La Grande evening observer., December 30, 1933, Page 1, Image 1

Improvement Proposal Is Made
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VOLUMB 32
EASTERN OREGON'S LEADING KEWSPAPEB
LA GRANDE, OREGON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1933
MEMBEB ABSOCIATBI) PRESS
NUMBER 97
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REDUCED TO
$193,704 IS
WORD TODAY
C. C. Hockley Notifies
City Manager McAllis
ter of Action.
FURTHER DETAILS
REMAIN UNKNOWN
City Asked For Loan and
Grant of $257,802 Cut
From This Amounts to
$64,098.:
The Oregon public works ndinlnls
I rat Ion board haa forwarded to Well
ington for final action, the La Grande
Beaver Creek pipeline repair pro
ject, It was announced this morning
by City Manager Angus McAllister.
However, the project went to Wash
ington carrying request for $193,704,
loan and grant,, as compared with the
J57,802 asked by the city. This rep
resents a lopping off of 504,098.'
Locally, no Information was avail.
able as to whether the reduction was
made toy the Oregon P. W, A. forces,
whether In the power project, or gen
erally. ......
Mr. MoAilteter received this state
ment from O. C. Hockley, engineer
for the P. W. A. board: "Your ap.
plication for loan and: grant In the
amount of (93,704 for water-power
project nas ocen lorwurucu w no,L
Ington." Following receipt of the news, V,
R. Melville, president of the city
commission called a meeting of civic
club heads, to give them the Infor.
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One Tax Lifted
From Motorists
New Year's Day
La Grande and Union county
motorists will have one tax lifted from
their shoulders beginning New Year's
day.
It Is the one-half cent federal tax
on gasoline, levied beginning June
17 as one of the extra taxes designed1
to service public works borrowings.
Uncle Bam still retains a gasoline tax
of one cent, however, the change
Jan. 1 lowering this from 1 cents.
FIRE DAMAGES
SMALL HOUSE
ON N. THIRD
A small, unoccupied house on North
Third street was damaged by flames
at an early hour this morning, the
alarm being sounded at 3:45 a. m.
The fire was controlled after con
siderable damage was done. Recall
was at 4:55 a. m.
This Is the first fire in La Grande
In several Says time.
ODD FELLOWS
PLAN PROGRAM
R. J. Kitchen was appointed by the
Odd Fellows at a meeting held last
night to make arrangements for a
program and dance to be enjoyed
during January by the Odd Fellows,
Itcbekans and their friends, the date
to be set later. Mr. Kitchen will
work out the details and report at
the mooting next Friday evening.
Other routine business also was transacted.
EXPLAINS INSURANCE
ON BANK DEPOSITS
The following Is one of a series of
Information released by A. K. Parker,
cashier of the Flint National bank ot
La Orande, In explanation of how
deposits in participating banks will
be Insured under law beginning Jan.
1, 1934. The first of this series was
published Friday. Editor's Note.
The permanent Insurance fund goes
into operation July 1. 1934, and covers
the deposits as follows: In full up to
(10.000; deposits of 10.001 to $50,000
will be Insured for H0.000 plus 75?,
of the amount In excess of $10,000;
deposits of more than $50,000 will be
Insured for $40,000 plus 50 of the
amount In excess of $50,000.
From time to time, as such become
necessary, assessments equal to Vi of
1 of deposits may be levied against
all class "A" stockholders, same to
be paid to deposit Insurance account
of the corporation. All dividends by
participating banks are prohibited
WILL
ROGERS
r$gys:
BEVERLY HILLS, Cal.. Dec. 29
Roosevelt Is the most, consistently
good radio man there Is. Just when
you would think there Is nothing of
Importance to be Bald that hadn't
been said, he comes on Thursday
night and gained over a hundred
million new friends outside of the
U. S. and perhaps that many here,
by announcing that the U. S. was
not going to mess around In any
South or Central American country
with a gun.
It was his best speech of all. If
he had JUBt gone a little further and
said. "We not only wont Interfere
but we wont have any battleships
peeping in the window while you are
having your party." While we didn't
land troops in Cuba we are close
enough that they all could have
waded athoro. Yours,
IMPROVING OF
AIR FIELD IS
POSSIBILITY
Lieut. Smith, C. W. A.
Aviation Representa
tive, Confers With Lo
cal Authorities.
The possibility that the La Grande
airport might be Improved under (lie
civil works administration through
expenditure' of some. 1 5,000 to $20,
000. existed today, depending liipoji
city or county ownership or long
time lease of the property,
Lieut. Basil B. Smith, aviation rep
resentative of the C. W. A. stationed
In Portland, spent yesterday In la
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HOG-CORN PLAN
OF ADJUSTMENT
DISCUSSED HERE
The hog and corn adjustment pro
gram was discussed here yesterday by
county agricultural agents of North
eastern Oregon counties at the office
of H. O. Avery in the federal build
ing. Detailed Instructions have not
been released from Washington. D. C.
but Mr. Avery believes that the set-
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PIERCE TO TALK
WITH ROOSEVELT
WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 Represen
tative Walter M. Pierce, of La Grande,
Ore., has been dated to see President
Roosevelt next week and will have
a talk with Postmaster General Far
ley for discussion of Oregon patron
age that remains unsettled. He saw
Farley briefly Thursday, but the
meeting was no more than an ex
change of greetings, Pierce oald.
With Commissioner Collier of the
Indian bureau he discussed the prob
lem of salvaging infested timber areas
of tho Warm Springs reservation, and
said tho solution may bo a bill to
mako available half a million dollars
for portalbo sawmills to operate there.
until such assessments arc paid.
While capital stock subscription
need not be paid prior to July 1,
1934, the federal deposit insurance
becomes operative Jan. 1, 1934. All
national banks, state member banks,
and non-member participating banks
shall by Jan. 1, 1934 pay to the In
surance corporation an amount equal
to of t,, with another V4 of W,
subject to call during the next six
months, of their deposits falling with
in the $2500 temporary Insurance pro
vision above noted. When the full
Insurance provision becomes effective
consideration will be given the con
tributions thus made and any un
used portion thereof on the books of
the corporation. The act further pro
hibits loans by member banks to Its
own officers and eliminates double
liability on stock of national banks
issued after this act goes Into effect,
(To Be Concluded)
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Defends 'Parked
Car' Killing
Hearing harm lo Ilulh K. Heller,
1 9-ycnr-old co-ed, lop pliolo,
Drltton 1). young, 21, law stu
dent, led below, shot anil
killed Curl MetcliiiK. 52, truck
farmer, 'right below, when
Molding nlloinptod to pull tho
girl from the car liv,whl;h ,lio
lound Moiiiv parked'! lit mi Wit
along roiid near Cleveland,
O., Young told omcci-s who hold
him for questioning.
MILD WEATHER
TO CONTINUE
Continuance of the mild weather
of the last few weeks was promised
for the New Year's weekend and for
the following week by tho Oregon
weather report today. Unsettled
weather with mild temperatures was
expected to continue until about Jan,
6 at least.
ESTHER RUSAU
HAS OPERATION
Miss Esther Rusau. of Elgin, un
derwent a major operation this morn
ing at the Grande Ronde hospital.
She entered, yesterday.
WHAT
$39315,000
IS VALUE OF
1933 CROPS
Majority of Commodities
Worth More than in
1931 and 1932.
WHEAT GAINS IN
DOLLARS, CENTS
12,240,000 Tons of Cher
ries Bring in $biz,uuu;
Wheat Listed at $10,
320,000. -
PORTLAND, Ore., Deo. SO (Special)
The total farm value of crops pro
duced In Oregon In 1033, as listed by
the U. 8. department of agriculture.
stands at $30,315,000, It was an
nounced today.
Wheat, oats, barley, rye, tame and
wild hav. rjotatoes, hops, peacnes.
cherries and fresh prunes all showed
gains In valuation over both 1B3H ana
1031 In Oregon.
Corn, apples (except commercial),
pears and grapes anowcu .
over 1B32 but lagged behind 1931.
Commercial apples valuation was
behind both 1931 and 1932. and dried
prunes and cranberries oxcoeaca ium
but fell behind 1931. , .
' flood Wheat Crop , '
All wheat raised In Oregon In 1933
has a farm valuation of 10.320,000.
Total production of wheat was 17,
492,000 bushels, and acreage harvest
cd was 897,000.
Value of the apple crop oi ,uuo,-
000 bushels was 2,263,ouu, ana oi
this 600,000 bushels were commercial
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C.W.A. Payroll
Hits New High
Of J56, 205.15
Civil works checks from the U. 8.
treasury amounting to $6,205.15 were
paid to 361 men In Union county to
day, according to F. L. Meyers, dis
bursing officer for this county.
This is the largest payroll hero
since the O. W. A. work started a few
weeks ago. It did not include men
put to work yesterday or today, the
nayroll week ranging from Friday
mornlnir to Thursday night.
A conference of C. W. A. adminis
trators and committeemen from four
Eastern Oregon counties wero meet
ing hero this afternoon with Burton
Palmer, assistant to the Oregon ad
ministrator, and Victor Carlson, East
ern Oregon C. W. A. representative
A second meeting was to be held to
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A MAN THIS 1933 WAS!
Gops Capture Underhill, Desperado
Saves Baby Because
Because Dr. Thomas L. Higglnbotham ot Louisville, Ky., aftor seeing
his own baby son die 25 years ago ot a tonsil Infection, bad devised a
technique for such cases, alx-montlt-old Oene Ingram ts well and hap
py again at his Queens, L. I., home. - The life-saving physician, sum
moned by the child's mother, who before her marriage was nurse to
Dr. Jllgginbothnm, hero Is shown with the young convalescent left)
and his Bister Patricia. The doctor rushed, by plane to his young
.. patient's Bide. .
TURBULENT SEAS
OFF COAST DUE
TO SHARP GALES
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 30 (P)
Ships battled turbulent seas off tho
Pacific coast today as sharp gales,
accompanied by nilns, loshcd land
and sea.
Though storm conditions, which
havo caused severe floods In the Pa
cific northwest, wero cosing, Califor
nia was drenched by rain, changing
to snow in the high mountains.
At Dash .point, near Tncoma, Wash.,
six houses wero carried into Pugot
Sound and two othora wero In dnn.
ger of destruction, from earth slldcu
caused .by excessive rains.
BOSTON, Dec. 30 (!) Bitter cold
hold New England tight today as tho
mercury dropped toward more new
records. i
The death list mounted. Ten names
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His Own Son Died
SCHOOLS TO
BEGIN WORK
ON TUESDAY
Winter; Term of Eastern
Oregon Normal School
to Commence With Reg
istration. Willi the holiday swiscin I" end
New Year's night, rachitics of the
Haslem Oregon Normal school the oily
schools, and students of the H. O. N
uway from l flrande on vacation,
lire returning I" Ihls city tills week
end. Anil Tuesduy morning Hoth the
Normal school anil the city schools
will resume their work, not to end
until later In 11131.
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TED AUSTIN AND
LA GRANDE GIRL
1 HURT IN WRECK
BAKER, Dec. 30 lP) Ted Austin,
of Baker, and Bertha Niger, said to be
a resident of La Orande, arc In a hos
pital hero today suffering from cuts,
bruises and sprains sustained Friday
night when tho automobile In which
they wero riding toward Baker struck
a culvert aliuttinont on tho Old Ore
gon Trail two mllcB cast of North
Powder. Their condition Is not be
lieved to bo serious.
Itcnorts Indlcato that tho automo-
bllo sVruck tho abuttmont on tho loft
side of tho highway and lodged on
top of tho concrete, which Is about
three feet high and a foot wide. Tho
automobile was badly damaged. Aim
tin is rcnortcd to have given Miss
Niger a rldo from La Grande.
The Identity of Bertha Niger, In
jured with Ted Austin, formerly of
La Orande, In an automobile acci
dent last night, could not bo learned
by the Observer today. Mr. Austin Is
well known locally, and la an outo
mobllo distributor In the La Grande-
Baker district.
Wheat Today
CHICAGO, Dec. 30 T) Lato up
turns In price hoisted wheat today
to about 2', cent above yesterday's
finish.
Decided Htrcnfrth of gold utocks in
New York brought about increased
buying of wheat 'futures. A reaction
followed, biuicd on bnuor ino nc nua
been too rapid, but tho market un
dertone rcmainod firm, with evidence
of broader eastern demand.
Wheat closed firm, l$2c above
yeHtcrday finish, corn alc up,
oatu rtlc advanced, and provisions
unchanged to 17c lower.
JUST BEFORE
PRESSTIME
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FLOOD HBL1KF GRANTED
TEN KILLED IN WRECK
STATE TOURNEY IN MARCH
CLACKAMAS MAKES PEACE
WASHINGTON, Dec SO VP) Harry
L. Hopkins, federal relief ailnilnutra.
tor today nude a special relief grant
of flOO.000 to provide food, clothing
and shelter for flood sufferers In
Idaho.
BRUSSELS, Deo. 30 iff) Ten per
sons, eight of them passengers, wero
killed when the Imperial Aldways
London-bound plane Apollo crashed
In a fog near Ruysselde between Os
tand and Bruges today.
PORTLAND, two. SO ff) The an
nual state high school basketball
tournament climaxing the current
season, will be held In the gymna
sium of Willamette university In
Halem as usual. The dates are Mar.
21 to 24, It was announced.
PORT AND, Deo. 80 CP) A decision
by the Clackamas county court that
It will provldo a right-of-way for tho
Oregon Olty-Portland super-highway
outside the oity of Milwaukie had to
day somewhat clarified the contro
versy between tho state highway com
mission and the county court.
P. W. A. APPROVES
OREGON BRIDGES-
UNOFFICIAL NEWS
WASHINGTON, Doc. 30 P) Tho
statement of a member of the Ore
gon congressional delegation that he
had unofficial Information that the
public works board has allotted $5..
000,000 for flvo Oregon coast high
way bridges,, further strengthened the
belief today that tho board hod token
this action at Its Thursday meeting.
The Oregon delegate, who said ho
had his information "from a source
considered vory reliable" revealed ho
had been advised tho administration
liad acted favorably on tho projects
but was withholding announcement
until aftor tho holidays.
It was said furthor that an alloca
tion on a grant-loan basis of $307,000
for buildings lib Oregon Btato collcgo
had been approved.
COURT OF HONOR
HELD ON FRIDAY
Bov Scouts from La Orando and
Union, tho lattor accompanied by
tholr scoutmastor, Dalo Baxter, wore
given awards last night at a court
or honor at tho La uranno rugn
school. Elmo Stovonson was chair
man of tho court In tho absonco of
N. W. Frees.
Athlctlo stunts and games followed
the court. Several parents wore pres
ent for both events.
OLD OOWN I'AU.MIK I1K1NOS
iMKMOKIKS ()! DAVH HONK BY
8IMSBURY, Conn. Precious
holrlooms In wedding gowns wore
brought out at a fashion parade
horo, with Miss Dorothy Stocking
woarlng tho 175-ycar-old wedding
dress of her groat-grcat-grandmothor.
MIsb Julia Paulson wore tho urmai
gown ohoaon by Lydla Orlswold
Phelps when the latter mnrrled Jon
athan Humphreys, colonel In the
Revolutionary war, in 17B1.
Mrs. Dorothy Ellsworth paraded! a
brocaded satin dress with train which
was worn at President Grant's In
augural In 1800.
Styles varied, one gown a bright
red with flowing red cape and quilt
ed blue petticoat. Anothor was oi
green and lavender with full skirt
and bonnet to match.
GIRL POSES AS MAN
FOR NINE YEARS
OAKLAND. Pal., I Wo. 30 (!)
Frances Orlando, Si - year - old
Masiiierailrr In men's clothes fur
nine years, plenilril Riillly to
margin of mgninry here before
Police .SimIso Howard I- IIiuiiii,
and was released, Willi orders to
"get out of town."
"You jiiiiM fwlnilii yourself
from wearing mfn's riot lies," said
the court, sternly regarding her
rust nine of blue punts, sweater
mid brown cent.
The girl, arrested Decrinlier 27
BAD MAN OF
SOUTHWEST
NEAR DEATH
Held in Municipal Hosr
pital in Shawnee, Okla.; ?
; Gravely Wounded.
THREE COMPANIONS
NABBED BY POLICE
Woman Shot in Stomach,
May Not Live; Under"
hill's Bride, Another
Man Are Behind Bars.
SHAWNEE, Okla,, Dee. 30 (PPi
Dazed and bhwdLnff, Wilbur Under
bill, southweetern desperado, was
cnpttirod Hero shortly after 7 a in.
today. ' , . . ; . . ,
A squad of officers, largely Okla
homa City police, found 1.1m In a
small furnituro store In it ho heart of -tho
business district. . Ho offered no
resistance. . .
He had broken Into tho store In
an effort to eludo pursuers after be
ing wounded dangerously a few hours
before In escaping (from a house sur
rounded by a posse.
tlruvely Wounded
' The captured man was taken to
municipal hospital, where physicians
sold ho had only slight chance of re
covery. Ho was suffering from
wounds In tho back, Soft arm right
leg and ncalp. u. ,
- Undorhlll, was one -of two loadors
of the Memorial day break of 11 pris
oners from tho Kansas penitentiary
at Lansing. He had escaped from
tho house clad only hv his- under-,
wear in a shower of machine gun
bullets. R. H. Colvln, federal agent,
said he fired a machine gun at the
man through a rear window of tho
house and that tho man foil,
Ijater the. man ran from the .house
through the front door and was shot
at again by officers armed with shot
guns. He fell again but got up and
ran Into a plowed field nearby.
A man and a woman In. the ihouso
wero wounded.
. Woman Shot in Stomach
Officers tentatively Identified the
woman aa Ella Mae Nichols, or Eccels.
She was shot in the stomach and her
condition was described as critical
by physicians at a hospital,
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2 Women Fliers
Land After 237,
Hours In Plane
MIAMI, Pla., Dec. 30 T) Exhausted
from battling rain squalls and choppy
winds, Frances Marsalls and Helen
Rlchey landed at 10:43 a. m. today,
completing tho longest sustained
flight for women, 237 hours and S3
minutes.
Tho women took oft December 30 .
from the municipal airport and
equaled tho previous record of eight
days, four hours and fivo minutes at
5:08 p. ni. Thursday, establishing tho
now mark officially one hour later.
Kiddle And Snell
Complete Journals
SALEM, Deo. 30 VII Tho senate
and house Journals of the recont spe
cial legislative session wore signed
late yesterday by Fred E. Klldle.
president of tho senate, and Bo!
Snell, speaker of tho house, prepara
tory to being filed with tho secretary
of state.
Desk clorko worked approximately
20 days to compieto tho Journals.
Kiddle will remain hero acting gov
ernor until Oovernor Julius L. Meier
returns from California. 8ncll loft for
Portland last night.
In a men's lodging house, boasted
II was "easy to Tool women," nnd
snlil several had nuidc her pro
posals of marrliigc. .
One Rlrl, Willi whom she snlil
slio slinml an apartment In Hex- .
Iiurg, lilnho, hail "fUed" the wed
ding day lis December 21), yester
day, she snlil- Mho declined lo
name the woman. .
Prior to her court appearance
she announced she was "going
hnrk to gal's duds," If she were
released.
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