Fall Flower Show Will Be Held Here September 9
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S VOLUME 31.
EASTERN OltEOON'g LEADING NEWSPAPER
LA GRANDE, OREGON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1933
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS AND A. B. C.
NUMBER 305
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TEAM FALLS MMMGIM TOM
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ICLUBWOMEN
OF CITY TO
STAGE SHOW
f Fall Blossoms to be Judged
i Best Lawns. Will.
; Receive Prices.
I PLACE OF EVENT
NOT YET DECIDED
1 Arrangements Not Com
$ pleted.But Mrs. A. L.
, f Gralapp and Committee
i Busy Making Plans.
Fall the season of the year
when flowers reach the peak of bril
liancy, the pastel shades of summer
giving way to oolorful asters and dah
lias has been designated by the
Iji Grande Neighborhood olub as the
time of the second of the annual
riower shows. The fall show' this
year will be hold on Sept. 0.
Arrangements, however, have not
yet been completed by Mrs. A. L.
Gralapp, chairman of the committee
In charge, and the place has not been
announced.
The fall flower show la not held
only for Neighborhood club members;
It Is a civic enterprise In which all
the flower enthusiasts of the valley
are urged to enter their flowers. The
schedule for entries and Judging will
be announced later.
Lawn Judging which has been held
regularly In conjunction with the
flower show will again be a feature
of the event.
Mrs. Gralapp Is assisted on' the
committee by Mrs. Floyd Sherwoodi
Mrs'. ' H. A. ZurbrlciC Mrs'. Hal Bohn
enkamp, Mrs. J. T. Richardson, Mrs.
Prank -Robinson, Mrs. George Currey,
Mrs. R. A. Wllkerson,' Mrs. William
Miller, Mrs. P. A. Bpllng, Mrs. W. .
Pickens, Mrs. J. W. Knowles, Mrs.
George B. Richardson, Miss Violet
Melville, Mrs. W. H. Hertzog, Mrs.
J. R. Williamson, Mrs. C. H. Bldwell,
Mrs. Charles Weis, Mrs. I. W. Mur
ray, Mrs. Prank Rechlln, Mrs. Harry
U. Myers, Mrs. Ethel Dobbins, Mrs.
F. 8. Jester and Mrs. Harley Rich
ardson. Local People In
Rush For Oregon
Drivers' Licenses
The rush for drivers' licenses Is un
der way in earnest over all of the
state, and La Grande is no excep
tion. 'Today word from Salem, sala
Secretary of State Hal E. Hoss' de
partment expected to handle more
than 10,000 applicants today and yes
f terday 8000 licenses were issued. Re
k ports are that hundreds of La Grande
and Union county people have applied
for licenses the last few days, ana
Beveral score received new licenses
here last Friday and Saturday when
C. N. Bentley, state examiner, gave
driving license tests at the city hall.
Over the state 125,000 drivers werv
'still without their new permits today
and1! great last-minute rush was ex
pected later this week.
Drivers previously licensed are Is
sued new permits without examina
tion while applicants for first licenses
are examined.
Old drivers' licenses are not good
after midnight Aug. 31.
DR. BELLINGER
VISITS HERE
Dr. O. O. Bellinger, head! of the
state tuberculosis hospital at Salem,
was In La Grande yesterday. Dr.
Bellinger was one of the principal
speakers at the meeting of the Eost
ern Oregon District Metjical society
at Ontario during the weekend. .
Mrs. Bellinger. Miss Bellinger, their
daughter, and Miss Barbara Evans,
also of Salem, accompanied Dr. Bellinger.
LONGEST DRY SPELL
THIS YEAR 23 DAYS
Although the present summer
has been unusnally worm and at
times dry, nevertheless, there
have been no drouth periods such
as often occur in Eastern Oregon
during the warmest months of
thd year.
So for, the longest period with
out rain was from July II to Aug.
3, with 23 days going by without
enough rain lo even mark
tracej" on the government records.
WILL
ROGERS
SANTA MONICA, Cal., Aug. 28 I
believe that Mr. Moley, chief of the
"brain trusters" getting out, Is about
the starting of the end of college pro
fessors In government.
A professor gets all of bis out of
a book, but the politician, as bad as
he Is, does have an understanding of
human nature, and the mob. So we
Just as well become reconciled to the
fact that the old politician la with
us, "even unto death."- '
Theories are great, they sound
great, but the minute you are asked
to prove one, in actual life, the thing
blows up.
So, professors, back to the class
room; Idealists, back to the drawing
room; communists, back to the soap
box, (and use some of it); but Old
Congressman "Hokum" and Old Sen
ator "Hooey" are still the Mussollnls
of our country. Yours,
COMMITTEE
OF 32 WILL
MEET SEPT. 1
Chairman Fred E. Kiddle
Calls Meeting to be
Held in Portland,
Fred E. . Kiddle, president of tlic
state senate and chairman' of Gov
ernor Julius L. Meter's speclarcom
mltteo of 32 to consider raising funds
for relief of Oregon's needy during'
the coming year, today called the
committee to meet Friday, Sept. 1
at the llenson hotel 111 Portland. The
meeting Is to convene at 2 o'clock
(Continued on Cage Four
COUNTY WILL GET
$600 CHECK FROM
HORSE, DOG RACES
Union county is to receive a state
check for SiiOO.05 as its share of
money taken in front the dog racing
In Portland and the horse: racing at
Gresltanu The money, according to
local county officials, will he applied
to the fund for tho Grange Fair
Home Products show. Which will be
held here Sept. 28 and 2D.
This will be In addition to the
usual allowance from the state. As
there Is no regular county fair In
this county, the fair-show operates
Under that status and Is thus eligi
ble to state aid.
Twenty-nine of the 36 counties rer
celved $600.05 each, and In addition
(Continued on Page Two)
SMOKE IS BLOWN
HERE FROM WEST
Visibility in the Grande Rondo
valley was lessened considerably to
day because of smoke blown In from
Western Oregon forest fires last night.
Monday visibility in this section was
held to be about 16 miles and this
distance was decreased considerably
by the additional smoke.
Monday was warm with a maximum
of 89, but the minimum this morn
ing was eight clegrees cooler than the
Sunday night low. The sky was
partly cloudy.
The valley was whipped by a strong
wind last evening that caused some
minor damage, according to reports
received today.
Unsettled and cooler weather was
forecast for Eastern Oregon tonight
and tomorrow, with rising humidity.
The second longest "drouth"
period began on Aug. 10 and yes
terday was the 19th 'day without
rain.
During June there was a period
from June 10 to June 26, consist
ing of 15 days, without any pre
cipitation. In between the dry periods,
enough rain fell to make most of
die summer months In La Grande .
this year show an excess of rain.
NRA DRIVE
TO BEGIN ON
WEDNESDAY
City Divided Into 50 Dis
trict With Committee
Assigned to Each.
MEET SCHEDULED
FOR 7:30 TONIGHT
Consumers Blue Eagle
Pledges and Stickers on
Hand For Distribution
to Canvassers.
The NBA campaign to enlist nil La
Grande people under the Blue Eagle
banner, to be conducted by the local
committee, will begin Wednesday
morning. This was decided at a
meeting lost night of the executive
committee consisting of B. Z. nnxter,
Mrs. Victor Eckley, It. F. Tyler, M. M.
Chrlstcnscn and Mrs. ft J. Shorb.
For the purpose of explaining the
campaign, a meeting of the repre
sentative committee will be held to
night at 7:30 at the Sacajawea Inn.
The executive committee outlined a
plan last night whereby the city
would be divided Into 60 districts,
and a committee from each of 60
organizations In the city Is to have
charge of each section.
Blue Eagle consumers' pledges and
stickers have been received and all Is
reported In readiness for the drive,
except for the final Instructions to
committee members tonight. The
object Is to have La Grande 100 per
cent In support of the Blue Eagle.
- All organizations also are being
asked by the executive committee Ao
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Parents To Get
Refunds Due To
Camp Economies
Because of economic management
of the Wallowa Lake camp for boys
the parents will be refunded $1 each,
according to a decision reached last
night by the members of the camp
committee which met at the Presby
terian church. Members of the camp
committee who gathered to hear re
ports of the successful venture were
A. W. Nelson, chairman, W. H. Hert
zog, Norman Frees. Frank Wylde and
Harvey Carter. .
This year's camp was not only the
biggest which La Orande has ever
had but it was practically as large
as those formerly sponsored by the
Eastern Oregon council which cov
ered six counties, it was reported.
I MT6RMATION AL
COrvPUCATI orS
Where Storm
'4
Here Is a Btrlklng alrplr.no view of Ocean City, Md., the Island resort on whloh 4,000 residents were
marooned wnen waters from swelling streams munuaiea me cuy. Cut off from gas, telephone and
light, refugees were reported waiting In rowboats with their possessions u(tll the waters subsided.
INSULL WILL BE
DETAINED UNTIL
HEARING IS HELD
ATHENS, Aug. 29 (P) The appeal
court approved today the application
for formal sanction of the detention
of Samuel Insull, former Chicago
utilities operator, in connection with
American extradition proceedings
The former Chlcagoan on Saturday
was taken to a private hospital on
doctors' orders after a second attempt
(Continued on Page Two)
SMALL BLAZE
LATE MONDAY
A carelessly thrown clgaret Is be
lieved to have caused a small fire
on the Secondr street viaduct at 4:20
o'clock . yesterday -afternoon. The
blaze, which was attacking planks on
top of the desk, was quickly extin
guished by the fire department.
FASCIST FASHION NOTES
FASCISM
MEETS
I TELL
MUSSOLINI I
ABOUT THISr-
f
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Marooned 4,000 in Maryland Resort
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3.2 Sea Serpent
XurmOutTQBe
A Sea Otter
SEATTLE, Aug. 20 (JP) Tourists
In wet British Columbia, Just over
the border, have reported annually
the peregrinations of ogopogo, a
"sea serpent with a head like a
sheep," who, according to legend,
takes a vacation In Washington
lakes occasionally.
; -Clti2ens who reported him In
Lake Washington here recently
were accused of sighting the rep
tile through bottles of 3.2 beer.
He was) Identified as a sea otter, a
species almost extinct in the Pa
cific northwest now, but undoubt
edly resembling a sea serpent when
swimming. , '
- FROM COLORADO
Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Rhodes had as
their guests Monday Mr. and Mrs.
Blrnle Ford and two sons, of Denver,
Colo., who were en route to Portland.
Mr. and Mrs. Ford made their home
In La Grande about 17 years ago.
IM IRELAND
FRINGED ecus
SHIQ.T WITH
BLACK AMP
-BLUe EYES
TO fvVMTH .
I DON'T care
ABOUT THE
COLOR IS IT-
BULLET-iPROOF?
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RAINS END
FIRE CRISIS
Showers During Night
Check Greatest Forest
Blaze in State History.
PORTLAND, Ore., Allff. 21) (JP
"Hani"! Tho militant cry ranff
th rou f;h tho uniokhiff wwhIh in every
fire righting canip In Northwestern
Oregon as heavy h dower during the
night cndeil mi inunedlute crisis In
the coast rahge iiioun talus where for
15 dnys the great wit forcut coiiflag-
rutlon In Oregon's history had been
niRlng.
To the 4000 sweating, begrimed
and weary men who had battled blis
tering heat and unsurmountable
edds in a futile attempt to control
the great fires, the Tain meant at
least temporary respite.
(Continued on Page Two)
NAME ICKES AS
' NEW OIL "CZAR"
HYDE PARK. N. Y.. Aug. 20 W
President Roosevelt today named Har
old L. Ickes, his secretary of the in
terior, as the administrator of the
new working agreement for the oi!
Industry.-
The president will namo the other
14 members of the oil planning and
conservation committee within . tho
next 24 hours, taking under consid
eration a list of names submitted by
Ickes.
As oil administrator Ickes will have
tho virtual power of dictator over this
Industry which has been engaged in
a war that led to over production and
a wrecking of prices, Prlco fixing la
possible.
Ickes also Is the Roosevelt admin
istrator of the $3,300,000,000 publl?
works program.
Wheat Today
The price of local nmli wheat
stood today nt 53 cents bulk, nr.
cording to ouotaUem.i at the IMo
neer Flouring Mllbt.
CHICAGO, Aug. 20 W) Liquida
tion developed in grains late today
and pushed wheat prices down five
cento a bushel, the maximum per
mitted In a day, with all other cer
eals off sharply,
- Wheat rallied somewhat near ihe
close as support developed from cosh
interests and resting orders to buy
on all recessions.
At the close, wheat was weak and
3 to 3o below yesterday's finish.
Corn was alAo weak and 2!4 to 2Vao
off, oaU 1 to lc down, ryo 33Hc
lower and provisions at declines of 2
to 35c,
JUST BEFORE
PRESSTIME
K. K. I'Ell.MITS (lOI.I) KALKS
8COKN8 SENATOR'S STORY
ARMY, NAVY GET MONEY
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SWIMS ENGLISH CHANNEL
r IIYDB l'ARK, N. Y Aug. 2D (PI
i'renldent Roosevelt toduy lifted the
gold embargo to permit huIm ot nett
mined gold abroad und ut the winw
time lightened the rextrletloiui agnliuft
hourilliig. The two executive order
were burned suddenly today by the
president JiiHt us he dearted tor an
automobile Uiur ujHKtute.
NEW YORK, Aug. 29 (P) Edwoaii
P. Mulrooney, former police commUi
slonor, una recent head of the New
York state alcoholic beveraffe control
board, said today he saw no gangsters
or thugs among the guesta at the
Sands Point Bath club Saturday Might
when United States Senator Huey
Long was punched.
WASllINOTON,;Aug. 20 P) Tile
nublla works administration today al
Inted $3(1,1180,1156 to the war depart
ment for continuation of flood con
trol work an the lower Mississippi
river and $13,000,000 to the navy for
construction and repair work nt shore
stations and navy yards. .
DOVER, England, Aug. 30 m
The English channel was today, con
quored for the first time this year
when Miss 8unny Lowry. 22-year-old
Manchester, England, girl arrived at
South Foreland after swimming from
Cape Oris Nez, France, In about 16
hours. ,
AGRICULTURE ACT
CONSTITUTIONAL
'JUSTICE RULES
WASHINGTON, Aug. 29 m Jus
tice Daniel W, O'Donoghue or the
District of Columbia supreme court
today upheld the constitutionality of
the agriculture adjustment act.
Dismissing a suit for a temporary
injunction which would restrain. Sec
retary Wallace from enforcing , the
Chicago mJlkshed agreement, ihe de
clared the emergency Justified the
law.
Attorneys Nell Burtclnshaw and
Nugent Dodds for tho plaintiffs an
nounced they would appeal the de
cision. The suits were entered against Wal
lace by Milton B. Beck, Stickney, 111.,
and the Economy Milk company of
Norman Park, 111. Both are wayside
(Continued On Pago Four)
RETURNS FROM
BOARD MEETING
Dr. J. L. Ingle returned tills morn
ing from Portland where he attended
the meeting of - the state board of
medical examiners of which he Is the
osteopathic member. Forty-eight
licenses were issued to young doctors
to practice In the state of Oregon.
Huey, With Scar,
Has Dandy Story
He Was "Ganged"
" MILWAUKEE. Wis., Aug. 29 W)
Senator Huey Long, of Louisiana,
wore a scar over his left eye to
day, the only remaining evidence,
he said, of an attack upon him by
three or four men while he was
attending a charity benefit at a
place near Great Neck,, L. I.
In a written statement which ho
gave out last night following pub
lication in. Now York of a report
that he had been punched while
a guest at a fashionable Long Is
land spot, last Saturday night, tho
bo na tor sold he had been repeated -!y
threatened and warned that he
might be attacked at any time.
j INQUIRING
Each day as the Inquiring Reporter makes the rounds two persona
will be stopped at random on the street corner and asked MM
question ot the day. Through the courtesy oi Manager c. M. Wlgnt
each Interviewed will be granted-two complimentary tickets to the
Liberty Theatre. The current attraction Is 4111 all-star cast in "Gold.
Diggers of 1IKIX"
Thus far Samuel Insull has hidden
behind Greece's skirts to shield him
self from prosecution for various of
fenses named against him In the
United States. This country so far
has been powerless because Greece
has not ibel willing to force Insull
to return to this country.
Miss Burmallne Hall. 1806 Second
street, soys, "I do not bellece that an
alleged criminal should bo Immune
from punishment simply because he
SIX KILLED,
40 INJURED
ON S. P. LINE
Several Others Possibly
Drowned, According to v
'First Reports. , ,
BROKEN BRIDGE
CAUSE OF WRECK
Tragedy Strikes Crack,
Transcontinental Golden
State' Limited Near Tu-i
cumcari. ' ; - ;
TUCUMCARI, N. M Aug. 89 IIP)-,
Six persons were killed, forty Injured
and severul others possibly drowned .
at dawn today when the crack trans
continental aolderi State limited of,
the . Kock , Island railroad went ,
through a .broken bridge over what ,
normally Is a dry creek bed five mDes '.
west of here. . i : . .-'
' The engine and six coaches plunged '
Into, a raging torrent seat hurtling,
down the orroyo .by heavy rains ell-.,
maxed by a four-Inch fall aa night.
Five sleeping cam remained, upright
on the bridge. .' .
The limited was bound from Lea '
AngeleB to Chicago. .The 'wreck oc-
curred on the Southern Paclflo line. '
the train operating over tracks of '
that road west of Tucumcorl and over
the Rock Island lines east of here.
O. J. ,Crost, of Tucumcorl, the en- v
glnecr, was feeling his way carefully ;
at ao.mllos an hour through the.
flooded danger zone, railroad officials '
said, .when the forepart of the.. train-1,-'
tell Into the: death trap. Croet dltd
Instantly. ; His was the only bodjr '
identified. ; . ; , :,! vV "
No passenger list was available and .
no Immediate effort was . made' ' to
Identify the dead, chief attention be-,
ing turned to aiding of the Injured
and the searoh of the wreckage, ' . -
Airplane Wrecks ;
, Cause 7 Deaths
In Southwest
CLOVIS, N. M., Aug. 39 (Pi ' . A .
trl-motor plane of the Transcontlnen- .
tan Western Air Line crashed 30 mtiea
west of liere during the night and 1U
two passengers, and two' pilots,- were
reported killed. '. " i'
AMAH.ILLO, Tex., Aug. 29 VP) T,
W. A. officials here said passengers on '
an air Uner that crashed early today
00 miles southwest of Clovls, N, M.,
were Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Gore, Al- '
buquerque, N. M., and their 3-Tear-old
granddaughter, Evelyn Gore, .
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Gore, '
Amarlllo. The report was confirmed
by relatives. Paul Gore Is employed
In the post office here.
SAN ANTONIO. Tex., Aug, 39 WV
Two Randolph field pursuit training
planes collided In midair four miles
northwest of the flying field this
morning, sending three filers to their .
deaths while a fourth Jumped to
safety. Lieutenant Harley R, Grater,
flying Instructor and two cadeta
whose names were not ' determined,
wero Instantly killed.
J. J. FOLEY TO '
ATTEND SALE
J. J. Foley, prominent local sheep
raiser, went to Pendleton today to
attend tho seventh annual Oregon
Ram Sale which Is being held at the
Round-Up grounds. Five hundred
head of select rams are to be put on
the auction block and sold to the
highest bidder. Rams have boon con- :
slgnedi to the sale from Calofrnla,
Washington and Oregon. Good prices
are expected as the sheep Industry Is
In better condition this year than
lost. .' ' . ;
REPORTER j
has fled to another country. Countries
should havo mutual agreements for
extradition and should reciprocate 111
the matter."
John Mantz, 2007 North Fir street,
says, "I do not believe that a country
should bove tile right to extradite a
person from ono country to another
unless tho crime 1b one against pity
such as murder or kidnaping, or
crlmo against probity that Is gener
ally recognized throughout the
world,"
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