La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, September 15, 1933, Image 2

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Newspaper Page TextLA.'GJtANiJE EVENiJS.c;.OJiSEltVf':it, LA GKANUE.:OREL" Friday, September" 15, 1933 Page TW (Ini'orpiiniU'd) An Independent ,Netwiiiper 1'lione .Mil I il (1(10 wfulK U. W. FREDERICKS . .......Publisher ana Genoral Manager ' HAROLD M. FINLAY Business Manager Published evenings, exception Sunday, at 1710 Sixth street, La tirande,-Oregon. .- : .Entered .at, the Postofflce ot La Grande, Oregon, as Second Class Mall Matter under act of March 3, 1879. '.. OFFICIAL PAPER OF UNION .COUNT AND TflE J'. .'. .'. .-,; CITY OF. LA GRANDE ' '; ' " J l-J " . Member OF associated Press The Associated Free Is exclusively entitled to use lor publication of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited if pub )(ahed here. ., AH-rights, oli republication of special dispatches In this -paper and also the load news herein also arc reserved. , . . ..- National- Advertising Representative M. O. MOGENSEN CO., Inc. Ban Francisco, Los tAngelcs.i Seattle, Portland Chicago ' i Detroit, New York , 1 ' Pally. Plly, Dally, Dally, Dally,. Dally, SUBSCRIPTION RATES i r . ft ' i ' .-By Carrier . . one month In advance six months In advance single copy ,:..i..i..:...l-XH '. -, ";.... "' Jul" per month In advance nor six months ln-advanco per year -In advance.: ... 78e ..S4.60 ... So 60c $2.50 $5.00 not' iorthcomlng, and that after the petition was presented to Mr, EpJIng, that they were discharged this morn ing. . Mr. Baxter, as NRA consumer com mittee chairman and also president of the Central Labor council, said today -that the NRA would be con-! ccrneq only If some .code violation was shown. It also was reported that the meut cutters have made represen tations to union headquarters and elsewhere In connection with the The payroll of the Grande Ronde Meat Co., according to Mr. Epllng, Is $1700 a month. The Weather J .TO-DAY INiRiEF, IK AND OREGON AROUND AS CHRONICLED BY TUB DAILY LEASED WIBB OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TO TO .,: , YVEATIIKK FORECAST :. : Oregon ;.- Unsettled, .local hlioneni (tonight or Saturday; continued cool) moderate t frculi stmtliu'cfct and west winds offshore. , LOCAL WEATIIKIt ." " Thursday: maximum .1(1 above. Kill n .1,8 of llirll. Cloudy. Today: iniulnuiHi -r-i, 7 a. m. .10 above. Cloudy. . WJj,-art thou cast down, 0 my flpul ?. arid, why-art thofl djuquieted within1 me? hope thou in. God:,, for I sh'nf) ycf praise him,' who is the health of my countenance and my God.r-Psalm 4211., . :j' : . AN HEROIC MARTYR i li Fire Chief John B. Lone of kearney,, J., is dead becausjj he tried to Keep a Christmas from being spoiled for a group of itprpjiaied children., The story goes back a long way -- nearly six. years, in fact.,,, ... jf (Qn Christmaaeve in 1927 a Kearney orphanage- caught fire. The orphans were all got otlt safely, but after they had )6e "rescued Chief Lone noticed that they stood .around watching the flames, crying disconsolately. "Why the teaW?" he asked. ''I' .Arid lie learned thai' all the Christmas toys for the young 1 sters were stored inside the building. Santa, it seems, hail left iHem( there,. and he was due to cohte back and distribute them very shortly; now, they were going, to- lie, bprncrj up, pjirl Sahta would be so disappointed that he probably would never. visit' trie i Kearney orphans again'. .' , . So, Chief Lone well, if you know firemen you don't need , to be toid, do -you ? ...i-Ie made a dozen .trips into ,the burning building, coming out each time with his arms full of toys, until he had saved the whole lot. Th'eii he collapsed. Next day he. came down with double pneumonia. He got over it, but his health was permanently ruined; and the .other day j f iin ),lness arising directly from the over-exposure rind over-j-exerfiorirbf six years ago bbk; his life. 7; :7 : -(. Npvv.friat's ; all .there is to the stoiy. : And it's not especially remarkable, because the woods are full of firemen who would Jjavedohe predsely the.same thingl But there is something nlwut it thnt puts a lump in one's' throat, just the same. ' Every once irha while some perfectly ordinary hitman be i ing comes along and doos Something which proves that the jiunian.race has a whole lot more nobility aiid splendor than most of us ever imagine. . .-, Self:preservatibn may be the first law of nature, and sel : fishness may be the motive-power for most of our nctions-r-(i'lit 4 sweating fireman can toss his life into a burning build ing to keep a few ragged kids froth having an iinhapgjr Christmas, and can consider the achievement well worth thb cost. , ! ;..,. , .. , . ,, . ) If yOU like to hunt for proofs that 'human beings can bd, ' aftei' all; only a little lower than the angels, you might chalk this stunt of Fiie Chief John B. Lone up near the head of the list. i Eagles Making Plans For Big District Meet Committee chairmen to direct the activities or th district convention of the Eagles lodge wcro appointed last night and will choose their person nel Jn the near futuro Jn preparation for the meeting on Oct, 1, J. H. Proffitt Is chairman of the feed, Ar thur Bremer, entertainment; and Ray Patten, reception. . Pendleton, Baker, Ontario, Nysso, Burns and La Grande will be represented. Relief of the unemployed also was discussed, last night at the meeting and It was decided, that a relief pro--gram will be conducted along lines similar to last year, A chairman nnd committee will bo appointed within the next two weeks. ORCHARDISTS EXPECT BIG APPLE YIELD Nt;V IIOMK ROSE BUR O, Ore., Sept. 15 iAt Transfer of veterans from the pres ent facilities of the Northwest Nation al Soldiers Home to the new $1,250.- 0Q0 unit is set for Monday, Septem ber 18, Colonel E. F. Tandy, manager announced tins morning, instruc tions were received from the veterans administration a week ago to occupy the new unit "at the earliest date possible." And. rh a result crews were immediately put to work giving the new buildings their final cleaning, -Installing beds, .mattresses and fur niture, and giving all equipment a thorough testing. MKIKIl Sri'l'OKTH IIONN'KVIIXE SALEM; Sept. 16 IIP) In a tele gram to President Roosevelt, Gover nor Julius L. Meier declared that construction of the Bonneville power dam across the Columbia river would do more to alleviate unemployment in Oregon than any public .underT taking that the federal government could' inaugurate. The people of Oregon are solidly behind the project and all power from the prdject would bo sold Meier stated. , joitiMN aikii;.mi:nt4 UkaHU SALEM, Sept. 15 (P) An audi ence of more than 30 men and women wearing red ribbons In their lapels listened to argumets before the Ore gon supreme court today for the life of Theodore Jordan, negro, sentenced to hang for the murder of. -a dining car steward at Klamath Fnlls. The spectators, It was declared, rep resented the International labor de fense lengue which has been flood ing the supreme court mall with cards demanding the freedom of Jordan. FlMIIKIt.MKV ON STKIKK ASTORIA. Ore.. Sept. 16 ( Sev eral thousand fishermen remained off the Columbia river today as they con tinued their demands for 6 cents a pound for chlnook and steel head sal mon and 4 cents for ellversldes. Sev eral hundred cannery workers were expected to Join the strikers ranks tonight.- I'KNDLKTOX MAY VOTE PENDLETON, pre., Sept. 15 tJP) . Residents of the Pendleton school dis trict may be asked to vote upon the matter of obtaining a federal public works loan to construct a central school and a Junior high, school and to replace some of the present equip ment In the district. The matter was discussed last night at an Informal meeting of school officials. JUNTK'B OP VKAVK 1IUHT STLVERTON, Sept. 15 W Frank Alfred. 31, Justice of the peace of the SUverton district and a lieuten ant with Co. 1, (18th Infantry, was critically ill today at a local hospital from injuries In a car smashun about midnight last night. HUNTING SEASON SAKE SALEM, Sept. 16 VP) Postpone ment of the hunting season because cf a fire hazard is not possible under any Oregon statutes. State Forester Lynn Cronemlller said today. Cronomiller said the state supreme court two years ago found that jWt or the hunting season law unconstitutional. (Continued from Page One) at the Elgin shipping point will ex cqod substantially tho usual 00 to 100 cars moving to markets from that city. RETAIL CODE TO GO BEFORE GEN. JOHNSON (Continued from Fage One) to afford protection hotli to the con sumer Hi id the Hinall mrrclunit. whs to go today to Ihih S. Johnson, Nit A administrator, for Ills analysis lit; Tore MilimlKstnii to President Hoosevelt. J Johnson, who has had a tentative (version of the code on his desk aev joral days, said he believed It would 'be a week before tho agreement could bo. sent , to , tho White House. . This code establishes ten per cent jabovo wholesale cost ns the minimum 'price at which a retailer may sell .goods, and also hns a 21 per cent discount limit on trade marked drugs iand toilet articles whose retail price Is fixed by the manufacturer. . An idea under consideration at the NRA todny was that a uon-gov-jernmental board of impertial. prom- operatlons of the prico control pro visions and Urdu mi ne whether the experiment Is In the public interest. As now drawn, however, tho cude contains no provision for limiting operation of price control to a trial. As seen by ao mo officials, the WAGE DISPUTE CLOSES POWN . PACKING PLANT (OofiUnued From Pmg On) pay. twice a month, the payroll al ways promptly-paid, said Epllng. . This morning, Mr. Epllng explained, lie told the men as they came In that ho could not make the change or give salary Increase, that they got their things and walked out, "Boys, Tin sorry you take this attitude," he said ho told them.' In explaining .tho wage situation, Mr. Epllng said that all salaries wcro iia conformance with tho NKA code, .thatr he was paying $2(1 to meat cut ter foe a five-day week and their de mand ,wa for.930. Other employes were divided, into several classlflca .tJone, With ell working according to .ill; code ns to hours and receiving mostly pay in excess of the codo pro .visions, he sold. Mr. Epllng said he woe paying 913 a week to tho one apprentice, but that other wages gen ,era:iy wcro graduated from (5 a day down..Vi . ,, h Mrpling also stated that h had carried three men on th payroll during tho depress ion who he could liavo got along without, and , (ijio hired two more under the NRA code. Ho also said tliat he could have op erated during tho depression without running tho slaughter house and pocking plant, but continued them In order to keep his organlwitlon in tact for better times. .' - Oseur Utley, in company With other employes, tokl an Observer re porter that Mr. Epllng promised them last full, at tho time of tho wttgt? re duction, to return their former pay schedules and pay them each Satur day night this spring. "He said wo would not have to ask him for itr ho would give It to us If ho V(ia still In business and he's still . In bindneiw." Mr. Utley said. He added: "When wo came to work tills morn ing ho had. other men in our places." The employes said ho discharged port or them und wanted, to keep part or them, but that they all left as a body. Employes. ' according to presenta tions to R, Z, Baxter, local NRA cominltteo chairman here, said they had been promised, a return to old wanes this spring , and that It Was COSTS NO MOlfl ..awUN11" . . '.'.mo : minimum price limit actually should I result in lower averago prices to the consumer than the present, unregu lated system. The price control would eliminate the practice of many chain and cut rate establishments of adver tising "loss lender" items, which are a few selected, well known articles sold at actual loss to attract cus tomers Into tho store to purchase other goods Bold ot a considerable profit. . The practice has been under, ex tended study by the trade commis sion. Under the proposed regulation stores wouldi not be able to selLflny article at a loss, and therefore offi ilals figure such establishment would have to keep all prices down to a minimum profit to attract trade. The master code excludes drug stores, which are to come under an almost identical separate agreement. Howover, drugs sold by general stores will be specifically regulated in r the general, compact. , . i . The formula adopted in tho Retail code for defining wholesale cost, is the price of goods charged to the re taller for tho smnllcst wholesale quantity. For instance, on cannec; goods this would be one case. Originally the code called for in voice cost as the basis upon which 10 per cent would bo added to fix the minimum retail price. This-was rejected becouse it would compel the small independent dealer, regarded ns the backbone of trade, to bind him self permanently to maintain higher prices than big competitors who can buy from wholesalers at a greater dis count. Tho new formula will permit the smiill denier to meet the big com petitor's price, .though his profit may bo smaller Profit, however, is not expectec' to be made by anyone at .the 1Q per cent level.. Experts of , the govern ment estimate that .tit depression wage and employment levels, aver age merchandising cost has been 15 per cent. Under NRA's labor cost increases, the average Is estimated at 17 to 18 per ceht.( Defenders of minimum price con trol for retail trade point out that codes for producing industries have been generally protecting the manu focturer's price and, they argue, un ices some similar provision Is made for the retailer the latter may bo left to take heavy losses Which the producer of goods does hot Incur. cn'ritrit NOTICE Cent ni I Church of Christ (Pennsylvania Avenue) ' Tho pastor. Rev. Paul De F. Mor tlmore will preach at both morning and evening services, at tho Church of Christ Sunday. The morning ser mon topic will be: 'Let's Go Hunt ing." The choir will sing a special anthem at this service. At 7:30 p. m. the popular Christ Ian Church orchestra Will play a short concert, to which the public Is cordially invited. The pastor will preach using the subject, "Pay Day." a special series of subjects to be used in Sunday, evening services, and cal culated to attract wide interest, Is being nnnounced 'by Mr. Mortimore. At 0:30 the young people who re turn from the Baker Christian En deavor convention will give reports ot the Christian Endeavor meeting and the young people who are in terested in C. E. are Invitedi to attend. Bible school meets at 6:46 a. m. and has classes for ,nll o'ges. The public is invited td ail these services. re . A fvVN 1 V I f Wv, it f BY CHANGING TO SUPER SHELL ... WE CUT OPER ATING COSTS ON 143 CARS AttD TRUCKS WE KEEP CLOSE CHECK AND KNOW THIS TO BE TRUE - Pros. W. H. WELLS, Car.tarw tatMng Co. TACOMA, WASH. m 1 SHELL- it everywher 1 W iiw-" - niBTITpRENCE vim n hi - SUPER SHtui- nip" i ....nliiuin prod- NOW. ,e. WITHOUT FORMER 3 PREMIUM FEDERAL MONEY IS PROVIDED FOR BAKER, Ore., (Special) Con struction of several forest service buildings with funds provided! through the C. C, C. and public works program has been started by the Whitman forest service, forest officials announced today. A .tliree-room log cabin will be erected at Anthony lakes to be used ns summer . quarters for tho. North Fowder ranger.. The logs are being sized on three sides from dry lodge pole, timber at' a small portable mill located near Anthony lakes.- The In terior of the toulldlng will be finish ed with lumber purchased in Baker. The purpose of erecting a log bullc1. lng is so that It will fit into the sur roundings better than an ordinary frame house. Tho Anthony lakes sec tion is one of the most popular re creational arena on the Whitman forest and has been developed ex tensively by the forest service. Lost year one-fourth mile of pipe line was laid to supply running water for the camps. Running water will also be piped into the log house. The forest service is constructing the following buildings under the public works program: A 14 by 14 foot house on a 20-foot tower on Huckleberry mountain, a similar house on Flatstaff near Medical Springs, and a two-room firemen's cabin at tho Antlers ranger station near Whitney. At . the Blue Mountain ranger, sta tion, formerly known as the Bates ranger, station, construction has been started on a ranger's office and fire men's quarters and n bunk house, which will Include a kitchen, show er bath space and sleeping quarters. These structures will be built by C. C. C. labor, assisted by local car penters. At Unity the forest service re cently secured a lease on a parcel of ground for a ranger's headquarters, store room and firemen's sleeping quarters. The buildings will be con structed through the uso of C. C. C. and public works money. , Within the next 10 days the forest service expects to start construction of approximately 10 .Dillon, of range division fences. . It also expects' to do considerable water development work and erect telephone lines, trails and pasture fences. Tho work Is expected to employ approximately ( 50 men during the . next two months. It will be in charge of rangers In their respective districts. , At the present time forest officials are unable to estimate how much money or how many men will be em ployed in construction of the build A state soft boll tournament for Oklahoma teams, first held this year, is planned as an annual event. . Manhattan, Kan.,. Hxuu three organ ized amateur baseball leagues. DtSTlUlW'flON ON SATURDAY Duo V al Inability on the .part of some of the committee to assist today, distribution of Red Cros clothing will bo made tomorrow fro.n tho Red Cross rooms. Only Rjip-r children's clothing Is being Issued at present, It Is reported. la Git Anders ..' GET LICENSE , Warren Claude Laird and Ilcba Adoltne Orny. both of Ui amni. were Issued a marriage license at tho county auditor's oiUce ; Wednesday afternoon in Wnlla. Walla. , Join the band or orchestra. Our school board has procured the services of a competent instructor so your instruc tion will cost you nothing except an in strument. BAND & ORCHESTRA INSTRUMENTS A Complete Stock of N , Trombones1 Saxophones Melophones Clarinets.. Violins Cellos ' All prices. Terms is desired. RADIO & MUSIC SUPPLY CO. Guaranteed Radio Service "No Guess Work" Phone Main 805 First Nat'I. 3ank Bldg. : UM-DIPFEb TIMES Double SAVINGS for Car Owners wlso buy now! Prices are going up Don't Delay Equip your car TODAY and SAVE. Here is how you make a DOUBLE SAVING ! First you will get a liberal allowance for your old tiresand second, 'you tcill save the amount of the next price increase ivhich must coitie soon. It will be a long time in our opinion before you will be able t'o make such a tire saving again. ,' Don't risk your life and the lives of others oil dan gerously, worn, sriiooth-trcad tires, when we will give you a liberal trade-in allowance to apply on new circstoner ll ign speed lires jfg&?- the safest 1 ires in the World. THE NEW th MASTERPIECE of TIRE CONSTRUCTION Firestone Tires arc built Willi high stretch Gum-Dipped fords. Every, cotton fiber in eupry cortl in every ply is satu rated nnd routed with pure rubber. This extrn Firestone process gives yon 58 greater protection agniiiBt blowouts. SUPER OLDFIELD TYPE ., Btiift.'lq c'qunl (ill . first line BtaAdard brand lircs. in quality, conMruclion nnd npiicnrnncc. but lower in price : another Firestone achievement in sav ing money for car owners. Stt, mm. F..rd .1 I l ord .... ... il'llm'h' V55 j 4.75.19 I 1 Ei'.Vir ( 8.35 5,00-20 j lluick..! :hor. 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