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Fireworks To Feature NRA Parade Here Saturday 1 Ha nuumnuiuun Only Newspafcter Printed in La Grande CoTering Union and Wallowa Counties 1.' ! ' La Grande Is The Gateway to Wallowa, "The Switzerland of America" VOLUME 32 EASTERN OHEOON'S LEADING NEWSPAPER LA GRANDE, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1933 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS NUMBER 31 34 lAULWAB mm TIM Am jEE HEM OLD TIMERS OF U P. TALK CELEBRATION Next July is 50th Anni versary of Arrival of First Train. COMMITTEES WILL TAKE UP MATTER Railroad Veterans Dele gate Martin King to Investigate . Feasibility of Big Event. Old timers on the Union Puclfio system liavo delegated Martin King to Investigate the feasibility of hav ing a celebration In La Grande In July, 1934 to commemorate tiie com ing or tlie railroad Into La Grande. The road vas built here In 1884 and the celebration would be held on the 60th anniversary. The committee of "old timers", who will be selected by Mr. King, other railroad men and a special . commit teb from the chamber of commerce will meet in the near future to con sider the entlro plan. Observer, Liberty News , Reel a Thriller The Obesrver-Ltberty news reel, which through.- special arrange ment shows in La Grande before Btmllar news pictures appear on the screens In Portland and Seattle, carries three Items of par ticular Interest tonight and to morrow. ; One Is first actual pictures of the hotel bombardment in Hav ana in which 60 were killed. Photographs were taken by news men during actual firing. Then, of great interest to legion naires, Is the big American Legion parade In Chicago, in which 150, 000 participated. Also there Is a picture of government efforts to end strikes in the east, centering Its efforts on mining. In addition there are pictures of President Roosevelt's visit to Mayor Cermak's grave, an exclu sive news picture of "Shipwreck" Kelly, famous flagpole-sitter, and of the Reichstag fire trial In tho German supreme court. TWO BRUISED IN COLLISION NEAR ELGIN Fred Hennlng, manager of tho West Coast Telephone Co., was cut and bruised, and E. L. Evans, an employe of the company, suffered 'bruises In an automobile accident at 7:30 o'clock Oct. 9 on the (bridge this side of Elgin, according to a report made to the police. The car, driven by Mr. Henning, figured In a collision with a truck load of logs driven by Twain Conloy, who was unhurt. CAR ACCIDENT HERE TUESDAY Dale Dietrich and Mrs. A. D. Davis, both of La Grande, figured In an, automobile collision on Pennsylvania avenue near Fourth street ait 3:15 o'clock yesterday. No one was hurt, according to reports to the police. $100,000 CAN GROW TO A MILLION! When the First National hunk releases $100,000 in cash to some J 500 depositors of this commun ity on Nov. 15 a month earlier than It had expected to busi ness here Is expected to receive . ii marked stimulation. In efrert, ft will be like pour ing 100,000 new sllrer dollars Into this community. Money previous ly tied up and not Immediately available, actually comes out of hiding and Is ready to do Its share of keeping alive the chan nel of commerce. Ilnck taxeo, old obligation, etc are likely to benefit largely by the Immediate release of the .WILL ROGERS 'say: Timvum.T.v httjs. Oal.' Oct. 10 Poor Mr, Roosevelt I He net more than gets one national thing straightened out, than along cornea something else. Just getting the codes out of the way when, along comes Kansas and almost beats Notre Dame. Now he has to drop everything till he gets Notre Dame straightened out. Manager Terry of the Giants was sentenced to five years In New York, Looks like Cronln was really the winner. He was only sentenced to one year In, Washington. He Is young yet and will be when he gets out. Say, did you know our popular governor, Jimmy Bolph, who has worn boots all his life, Is not well? Some crazy doctor made him put on shoes. Yours, 1&. GREGORY WRITES AB0UTE.0.N.AND1 OTHERS LOCALLY Lair H. Gregory, sports editor of the Orcgonlan, devoted nearly a full column today, to i La Grande, Bob Qulnn and the Eastern Oregon Nor mal school, Ira Woodlo and La Grande High school, the Reynolds family and Jim Dobbin.' . '.! . Material for the article was taken by Gregory on a trip to La Grande last week. - Excerpts from his column follow: "Ever make the drive across the Blue mountains from Pendleton to La Grande? Fine highway now . . . This brisk city of nearly 10,000 has a setting of picturesque charm. JuBt behind It .rises the 6400,,oor. Emin ence of Mount Emily a timbered crest that breaks off mesa-llkc on the valley front. Directly across lift tho high" ridges behind which Is famous Wallowa lake, and there are deer, elk and trout In those hills. The valley floor in between is dotted with other towns. ". . . La Grande Is the home of the Eastern Oregon Normal school . . . Only five years old, It Is thriving nicely, and Its football team is mak ing strides with the school. Bob Qulnn . . . has been the Normal school coach since '29. That year he surprised everybody by defeating Monmouth Normal 17 to 7 . . . Bob has a football squad of 35 players this season, with six of the '32 regu lars back and a flock of .promising newcomers to fill up the gaps . . . Eastern Oregon Normal . . . this year Is dedicating Its own football field. Another season and It will be one of the best turf gridirons in Eastern Oregon . . . v . , 'Ira Woodie, who quarterbacked 'at Oregon under Captain McEwan, (Continued On Page Four) COUNTY JAIL IS EMPTY ALL WEEK The county Jail, usually a fairly well populated place, has been with out tenants for a full week. Announcement -was made today by Deputy SheWrf Hugo Klinghammer. who said the lost prisoner was re leased a week ago today at noon. Thlg is tho longest time the Jail has been without prisoners since the present officials, headed toy Sheriff Jesse Brcshcars, took office. COLD MORNING IN LA GRANDE , Chilly mornings aro returning to La Grande, although the days re main fair and warm. This morning the minimum official temperature was 36 above, trie coldest since Oct. 2. Yesterday's maximum was 78 above. No change in the weather was pre dicted for tonight or tomorrow. money. Also, undoubtedly there will be a large amount of It pcnt for new purchases. Regardless of how the money Is spent, It Is put Into use, and the man who receives It will ftpend It also, starting It out on another end lew chain of activity, Kstl mates are that the circu lating power of a dollar is ten times In probably a two-weeJc period. In othpr words, the $100, 000 the bank will release next month, probably will pay around n million dollars In bills during its flrot 30 days In circulation, to be ultra-conservative. It may amount to much more than that! Booked to Wed Wreck of her first romance with film director has not daunted., feleanor Boardman Vldor, 'cinema . actress, :upper photo. Divorced from King Vidor last April, she will wed Harry D'Arrast, French motion picture director, below, next spring, . DR. CHENOWETH SPEAKS ' FRIDAY' AT CONFERENCE The New Principles in Interna tional Relations" will be the subject of the address by Dr. Curtis Cheno- weth which will be delivered at tho International Relations banquet, the opening featuro of the state confer ence of the American Association of Union Women, Friday in La Grande Delegates from all the chapters In the state are expected to be here for the two-day conference. Miss Jean White, president of the local branch, announces. The banquet will bo held at 6:30 o'clock at the La. Grande hotel, the headquarters (for the convention, while ou Saturday the Fellowship luncheon will be at the Sacajawea Inn. Mrs. Fred E. Kiddle is chairman of the committee in charge of 490th. Music for the sessions will be fur- (Contlnued on Page Two) AND WE USED ( lV'WAATlMG TO IS COIMCTOPO ( 1 THIMK I'LL WAlt L. " . . 1 TILL. AFTE THG OU jf-? . Ak "( I WAMT TO WAvr ) Amo see HowTue. L. , , N,g,. works our yj " r SPECTACULAR CELEBRATION.' IS PLANNED Invitations to Umatilla, Wallowa and Bakei Counties Are Mailed. - GREATEST CROWD IN YEARS LIKELY Hundreds of People From Out-of-Town Points Ex pected in La Grande for Jubilee. , The NBA pnrnrtc, to feature a gigantic celebration lliere Saturday, evening, promises to lie the most ttpcctuciilar procession ever staged ln this city. In addition to the floats,' stunts, musical organizations, etc., In the lino of march, fireworks will have a very prominent part. .. The fireworks committee this af-;i tcrnoon put on the wire an order for flares, flashes, bombs,' etc., and! the American Legion, which has corr-' ducted several pyrotcchiilcal displays, here In the past, will have the fun of handling the fireworks in the par. ade. They promlso to make It un usually Interesting. Scope of Parade Extended Yesterday R. Z. . Baxter, president of the Central Labor council which has charge of tho celebration, invited all Union county mayors to particle pate, and today additional letters of invitation were sent to Baker, Uma tilla and Wallowa county towns and municipalities. The committee do- slrcs;, that ;all Northeastern Oregon 'partl'clpoteih-th'o big celebration, arid" Indications now are that it will at. tract several hundreds of out-of-town people to La Grande Saturday. Scvoral firms- already have made (Continued on Page Two) Athletics Theme Of Assembly At Normal School "Athletics" was tho theme of tho regular weekly -assembly at Eastern Oregon Normal school Tuesday morn ing. Coach Bob Qulnn, speaking on "Student participation in college ath letics," stressed the Importance of ln- terscholastlc and lntercolleglato com petition in the lives of students. He stated that about 80 per centt of men students In most Institutions take part In some form of athletics. Mod ern educators are convinced that ath letics 'play a vital part In college ltfo. (Continued on Page Two) TO LAUGH AT. FLAGPOLE SITTERS RULING AT JADE EMPIRE ; ft m JAHE t OUNJtftWN-0fT7-roi6 & V ' Who mild Chinese girls nrcnt lioiutlful? Hero ore Ilentrlco Wnng (left) and Dorothy Tom, two of tho girls In tho queen into hi San Francisco's Chinatown of tho Jade Festival, to benefit the Chinese hospital. The festival, now under wuy, will bo seen by Chinese from i over all the west. ' ANTIQUES TO BE SHOWNTHURSDAY ' AT HONAN HAIL Many antlquea nover exhibited too foro In La Grand will ibe displayed tomorrow afternoon at the Antlquo tea, sponsored' by St. Peter's Episco pal Guild at Honan liall. Antiques must be entered between ,10 and one (Continued on Page FourV Slit Skirts Are'Returning To Evening Favor PARIS ,Oct. 11 (P) Silt skirts are hero again for evening wear. A number of dark-hucd velvet or orepo winter evening frocks are designed with skirta slashed to the depth of a foot, from one to eighit times. The favorite Is a skirt slit just once slightly to tho -left of bock, center. FESTIVAL Li GIANT PLANE CRASHES;? ARE KILLED All-Metal Ship Burns Near Chesterton, In diana Last Evening. ciinsTMtTcN, ind., oct. ii m The scattered bits of n giant twln milor transport plauu one or ltn inaKSlvo wheels luing susitcudcd from a triHt was all that remained today or a New York to Chicago ship of 1 1 m United Air 1. 1 now that curried Its seven (KTUiiintH to a flaming death. Just what happened when itho all motal ship with a top speed or more than three miles a minute crashed to earth in flames shortly after 9 o'olock last night about fivo miles southeast of hero, probably never will bo known, but witnesses said they hoard a terrific explosion, v A few minutes toeforo while ovor North Liberty, Ind., company officials said it had radioed that "all was woll" and that boJoro that It had landed at Cleveland- and had passed over Toledo. Fivo of tho bodies wore recovered last night, bub none was itakon out allvo as the hout of tho flames kopt (Oontlnuod on Pago Four) DEFENSE RESTS . IN LOTTERY CASE NEW YORK, Oct. 11 fP) United States Senator JamcH J, Davis today rested his defense against- federal lot tery charges. Davis did not tako tho stand. Davis, director general of Moose, la charged Jointly with Theodore G. Miller, hood of Mooso propagation, with the sending of lottery tickets In Inters tat o commerce Miller's defense rested several days ago. He also re mained off tho stand. Wheat Today Tim prion tft IfKwI u'lteat Nt.nl twlay ut i hou I, IH'i ixmiIh hulk,. lU'ininllllR in fllntiltliHN lit tho IMonwr FhiurliiK Mill, Piirtiluiiil inslv Hli't ocul. crrrOAoo, Oct. u w a uuicn outburiit of Into npcculatlvo buylntf today hoktod tho wheat market to 1 conU) Rbovo oarllcr low lcvc)n. Otiinn howovor wore subsequently moro than wiped out. Tho upturn was duo partly to tho tact that tomorrow bclni? a holiday tho wheat pit had bocomo tempor arily baro of offering". Sharp watch rwtw lno being kept of forecast of what might happon rolatlvo to tho admlnlKtmtlon'o monetary policy. Wheat cloned nervous, H 1 'Ao un der yesterday's finish, corn a Ho down, oats unohangod to 4o lower, and provisions unchanged to 100 do- cllno. , JUST BEFORE PRESSTIME KATIIIIYN KKIXY ON STAND DKI.ONO -NAMED ON BOAHD STATU CLERK AKHKS1KI) OKROON GETS J80H.223 IKLAIIOMA CITY, Okln., Oct. 11 (P) Kulhrvn Kelly, smartly dressed Wife of "Machine dim George", took the witness stand In her trial for the Charles V. Ureelicl kidnaping today, a few minutes after the government rested Its case. . SALEM, Oct. 11 m A committee of 35 was appointed by Governor Julius L. Meier today as an agricul tural advlBory council for Oregon to assist the tectorial government , In handling refinances of farm- mort gages. Wm. A. Sohoenfeld, of Ore gon Stato college, was named chair man. Members Included B. B, Do Long, of La Grande, , SAI,Kr, Oct. 11 (P) Charged with nibuipnroprlatliig state funds to tho uinnunt ol lf2(W for Ills own use, Albert U, Mulzles, Zt, clerk In tho collections Ueixirtmciit of the sUito bmml of control, today was taken In charge, and signed a confession to taking the funds, "-WASHINGTON, Oct. 11 (IT Harry L. Hopkins, administrator of federal emergoncy rellof, announced today a grant oi tmawt to Oregon for un employment relief. , This brings Ore gon's total allotment, from the roller administration to $1,300,000. . PORTLAND, Oro Oct. It () lira govcrnnieiit ouinp hotel and Its an nex, on the slupe of Mount Hood on the l-oop hlglHvny, was destroyed by flro today. , WALKER, OF HOME LOAN OFFICE, IS ROTARY SPEAKER LOCAL LOANS APlKOVKI Already sufficient loans are approved undor tho new homo loan act and fluids soon to bo paid that will glvo into tho coffers of Union County ovor 1,000 In back taxes. So declared O. J. Shorb, local district manager of the 'home loan corporation, in Introducing H. J, Walkor, Portland manager of tho corporation before tho Rotary club hero today. Mr. Walkor, In his address to tho club stated that within two to three years opora-r tion of ; tho home loan program, betwoon fivo and six millions of dollars in delinquent taxes, other wise impossible, would bo paid in to tho state, county and munici pal operations of Oregon. , , : "Sorvleo above solf," tho motto of Rotary, must bo applied to the de velopment and operations of the NRA If that great national movement Is to succeed in Its desired purposes, said H, E. Walkor or tho Portland offico of tho Homo Owners Loan Corpora tion, speaking before tho regular meeting of tho La Qrimdo Rotary (Continued From Pago Two) Score One For Sally She Shocked The New Yorkers! NEW YOriK, Oct. 11 W Sally Rand, who caino out of tho west to show New Yorkers what tho well-costumed fan dancor does not wear, today was ordered to put on somo more clothes. City License Commissioner Sid ney S. Levi no Issued tho ortlor af ter wftnenslng Miss Hand on tho stage of tho Paramount theater. WINTERS t $ GROWING lly I'. B. ('olti)il (AssoclaUHl Press Sclcnco Writer) WASHINQTON, Oct. 11 I1 When grandpa tells how the winters wore colder and tho snows doopor In his day, It's moro than Just hazy mem ory. It's a fact. Winters now aren't as cold os thoy used to bo, says J. B. Kincer, cllma tologlcat expert of ithe weather bu reau. In fact, thoy'vo 'boon growing warmer for moro than 20 years. Mild Winter Prohahlo "We are now in the midst of a period of abnormal warmth." Mr. Kincer goes on, "which has been com ing upon us gradually for years." Judging from this worm trend, he THREE DEAD IN SOUTHERN STRIKE AREA California Counts at Least i 12 Injured Due to ! Violence. RANCHERS FACING '.V i MURDER CHARGES Two Mexican; Pickers, Killed and Seven In-.' jured By Gunfire in Tulare County. : SAN l'ltANCISCO, Oct, 11 VP) California counted three dead and at least twelve Injured today In strike Infested areas of the Ban Joaqaln valley as authorities sought to stamp out violence and arrange for peace ful settlement of labor difficulties. Moanwhllo In Son Francisco guards of tho Matson Navigation Co., pa trolled company docks where 600 stevedores quit yesterday In protest against the discharge of four other . workers. Lee J, Holman, president at tho International longshoremen's as-! ' soolatlon, sold' 000 men might refuse to work today, but Mason official said strike leaders had accepted their ' arbitration offers. . . , Two Mexican pickers were killed and seven persons, one' a egreu( wounded-, when ranchers allegedly ; flrod on a meeting of striking cotton ( pickers at Plxley, In Tulare oourityl' yesterday. Warrants ohorglng murder), were Issued by authorities for elevenj ranchers accused of firing into 'the) . meeting with shotguns. , . , , ; The othor fatality-was, at Arvin.' south of Bakorsriew, wher a atrililng cotton picker was fatally shot In . clash botween strikers and. wm-.' strikers,, a disturbance which officers! broke up with tear gas bombs. . Five; othor men were injured and six por- sons, ono a woman, arrested. Offlolals at (jorcoran In i Kings' county osorlbod tho death of (three-. montlis-old Jonnle Boque, to malnu-, trltlon and exposure and Mrs. W. D.;, Drennon, county Ihospltal official, i said a dozen other persons are auf-f forlng similarly In striking cotton pickers' camps. Thoso killed In the Pixloy olash wcro Dolores Fornandoz, 60, and Pol lpo Dojblto, 66. ' For their deaths murder warrants were Issued against John Allen, Henry .; Santoms, Jano Doe Kruger, Monroe , Stark, J. M. Stark, John Doe Stork, i Smoky Nichols, Hiram Mays, Boy McOabeo, Claude Murray end Robert. Colpoppor, all ranohoro. , Byrd's Flagship Begins First Leg Of Southern Trip BOSTON, Oct. 11 OT Hear Admlr-, ol aicjmrd B. Byrd's flagship, the Jacob Buppcrt. sailed out of Boston harbor today on tho first log of hor voyngo to tho antarctic seas, ... Admiral Byrd said lost night the Bear or Oaklond, his othor ship,, would loavo Wilmington, N. C to-. day to Join tho Rupport at Norfolk. Tho two ships eventually -will pro ceed through tho Panama Oanal to Dunedln, N, Z., whoro cargoes will bo shifted and tho dash to the loo bar rier in tho Bay of Whales will begin, : The Rupport; then will act os supply ship with the old soaler Bear bear ing tho brunt of tho lce-brosklng rush to Llttlo America. . IMtlSONKK EHCAPKH ' PORTLAND, Ore., Oot. 11 W1 Slato police were today lnstraotod to search for William O. Sloffort, 26, who es caped last night from a hospital at St. Helens whoro ho had boon hold undor guard for Pierce county, Wash ington, offlcors on charges of kid naping and robbory. OVER U. S. WARMER seen another mild winter as prob able. Though winters havo boon grow ing warmer for many years, thoy aro ; tho most finicky of tho four sossons, A cold winter may pop up unexpect edly in tho midst of several worm ones, For example, whereas lost win ter was mild In accordance with the trend, tho coldest officially recorded tomporaturo In Unltod States history was registered In February In Yol lowstono national park 66 degrees below xero. ' But, rogardloas of reports of wild fowl flying south early, of aqulrrelW (Continued From Page Four)
