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VOLUME 32
KASTEIIN OKEQON'H LEAUINO NEWSPAPER
LA GRANDE, OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1933
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRBSg
NUMBER 79
APPROVES SALES TAX MILL
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Siting
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2,056 PUPILS
IN LA GRANDE
CITY SCHOOLS
Supt. Herbert Evans
Makes Report Today on
Registration Figures
L, H. S. TOTAL IS
SOMEWHAT LOWER
With Six Months of Year
Still Ahead, Indications
Point to a Fairly Good
Gam.
At the conclusion of tlie first three
months of the 1033-34 school year,
enrollment In tho city schools stands
at 8.050, It was announced today liy
Supt. Herbert Evans. This Is only
nine less students than enrolled
throughout the l!)3'-33 school year,
tho final figure for last year being
2,0(5.
With approximately six months of
school ahead, every indication pointed
to a greater attendance when the
1033-34 year is completed than was
recorded last year, on the basis of
the enrollment so far.
Enrollment In the grade schools
for the 1933-34 year already has sur
passed the total of elementary stu
dents last year, when the figure was
1.413. This year's total Is 1,428, a
gain of 15 students.
In the High school, however, the
present total of 628 is 24 students
less than the final total for last year,
652.
Present attenc'ftuice In the., grade
schools is as follows: Central 487,
Oreonwood 394, Blvevla 206, Acker
man 186, Willow 95. i-V --, V
These figures are based on monthly
reports as of Nov. 29.
EAGLES MAKE
PROGRAM FOR
RELIEF WORK
The Eagles lodge will carry on Its
relief work according to the regular
program, during the Christmas season
it was announced following a regular
meeting last night at tho hall. A
Christmas tree will ibe enjoyed by the
members and their families on Dec
22 at tho hall. '
Plansfor the presentation of the
musical comedy, "Tno Koaa to uiory,
Dec. 15. were discussed.
Supper was served at 6:30 o'c'ock
by all members of the lodge who hud
birthdays during November.'
STOGY
And all who heard that which was
told by tho shepherds concerning
tho child who was born to bo Sa
viour of the world wondered at
the tidings, but Mary kept all
these things and pondered them
in her heart.
SHOPPING
DAYS
CHRISTMAS
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SOME SUGGESTIONS
FOR YULETIDE GIFTS
It's getting that time of the year
when writing letters to Santa Claus
Is a popular pastime. Especially
among the kiddles, who address the
envelope North Pole and ask Dad or
Mother or the postman to mall It.
However, It appears that as people
become more mature, the habit of
writing to Santa stops.
So. Just to help tho cause along,
the Inquiring Reporter was resurrect
ed for a day to find out what vari
ous men and women up and down the
streets wanted for Christmas. But
they didn't wan to tell I
WILL
ROGERS
BEVERLY HIliLS, Col., Dec, 7
Guess you all heard Mr. Roosevelt on
the radio Wednesday night. These
old (big boys can all get up beforo
their little audiences and yell for
stabilization, amortisation, gold stan
dard or platinum finish. Then the
president can come to the micro
phone with that convincing manner
of his and the rest of "em Just ao
well wash up their little speeches and
eo home.
Sav I guess there must be another
conference on somewhere, l seo wnere
tho United States Is accused of con-i
nlvery. by noon, and tho conference
only opened at 11 a. m. wnat wau.a.
a conference be witnout tne gom,.
Yours, i
RECEIVE RETURNS
FROM SEAL SALE
. IN THIS COUNTY
r.r.trlfenHnna to the Christmas
Seal fund are beginning to come in
on nr t.im ennntv and the
sale promises to meet with general
SUCCeSS, Mrs. JS. A. WLCILUCIUMii,
man. announced) this morning. Part
of tho receipts are used In the county
by the Union county neaun
Hon while the remainder Is sent to
M nmmn Rtntj TUberCUlOSlS OSSO-
ctatlon where It is used to stamp out
tuberculosis in Oregon.
TitHoiviiiniiiK wns first among all
causes of death 25 years ogo and
today It has dropped to sovenm,,ai-t.hnitc-h
still leadlnjr among ' the
younger, age groups, the chairman
reveals. Measures iniuaren aim puj
nnrt.ri hv nhrlstmfts Seal funds helll-
ed to make thl progress, it Is said.
Facts about tne disease in ik
state are still startling, however, Mrs.
McEachran added. Oregon' Is still
losing one tuberculosis patient per
c"lay. A quarter of a million dollars,
tax funds, are being spent annually
(Continued on Page Four)
COURT ACTSON
UNION PETITION
Improvement of the two miles of
road from Union to Union Junction
wnu ikUtah tn n. petition vesterday to
the county court, which acted on It
in a way to allow lor improvement
nnrt ri.na.ira. The petition was signed
by many business men and residents
of Union. The county court mil
pitted its December term late yester
day In the office of Judge U. O.
Couch.
Tlie petition pointed to the need
for an all-year-around road to the
Junction.
A petition from J. A. Nice to create
a rodent control district In the coun
ty was continued for the term.
MERCURY PLUNGE
IN '32 RECALLED
Mild December temperatures con
tinued in La Ornnde during the last
24 hours, with .16 of an inch of rain
falling, and traces of snow that
melted quickly. The minimum last
night was 32 above even freezing
weather.
A year ago today the mercury
plunged to two above and on Dec.
0. 1932, dropped still farther down
the tube to eight below. The mini
mum remained below zero for seven
consecutive days. Beginning Dec. 6
lost year the maximum temperature
was not above freezing point for 12
straight days.
Yesterday's maximum was 45 above.
Tho weather forecast is for cloudy
weather with rain possibly tonight or
Saturday; little change In tempera
ture. quiring Reporter decided to change
his role and suggest a few gifts for
some of La Grande's leading citizens.
Ho hopes they will take kindly to the
suggestions and promises to write
dear old Santa about it If they do.
Let's see.
For Victor R. Melville, president of
the city commission, a nice, white
ponf to ride In the U. P. celebration
parado next July. (Between Christ
mas and July the pony could be fat
tened). For circuit Judge J. ,W. Knowlcs.
(Continued on Page Three)
CHICKEN COOP
'YJ' f r
When nhie-yenr-old Mary Jerome
was round sleeping- in a Pennsa li
ken, X. J., chicken coop, she said
she had mil away from her par
ents in Philadelphia because she
was "ufmld to go bock home.'
Hero she's shown at the Camden
County Juvenile Detention Home
with a bandaged hand which she
charged whs burned to punish
ELKS MAKE PLANS '
FOR CHRISTMAS;
MEMORIAL HELD
Juvenile relief work will comprise
the B. P. O. Elks relief program dur
ing the Christmas season and plans
have been completed for carrying out
the work, it was announced last night
by the committee, of which Jesse
V. Andrews Is chairman, at the meet
ing of the lodge at the temple. Tlie
Christmas tree, erected annually on
the corner of Depot ond Washington,
will be put up the week before
Christmas and presents will be dis
tributed to deserving children on
Christmas morning.
A dance will be held in the ball
room of the temple on Dec. 12, It
was announced.
Memorial Services
Memorial services were held for
members of the lodge who have died
(Continued From Page Four)
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START YOUR 0tcMi
HOME LOANS
APPROVED IN
THIS COUNTY
Government Bonds and
Cash to Be Exchanged
For 26 Mortgages.
CITY LIENS AND -TAXES
TO BE PAID
Total Amount Involved is
$33,599.21 Pay-Off to
Come With H. E. Wal
ter's Arrival.,
Approval of 20 loans by the Home
Owners Loan corporal Ion in t his
county' announced today, will bring
933,1189.21 In government money mid
home loan bonds to tills section.
Twenfy-tilght loans (were .approved
for this county, but two have been
withdrawn.
Mortgages amounting to $26,864.66
will be paid up, with bonds and cosn,
ond city assessments amounting to
$1,466.66 will be paid. Also, county
taxes will be benefited by the sum of
$4,348 In cash. In addition to this,
appraisals, attorney fees and abstract
work will bring an additional ,$900
Into the county.
Several of the loans include provi
sions for repair of roofs and for
painting, and this work will be let
to local contractors, who already have
bids In for the projects, said C. J.
Shorb, district manager with, head
quarters here.
Actual payment of the home loans
will not bo made until H. E. waiter,
from state headquarters; in Portland,
arrives here In a week or .ten days.
All '.'that envbfC Jto.'.'j.aonfl, pend
ing his arrival is to complete lega;
work on some of the loan projects.
(Continued on Page Four)
Gassett, Wardell
Reach Finals In
Oregon Contest
Gene Gassett and Bert Wardell,
vocalists whose harmonizing has won
them much support in La Grande,
were the winners of tho La Grande
group in the semi-finals tn the Mc
Kesson contest yesterday In Portland.
Their number was" one of a group
of three selected at the Liberty thea
tre Tuesday- and sent to Portland
with all expenses paid.
Being selected from the La Grande
group entitles them to go back to
Portland In January, with all ex
penses paid, and compete with win
ners from 40 other theatres In the
state.
Mr. Gassett and Mr. Warden, ac
companied by Macllzabeth Cooper
and Freed Bales, tho other two con
testants, returned this morning.
Eagle" The Country Needs Right Now
And Furthermore, He Did It
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' I'll I don't get more votes than Walter Barowskl, I'll Jump oft the
dock," Hesse Knobb declared during the recent Bremerton, Wash.,
mayoralty campaign. Barowskl won and here's Knabb making good
i- . his promise at the Bremerton municipal dock. ,
2j500,000 MEN
NOW AT WORK ON
IC.W. A. PROJECTS
.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 Devel
opments today from varied angles of
the adminlBtratlon's program Included
announcements thatk 2,500,000 men
wiiteH employed by the civil works
administration, the allotment of 41,
688,209 from the public works fund
for projects in 21 states and RFC
purchases of bank stock aggregating
$22,000,000.
Other activities Included an en
thusiastic statement on the recovery
outlook by Henry Bruere, federal
credit "co-ordlnator, as he returned
to his post, as president of the Bowery
Savings bhnk in New York, purchase
by the Surplus Relief corporation to
day of 6050 hogs; and a move by
Harry L. Hopkins,, civil works admin
istrator, to remove OWA county direc
tors whoso appointments were "based
on political consideration."
(Continued on Page Twol
ARLO NOYES
IS ELECTED
BY DEMOLAYS
Arlo Noyes will head the activities
of the De Molay following his elec
tion as master councilor lost night
at the Masonic hall. Wallace Kaapcke
was chosen senior councilor and
Robert Zwcifel, Junior councilor.
RUMOR LINDY
TO EXPLORE
THE AMAZON
Colonel and His Wife Fly
to i'ara, brazil u rom
Natal Today. V
KIO IB JANMHO, Dec. 8 VFIVn
conrlrnuMl rt'jwrU were recelvwl llere
(odny Hint Colonel Charles A. I,lnl
uenrli liitenils to fly tomorrow townrd
the lieoilwnteni or tlio Amazon, far
Into the relatively unexplored Interior
of South Amerlrii.
It was said the colonel Intends to
spend a month in the Jungles hunt
ing for tho "lost" white pigmy tribes.
No indication was given as to
whether tho' purported trip would
lncludo Mrs, Lindbergh.
It was said, howevev, that the flight
Into the Amazonian region would be
made from Para, near the 100-mllo
witje mouth of tho Amazon.
PARA, Brazil, Dec. 8 UP) Col. and
Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh, homewnrd
bound for the Christmas holidays,
landed here at 1:30 p. m Eastern
Standard time, today after a flight
from Natal, Brnzll.
They had covored 1,604 mlleB from
Natal. Moro than 3.000 miles still
lies between them! and Miami.
Col. and Mrs. Lindbergh made the
flight from Natal, 1001 miles, In
soven hours, 15 minutes.
MYSTERY BLAST
IN WYOMING CITY
TOimiNOTOM, Wyo., Dec. 8 (P-
With ono known death and others
suspected, senrchers today began
exploration or the still-smouldering
ruins of Torrlngton's business district,
wrecked by a mysterious blast last
night.
National guardsmen patrolled tho
town of 2600 us volunteer organisa
tions tugged at the mass of wreckage
left by the blast.
Virgil Duckworth was dead and 20
(Continued on Pago Thrco)
Wheat Today
TJie price or local cdkIi whent
h((hk1 at about no cents hulk to
day, ornmlltifr In qiiotnllon.s at
the I'limrcr I'tonrlng Mills. Port
land ciiKh iiH mi(H,
CHICAGO, Dec. 8. m Stop loss
selling In a market with speculative
buying down to a 1 mo-it nil led to a
maximum fall of moro than 2 cents
for wheat today.
Doubts regarding tho monetary sit
uation were looked ( upon by numer
ous traders an the main factor In re
fusal of the wheat market to respoml
to constructive news. Declines in
prices today were In the foe of un
official estimates that 5. 000, 000 acres
of domestic wheat land woultl afford
no winter pasturage, and that tho
southwest demand for feed grains
would consequently bo 50,000,000
bun ho Is greater than usual.
Wheat closed unstable, 1 ar 2c
under yesterday's finish, corn at
c off. oats fc off, and pro
visions 2c to 17c up.
JUST BEFORE
PRESSTIME
9 m .
LIQUOIt I'llICE WAlt FLAKES
F. R. SIGNS SEVEN CODES
FAMOUS JAPANESE DIES
FAVORS HUGE P. W. PROGRAM
SAN FRANCISCO, Deo. 8 VP) A
liquor price war broke out here today,
featured by signs of at least two targe
dealers offering blended whisky at
us oeuiK a pint mid gin as low as Htt
cents a pint. Table wines wvro offer
ed In soma places as flow tut 31) cents
a quartf and $1.11) a gallon.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 m Presi
dent Roosevelt today approved seven
new Industrial codes including one
for the furniture manufacturing In
dustry, bringing tlie total of codes
now In force to 10.
TOKYO, Deo. 8 (A5) Count Oom
bel Ynmamoto, 81, twice premier of
Japan and a naval hero of the Russo
Japanese wur In which lie served ns
an ad ml nil, died tonight.
BUFFALO, N. Y., Deo. 8 (P) Sen
ator Robent M. LaFollette, "Wisconsin
Progressive, has announced his In
tention of proposing a ton miuon
dollar public works program to con
gress.
PARIS, Dec, 8 (VP) Reports of a
mutiny- aboard the convict ship La
Martlnlere, Bteuinlng toward French
Gtilana with a cargo , of more than
(100 prisoners, wero said today by tlie
ministry of Interior to b "greotily
exaggerated."
SENATE PASSES
r BILL TO BORROW
I FUND FOR RELIEF
SALEM. Ore., Dec. 8 (P) The
state Ben a to passed Its first major
measure Thursday In approving the
hotiBe bill to authorize the Btato of
Oregon to borrow up to $3,000,000
from tho federol government lor un
employed relief, the loan to be se
cured by anticipated liquor revenue.
The bill now goes to the governor.
The league of Oregon, cities lost
night unanimously voted support of
the gcnoral sales tax for school relief.
The vote included moro than 30 rep
resentatives of cities. Tlie consensus
was this sfUeB tax is not like the one
voted down at the last election.
Some of the speakers expressed be
lief that action of some of the grange
leaders in opposing any kind of- a
sales tax was not backed up by the
actual members. The league of Ore
gon cities declared It would support
and boost the school relief sales tax
, (Continued on Pago Biz)
JOHNSON DEFENDS
AMERICAN DOLLAR
NEW YORK, Doc. 8 (ff) Tlie
"Roosevelt dollar," in tho wotxls of
General Hugh 8. Johnson, NRA clUef.
Is "tho soundest money on tho face
of tho globe,"
General Johnson told members of
the National Manufacturers associa
tion last night that tho president Is
"on sound, ground." Only oi few hours
earlier the association members had
applauded a plea for "rugged indi
vidualism" as opposed, to "ragged col
leotivelsm." ; He scoffed at the criticism that tho
government had, boon "dictatorial" In
tho framing of codes.
"Every cotlo came by agreement,"
he said. "Hie agreements came
through a. long and painful process,
but they came by common consent
and hot toy any federal dictum."
He urged tho manufacturera to "do
ycui- own thinking," and suld that
criticism from political groups op
posed to President' Itoosovelt Is natural.
NEGRO SLAIN; THEN
MAD MOB TAKES HIM
KOUNTZE. Tex., Dec. 8 W David
Orogory, a negro cx-convlct accused
of criminally attacking and slaying a
white woman, was shot to death when
ha allegedly resisted arrest by a posse
and his bcly Inter mutilated and
burned oy a mob which dragged it to
a pyre In the negro section, of
Kountzo oarly today.
Officers and Incensed citizens had
been searching for the negro, since
Mrs. Mclllfl Williams Brockman, 30,
wifo of a farmer, was found dead on
a highway near hero last Saturday
Lost night a posse trailed the negro
to his hiding place In tho belfry of a
VOTE 39-21;:
ECKLEY.ALLEN
OPPOSE BILL
Measure . Passes Despite
Crushing Sales Tax ;
Defeat Last July. '
SENATE WILL ACT
NEXT ON PROPOSAL
Upper House Busy Today
With Liquor Control
Problem Com mittee
Makes Report. . '
SALEM, Deo. 8 VP) The new
sales tax proposal, one and one halt '
per cent on sales or tangible per- .
(tonal property and on grow earning
of utilities, passed Its first handle, to
day when the house of the Oregon
legislature approved It by a 39 to St
vote. The revenue front tlie tax would
be used exuluslvelyor publlo schools.
The measure, which now) goos to
the senate, was argued all morning
and, the vote taken during tho noon,
hour. A sales tax plan, wna defeated
by the people last July nearly five to
one. i - -
T3ie roll call, with every member
present, showed the tally as follows:
For ithe bill Eelton, Best, Brock
way, Chllds, Chrlsmon, Clarke, Dam-
masoh, Duerst, Gordon. Oouley, Gra
ham, Hall, Herman, Herron, Hill, Hor
an, Huntington, Judd, Keasey, Ijon
ergan McAlear, .McOloskey,- MoCor
nach, McPhllllps, ' Miller, Nichols,
Oakes, Paget, Price, Scott, fiemon,
Snider. Stookdale, Taylor, ; Turner,
Walker, Weathorford, Wells and Wln-
'Against the' bill Abroms, Allen,
Beckman, Bennett, : Oooter, Del oh,
Eckley,- Hilton, Johnson, Lang, Lewis.
Lynch, Martin, Oleen, Paul us, Ryan,
Snedecor, Staples, Wyera and Speaker
Snell. .
The sales tax bill, as passed by the .
house, calls for a one and half per
cent tax on retail sales of (tangible
personal property, modeled closely at- .
ter the California law. The bill also
Includes the same tax upon gross (
earnings of utilities. There would be
no tax on personnl or professional
service or wages. The tax would bo
passed on to the ultimate consumer,
and was oxpeotod to raise $3,000,000
(Continued on Page Sir)
Recommend Tax
Of $2.60 Gallon
On Hard Liquor
WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 W) The
president's special Interdepartmental
alcohol committee has recommended
that congress impose' a tax 'of t2.60
a gallon on distilled spirits as com
pared with the present si.10 tax. ;
The committee also recommended
that all beers bo taxed $0 a barrel, .
the same as tho present 3.2 brew.
The present tax on beers of alco
holic content In excess - of 3.2 Is 16
a barrel.
The commltteo recommended a 16
cents per gallon tax on still wines
(Continued on Page Six)
Father Admits He
Killed Small Son
LITTLETON, Colo.. Deo. 8 W)
Sheriff B. E. Monzlngo of Arapahoe
county, announced early today that
Donald K. Smith had admitted re
sponsibility for the death of his three
year old son. ,
Deputy District Attorney A. T.
Monson moved at once to prepare
muttler charges against Smith.
Monzlngo and Monson declared
the wire, Mrs. Mabel Jotters Smith,
told thorn the boy was beaten and
kicked by his father in a fit of rage
after tho child had asked him lor
candy.
negro church at Vath, a town be.
tween Kountze and Beaumont, where
he was ahot aiSct wounded when offl
cere said ho drew a pistol, and re
sisted arrest.
The wounded negro, unconscious,
was token to a hospital at Beaumont
but when officers received informa
tion a tiKb was forming at Koutze
and starting toward Beaumont, they
took the negro away In an automo
bile, trying to protect him. , , '
Without regaining consciousness or
being ablo to make any otatement as
(Continued on Pag Four
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