La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, August 30, 1933, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Text34 Finish Work At Normal School During Summer La Grande Is The Gateway to Wallowa, "The Switzerland of America" . Only Newspaper Printed in La Grand Covering Union and Wallowa Counties i VOLUME 31 EASTERN OItEOON'8 LEADING NEWSPAPER LA GRANDE, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 30, 1933 MEMBER ASBOCIATKO PRESS AND A. I). 0. NUMBER 306 MMffl HUES ME mm tmsmh EON. TERM iitii i iv Ann HlLLlLUoK HERE FRIDAY Seventeen Finish Work Sept. 1 Others Com- t pleted Uourse in July. FALL QUARTER TO BEGIN SEPT. 18 Training School to Begin On Sept. 11 Student Tuition Fees Reduced to $14 a Term. With the summer quarter of the Eastern Oregon Normal school clos ing" Friday of this week, It was an nounced today by President II. E. In low Clint 84 students completed their work 17 during the first six-week period and 17 during the final five-week period. Announcement also was made that the fall term of the Normal school will begin. Sept. 18, although the training Behoof will open on Sept. 11, In connection with other La Grande grade schools. Catalogs have been received and distributed to high school graduates. The course includes the standard normal school course and also Junior college work. Tuition fees have been reduced to Q14 a ,term for students. Final examinations will be held tomorrow " and Friday. Those who completed their work In July follow: William Caldwell, Mildred Davis, Ethel Hanson, Gladlys Owen, of La Grande; Garnard Coles, Haines; Mar garet Dewylde, Pendleton; Waldo Gerords, . Kennewlck,,. Wash.;. . Louise Kennedy, Park Place; Dorothy Lake1, Ontario; 'William Lowry, Portland; (Continued on Page Threap FourS Clubs Of Union County To Picnic Tomorrow The annual picnic of the 4-H clubs of Union county, their families nnd friends will be held all day tomorrow at the Eastern Oregon experiment station near Union. This event, which closes the gear's work and an ticipates the Oregon State fair, open ing next Monday, promises' to be out- standing this year and Ithose In charge of the preliminaries are pre paring and looking for a very -large crowd. i - - Tho program of the -day opens at 10 o'clock In the morning wltn the stock Judging contests. Four classes will be Judged, hogs, sheep, beef and dairy cattle. The winners In these contests will go to the state fair at Salem. The numerous livestock clubs overthe county have been doing con siderable preliminary work in Judging, according to the county agricultural agent, Harry G. Avery, under whoso direction the training has been, done. A ibasket lunch Is to be served at noon, the clubs arranging their own groups. The station will furnish the coffee and cream for the entire crowd, The more formal program will ibe hold in the afternoon under the trees, with music and special speak ers Included In the numbers. WHITMAN WILL TAKE NELSON AS A JUNIOR Boy Nelson, who graduated from the La Grande High school in 1930 and completed his junior college work at the Normal school last June, has received word from the registrar at Whitman college that -his work, is ac cop ted. He will enroll as a Junior there in September. He Is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Nels Nelson. . PURPLE SUN LOOKS DOWN ON LA GRANDE "Once In a blue moon" Is an expression heard frequency, and It's supposed to happen very, very, very Infrequently. But the sun. Old Sol himself, gave La Grander an entirely dif ferent view of himself yesterday afternoon.. He went the "blue moon" one better, Just to show his versatility. (shortly before the sun sunk behind the hills to the west of & Grande, partly obscured by smoke from the North western Oregon forest fires, his face first a bright silver faded Into a light purple or violet hue. At WILL ROGERS BEVERLY HTU.S, Oal., Aug. 2D So Germany has barred Schumann- Helnk, Say, If my own wife barred Schunrann-Helnk from anything, I would be with Schumann, A grand liberal minded soul. Some fellow on Long Island, New York, In a dress suit pounced on my old friend Huey Long. Huey didn't recognize him In the disguise. Dress suits are only used In Louisiana to encase dead politicians. ' - By the way, did anybody ever see a United States senator In his home state after the night he Is elected? I have met .'em all over the world when congress was not In session, but never saw one at home... L 1 They are always making speeches about "my fine people back home." But they never want to go see 'em. So I hereby start a movement to create another week. Like apple week, prune week, .Its "Meet your own sen ator week," and make him come home. No matter what happens to him. Yours, . t tint. kuwmiM . u NRA DRIVE UNDERWAY HERETODAY Final- Infractions" -'Fori Campaign Given Out., at Tuesday Meeting - DISTRICT S3 SIGNED UP District No. fc3 ,was reported about noon today as signed up 100 per cent; Workers found a fine spirit in reference to NRA on every hand, It w&a reported. The NRA campaign to obtain 100 per cent co-operation among the consumers of La Grande, began this mornttug with a Jhrge .number of committees starting a house-to-house canvass. Four members of the NRA execu- (Contlnued On Page Four) KOAC OPPOSES ESTABLISHMENT OF RADIO HERE Depositions were taken of the testi mony of several witnesses In La Grande today, in the matter of ap plication of the Eastern Oregon Broadcasting company to establish a 100-watt radio station in this city. Tills testimony will be forwarded to Washington, D. C, for consideration when tho application of the local ra dio plant is either allowed or denied by the radio commission. Establishment of a station in this city would necessarily, lessen the power and facilities of station KOAC, state-owned plant at CorvalUs, it was pointed out at today's hearing here. The state' already has Its full quota of commercial stations and broadcast ing allowed and the only possibility of a local plant would, be by taking or gaining some of the wattage or power and broadcasting time of an existing station. The state owned sta tion opposes the efforts of the local company to gain a station In La Grande. "We do not oppose the claims of the Eastern Oregon Broadcasting company for a license, but we do (Continued bn Page Two times It appeared to be blue. Many La G ran tiers had nevrt before seen such a spectacle, and for half an hour or more, cast curious eyes toward the head of our solar system. Some believed It was because of the smoke haze, hurt, others pointed out that into usually resulted In a red sun frequently seen here during the late summer and early full Rea son when tlie air Is smoky. Also, comes word from Eugene, Ore., that the sun Monday morn ing showed through the haze n distinct "silver blue." What's your guess as to the cause? " Surprise Bride of Tony' Drexel ' allliwllll Despite tho reported opposition of his mother, Anthony J. Drexel 3d, of the wealthy Philadelphia !fonUii'- olOBedwlth '.and. ..mar-, rlod Miss Helen A. -Howard, above, of Atlanta, at Walhalla, S. C. Drexel 's mother is re ported to have declared his mar riage to be "very disappoint ing" NORTHSIDE CLUB FLOWERSHOWTO BE SEPTEMBER 16 The Northside Home improvement club will hold Its first annual flower show on Sept. 16 at 2 o'clock at the L. D. S. church on North Fir street. The club was organized last winter for the purpose of beautificatlon of the north side of the city and have been active during the summer in growing liowers which will be entered in tho exhibit. Entertainment will be presented (Continued on Page Two) ' GREAT COMMISSION STOPS HERE ON WAYEAST Chairman Leslie Scott and Party Breakfast With 1 Lopal Leaders. TO VIEWLEWISTON, ENTERPRISE ROAD Completion of Highway Sought; General Discus sion of Road Matters is Held Here. The Oregon stale hlghmiv com mission, consisting of Chairman Les lie Scott, of Portland; B. B. A Id rich, of Pendleton, and members of the department R. 11. Heldock, chief engineer, and II. G. Smith, both for merly of LaGmnrte,. stopped here this morning for breakfast en route to Enterprise and Lewis ton. The commission was accompanied (Continued on Page Four) Elect Rev. Kopp New Secretary OfRoteryClub Tho Rotary board of directors, meeting after the weekly luncheon at tho La Grande hotel today at noon, elected Rev, Clarence A.-Kopp secretary to succeed Elliott Flnlay, who has Resigned. ; 4 Durlna the'meetlnor It. Rlcharti. son, ite- 8pbltesmAir"dr-the-clut, 'ax pressed regret at the resignation of Mr. Flnlay, whd has boen secretary of tho club for the last several years and who is leaving this week for Battle Croek, Mtoh. As a token of tho club's kindly feelings toward Mr. (Continued From Page Four) FAIR WEATHER WILL RETURN IS PREDICTION Skies were cloudy In Lai Grande to day but the weather prediction indi cated generally far weather tonight and Thursday. The maximum yesterday was 74 above and the minimum, last night 51 above. Smoke that drifted In the other day from the Northwestern Ore gon fires continued to make visibility poor. Tuesday wad the 20th day here without rain and foresters were hop lng for showers tos ease the fire men ace In Eastern Oregon woods. IDEA, THESE PENTHOUSES! ifp : - New Cave Named One of Nature's oldest and best bits "' America's latest effort to .restore prosperity, dick Koyie unsow, vei ' : cran guide at the famous Oregon caves, noar Grants Pass, Ore., on a recent exploration trip, discovered a wonderful new chamber with '- gleaming marble stalagmites, lace-liko trimmings, etc. He named it ' "Niraland," in honor of the effort to put over the National Industrial ,'. Recovery Act. "And so far, there is no code for guides," avers Dick. COMMITTEES ON FAIR Will MEET THURSDAY NIGHT Tho Grange fair board met last night for tho purposo of discussing preliminaries . of the t Grange Pair Home Products show to bo held fiero iiK September., ..,s- .. t u v . A meeting of all committTees is Bcheduied for 8 p. m. Thursday night at tlie city hall for tho purpose ofr determining progress made, glvingqut instructions, otc. The Smith-Hughes people are pre pared to exhibit and Dale Richards, of the Eastern Oregon experiment sta- (Continued on Page Four ; BELIEVES POLICE CHIEF HIT HUEY BROOKLYN, N. Y., Aug. 30 (P) The Brooklyn Eagle says today it has learned from an authoritative source that tho man who smacked Senator Huey Long at a Long Island party Saturday night Is Chief of Police Steve Webber, of Port Washington, a former boxer and army drill sergeant. Chief Webber, when asked about tho matter, smiled and denied he had struck Long. for Recovery Act of handiwork has been named for ACAPPELLA CHOIR TO BE FORMED HERE Andrew , Loney, Music Supervisor of La Grande Schools, Makes Plans. The miiHlo ileparttueiit of the La Gniiiilo High sclionl will orrer as an additional inuslo subject ithls coming year, an A xmppella choir, It was un nouncod Unlay by Andrew Iney, miiKlo supervisor, Tho regular mimio cmllt will bo given for this work. Tho A cappolla choir Is the ultimate In group singing and lias had won dorful success In high schools of tho middle west and oast but few 'high schools of tho northwest nave oiler ed this subject. lb Is planned to or. ganlzo a chorus-oholr of between 12b and 160 voices. Membership in the group will bo open to all students able to sing reasonably well on pitch, it is said. Tho finest of choral music will bo sung and will bo In lour and eight parts. ; Music will bo selected from tho works of tho following composers Bach, Pnlostrlna, Elgar, Purcoll, Mor- !oy, Noble Cain, Byrd, Oevaert, Schve- dov, Orotchanlnoff, Praetorlus, Bra hms, Lutkln, Tschalkowsky, Pltonl, Dowland, Beethoven and others. A group singing without accom paniment is ablo to give tho finest interpretation, expression, ' blending and all tho other things that go to mako up tho last word In choral slng (Continuod on Pago Two) REPEALISTS WIN WASHINGTON VOTE SEATTLE, Aug. 30 (P) Roponllflts were safely past tho 24th milestone In their drlvo toward elimination-of the prohibition amendment from tho federal constitution today,, with Washington Joining tho wet parade by a smashing majority In Tuesday's election. Only one legislative district in rur al Eastern Washington, voted dry. It has two of the 00 delegates who will meet Oct. 3, In Olympia to ratify formnlly the voters' decision. Tho popular voto from 1042 of tho state's 2082 precincts rolled up a to tal of 310.004 wet ballots to 132,300 cast for dry candidates. Wheat Today The prhw f nLHl wheat stood toilay lit ft'l cenlA hulk, ac cording to initiations at tho Tlo necr 'Flouring Mills. CHICAGO, Aug. 30 VP) OralnB fluctuated nervously today In a rela tively light and canity influenced market,' but finished strong. Wheat skidded around! over a range of, moro than six cents bushel and by Its gyrations pulled nil other grains up and down. Wheat closed strong and near tho high point at gains of 2 to 2c, compared with yesterday's finish. Corn was 1 to 2MiO higher. Oa1 to lo up, rye lo ad vanced, and provision ranging from 26o lower to 8c higher. JUST BEFORE PRESSTIME i . ... DLSKASB FATAL TO 45 , . '.' , DAVIS SAILS FOR EUKOl'B ... STANFIBLI) GETS $100,000 , FIHIIEKMKN'S ItKTUHN GOOU 4 I ST. LOUIS, Aug. 30i(P) The mys terious outbreak - of "sleeping sick ness" In Ithlg city and Its . suburban districts was a month old today. The epUU'inlo has resulted In. 45 futalitlm, ,820 nixes, mid tho full force or tlie government's sdeutlrio battalions pitted uguhiHt the devastating niuliuly. , NEW YORK, Aug. 30 VP) The United States liner Washington was lield beyond Its soiling time today whllo Norman H. Davis, American am bassador at lurgo received from the president verbal messages to tlie heads of European governments. The presi dent Is most , hopeful that Europo will find the; road leading to the dis armament conference, which recon venes on October 16 In Geneva," Da vis said. ' WASHINGTON, Aug. SO, (IP) The public works , administration today approved expenditure of ;in,4Iff,000 from publlo works funds for con struction work on 14 Irrigation pro jects In Arizona, Idaho, Montana, Ne vada, Now Mexico, Texus, Oregon and Utah. Projcots Included follow: Holsc, Idaho, drainage $100,0001 upper Snake river, storage $4,000,000; Htunflrttd, Oregon, reconstruction of canals $100,000, I , ! ASTORIA, Ore, AUb. 30 W) Co lumbia Tlvor fishermen received ap proximately 91,500,000 for their sal mon catch this season. It was said here today on the. basis of a survey of summed fishing liv the river. Last year, 'tho return wae 70O,0OQ. , F.RS ASKS REPORT FROM NRA HEAD ! ON HENRY FORD HYDE PARK, N. Y., Aug. 30 W1) President Rooaovolt has asked Gen eral Hugh S. Johnson, industrial ad ministrator, for a report on tho fall- tiro of Henry Ford to enroll under -the now working agreement lor the auto mobile Industry. ". Mr. Roosevelt wants tho latest news on this before he departs tomorrow for a vacation cruise back to Wash ington' and there Is Indication ho Js considering action, although the president Is . saying nothing about that and making no threats..! In talking with General Johnson It was stated no word had been received at Washington so far from the Mlohl gan auto maker. Inquiries hero about the uso of the drastic licensing power to Impose the' N, R4 A. working oodo on Ford brought tho answer tnat no detailed consideration has been given so far tot this pleco of authority. Tlie president intends to see the new deal for industry definitely as- tabllsliod for a Labor day united front and he expects to recolvo bo foro sailing tomorrow tho coal code which ho twill sign. ! U.S. WARSHIPS ON WAYT0F00CHOW IIAXKOW, China, Aug. 30 (P) P.I if lit A morir'nti 1'iiKMlmilul. itiluMlim- uiictt who two inontliK bko were caught In wnrrare ut Yuaiiehow be tween relic Ik and pnvlnelal troops were nnuiy reporuMi miil. POOCHOW, Fukion Province, China Aug. 30 (P) American and Jap anese warships steamed towards this city today to protect Nationals of thono two countries from an Increas ing red menace. As a result of tho Communists' swift incursion into North Fuklen (Continued On Page Four) INQUIRING Bach day as the Inquiring Reporter makes the rounds two person will be stopped at random on the street corner and asked some no est Ion of the dav. Throueli the courtesy of Manager C. M. Wight each Interviewed will bo granted I Liberty Theatre, The current "Hupernotiirnl." !. Sending of American warships to Poochow. China to Jciid .protection to missionaries thcro, brought up the question today: "Should tho United States send warships to other na tions to protect Americans from trouble that might develop In theso other nations?" Horace J. Nolsori, of 703 K avonuc, said: "I certainly think that Ameri RAINS HALT i ADVANCEOF : GREAT FIRE State Forester Fears Loss ; 'May Climb to As'Much i; As $42,000,000. FOREST, CLOSING ORDER IS LIFTED Bill Curtis, Titask River Lookout, Reports to1 Post Fire , Fighters . Build New Lines. , PORTLAND, Ore,, 'Aug. 30N (P) Whllo jjentlei ruins bent fover the lifeless woods anil sprinkled on the : hot ashes left by tlie most disastrous forest fires In Oregon within man'l , memory, timber cruisers entered the . blackened . area today to count the tremendous loss from the flames Thousands of acres of forest lands were devastated by the thundering, blasting fires which whipped over ; Northwestern Oregon for two weeks' Lynn F. Croncm tiler, state forester. said tody the loss might amount to as much as $42,000,000. Others said $30,000,000 might cover the damage. Between 10 and 14 billion feet of yellow fir timber was destroyed as tho flames ravaged the giant trees. The, hundreds of fire , fighters, ex alted by the rain and. the mantling fog and cool wind from the ocean, loaped to the work of constructing new fire, lines against a possible turn of the wind and a possible heat wave. Only one death resulted from tnle greatest conflagration in Oregon'! History, rranK-ruinejy ai, -oi mstw-. celllne, 111., was crushed by a falling?. treo. ; Today Bill Curtis, Trask River, lookout, reported to his post. The executive order closing tlie forests of Clatsop, Columbia, Tilla mook, Washington and Yamhill coun tics was lifted today by Governor Meier,., The forest areas wore closed last wook becausn nf fire hazard- INDFRTFONRSSOF STATE STANDS AT OVER 55 MILLION SALEM, Oro. (II Total bonded' Indebtedness ot the state was $5S,. 880,010 on August .1, this year as against assets applying against such, bonds of (37,81)5,183, Bufus C. Hoi man, state treasurer, 'has announced. Of this sum $37,070,250 outstanding bonds were charged against tha state highway commission, (36,463,600 against the World war veterans state aid commission; $3,173,760 In Oregon district Interest bonds and $263,000 In Oregon farm credit bondB. Holman further stated that tho as- scsscd valuation of all property in the state, as determined by the state tax commission was 1,037,04,163.: ! To Investigate Train Wreck In Tucumcari Area TUOITMOAIII, N. M., Aug. 30 VP) In a flooded nrroyo, usually dry, the Ooldcn State Limited lny today, mute cvldonco of tho tragedy which took eight lives and injured moro than two score. " . Repnlr crows wnlted for abatement of tho torrent to salvage tho wrecked cars nnd repair the brldgo whllo a board of Inquiry was called to lnves tlpnto Tuesday's early morning wrock. The revised cteath list, with two victims still unidentified: v O. J. Croft, engineer, Tuoumcarl. k James Uandiill, fireman, Tuoum carl. . . W. II. Voiloy, Qulncy, 111. Mrs. Varloy. , . (Contlnuod on Pago Two) two complimentary ticket to the attraction Is Carolo Lombard In cans should bo protected wherever they go.' I'vo travelled through Eur -opo and South Amortca and was nl ways gratoful for tho protection af tho Stars and Stripes, people with a religious message to tho world should bo protected." 1 E. M. Lewis, of R02 Y avenue, said: "I think we should send warships to protect Americans . In trouble else where, don't you?"