Stock Show A t Union To Open With Judging Thursday
La Grande la The
Gateway to Wallowa,
"The Switzerland
of America"
' Only Newspaper
Printed in La Grande
Covering Union and
Wallowa Counties
VOLUME 31
KSlKlt OKEOON'S IXADINO NEWSPAPER
LA GRANDE, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 23, 1933
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS AND A. 11. C.
NUMBER 300
FOREST- Fill UNGONTtOLM
Heavy Enrollment
FALL TERM
WILL OPEN
ON SEPT. 18
Many Inquiries Received
From Prospective Stu
dents By Pres. Mow.
FOOTBALL FIELD
, NEAR COMPLETION
E. 0. N. Games This Fall
: to Be? Played on Own
Gridiron; Summer Ses
; sion to Close Sept. 1.
With many letters from high school
students Indicating their purpose to
attend the Eastern Oregon Normal
tichool, prospects Tor the heaviest en
rollment in the history of the school
are very favorable,' It Ik suiil by II. H.
Inlow, who returned to his or flee
Tuesday after attending educational
conferences at Stanford -university.
, Special Interest Is being shown. In
tho Junior college work offered by
the institution, and Eastern Oregon
High school students and their par
ents are apparently aware of the ad
ditional service rendered by the La
Grand school in this field whereby
; the first two years of college work
In the several fields of academic study
! may bo obtained near home and at
' minimum expense.
1 Improve Football Field
Campus Improvements have gono
forward during .the summer and are
now nearing completion. These 'In
clude Improvement of tlie football
field and the street and sidewalk
' leading to it. This work is being
done In co-operation with the county
1 employment relief organization and
- the city of La Grande.
1 - Normal school games will be held
this fall on the new football field.
Prospects for the football season are
promising, according to word received
from Coach Bob Quinn. who is now
at the University of Oregon. Several
outstanding players from Western as
.' (Continued Prom Pngo Two)
VI
H. M. Young Is
New Member Of
Observer Staff
( Coming to the Observer as a mem
ber of the advertising staff, Howard
M. Young arrived In La Grande today.
A graduate of the University of Ore-
gon. Young has spent the last several
cyears on various California hews
papers and brings with him a wide
experience in the newspaper adver
tising field and a well grounded
knowledge of the entire publishing of
a dally newspaper.
He will be Joined at a later date
by his family and wlU then establish
his home In La Grande.
4 BOYS SWIM
- ACROSS LAKE
" , DURING CAMP
In a list of boys at tho Wallowa
Lake Boys camp who received awards
and which was published In the Ob
server yesterday, the name of Wllllnm
Frees, who received a Red Cross badge
for llfesnvlng, was: unintentionally
omitted.
Also. It was learnert that four of
'the boys swam the width of Wallowa
lnke while at camp Thomas Cook,
Jack Eakln, Williams Frees and Don
Brlggs.
ANNUAL SEARCH FOR
FUEL IS UNDER WAY
' Tho annual quest for wood fire
'wood, of course Is now under way
over tho county.
A few years ago. when time? were
booming and everyone burned wood
and coal and oil and thought little
of tho costs, only a few went to the
hills to get their winter's supply of
fuel.
' But times havo changed.
It really started when the lumber
mills were shut down here a couple
of years ago and wood wasn't so easy
to get. Uist year more and more
people went Into the hills to get a
lew cords of wood for the cold, sea
son, and It's the samo story again
this year.
j Never a clay passes In La Grande
ROGERS
'tIVt
w$ayy.
LAS VEGAS. Nev., Aug. 22 Going
to drop this off here at Hoover Dun.
Houo they don't Irrigate more land
so they can raise more things that
they can't sell and win have to plow
up more rows, kill mora pigs to keep
'em from becoming hogs.
Looks like this whole hog destroy
ing scheme of Mr. Wallace's Is a di
rect Blap against my old friend and
companion, "Blue Boy."
What Wallace Is trying to do Is to
teach the farmer corn acreage con
trol and the hogs ,blrth control and
ono Is Just as hard to make under
stand It as the other. Yours,
LOAN OFFICE
HERE WILL BE
OPENED SOON
Manager Sliorb Hopes to
'be Keacly tsy bararaay;
Applications Coming in
Appointed yesterday at noon, C. J
Sllcirl), home loan district mnniiRer
for Kastern Oregon with lieailqunrarn
in Iji (untitle, had nearly zn apptt
imtlinis for uld early today. Pemiontil
vIsllH, letters and telephone calls
were coming In hourly, although In-
illnitloim were that the local set-up
would not be, completed before Sat
urday. Besides Manager Shorb, tho La
Grande office will have an attorney,
an appraiser and a stenographer,
these appointments to be announced
by J. P. Lipscomb, Oregon home loan
manager with headquarters In Port
land. The appointments were ex
pected to be made public from Lips
comb's office today or tomorrow.
In addition to tho district office
staff, attorneys and appraisers are to
be appointed for each county In the
IIO.MB LOAN AIM-OINTMENTS
PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 23 (F
J. P. Lipscomb today announced
vppolntment of attorneys and ap
praisers for the La Grande district:
Union Co.: Henry Hess, attorney:
J. R. Oliver, appraiser; Baker Co.:
William A. Smith, attorney: Walter
A. Bnird, appraiser: Malheur Co.:
Robert E. Lees, attorney; Thomas
Jones, appraiser; Wallowa Co.:
Scorgo Cherry, attorney: Sam F.
Pace, appraiser; Umatilla Co.: G.
H. Bishop, attorney; Eft Murphy,
appraiser; Morrow Co.: Joseph J.
Nys, attorney; Charles B. Cox,
appraiser; Gilliam Co.: A. W. Swlt
zer. attorney: Earl We.itherford.
appraiser: Wheeler Co.: H. H. Hcn
Iricks, attorney; W. W. Hoover,
appraiser.
district Wheeler, Baker, Wallowa,
Malheur, Umatilla, Union, Morrow
and Olllinm.
Mr. Shorb is expected to set up his
own office and provide his own equip
ment. The office will not be located
in the federal building, and the new
manager had not lined up rooms for
tho oftlco this morning.
Returning from a short visit to
Portland, Mr. Shorb said today that
indications were that unemployed
home owners could expect little In
the way of relief unless they could
show that they would be able to pay
(Continued on Pago Two)
but that some one doesn't come home
with the back of his car. a truck, or
a trailer loaded with polo wood or
logs. And then either the wood3ow
is called or else dad spends his spare
time on the business end of a eross
cut saw, during the fall and early
winter.
There is no way to accurately esti
mate the number of cords of wood
frr,m l.hn hi la hut there Is no Ques
tion but that It Is large, very large.
And with this now development In
local history. It also Is noted that the
wocdsaw business is picking up. Sev
eral of them make a fair living for
their owners during most of the year
In La Orande nowadays. -
Expected At East Oregon
ON TRIAL
Trial of David A. Lnmson, Man- .
fold university professor who Is :
charged with tile bathroom kill
ing of his pretty . wife, . has
started In the Santa Clara court'
house at San Jose, .Oil. ! A Jury
had not been selected late Tues
day. MORE LINING UP
LOCALLY UNDER
THE BLUE EAGLE
Automotive businesses' of Union
county, organized Into the Union
County Automotive Trade associa
tion, will be operating under an ap
proved code as soon as the plan, re
ported as before President Roosevelt
at present, Is given administration
sanction.
A meeting of the association was
held at the Sacajawea Inn last night
and by-laws adopted. Further action
will await the adoption of the na
tional code.
Three more businesses signed the
president's re-employment agreement
in La Grande Tuesday, bringing the
total operating under the Blue Eagle
locally to 217. The post office still
Is out of Blue Eagle Insignia.
COAL CODE WORK l'ltOOUESSlNO
WASHINGTON, Aug. 23 VP) The
serious problem of shaping a final
code of fair practice for bituminous
coal again today overshadowed manl-
(Contlnued on Paso Two)
l"V . Ail
i r 4
NO ADMISSION
CHARGES FOR
OPENING DAY
Stock Show Entertain
ment to Begin With
Arena Events Friday "
SCHEDULE F. F. A.
JUDGING CONTEST
Cow Milking, Calf Roping,
Bull Dogging and Buck
ing Contests to Be Held
Last Two Days.
UNION, Ore. (Special) Stock began
arriving, ut the Eastern Oregon Live
stock show grounds as early as yes
terday morning mid everything points
toward a good show. Officials are very
optimistic over the outlook of a good
stock exhibit as wall as a successful
program of entertainment.
Only two days of aroha events are
scheduled as tomorrow, tno nrsc aay
of tho show will bo given over en
tirely to the Judging of dairy and
ibeel cattle,, draft horses, cattle ana
sheep. These exhibits will Include a
largo number of entries from F. F.. A.
and 4-H club members. Anyone who
wishes to see tho stock will bo ad
mitted to the grounds free of charge
but the arena events of Friday and
Saturday will charge an admission of
50 cents.
Lew Bidder, who has charge! of the
arona sportB, .promises two: days of
thrilling events. Ben Jofy'has a string'
of 20 real bucking horses that havo
been grain fed and) are In top shape.
Ho Is also furnlBhlng wild cows anJ
calves for tho cow milking and calf
(Continued on Page Three)
Marketing Code
For Wheat Men
Adopted Today
PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 23 W)
Adoption by the several interests In
volved of a wheat marketing codo for
tho Pacific Northwest, was announced
here today by Douglas Mclntyre of
the federal agricultural adjustment
administration.
Producers, exporters, millers and
bankers, Mdlntyre said, have en
dorsed the agreement under which
it is expected a forty million bushel
wheat surplus will be exported on a
(Continued on Page Two)
"I HAVEN'T SIGNED ANY
Ik W . ' -
J. a . ,,J
Babe Is Born
bMr , f vi
0. S. C. ATHLETIC
. LEADERS SPEAK
AT ROTARY CLUB
The athletic situation and. outlook
at Oregon State College was presented
by four leaders from the college this
noon when they met with members of
tho Rotary club at the La Grande
hotel for a luncheon meeting. Brief
talks were presented by each of the
visitors who will address an informnl
meeting of O. S. O. alumni and stu
dents again tonight at 7 o'clock at
the Sacajawea Inn.
Members of tho party are Lon
Stlner, football coach, who Is paying
his first official visit In his new cap
acity to Eastern Oregon; "Slats" Gill,
coach of the Pacific coast conference
basketball champions; Ed Allworth,
alumni secretary, who was designated
as tho state of Washington's out
standing World war hero; and George
Scott, assistant football coach, former
Baker High coach.
(Continued on Pfipe Two)
CODE"
Normal
Hitch-Hiking
The roar
of highway ,
traffic Is a
lullaby to Bar
bara Ann Moore,
for she was
born a month
ago at Okla
homa City as
her mother '
and father
hitch-hiked"
westward. The
child is shown
i with its mother
in Los Angeles,
where the
father, broke
but cheerful,
seeks work.
TOFIXPRICE
OF ALL MILK
Plan Tentative As to De
tails; Also Would Cur
tail Middleman's Profit
WASHINGTON, Allff. 23 m The
government Is about to fix (he price
paid Tor the milk (hat Is set on nearly
every dmir-HUl or porch lit the coun
try. The plan so far Is Just tentative an
to details and Is being written by
farm administration officials and
dairymen. At, most, the officials feel,
tho result should bo an average In
crease In. cost to the consumer of one
(Continued on PaR Two)
MUCH ROAD WORK
TO BE AWARDED
SALEM. Aug. 23 (fff Award of
about one and quarter million dol
lars road work, proposed elimination
of street car tolls for use of the In
terstate bridge, allocation of $335,000
public lands funds and requests of
numerous delegations will be con
sidered at the two-day session of the
state highway commission starting
I n Portia nd tomorrow.
Highway department officials will
be In Portland tonight for several
preliminary conferences with' tho
highway commission, but no awards
will be made until tomorrow when
bids will be opened on half the pro
jects at Multnomah hotel beginning
at 9 o'clock. Tho other half will
bo opened the next day at the same
time.
Wheat Today
Tlie price of local vnsU whesit kIihh!
loility al fit renin, ncronllug to quota
tions ut (lie IMoncrr I'louring iiiIMn,
CHICAGO, Autf, 23 W) Wheat
forged slowly upward today, showing
an. advance of about two ccntA t
bushel at tho extreme top.
A noticeable lack of prcmuro on
abled scattered buying to pull tho
market up. Buying by commission
houses with eastern connections,
strength In stocks, continued light
primary receipts and rainw in the
Canadian northwmt threatening har
vest delays all helped give wheat a
firmer tone.
Wheat closed about ulcady with
practically all the early advance lout
and unchanged to o below yester
day's finish.
Corn was unsettled and ',a Ui o
off, oata UP' ry bf
higher, and provisions unchanged to
20c advanced.
JUST BEFORE
PRESSTIME
DENOUNCES HANKERS, IIOOVK1I
STORM NKAUIMl CAPITAL
m
I.1NDV IN FAROE ISLANDS
I'lUlUSIIER'S BODY FOUND
DETROIT, Aug. 23 1 - Hurling
seiiNiitloiiul cluirges against Detroit
hunker,, anil attacking tile "philoso
phy of Herbert Hoover" III the busi
ness depression, Itev. Fit. Charles B.
Coiighlln, ended Ills first day before
the city's bank Investigating Jury to
day with a fiery denunvUitlon or
"wholesale dissolution or the people's
money" which, lie said, occurred here.
COPENHAGEN, Aug. 23 OP) Col.
Charles A, Lindbergh and Ills wire
lauded this evening at Tvcma In the
luroe Islands, completing a flight
from Iceland. t
. CASIIOCTON, Or., Aug. 23 VP)
Hound and weighted down with a
hummer, a plow-point and lead slugs,
tho body of Fred 8. Wallace, (ll-yenr-
old missing newspuiier publisher, wus
found In Muskingum river two miles
from here.
POONA, India, Aug. 23 (fty The
Mahatma Gandhi broke his , fast,
which was In Its eighth day, shortly
after he hadi been unconditionally
released from custody today by the
government, .,
WASIIINOTON, Aug. 23 (ff) The
war department toduy allotted $1,200,'
000 for tho Improvement of navlRii-
tlitii facilities at the mouth of tlie
Columbia river.
LEGISLATURE MAY
CONVENE IN FALL;
FAVOR SALES TAX
PORTLAND, Aug. 23 (ff) Gov
ernor Meier, prominent legislators and
hoads of relief agencies bollcve a sales
tax for unemployment relief and
support of Oregon's schools is the
only solution to a desperate financial
It is a foregone conclusion, many
of them Bald today, that a special
session of the legislature will be called
In September.
Legislative leaders, dirctors of re
lief work In Oregon, heads of civic
organizations and economists met
hero Tuesday afternoon with the gov
ernor In an attompt to develop some
plan whereby unemployment relief
work can bo carried on. The federol
government had given notice that
unless Oregon provides two dollars
for overy federal dollar, the govern
ment will make no further allocations
for relief work. Oregon at tho pres
ent time has no fund from which this
matching money can be drawn.
Every possible solution was dis
cussed at the meeting here.
All discussions eventually led back
to the proposed sales tax not a
property tax offset plan" which wus
defeated In the July election, but a
sales tax whose proceeds would go
only for unemployment relief and for
the support of tho state's public
schools, many of which arc on such
a precarious financial footing that
closing Is lmmtnont.
(Continued on Page FourV
DREADED DISEASE
SPREADING TODAY
ST. LOUIS, Aug. 23 W Science
rallied today to an Intensified fight
against sleeping sickness, mysterious
malady which has killed 10 persons
and attacked! 102 others In St. Louis
and vicinity.
A government expert rushed here
from Washington and went to work
In an attempt to determine If insects
spread the disease. Meanwhile, as
lour deaths In the last 24 hours
swelled the fatality list here to 10,
the disease broke out In five other
mid western communities.
INQUIRING
Each day on the Inquiring Reporter makes the rounds two persons
will be stopped at random on the street corner and asked tome ;
question of the day. Through the courtesy of Manager C. M. Wight
each Interviewed will be grunted two complimentary tickets to the
Liberty Theatre. Tho current attraction Is all-star cost In "Inter
national limine."
With tho trial of David A. Lamson,
young Stanford university Journalist,
charged with the murder of his wife,
underway In San Joho, Cat., again tho
question Is raised as to whether n
person should be convicted on cir
cumstantial evidence. Tlie prosecu
tion la basing Its caso entirely on
circumstantial evidence and asking
for no penalty but the death penalty.
Miss Co nut unco Ray 1302 Sixth
BURNED AREA
ANINFERNOASi
FIRE SPREADS
Two Thousand Men At
tempting to Fight Fire
Flee For Safety.
C. C. CAMPS ARE
TO BE ABANDONED
Millions of Dollars Worth
of Forests Destroyed
Between McMinnville
and Tillamook.
PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 23 (AO ".
Rolling through millions of dollar
worth of evergreen forests In uncon
trollable billows,- the giant ; foreiit
fire la the north Oregon coast sector
burned savugely today while 2,000
men who have been waging an unre
lentlng battle, could do little more
than flee to safety. ;
The danger area today formed :a
rough square with Cochran and Mc
Minnville at the north and south, and '
Forest Grove and Tillamook at the
east and west sides.1 r ' -
In the north center of this 60-mllo
square section of mountain country, 1
about 350 square miles was In the .
actual fire district.. The flames were
stripping the finest of the virgin tim
ber. Dense smoke and the extent
of the burned foreats made It lmpos-:
slble for fire officials to estimate the
area actually destroyed;
: C.C.C. Camp Abandoned v
All outlying civilian conservation
corps camps and other ftre-flhters'
camps were ordered! abandoned by
District Fire Warden Cecil Kyle. All
men were called Ifr to "one concentra
tion camp near Reeher's Retreat
where they can rest, and sleep In
comparative safety. Lives by the
score were menaced by the creeping
flames. Kyle's order was to forestall
a possible catastrophe.
Tills was no ordinary forest fire,
authorities agreed; the mountains
themselves appeared to be In flames.
EdgewaterFord
Motor Co. Plant
May Be Unionized
.' . . 4
NEWARK, N. J., Aug. 23 W An
attempt to unionize the Ford Motor
company plant at Edgewater was
launched today with at least partial
success Indicated.
After some 300 of the 2000 employes
at the plant had listened to three
American Federation of Labor organ
izers here last night, it was an
nounced that about 75 per cent had
signed union pledges.
Tribute was paid to the organizing
genius in Industry of Henry Ford,
who is an open shop advocate.
The workers were reminded that
under section 7 of the NRA blanket
code, the right of employes to organ- '
tze without fear of losing their Jobs
Is recognized.
WILLIAMS ENDS
VACATION TRIP
Raymond O. Williams, school clerk,
is expected to be In his office tomor
row after a vacation trip on which'
Mrs. Williams and their daughter,
Jane, accompanied him. He attended
the American Legion convention at
Klamath Falls and later Joined Mrs.
Williams in Portland where they vis
ited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. 0. B.
Happersctt.
TWO LICENSES
TO WED ISSUED
Marriage licenses were Issued yes
terday by C. K. McCormick to Edward
R. Hutsell and Vlrgle Ryason, both of
La Orande; and George W. Decker, of
Los Angeles, and M Irian Anne Stange,
of La Grande. t
REPORTER j
street, says, "I don't believe that any
person should be convicted on cir
cumstantial evidence. Many an in
nocent person has served a term In
prison and afterwards found Inno
cent of the crime."
Myles Williams, Island City, says,
"I believe circumstantial - evidence
would warrant a conviction if It were
strong enough, but I would have to
hear tho evidence before I could say
for sure." . .