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C. W.A. Activities Big Aid To La Grande Schools "i La Grande Is The Gateway to Wallowa, "The Switzerland ' of America ' Only Newspaper' J Printed in La Grande i , . Covering Union and ' Wallowa Counties ' i . VOLUME 32 EASTERN OREGON'S LEADING NEWSPAPER LA GRANDE, OREGON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 6, 1934 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS NUMBER 102 i EXPEM STATION BUDGETS C fytmxxm m mm SCHOOLS ARE BENEFITED BY CIVIL WORKS Every Building in La Grande Receiving Share , of Improvements. ATHLETIC FIELD JOB IS LARGEST Kalsomine, Paint Being Used in Every Building General Repairs Are Made. Schools In the Ui Grande publte school system liuve taken full advan tage of the opportunities for Im provement iwork offered by the olvH works administration, according to Herbert Evans, superintendent, who lias completed a survey of what ac tually Is being done. All school 'buildings of, tho La Grande system will "dress up" as a result of approval of projects calling (or painting, kalsominlng and gen eral repairs, he said. Kalsominlng in the halls and some of the rooms of the High school Is being done at iprescnt, and new exits from the gymnasium are being mode. Two special doors for entrances o the shower rooms from the athletic Held will be Installed, also. La Grande will iboast of the .best athletic field In Eastern Oregon Oregon when a project, which calls for levelling of the track and field 13 completed. The grandstand will be repaired and painted, and four new bleachers will be built. At present there are 20 men and -two teams ot 'workr on tho two pro jects, which will provide work for approximately two months. The ex penditures for labor and material will total 17,000, Mr. Evans says, of which more than $13,000 Is for labor, trucks and teams. The government pays for all the labor, trucks and teams, and for part of the material used. Central school will have new floors and stairways, and all Inside wood- (Gontlnued on Page Two) Odd Fellows To Install At Meet Friday, Jan. 12 Galen P. Durkee will be installed as noble grand of the Odd Fellows lodge at a meeting on Friday, Jan. 12, it was announced last night at the weekly session. Foster Nnden will be Installed as vice grand; Jake Rostock, recording secretary; Melvin Bork, fin ancial secretary; George Richardson, treasurer. Refreshments will be served. The new officers already have been examined and qualified creditably. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE TO MEET JAN. 9 Arrangements for a special cham ber of commerce meeting Tuesday, Jan. 9, for the purpose of discussing the U. P. celebration to ,be held here July 20 and 21, have been com pleted. The celebration will mark 50 years of progress by (the railroad In La Grande. The luncheon will be held in the La Grande hotel. FIRE SCARE THIS MORNING . Tho fire truck was called to the Normal school at 6:50 a. m. this morning tout upon arrival found the supposed fire was merely workers warming concrete. The trucks were back In the station by 6:10 a. m. AUTO UCENSE RUSH IS NEARING AN END The rush for new automobile li cense plates In Union county Is prac tically at an end. It was felt most keenly in the sheriffs office, where requests for temporary -licenses have been heavy during the last several days. State police here have been check ing on cars this week and have re quired several motorists to show they had sent for licenses. They report no actual attempts to evade the law re quiring use of 1834 license plates have been discovered as yet. Many of the owners of cars bearing no temporary La Grande WILL ROGERS 'lIUH sgys BEVERLY HIIjLS, Cal., Jon. 6 This country runs to the figure 10. There has been many who has had to say, "Mister, con you spare a dime?" but President Roosevelt Is the first man in the hlBtory of the world who looked a nation right In the face and said, "Mister, can you spare ten billion dollars?" well, con gress and the American people con sidered It such a compliment to be asked for that much that they really liked it. Yours, IttLMdlmMb' ENTHUSIASTIC CONFERENCE NEAR CLOSE Banquet of Smith Agency It T . ,oi insurance iuiniJciiiy Held Here Last Night The two-day sales conference of the Edgar Smith agency of the Ore gon Mutual Life Insurance Co. was In Its concluding sessions here to day, following one of the most en thusiastic banquets ever held In this district a feature of last night. Some 76 or more members of the agency and Invited, quests gathered in the Sacajawea Inn dining room at 7 p. m. Friday, to hear addresses by jr. S. Williams, at JPoftltand; Mr. S:n tb. agency head, and W. O. Schup pel. executive vice president of the insurance company, and to award honors earned during the early win ter campaign of the organization. Throughout the meeting enthu siasm was rampant, and the agency lcokmg back on an exceptionally. good year also looks forward hope fully to 1034, believing It will be even better. The La Grande district, headed by (Continued on Page Two) WEATHER TURNS . COLDER LOCALLY The temperature in La Grande took a sharp drop late Friday, .continuing down until it reached a low of 24 abovesix below freezing point early today. At 7 a. m. It was up one degree to 25 and continued to climb steadily during the morning under the influence of a bright sun. Friday's maximum was 48 above. This is the first below freezing weather in about three weeks time, and the third time this winter that the mercury has dropped many de grees below freezing point. The weather forecast for next week Indicates fair weather with normal temperatures. EIGHT PRISONERS IN COUNTY JAIL Eight prisoners are imprisoned In the county Jail on various charges at present, according to Sheriff Jesse Breshears "proprietor cf the Breshears hotel." Barney Twldwell and John btcward, who robbed the High school and other business and private houses, are serving 50 days before being taken to the state penitentiary at Salem. Drunken driving and stealing rides on freight trains are the complaints against the other prisoners. licenses that ore being driven had sent for their plates through the moll without securing temporary slips at the court house. Since about Christmas the sheriff's office has Issued 775 temporary li censes. Licenses are now appearing on La Orande streets well above tho 125.000 figures, and the secretary of state In Salem today said so far 100.264 li censes had been issued. This Is 14, 239 less' than was ls3ued the corres ponding date in July for the half- year licenses, he notified the Asso ciated Press, Gets Cage Recognize Her? : Now tliat we'va-xccognlzeU Rus sia you ought recognize a SoVlct stage star when you sec one. One of the talented Soviets you're likely to see soon is exotic Mile. Moshllcvskaya (above), cur rent ballet fuvorlte of Moscow. She Is appearing lii fialainbo In . tlje MoswnVJllg Theater. , i C. W.A. PAYROLL TODAY $6759,65 Three hundred and eighty-three C. W. A. workers received federal checks today for a total of $6,760.65. according to F. L. Meyers, disbursing officer for Union county. Today was the first pay-day in which the county's complete quota figured. All of the latest additions, however, did not get In a full week of work, so that next week's payroll total is expected to be even largor than this week. The total today showed around seven hundred dollars increase over last Saturday's. Workmen are busy over all the (Continued on Page Three) t-ecrisLATDia. WORRVlMCi ABOUT HOW TO UVV TAXES To urnev BASKETBALL TEAMS WILL COME MAR. 8 Southern Members of Disi trict Board Make : Surprise Move. MEETING HELD AT ! BAKER ON FRIDAY La Grande Makes No Bid For Tournament But Agrees to Accept 1934 Offer. For the first time since district basketball oliumplmislilps have -been decided In Huston. Oregon by tourna ment, play, La Grande will be host I to the eight winning quintets of Wallowa, Malheur, Baker and Union counties In the play-off. The dls-1 trict chnmplonslilp tournament whs awarded to I -a Granite at bonrd meet ing held yesterday afternoon In Baker and the dates were set for March a, I) and 10. ; During the last several years the tournament has been successfully and efficiently staged at Union, and generally In this section of the dis trict It was expected that no change would be made this year. The move ment came as a complete surprise to Arnold L.. Gralapp, chairman of the district board, who presided at the meeting yesterday. - Secretary Leo Hollenberg, of Nyssn, made-the motion' that- the"'tourmv ment be played in La Orande, and Hugh Coleman, superintendent of Baker schools, seconded the motion. Chairman Gralapp called for a vote. Mr. Hollcnberg and Mr. Coleman (Continued on Page Three) Clothing Stores To Close Early Saturday Nights Drygoods and clothing stores In La Orande will close their doors at 5:30 o'clock this evening, the same as dur- ing weekdays, It was announced to day. Following an annual custom, these stores will close at the sanio time six days of the week during the months of January, Fobruary and March. Beginning In April, the stores will return to the longer hours on Saturdays. SOMETHING IN COMMON -if A ' Another 'Terror i A I V7 i WSi a-a ORGANIZED LABOR i PLANS DRIVE FOR I A 30-HOUR WEEK .' WASHINGTON, Jan. B Wt Organ 'ized labor, with an assurance of somo isympathy . In . both ,the sennto and house, totloy drew plans for a legis lative drive to bring a 30-hour work week Into all Industries. WASHINGTON, Jan. 0 (A) Congress paused for a respite today; but house and senate adjournment was taken by committees as a signal for tbcm to get to work. On the senate side. Chairman 3mlth won from his agriculture com mittco unanimous approval of the bill for $100,000,000 In crop loans to (Continued on Pago Two) CHANGE TIME OF J. A. BUGG FUNERAL TO 3 Tho timo of the funeral of James A. Bugg has been changed from. 2 o'clock to 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon at the chapel of Walkers Funeral home. It was announced today. if M 1 toMiiiiiiiiiiiininninriiiiifrd AVERAGE COY WORGMd ABOUT" MOW TO PAY TAXES Bandit' Caught The lawless trail of Wilbur Under uiii "Tri-Statc Terror," led to a losing battle with authorities at Shawnee, Okla., in wnicn ne wua riddled with bullets, and should . u fnwis tr.nl for " hn YcunninK four U. S. otfl- ... .inniii nt-. Kn.nsns uilv. ua leadership ol a Kansas peniten tiary escape Photo shows Under bill in n hospital after capture. His bride of one month Hazel Underhlll,' captured with him also Is shown. U.S.H0GC0RN CONTROLPLAN IS EXPLAINED I-I' L Lindgren, 0. S. C. Livestock Specialist, Speaks to Fanners Hog und corn control under the national recovery net huve been de signed to take cure of the surplus of those products In order to enable farmers to receive a better price, H. 1.. LliKlgrcn, field livestock specialist from Oregon Stule college, told a birge group of fanners Unit gathered this morning at 11 o'clock at the city hall, i The processing tax on hogs Is part of the program, creating a fund that is to bo used to pay tho farmer who will take part In the control program. With tho advent of lard compounds and the falling off of tho export (Continued on Page Two bank must face 4 civil actions ENTERPRISE, Ore., Jan. 0 Pour suits have been stunted in circuit court here by Carl Christiansen and wife, Adolph Oldscn and A. O. Schnoor against George S. Cralg and tho Wallowa National bank and some of Its directors. Plaintiffs ask dam ages and OFtk to be put in xmsesslon of tho market In Enterprise and the slaughter house a mile north of town formerly conducted by the Enterprise Packing company. In one action Mr. Christiansen Is plal n tl f f , and ho asks damages of $36,000 from the bank and several directors because of alleged defama tory statements. In another suit Mr. Christiansen and his wife, Eugenia Christiansen, name Mr. Cralg and others, asking general damages of $07,500 and "ex emplary" damages of $25,000 as a "warning" to others. Mr. Oldsen wants $41,500 damages and $UO,000 "exemplary" damages from Mr. Craig and others because of transactions Involving tho market and slaughter house. In a fourth suit, Mr. Sohnoor asks possession of the disputed property on an assignment of Mr. Old&en's con tract, and on a lease. The sulto were filed by Portland lawyers. Wheat Today The price of local cash wheat kIihnI at about 5'i cents bulk hero today, according to quota tions at the Pioneer Flouting Mill. Portland cash cents. CHICAGO, Jan. 6 ifV) Reports of, dust storms In Kansas and Texas upheld wheat market gains today In the Into dealings. Pinal quotations on wheat were at tho day's top level. Wheat closed firm, Vfci&Hc above yesterday's finish, corn Vnotc up. Ootfl unchanged to 'ic higher, and provisions varying from 3c decline tcf a rise of 17o. JUST BEFORE PRESSTIME THKA8UKY OFFICIAL QUITS TAKE UNDKHIIILL TO PEN NEW OOI.F TOURNEY PLAN NO LIQUOR ADVERTISING ' WASHINGTON, Jan. 0 W) . Barle llallle, Hueclul luwlstiuit to m vr clary Mureentliuu, tiMluy rmlK,iMxl, cffeutlve ut the sevrutury'ii eurlloit (HiuveiU mice. SHAWNEE, Okla., Jan. 6 W Wil bur Underhlll, wounded desperado, was put Into an ambulance at city hospital hero today and started to state's prison at McAlester with an eacorc of eigrtt neavily armed officers. NEW YORK, Jun, 0 VF) The Unlteil RtatcK Unit OKSoolmtlon, at Its annual meeting today, decided uton a drastic- change In the conduct of the national amateur cluunpionslilp, eliminating the qualifying rounds at the tournament anil substituting complete week of molten play for a maximum of 180 entries. WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 (R The radla commission's legal division pre- pared today to recommend revoca tion of licenses of stations broadcast lng advertising for hard liquors. WASHINGTON, Jan. GOT Ne gotiations with areat Britain for an excliaugo or' Amcrtcnii farm products In return for Scotch whisky Imports uvre deadlocked today, with a ban on the beverage a possibility. FIVE OREGON BRIDGES ARE TO BE BUILT SAl.KM, Ore., Jan. 0 P) In n telegram to the Oregon Htote highway eommLsslou today from Washington J. M. Dcvent, coiiiimII for the commlKMlon ndviHeil that the jnihlle works nrimli.tetrntloii had allowed all of the five pro posed highway bridges rr Ore gon ami that fmulH for the pro jects were ullocatcd today. WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 W Senator S(elwcr (R Ore.), was notified by tho public works administration to day that 950,000 had been allotted to the reclamation bureau for Investi gation of water storage conditions on tho Deschutos river. WASHINGTON, Jan. 0 P Sen ator Stelwor (R Ore.), said today ho had been advised by the public works administration that $6,103,000 had. been allocated as a loan and grant for construction of five high way bridges along the coast of Ore gon. Stelwer said the allotments were as follows: Alsca bay span, $711,000; Coos Bay and Yaqulna bay, $3,384, 000; Stuslaw and Umpqua rivers, $1, 008,000. . fnHl! RIVER STEAMER HAS DISAPPEARED THE DALLES, Ore., Jan. 0 W1 The river steamer Hercules, beached on tho Washington shoro of tho Col umbia niver near hero yesterday, hod completely disappeared today, ond government engineers expressed tho opinion sho had slipped Into ono of the numerous holes along the shore, somo of which arc more than 100 feet deep. , The vessel was beached after a Inrgo hole had been ripped In her hull by a submerged reef nt Three M'lo rapids, abovo Tho Dalles. Tho government engineers snld that If tho croft did sink In ono or the deep holes, thcro would be no (Continued on Page Two) MRS. THOMAS MASSIE WILL SEEK DIVORCE WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 CP) ThO mnrltal affairs of Lieut, and Mrs. Thomas Massle, which figured prom inently In the sensational murder trial of tho naval officer and others In Honolulu lust year, bended today for tho Reno divorce courts. Mrs. MVirmlc, alleKed victim of an assault that preceded tho slaying of an Hawaiian In HK12, announced she would leave tomorrow for Reno to Institute divorce proceeding against her husband, who at present Is sta tioned aboard the U. B. S. Oklahoma, at Ban Pedro, Cal. "I would like to emphasize," Mrs. NO REDUCTION REPORTED AT UNION FARM Hermiston Station is Eliminated and Ex-' penses of 3 Reduced ' UNION CO. PEOPLE IN HOPEFUL MOOD- No. Mention .of Corvallia, , and : Union : Stations , i? Regarded As An ,0pti"'f . mistic Sign. . , Strong belief was held In Union I oounty today that the budget for exf lerhnent stations ut Conuili andtt Union would not undergo reductions' this year, In spite of sharp outs Iitj the federal budget for agricultural experiment stations, looking definite Information as to( the Union and Cor-1 ullls farms, the belief was based- on nn AssocJuted Press dispatch from WaslUngton received by the Observer: today. . , v .- ----.y ' The Item said: "Because of a sharp reduction In the budget for agricul tural experiment stations, one Ore' gon station, at Hermiston, has been eliminated and appropriations ' for three other Oregon : stations have been considerably reduced, it was dls closed today. f 1 "Research activities in dry land: farming will be eliminated from the work of the experiment station at Pendleton because of a 8,50O reduc tion in lta appropriation. The budget provided (2,470 for - research crops ond diseases. ' 1 : ? "The budget for the Medfofld sta tion -was reduced by S6.000, lianat lng provisions for agricultural en gineering. The Medford station still retained a budget of $22,400 for the bureau of entomology and $&,B48 for the bureau of plant Industry, ; "The budget for the station at (Continued on PaKe Two Dividend News For Past Week Very Favorable NEW YORK, Jan. 6 OT Sixty four favomule dlvklond ohonge In the pnst week exactly equalled the total for the entlro montu of Jan uary, 1033, Stnndard Statistics Oo. reports. There wore 13 Increased pay ments, 18 resumptions, 33 extras and 11 Initial dividends. Unfavorable ( changes numberedi .10. The week cnuca uc. aw saw iuvuluww slons. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 6 (P) Reg ular dlvldonds, tho first payable Jan. 31 at tho rate of 12 '4 cents a share, was "recovery news" for ' 335,000 stockholders of Transamerlcn corpora tion today. KINZUA BOY, 10, HAS OPERATION Roy Shucy, 10-year-old Klhzua, Oro. youth, was brought to the Bouvy hospital yesterday suffering from an oye injury. Tho boy was pounding on a car spring whon a piece of steel penetrated his eyo ball. He under went an operation and Is In a satis factory condition, It Is reported. Find Woman's Body On Detroit Highway DETROIT, Jon. 0 OT) Believed to have been slain in an attempted at tack and thon thrown from an auto mobile, the body of Mi's. Virginia Gibson, ; 33, whs found today on a highway Just west of the city limits. The body hod been run over pos sibly twn or three times, Deputy Coroner Foster Knoblock sold. ' Massle said, "that the divorce is be ing obtained at tho insistence of Lieutenant Massle. I am personally reluctant to take such a step as X am opposed to dlvorco. ' - "Tho divorce proceedings are In no way connected with the Honolulu trial of April, 1933. Following the granting of the divorce, I will return to Washington, where I will 'make my residence, entering employment." Mrs. Massle, the daughter of the socially prominent Mrs. Granville Fortcscue, has been separated from her husband for several months, and has been living here.
