La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, November 25, 1933, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextShape Here ram t La Grande Is The Gateway to Wallowa, 'The Switzerland of America Only Newspaper Printed in La Grande Covering Union and Wallowa Counties J ( i saw VOLUME 32 EASTERN OREGON'S LEADING NEWSPAPER LA GRANDE, OREGON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1933 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS NUMBER 69 IK FLAN B STM Railroad Celebration Prog Taking wtttttg (0) EF01E MEETING OF HERE DEC. 4 , Semi-Centennial Celebra tion Here Next July to Be Outlined GROUND WORK IS WELL DEVELOPED . Five Hundred Committee men to Be Included in Organization in Its Fi nal Phase An Initial meet Inn of committees concerned with the semi-centennial railroad celebration In . Iji Grande next July, lias been called for Mon day evening, Dec 4. It will lie held at tile city hall and nil persons thus far appointed to any committee are vigorously urged to be present. The whole set-up so far as now created wllj he explained 111 detail, and such committees as have drafted their final plans will he on hand to report. The executive committee In general charge of the program has decided on a general meeting at this early dote In Older to acquaint everyone with the plans thus far evolved, and to give widespread local publicity to the general BCheme of things. The meeting will be open to any friends of the celebration even though they may not yet hove been assigned to specific duties. The chairmen of committees who have thus far been appointed to du ties are urged to complete the per sonnel of their respective committees and have them present at the meet ing, and to have their respective budgets prepared by that time. .The executive, committee, members,, consisting of a group from all rail road branches, and another group of chamber of commerco representatives already have had a first meeting and during the present week. Walter Par ker, chairman of the railroad section, (Continued on Pace Two). Fair Weather To Continue During Weekend Locally Cloudy skies prevented the mercury from going beyond the 62 above mark here Friday, but with clearer weather this morning, warmer weather may result this afternoon. The mercury dropped to 32 above last night, the first freezing weather In a week in La Grande. The weather forecast Indicates moderate temperatures for the next week, with the weekend clear. TURKEY SHOOT AT LONE TREE The annual turkey shoot at the Lone Tree grounds of the La Grande dun club will be held tomorrow, with tho public invited and lunch to be served at noon. Plenty of geese and turkeys are available for shooters, the club officials stated today. PORPOISE CLUB HOLDS MEETING The Porpoise club held a meeting Thursday evening at the La Grande hotel. During the business session Maurice Weiss was voted into the group. Plans were made for a swim and picnic to be held at the Cove pool, Sunday, Nov. 26. It Is an nounced that members will meet at tho La Grande hotel at 1:45 o'clock. LOVELY RITES SUNDAY AT 2 Funeral services- for Mrs. Anna Lovely will be held at the First Pres byterian church at 2 o'clock tomor row afternoon with Rev. J. George Walls officiating. Burial will take place at the Ma sonic cemetery with Snodgrass and Zimmerman In charge of arrange ments. , TAXABLE PROPERTY TOTALS $18,793,209 Union county's taxable property this year, on which the 1933 taxes payable next year will be based, stands at $18,793,209. plus tax com mission county ratios, according to announcement from Salem. Earlier this month the Observer carried a story giving the taxable property In this county at $14,148. 206 but this was exclusive of public utlllU,, which are Included In the WILL ROGERS BEVERLY HILLS, Cal.. Nov. 24 Big headlines In today's papers say that the big bankers, to show Roose velt his financial scheme don't suit them, they are unloading government bonds and securities 'by the bushel. Ho won't play their way so they are going to sell their ball and bat and get out. ! I can't Just recall, but as well as I remember, wasn't they the fellows that the government was helping bo much not so long ago? They ought to pray every night." "God bless mamma ana papa, ana au my family, and interest, and Roose velt." Yours, WILL ROGERS. F. S. I want to apologize to the president for putting Interest ahead of him, but interest has bocr helping 'em out longer than he has. FOREST FIRE LOSS IN THIS AREA SLIGHT Actual Damage to Union Comity Timber $19.50, L. C. Morehead Reports. During 11)33 there were fewer for est fires, less ultunoge and less sup pression costs than for many years, according to n report by I.. C. More head,' district engineer. Actual dam ago to timber In -Union' comity was only nineteen dollars and fifty otmidr, Thirty-three .fires occurred in .tho. Union county district, ' burning ap proximately 18 acres. Fire fighting costs woro $117.90 of which 56.80 was paJd by the state and $81.10 toy individuals, logging companies, etc.. who were responsible lor the starting of the fires. Causes of the 33 fires were as follows: smokers 14, campers 0. lightning 8, brush .burning 3, in cendiary 2. logging 1, railroad. 1, mis cellaneous 1. Tho -late spring afforded opportun ity for the field men to do Improve ment work rather than spend all ithcir tlmo fighting fire. This result ed In the building of a new telephone line from Mt. Harris lookout to Im bler and a now cabin and horse pas ture at Clarks Creek patrol station. (Continued on Page Two EXTRA MEN WILL BE EMPLOYED AT THE POSTOFFICE The La Grande post office will be allowed $150.98 from the federal gov ernment for special employes during the Christmas rush period, according to Associated Press reports from Washington. Throughout tho state $16,276.14 has been allotted to various post offices to enable them to handle the annual rush period. Each December It is necessary for the local post office to put on extra men to take care of the extra work duo to mailing and receiving of Christmas cards and packages. LONGER HOLIDAY FOR EAST NORMAL Regular classes were being held to day at the Eastern Oregon Normal school, in order that the students and faculty might nave next Friday as a holiday In addition to Thurs day, Thanksgiving day. The student body petitioned the state board of higher education for tho change and their request was granted. This gives the Normal school a vacation period extending from Wednesday evening until Monday morning. new figure.. Wallowa county's total is $9,447,645.95. The total for the state was $958. 749.855.46, representing an assessment roll decrease of $79,000,000. It Is the first time In many years that thi total dropped below a billion dollars. The principal cut was In local property tax roll. Inspired by local (Continued on Pago Two) MORSCAXES PAID DURING FALL SEASON Collections Here Since July 1 Show Increase . Over Fh-st Half $355,938.18 PAID SO FAR THIS YEAR Substantial Payments Are Likely Before End of Year Delinquent .fig ures Given Tav collections apparently are on tho upgrade In Union county again, after reaching a "low" early this year. Itecords at the tax collecting depart ment of the sheriff's office reveal that with more than a month, of 1933 yet ahead, tax collections since July 1 are $1,41)8.38 higher than collec tions for the . six , months ending July I. If payments continue during this coming month at a lair rate, wnicn is entirely likely, an even better showing for the last hall of this year appears possible. According to Dick ClaycomB, dep uty sheriff In charge of tax collec tions, $177,219.90 In taxes were paid in Union county during the first half of this year. Since July 1 the pay ments have reached the figure of $178,718.28. . This brings the collections to $355,- 938.18 so far this year not a glowing showing, but because of . the Increase In the last few months, not so baa, either. ; s - . Right now, payments of 1932 taxes (Continued on Page Two) . EASTERN OREGON AG TEACHERS IN CONFERENCE HERE An Eastern Oregon annual voca tional agricultural teachers' confer ence was under way at the Sacajawea Inn today, tlie sessions bcg.miiitff at !) o'clock and scheduled to continue throughout the day. The meeting Is under the direction of Earl K. Coolcy, state supervisor of vocational agri cultural education In Oregon high schools. Mr. Cooley, during the last week, has visited the ng departments at Imbler. Union, Wallowa and Enter prise and next week will visit On tario, Halfway and Pendleton. This educational work Is carried on under the Smith-Hughes act passed by congress about 15 years ago, and (Continued on Page Two) - RISING STAR ON. BROADWAY ftHfta? y One of the run king beauties In New lovely Linda Hat SOCK AND BUSKIN STAGES , THREE ONE-ACT PLAYS AT E; O.N. AUDITORIUM FRIDAY Sock and Buskin, dramatic society at the E. O. N., presented Its fall show Iiwt night at the Normal school auditorium, featuring three one-act plays with different casta of cliar acters luimlllng each assignment. A fair-sized crowd witnessed the pro ductions, directed by Miss Florence Day. "Trifles," by Susan Glaspell, a play that demonstrated woman's under standing of her neighbor's trials even so far as to withhold incriminating evidence from peace officers, opened the evening. The audience saw two women, while the men fruitlessly searched an abandoned farm house for clues to the motive for a homi cide, discover that it had been duo to a husband's slaying a pet canary, probably the . only ray of cheer In the wife's existence. Rob ert Cunliffe played the part of the county attorney, Nell Ross was cost as the sheriff, Leonard Marshall as a neighboring farmer, and Winifred Scott and Jean Williams, as the two women, one the wife of the sheriff, the other tho wife, of the farmer. THE HUNGRY BOYS York's early thtulrkul season is k I lis (above). Guy Tucker was assistant director for "Trifles." r "The Flattering Word," an enter taining comedy by George Kelly .em phasised the vanity of mankind when plied with flattery. It revealed a minister and a member of his con- (Continued on Page Two) SHOWERS, RUSSELL TO LOCATE HERE After giving La Grande its greatest boxing classic by managing the Eagles amateur ring tourney here this week, Lcs. Showers and Dick Russell, widely known throughout tho coun try as specialists In their work, an nounced today they were to make tlielr home In La Grande. "We have offers for tourneys from points scattered over the West, mid- (Continued on Page Two) TROJANS WIN FROM NOTRE DAME 19 TOO Warburton I-eads South em California in Intel'-, sectional Triumph ARMY OVERPOWERS NAVY ELEVEN 12-7 Harvard Tops Yale 19 to 6 in Their Annual Foot ball Classic on the East Coast , NOTRE DAME 'STADIUM, South Bend, Ind., Nov. 2fi P Tlie Univer sity of Southern California evened tlie count with Notre Dmne today by winning 111 to 0. The result gave each team four victories In their se ries of football contests . of recent yenn. . Cotton" Warburton, elusive mid get of the Trojan backfleld, aont IT. S. G. Into the lead In the first half by going over for a touchdown after bringing the ball within scoring dis tance with a 35-yard gallop. Then Griffith, In the third period, fadedi back to his 35-yard line and passed to Bescos on the Irish eight. Griffith hit the line for five and then took a short pass from McNelsh to score. Warburton scored the third touch down Just before the gome ended. ARMY 12, NAVV 7 FRANKLIN FIELD, Philadelphia, Nov. 25 Ml Army whipped Navy today, for tho fifth straight time, 12 to 7, and ran tho Cadet winning stroak to nine straight for the season. A capacity crowd of 70,000, biggest In the east this year, saw the midshipmen yield only- after a close and spectacular rootDan botwe.' . . -' . .. . . -v .. All the scoring was confined to a see-saw first half which witnessed a trio of thrilling' touchdowns. Sand wiched between. Army's brace of tol lies, the first on an 81-yard' run back of a punt by Paul Johnson and tho other on a 25-yard gallop- by Jack Buckler, was Navy's touchdown on a 30-yard run by Walter Baum berger. The Navy had opportunities In both (Continued on Pag Two) CWlJORK BEGINS HERE Fifteen men went to work today on the lluHluicll lane and OIiwh II 1 11 civil works nroJcctB, the flrnt of 3H(t who eventually will no taken from the un employed rolls ami Riven real Jobs, Mommy morning another hundred mm will begin work, completing the first 115 of Hid 33(1 to he put on the U. s, treasury payroll. First payday will bo Dec, 2 and F. L. Meyers, appointed Union county disbursing officer, was In Portland today acquainting himself with his new duties. , Of the first group of men going to work 41 will come from La Grande, 15 front Cove, 20 from Union, and tho remainder from) other sections of tho county, including. Summervllle, AUcel and Imbler. Sections not taken caro of In this first grouj-wlll be given work aa quickly as possiblo, It was said. Several nddLtfonal Union county projects are before the civil works ad ministration board In Portland and others aro being developed as rapidly as possible, with indications that ap proval wilt come shortly. J. II. Pea re, chairman of the Union county relief committee .announced today ho had received word that com pensation will bo paid to O. W. A, workers who are Injured on the Job, after three days tlmo has elapsed. Wheat Today The price of IfM-nl coaIi wheat stood tiMluy at about 4!H cents bulk, acirillng to quotations at the riimrcr Flouring Mills. Port land rush OH rents. CHICAGO. Nov. 25 Stop-loss selling in wheat and roflt-taklng sales In com led to alfearound brcakn In grain values lato today. Wheat tumbled to n, new low for the week and since early this month. At the ln!o, wheat was off i'jo a bushel. WhJr cloned unstable at tho low est figures rcichcd. 2fi'2o idor yesterday's Knl'Jj. oomfffiiyi lo down, oat at T f lo decline, and provisions varying from 22 cents set back to a xjse of 10 cents. w 9 ' JUST BEFORE PRESSTIME ' WALLOWA PKOJECT ACTED ON L1TVINOFF LEAVES U. 8. m DISTILLERS DISAdltEB CUBAN EX-OFFICERS SLAIN PORTLAND, Nov. 2.1 (P) Applica tions for four PWA projects amount ing to $405,052, have been forwarded to Washington by C. C. Hockley, state engineer far the public works ad ministration. Tlie four projects were approved yesterday. - They were: Grouts Puss sewage disposal plant, $45,000; Corbett, water supply, $50, 000; Newberg, grade school building, $4,085j Wallowa, water supply, $80, 1177. NEW YORK, Nov. 25 P) Maxim M, Lltvlnoff, Russian foreign com missar, departed! on the Conte Dl 8a vola today after completion of his mission which resulted In the United States' recognition of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. ... WASHINGTON.' Nov. 25 VP) Or ganized distillers today failed to heal their 8hurp disagreement with the president's special Interdepartmental committee on alcohol -control, but hearings on the government-drafted code and marketing agreement were concluded. Meanwhile, the president's committee filed with the agricultural adjustment administration a proposed substitute for the alcoliolio bever ages Importing agreement. A quota permit system for Imports was sug gested. A code hearing has been sot for next Wednesday. u ' MATANZAS, Cuba, Nov. f 25 m i"ive former officers of the Cuban army were massacred on a highway near Colon today by a rtoud of un identified men who forcibly removed the officers from guards oonvevlnir them, from Matanzas to Santa Clare, UNWILLING FOR DR. KERR TO RESIGN JUST NOW PORTLAND, Nov. 25 (P) Declaring that "This board will not counte nance disregard of Its authority or Insubordination," the state board of higher education had today tnken steps to Investigate the action of Dean Wayne L. Morse, University of Oregon law school dean. In demand ing ll0 resignation of Itoscoe C. Nel son as board president, mid of Dr. W. .1. Kerr as chancellor of Oregon's educational system. Tho Investigation was ordered by the board at a brief meeting here late Friday. Wlllard L. Marks, of Al bany, vice president, was Instructed to appoint a committee of three mem bora to conduct tho Morse hearing. , Nelson resigned several weeks ago after Morse hod accused him of prej JtOIco In connection with statements the former board president made at Eugene and Corvallls: Tho university (Continued on Pago Two) F. R. CHECKS ON RECOVERY WORK By I'rancls M. Stephenson WARM SPRINGS, Ott., Nov. 25 W President Roosevelt checked up today on his recovery and monetary programs with his chief lieutenants. Henry Morganthau, tho acting sec retary of tho treasury; General Hugh 8. Johnson, tho Industrial adminis trator; William C. Bullitt, the new ambassador to Russia; and othcni of the government were horo to talk with tho chief executive. , Outsldo attacks on the administra tion policies brought a quick reply from the field marshals but Mr. Roosevelt laughed and proceeded on him way. Tho sevoro attack of Al fred K. Smith on the commodity dol lar plan failed to provoko a presi dential response. i 1 In a roadnldo Interview with news papermen, Mr, Roosovolt made It cloar last night that ho was going along on his dollar devaluation plan. MARINE FREAK FOUND OFF VANCOUVER VANCOUVER, ?!ov. 26 (Pi A ma rine freak without eyes, six feet long, less than three Indies et Its greatest width, smooth without fins or scales, was caught off Blwash rock, Stanley park yesterday by three Barclay brothers, Charles, Fred and William. It was taken on their cod lines at a placo Ohere tho water Is 180 feet deep. I LEGISLATIVE PRICE-FIXING IS PROPOSED New. Problems Confront Joint Senate and Housf Liquor Board ; GOSS EXPLAINS HIS CONTROL PLAN ' Would Keep Liquor Out of Politics and Elimin ate the -Bootlegger,: He. Declares 1 . - SALEM, Nov. 2.1 WP New problems. pleas and proposals confronted the ; Joint senate and house liquor com mutes of the legislature today as the. session neared the end. of Its first . week. , Senator Goes proposed that the state dictate prices on retail hard t liquor, which -would be sold only In original packages by qualifying re- toilers. Retailers would be bonded.i, must have untainted criminal records . and must have .'been established ats,. the selling point for at least one year. A commission and administrator would be appointed as 1 under the. Knox plan. Liquor prices would be set at low figures to make handling an accommodation and not a profit-'. making enterprise. Local option and local licensing would be guaranteed - municipalities. . - . doss said the retailers would be . required to keep detailed accounts of' all transactions, which would be.-' filed with the commission, fietallera . could buy their wholesale liquor from any source, subject to Inspection for. purity by the commission. The plan would keep liquor control out -of pelltlc eHmlnMe the boot-:,, logger, offer no state financing prob lems ' ' and minimize state - control ' problems, doss said. He declared the ' temptation and Implication of polit ical graft would be ever-present un-' der the Knox plan. . ; . His plan. Goss said, could! readily . be embodied In the bill now before the Joint committee. Otherwise he: will Introduce It as a separate senate bill. ' Financial problems of ' the Knox - (Continued an Pare Four) Son Refuses To Believe Mother Killed His Wife CHICAGO, Nov. 211 P) Earle Wyne konp will be booked on a charge of murder In the death of his wife,, Hheta, lato today, Prosecutor Charles H, Dougherty announced after an-' . other round of questioning the young widower. . . . - . i CHICAGO, NoV( 2B (Pi Token in to criminal court after a night of -fitful sleep, Dr. Alice Lindsay Wyne koop was remanded to the custody of . the sheriff to await possible grand : Jury action for tho murder of her daughter-in-law. , ; .- ' ; -: A habeas corpus hearing was. de-r (Continued on Page Two) t FOOTBALL ' ' FINALS " . Army 12, Navy 7. ., Syracuse 0. Columbia 16. Tufts 13. Massachusetts 0. .Washington & Lee 13, Maryland 33. West Virginia 14, Georgetown 12. -, Illinois 0, Ohio State 7. . .Carncgio Tech 0, New York XJ, 7. ' Rutgers 6, Princeton 26. North Carolina State 0, Duke 7. Vlllanova 24, Temple 0, Michigan State 0, Detroit U. 14. ' Duqucsne 26, Geneva 0, t Yale 6, Harvard 19. : Southorn California 10, Notre Dame The theory was advanced It might be a "sea-ship" which la really a colony of minute creature attached to each other, giving the appearance of one body. , There was no suggestion the new discovery could be linked with "Ami able Amy," the big monster, estimated at 60 feet long, which spectators claimed to have seen along the Van couver coastline.