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Managed Currency Plan Is Meeting With Opposition La Grande Is The Gateway to Wallowa, 'The Switzerland , of America Only NewspaJer I Printed In La Grande Covering Union and Wallowa Counties cwttut VOLUME 32 eastern oiiEaoN's leadino KEwsPArEB LA GRANDE, OREGON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1933 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PKESS NUMBER 51.-. TENQE WALLOWA BAM t MM SEN DU5HM AND PAUL GIVEN LIFE TERMS uienn wmms, oi uiaan, to Serve Ten Years in Penitentiary. ALL THREE ENTER PLEAS OF GUILTY Paul to ,be .Returned to Oklahoma .Prison Others Will Be Taken to Salem. Jesse II. Paul, escaped Oklahoma convict; Jnmtw Dushane, former In mate of a Texas prison, and Glenn Slnnns, of llklah, ore., tills morning entered pleas of guilty in circuit court at Enterprise to charges of as sault and robbery being armed with a tfnngcrous weapon. Judge J. W. Knou-les sentenced Paul and Dushane to life terms In the penitentiary and gave Slmms ten years. Paul and Dushane were captured four davs after they robbed the Stockgrowers and Farmers National bank at Wallowa Oct. 18 of about 250O In cash and more than $10,000 In bonds. Cliff McOlnnis, Wallowa county rancher, captured the pair single handed and turned them over to officers, along with the loot. Later state police arrested Slmms and he confessed to furnishing Paul and Dushane with the car and gun they used In the bank robbery, and said that he was to share In a di vision of the loot. AU three confessed to officers, following their arrest. Paul will be returned to Oklahoma , to finish serving a Ufe term there on a charge of slaying an ofalcer. Du shane and Slmms -will be taken to the Oregon' prison in Salem. Hayward Coming To Attend Scout 'Court of Honor H. L. Hayward, of Spokane, field representative of the Boy Scouts, will be In La Grande tonight and attend a special court of honor of the local Boy Scouts at the La Grande High school gymnasium. Merit badges and rank awards will be made to a large group of scouts who have passed the board of rovlew. MISS BIGELOW TO MEET WITH THE RED CROSS Miss Allda Blgelow, field worker for the American Red Cross, will meet with the local chapter tonight at 7:30 o'clock. Plans will be made for the annual roll call, ReV. Paul Mor tlmorc, president, announces. KNOWLES HEARS CASE IN COURT Judge J. W. Knowles, circuit Judge, heard the case of Lindsey vs. Haines in circuit court Thursday and took the matter under advisement in structing attorneys to file briefs. The case involved the ownership of some land. ELKS TO HOLD DANCE, REPORT Victor Bckley, chairman of the winter dance committee of the Elks lodge, reported last night when the lodge met at the hall, that a dance will be held during November, the date to be set later. Tonight at 7:30 at the temple, the committee appointed to prevent the killing of elk in Oregon will meet with Ernest Crockett, commission official. "OLD GEORGE" SAVED FROM RIFLE BULLETS Now the story about- how "Old George," elk at Meacham, was saved from the bullets of hunters last week. In spite of his tameness. The report received here today said: The patriarch of Oregon wapiti, known and loved by hillbilly and citi zen alike along the bracken ranges of the hills of his heritage, escaped the lethal end which named him and his kind as legal game for three days by remaining in a bam throughout the entire open season on elk, ac rSrdlng to Lieutenant Richard Cecil Williams. Oregon state police. So venerable and friendly is this elk of Meacham that he has won himself a permanent niche In the hearts of WILL ROGERS BEVERLY HILLS, Oal., Nov. 2 Well, I seo today my old friend from Buffalo Bayoo, .Texas, Jesse Jones, went right out in the wide open mar ket and announced to the cockeyed world (Including ourselves) that we wanted to buy gold. Price wag no ob ject, the folks we bought It from was no object. Esqulmos. Russians, Hin dus, Zulus, bootleggers, or anything. The only thing we hadn't thought about, we got to give gold to get gold. Jesse couldn't start out with some of our paper money and buy a thimble full of gold between now and the big argument. (What do you mean, the big argument? Why, wlion congress meets. Yours, WaIl to?" BEGINS ELK STUDY HERE Ernest Crockatt Conduct ing Inquiry Kill Now Stands at 481. The state Rome commission has lost no time in starting a survey of the elk hunting situation In Union, Uma- tilln, lluker and Wallowa counties. Today Ernest L. Crockett, representa tive of the commission, mis in Lu (Iran He after sncmlliur yesterday talk iiiff with Unmtllla comity hunters In Pendleton. ;,; - The commission will make no state ment until all facts ore gathered, Mr, Crockntt said here. "The commission will go clear to the bottom of. the situation," , he said, "In an attempt to find exactly what actual condi tions existed during the open season In these four counties lnst week." Today he was Interviewing many (Continued on Page Threo) PIERCE DIRECTS SHARP ATTACK AT GOVERNOR MEIER Walter M. Pierce, congressman from the second Oregon district, launched an attack against Governor Julius L. Meier, and also aimed pointed re marks at those who seek to get credit for obtaining the appropriation for the Bonneville dam. Mrs. Cornelia Marvin Pierce, wife of the congressman, and now a mem ber of the state 'board of higher edu cation, was" appointed to that post by Governor Meier. His talje, made in Portland Thurs day before the Willamette Democratic society, Is summarized as follows: 1. Announced his intention of run ning for re-election to congress next (Continued on Page Thre IVARSENS TO GO T0TAC0MA,WASH. Farewell meetings for Captain Nils Ivarsen, who has ibeen stationed in La Grande in charge of the Salvation Army for the last year, will be held Saturday and Sunday at 8 p. m. All friends are invited to attend. Captain and Mrs. Ivarsen have been appointed to Tacoma, Wash, and will precede there the first of tho week. Lt. Col. Hopkins, field secretary of tho Salvation Army, is to bo In L Grande Wednesday, Nov. 15. those who live near his range, and scarcely a fisherman or berry picker of the vicinity has not, at one time or another, found him watching with the majesty of his kind. Never has he shown desire for either combat or flight. He will appear, they say, from the most unexpected quarters end follow woodsmen about. When the first hunters came Into the hills and wakened the green still ness from ridge to ridge with the sharp thunder of rifle fire fear was felt for the safety of "Old George." Inevitably, his friends realized, "Old Ocorge" would stalk gravely out of (Continued on rage Two) Sues Film Man l - VI Marjorie Whiteis, known in films as Marjorie Gay, who filed a $100, 000 breach of promise sul against Harry Joe Brown, director-producer, who recently wed Sally Eilers. BOOK WEEK WILL BE OBSERVED HERE "After all there Is nothing like a good book," and in view of that "fact, 'national book week WitA'taundtfc nine years ngo' to encourage a love of "books among boys and girls. The movement has grown until at present "book week" includes renders of all ages, and the -ninth annual observance will open Nov. 12 at the La Grande pub lic library and is designed to1 in terest all ages of readers, Miss Mabel Doty, librarian, announces. Two open houses will be held dur ing the week which opens on Nov. 12, Tuesday and Friday evenings hav ing been set aside for Informal book chats in the boys and girls room at tho library. Forty-five minute pro grams have been arranged for each evening. Four or five discussions will be presented? on different books. Two hundred and fifty new books will be borrowed from the J. K. Gill company of Portland and the La Grande Book and Stationery -company, from which a number of volumes will bo selected and added to the library shelves. A silver collection will be taken yt both of tho evening pro grams' to help ' buy the books since (Continued on Pace Two) Clean Capitol -to h A ' The nation's capllol will prosoul a shining face to congresHnien when they return to Washington in January for their next nesslnn. Firemen hare are shown giving the historic structure Its annual bath, playing powerful streams against Its sides. J. MIACHLEN, EX SHERIFF, PASSES ON Man Who Lead, Ross e Which Captured Til Tay lor's Slayers' Dies. . .- ACCIDENT GIVEN AS DEATH CAUSE Funeral Services For Pio neer Union County Of ficer Will Be Held Here . Saturday; , .:" John II. McJjichliMi, pioneer officer of Union couiHty, tiled ut tho tihiuue Hondo lioKidlnl Thursday, 'leu days ago while nicking unnluH, he full from thu tree, brvukliiL' thrco ribs. The In juries and the shock to a man of his udvancetl years, ure sold to luive caused his tlcatu. Funeral services will bo held at tho Snodgrass and Zimmerman' mor tuary at 2 o'clock tomorrow after noon, with the Odd Fellows in charge. Burial will take place In the I. O. O. F. cemetery. . Mr. McLachlen was born In Cale donia, New York .in. the year 1850. (Continued on Pass Foury . Woodie Expects Hard Game With Union Tomorrow Coach Ira C. Woodie expects to fetart his ilrst string lineup -against the Bobcats oi Union iilgtt scnooi ai tho Union atockshow grounds tomor row afternoon. Anticipating a hard battle with the maroon and whlto eleven, Woodie plans to take no chances. 'The Tigers, so for undefeated In Northeastern Oregon, have previously defeated Mac-Hi, Pendleton and Cove, and hope to be able to hurdle tho Union threat tomorrow. Next week they will be host to Baker High in an Armistice day game that may de cide the championship of this sec tion. Woodie is taking his full squad to Union tomorrow morning. The start ing lineup is announced as follows: Irwin and V. Bean, ends; Hogenson and Waldcn, tackles; K. Webb and Halley, guards; .Coalwell, center; Reynolds, quarterback; Earlo DeBole, fullback; Alvey and Ralph DeBole. halfbacks. The game Is scheduled to begin at 2 o'clock. Earlier this week, the La Orande High school third team defeated tho Union High reserves here 40 to 0. Greet Congress She's Prettiest riSisw '"'" : :::-.-s ' :" :;i J '"' NL'fV ) 1 Weber College, in Uuiti, always clulined it had the pretties girls In the west. Recently, tho Judges In a statewide beauty contest selected Utah's prettiest, who is Lulu Hodgson, a Weber coed, who has raven hair and brown eyes and also sU.nds high in her studies. - CLEAR WEATHER c PREDICTED FOR NORTHWEST AREA With the weather man promising a break In the rainy weather preval ent during this wetk, the skies were partly cloudy this morning although a few showers occurred here. A hard rain hit tho city lost night, bringing .22 of an Inch of rainfall, making the total for the last 72 hours .82 of an Inch. ' The minimum this morning was 30 above, seven degrees warmer than Thursday's low. "BREAK" IS I'ltOMISKll PORTLAND, Nov. 3 Vfi A break In tho weather that In the post few days has deluged the Pacific north west with rain, was promised by the weatherman here today. "Fair tonight and Saturday," the forecast sold, "with some fog at night. Little change In temperature. Northwest winds." The precipitation in Portland this week reached 6.43 inches lost night. (Continued From Page Two) Sarraut Demands 'Sound Finances' For The French PARIS, Nov. 3 (AT Premier Albert Sarraut today wnrncd parliament "French deatlny" is at stake in a ministerial declaration expressing a "passionate will" for a completely balances budget to "avoid the an xious hours" of the past. The premier's solemn challenge for "sound finances" was emphasized by the hoisting of the danger signal for the French franc by Finance Minister Georges Bonnet as parlia ment assembled for a vote of confi dence In the new cabinet. The vote is expected Monday. Sarraut declared for a strong tarirf defense with a preferential quota system, a large public works program and a solution of the economic crisis by general measures. Th latter would include his long dreamed of closely bound colonial empire. Tho finance minister told the radi cal socialists in n confidential note urging support of the butfigot bal ancing efforts that francs are being withdrawn from tho banks and the sale of trcusury bonds Is diminishing. R. Z. BAXTER TO SPEAK SUNDAY When postnl employes of Eastern Oregon meet hero Sunday, among other items on the program they will hear a talk on the national recovery act, given by R. Z. Baxter, Orande NRA compliance chnlrman. Democrats Reply To G. 0. P. Attack WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 on Demo cratic house leaders said today that the recent Republican pamphlet dis cussing President Roosevelt and the NRA will be a boomerang on the minority party because It contains nothing but "destructive criticism." in the College WITHDRAWAL OFJAPANESE ARMY BEGINS Full Division1 Now Avail able in North Manchuria Near Soviet line. ' t ; PEIPINO, Nov. 3 W3) With specu lation rife regarding possible trouble between Russia and .In pa In Man churia, great Interest has been aroused by Japan's sudden complete withdrawal of troops from the demili tarized zone. The Japanese began withdrawing tho troojwi some time ago in accord ance with terms of the Tangku armistice. With the sudden complete with drawal, a full Japancso division now will be made available in Northern Manchuria In case relations with the Soviets grow worse. lie versing Its former stiff attitude, Japan allowed Chiucso police to bring (Continued on Page Four) APPLE PURCHASE PLANUPTOR.F.C. WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 (P) Plans to purchase 1,000 carloads of "O" grade apples at an approximate cost of $045,000 from the Pacific North west for shipment to Brazil were placed before the Reconstruction Fin ance corporation today by Ross R. Waffle, representative of a wholesale fruit and commission house In New York. Waffle, who was Introduced to the RPO by Frank T. Bell, commissioner of fisheries, hoped to obtain a loan (Continued On Pago Four) Wheat Today The price of local inh wheat stood ut alimit' fil cent bulk to day, ucconllnu to ((notations at (he Pioneer J-'liHirlug A) 1 1 Is, Port land ensn 70i, cents. CHICAGO, Nov. 3 M1) More be cause of selling pressure than -because of urgency to purchase, cereal values went higher today, especially near the finish. ' Extreme conservatism characterized trade, nn outstanding feature being uncertainty as to developments likely from conferences at Washington be tween corn belt governors and ad ministration officials. Another check to dealings was announcement the lending corn industry would grind tho amount of corn on hand at west ern plants, and then shut down pending a government decision on tho corn processing tax. Wheat closed firm, 1&2'2c above yesterday's finish, corn lrf3c up, oo-U 1 1 ',4o advanced, and pro visions unchanged to 12c higher. JUST BEFORE PRESSTIME 9 9 ... KIDNAP SUSPECT NABBED FLEKT TO VISIT ATLANTIC . AUTO ,CmR NOW EFFECTIVE PROJECT GETS 9-1,000,000 WINSTON-SALEM, N. C, Nov. 3 W John Lanier, 35, at WliiHtoifr-Hulem, mis arrested Iter tuduy uiwfl charged by police with plotting to kidnap Mrs. Klchard J, Reynolds, wife of Hie millionaire tobuooo magnate. WASHINGTON, Nov. 3W - PreBt dent Roosevelt today authorized a erulse of the United States loot Into the Atlantic ocean next summer. WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 (A1) The NBA lull led today the effective date of the motor vehicle dealers' code m tho passing of abuses in the auto mobile tnide. Outstanding in the ,le narture from the customs of many years was a provision for an authority to regulate used cor allowances, and a ban on selling billow cost and of selling outside the dealer's owu terrv tory, . - WASHINGTON; Nov. 3 (ff) The public works administration, mod an Initial allotment of 4,000,000 to be gin construction of the $18,912,000 Vorde Irrigation and power project in Arizona SEATTLE, Nov. 3 () Senator Robert M. LaFoUette (R... Wis.). In an Interview there today said the "rec ord of actual accomplishment has been disappointing," referring to the recovery program of the national ad ministration. , t GAISER SEES NO 1 GERMAN WAR FOR YEARS AT LEAST Germany has no army and no arm aments and there is little chance of war there in the near future, Joseph H. Gainer, professor In social science and economics at the Normal school, stated last night when he discussed "Prospects at Peace Over Europe" before the High School Parent Teach er association. However, the next 10 years will tell the outcome of the .present situation in Europe, he added. Outward appearances point to war, Mr. Gatscr believes, since the peace conference, met and hit a Btone wall. Hitler resigned from tho disarmament conference and whether Germany will bo back in again when they meet In December 1b a question. Mr. Galser stiflriitcd In Germany a year and while thero visited other countries also. While In Paris he visited some of tho battle fields of the lost war where ho saw troups maneuvering. Franco is armed far more heavily than she was before the last war, he said, and her feeling to ward Qermnny is not one marked by (Continued on Page Three) REPRESENTATIVE RYAN CONVICTED OREGON CITY, Nov. 3 (P) Donald J. Ryan, state representative from Clackamas county, and former coun ty clerk, was convicted by a circuit court Jury here last night of misap propriation of money belonging to the William Stelner estate, while ho was county crk. The Jury deliberated more thal nine hours. Ryan testified in his own behalf and denied ho had converted the money to his own use. Ho said he told tho grand Jury when It was In vestigating tho matter that ho per haps was civilly liable, but not crim inally responsible. The court granted tho defense ten days to file for a new trial. SCIENCE AGOG OVER ELECTRON PICTURES By Wall it II. Clausen (Associated Press Starf Writer) PASADENA. Cal., Nov. 3 W) -Photographic proof that positive electrons appear to have the same mass as negative electrons was announced hero today by Dr. Robert A. Mlllt kan, of the California Institute of Technology. This, he said, taken with the dis covery of the Ks!tron by Dr. Curl D.- Andorson, "Is the most funda mental and far-reaching advance of the century." "It changes our concept of the physical world, of which we all are a part." "Tho cosmic ray," he said, "gives ATTACK MADE ! ON AMERICA'S GOLD BUYING New York State Chamber! r ; ' .of Commerce Takes .! . . .Definite Stand. ' ; PERMANENT GOLD STANDARD ASKED One of First Organized "Moves Against Admin istration's New , Mbne , tary beneme... . NEW .YORK, Nov. 3 the! New York State chamber of oom-l iheroe went on record today In strong? opposition to a managed currency) and demanded that the United .States' return to a permanent gold standard: with the utmost promptness. . The action was taken at a special meetliur attended bv men eminent In the financial and business affairs, o the state and nation. - . '. "f Leonor P. Loree, head of the Dela- Ware & Hudson railroad, declared tba. abandonment- of the gold standard, by the United States was as great violation of trust as Germany's 41s regard of Belgium's neutrality in. 1914. - , - . . The sentiment of the chamber of commerce was one of the first organ- lzed attacks on the administration's nnur trirvnatfirv tisiltnv nrf Inula Htf th - recent gold purchasing policy. ; At tho meeting of chamber repre sen tat Ives, financial, interests of Wall ; street and much of the east - were umKNUKyMm WITH SECRETARY WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 W The conference between five mid western governors and administration officials in an effort to lift farm prices ran into difficulty today and Secretary Wallace announced plans to this end would not be ready before tomorrow. SIOUX CITY, Iowa, Nov. 3 OP) Violence broke out In the - farm strike In Woodbury county today when Vern McFarland and Ward Ub by. both of Odebolt, were severely beaten by pickets. . SHAWANO, Wis.. Nov. 3 VP) Dyna mite blasts today wrecked creameries In the villages of Krakow and Zachowi where farm strike pickets have made energetic efforts to stop the mar keting of milk. ' Holiday Selling Period Promises ToBeBusyTime NEW YORK, Nov. 3(fl- The pace of business continues hesitant but actual declines generally are being held within narrower confines, the Dun & Bradstreet weekly trade review said today. "With the best selling period ot the year Immediately aheaidl" asserted the Review, "The multiplied demand.! incident to Christmas shopping are counted upon to give the final im petus to the movemont of any weighty merchandise accumulations, and thus re vivo wholesale markets and bring a inure muriteu improvement to in dustrial centers by the full force Of spring replenishment requirements. "With the exception of some In creases in orders for Christmas mer chandlse and covering of spring re quirements in Isolated Instances, the genoral volume of wholesale trade held about to the level of the week preceding." . us tho tool to got at the nucleus of tho atom better than any other tool we ever had." - Photographs taken this week in s Wilson cloud chamber of the path of particles result from cosmlo ray energies revealed In one ca&q two positrons and three negative elec trons. Another photograph revealed twenty-six particles knocked out ot an atom. About half of these were positive and half negative, and all of about equal energies. "The Indications of the photographs are that these particles were knocked out of tho Nucleus of the atom it- (Continued on Pago Two) '
