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i epjs m ff Ff mm mm fiw 14 1 ' ft r-? La Grande la The Only Newspaper ' J Printed in La Grande i Covering Union and j Wallowa Counties : . ' J Gateway to Wallowa, j "The Switzerland j of America , VOLUME 32 EASTERN OllEGON'B LEADING KEW8PAPEB LA GRANDE, OREGON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1933 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS NUMBER 92 MOT F L E JLA m!LaM fclL'a J&n&i &L Ua M U 1 IfSf TOO El CITY AWAITS ARRIVAIOF CHRISTMAS Last-Minute Shopping , Under Way Today ' Merchants Are Busy ' PROGRAMsHPLANNED FQR THE WEEKEND Elks Christmas Tree Mon day Morning lions and Firemen Distribut . ing Toys. , Last-minute preparations for Chrlst nuu wera under way tliroughout the city today, and merchants were do ing a thriving biiHlnefts In gift goods and foods. The crowd of shoppers in La Grande today was one of the larg est this fall. ' The Elks, with their purchase of clothing for needy school children pretty well taken care of, were con centrating on preparations for the Christmas morning party for the kid dles at the tree at Depot and Wash ington, when Santa will give out candles ,and nuts. Before this -the children will be guests of the Liberty theatre at a special matinee. . - Some church programs also are (scheduled for Christmas day, but most of them will be held tonight and Sunday. Practically every church in the city is holding special services in honor of Christmas. Today the Lions and the city fire men began their weekend task - of distributing toys and dolls to some 300 needy children in the Lai Grande district. Sunday, also, will have its share of events besides the church pro r grams. -'There -wlll' be . a community carol singing and program at the La Grande hotel from 4.30 to 5:30. Tho La Grande Gun club will hold Its Christmas turkey shoot all Lone Tree beginning at 10 a. m. Tonight carollers from La Grande schools will sing through the city. (Continued on Fagn Two Move Into New Offices In The Foley Building Tho civil works committee and the national re-employment service In Union county are moving into new quarters today, and expect to be set tled by nightfall. Two rooms next to the alley on the ground floor of the New Foley building fronting on Chestnut street have been rented, with tho city and county Jointly standing the expense. Car penters are at work In the offices today. 4 Tho county relief committee head quarters will remain at the court house.. Those in charge of the C. W. A. and re -employment organizations feel that the downtown location will be much more advantageous to the program. J. H. Peare, chairman of the C. W. A. board, announccy'i today that James Woods had been appointed as master timekeeper for Union county. Ho formerly was timekeeper for the O.-W. railroad. JUNE STALCUP LEASES PLANT Tho Associated Oil company dis tribution plant here has been leased by June Stalcup, well known local roan. The lease Is effective now, and Mr. Stalcup bos begun operations. The territory he serves is all of Union county and parts of Wallowa and Umatilla counties. WANTED CHRISTMAS IN APRIL OR MAY Did you know that If some early people had of had their, way, Christ mas might have been observed In April or May? It has an Interesting history. Quoting from one of the modern authorities: "Christmas, the festival of the Na tivity of Christ ,1s observed by the Christian church annually on Dec. 25. "Augustine considered the festivals, Oood Friday, Easter Sunday. Ascen sion Day, and Whitsuntide, as the only festivals which had an Apostolic origin and the sanction of a general council, Christmas he deemed to be of later origin and of lesser author ity. "When the first efforts were made to fix the period of the year when the advent took place, there were. It Is learned from Clement of Alexandria, WILL ROGERS BEVERLY HILLS, CaJ., Dec. 23 There is really not much new under the sun. Thirty-seven years ago a long haired young man come riding a day coach out of the west and said some thing about "you cant cruclfyi us on a cross ot gold, we want the wreath on our bvow to be atudded with about IB sliver ducats to one gold doubloon." '; In- the meantime, ' silver was used as the sole medium of exchange by over three-quarters of the earth's pop ulation. With, us It was a money but never official. It Just had a slot machine value, so lying under Arlington's hallowed soil tonight must be a satisfied smile for It's something to be 37 years ahead of your government. Yours, ' ; IMPROVEMENT AT HOT LAKE PLAN OF DR. GREGORY Announcement waa made today by Dr. J. B. Gregory, formerly of Wal lowa, who has leased the Hot Lake sanltorium., concerning various Im provements planned for the institu tion. Dr. Gregory will make his res idence at the lake, where he also will havo his office. L. P. Allen, of Wallowa, will have charge of a modern drug store to bo located at the sanltorium. Extensive (Continued On Page Four) TWELFTH NIGHT' 4 STAGED AT Ii EL S; "Twelfth Night", a program of dancing, drama, ani music, was pre sented by tho La Grande High school senior class under the direction of Miss Bessie Pettlgrcw yesterday after noon before a large group of students and townspeople. On Twelfth Night (Continued on Page Four) PROGRAM WILL BE EVENT OF SUNDAY The Presbyterian church choir will present a Christmas musical program Sunday evening beginning at 7:30 o'clock In the auditorium of the church, tho program designed to car ry the messago of Christ to those at tending. Tho program follows: Organ "Andante Cantabile" j Tschalkowsky (from Symphony No. 5) Miss Gladys; Miller Processional "Come All Ye Faith ful" (Candle Service) Tho Choir (Continued on Pago Four) Buttercups In Bloom Damerell Picks Blossoms Some say you can't fool Mother Nature about the time of year. If that is so, it must be that spring is here! Anyway, Claude Damerell picked uorno buttercups in full bloom on the hill south of La Grande on Thursday, and has been showing them to his friends as proof. advocates for tho 20th of May and for the 20th or 21st of April. The Oriental Christians generally were of opinion that both the birth and bap tism of Jesus took place on the 6th of January. Julian L, bishop of Rome from A. D. 337-352, contended for the 25th of December, a view to which the Eastern Church ultimately came round, while the Church of the West adopted from their brethren of the East the view that the baptism was on the 6th of January. "When the festival was at length placed in December. It afforded a substitute to the various nations who had observed a festival of rejoicing that the shortest day of the year had passed, besides spanning over the great Interval between Whlttuntlde of ono year and Oood Friday of the next." Senior Missing at Dartmouth Hnndlcnpucd by lack of a clew, police were, conducting an lnten slvo search for Clnronce I... Marks Jr. (uljuvel. , of Philadelphia, Dartmouth soi.ior, who vanished from Ills dormitory In Hanover. N. 11. A paper was tumid in bis room- ducluriiiK tliul ever; )oung mt should sever relations wllh family an" friends and rub shoul ders with tbo working ninn. CANTATA WILL BE SUNDAY EVENING A Christmas cantata, ""The Christ mas Adoration," by Carrie B. Adams, will be sung at tho First M. E. church beginning at 8 o'clock Sunday evening by the Chorus choir, It is announced. Paul Knautz will direct tho choir with Mrs, Ruth Jackson at the organ. . ' The program and sololsta follow: "Angels from the Realms of Glory" Choir "Hark I Tho Herald Angels Sing" i Women's Chorus "While Shepherds Watched" .... Choir "Sing, Oh, Sing This Blessed Morn" - 4. .... Trio Mrs. Sherwood Williams, soprano; Mrs. Thomas McGulre, alto; Sher wood Williams, tenor. "Harkl The Glad Sound" Oholr "Joy to tho World" Soprano solo and choir Mrs. Ray Fuller, soprano "All Praise to tho Eternal Lord" Choir "Tho Shepherd" Tenor solo Sherwood Williams, tenor (Continued on Page Fiver 284 Cff.A. WORKERS ARE PAID $4374 Christmas Cheer in Shape of U. S. Treasury Checks Are Distributed Christinas cheer In dollars and cents were served out to 2K4 men at the civil works disbursing offloo hero to day. Tho C. W. A, payroll for this, county for tho week ending Thurs day night amounted to i374.35, with project No. 8 still unreported. Many of those receiving checks to day were put to work during the last week and It represented their first irionoy in many months. It was a tool Christmas prosontl Approximately 356 men ore at work on the C. W. A. projects now, but those not oh the payroll today includ ed many who wont to work Friday and, will not receive their ' checks until next Saturday. This included 42 on the Glass Hill project.'-whlch was started ' yesterday. ' " ; ' Union county's quota of civil work ers has been set at 383 and It . Is expected that all of those . will bo , (Continued on faite FourV , FAY REFUELS PLANE HERE ' A passenfior plnne, piloted by How ard Pay, lauded at the airport this morning for gasoline. C. M. WiRht brought the passengers to La Grande whero they spent about a half an hour before continuing on to tho west. ' gctrtial Payment Plan Used In Conscience Case SALEM, Dec. 23 m Harry Wll lett, Salem druggist, has rccoived the final chnpter in ft curious tale of guilty conscience, spurred by religion. Three years ago he received $1.19 from a woman in California who said she had stolen a leather wal let from his stpro and was bother ed by her conscience since turn ing to religion. Yoslerdny 40 cents In stumps arrived with tho enclosed note: "Dear Sir: "Thcso stamps I am sending to complete the sxun that I once owed for a leather wallet I stole from your store some years ago. I sent you $1.10 some time ago, Tills I believe will straighten tho thing up In my mind." CHRISTMAS New Cruiser Astoria Launched M Named In honor of Astoria, Ore. pioneer Pacific coast scaportr-ths I' 16th of Uncle Sam's new 10,000-ton cruisers, U. S. S. Asttn'la, waa ;-launched at Bremerton, Wash., navy yard. The vessel is expected to - ' be commissioned May 1. ; HOLDING COMPANY EXPENDITURES OF $23,353 REJECTED SALEM. Doc. 23 m Exepndituros of ! $23,363 a holding company fees ;wtf'jf,rJoot(wV by . tho public,, utilities commissioner today under, the bud get law. Ho hold these expenditures Imprudent and unwise. Tho com panies affected by tho order include: The- West Coast Power company, $4,010, as fco to tho Peoples Light and Power corpora t ion of New York. Tho operating company serves the Oregon coast cities. The Natural Ooo corporation, serv ing Bend, CoquHle, Cottago Grove, Klamath Palls, La Orando and Tho Dalles, $5,050 to the Pacific Public Service company of San Francisco. Tho Malheur Homo Telephone com pany, serving Ontario and Nyssa, $400 as holding company fees to the Moun tain States Telephone company of Boise, Tho Eastern Oregon Light ' and Powor company, which serves Baker and La Grande and vicinity. $4,020 as fco to the Columbia Construction' company of Milwauklc. Tho Hermtaton Light and Power (Continued on Page Five) I M Vi if RE-OPENING HIGHWAYS IN STATETODAY .' -' '1 fl8W . Closed Roads Again Pass able Coast Highway, .Is Still Blocked HALKM, Deo! 23 !') Clowil roinls were heliifr 0ciumI today hi nuuiy flooded HoeMoiut of tho n(nt, U, II. Iluhlock, Hlutu highway engineer an nounced. ' i,., Tho east sldo Pacific highway Is open all tho way fromi Portland south. The Stintiam river receded at Jcf forson whero yesterday It flooded tho highway. Tho west sldo highway was pass able by way of detour at Tigard, near Portland. One-way traffic wa restored on the lower Columbia River highway, though tourists wero warned to drive carefully. Tho upper Columbia River highway will bo opened tonight, it was announced. Tho coast highway In still blocked at Wheeler and thoro is no detour. One-way traffic waa restored on, tho Salmon River and Alsoa highways. A detour wan opened on tho Mt. Hood highway which waa closed lloar Park dale. Mora .than a score of houses along Pringlo creek In southeast Salem wero flooded on tho ground floor today, but tho waters wero receding slowly. Overflows from creeks and gulches ran from nix to 18 Inches dcop in several Salem streets of tho section. (Continued on Pago Two) PRAYER NEEDED POPE PIUS SAYS VATICAN CITY, Dec. 23 PJ Pope Pius today told a world entering the Christmas, season that (prayer. Is nec essary In tho present International situation. . That Is tho world of tho church, said his holiness, In tills moment "so filled with contrasts negotiations and refusals to negotiate conflicts and contradictions." He said all other odvlco dorlvcd today from human foresight, precau tions, efforts at negotiations, and even generosity "secerns to uy to bo really unfounded." Wheat Today 'hliigi Hint Port land ivlmit markets were elmed twlny be cause of the hotl-liiy weekend. WINNIPEG, Dec. 23 (Af Wheat prices mere or less charted their own courts!) itoday as tho Christmas feel ing pervaded tho pit and trading thinned to slim proportions. Meaner export buying mot with no opposi tion In tho shapo of offerings and values advanced to a la higher at the close. Final prices wero close to tho high points. December wheat closed at 01 c. May at 01'ac, and July at JUST BEFORE PRESSTIME KWITZ CHAIU1K8 KKAMK-lIP : .''.- COLD HITS MONTANA TODAY FILES tOMH SUIT . . ALLKC1KI) EXTOHTIONIST IIBLD 1 , AKIS, Deo. 23 im Mr: and Mm. Robert aorilon Suite, Amoiliwiis held by French police i on ,f ettplonQRe clmrgcH, flatly declured theniHelvca victims of a hIIcc "rrume-iii" when they .were examined by a magistrate today. ., .. HELENA, Mont., Dec. 23 m 3weeplng In from the north with out hint of Its approach, a blizzard atruck most of Montana today, send ing tho mercury down S3 dogvcis lu ten minutes in Qreat Falls with as heavy docllno elsewhere in tho state. LOS ANOKLKS, Dep. 83 VF A suit for1 $22n,0O (iinmRes, charging her father und her brother with klilnnp lng threats, and Intimidation, wus filed here today by Mrs. Mary Allen Towle. The defendants nro Albert C. Allen, senior and Junior, of Medford, Oregon.. . w, ' PHILADELPHIA, Deo. 23 (P) Police today arrested William Schultzo, 34, In an alleged plot to extort $30,000 from Lowing J. Rosenwnld, merohant and Philanthropist. Rosenwald, who Is chairman of tho board of Sears, P.oebuck and company, told tho po lice ho recolvod a lotter about ten days ago demanding money and threatening him with bodily harm If ho refused to deliver It: BRICK MASON TO DIE FOR SETTING "SFIRE1N BERLIN J " lly W. K, llrockmunn LEIPZIG, Deo. 23 (yi) Tho supremo court ended throe months of deliber ations today with 1ho vordlct that Marlmis Van Dor Lubbo, 24, a brick mason from Holland; must dlo for sotting flro tol tho, rolchstag building in Benin lust February. At tho samo time the court frocd four communists whom the stato had hold to bo responsible with Van Dor Lutobo. Thus ended ono of tho. most spectaoular trials in Oermnn history. Tho communists acquitted wero Ernst Torglor, former communist whip In tho rolchstag, and thrco Bul garian refugees, Qcorgl Dlmitroff, Blagol Popoff and Wossll Tanoff , COMPLETES WORK PORTLAND, Oro Doc. 23 (A) Ad journment until Jan. 27, whon the group will meet In Washington, D. 0 was reached lost night by the national control coironittoo of tho NBA lumber Industry code. Tho comanlttoo which began ltn do 11 be rat Ions hero Dec. 12, concluded 1U meeting with the announcement that minimum prices set In Novem ber for lumber undor tho NRA code woro approved without variation and will contlnuo in effect through tho first three months of 191!. Announcement will bo mndo later from national headquarters of tho commission In Washington, D. C, concerning tho method of allocating operating hourt for tho next quarter to mills throughout the country, ELGIN HOYS TO SEE SHOW According -to word rocelvcd from Elgin, tho Elgin theatre will glvo tho klddlcn of that comtnrunlty a Christ mas presont Monday afternoon In tho form of a free show, consisting of comedies and cartoons. Tho show Is freo for children of grado school ago and undor. BETHLEHEM, WORLD READY FOR By The Afwoclalert Vrvuft An air of expectancy and devotion hovered today over Bethlehom, where Christ was born. Devout pilgrims awaited tho hour for traditional rit ual to commence. Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, first lady of tho land, stood between two grandchildren, Slstle and Bungle, and handed out Uto first gifts to 1600 poor children or the nation's capital. Belsnlckcl polished up hi switch and prepared to call upon tho boys and girls of tho Pennsylvania Ger man families. Red clad Santa Claus plowed through northland snows on his way to everywhere else. There is a possibility of a whlto Christmas SLACKENING OF RAIN IN WESTOREGON Gives Swollen Rivers a ' Chance to Recede; Cool- : er Weather Is Due columbiaTiiver ! still on rampage Cowlitz County, Washing ton, B a dl y ; Flooded; . Weather Stays Warm in La Grande l ;V. , ' Clearing weather -over much of thtf Vaclflo northwt afforded relief for ; flood stricken oommuiiltle. Along with this announcement was a pre diction by the weather man that It would be colder tonight In Eastern Oregon, with a moderate northerly wind offshore, and that temperatures next week would be near normal. ) Near thormal temperatures - for La .Grande this , late in the year would , send the mercury, below freezing point each night and not much above 38 or 4J in tho daytime. No snow la forecast, although occasional rains were Indicated. ' . Friday was one of the warmest days In December In local weather history, . with tho meroiiry up to 69 above in La Grande. . The. au-tlme December.' maximum here Is 63 above. The min- : mum lost , night was 45 above, three ; degrees cooler than on Friday, When tho December all-time mark equalled 48 above. . . . . ', Relief from the northwest's week of j storms and heavy rains, .offering ; n-chance for swollen rivers to recede v and, for repairs to storm damage, was definitely In eighty today, Edward L. Wells; prfrtjlandi'nwte6)j'01osist, an nounced .in Portland;-.. . i;.-,r:,:fi' Rain's have been much lighter ovetf tho northwest and but little, if any, rnln la In sight for today, tonight o? Sunday, . 1 ' Wells exprossed the belief that the) Wlllamotte river at Portland Is near ing Its crest, Mid does not contain the serious flood threat of Friday. ,. . . t, Columbia High ' ' : '" Tho Columbia has risen more than n foot at Umatilla, howovef, and this condition will retard tho fall In tho (Continued on Page Flvoj : ,... - : Byrd. Flies Over ' , Uncharted Ross ( Sea On Survey ABOARD BYRD FLAGSHIP, Ant nrtlca, Doc33 (A1) ByfMnck ay Radio) --A flight ovor tho uncharted vast- ness of the Rosa sea has convinced Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd that ho will bo ablo to push his ship much, farther towurd Little America than he first expected. " f When his flagship, ploughing along' tho 150th meridian, encountered what ' seemed to bo an Impenetrable ico 1 pack, Admiral Byrd ordered tho ship f back to open water, lowered his huge senplano over tho sldo ttnd took off -yesterday In a surprise flight over tho unknown spacos lying ahead.' Ho returned four hours later with tho report that, thoro was no heavy v (Contlmtod on Pago Eight) ; Insull Hopes To Prolong His Stay i ATHENS, Greeoo, Dec. 23 (PJ Samuel Insull, former American, util ities operator, today filed an appeal with the supremo stato -council against tho government's decision, ' that ho must lcavo Greeco by Jan. 31. Insull waa Borvcd Thursday with ; notlco that tho government would mako no further extension of his pollco resident permit, already ex tended by a previous order from tho original expiration dato, Doc. 31. ; . YULETIDE in some sections whero today It was green. i . - Colorado and Utah silver minora carried ono celebration into anothor, and danced and sang for tho presi dent's silver program and for Julo Joy. i Tho president will read Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" to four generations of tho Roosevelt family, and that will be the Whlto House Christmas day highlight. Legal wine will accompany the tur . key In hotels of many states. The ' Salvation Army will havo food on the tables of all the poor that can (Continued On Pago Plvo) ' v. M
