuiu (Continued on Page Two) TO SUBMIT BRIEF ON BEAVER CREEK PIPELINESHORTLY on,h r n wnkiev. member of the public works advisory board for Ore gon, formally namea as u engineer, the organization In this state is now ready for operation. (Continued On Page Pour) 205 SIGNERS TO N. HA. PLAN HERE .iimAnat cicmpr nf the rjresl- Vil UUU1HU... o - dent's re-employment agreement in La Grande late Monday brought the total In this city entitled io ainpioj Blue Eagles to 205. All of the ZU signers, iiuwcvc kn,,A hmn able to display the Blue Eagle since the post office has been out or. insignia ior me o---eral days. These later signers are expected to receive their Blue Eagles as soon as a new supply Is received here. in wnKhlnc-ton todav the full pres sure of the Roosevelt administration was being thrown behind an eiiori to bring four of the nation's key In dustries coal, steel, oil and auto mobiles under N.R.A. codes. Gen. Johnson and secretary Frances Per kins were determined to speedi up. an agreement that will bring the steel Industry under the scope of the re covery administration's wage raising, (Continued on Page Three) A good crowd attended the game which was exciting throughout. The Lions took an early lead open ing the scoring In the second frame with two runs, and adding to the total In the third canto with seven more. The Rotarlans gradually work ed their way within striking distance and in the first half of the seventh trotted across five runs to tie the score. The lineups: Lions P Rotary Isbell p Fitzgerald Wight c Oreullch Boone 1st McAllister Frees 2nd Warnock H. Flnlay 3rd E. Flnlay Myrlck as- Perkins Qlistrap sf Leonard Tuckey If f'rlss Hall cf Bunting Sims rf Batley Substitutions: Lions Howard for Tuckey; McCarthy for Sims. Rotar lans Walker for Fitzgerald. Win Posts ; w-iTTTtpwirir i Y jpnv' ipiniM liiM I ' ' ' V Mr, and Mrs. H. V. Reed, Portland, elected state commander and pres ident of the woman's auxiliary, re spectively, at the recent stale con vention of the Oregon United Bpanlsh War Veterans, The cou tferrtfon was held at glm"-Tis FEARED CRITICISM ON BIG BANK LOAN DETROIT, Aug. 15 (P) Wilson W. Mills, former chairman of the board of one of Detroit's closed na tional banks, testified before the bank grand jury that Herbert Hoover, then president, informed him direc tors of the B. P. C. were afraid of the criticism of Senator James Cou zens, If they sanctioned a loan 'sought by a Detroit bank. Mills, former chairman of the board of the First National bank Detroit, said Senator Couzens' refusal to sanction 96,200,000 of a loan of $43,700,000 to the Gurdlan Detroit Union Group, Inc., brought the clos ing of the state's banks in February, f Continued on Pan FourV COUNTY PAYS FIRST HALF ST ATE TAXES Amount of $26,592.09 Turned Over a, 100 Per Cent Payment. $12,419.44 TAKEN FROM COUNTY FUND State Gets its Share in Spite of , Delinquencies . Mild Uprising This Spring Unavailing. : When Union county recently paid the first hair of Its state taxes, It was necessary to transfer $14,173.05 from the general fund to make up the de ficiency, caused by delinquencies In payments of taxes. The state's share of the first half taxes for this county was $26,ff02.O9, and of that amount, only $12,410.44 had been paid In. The state requires counties to pay its share of the taxes regardless' of whether all of the county taxes are paid or not. -- There was a mild up rising about this earlier In the year, with many counties, Including Un ion, hoping that they could get by with payments of the state taxes only in proportion to the actual taxes paid In. But it didn't work. As a result, the state gets 60 per cent of Its 1932 taxes In Union coun ty, and the county taxes for county purposes, are made that much small er. This was revealed In the county (Continued on Paue Two ' y--y -w Father Victim Of Gas Flames; Ex-Wife Jailed ROCKFORD, 111.. Aug. 15 (iP) - A penny box of matches, a porcelain wash basin, and a quart of gasoline supposedly used to burn Earl Hanson to death brought his divorced wife, May, 38, to a Jail cell today, although she declared her innocence of any crime. Authorities said someone appar ently had thrown the gasoline from the basin on Hanson as he sat In his automobile, Ignited the fuel with a single match from the box, and then fled as the flames leaped over the victim's body. Hanson's body and his automobile burst Into flames a few moments after he had returned his daughter, June, to her mother's home six miles north of here. AN ECHO OF 1898 NEW WATER QUEEN A successor to Helena Madison States lias been nominated. She Is Lcnore KIkHI of Homestead, ' Pa., who has been smashing water records loft mid rlRht., The 21-year-old girl has her heart set on Iho'liKIG Olympics, and alio Is ' out to break some of Ilelcnc's marks to win a berth on the siiuad. LST1NER, LODELL, . VALLWORTH, GILL COMING AUG. 23 Athletic Director Carl Lodell, Alum ni Secretary Ed Allworth, Coach Lon atlner, and Coach Slats Gill, all of Oregon State college, will meet alum ni groups in La Grando Wednesday evening, iAug. 23 on a trip through Eastern Oregon, It was announced here today. An informal dlnnei with alumni, former and present students is planned and committees handling arrangements will bo announced within a few days. Lodell Is a former L. H. 8. athletic coach, Allworth, Is Washington's most distinguished soldier, Stlner Is new football mentor and his team will be watched with Interest this fall, and Gill, basketball coach, who led his team to, the coast champlonsliip lost f Continued on Page Two) ns swim nuoeii 0. Iho United YAKIMA USES PICK HANDLES ON AGITATORS Forty Driven From Or chard Area; Farm Strikes Reported in West States: SAN l'IMNCIHCO, Aug. 1 (P) IMck-liniullo action by farmers and one official rcqucfll for national guard (Continued on Puffa Two) RESCUE 3 FROM WATERS OF LAKE JOSEPH, Ore. (Special) Frank D. McCullouh Jr., young life guard at Wallowa lake who broke the rec ord for swimming the length of the lake Sunday, remained In the hero class today by' reason of saving throo young people from drowning. The trio, all about 12 years of ago, were out in a canoe which capsized in water well over, their heads. They were unable to swim but McCul lough pulled them out. Their names were not learned. F. EPLING HAS NO CONNECTION WITH BREWERY In a story given to the Observer Monday concerning the plans for the opening of the Eastern Oregon Brew ery, it was stated that P. A. Epllng was treasurer. Mr. ETpllng, president of the Grande Ronde Meat Co., stated today that he had no official con nection with the brewery, and that ho merely sold the building to the corporation. Wheat Today -CHICAGO. Aug. 18 W - With minimum pegged price on Chicago groin futures scheduled to l aboMth cd tonight, trading was virtually at a standstill. Belief prevailed there might bo Ir regularity in the markete several days. The Winnipeg market directors es tablished, "pegged" minimum trading prices. The market then Jumped wildly up four cents, but later three cent of the gain was lost. AU grains and provisions cloned at nominally the some as yesterday's fln lnh 'In Clucago, WASHINGTON. Aug. 16 Sec retary Wallace said today the depart ment of agriculture was studying clonoly the problems he expected to develop In event that minimum prices on the nation's grain market were suspended v&h the clow of trading today, as hcdulcd. JUST BEFORE PRESSTIME . N, It, A. ITIIFI.I) BY COilltT JURY FKEES WOMAN I.INDIIKIIOHS IIRG1N TKIP FLOOD FATAL TO 1000 . WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 W) jus tice: Joseph Cox of the Ulutriot or Co lumbia supremo eourt today denied u plea or the Tesua oil refluent for an injunction against recent federal orders prohibiting interstate shipment of oil produced In violation of state conservation orders and Inulrently up held the constitutionality or the na tional recovery act, . SALEM, Mas., Aug. IS (ff) Jessie B. Coetello today was acquitted of the poison slaying or her JiUBband, Fire oaptuln William J. Costello of Pea body. REYKJAVIK, Iceland, Aug. 18 (JF) Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh; ana his wire hopped off today from Angmag suilk, Greenland, for Iceland. t KAIFENG, Hbnan Province, China, Aug. IS VP) One thousand petuanta were reported drowned! In a few min utes today when dikes of the Yellow river broke and flood waters covered a targe area. The stream continued to rage. Dikes north of Kaiteng, a olty or 176,000 In Northeastern China, were holding against the swirling wat ers. WASHINGTON. Aug. IB W Sec retary Walluee sold today tills coun try was preiNiretl to accept "any rea soimble phi ii for .European co-op? ra tion" involving the reduction of wheat production which, Is satisfactory to Canada, Austmlla and Argentina." Ut S. EXPECTS TO; RECOGNIZE CUBA'S NEW GOVERNMENT HAVANA, Aug. 15 (ill - Ambassa dor Sumner Welles has Informed the diplomatic corps that the Washing ton government is disposed to recog nize the new Cuban administration headed by provisional President Car los De Cospedes. The American attitude was con veyed to diplomats at a meeting in the Spanish embnssy. Luciano Lopez Ferrer, the Spanish ambassador, Is the dean of the corps. Havana streets bustled with activ ity today as all industries were re sumed, the general strike which brought about the downfall of Gen eral Gerardo Machado's regime having been brought to an end. Two additional violent deaths were reported. Other governments In addition to the United States indicated recogni tion of the new regime. At the Mex ican legation it was said that any new . government was automatically (Continued on Page Four) LEG BROKEN AT LOGGING CAMP Frank Melotte, of this city, who has been logging at Bates sustained a broken leg Friday when a log roll ed on him. He was brought to his homo hero where ho Is convalescing. Some Mighty Smart Bears In Oregon Cascades BEND, Ore., Aug. 15 (P) Clay Taylor, state policeman, vouches for the statement tliat there are some mighty smart bear lu the hill country of the wild Southern Cas cades. ; He personally knows, ho reveal ed hero Monday, or one boar which extinguished a campftro and then ate a pot of beans which had been cooking over the blaxo. The hole In. which the fire was burning was carefully filled. j INQUIRING REPORTER Each day as the Inquiring Reporter makes the rounds two persona , will be stopped at random on the street corner and asked mum i I question sr the day. Through the courtesy of Manager C, M. Wight each Interviewed will be granted two complimentary ticket to the jj I Liberty Tlirulrc. The current attraction Is James Dunn and Olorla I I Stuart III the "Tile Olrl In 41!)." , J This year In order to pay state taxes more thnn one-hair or the amount duo had to bo taken rrom tho county general fund. Should the state get the complete payment regardless ot the delinquencies In the counties or should they get only their portion of that which Is collected? Fred B. Head, 1007 Onk St., "The GANG LEADER FACES TRIAL ON "RACKETS" Conspiracy Charges Brought; Case Scheduled For Chicago August 29 - CAPONE SERVING 11-YEAR TERM NOW In Washington, U. S. Agents Report Eye-Wit . nesses Have Identified Bailey as Killer. v; CHICAGO, Aug. II Ifl - A writ directing the federal government to produce Al Capone III criminal, court here August 29 ror trial on charges . or racket conspiracy was Issued today by Ciller Justice John I. PryBtalskl. . Federal authorities have indicated they would abide by the writ. Capon la serving an 11 year sentence In the ' federal penitentiary at Atlanta (or In come tax fraud. . . ' ' .-. ? I1AII.HY IDENTIFIED AS GUNNER ' WASHINGTON, Aug. 15 (ff) De partment of. Justice officials today . (Continued On Page Four) ' . .! Employment In July Increases : Over The State - 3ALEM, Aug. 15 W Increased receipts' inthe" Stat industrial acci dent commission indicate that labor conditions were-materially better la July of this year than In 1032 aceord ing to figures Issued by T. Morris : Dunne of the commission. Dunne declared, that the greater part of the 32 per cent Increase In receipts resulted from the resumption of lumber and milling operations la virtually all sections of the state.. A tabulation prepared by the de partment also showed that wages have been Increased. These wages are re flected in . the receipts of the com mission. Building operations end seasonal occupations also were sold to have increased the receipts of the accident commission. Dunne said that thou sands of workers had .been added to the payrolls, and that many farmers who were, compelled to suspend their contributions to the workmen's com pensation law recently had renewed their contracts for Insurance. . , . . PIERCES ON PROGRAM AT GRANGE MEET Congressman .Walter M. Pierce, of, La Orande, and his wife, Mrs. Cornell Marvin Pierce, were speakers at the trl -county grange picnic on Bast Camp creek, near Unity, Sunday. Oranges from Malheur, Bakei and O rant counties were representee.. Rep. Pier co spoke on his experi ences In congress and Mrs, Pierce dla cusned her experiences as secretary to her congressman-husband as weU as some) of tlie humorous occurrences In tho capital. two Arrested ; for disorder Two men from La Orande and Pon dosa wlioso names were not learned hero were arrested by city poliee In Baker on a charge of annoying wo men in tho city park on Sunday. They wore held in Jail for five hours be fora being released. RUTH PAYNTER IS RECOVERING Mrs. Ruth Paynter is recover Intf satisfactorily at her home on North Third street. 8ho underwent an op- ' cratlon Sunday afternoon. state should be paid Its pro rata of what the county collects. It a man can't pay all or his taxes then the state should only get a proportion of what he does pay." Paul De F. Morttmore, 1104 Spring St., snys, 'Proportion Is a fair means ' or distribution or taxes. It the tax system Is to bo effective at all that would have to be the method used."