La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, August 16, 1933, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextWoman, 47, Found Dead In Deserted Cabin La Grande Is The Gateway to Wallowa, The Switzerland of America" e"zmmmmm -- J -.'- Only Newspajier Printed in La Grande Covering Union and Wallowa Counties mtMtt VOLUME 31 EASTSUN OREGON'S LEADING NEWSPAPER LA GRANDE, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1933 MEMUKft ASSOCIATED I'llESH AND A. D. C. NUMBER 294 !Ko LEE :SLUSHfflffi TAIffiS OWN IIS Powwatka rata LOCAL WOMAN DIES FROM HEAD WOUND Coroner George Walken Investigates; No Neces- sity Held For Inquest. ILL HEALTH HELD ! PROBABLE MOTIVE Death Comes Several Hours After Shooting; Funeral Arrangements w Are Not Yet Made. Mrs. Lee SI usher, of lf)07 East Pennsylvania avenue, died at 4:30 o'clock lit the i ramie Kundc hos pltal tills morning of n bullet wound In her head which Coroner George Wulker, after an Investigation, said wis self-inflicted. Coroner Walker, alter the Investi gation, eald Mi. SI usher told him that he was sitting on the front porch of their home last night while she was packing In preparation for a trip to Portland. He heard a shot Inside the house and found his wife had shot herself In the head with a .38 caliber revolevr. The bullett entered her head above her right ear. went out through the back of her head, and lodged in the celling. She Is believed to have nodded her head forward as she pulled the trigger. . Temporary fits of despondency due to ill. health was advanced as the probable motive. The shot was fired about 8:55 p. m. and Mrs. SI usher lived for several hours afterwards. ......Ctoroner Walker saidthcre ...was no necessity" lor an iriquestTas i'tVaVa (Continued on Page Two) . j Local Chamber Commends Drum And Bugle Corps The La Grande chamber of com merce through Its .board of directors has adopted, a resolution commend ing the La Grande post No. 43, Am erican Legion drum and bugle corps for the splendid showing at the Klamath Falls convention, when the corps won first priz in, four events, Including the state drum corps cham pionship. The resolution has been presented to Roy B. Currey, president of the drum corps . It reads: "Be It resolved, that the La Grande chamber of commerce, feeling that the work of the La Grande American Legion drum and bugle corps was a splendid advertis ing medium for this city and section of Eastern. Oregon, 'heartily commends the drum and bugle corps on the showing made at the state conven tion in Klamath Palls. We feel that the corps Is an Indispensable asset to this city." FIRE CALL TO GROCERY FIRM An electric motor on the elevator at the Western States grocery base ment caught fire about 6 o'clock lost night and resulted In a call UP the firo department. Although the base ment was practically filled wit smoke. Fire Chief C. T. Lindsay an nounced there was no damage except to the motor. MANY LODGES ACTIVE HERE 41 YEARS AGO Who wcro prominent In La Grand fraternal circles In 1892. some 41 years ago? A copy of the La Grande Gaeette. taken from an abandoned cabin near Hllgard this summer, and bearing the date Oct. 7, 1893, carries a directory of lodges. They follow (and at the bottom ap pears the statement "lncomplctu') : La Grande Division No. 305, O. R. C. meets 1st and 3d Sundays or each month In K. P. hall. C. P. Brown. C. C: J. A. Matott, Sec. La Grande lodge No. 18, I. O. O. P.. meets Saturday nights In Odd Fellows hall. Dan Ellldgc, N. G.; A. L. Kitchen. Sec. Crystal Lodge No. 60, Daughters of Rebckah, meets 2nd and 4th Iwcs day evenings or each month In Odd Fellows hall. Mrs. A. E. Henry, N. O.; W. S. Wines, Sec. Red Cross lodge No. 27, K. or P., meetings Monday evenings in Castle hall. 3. s. Mills, C. C; J. W, Knowles, K. of R. & S. Oliver P. Morton post No. 36, G. A. WILL ROGERS BEVERLY HILLS, OaJ., Aug. 16 Well, Just sitting around here late this afternoon, and happened, to have, a day off tomorrow (Wednesday), and the west is playing the east polo in Chicago tomorrow. Think of leaving here late this eve ning, flying to Chicago, see the game, and be back Wednesday night. Over Boulder dam about 9 tonight) Salt Lake at midnight, see the sun rise In Cheyenne, breakfast in Omaha, lunch In Chicago. All on a passenger line. . And, by the way, the old aeroplane come in pretty handy getting the ex president out of Cuba. There Is noth ing that will drive you - to flying quicker than to have somebody after you. If this NRA works out (and It cer tainly looks like it will), it will Just show you, you don't have to have war to make folks patriotic. Yours, SUICIDE IS ADVANCED AS DEATH CAUSE Mrs. L. S. Harvey Stops at Cabin, Kills Self With Pistol, Belief. Mrs. .Sarah Harvey, of Powwutkn, a community In Wnllowa comity about ten. .miles south of the Washington ilnc, shot herself to death lato Mori-: day afternoon, according to word' reaching La' Ornnde this morning from Enterprise. Her body was found at 1 u. m. Tuesday In a deserted can hi about half a mile from her home by searchers who started out after her husband sounded an alarm when she failed to return home in the evening. A bullet from a J22 caliber auto matic pistol entered her left temple (Continued on Page Throe) MORE HEAT HITS NORTHWEST AREA; MARK 100 HERE While the northwest was swelter ing from a blasting August hntt wave, the temperature In Iji Grande reached WO for the seventh day of this summer, already established as one of the warmest on record. Tues day's maximums eclipsed all previ ous August records in some sections or the mi-Mivest, Slightly oonler weather whs forecast for today and In l.a Grande (here were clouds ap pearing In the sky. Portland had a maximum of 102.4 djegrees Tuesday, the hottest August day ever experienced there. Pendle ton chalked up 107 above for the third consecutive day. The Dalles reported 107. Hood River 101.5, Walla Walla 103. Med lord 106. Burns 101, Klamath Falls 101. Salem 100, Eugene 96. Dew and fog last night slowed the progress of two large forest fires on Gales creek and Wilson river, in (Continued on Page Three) R., meets fourth Monday evening of each month In I. O. O. F. 8. R. Reeves, commander; Thos. Prothcro. adjutant. Blue Mountain lodge No. 87, I. A. of M., meets 1st and 3d Thursday evenings of each month In Odd Pel lows hall. C. P. Spears, M. M., W. W. Williams, Sec. La Grande lodge No. 41, A. F. & A. M., meets 1st and 3d Saturday eve nings ofeach month, In Masonic hall. F. J. Holmes, W. M.; C. S. Dunphoy, Sec. La Grande chapter No. B. R. A. M meets 1st and 3d Tuesday evenings or each month In Masonic hall. 8. R. Reeves, H. P., C. S. Dunphcy. Sec. Hope chapter No. 13. O. E. 8., meets 2d and 4th Wednesday evenings of each month In Masonic hall. Mrs. J. E. Ellis, W. M.; Mrs. F. H. Allen, Sec. Orando Rondo vision No. 382. B. of L. E., meets 1st and 3d Tuesdays of each, month at 2 p. m. In I, O. O. P. hall. James Watson. C. E.; W. M. Scott, P. A. E. (7 TRAFFIC ON INCREASE IN EAST OREGON August State Highway Count Shows Heavy Gain at Meacham, Minam TRAVEL HEAVIEST IN HOT LAKE AREA Road Between Enterprise and -Wallowa Lake Comes in a Close Second in the Count. Returns have been received now from all sections of this district from the August state highway traffic count conducted Sunduy from 6 a. m. to 10 p. m., and again the Hot Lake overhead crossing showed the largest number of motor vehicles passing by. The Sunday count was the third or the summer, the fourth probamy to be taken on Sept. 11. In July the figure for the Hot Lake strip was 839 and this month It was 834. The July count was taken on a Saturday. '; The highway from Enterprise to Wallowa lake was second most pop ular road from the motorist's stand point Sunday, with traffic amounting to 725. .This was 28 less than In Jtuy. (Continued on Page Two) ' 8 Injured When Stage Struck By " IIit-Run Truck BAKER, Aug. 18 W) Eight pas sengers of a Union Pacific stage car rying 10 persons were cut and bruised early this morning when the bus was forced against an embankment by a truck operated by an unidentified driver near Rattlesnake Springs on the Old Oregon Trail In Baker coun ty. The Injuries were salts by hospital attaches to be of a minor nature and most of the injured were scheduled to leave Baker today. The injured are: Mrs. Nathaniel Marlar, of Boise; Rudolph Swlnk, South Carolina, sailor of the U.8.S. Memphis in Bremerton; Prank Gubtridgc, of Washington; Floyd Prcman, Arkansas, U.S.S. Mem phis, Bremerton; Wade Julian, Buhl. Idaho, and Nelda Rlsby. Boise. Mrs. Marlar and Mrs. Ooettsch were the most seriously hurt. State police officers were attempt ing this morning to locate the driver of the truck that is alleged to have a Ides wiped the stage, which was quite oadiy damaged. "THIS HURTS ME MORE'N IT DOES YOU" New Memorial A new viewpoint from which to see San Francisco and the San Francisco bay is the newly completed Colt Memorial Tower, a 725-foot observatory on Telegraph hill. Elevators carry visitors to the top. Photo shows the Colt Tower with San Franrtsco bay and Alcatraz island in the distance. THIS YEAR'S EASTERN OREGON STOCK SHOW TO BE "SILVER JUBILEE" Tliis year's Eastern Oregon live stock show will be In the nature of n JS liver Jubilee" celebration. It will mark a quarter of a century since the first horse show at i Union, uml a quarter of a century of service to the livestock Industry in this part of tlie state.' The show will toko place at Union on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Aug. 24. 25 and 28, with exhibits of purebred cattle, sheep and swine, together- with dolly programs of thrill ing arena events. - , The development of range country, the rle? of the dairy Industry and the growing oi lino siock win au .do re flected In the twenty-fifth annual Union show. Horses, dairy and beef cattle will bo featured this year, with cash premiums offered for tho win ners. Swine and sheep exhibits will be for ribbons only. The seven East ern Oregon chapters of tho Future Farmers of American and the numer ous 4-H clubs will have separate de partments, and are expected to be represented by Interesting displays. Headed by Herbert Chandler, Baker county Hereford breeder, tho stock show association is making? a valiant effort to sustain Its record of useful ness in tho livestock world. D. E. Richards, superintendent of tho East ern Oregon experiment station, is acting as secretory of the association this year. Premium books may be ob tained from him. An outstanding event during stock show week will be a grand pageant on Friday, Just before the show. Cash prizes are offered for the host) floats, man's saddler, ' woman's saddler and children's ponies. After parading Main street, the pageant will move to the '''' C'fiSAtX'fir Tower Gives S. stock show grounds, where the prizes will he awarded. Practically all busi ness houses In the; city havo entered .tlie competition for float prizes. In addition tq the programs at tho stock show grounds, there will bo dancing each night In the local gym nasium, t There will bo no charge this year for admission to the grounds, but the usual prices will be charged for grandstand seats. LOCAL GIRL'S . SjOEM 'SELECTED Miss Adah Singleton, 1812 Wash ington avenue, is to gain state sccog nltlon for her poems, one of which has been chosen for a book of poems by Oregon poets to be published by the University Press, Cor vail is. Coyote Hides In Woodpile At The Court House A coyote "from the lone prairie" apparently felt the need of a little company this morning andi was seen running down K avenuo at about 6 o'clock, it Is reported. Ho was first seen near the Eastern Oregon Normal school by Miss Adeline Hundsakcr, and later the animal ran down to the court house and disappeared in a wood pile from which no amount of coaxing could bring him. F. Bay Vista BLUE EAGLE LIST AT 207 IN LA GRANDE Additional Signers Re ported; More Names on Honor Roll Published. The N. It. A. movement In 1a Grande continued to show progress today with tho (total number of Hlue ftiglej signers now (listed at 207, n irMvcsso-of two over .Tuesday. The post office still twns uttsupiVlled with additional Insignia for signers during the Inst several days. In Washington President Roosevelt today took over tha helm In an effort to smooth the dispute over a working code for tho steel Industry, while in other quarters of Ills administration tlie pressure was tightened to draw the oil, coal and automobilo Indus tries In lino with tho Bluo Eagle. Some time ago the Observer pub- lislicd a part of the La Grande honor roll (those -displaying Bluo Eagles) and since then many more havo sign ed certificates of compliance. Latest additions to tho honor list follows : -Milton Vernon (trucker),. C. J. Brcicr Co., Owen Service Station, Drs. Inglo & Ingle, Gates Veltex Ser vice Station, C. E. LaDcllc (contrac tor), Shell Oil Co., Edwards & Price (paint contractors), Snodgress and Zlmmcrmari mortuary, EdcnJiolm (Continued On Pago Four) LINDBERGHS WILL FLY TO ENGLAND REYKJAVIK. Icolond, Aug. 10 (P) Colonel and Mrs. Charles A. Llnd ocrgh planned today to contlnuo on to Europe In their northern mapping flight If weather conditions were fovorable. On their arrival at Vatnagordnr Sound nenr here from Angmagsallk, Greenland, yesterday, tho Colonel told an attendnnt who brought them coffee and milk that England might be their next destination. PRECAUTIONS at nnva r a hip Reports from tho hoys camp at Wallowa Lake today, sent to reas sure pnrcnjis following a (reported rcscuo of threo boys from the lake earlier this week, said that no boys In tho camp were allowed to go on tho lake In a canoe unless under supervision of the older boys and men in charge of the camp. Wheat Today CHICAGO, Aug. lfl (I) Mob psy chology received the chief blamo from traders today for a new maximum al lowable tumblo of grain prices, In cluding 6 cents a bushel collapse in wheat. Something llko a flood of selling or ders which had accumulated during stagnation of dealings the last three days poured Into tho grain pits at the opening, and forced the markets down to the furthest point tliat emergency regulations of the board of trade would tolerate) for a 24 tiour period, No recovery ensued. Since tlie season's peaks Wcro reached about a month ago. wheat has dropped 34 cents, corn 27 cent?, oats 10 cents, rye 43 cents, and barley 50 cents. JUST BEFORE PRESSTIME Git EAT MAN HUNT HUG INS W. H. FOLLETT SUICIDES 40 KILLED IN STOIilu! TO KEOl'EN OHCIIAItOS CHICAGO, Aug. 10 ?) A 'mobil ized kidnap drive that began with tho greatest man hunt In Chicago's his tory extended today to Southern Wis consin hideaways of the Touhy gang uml its subsidiary kidnaping syndi cate. Two score sluirjwhiwtcrs of tlie Chicago police deiwrtment were rush ed into the territory with onion to corral gangsters and kidnapers ugalnst whom detect Ives have been gathering evidence for weeks. . . ' SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 16 (Wil liam B. Follett, 46, first Oregon state commandor of tho American Legion, shot himself to death In a public park here early today. KINGSTON. Junmlra, Aug. 10 (A. Forty iiorsoiiH were killed III nil elec tric Htorm which iflomled KliiRHton ami Nt. AmlrewH IxiMt night, caualng damage cstlnmlcd at $!,0U0,0OO. MERCED, Oal Aug. 10 (ff) Ap parently climaxing the strlko of 2,000 fruit pickers In the hugo oroliarda or tho California Packing corporation at Tuttlo and Atwator, Wlllard Orlttln, manager, today announced- tho or chards would bo roopened on fin In creased pay scale. Ho did not an nounce the amount, , QUITO, Ecuador, Aug. 10 (fll Sol cllcr giuirded the presidential and legislative palaces, today following deinaiidn for .the resignation of Presi dent Miirtlnez Mcro, who was ln uugiintfcd IukI December. , GIVES POISON TO FOUR MEMBERS OF ARKANSASFAMILY HOT SPRINGS, Ark., Aug. 10 Ml A confession that ho poisoned four members of a family was signed to day by Mark H. Shank, an attorney of Akron, Ohio. Police advanced as a motlvo tho Imminent arrest of one of tho vic tims for stealing papers for Shank from tho Akron prosccutor'B office for uso In a forgery caso against a client of Shank. The police snld they found a lottor from Shank In tho clothing of ono of tho victims, Mrs. Ethel Colley, advis ing her and hor husband, Alvln,. to "keep eyes open, mouth shut" and he woulot soon Join them and "you will all bo rich." Colley and his wlfo and two sons. '7 and 11 years of age, wero found dead and dying of poison on a high way near Malvern lato yesterday af ter their car had crashed into a fence and Shank had fled Into the woods. Shank confescsd. authorities an nounced, In following brief statement which ho snld ' ho would amplify after ho hadj some slocp: "I am guilty of tho murder of tho four persons at Malvern by poison and I. only nsk that you officers rec ommend to the courts that they grant me all the leniency possible." Colley was sought by Wayne Coun- (Continued on Page Four) GANDHI MAY' NOT MAKE DEATH FAST POONA, India, Aug. lfl (P) After tho Mahatma Gandhi hnd announced at noon today that he was stnrtlnK a fast until death, tho government came forward with an offer which, it was expected would impel him to abandon the plnn. Tho government was willing to provide tho nationalist leader with facilities enabling him to continue, under certain conditions, his cam paign to hotter the status of India's most lowly caste, the untouchables. Thus far tho Mahatma hns not actually missed any meal, and It wns expected that he would cat as usual this evening. j INQUIRING Each day an the Inquiring He porter makes the rounds two pertoni will he stopped at random on the street corner hnd asked soms fHiestlon of the day. Through the conrtesy of Manager C. M. Wight each Interviewed will be granted two complimentary tickets to the I.lbrrly Theatre. The nirrnit attraction t James Dunn und OJwia Hluart In the "The filrl In -111)." President Roosevelt haa under con sideration combining a number of smaller army potts about tho country into larger groups. Walter A. Boan, 1801 Washington avenuo, says, "I bellevo It would be a very good thing as an economic measuro resulting In a largo cut in MAKE CHANGE IN HOUSING 0FU.S.ARMY President to Concentrate Many Posts Into Ma- ; i . jor Establishments EFFICIENCY AND ECONOMY REASON Roosevelt Now Surveying 'Array Outlay and is De- ' terniined to Weed Out Number of Barracks. : , WAHIIINOTON, Aug. 16 W) Presi dent Roosevelt has decided to concen trate many army posts Into a few major establishments for purposes of economy and efficiency. ' Ho is now surveying the army out lay and is determined to weed out - , a largo number of the army barracks j to cut costs of operation andi to pro mote co-ordination of the forces.. ,' : Until he has decided which posts will bo retained in the new order ho Is withholding any funds for army housing. Secretary Dern haa urged the pub lic works board - to allocate 1 funds . from its 3 ,300.000,000 employment fund for army housing but no action has been takon. '. ' It was made clear at the ,Whlte tTmtut tlmf PrAnlrinnt-. RswVIRVPlfc hlm- self will pass on the army buildings I program now under consideration Dy,v (Continued on Pag Four) Garment Workers Walkout Begins Today In East NEW YORK. Aug; lfl Wl A strlko order affecting some 60,000 garment workers went into effect today, but as rallying places of the strikers wore ' scattered through tho city it was dif ficult to determine to how great an extent the order was obeyed. NEW HAVEN, Conn., Aug. 16 W) Several thousand workers In the dross and cloak trades went on strike to day In Connecticut, Picketing began at scores of small shops here and In Bridgeport. ' 4 The workers ore demanding the -minimum wages and maximum hours, proposed In tho national recovery aot blankot code as against the 8 mini mum and 40 hour weok which they assert the employers offered 'them. SEEKS JOB AS U.S. MARSHAL Stovo A. Laurance, candidate for United States marshal, of Junction City, Ore, was a business visitor in La Grande last night. Today's Baseball AMKIIICAN I.EAOUB ST. LOUIS, Aug. 16 (IF) Lou Geh rig, tho "Iron man" first baseman of tho New York Yankees, equalled tho major league record for consecu tive gomes played when he went In against the Browns today in his 1307th consecutive game. The mark was established by Everett Scott of tho Boston Red Sox and tho Yankees. NATIONAL LKAC1IJB - R. H. B. Cincinnati . - 0 8 1 New York 6 14 1 Dorrlngcr. Stout and Lombardl; Sclnunacher and Mancuso. - R. H. E. St. Louis : 7 14 1 Philadelphia 6 15 Grimes. Walker, Haines, Carloton and Wilson. O'FnrrcIl; Raglaad, P. Collins and Davis. R. H. E. Chicago 1-8 I Boston 6 10 0 Tinning andi Hartnott; Prankhouse and, Spohrer. ' REPORTER j overhead.'" Eldrldge Huffman, 605 First street, says, "I bcllovo that the army posts should stay where thoy are as pro tcctlon against criminal activities, , There should be more of them and they should be equipped to treat with law breakers," -fl ( " .' ""