Bitterly Criticizes Detroit Banks
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Wallowa Counties
La Grande Is The
Gateway to Wallowa,
'The Switzerland
of America"
VOLUME 31
EASTERN OREGON'S LEADING NEWSPAPER
LA GRANDE, OREGON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 19, 1933
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS AND A. U. C.
NUMBER 296
BAILED W LIMBBEIGH ffiBMFlMS?
Michigan
Senator
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COMMITTEES
NAMED FOR
FAIR-SHOW
Will Make Prepai'ations
Foi' Annual Event to
Take Place Sept. 28-29
ENLARGEPOULTRY
DIVISION, REPORT
Popular. Model Airplane
Division Continued; De
Long Heads Chamber
of Commerce Group.
i
Hevi'ral committees have been ap
pointed for tlie annual Clrang Fair
and Home Products show and Itave
accepted the duties. The fair will be
held on Sept. 28,and 28 at the h. D.
S. Recreational ball.
B. F. Webb and Arnold Voelz will
have charge of the poultry displays.
The poultry division has been enlarg
ed this year and an hour will be set
aside for a poultry program with some
prominent poultryman addressing tlie
spectators.
The model airplane division, one of
the biggest drawing cards of the show
lost year, will be held again this year
under the direction of B. H. DeLong.
B. A. Sayre, county school superin
tendent, will head the club work di
tendent, will head the 4hH economics
club work division: H. Q. Avery,
county agent. 4-K livestock club work.
This will be the first year since the
grange fair was started that the live
stock does not go directly from here
to the state fair at Salem. A change
of dates will make It Impossible this
year. '
The chamber of commerce commit
tee working for the success of the
fair In connection with the granges
Includes B. H. DeLong. chairman. A.
W. Nelson, Lyle Kiddle, H. Q. Avery.
R. P. Tyler, Clyde Bunting and H. C.
Boone.
Non-High School
Board Will Meet
Saturday Night
The non-high school boardl of Un
ion county, elected recently in five
zones, will hold a meeting In the
court house here at 8 o'clock tomor
row night, It wns announced today.
All high schools of the county also
will be represented at the meeting,
which Is called primarily to settle
the question of transporting high
school studentB living in non-high
school districts to the high schools
they will attend.
LOUIS ANSELL
FUNERAL WILL
BE SATURDAY
Funeral services for Louis Ansell,
who died yesterday at his home here,
will be held Saturday at 2 o'clock in
the afternoon at the Snodgrnss and
Zimmerman mortuary.
Burial will take place In the Odd
Fellows cemetery.
WILL ATTEND
C. E. SESSION
Dr. and Mrs. J. L. McPherson and
children, Miss Hulda Anderson, of La
Grande, Mrs. Ed Clark and twin
daughters and Miss Vera Case, all of
Altcel. left this morning to attend
'the annual summer conference of the
Christian Endeavor societies at Tur
ner, Ore., which open on Monday.
Dr. McPherson am Miss Anderson
will attend the executive sessions
which begin tomorrow, both of them
being state officers.
CITY WAITS FOR CITY
TO PAY UP WARRANTS
Every -week, in the Observer" city
commission story, in telling of the
cash account of the municipality, it
usually winds up with the statement:
"Remainder In warrants."
Merchants who are holding city,
county and school warrants have
nothing on the city itself.
The cash account right now in
cludes warrants totalling 95669.781
And. like every Individual, the city
must hold the warrants until funds
are ready for their retirement.
Of the total, 2 744. 71 represent
school district warrants that have
come to the city ,- in payment for
something or other.
Warrants on &ie county general
WILL
ROGERS
WASHINGTON, Aug. 17 Well, Hew
In here this afternoon from Chicago.
Come to the old fountain qf rumors,
to watch the hired) boys work under
prespl ration.
The town has got "codltls." Every
time you come to Washington some
body Is headlined, all the Interest Is
centered there.
Last time I was here they were
featuring J. P. Morgan, once the
R. F. C.
But this time, all brief cases can
be followed and they lead to the
Hoover building. (The department
of commerce building, covering the
lower end of the District of Columbia
and the entire northeastern part of
Virginia.)
Well, this old Oklahoma Johnson
Is In there and he Is papa In Wash
ington now. You bring your "code"
to him. He uncodes it. Recodes you
another one, you sign it, get you a
bluebird, and! go back In business
again. Yours,
LIGHT, POWER
CO. WILL ADD
7 EMPLOYES
Utility Signs N. ' R. A.
Code; Total, Under Blue,
Eagle Here Nowjat210;.;
The Eastern Oregon' Light & Power
Co., operating. In Union and Baker
counties primarily, Thursday signed
the president's national recovery act,
It was announced here today.
Seven persons will be added to the
company payroll as a result, two new
employes in La Grande, three In
Baker, one operator at the Rock Creek
plant and one operator at the Fre
mont plant. At present 60 men are
employed by the company and the
total will be 67 unrter the N.R.A.
The addition of the seven persons
will increase the annual payroll of
the light and power company $7000
a year.
One other signature was added to
the N.R.A. list in La Grande since
yesterday, bringing the total eligible
to display. Blue Eagles here to 210.
A new honor list, carrying additional
names, was received by the post office
today although the supply of Blue
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RELIEF PROMISED:
FROM HEAT WAVE
FAILS TO ARRIVE
Promised relief from the heat wave
which tins held Eastern Oregon In
Its grip for the last several days, has
not yet arrived. Thursday's maxi
mum. In spite of cloudy skies, was
08 above and It was the 30tli tiny tilt's
summer with a maximum of no or
higher. Last night's minimum of 70
above made It the second warmest
night or 1933.
The weatherman's prediction today
still held forth hope for cooler
weather for Eastern Oregon, with
partly cloudy skies forecast for to
night and Saturday.
Over the state forest fires which
had roared through fine forests dur
ing the last week, were dormant to
day and hundreds of weary men who
had battled the flames for days were
hopeful the danger now had passed.
The Gales creek and Wilson river
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fund amount to $147.31 and county
road fund warrants total $15.30.
The city's warrants, however, have
the biggest total. Right now there
are warrants worth $2763.46 in the
city's cash till, Issued by the city,
regarded now aa cash, but for which
no cash will be placed In the city
treasury until their turn comes for
retirement.
In other words, t'le city has taken
In a number of Its own warrants as
payments on street assessments, but
can handle them no differently than
the ordinary person does the war
rants he might hold until the city re
tires the city warrants which the city
holds.
Ho hum I
INQUIRY OF
BANKS ASKED
BYCOUZENS
Says Poor Judgment of
Bank Examiners Will
Cause Loss of Millions
FEDERAL MEN ARE
PUT UNDER FIRE
Couzens Asks For Crim
inal Proceedings in Con
nection With Union
Guardian Trust Co.
DETROIT, .ug. 18 W) Senator
James Councils (It., Mluh.) today un
leashed bitter criticism of Dotivlt
banking methods preceding the
Mlcliiguii bonk holiday, ilemuiided an
investigation of onej bank transaction
u-itit vli.w in p.rimliml nroceedlncs.
and charged In another statement
that "poor Judgment or federal bank
examiners" will cause a loss or many
minimis in Houiut made bv the closed
First National bank, Iletrolt.
Couzens testified for the second flay
before the one man grand Jury in
vestigating the closing 01 me jrm
National bank and the Ouardlan Na
tional Bank of Commerce. He de
clared that while' the condition of
Detroit banks may have been known
to the government, it was considered
a question of Judgment by federal
officials whether to "wait for pros
perity to return or insist on the let
ter of the law and close the banks."
That, he said, was "not an easy ques-
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Boys at Wallow ! f
Lake Camp Will
Be Home Sunday
After 10 glorious clays spent at
Wallowa Lake, the boys at the Wal
lowa Lake boys camp will leave there
Sunday morning for their homes. The
last meal to be served will be Sun
day morning and therefore parents
are urged to come after their sons in
the morning.
Saturday night awards will be mode
and the outstanding boy in camp and
in each of the troops will be selected
at the ceremonial.
Monday morning the boys at the
Wallowa Lake camp divided up Into
three parties and went on an over
night hike. One party of the "sick,
lame, and lazy" took a short hike up
to Bear camp on the Wallowa river.
About 40 boys went on this short
hike. Eleven boys went to Mirror
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A NEW
Where Bridge Pier Will Rise in San Francisco Bay
TUX &tt vyi
T a.. v Ira-. r
With actual construction of the ureal San Francisco-Oakland bay bridge
tion scenes are shown In the above photo. With the city in the background, the constructing pier, fenders
and working platform for the center anchorage af the project is pictured. A giant pier will arise here in
- the middle of the bay.
GROCERY STORES TO AGAIN
BE OPEN SATURDAY NIGHTS
Grocery k tores of La Grande, which,
tentatively adopted a liH-hour open
store week recently, have added two
more hours to the total, bringing It
to fiS hours and providing for Satur
day nJ glut openings.
Practically ail of the grocery stores
which have been opening at 7:30 p.
m. and. closing at 0 p. m. six days of
the week, will, beginning tomorrow,
East Oregon Retail
' Retail meat dealers of Eastern Ore
gon, at a meeting dn Baker Thursday
night unanimously approved the N.
R. A. code recently drafted at a meet
ing of the Oregon Retail Meat Deal
ers' association In Eugene after the
code had been explained by E. G.
Harlan, of Eugene, secretary of the
state organization.
Thirty meat dealers from Burns and
Ontario on tlie east to La) Grande in
the west attended the gathering, ac
cording to P. A. Epllng and M, M.
Chrlstensen, who attended from this
city.
In brief, tlie code provides for fair
competition, prevents secret rebates,
concessions or allowances, prevents
selling at less than cost, prevents un
fair advertising, and of course the
usual inclusions as to shorter hours
for employes and minimum pay
as. set by the federal government na
tional recovery administration.
Another objective is to stabilize
wholesale prices to retailers, placing
the meat Industry on an equal basis.
The code also prohibits packers and
USE FOR THE BIG
V
t wTT w
remain open until 8 p. m. Saturday
nights. The other five days of the
week will find tlie present schedule
unchanged.
Reports today were that tlie ma
jority of the grocery) stores along Ad
ams avenue have agreed on the new
plan, although two or three excep
tions were reported.
Meat Dealers
wholesale meat dealers from, selling
to unlicensed retail meat dealeus.
It also was recommended to the U.
S. department of agriculture the ur
gent need for promotion of a na
tional meat program to increase con
sumption of meat and meat products.
This code has many features of
one adopted in Chicago in June, and
from information received In Oregon,
it will be adopted by the N. R. A.
officials. v
LOCAL MEN ON
LIONS PROGRAM
H. E. Cool id ge, Tom Bruce and
Jack Cooltdge were among those ap
pearing on the program at the an
nual Ladies' night meeting of the
Lions club at Wallowa last night.
Mr. Coolldge was one of the principal
hpeakers, while Tom, Bruce, accom
panied by Jack Cool id ge, sang
'"Celeste Aida" and "Evening Star"
from "Tannhauser."
STICK
'1' .
already underway, (Irsi construc
Wuxtra! Wuxtra!
King Carol Has
The Measles! ,
BUCHAREST. Aug. 18 P) King
Carol, already suffering from an
attack of Influenza, ioa contract
ed the measles, apparently from
close contact with his eon, Crown
Prince Michael, who has been a
measles patient several days.
N.R.A.TEETH
TO BE USED
IF NECESSARY
Administrator Johnson
Explains Attitude of N.
R. A, in Statement.'
WASHINGTON, Aug. IB (P) Hugh
3, Johnson, national recovery chief,
said today the penalty provisions of
the law were Intended only for "re
calcitrant minorities" but that they
would be used fully when necessary.
At tlie same time, the administra
tor told newspaper men tluit the "in
flux of codes and the exhaustion of
NRA insignia makes it look as though
the Blue Eagle campaign is going over
even moro rapidly than I expected."
Shortly before, In opening tlie hear
ing on an automobile code, Johnson
had described the reemployment cam
paign as "drawing to a close," adding
that It has "covered the country from
one end to the other with blue
eagles."
DicwiisKeN Penalities
Discussing the penalties In the re
covery act, the administrator repeated
that It was Intended that under tlie
code, Industry should govern itself.
Ho said he expected the bulk of
every industry to move together "in
this great cooperating effort" but
whenever it was necessary to use tlie
penalties provision, including licens
ing of Industries and fines or Jail
sentences It would bo done.
Johnson opened hearings on the
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JOHN P. CUMMINS
KILLED BY FALL
SEATTLE, Aug. 18 (!) Plunging
from an eight-floor window of the
Olympic hotel, John P. Cummins,
assistant general freight and pas
senger agent for the Union Pacific
at Portland, was killed today. He
was formerly with the railway in
Omaha.
Coroner William J. Jones ond De
tective Lieut. Richard J. Mahoney
Immediately started an investigation.
Cummins arrived hero at 7:45 a. m.
from Portland to attend a meeting
of railway officials. Fellow officials
with him said they believed the fall
was accidental.
Wheat Today
CHICAOO, Aug. 18 m Profit
taking by recent buyers became an
outstanding feature In all the grain
pits lato today, and prices slipped
back fast from early upturns. Wheat
showed pronounced lack of aggressive
support, and hit the minimum per
mitted for one days decline, 6 ceuta
a bushel.
Wheat o lorn (I weak at the day's bot
tom figures, 6 cents under the aver
ago of yesterday's finish, corn He off
to xc up, oats l(!3c down, and pro
visions varying from 32o decline to a
rise of 6c.
JUST BEFORE
PRESSTIME
KKCOVKKY IS CONTINUING
'
G Kit MAN TltOOl'KIt AKKESTEI)
.
CllltlSTIANS SLAUGHTER:.)
PEAK STKIKE SETTLED .
NEW -YORK, Aug. 18 P) Patw
Ing of the inid-Kuinmer mnwou with
out appreciable slowing of the pro
greMS of recovery In busluesM, said the
Dim and Itradatreet Inc., trade re
view today, makes the possibility or
any sizeable recewtlon more remote
with each pawing week.
BERLIN, Aug. 18 P) The storm
trooper who struck Dr. Daniel Mulvl
hill, of Brooklyn, N. Y., because he
failed to salute parading Nazis Tues
day night, already has been seized by
the secret police and turned over to
the regular police authorities, it was
learned today.
1MG1IDAD, Iraq., Aug. 18 (P The
killing of more than (100 Assyrian
Christians In conflicts with the Kurds
und the Iraq forces In Northern Iraq,
lias climaxed uu International situa
tion in which Great Britain, as the
former mandatory power over Iraq,
has been moved to take a hand.
BAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 18 (P) The
Santa Clara Valley pear pickers strike
has. been settled, Timothy Reardon,
Governor Rolph's mediator, an
nounced today. The pickers have
gone back to work with promises of
pay ranging from 25c to . 97 46 a an
hour,' and "the pear crop la saved,"
Reardon declared.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 (Presi
dent Roosevelt decided today to
mjuliilViin the civilian) conservation
corps at lltt full strength of 814,000
for another six months, , ,
URGES HUNTERS
TO BE CAREFUL
WHILE IN HILLS
With the grouse season scheduled
to open in Union, Wallowa and Baker
counties next Sunday morning, due
to a change In the open season an
ounced last Monday by the state
game commission,, hunters are be
ginning to look over their shotguns,
high topped boots, etc.
And at the same time, there comes
a plea to grouse hunters from the
forest service office at Wallowa.
It reads:
- "Within the last couple of weeks
the forest and range lands In Wal
lowa county have dried "but to the
extent that now tho fire hazard has
reached tho danger point. Each day
from now on that low humidity and
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OUTLINES PLAN
FOR BUYING HOGS
CHICAOO, Aug. 18 (TO Secretary
Wallace today outlined the govern
ment's emergency hog program for
buying 6,000,000 swine, employing
meat packers to process them, and
distributing the meat to the needy.
In an address at the Century or
Progress Exposition, he said that the
program will be ready to go Into ef
fect in a few days and that he ex
pects it to boost purchasing power In
tho corn belt substantially.
The plan should Increase prices of
swine, possibly 35 to 30 per cent, he
asserted, and at the same time pro
vide relief to farmers heavily stocked
with swino but with short feed sup
plies due to drouth.
The program calls for purchase of
4.000.000 pigs weighing 25 to 100
pounds at from fl to 9 cents a
pound, and 1,000,000 sows soon to
farrow, weighing a minimum of 275
pounds, at market prices on the day
marketed plus a bonus of A. The
purchases are to be complete by
about October 1.
Ho said the meat will not be sold
In competition with that sold in reg
ular trade channels, and that Inedible
portions which will be converted into
by-products "should be distributed
In such a manner as not to upset
the market."
I INQUIRING REPORTER
Each day as the Inquiring Ileporter makes the rounds two persons
j will be stopped at random on the ntreet corner and asked torn
l question of the day. Through the courtesy of Manager C, M. Wight
euch Interviewed will be granted two complimentary tickets to the
J Liberty T I hi Kip. The current ut I met Ion 1m nll-Htur cost In "Terror
I Abroad."
Do you consider horse racing a
sport or a racket? is the problem of
the Inquiring reporter today.
Mrs. 8teve Hlatt, K. P. D. 1. be
llcvcs, "Horsernclng is a port as
long as it's run legally, but when it
U. S. AGENTS
ARE SILENT
ABOUT CASE
Neither Confirm Nor,
Deny Reports Published
in Denver Newspaper.
FOIL ATTEMPT TO '
ESCAPE FROM CELL
Bailey: Already Charged
With Abduction of Okla-r
uuma un millionaire,
Kansas City Killings. .
DALLAS, Tex., Aug. 18 (P the
kidnaping of the Infant mm of Col.
and Mm. Charles A. Undbergli In
1M2, and an atenipt to escape Jall .
today, had become entwined In the
round-up of a wide-spreadlnr Itidnnu
and robber gang whose reputed lead
er, llorvey uailey. Is In ijalt here
under heavy guard.
Federal operatives neither confirm
ed nor dented reports published In
tne Rocky Mountain News at Denver
that two of Its agents had been as
signed lor jue 11 necessary, . to ae-
teimlne If Bailey or Albert L. Bates,
a confederate held prisoner In Denver, .
had any connection with the abduc
tion and death of the filer's son.
Tba police guard over Bates was ,
Increased to eight machine gunners
after Chief of Police Albert T. Clark
discovered three bars of Bates' cell '
had been hackee!) . through and j
weapon-like motal pipe was .within 1
his reach. V ' ' : - i .
Prompted by rumors that an at-
t.nmnt. mlot. tu mula in "14tw,ratjk j
Bailey; Dallas officers took unusual-.i'
precautions to safeguard' him. ) j
"Balley, charged with the abduction
of Charles P. TJrschel, Oklahoma oil
millionaire, also has been named by,
the department of Justice - as the
operator of a machine gun which
mowed down four officers and their
prisoner, Frank Nash, at Kansas City
June 17 In an attempt to free Nash.
Speedy prosecution of Bailey and
four other suspects held in jail here
for the kidnaping of the oil operator,
was anticipated ns a result of special
asnlstnnt attorney general' Leslie Sal- '
ter being sent to Oklahoma City to .
press the government's cause against
them, Salter left Chicago by plane
laBt night. ;
The four under arrest with Bailey,
wore H. O. Shannon, at whose isolated'
farm In Wise county Bailey was ar
rested last Saturday; Shannon's wife;
their son; Annon; and Armon's wife.
The Shannons were anxious to make
tho $50,000 bond set for each but
protested it was . moro than they
could raise. Bailey's bond was set at
$100,000.
NO NEWS AT TRENTON"
TRENTON, N. J., Aug. 18 (P)
Major Charles H. Schoeffel, of the
New Jersey state police, said today
no Information had been forwarded
hero as to Harvey Bailey's possible
connection with the Lindbergh kid
naping, "Until that time," he added,
"questions cannot be answered." .
Three Slayers
Put To Death In
Sing Sing Chair
liy Raymond Crowley
OSSININO, N. Y., Aug. 18 (fl -Three
times six equals eternity for
three.
That's Sing Sing mathematics a
multiplication example for murder-'
era.
With the precision of a slide rule,
tho machinery of doom took life lust
ntght from three men. The operation
took 18 minutes, divided neatly Into
periods or tlx minutes each.
John Jordan, 33, was first. His Hps
formed the word "frame-up" as they
strapped him Into the electric chair.
George Swain, 21, was next, six min
utes later. He was convicted, with
Jordan, of killing two men while:
holding up a restaurant in Astoria,
Queens, t
Last came Stephen Witheroll, 30. u
patricide. Ho slow his father, Charles,
in Hopklnton, because his father
wouldn't lend him money.
censes to be run legally It becomes ft
racket."
Lee Reynolds. 803 Pennsylvania ;
avenue, says, "I think It can be ooin.
You can make a racket out of a mar"
ble gnnw It depends on the pcrr