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Printed In Grande
Covering Union and
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Gateway to Wallowa,
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VOLUME 32
eastern oitEooNs leading kewspapeb LA GRANDE, OREGON, SATURDAY, JANUARY13, 1934
MKMI1KH ASSOCIATED FKESS
NUMBER 108
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211 BABIES
BORN HERE
DURING YEAR
Union County's Birth
Record- For 1933
Shows Increase.
TEN MORE GIRLS
THAN BOY BABIES
Reversal of Form From
1932, When the Number
of Boys Exceeded the
Baby Daughters.
Two hundred and eleven Imblcs
were born In Union county during
11)33, statistics Issued by Dr. W. K.
Boss, county health physician, today
revealed. Tl)6 1033 total shows un
Increase of, two over 1033 when there
were J!5S infants horn.
ir.Ten more girls than boys were
'born, 110 being of the former sex and
100 of the latter. The sex of one
Infant wob not recorded. During
1932 the. number of boys exceeded
the number of girls, by one, .there
being 105 boys and 104 girls.
Babies born between July 1, 1033
and Jan. 1, 1934 are: Donna Pae
Cummins, (daughter) Lewis Charles
McKelvey; Jack Dean Mallory, Ken
neth Darrel Rand, (daughter) Henry
Coolidge Muir; Mary Jane Pay, Robert
Poster Naden, Norma Fay Williams,
Melvin Leslie Carlton, Betty Aline
York,-. Audrey Lenore Carper, David
Edward Townsend, Karen Johnson,
Darallne Erma Bacon, Eugene Wayne
Brown, William Clayton Conrad.'
Jesse Delano Marcellus Tetrlck,
Barbara Jean Blacker, Gloria Ruth
Mortimore, Charles Albert Currey,
Ethel Donaldson Bull, Nancy Ann
Nedrow, Ross Merrill Perry, Melvin
Delano Vernon, Orvin James Peach,
Nellie Jean Marks, Lorraine Laugh
lln, (son), Cecil Clifford Simpson;
Patricia Ann Bowery, Viola Angellne
Land; . Margaret Marilyn . Jasper,
Gladys Ann Nqrby, Gerald Eldon-Mc-Klnney,
Prlscllla Ruth Parker, Mary
" (Continued on Page Five)
Pierce Favors
Inflation, Use
Of Print Press
Congressman Walter M. Pierce, of
La Grande, is an Inflationist. He
definitely committed himself In Wash
ington yesterday, according to a spe
cial news dispatch, when he an
nounced he will submit a minority
report from the house committee on
agriculture next week when the com
mittee reports favorably the presi
dent's bill to have the government
guarantee the principal on a.2,000,
000,000 worth oi bonds for farm
loans.
Rep. Pierce says he Is an Infla
tionist and wants two billion dollars
of currency printed, this money be
ing retired as farmers pay the In
terest upon their loans.
Although an Inflationist, Rep.
Pierce admitted he will support the
president's plan "wln ithe bugle
blows."
1. 0.0. F. INSTALLS
OFFICERS FRIDAY
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Galen Durkce was Installed as noble
grand of the Odd Fellows lodge at
Impressive' ceremonies last -night at
the Odd Fellows temple. Foster Na
den took over the duties of vice
grand; Jake Rostock, recording secre
tary; Melvin Bork, financial secre
tary; George Richardson, treasurer;
Elmer McClure, warden; Frank Loock,
conductor; Elbert Loock, Inner guard;
William Bork, outside guard; Frank
Suydam, right support to the noble
grand; J. O. Anson, left support; Jnke
Kochensparger, right support to the
vice grand; Ed Taylor, left: Joe Oliver,
left scene supporter; H. W. Guthrie,
right scene supporter; Ed Bork, chap
lain. Refreshments were served after the
- Installation.
LOCAL FIRELOSS IN
DWELLINGS TOPS LIST
Fires In dwellings, 31 of them In
number, caustd the greatest loss In
ha Grande during 1933, according to
Fire Chief C. T. Lindsay.
. In dwelling fires, there was prop
erty valued at a total of 884.325.06
at risk, and the loss amounted to a
little less than one-tenth of the value.
This was the largest percentage of
loss of any of the types of risk where
in loss of $1000 or more occurred.
The loss was $8103.06, but all but
503 was repaid out of Insurance, so
that net loss was very small.
Insurance of dwellings was not as
heavy as was the case for business
Will
Rogers
SANTA MONICA, Cal., Jan. 13.
Yesterday's Immortal lines that I
penned to you Is today null and void.
I told you the senate was to buy
no liquor from nations that wouldn't
pay. Well, that was what they had
passed, but it seemed to have been
their own idea. When the president
saw It ho gave 'em an eraser and
says, "You boys go back and rub
that out."
So hereafter any news that I bring
you in regard to what the senato has
dono, why it's subject to cancella
tion. This 1b one session of congress
where the tall Is not wagging the dog.
tffiU', McNaught Syndicate, Inc.
LA GRANDE HIGH
WINS THRILLER
FROM WALLOWA
The La Grande High basketball
team chulked up another basketball
victory here last night, defeating Wal
lowa 33 to 27 In a tilt that uncovered
n new basket shooting star.
This particular lad, who pours 'em
in from any and all angles, and from
close In and far out, Is none, other
than Bartmess, Wallowa center. Ho
scored 22 of his team's total last
night, and that's quite a perfonh-
ancol .
Bartmess started off like any ordl
nary fair shot, caging three baskets
In the first half while a team mate
counted one, to leave the score La
Grande 14, Wallowa 8 at half time.
But In the last half he went wild,
flicking two long ones through the
net, firing them from) impossible an.
gles, and finally putting his team! In
n 26-26 tie a few minutes before the
game ended. - There, however, a wor
ried Tiger team attempted to steady
Itself, and did so enough to stage
a final rally that Baw Stltt and Reyn-
olda count enough points to put the
game on ice..
It was the first time this sefson
that the Tigers have encounters;-'!
rushing, fighting stylo of play that
falls to give them time enough to
get set for their basket work. And
(Continued on PaRe Two)
E. O.N. BEATEN BY
LEWISTON FRIDAY
IN CLOSE CONTEST
LEWISTON, Ida., Jim. 13 Lew-
iston Normal Pioneer basketball team
defeated Eastern Oregon Normal 42
to 30 here last night, overcoming a
14 to 6 lead at the start of the
game. The Pioneers led 23 to 21 at
the half time.
Pettorson, of the EONS, was high
point man with 18. Miles led the
Pioneers with 13. '
K. O. N. SHOWS IMPROVEMENT
In view of the fact that Lcwlston
defeated Whitman last week at Wnlla
Walla, the Mountaineers' showing
against the Idaho team last night rep
resented a considerable improvement
(Continued On Page Five)
SNOW FORECAST
BY WEATHER MAN
, With heavy snows predicted for the
Cascade mountains, and unsettled
weather with rain over most of the
rest of the state tonight and Sunday,
local people were of the opinion La
Grando also might share In the snow
storm.
Moderate temperatures were to con
tinue, however, the weather man said
today.
The forecast for next week and
cated a continuation of unsettled
weather in Oregon, with no predic
tion made as to temperatures.
Warnings for south and southeast
gales were posted at all Oregon and
Washington coast stations this morn
ing, although the storm was expected
to diminish tonight.
buildings, public buildings and ware
houses, Mr, Lindsay's report revealed.
The homes In which fires occurred,
valued at 84,325.06, were Insured
for only 57.6O0, approximately 68
per cent of their value.
Tho home fire loss o$ 18103.06 was
approximately 55 per cent of the total
fire loss from all causes which
amounted to ai4,6J1.64.
Home fire loss In La Grande .was
at a per capita rate of $1.01, as com
pared with the per capita rate from
all causes of 91.81. Or, from another
angle, the per capita, rate in La
Grande for all fires during 1933 ex
cept home blazes, was only 80 cents.
MILK DEALERS
OF STATE TO
BE LICENSED
Next Monday, Jan. 15, Is
, Set as Deadline by
E. G. Harlan ,
All milk dealers hi Oregon must be
licensed by tan, 15, according to a
recent statement made by E. O. Ilur
lau, chairman of the Oregon milk
control board.
"To moke It easier for the milk
dealers throughout the state," says
Mr. Harlan, "temporary arrangements
have been made for local chambers of
commerce, clvio organizations, and
city officials to handle the applica
tion forms which, must be In our of'
fico In time for ;thel license to be Is
sued before the fifteenth) of January
or the dealer shall not bo permitted
to handle mdlk." - '
Application forms In La Grand
may be procured at the chamber of
commerce office, and dealers should
make immediate arrangements to get
a license, fill It out correctly, and
mail it to the office of the Oregon
milk control board, 31H Mayer build
ing, Portland, Ore., according to Har
old Boone, chamber secretary.
Following Is a brief explanation of
the law: A "Milk Dealer" Is defined
as "Any person who purchases or
handles milk within the state for
salo in this state, or who sells nil IK
within the state, except When con
sumed on tho premises where sold."
A producer who delivers milk only to
a milk dealer shall not be deemed a
milk dealer. , . '
Application for a license to operate
as a milk dealer shall be made with
in 30 days after the law Is In effect.
Tho, law went into effect, Dec. 15,
1033; so applications should be made
at once. All applicants for license
shall pay the following license fees:
"All stores shall pay an annual license
'feo of $1.00, (Each, separate place of
business at which milk Is sold by.
any store shall be deemed a separate
store for-Which a license must be
obtained and a license fee paid)."
"All other nil Ik dealers shall pay a
Ucenee,..Xee determined; ajjfoUowa.
of 1 c on each pound of butterf at
contained In milk received and deliv
ered by a licensee, commencing with
the effective date of this act."
C. W. A. Payroll
In This County
$7,123.85 Today
Three hundred and eighty-three
civil works administration employes
in Union county were receiving! U. S.
treasury checks amounting to a total
of $7123.85 today, it was announced
by P. L. Meyers, county disbursing
officer.
1 This is tho first time since the
C.W.A. operations here began that
tho weekly payroll reached the $7000
mark, and it also was the first tlmo
that the full quota of 383 men put
in a tun wees or work.
BOY, CAN WE TAKE IT!
A. FEW VGAJRS AGO THIS K A A
WAS A STTACKJERIMCT SUM A K
BUT NOW l
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f ? V j, Sr. r i",r,s "i"ir '" 'i '"'
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it i ,xX.r- jf f nbHl fii " nanMi innlorsklii Knrlse, imr-
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PLANS FOR IMPROVEMENT
OF FISH HATCHERY ARE
EXPECTED HERE SOON
Aiiiiongii piiiiu for the improve-
ment of the suite fish hatchery at
Union ImvB nut arrived In la Oramle I
as yet, C.W.A. headquarters here are 1
expecting them this weekend. A total
of 15,500 will be 8Mit by tho C.W.A.
una state game commission in im
proving the liatcherya
First reports as to the extent of
the improvements, however, are
trickling into the county, and they
Indicate that, when the work ia com
pleted, Union will be the site of tho
largest fish hatchery In Eastern Ore
gon, probably equipped with, egg-taking
stations in Wallowa county.
POLICE CHIEF
IN HOSPITAL
Jim Steffen, chief of police, waa, in
the Grande Rondo hospital today, re
covering from a throat ailment which
Hacked him yesterday. His physician
expected the chief to be able to leave
the hospital later today.
It lo believed tliatbctwoon 45 and
60 C.W.A. woorkers will bo required
to mako tho improvernjonts nt Union
which roughly are expected to in-
cludo enlargement of quarters, more
rhatcliing ponds, etc.
Work Is expected to start at Union
just as quickly ns tho plans arrive
hero and a crow of O.W.A. workers
established on the grounds.
EVERETT HYDE
HAS OPERATION
Everett Hyde underwent an cmcr.
gency operation for appendicitis last
night at the Grando Hondo hospital.
HOARD OF KKVIKW TO MKBT
A meeting of tho board of review
of tho Boy Scouts will bo held Mon
day evening nt 7:30 o'clock at tho
office of Charles H. Ucynoiutt.
Time in U. S
REBELS FLEE
Famous . 19th . Army : Re
treats; Japs Land Ma--"Tines
to Keep Order " "
SHANGHAI. , Inn. 13 Ml National.
1st government murines lundeil In
l'ooc.hinv ami occupied the city today
after the 1Mb army had withdrawn
before the advance of Nanking forces,
said navy dispatches from Kooelunv.
Tho dispatches said slight disorder
accomnnnlod tho shirt In autnority,
causing a Japnncso cruiser anchored
at Mnmol, bolow Poochow, to land
a company of Japanese marines. The
marines were quickly witnarawn,
however, nftor nationalist troops had
established order.
FOOCHOW, China, Jan. 13 (P Tho
famous Kith route army, fighting for
tho robel cause In Fuklon province,
was reported in rotrcat today boforo
tho nationalist government forces of
General Chiang Kai-Shek.
TOKYO, Jan.. 13 (It A Ronfio (Jap
anese) news agency dispatch from
Foochow today mild a Japanese war
ship landed 300 bluejackets there to
protect Japanese nationals in , tho
r (Continued on Pago Throe
100 CALIFORNIA
C.W. A. MEN JAILED
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 13 (At War
rants for tho arrest or 100 San Fran
cisco civil works employes, charged
with f nrfettinn their families after
regular" pay had replaced relief ra
tions, were In the hands of police
hero today. '
Tho warrants,1 charging non-support
of dependents, were 'Issued at
the request of Charles M, Wolion
bertf, city relief head, who said wlvea
and children were left destitute while
tho money-earning family heads
spent their pny. Most of the men,
while receiving groceries and relief
supplies Instead of money were con
sidered Kood husbands and fathers,
Woilenbcrg said.
Wheat Today
The price of IimuiI cjisIi wheat t
stood al about ft'i cciiIm hulk to
day, according to iHtnllmin nt
the rimiwr riourliiR Ml IK Port
land rash 71 renin.
CHICAGO, Jan. 13 Wheat rose
lalo today to a now high point for
the present movement of prices.
Commission house 'buying devel
oped following reports of an address
from Postmaster General Farley nt
Clnvelnmt saying the go!d poltcy of
President Roawvclt would be neither
that advocated by the bankors nor
that of tho Inflationists, Farley was
quoted as saying tho president was
not going to sacrifice advances In
commodity prices, nor spread sails
before tho inflation gale with all tho
perils which bc-jct such a course.
Wheat closed firm, tc above
yesterday's finish, corn 4c up,
onto 96iytc advanced, and provisions
unchanged to a decline nt 2c.
JUST BEFORE
PRESSTIME
I'OUTLAM) KUITOIt 1NDICTKD
KO(IS TO IIKOP IN MUCK
$8,000,000 TAX S131T KM.KI) .
SESTENCIJI) TO ItKATII
rOKTI.ANI), Ore., Jan. 13 m Jack
IU Ht 111, rdltar of Mie "Kant Hide
I'oNt," a weekly continunlty publica
tion, uiia today liullcttHl by the Mult
iionmh county grand Jury on a charge
of criminal llhel In connection with
an article published Jim. IS concern
ing Mayor Joseph K. Canton.
PORTLAND, Jan. 13 W) A drop ot
1 cent a dozen all through the egg
markot price, effective Monday morn
ing, was announced by a, O. Keeney,
goneral manager of the Pacific co-ops.
This would placo extras at IB cents
a dozen. , , . ... '
WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 W -The de
partment of JiiHt Ice said today the
government had filed suit In lliiltl
mnrn against tint II. s. luriuftMul Al
cohol company and the V. N.' Indus
trial Chemical (wnNiiiy for more
than $8,000,000 In luxes on t ,2 7 1.0.1 3
gallons of dcuatureil alcohol ullegud
to liave been diverted for beverage
pnrK)ses. ,
COLUMBIA, 8. C, Jan. 13 OT Rob
ert H. WlleB, 40-year-old mechanic,
today was sentenced to be electro
cuted March 12 for tho murder of
Hubbard H. Harris Jr., IB,
HAI.KM, Jan. 13 OT members of
the stale liquor control commission
and George I,. Summls, administrator,
mid Annul lloltz, orRiinl.er for the
commission, arrived here today for I
session nt the state capital, begin
iilng at 1 o'clock. The mcctlnc; will
be an oKu one. ; .
N. R. A. REPLIES
TO CHALLENGES;
ICKES REBUKED
J wsrinVGT(WC .Tan." IT- prThi
MIA replied tmlny to challciigcs of
mher. jiotcriuiwut.bmnclieti with an
ussurtfon that imbllc utilities "oomo
clearly within the provlKloiut of the
ri.thmnl liulus'.rl il recovery and
limy bo placed under it -curte Just as
any oihor Imluhrry.
This statement waa made today at
the continued public hearing on the
electric power code by Donald R.
Rlchberg, general counsel of the re
covery administration, in answer to
criticisms utterod yeatorday by Frank
Ri McNlnch, chairman of the imwor
commission, and Honry B. Hunt, rep
resenting Secretary Ickes.
, Rlchberg at the same time reb'uked
the latter, without calling him1 by
name, for hurling accusations against
tho Edison Electrlp Institute and
dominant units of the power Indus
try. -
'The national recovery) administra
tion insistently urged that thoso util
ities sign tho president's reemploy
ment agreement, which they did, and
therein they made an agreement with
tho president to f Ho a codo of fair
competition," Rlchberg said, (
, "Under these circumstances It Is
hardly appropriate for officials of tho
government to rebuke an Industry, or
to challenge the national recovery ad
ministration, for proceeding in accord-.
anco with tho law as long ago Inter
preted and applied by tho president."
PLAN MERGER OF
B. L: COMPANIES
SAUSM, Jan. 13 (HI Merger of tho
hovcu Insolvent building and loan,
associations In Oregon under a new
consolidated institution will be sought
by Corporation Commissioner Charles
H. Carey, under a plan announced
hero last night. Tho plan Is based
upon tho recommendation of an ad
visory committee named by Governor
Meier last November to study tho
best possible disposition of these in
stitutions with tho greatest roturn
to shareholders.
Approximately 18,000 persons aro
shareholders in tho seven associa
tions, Carey said, with combined as
sets of botweon flvo and six million
dollars. The seven Institutions h&vo
been taken ovor by tho corporation
commission tho post two years for
(Continued on Page Three)
MORE THAN A MILLION
.
USE OREGON FORESTS
l'OKTI.ANt (Special) Mora
tluin it million ntiniiers, picnick
ers, re.Mirt guests and special uso
residents vlsltrtl the national for
ests of Orrjton and WoshlnRton
during ID.13. The report Just Is
sued hy the regional ' forester
here, shows a total of l,OI)7,U.T4 .
of these forest users during the .
yeur. The thirteen national for
ests uf Oregon -received Mil, (1.18
of these guests while 400,1174 of
them visited the lint Inniil forests
of Washington.
LARGE PLANT
WRECKED BY
FATAL BLAST
Entire Town of Hertford, ' :
North Carolina, Sha
ken as by Quake
CREWS HUNT FOR !
ADDITIONAL BODIES
Explosion in Cotton Oil
Company Plant May
Have Been Due to Low
Water in Boilers
HKItTrOKI), N. C Jan. 13 OT At
least six men were killed and seven
Injured here early today In an ex
plosion of boilers at the Eastern Cot
ton, (ill eouipttny plant in the lieiirl
ot Hertford. The large plant was
wrecked, with dama&o estimated at
approximately $50,0011.
Debris from the brick boiler room
was scattered for more than 100 feet,
and the entire town was shaken as
though by an earthquake.
Tho known dead: ..
J. O. Wilder, engineor, and five ne
gro helpers; Solicitor Wilson, John
Wright, Kenly Forehand, Goorge
Broody Jr., and Oscar Eaeon.
First mparts said the blast, widen
occurred shortly after the night shift
had left the plant, was caused by low
water In the boilers, but later It was
said tills had not been substantiated.'
Rescue orews.wore at work In the
wrcekago of the boiler room, which
contained three boilers, In an effort ,
to determine whether other' persons
had been caught In the explosion.
The names of tho Injured and, the
extent of their Injuries could not be
determined immediately In the con
fusion which spread through the en
tire town. ,
Vallee Submits
Records to Show
Divorce Cause
NEW . YORK, Jon. 13 W Lifoloss
wax like that which the voice of
Rudy Valleo so often nos creased
with songs of love, Bpoke another
story for him today.
On evidence provided by transcrlp- .
tlons of tolophone conversations be
tween his wife and others one of
whom was Garfield Leon, an adagio
dancer Vallee won the right yester
day to sue for divorce wherovor ho
chooses. : ' 1 -
Tho spoclfto' ruling was a refusal
by the appellate court to grant a pe
tition of Mrs. Pay Webb Vallee by
which she sought to enjoin the sott
slnglng maestro from seeking a Mex
ican divorce. . ,
Tho transcriptions, obtained by '-'a :
very Blmplo dovlce attached to a tolo
phone extension and without the ne
cessity of wire tapping," led Valleo
to toll tho court (In his affidavit)
that:v . ..V ,.
"My wifo carried on her. affair with
Leon right under . my roof, . with. .
shocking callousness." w ;
(Ijast night on the west const,
where tho principals .of tho action .
are located at present, denials of
misconduct woro made on tho part
of both Mrs. Vallee and Leon).
. . Ono rocordod conversation led Val
leo to aver: -
"Not only was she (Mrs. Valleo) ac-.
cumulating money sho received from
me for the purpose of maintaining
any Illicit love affair, but my wifo
told Leon sho was 'stocking up',"'
Baker' 8 Airport
Plan Is Submitted
BAKER, Oro., Jan. 13 (Spoolal) .
Tho city of Baker's application for
Improvements at the municipal air
port north of the city, estimated at
946,468 by Philo Anderson, engineer,
who prepared the plans, was ap
proved by tho county CWA comrnit
tee of which Fred Mocs 1b ohalrman
and was sent to Portland TOday for
approval by the Btato commlUos, ' "
KKTUItNS. .
I,eo O. Bryant, violinist, lias re
turned to Ln Orando after a long ab
sence. - Ho will be connected with the1
Eastern Oregon school of muslo. '
In addition to tho actual for .
est users, a total of 2,620,000 tour
ists passed throuirlL the national
forests of these two states. -
Campers anil picnickers show
an Increaso of 25ft,4b0 as com
: pared, -with 1032; resort guests
Increased 14,371 during the same
period. Visitors under special
use resilience permits decreased
M!M. There win nn Increase In
transient tourists passing through
of 410,01)0. ;