Woman, 47, Found Dead In Deserted Cabin
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Gateway to Wallowa,
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VOLUME 31
EASTSUN OREGON'S LEADING NEWSPAPER
LA GRANDE, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1933
MEMUKft ASSOCIATED I'llESH AND A. D. C.
NUMBER 294
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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
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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.
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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 ( "
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