10 More C. W. A. Pr(e(sMpjyroved By Board Here
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Gateway to Wallowa,
"The Switzerland
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EASTERN OIIKUON'S LEADING NEWSPAPER
LA GRANDE, OREGON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1933
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
NUMBER 71
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FISH HATCHERY
PLAN APPROVED
Four Projects Rushed to
Portland on Last
Night's Train Others
Will Follow Tonight.
' Ten more civil works project Tor
?' Union county were approved by the
Z local civil works board itt a meeting
' at the court house liust lllRlit, mid of
;. j that number Tour were rushed tu
i rorthuid on last night's train for ac
tion by the state c. W. A. board.
Tlio other projects will go to stale
; headquarters tonight.
" ' The application for improvements
t'V and repairs at the Union Ilsh hatch-i-
ery, two La Grande school projects
(explained In detail elsewhere in to-
day's Observer), and a North Powder
'I school project were the Ilrst approved
j and oil were mailed on the train
Monday night.
The North Powder school project
calls lor repairs, etc. to their build
ings. Union entered 'a city project pro
viding for filling In muddy streets
with gravel, and North Powder also
entered a city project of the samo
nature. Mayor" Walter Mcdrath,
J) Councilman Chris Johnson and Supt.
, Kates, of North Powder, wero here.
1 nnd Mayor Lewis Bldelor wns here
I f from Union.
I Three Normal school projects wore
) approved, submitted by President H.
E. Inlow. ' - '
The major E. O. N. project la for
' o completion of campus Improvement.
J including work on the rocky area
? north and northwest of tho building
! i to make it ready , for planting of
j shrubs; extending of the lawn; wld
enlng and deepening of tho crook
'! channel through the campus to pre-
vent overflow. Another project calls
J for re-palntlng and re-kalsomliung of
'j the Interior of the (building, and the
3 third project provides for building of
additional bleachers at ithe football
1 field.
5 The county submitted a proposal
I j for painting and kalsomlning tho
court house.
A11 of the above projects wero ap
proved and each provides for putting
quite a number of men to work.
J. H. Peare, chairman of the relief
committee and the civil workB board
An this county, announced today that
jiill of the 115 men scheduled to go
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Rumors Help To
Keep Many From
p Pontics, Kiddle
Unfounded rumors and scandals
printed In newspapers particularly
the metropolitan .press keep many
citizens from seeking public offices,
Fred E. Kiddle, president! of the state
senate declared in a chamber of com
merce address at Salem Monday.
Senator Kiddle said the legislature
would confine its special session de
liberations as much as possible to
four major issues liquor, unemploy
ment, school relief and truck and bus
legislation.
With the unemployed situation re
lieved toy the civil works program.
Sen. Kiddle said lie believed the $3,
000,000 revenue expected from liquor
traffic would be sufficient for the
r state's share.
The liquor question Is the most
controversial and many of the legisla
tors have not yet determined which
plan would work to the beat advan
tage, he said.
Payment of delinquent taxes should
be stressed to aid distressed schools,
Ben. Kiddle said.
FIRST SNOW COMES
4"
LATER THIS YEAR
When the first snow of tho season
fell in La Grande during last night.
It came a full two weeks later than
the first snow In 1932, and more
than a month later than in 1931.
Fire station records show that an
Inch of snow fell here during last
night, although much of it melted
upon reaching the ground.
The first snowfall here last fall
was on Nov. 13, when "traces" were
recorded. "Traces," on the weather
records, means less than half an
inch. No heavy snow fell last year
WILL
ROGERS
'cnil
BEVERLY HILLS, Cal Nov. 27
All the California ns I have met are
going around proud today.
Had a visit from young Senator La
Follette, for whom I have great ad-
miration. Any man smart enough, to
know that both political parties ore
wrong deserves careful consideration.
Ho is thought mighty well of by all
those eLderly senators. He thinks (and
no doubt correct) tliat the NRA,
should have ibeen backed up toy a
revocable license and not by Just
signing a pledge. He don't think that
we have reached that moral stage
where a parade and a promise wiU
make people do the right thing.
Yours, WILL ROGERS.
P. S. Send the army out here for
the Now Year's football game. If it
was left to a vote of everybody, 10
to one would vote for (them over any
other school, Stanford versus the
United States Army.
OGRAM FOR
Union Meeting at Baptist
Church Wednesday; uity
Ministers to Take Part.
The program for the union Tlmnks-
glvlng service to be hem tomorrow
it ?::u. o'clock In the First
ItuptlKt church was announced hls
morning. Practically all or the min
isters of the community will have a
part In the program, with Hev. II. M.
tlodwlii, or the llaptist cniircn, ns
liiilriii!Lll.
The program, to which the public
is invited, follows:
Doxolcsy.
Congregational hymn.
Invocation, Itcv. H. I. Hansen,
Reading of President Roosevelt's
Thanksgiving .proclamation iby Hev.
W. H. Hertzog, Methodist minister.
Violin solo, Isabel Williams.
Responsive reading, led 'by Rev. A.
j. starmcr, Methodist Church South
minister.
"fsloria Patrl."
Scripture reading, Rev. Clarence
Kopp. Episcopal rector.
' Prayer, Rev. J. George Wala, Pros
byterlan minister.
Offering.
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PIERCE SUPPORTS
NEW MONEY PLAN
Full support of President Roose
velt's monetary policy was given oy
Congressman Walter M. Pierce, in an
nHrfix! in Pnrfc'.nnd last nlfr'ht. soon-
sored by the Willamette Democratic
society, "I shall go to the national
capital with the determination to
dimnnrfc t.hn irrpntest social movement
of all time, so that there shall be a
dole for none, tout a Job for all, he
f.fH w YtrotHc.tpxi a stormv session
ahead for congress with "the h03ts
assembling to fight the policies of
the administration."
He also appealed to organized labor
to support the president. The con
gressman, en route to the capital via
the Panama Canal, also pointed out
.th benefits that have accrued to
Oregon farmers through the passage
of the allotment dui.
HIGH SCHOOL PAC1R
TO APPEAR TOMORROW
Tho La Grande High school
news page, which usually appears
in the Observer on Tuesday, will
instead be published in Wednes
days issue of the Observer.
until- In December, but sub-zero
weather came as early as Dec. 9, and
the season was very co!d.
Tho first snow in 1031 came on
Oct. 25 and was mixed with hall. It
didn't last, tout more snow began
falling on Nov. 9.
So. the 19.13 fall unusually warm
and dry can toe chalked up as one
of the best on record in La Grande,
even if winter has really come to
stay; and many residents believe the
snow at present Is Just a flurry and
will give way to better weather soon.
THANKSGIVING
SERVICE GIVEN
CITY SCHOOL
PROJECTS UP
FORAPPROVAL
Local C. W. A. Board Puts
"0. K." on Both; Rush
Them to Portland.
KALSOMINING AND
PAINTING INCLUDED
Standardizing of Athletic
l'leld, Repairs to Build
ings Also on .Work Pro
gram.
Two La Grande school projects,
prepared and submitted to the local
civil works administration board lost
night by Supt, Herbert Evans, re
ceived approval and were forwarded
to Portland for action by the state
C. W. A. board. The applications
wero sent on the late train last eve
ning and should be before the board
today.
Ono project was for painting and
kalsomlning of one or two of the
buildings, repairs to floors, stairways,
cornices, roofs, etc. Both skilled and
unskilled men would be put to work
on this project. Kalsomlning would
include the High school.
The socond project was for moving
the fence of the L, H. S. athletic
field, standardizing the track by
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Elmo Stevenson
Is Speaker At
E.O.N. Assembly
Why Btudente go to college, their
reactions and tho effect of college
on future life, was the theme of a
talk which Elmo Stevenson presented
this morning in the form of a book
review at tho Eastern Oregon Nor
mal school. Miss Bennett, author of
tho book. Is director of orientation
at tho Pasadena Junior college In
California and Is somewhat of an
authority in hefl, field.
"Education Is a result of active
participation and experience," Miss
Bennett points out and has developed
her book to Illustrate the point.
Many things enter into education be
sides what a student absorbs from
books and it is the extra curricular
activities that make up college life.
Paul Knautz, in keeping with the
Thanksgiving season sang "The Lord
Is My Helper," by Carrie P. Adams,
and "Thanks Be to God," accom
panied by Miss Jennie Peterson. Miss
Peterson, director of music, also led
tho students In community singing.
THE HUNTERS
! fell liglxrir-
Mob Mills As Prisoner Is Brought Out
1 ,V'"t rire orricE T ' v
Photo taken during the fighting at the 8un Jose, Cal., Jail, 'shows the
kidnapers was dragged from the Jail for lynching. The men weru beaten,
The prisoner was submerged In the attacking
INLAND EMPIRE
FEELS CHILL OF
WINTRY WEATHER
Winter zoomed 'into the Inland
Empire last night and left its calling
card In the shape of a light covering
of snow. Iri La Grande weather rec
ords show that one inch of snow fell
up to 7 o'clock this morning, with the
precipitation at .68 of an inch. It
wnt . r. firu fenow .ototiuv loll for,
this city and with the temperature
lower than usual, much of! the snow
remained during tho day, particularly
in the residential sections.
The mercury dropped to 32 above
lost night, and lower temperatures
were in store, according to the weath
er prediction today which road:
"Snow or rain In Eastern Oregon,
temperature generally below normal
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HEBER J. GRANT, HEAD OF
L. D. S. CHURCH, TO VISIT
THIS COUNTY NEXT SUNDAY
Heber J. Grant, of Salt Lake City,
president of tho L. D. S. church, will
spend Sunday In La Grande and hold
services at 10 In tho morning and
at 2 o'clock In tho afternoon. He
will go to Union on Sunday evening
to dedicate tho newly constructed
ARE GETTING INTO
Elgin M an Given
Car License No. 1;
1934 Drawing Held
SALEM, Nov. 28 ffl To an
Eastern Oregonian, J. W. Fitzger
ald, of Elgin, goes Oregon's 1934
automobile license , plate number
one, i . ,
More than 8,000 applications, ac
companied by the necessary $6 re
mittances, were on hand for the
annual drawing In the secretary
of state's office. ,
..:iv Ri40Y. ?R Oalderwood. pi port
land may. throw a pinch of salt
over lils shoulder or utter Incanta
tions. He drew license number IS.
Stephen Boor of Klamath Foils
drew number 100.
Other numbers drawn included
W. E. Freeman, Park Place, No. 2;
Richard L, Averlll, Ashland, No. 4;
Asahel Bush. Salem, No. 7; E. O.
Ehelebe of Portland No. 11; and
R. E. Heskett, Freewater, No. 75.
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chapel there.
The approaching visit of President
Grant to La Grande and Union Is
regarded as an event of great import
ance to this territory, particularly to
tho Mormons. ,
Announcement of the coming (vlslt
was mado hero today.
ACTION AGAIN
For Lynching
crowd oh one of the, purported
kicked and stripped by the crowtlH.
hordes.
MAY REPORT
LIQUOR BILL
DURING DAY
House Alcoholic Control
Committee Driving ;T.o
wardi-;;Completio;;
SALKM, Nov. a8 P) Working lato
at night and meeting again Ueforo
(he opening of the sessions, the house
Hlcoholio cimtnm committee today ex
pected to report out a complete
lliiuor hill, with the Knox plan as
the biiKls, ilo tlio Oregon legislature
tomorrow.
It was planned the first considera
tion of the matter from tho floor
would bo under special order of busi
ness Friday morning. r-
Composite measures also were being
whipped into shape by other, commit
tees on truck and bus legislation and
unemployment relief. Most of the
measures, including tho administra
tion's power program and gross utili
ties tax woutd be In the hopper he
'foro tho one-day recess for Thanks
giving. , j
Today saw (the introduction of a
bill to abolish slot machines and all
gambling devices, sponsored by Rep
resentative Hannah Martin of Mar
'lon county. Senator John Goss ex
pected to bring In a bill compelling
"branch banks to file statements of
conditions the samo as is now re
quired by regular financial Institu
tions. A separate beer bill also was
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FOUR ACQUITTED
IN KIDNAP CASE
8T. PAUL, Nov. 28 (A1) A federal
court Jury today acquitted Roger
Houhy and three other Chlcagoans
of charges growing out of tlie kidnap
ing or William Humm Jr., millionaire
St. Paul brewer.
They wero tried on two charges
transportation of a kidnaped person
In interstate commerce and conspir
acy to transport.
Defendants, in addition to Touhy,
wero Wllllo Sharkey, Eddie McFadden
and Oustav Schafer.
Tho four men will bo taken to Chi
cago Immediately, Joseph B. Kecnan,
special government prosecutor, said.
They have been indicted In Cook
county on charges of kidnaping John
"Jak tho Barber" Factor, last July.
Tho wealthy Chicago stock market
speculator was ransomed for $70,000.
Wheat Today
The price of local cash wheat
bUhmI at almnt HI rent bulk here
today, according to quotations at
the I'fnnrer I ion ring Ml IK Port
land cash i!) cents.
CHICAGO, Nov. 28 fP) Higher
prices for wheat 'today accompanied
advances In gold and sterling with
May wheat up at ono time three cents
from yesterday's Inside figures.
An additional strengthening Influ
ence was further buying of Immed
iate delivery wheat hero and clso
wher for federal relief purposes. Only
five cars of such wheat, however,
were available here.
Wheat cloned unsettled, n o
above yesterday's finish, corn m c
down, oats 01 c off, and provis
ions showing fic to 32c decline.
JUST BEFORE
PRESSTIME
ASK Sl'KKDIKIt TRIALS
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IIKAVKKS HEADY FOU Tll,'lf
ITALY OFFEKS PAYMENT
I.II K IN STKATOSI'IIKKE
SALEM, Nov. 8 W) Taking coglll-
zuuee or (he lynching lu CaJIfornla
minuny night, u liotue rmolutlou hub
Intrqitiicvd today In tho Oregon IcgU
lutura urging ouurtit ami tlio legal
profefcKlon to IiumUiii ull JUHtlco by
ellinliuiUng lUHihnluiilitleH uml tleluyit,
so thuru would bo no renltltlon of
lynching to give Oregon such u leti
Bon, ,
OMAHA. Nob., Nov. 28 W) Their
heavy work completed In preparation
for the Thanksgiving day game with
'the University of Nebraska, at Lin
coln Thursday, 26 Oregon State foot
ball players confined themselves to
limbering up exercises and a study
of Comhusker formations at Crelgn
ton stadium this afternoon,'
" WASHINGTON, Nov. 28 VP) ItaJy
lias offered a token puyment of 91,-
uou.Ouo to the United States on the
$2,139,1)113 Installment It will owe on
war debts December Iff, .
WASHINGTON., Nov. 28 (ff) First
salentlflo results of Lieut. Comdr. T.
Q: W. Settle's stratosphere flight were
made pub Ho today, showing that life
n tlie form of 'fungus spores or molds
can butvIvo 11 mllos above earth
where humans would die if unpro
tected. . .
CASH AND OTHER
RELIEF ASKED BY
-JOBLESS LEAGUE
SALEM, Nov. 28 (fl1) CSasli and
other relief until national or state
unemployment Insurance is provided
was demanded by representatives of
tho Cltifcons' Unemployment Icaguo at
a legislative hearing lato yesterday,
Governor Julius L. Meier, Mayor
Joe Carson, of Portland, and tho Joint
senate and house unemployment
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EASTERN OREGON
GETS SHIPMENT OF
PORK FOR RELIEF
Another carload of government
pork for relief purposes will do re
ceived In La Grande tomorrow, It was
announced by J. H. Pearo, of tho Un
ion county relief committee. . La
Grande Is the distribution point.
A shipment of other commodities
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LINDBERGHS WILL
FLY TO BRAZIL
RECIFE, (Pornambuco), Brazil,
Nov. 28 (P) Colonel Charles A.
Tjlndbergh, a dispatch from Porto
Praia, Cape Verde Islands, said today,
expects to take off In his flight to
South America at 3:4a a. m., G. M.
T., tomorrow.
All Northern Brazil is cxolted over
the possibility of tho colonel's (.light.
From Natal came tho Information
that Acropostale, the French Interna
tional air Hue, which operates In
South America, had been asked to
prepare a landing p!ace and arrange
Tor control of spectators .
CHICAGO STOCK YARDS
TIE UP IS COMPLETE
CHICAGO, Nov. 2ft V) The Chl
rofio union stock yards will be closed
lu all ship mcnU of livestock at 3 p.
Wednesday, If the present strike
Is not settled Iiy that time.
CHICAGO, Nov. 2B (P) Tho tie up
of tho Chicago stock yards waa com
plete today, tho U, 8. department of
agriculture announced, as 8000 strik
ers picketed tho yards In attempts to
obtain higher wages.
Unloading was at a standstill even
In tho plants of largo packers which
until today were not affected. Strike
breakers were Intimidated and quit
work. Many unloaded trains stood
on side tracks. Pens and chutes were
glutted with livestock.
Representatives of the department
said they were unablo to quote mar
ket prices as thero waa virtually no
trading, ( ( .
TROOPS TAKE
PRISONERS IN
LYNCHING CASE
Governor 'Ritchie, From
Sick Bed, Sends Guards-'
men to Make Arrests. ,:
MOB ATTEMPTS, TO
SAVE TOWNSMEN
Tear Gas Bombs Used By
Troops In California
San Jose Seeks to Close
its ;Case.
SALISBURY, Md., NOT. 28 W) .
Troops sent by Governor Albert C.
KltciUe to nrroit nine guspeott In tho
I'rtnceiis Anne lynohlng today avauu
atcd tlio armory lie re am started
back for Baltimore niter a mob of
more than a thousand persons storm
ed, the, building and were repulsed
with tear gas bombs and buyonets. t ,
They took with them four men
they arrested in Somerset eouutyi
where the lynching occurred October
18. . . '
The troops had been ordered to
Salisbury. when State's Attorney John
B. Robins of Somerset county declln
ed to arrest men sold iby eye wit
nesses to have 'been members of the
mob that lynched George Armwood,
a negro, accused of attacking on eged
'woman.
Three hundred soldiers wen) mobil
ized in. Baltimore laat night and ar
rived here shortly (before dawn. The
arrests followed In short order, al
though five of those sought could
not bo found. i , '; . .. i
' In Annapolis, whore the start log!-
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American Dollar
Debate Goes On
Unabated Today
NEW YORK, Nov. 38 W Two
schools of monetary thought playsd
oratorical tug-o'-war with the, Amer
lean dollar at rival mass meeting
last night.
On one sldo was Dev. Charles E.
Coughlln, "radio priest" of Royal Oak.
Mich,, defending at the Hippodrome
the Roosevelt money policies. On the
other were the Grusadors, urging
"sound" money and decrying Infla
tion. . Coincident with tho two meetings
a manifesto signed by' 37 Oolumibla
university professors was made pub
lic. It urged an "expeditious" return
to tho gold standard by the United
States.
Still anothor element was added to
tho difference of opinion concerning
the administration's money policies
by a letter to Senator Borah of Idaho
In which James P. Warburg, banker,
suggested a "modernized" . Interna
tlonal gold standard. -'
(Continued on Page Two)
New Cabinet Faces
Test on Saturday
PARIS, Nov. aa () Oamllle
Chautemps, newest premier of Prance,
will stako tlie life or his cabinet on
tlio hope of a vote of confidence Sat
urday in the chamber of deputies.
Ho will seek this vote on a minis
terlnl program and his plans for fi
nancial restoration of ithe country.
Political observers say they believe
ho will got this vote without diffi
culty but that tho real test of his
cabinet's life will start Tuesday when
tho chamber will begin Its dlsousslon
of government finance measures.
Trucks, the source of much of yes
terday's confusion and tumult, were
absent. Only 1100 head ot livestock
were trucked In. Yesterday more than
700 vehicles clogged the strcots near
the yards as they waited to unload.
Arrivals by railroad ' early today
totaled 399 carloads with less than
100 unloaded. Commission houses
met the emergency as yesterday, with,
crews of salesmen and white collar
workers'.
Tho strikers have agreed to submit
their side of the difficulty to an arbi
tration board this afternoon.
One hog run of 30.000 head car
ried 15,000 direct to packing plants.
The major packers, Swift, Wilson,
Armour and Cudahy have never rec
ognized the striking union and have
their own handling orews. The direct
shipments were taken care of, but the
others were being unloaded as fast
as possible and locked up