La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, November 24, 1933, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextNew Hope For P. W.A. Projects; Baker Gets $105,000 Ha La Grande Is The Gateway to Wallowa, "The Switzerland of America J Only Newspatter - Printed in La Grande I Covcrincr Union and snxm i i i ; Wallowa Counties VOLUME 32 EASTKKN OHBCJOVS LEADING NEW8PAPEB LA GRANDE, OREGON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1933 MEMBEII ASSOCIATED PRESS NUMBER 68 OBS AVAILABLE FOE IIS TODAY eJJ Etteittttg PL WORKS PROGRAM IS UNDERWAY Seven Union County Pro jects Appi'oved With Others to Come Soon EXPECT 168 TO BE AT WORK SHORTLY Remainder of 336 Jobs Al loted Union County Will Be Authorized in the Near Future. t Projects providing Immcillute work . for 115 men In Union county were approved Wednesday night by the civil works administration In Oregon, It was announced today by J. II. Peare, chairman of the county relief committee, who with Angus McAllls "ter, city manager; U. O. Couch, coun ty fudge, and 8. .H. Morgan, county rouidmaffter, returned from Portland last night. These 115 men go to work Immed iately. A few were called today, and scores will begin, work tomorrow, with all of them scheduled to be on the Job Monday. Union, countys quota 01 uieu w be put to work la 336, and 168, or half of them, will be working within a week or so. The remainder will be taken care of probably by the middle of December. Several projects were submitted by Union county to Raymond Wilcox In Portland, and the following were given immediate approval: Woddel! lane, employment lor 40 men; High valley road, 30 men; Glass hill road, 5 men; Bushnell Jane, 5 men;; Pox hill road, 6 menr Rabbs hill road, 6 imen; Second street viaduct 111 La -Grande, 25 men. Work on the viaduct will include tho south side approach In addition to work unfinished on the other end of the overhead crossing, the city manager said today. Meyers Disbursing Officer P. L. Meyers, of La Grande, has been appointed as, disbursing officer for Union county and first pay checks will be written next weekend. Mr. Meyers was to attend a meeting In Portland tomorrow. . ' rnmmlttjv mpetlne will be held at the court house tonight to go further Into tho civil works pro- xf. id ninnnKl to develoo some project to put unemployed women to work also, possibly norory m, Mr. Peare is confident approval will be given to other county pro jects, including the river Job near North Powder, within a Jew days. Mr. Wilcox also Informed the local dele gation there would bo an opportunity for work on school building repairs, etc and the school .board Is busy de veloping projects today. Tho. city hopes to replace some of the wooden water mains in La Grande, also. The civil works administration In Portland picked projects for first ap proval closest to the larger number of unemployed. By the time 336 men 'have been put to work in this coun ty, all sections will havo beon taken (Continued On Pago Pour) 73 Wallowa Co. Men Given Work Under New Plan JOSEPH, Oro., Nov. 24 (Special) Seventy-three men on the unemploy ment rolls of Wallowa county started work today on three projects which presumably were approved Wednesday by tho state relief committee at a meeting in Portland, says the Joseph Herald. Theso projects and the number of men which are to be worked on each are: Little Sheep creek secondary highway, 40 men; Enterprise-Lewis road. 13 men; Pow- Vvatka hill on Wallowa -Troy road. 20 men. These 73 men Include half of the 147 which have been allotted as Wal lowa county's quota for' relief em ployment. The balance will be given Vork shortly after the first of the month. OPEN WINTER AHEAD? SOME BELIEVE IT As the fall progresses, and winter continues to remain thoroughly in the background In Eastern Oregon, old timers become more and more certain that this may be an open winter. Now corfa the report that some of fur-bearing animals ln this neck of the woods haven't as thick a coat as usual at this time of the year. It wou seem that those silly geese that flew south ln the Pacific WILL ROGER? BEVERLY HILLS, CM., Nov. 23 The Cubans sent a big delegation ito Montevideo, South America, to at tend a peace conference. That leaves 'em klhder short-handed In. their war at home till these get back. There certainly Is not much Incen tive for anything ito be done right nowadays. A. U. S. stamp printer made a mistake on one little batch of 20 4-cent, air mall stamps (had It turned crosswise) and they brought $12,000. If he had had It plum up side down' It would have brought 100.000. We get another Illustration of an "expert." This fellow Sprague that left the treasury in such a huff has been all this time finding out Mr. Roosevelt hod already Inflated. Yours, ' m mi. iiihiimiiiiI fc RINGCROWNED ON THURSDAY Largest . Crowd of Ama teur Tournament Attends Finals- Staged by Eagles The (largest crowd to ever witness n hovlitir curd In Ln Grande gathered In the SlicajHweu arena lust night for the finals of the anmteur boxing tournament sponsored by the Eagles lodge. Winners... were crowned lie Northeastern Oregon cliumptonn.ln their weight classes. Proceeds of the thrccriilght tournament were to go unto the Kaglcs rcuicl iuiki. Although tho fights were not quite as vicious as on Tuesday and Wed nesday nights, some hard battles re sulted, particularly, ln the lighter weight divisions. Probably the one CTrnrn that Stood Out In the CTOWd'S Interest was the battle between Bobby Daugherty, Wallowa, and Francis Mc Olure, La Grande, cootie weights, a special match. Mcdure won tho slug fest on a decision, but Bobby was awarded the tournament trophy for the gamest loser. , Only one title was won by default, jSnriiia Tviwnra reeelvlne the feather weight crown by that method. Stan ley Bcsscy, conquerer of Big Jess (Continued on Pago Two) DEATH COMES TO MRS. ANNA LOYELY Mrs. Anna Lovely, a resident or La Grande for the last 41 years, died at her home at 1403 S avenue about 10:30 o'clock this morning arter a long Illness. Funeral arrangements have not been completed. The body Is at tho Snodgrass ait:l Zimmerman mortuary. -She was born ln Michigan Sept. G, 1868 and was 65 years, two months and 18 days or age. She leaves her widowed husband, Ed Lovely; thrco brothers, W. O. and C. V. Trill, or Medford.. nnd B. E. Trill, or La Grande, and a sister, Mrs. Ida Lyman, 6r Cadillac, Mich. Anyway, His Advice Was Well Intended SAM FRANCISCO, Nov. 24 Ml Anyway the advice was well In tended, Lucrezla Bori, grand opera singer, concluded here today. She dropped into a music store, accompanied by a gentleman friend, and out of curiosity tried the voice recording machine. A clerk, a pleasant chap, told her she had "a nice voice" and that It should be trained. northwest ln September and caused all the forecasters to predict an early winter must have had) their wires crossed. But regardless of weather signs, etc., the cllmatologlcal data of the U. S. department of agriculture wea ther bureau, the last word ln reput able weather facts over the nation, n-. w comes forth and informs us that (Continued' on Page Pour) SECRET SORROW ' Hollywood, seeing Sylvia Sidney In doleful poses such as this, of ten attributed to Iter a secret sor row. The reality of this sorrow was re veil led the other day when the demure screen star, who al ways had been known as the daughter of a New York dentist, filed papers In New York Supreme . Court against her real father, Vic tor Kokow. She charged Kosow with attempting to extort $18,000 . from her under threat of having her adoption . by Dr. Slgnuind Hldney annulled. CURTAIN WILL GO UP 8:15 TONIGHT ON E. 0. N. PLAYS The stage is sot for the thrco one act plays which will be presented by Sock and Buskin at tho Normal school auditorium this evening at 8:15 p. m., It Is announced by Miss Florence Day .director of dramatics. The three plays to 'be presented. "Trifles,' -by Susan Glaspel- "Tho Flattering Word," -by George Kcl'y; and "The Princess Marries the Pane,' by Edna St. Vincent Mil lay; are ex peoted to appeal strongly to the audi ence. All are well chosen, and. their presentation will represent careful preparation, by the respective casts. Specially constructed stago sets have been prepared, each appropriate to the plot and spirit of the play. Practically all members of the casts (Continued on Page FourV Oh' bright iomowzow. happk pay Whew m4tioms Wrow if tt WAyxHtyvAy WhEM WATONJ FAY THE WAY1HBY BORROW NEW SEWAGE PLANT GIVEN U. S. APPROVAL Baker . Public Works Pro ject Given Loan and Grant by Ickes. LA GRANDE HOPES MOUNT AS RESULT Local People Feel Chances For Training School and Pipeline Work Are Much Better. Renewed hope for Oregon public works projects was born this morning, when the P. W. A. hi Washington allotted 105,000 for the Maker scw nge disposal plant (loan and grant) and J14.000 for the Weston, Jdnlin water main project (loan and grant). Some time ago Secretary Harold Ickes said no more allotments would be made to far western states until other sections of the country had their share, but the action today In dicated to local people that a few northwestern projects would be grant ed toy Ickes.- La Grande Has two .pro leetq ln which It Is vitally Interested the Eastern Oregon Normal school campus training school building and the Beaver oreeK pipeline projevo. On the Baker project thirty per cent of labor and material costs, to talis . approximately 80,000 was grant, the balance a loan secured by 4 per cent revenue bonds with re course to goneral taxation. Work can start ln one month and public works officials estimated 65 men would be employed 10 months.' Wiggin Resented Hoover's Action In Fox's Behalf WASHINGTON, Nov. 24 (Al Wll Ham Pox told senate Investigators today that Claudius Huston, when chairman of tho Republican national committee, conferred with. Albert H. Wlggln, chairman of the Chase Na tional bank, ln an effort to get fin ancial help for tho movie magnate. Pox, who lost control of 1000 movie houses through financial difficulties, added that Huston returned and said Wiggin hail turned him down with tho statement to "tell the president to mind his own business." Huston, Fox said, reported that Wlggln had told him he "resented Mr. Hoovers' Interference ln this mat tor." Tills testimony was given by the retired movie owner as part of the second reel of the drama he was (Continued on Page Two) THE MILLENNIUM v ' r-TTV TIN hi j 1 ROOSEVELT IN GEORGIA SPEECH f "Mr. Lltvlnov and I believe that through the resumption of liormul relations the prospects of pence over all the world uro greatly 'strengthened." Thus, as pictured above, President Roosevelt In dulged In his first public discusHloit of Russian recognition In a speech at Savunnuh, Ua. He also rebuked "doubting Thomases" who oppose his administrative program. JOHNSON STATES BUSINESS DUE TO (STAGE NEW GAIN ; ATLANTA, Nov.. 24. Gen. Hush S, Johnson believes business Is brtuioJuvcrge -of--"another , forward surge." 1-1 . i - Tho NBA chief In an address; last night voiced the conviction that tho Roosevelt policies have lifted the nation "25 per cent out of the depths of this depression" and that com pared with conditions early lost spring "we ore a fortunate people." "You hear nowadays a growling because prosperity has not come over night. I wonder If any of the grouches has ever thought where we would be If tho president had not taken the big plunge," he said. "Where would tho south be If cot ton had remalnoa at 0 cents, for ex ample? What would havo been the prospect if we were going Into this winter with 13,000,000 unemployed?" Johnson called foes of the recovery program "a few little men with loud voices frantically waving puny red flags of false and futile warning ln the iath of a resistless advance of a great people." "Away slight men!" he cried. "You may have been leaders once. You arc (Continued on Page Two Iff, I V.CJ-J-'JjS B-'J 1.1 PROGRAM FOR SCOUT YEAR IS PLANNED Firet Event, Will be Court of Honor and Rally On December 1 llov S rou I activities for Ui (Irande during the coining year were agreed upon at a meeting of scoutmasters' with Elmo Stevenson, In charge of activities and camp, and the pro gram was announced today. Others hi attendance at the meeting In eluded Stanley Jenkins, scoutmaster of troop Lcc Reynolds, troop 14; Harvey (hirter, troop 17, and Mr. Purdy, troop 15. A court of honor was planned for Dec. 1 at Honan hall, with a rally being held. Chief competitors will bo troops 14 and 17, but other troops also will take part ln the gomes and stunts. In January nil troops in La Grande will participate In a fox and hounds chase on the third Saturday, the time and place to be decided later. In Febraury each troop will spon sor a window display and a troop banquet or a scouts-parents banquet will be scheduled In connection with a rally and court of honor. Knot tying, fire by friction, compass games, (Continued on Fa fro Two) FRENCH CABINET ON ROCKS AGAIN PARIS, Nov. 24 (P) Two differ ent names for the next premier of Franco to succeed Albert Sarraut, overthrown Inst night, wore rumored in two d4stlnct circles of the govern ment today. Official sources said they expected President Ixibrun to ask. Georges Bon net, minister of finance . In the late cabinet, to take the premiership and ln tho lobbies of tho chamber of deputies. It Wits said Camlllo Chau tcmps. minister of the interior, might be called to power. Wheat Today The price of local cash wlirnl, sIihhI at alMiut M 'i cents bulk today, urwrdlng to i not at Ions at the Pionocr Untiring .Mills. Port land rash 70 cents. CHICAGO, Nov. 24 (P) Corn took o leadership of tho grain markets today, and Jumped more than two ccnta a bushel, pulling wheat up later In an alJflost equal degreo. Indications were that within the last three days moro than 200,000 bushels of corn had been bought for export both to Orent Britain and to continental European countries, Pros pective licensing of Imports of black strap molaw and of tapioca starches Won also a lm:tor as to corn. Corn and wheat both closed un settled at fractional setbacks from tho day's top level, corn 1 w 1 T o above yesterday's finish, wheat 1 lc up, oats otlc advanced, and provisions varying from 13c decline to a rise of 60c. JUST BEFORE PRESSTME FOR "COHRBCTIVE INFLATION" Ah FAVORS SOUND MONBY Fit IK I) A WUITZ ACQUITTED OKKGON MAN APPOINTED ItOlSB, Idaho, Nov. 24 W) The Natlounil Orange voted today for "cor rective Inflation" of the currency "to re-ertnhllMi the 1920 commodity price level- NEW YORK, Nov. 24 ( Former Governor Alfred E. Smith today made public an editorial ln a coming Issue of tho New Outlook : magazine in which ho will declare himself om- pli&tically against the current admin istration policy of "currency experi mentation," SANTA CRUZ. Col., Nov. 24 W Acqultte! of a murder charge, Frieda Wllhelmlna Weltz was free here to- 'day to seek again the health and 'happiness she claims were shattered 'by the man she was accused of slay ing, Frauds J. At Grace, 08 year old retired capitalist. . , SHAWNEE, Okla., Nov. 24 (P) Fred Perkins of Warm Springs, Ore., lias been appointed superintendent of tlw Shawnee Indian agency here effective December 1, tho agency was notified today by civil service officials at Washington. WASHINGTON, Nov. 24 WV-Pending allocution of funds from (the civil works administration, thecU, S. for est service today Saldino definite pro gram has been laid out for employ ment lit the .national forests. . NEW BILLS MAKE APPEARANCE IN THE LEGISLATURE SALEM, Nov 24 (P) Installment payment of taxes with various. rebates provided and increase ln penalty for tax delinquency were Included in bills Introduced In. tho house today. Tho fifth day saw the number of measures Introduced ln the Oregon legislature near tho 100 mark, 63 ln tho house and 40 ln tho senate. Two other proposals wero bolng drafted for introduction, the tax on gross utility earnings and a measure to fdvert one cent or the gasoline tax to county roads. It was expected both would be introduced before the house aujourns tomororw noon. Tho senate was expected to Join tho house in holding sessions tomorrow. Status or members ln the house was set at rest by favorable adoption of the credentials' committee report that all members now holding scats bo approved. There wero no dissent ing votes. Progress on the liquor control bill was reported when it wap announced tho third of a scries of public hear ings would bo held late today, giving hotel owners andt restaurant repre sentatlvcs a chance to bo heard on tho matter of serving drinks with moro than 14 per cent alcoholic vol ume with meals. The committee an nounced it would make a decision lato today on the contest of state owned liquor stores vs. licensed (Continued on Pago Two) Slight Error Costs Church Janitor His Job COUNCIL BLUFFS, Ia Nov. 24 (A) Charles Heath, church Jan itor who takes a bromine medi cine for sleeplessness and takes It In grape Juice, got his sedativo mixed with the communion grape Juice. A hundred communicants partook of tho soporific mixture. Tho congregation drowsed; several members reported slight sickness. Tho First Christian church Is seek ing a new Janitor. LOCAL POWER CO. DISPUTES MEIER Oovernor Molcr's quoted t,tement to the efft'et that publlo utilities in the state of Oregon have , for many years past earned fair dividends, plus large surpluses. Is badly out of lino with fact, as applied to the Eastern Oregon Light & Power company, says Oono Walker, manogor of tho power company's interest hero hi a state ment Issued this morning. Records show that since 1910, when the present management took hold, DR.WYNEK00P ADMITS SHE KILLED GIRL Puzzling Chicago Oper- ating Room Murder Cleared up by Confession ; CHLOROFORM USED BEFORE SHOT FIRED Woman Medic Says She- Killed Her Daughter-inr Law Because of Sudden Panic. - 1 - CHICAGO, Nov. 24 m The con fewilon of. Dr. Alice Lindsay Wyne-. koop that ehe fired a bullet Into the heart or her daughter-lnaw, Ithetn. : while (he girl was unooonclouA wail announced today, by Capt. John. Stege, '.' Breaking down at last after nearly three days of exhausting examination,, the 62-year-old woman physician . acknowledged that she had admlnls- ' -tared chloroform to her son's 33-year., old wife, ln examining her for a pel-, vlo pain of whloh the girl had com plained. ' . She had gone to her surgical office In the basement of her Monroe, street house Tuesday afternoon to find Rheta partly undressed, weighing her self. t ; , Bhota complained of severo pains, ; Dr. Wynekoop sold, and she placed the young woman on her operating , table and began to administer chloro- :. form to ease the pain and facilitate ' examination., . . . , Dr.' Wynekoop told Capt. Stage she f kept asking Rheta If she could feel the pain; nd 'that hor daughtor-ln- ; law continued to' answer irflrma.tlve- r ly. Finally, tho' physician explained. Rheta lost oonsclousno.u and for 25 minutes she tried strenuously to re vive her. t Whon sho roallised she was losing ground, Dr. Alice said, she beoamo . panic strlckon. . . , ., "All the events of my Ufa flashed through, my rnlnld," Dr. Wynokoop i was quoted, "and I thought! of a pis tol ln on adjoining 'room," Fearful of blame for killing the girl with the anaesthetic, she said she obtained tho pistol and, holding It five Inches from the bare back of the unconscious girl, fired a. single shot. That shot penotrn'crt the (Continned on Page Four) Lumber Business , Shows Big Gain During the Week PORTLAND, Or., Nov. 24 m New business amounting to 75,968,00, about 81 per cent above tho three year weekly averago for November, and 43 per cent more than for the previous week, wna reported by the Western Pine association today for tho week ending Nov. 18. Of the 148 mills reporting,. 81 wero operat ing." ' Shipments wero 39,386,000 feet, and production, 41,388,000 feet, putting production at 28 per cent of capacity compared with 27 per dent for tho previous week, and 23 per cent for tho year to date. Current orders wero 47 per cent of sawmill capacity. For tho yenr to date orders have In creased about 10 per cent, shipments 6 per cent, nnd production 23 per cent over tho 1032 totals for the amo period. v Rhododendrons In Bloom In Oregon OOI.D BEAOH, Oro., Nov. 24 W) An unusual ty mild fall has brought somo curious natural developments to this Pacific coast region. Rhodo dendrons which usually flower la Juno, are In full bloom on the south slopes of Grizzly mountain. Azeleas aro reported blooming up the Rogue river. Scotch broom along tho coast highway is budding. there have been only two dividends ever paid on common stock by tho E. O. L. & P., says Walker. These con sisted of a two por cent dividend ln 1931, and two per cent ln 1930. Tho company has had outstanding three hundrmt forty-threo thousand, five hundred doHom of preferred stock since 1916. Dividends on this stack ha been met in. only four years': (Continued Prom Page Pour)