La Grande Bank Makes Fine Progress Since June
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VOLUME 32
EAHTEKN OKEGON'8 LEADING NEWSPAPER
LA GRANDE, OREGON, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1933
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
NUMBER 53
JAPAN DENIES 661NA10N" STOtY
I te watw wmng (iiispmr I
BANK ASSETS
AND CASH ARE
IN BIG GAIN
Report of Progress By
First National is
Best in Oregon.
TOTAL DEPOSITS
SHOW AN INCREASE
Loans and Discounts Re
duced Nearly $40,000
Since Last Bank Call on
June 30.
Splendid progress has been made
liv the First National bank of La
Grande during Hie last several
months, and perhaps a comparison
of tlie two statements one Issued
on June 30 and the current state
ment proves this more satisfactor
ily tlian any other means.
In fact, the progress was eo great
that Leon B, Baketel, financial editor
of the Oregonlan, spoke of it as the
finest statement of progress to reach
his desk from any part of the state.
The cosh account at present stands
at 161,863.07 compared with the cash
on June 30 of $126,047.50, a $25,000
gain. v
Total deposits as of June 30 stood
, at $717,168.56. The present total de
posits amounted to $755,572.46.
Reserve with the. Federal Reserve
bank has grown from. $35,157.37 on
June 30 to $45,736.43.
Loans and discounts today were
$504,475.37 compared with $542,127.41
on June 30, and U. S. government
securities ownedi now total $176,500
'i compared with $73,600 last summer.
' The 'bank, when It reopened for
business last March, had something
like $161,000 of borrowed money; now
it has none. Undivided profits June
30 were $7806 and now stand at $16,.
280. Total resources June 30 were
$919,719 and now have climbed to
$1,023,496.
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Tigers Defeat
Union Bobcats
Saturday 34-6
La Grande High school's football
tcnm hurdled another obstacle in Its
Northeastern Oregon championship
march, when the Tigers swamped the
Bobcats at Union Saturday 3-1 to G.
The second team played more than
half of the game but it took the first
s triggers to score on Union's eleven.
Only the Baker team, so far un
defeated this season in this district,
"and the Pendleton eleven, remain 'be
tween La Grande and, a second title.
Pendleton lost here 28 to 7 in Oc
tober but the Tigers play a return
game at the Round-Up City later this
month. Baker comes here Armistice
day. , 1 " ' J
Union's lino played fairly well, tout
had It nob been for the splendid de
fensive work of Robinson, halfback
who played fullback on the defense.
tho score might have ibeen much
larger. Robinson, was in nearly ever
play of the game, and on the offense
cracked the Tiger -line for yardage
frequently. And It was Robinson's
passing ability that accounted for the
lone Bobcat (touchdown, made as the
final gun ibarked. He faded back at
mldfleld and threw a long pass to
South, end, who went over the line
standing up.
The Tiger first team functioned
smoothly while in action as did the
seconds, who held Union about on
even terms. The field was soggy from
rain and neither team was able to
flash any speedy offensive tactics.
The Tigers scored in the first per-
lod after a consistent march by Al
" vey, Reynolds, and the DeBoie bro
thers. Alvey missed the goal kick.
Another offensive failed when a (pass
into the end zone gave Union a
touchback,
Ralph DcBolo carried the ball 40
yards to a second touchdown in the
second period and then made the
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LA GRANDE'S DEBT
REDUCED $54,128
The bonded debt of the city of
La Grande was reduced consider-,
ably during the fiscal year ending
July 1, It was announced today
by Burns C. Ilolman, state treas
urer, who Just completed check
ing up on the Indebtedness of,
Oregon municipalities.
During that 12-month period,
l.a. Grande's debt was lowered
from $788.2M to $'34,103, a re
duction of fA4,l28.
Of the larger Oregon cities
WILL
ROGERS
BEVERLY HILLS, Cal., Nov. 6
Say, yoji don't rush this . Roosevelt
Into everything that is pulled on him.
Saturday was refusal day with him
(he must have collected a bad stamp).
The farmers' resolution from their
convention telling him what to do
ne Just said "yeah." Swope had a
plan, and he Just said "yeah." Eng
land's debt commission goes home
with nothing but "yeah." Wall Street
says the dollar must be stabilized
he Just said "yeah." They even tola
him the big bad! wolf, congress, was
coming In eight weeks, and he Just
said "yeah." , It looks like the "yeans"
had It. It takes a lot of "yeans'' to
keep - you from being a "yes" man.
Yours,
IW- .H"l"
FAMOUS CONCERT
PIANIST WILL BE
HERE ON MONDAY
David Campbell, famous concert
pianist, will appear in lia uronao
Monday, Nov. 13 at the L. D. 8. tab
ernacle. Mrs. Jessie A. Hoskins, of
Baker, has arranged tne presentation
and the First Ward M. I. A. Is hand
ling the ticket sales.
a .i.,at otnirlnir tfwifi. dellC&CV.
tenderness, dynamic power, and a
strong sense of dramatic value com
bine to make the playing of David
VMUltJJUCll Uw v. . I '
sv.mn.KAii Viact phnfiAn d nroErram which
runs the gamut from the simple and
. . s- 4. -
pure classic styie 01 " u"c
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GRANGE SUNDAY
IS OBSERVED AT
THE MJL CHURCH
Ray Gill, of Portland, state master,
,.! Mn VTnrl Flint McCSll. dlS-
cussed legislative matters yesterday
when the annual Orange Sunday was
observed here by grangers from all
over the county, at 2 :30 o'clock at the
First Methodist church. Many pend
ing legislative matters, mciuaing w
NRA, prohibition repeal and others,
wero discussed In an interesting and
enlightening manner. ,
Charles W. wickiancier, aisiriui.
deputy of the grange, responded to
the welcome tendered by Rev. W. H.
Hertzog, pastor of the Methodist
church.
Rev. B. M. Godwin furnished the
invocation: Rev. J. George Walz, the
scripture' lesson; Rev. Paul De F.
Mortlmore, the prayer; and Rev. k. w.
Brachor, benediction.
Excellent musical numbers were
furnished by the orchestra of the
Central Church . of Christ, the girls
sextet at the Normal school, the male
quartet of the Methodist church', and
a mixed quartet from the First Ward
L. D. S. church.
Rep. Walter M. Pierce furnished
the grange lecture.
A capacity audience filled the
church for the meeting.
Lions Settle .
Weighty Subject
At Lunch Today
The La Grande Lions club en
tered upon a very Important and
far reaching debate at the noon
luncheon at the Sacajawea Inn.
Tho subject was: '.'Whether mortar
holds bricks together or apart."
Tho negative, taking the side up
holding the belief that mortar
holds bricks apart, won by a mar
gin of one vote.
Dr. W. K. Ross was presented
with a trophy for winning tho
Lions golf handicap tourney, and
Jack Coolldge played several piano
solos.
that showed substantial debt re
duction, La Grande was listed
among the leaders. Eugene made
the best showing, Cnrvallls next,
then Salem, Mcdford, Oregon
City. McMlnnvllle and La Grande,
In the order named. Each of the
above reduced their Indebtedness
more than $."i0,0O0.
Since July 1, additional reduc
tions In the total have been made,
according to local Information. .
CONVENTION
OF CARRIERS
HELD SUNDAY
Postal Employes JVEeet
.Here Many Sections of
State , Represented.
PIERCE SUPPORTS
SHORT WORK WEEK
Postmaster Ralph Huron
Gives Address of Wel
come; State Officials in
Attendance.
Frank Fuge, of Oregon City, state
secretary of the Oregon State asso
ciation; Clnrence llucher, of Pendle
ton, dlNtrlct manager; und L. A. Ken
nedy, , of La Grande, vice president
of the state association, were In La
Grande yesterday to attend a' meeting
of CI Eastern Oregon letter carriers at
the Sacajawea Inn.
Congressman Walter M. Pierce was
the principal speaker, favoring the
30-hour week for government em
ployes. The machine has displaced
the working man and In order to
cope with ' the situation we need
shorter hours, he said. Mr. Pierce
will vote for a shorter working week
at the next session of congress, he
said, .
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Investigation
Of Elk Season ,
Captain Charles H. McOlees, of the
game division of the state police, was
in La Grande today in connection
with the elk season Investigation.
Chester E. McCarty, assistant attor
ney general assigned to the state game
commission, also Is due here soon to
offer assistance to District Attorney
Carl Helm in prosecution of game law
violations reported during the open
season.
C. C. Proebstel, district attorney of
Umatilla county, Saturday said there
were more game violations during the
three days of elk season than in the
last five years previously put to
gether.
There were 26 defendants com
plained against after the three-day
oik season and all of them were vio
lations of the law occurring oil these
three days,' he says. "Under the
statistics that have been compiled by
the Missouri crime commission for
every 100 committed, only six are
apprehended, Indicating that there
were about 400 violations - of the
game laws during tho three days of
elk season."
JUST
Nine States Draft Relief Plea in
It" 'fr
While tho mldwesteru form strllco continued unabated, governors of fiva'ol tho nlTocted slates mid
representatives of four others, mooting In Dos Molnos, Ia drafted a plea to President Roosevelt for
Immediate adoption of a farm relict program to Include currency Inflation nnd pegging, of farm
prices. Above, at the conference, aro loft to right, Governors T. -P. Borry, South Dakota;' .Floyd, B.
Olson, Minnesota: Clyde L. Herring, Iowa; A. G. S:limeclmnau, WiBconsln. and William Langer, North
Dakota. Hopresentatives of governors, below, left to right, Leo T. Crowley, agricultural adviser,
Wisconsin; Thomas P. Allen, Nebraska; Lieut. Gov. N. C. Townsond, Indiana; W. W. McLaughlin,
Illinois, and J. H. Mercer, Kansas. .
L0.N. WINS WITH
EASE AT ALBION;
WHITMAN IS NEXT
Hack from Malm with a 2(1 to 7
victory dangling on their sculp belt,
the Mountaineers of the Eastern Ore
gon Normal school today begun train
lug for a game nt Walla Walla Sat
urday with Whitman college... The
E. O. X. eleven defeated Albion Nor
mal school mostly using a second
string lineup.
The game Saturday was played
on frozen ground, from which an
eight-inch, fall of snow had been
dragged prior to the game. Chilled
by the unseasonal weather, the Moun
taineers didn't look so hot, but In
spito of that won with a comfort
able margin from the larger Albion
school.
In tho first quarter Chris Lassen
Intercepted an Albion pass and raced
70 yards for a touchdown, with Smith
and Beers assisting him with some
nice blocking. Smith kicked tho goal
for the extra point.
The second score came as a rosult
of a series of line plunges by Las-
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AROUND THE CORNER
Chinese Girl
Becomes Bride
Qf Rooster! . t .
CANTON, China, Nov. 6 (P) A
wedding in which a pretty Can
tonese girl married a rooster was
solemnized today.
Although her fiance, Shlh
Kwang Tung, was living in Singa
pore, the girl's parents decided her
marriage must bo performed while
they were still alive.
Accordingly, a graceful appear
ing bird from a neighboring poul
try farm was selected as act as
the bridegroom.
FIND SKELETON OF
LONG LOST CHILD
PENDLETON, Ore., Nov. 6 (P)
Coroner J. A. Folsom of Umatilla
county announced today It appears
to bo qui to well established that tho
skeleton of a child uncovered Satur
day near Milton, was that of Cecil
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Farm Crisis
FARM STRIKE
HAS BLOODY
PAGE TODAY
Nebraska Farmer Killed)
Several Injured; Prop
erty Js Destroyed.
Ii:s MOINES, Iowa, Nov. (I P)
Death, violence, and (N-st motion of
property, brought a new tenseness to
me rurm striku today.
A Nebraska farmer was killed near
Dakota City, Neb., hut nltftt, when
a speeding nutomolillc crushed Into a
group of picket h clustered around a
parked truck, Five wero Injured.
Eight carloads, of livestock wore
raided by pickets- near Lawton, la.,
and tho stock turned loose after tho
train Jiod been halted .by a huge .pile
of railroad tics on tho tracks.
Picketing flared anew In Wisconsin.
Forty thousand pounds of milk wero
dumped. Telephone wires wore cut.
Pickets and antl-plckotlng forces
massed at tho Plattsmouth, Neb.,
bridge ovor tho Missouri river ready
to clash. Governor Herring of Iowa
announced tho state was ready "to
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NELSON MAKES
ATTACK BY.
OREGON LAW SCHOOL DEAN
lly Leslie J. Hmlth
PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 0 (P) De
claring that ho awaits "tho effect of
sober second thought In tho fair
minded men and women or Oregon,"
Koscoe C. Nelson, president of the
state board of higher education, had
today apparently tentatively dismissed
from consideration an attack launch
ed at him by Dean Wayne L. Morse
of the University of Oregon School of
Law. ,
"Mr. Morse seemed to think ho
Wheat Today
Tlie price of local cash wheat
stood at about r0', cents bulk
here today, according to ( nota
tions nl (he Pioneer Flouring
MI1K Tort laud cjihIi (ill cent.
CHICAGO, Nov. 0 M") Prices of
all grains averaged lower late today,
sales Increasing on all rallies.
Nothing was lieard regarding fur
ther foreign demand for corn, al
though November dellvory of corn In
Rotterdam advanced V2 cent, and
showed a premium ovor Novombcr de
livery of wheat In that market. Borne
soiling of wheat against purchases of
corn In Chicago narrowed the spread
between tho two grains, but failed to
sustain corn market advances.
Corn closed Irregular, 1 cent lower
to 14c higher, compared with Satur
day's finish, wheat flo down,
oats 6ta off, and provisions un
changed to 15c higher.
JUST BEFORE
PRESSTIME
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IL 111'CE GETS MOKE JOBS
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FORD EMPLOYES LAID OFF ".
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BOLIVIAN I1EOIMENTS SLAIN '
m m
SIIKIUKll "WINS HIS APPEAL
'ROME, Nov. 0 Wl King Victor
Einmunuel nuule premier Mussolini
minister or both the navy mill the
air today after accepting the resigna
tions of Air Marshal Itulo lialuo unci
Admiral (llusseppe Sirlamu.
DETROIT, Nov. am Half the
men employed at the Ford Motor
company's River Rogue plant here
were laid off today, In accordance
with a recent conrjinny announce
that It planned to bring average
working hours within the NRA auto
code ot 36 a week.
ASUNCION, Paraguay, Nov. 8 VP)
A war office announcement today said
Paraguayan faroes In the Gran Chaco
annihilated two rexlments of llollv
Inns in an attuck on a four kilometer
(about i'A miles) front.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 8 P) Major
Charles A. Bhepard, army surgeon,
won In the supremo court today his
light to set aside his oonvlotlon of
the poison murder of his wife, Zen
ana, on the Fort Riley, Kansas, mili
tary reservation, and his sentence to
life Imprisonment. The decision of
the high oourt will have .the effect
of giving Dr. Shepard a new trial.
RHKEWHIlimY, N. J., Nov. 0 W
An nlrplan accident which sent a
national guard craft hurtling Into
bungalow killing two lalrmen. and five
others, was under a fourfold Investi
gation today. ', i
iBUY
NOW" DRIVE NOT
MAKING HEADWAY
' CHICAGO, Nov. 0 (P) General
Hugh S. Johnson today Itohl a meet
ing of manufacturers und business
men that the objections advanced so
far against tho NRA were mostly
"Imitation dead cats nnd hobgoblins."
"PARMA, Idnho, Nov. 6 (P) The
administration's "buy now" campaign
"la not progressing at all; It Is re
coding." Jack of that unqualified
Indictment, today stood the voteran
statesman, senator William E. Borah,
of Idaho. And to stop a "brazen pro
gram of exploitation" through high
prices, he has gone on record for re
storation and enforcement
of the
anti-trust laws,
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TRANSFERRED
TO ONTARIO
Mr. and Mrs. H, A. - Arment have
moved to Ontario to make their home,
Ho Is omployed by the Van Potten
Lumber Co. 1
REPLY TO
PROF. MORSE,
could frighten me by calling for my
resignation," President Nelson said.
"Tho sooner I can got away from this
noxious miasma of Insensate hatred
and breathe free air again, tho better
I shall be satisfied."
,' There was no Immediate Indication,
however, that Nelson planned to sever
his connection with the high educa
tion board.
He declared ho bcllcvodi that "in
tho cool dawn of some morning when
tho partisan cheers subside, Mr. Morse
will feel ashamed of his unworthy
assault."
In an address before faculty mem
bers and alumni of the university
Saturday, Dean Morse spoke of what
ho described as "Mr. Nelson's insult'
Ing, Insinuations, unfair and vicious
attack up on the faculty of tho Unl-
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NIAGARA FALLS NOT
SO "WET" AT PRESENT
MAd.UtA IMLLH, N, Y Nov. 0
Unless Iho flow or water down
the Niagara river IncrHWes, Niag
ara Falls Hlnmls a rood chance of
solng completely dry.
Very little water li (nlng over
the rails now anil the generally
roaring cutttmct litis a strange ap
liearunee tilth many unfamiliar
NO AIRCRAFT
OVER RUSSIA,
TOKYO SAYS
Denial Issued in Japan
' Today in Answer to ;
Report as Moscow I
soviet Surges
quickly answered .
Russian Report Said Eight t
Scouting Craft and One '
Bomber Crossed the '
Border. v . :
TOKYO, Nov. 8 W)- The War of
fice directed to Moscow today flat
denial of soviet report that Japanese
planes flew over Russian territory.
"A few Japanese army planes are ,
assisting In bandlt-suppresslon oper
ations near Manchukuo's eastern
frontier,' a spokesman for the war
office Bald.,
' But, he added, they "have been or
derod to keep within a line two kilo-
meters Inside the border. . . . . .
Furthermore, there are never more
than two or three on any flight
never such a number as Soviet re
ports alleged." ' ' - '
Tho report nt. Moscow was that a
squadron of Japanese military air
planes, Including eight scout craft '
and one bomber, flew over Soviet -territory
Nov. 3. ' ! '?
In response to war office queries as
a result of word of the report here,
headquarters of Japanese garrisons In '
Manchuria; and Korea' denied that
any planes had crossed over Russia.
WARN JAPAN v ' . W.
TOKYO, Novv6 (p) Big navy
propagandists warned Japan today '
against interpreting! the American ;
fleet's romoval from the Pacific i next
spring as indicating Improved rela
tions between the two countries. . , .'
"Japan," said a -note typical of a .
shower that deluged vernacular news- '
papers, "will be caught In an Amerl- :
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Cartoonist From
New York Put To
Canvas In Brawl '
HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 6 W Peter
Arno, noted Now York oartoonlat,
wns knocked unconscious In a list
light In the fashionable Embassy club '
early today In a dispute In which
Sally O'Neill, film actress, and Drexel
Bkldlo Bteel, actor . and prominent 1
Phlladelphlan, figured. .,;. i
Steel claimed the knock out blow
was delivered by, his business man
ager, Gordon Butlo; and Miss O'Neill ;
denied a report made by other wit
nesses that she had' evened matters
by rapping Steel over the head with
a chair. '
Many of fllmdom's celebrities and
Doris Duke, heiress to the 120,000,000
tiuko tobacco fortune, were among
the witnesses to the fight. . 1
Texas Guinan Is
Dead in Vancouver;
III For a Month
VANCOUVER, B. O., NOV. 6 VP)
Tho bizarre career of Texas Guinan
has been ended 'by death.
Far from the glittering Broadway
whero she found fortune, the queen
of the night clubs died yesterday af
ter an oporatlon necessitated .by an
Intestinal Illness with which she was
stricken a month ago. -
Oha hod been making a theatrical
tour with her troupe of forty girls
and entered a hospital here lost
Monday suffering from colitis.
GEORGE SCOTT
ON WAY EAST,
George Scott, assistant coach at
Oregon State college, passed through '
La Grande today on his way to the
east. o. S. O. plays Fordham la Now
Yorg Nov, 18.
rocks exposed to view. The water
level In the gorge below tlie falls
Is twenty teat lower than It was
last week.
The reason for this mere trickle
Is a stiff east wind which has
pushed the water back Into Lake
Krlo and has reduced the Niagara
river to hardly more than a creek.