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Danger Of Damage To Fruit Trees In Valley Disapp ears r La Grande la The Gateway to Wallowa, "The Switzerland . of America : Onlv NfWHnntur Printed in La Grande Covering Union and Wallowa Counties IS VOLUME 32 It EASTERN OREGON'S LEADING NEW8PAPEB LA GRANDE, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1934 MEMBER A880CIATBD PRESS NUMBER 111 mm CO T ASSISTANT AGENT mm: wand? i H1RAMPT0N TAKES POST THIS WEEK Will Organize and Handle 4-H Club Work, Crop Demonstrations. ' FEDERAL FUNDS TO PAY SALARY Addition of Mr. Ramptori to Union' County Staff Without ,Any Expense Locally. To aid In completing the wheat re duction campaign and the corn and hog program about to xtnrt in Union eoui'ty, funds liave been obtained from the agricultural adjustment ad ministration, on recommendation of V. I Dallard, state county agent lender, for tlic employment of an as sistant county agent In Union county from January 1 until June 30. Tills extra assistance Is furnished the county ntlthoitt xoiie to eilher the county, the county, wheat control association or the corn and hog pro duction control association soon to be organized., , The regular program of extension work In Union county Is an exten sive one, according to Mr. Ballard, and the work necessary to bring to the county the maximum benefits from the wheat and corn and hog adjustment , plana are such as to make the load too heavy for effec tive work If all Is left to a single extension representative. Tho extra assistance, such as haa been received In .Union county, was . only, possible In one other county in the" state.' The new assistant, H. H. Ramp ton, reported for duty this week. Mr. Hampton Is a graduate of Utah Agricultural college and recently received an advanced degree in farm crops under Professor G. B. Hystop. - Oregon State college. Although Mr. Rampton Is assigned to the county because of the agricultural adjust ment program. County Agent H. O. Avery will give first attention per sonally to those programs and Mr. Rampton will organize and carry on tho 4-H club work and crop demon stration work during his six month's employment. Three Selected As Winners In Speech Contest Robert Eakln, Burke Inlow and Wallace Koopcke were chosen from among a group of eight students as the outstanding after dinner speakers In an assembly Tuesday at the East ern Oregon Normal school. Tho speak ers were seated around a table and were attending a mock meeting of the Junior commerce. The speeches given In an appropriate atmosphere were on the theme "American optl miom." Miss Amanda Zabel directed the activity which the men entered voluntarily. Mrs. A. K. Parker, vocalist, present ed two groups of solos. Others participating were WlUlam Cooper,,Homer Caso, Verdcll Ragsdalo, Woodrow Damcrell end 'Arlo Noycs. BANK VICTOR IN CIVIL CASE IN COURT HERE The case of L. D. Eakln, of Boise, vs. the First National bank or La Grande, on trial In circuit court this week, came to an end this morning when the Jury returned with a ver dict for the defendant. Eakln. the plaintiff, brought suit to recover money from the bank, alleging that he furnished C. A. Ditty, farmer, with gasoline to harvest his crop and that tho bunk, promised to pay for It. The case of LaCount vs. the Union Construction Co., set tor Jury trial today, was put into equity, and will be tried before Judge C. H. McCul loch, of Baker, without a Jury. EASTER SUNDAY FALLS ON APRIL FOOL S DAY Easter Sunday this year will mine on the first day of April, which also Is enjoyed by the younger children as April Fool's day. Ah Wedmfliy, the beginning of Lent. Is on February 14, which ntso Is St. Valentine's day. Tht js an imtitunl condition, Will ROGERS Says: SANTA MONICA. Cal., Jan. .16 Papers all excited today over the dol lar being 60 cents. Well It's been 60 cents for months but we Just love to have something new to get excited over. Worst thing about the whole mess Is, we ore going to have to listen to all 'the some old arguments all over again. It's a good argument for us dumb' ones to stay out of, so sic 'em Tigo,1 may the loudest man. win. I am going to get onto some news. Did you know that Greta Gftfbo Is prowling around in the Arizona des ert under the name of Jones with some "furrlner" going by the name of Brown? I got to got that settled before I can tako up this gold busi ness. Yours, ?ie C 1031, McNsunht Syndicate', lne; GOLF CLUB LOOKS AHEAD TO BIG YEAR Members Enthusiastic at Prospects For 1934 New Directors A r e Elected Tuesday. The nu mini meeting of the Lu Grande country club, held Inst .night at the office of Churls II. Reynolds, president, . proved , to be one of. the best attended nnd niwt,. enthusiastic In years. New tdlrectors ,wee elected, reports read and without a rtlsAsmiiig opinion, those present expect the olub to enjoy one of Us best years il 11 ring the coming season. Prom a financial standpoint, the club report showed a very satisfac tory condition. Reports of other com mittees, and discussion of the future plans of the organization were gone into thoroughly. P. L. Meyers, director whose term expires next year, resigned from the position, and Fred Spaeth was elected to fill Mr. Meyers' unexpired term. New directors elected, whoso terms will expire In 1937, Included tho fol lowing: Li. K. Klnzel, Herman Siegrist, W. C. Perkins and William Siegrist, all rc-lectod, and Dr. James J. D. Haun, elected to succeed H. N. Ash by. KIDDLE SPEAKER AT ROTARY CLUB LUNCHEON TODAY Senator Fred E. Kiddle, who only recently returned from Salem where he served as governor of Oregon dur ing the absence of Oov. Julius U. Meier for a few weeks, was the speak er at the Rotary club luncheon to day at noon at the La Grande hotel. Senator Kiddle explained many of the bills passed at the special session of the legislature, including those of major Importance the employment measure, the bus and truck bill, tho school rellel sales tax bill, the Knox liquor act and the measure making milk a utility. He said he voted against tho milk bill. (Continued on Page Two LOUISA MILLER SPEAKS TONIGHT Miss Louisa A. Miller, of Repnllc. Ountur, India, will speak In the Lutheran church this evening at 7:30. Miss Miller, whose homo was In Woodburn, Ore., Is visiting In this country during her furlough, and comes to La Grande to tell of the work she and her associates are do ing In India. During the 20 years that Miss MU- (Contlnued on Page Two) which occurs only once In the proverbial "blue moon." Pnlm Sunday will take place on March 2fi nnd the dale of Good Friday I Ma run 30. - Palm Sunday make It appear ance Just four da after the advent or the spring Maon, ac cording to the calendar. DANCER mat " uNW: James Fnizer, dancer, who will appear Thursday with the Fnizer James Dance group at the Nor hial school nmlitoriir.il. '"- MUCH INTEREST IN DANCE GROUP COMING THURSDAY . Unusual Interest s . being displayed by the faculty and students of the Eastern Oregon Normal school and by townspeople, as well, In thtf com ing appearance of the Frazer-Jamos. Uaiwe group wWoh.,:.wllprtOTirtftH entertaining program of dance and music in the Normal school auditor ium, Thursday evening, Jan. IB. This company, consisting of Paul James, Lois BaJlcy, Marguerite Lund I, 'end Arthur Fraze r will appear in. colorful costumes with special scenery and novel lighting effects, and their pro gram will be representative of the history of the times from the early Grecian to modern German. No reserved tickets will ibe sold, but a block of the .best, auditorium, seats will ibo set aside for those who pur chase adult tickets at tho door. JOAN BILYEU IS IMPROVING Joan Bllyeu, who formerly lived at Enterprise, and who was seriously in jured in an automobile accident in which her mother, Mrs. C. J. Bllyeu, and her grandparents were killed, is Improving from her Injuries, accord ing to word received here from her father. Another Place Where Working Hours Need To Be Regulated RUNNING SAP RETREATS IN APPLE TREES Recent Cold Snap Returns Orchards to Normal ;v. Winter. State. NO POSSIBILITY . OF DAMAGE NOW Condition Allays Fears Held By Fruit Men and Others in Grande Ronde Valley. ' v ' Fears of orchard 1st as well us others In Union county, that a sud den cold snap this winter - would damage fruit trees nnd other' vege tation, have been aliayeuV ' Sever cold could come now without' caus ing any unusual damage, authorities said today. : ' Recently, a few apple freeB in the Elgin and Imbler districts, which an no longer productive, ,have bcen cul down, and the workmen learned thai the sap is no longer running, accord ing to Information received by Has kell Andrews, fruit Inspector. - The sap had been running a .few weeks ago but the recent cold snap, that saw the mercury drop to 24 above In La Grande, caused the sap to retreat without damage. - Generally, It Is believed that since this condition exists In apple chards. It also will hold true for cher ries, prunes and other trees. ; . More unusually warm ., weather would be necessary In order .to place Union' county orchards in a condition again, where there, would be a nos. UBibinty-. "j-uaniaBe in--thefevent' of severe cold., '. -- . : To Mark Mt. Glen Spot Where First Settlers Wintered The meeting of tho Union County Historical society held Tuesday eve nlng at the Sacajawoa Inn was pro- sided over toy Mrs, Kate Honley, president. Plans were made to per manently mark tho place in the Mt. Glen locality where the .first iband of settlers in Union pounty spent the winter of 1860-1861. Following tho business meeting, Mrs. Harriet McDonald had charge of the program which opened with com munity singing lead by Miss Lydla Hug, with Mrs. B. J. Kitchen fur nishing the accompaniment. The group sang three old songs, "Ameri ca," " Star-Spa ngled Banner," and (Continued on Page Five) T-, : : ' t i : Murder Suspect Carried to Trial . I - 5 ' SIN V -ZfrLM ill is ui I III I - it . m 4. fill Dr. Alice Wynekoop n brought dully :n a uncel clinlr to the door way of the Chlniffo coui'tifKMii where she Ik IicImk tried on. a"1 (shnrRe of ihnrdcrliiff her daiightur-ln-law, Illietii. Tlieil kIio Ik . placed In a chair as, pictured here und curried to the front 'of the courtroom. Veiled, dressed neatly, In black, she watches ImpaH slvely, nnder the c.vck of Mary Kennedy, her nurse, and giianllng ofriciH, PLANS DANCE AND BANQUET B. A. R. E., railroad men's organ ization, will entontaln at a banquet and dance In the Sacajawca Inn ball room on Jan. 24. It la announced. OHO RUNTE EAST OREGON LIQUOR HEAD Appointment of Portland . La Grande Man An nounced By G. Sammis POIITLAND, Ore, Jan. 17 UP) Kdward It. Mnrrin if KuReiie, Otto ). Kunte, of I -a (iniiifle, ti ml Laurence It. Ilickam, of Portland, witc today named supervisors of I he Oregon lliior control CNininiission by lcorfC L. SaninilK, ndinliilHtratur, ami will at once hike over their duties In the three illHllnt't 'iHvI.hIiimh of the state. The 'Hilary Ik flcimm n yran Morris will have charge of all of Western and Southern Oregon south of Eugene; Runte will supervise oper ations east of the Cascades, oxcept In Klamath and Lake counties, and Hlckam will have cline of all West ern Oregon north of Eugene. Morris will make his headquarters at Eugene, Runte at La Orande, and Hlckam at Salem. The supervisors will have imme diate charge of the conduct of the commission's operations In their re- (Continued on Page Two) Wheat Today The price of local caxh wheat tHid lit about M cent! bulk hern today, iif-i'onllitft to quotation a.. the I' I o iter r Flouring MIIK Port land cHfh Tt cents. I'orlliiml c port 77 coiil. CHICAGO, Jan. 17 f71 Wheat and rye advanced In prlc lal today, with enlarged demand for Immediate deliveries of ryo doing much to lift tooth grains. Not all of the gains howovor wer hold. Rye closed strong, rfdc above ycitcrday's finish, wheat irregular, Vc off to foe tip. corn at o de cline to 'ic advance, oaU showing ft y4c rise an1 provisions varylijg from 2c setback to an equal gain. JUSTBEF0RE PRESSTIME : ' V.k SAILORS BACK ON BOAT 1 I'IKBCB AN It 8 BKHlElt LOKH - OltKTA OA HBO NOT , MAItUIKI) I FAY AM END 8 COMJLAINt 'FOOCHOWp' China,' Jan. 17 WP) Nationalist ; goveniinent Inrmitry, Ioiirliig Into Foochow on the heels of retreating rebels, set ubout restor ing order today. United Htatfs Bailors, sent ashore to guard Ameri can lives and property, returned to the V, 8. S. gunboat TuIhu. ' WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 (Presi dent Roosevelt was urged today by i Representative Pierce of Oregon nnd Knute Hill of Washington, to sanc tion tho construction of locks In the Bonneville - dam, large . enough to transport ocean going carriers. HOLLYWOOD; Col., Jan. 17 (PI Ore tu Oarbo and Kouben Mamoullan, her director, were back In town to day and not married or think life of marriage, Mamoullan declared, t . I LOS ANGELES, iTan." 17 UP) In- a upri&o legal move, Fay Webb Vallee today amended her separate main tenance suit against Rudy Vallee, accusing him of misconduct with a "Jane Doe,' No. 3, of Los Angeles," and specifically ' charging him with misconduct with' Miss Alice Faye, blues singer. In various Eastern and Southern cities. ENTERPRISE GETS $3038 OF C.W. A. AIRPORT FUNDS '"PORTLAND.' Jan: "17 (P) -a-'Tlio nl lotment of OWA funds for throe now Oregon airports, 'and word that ap proval of an expenditure of 914,051 on the Pendleton airport Is expected Immediately, was announced hore to day by Lieut. Basil B. Smith, airport engineer of the aeronautics divlBlon, U. 8. department of commerce. Enterprise was granted $3,038 for a field there. About 38 men will be employed and the field will pro vide another unit In the air route from Portland to Lewlston, Idaho. ..Mlllsboro's application for an al lotment of 99,684 to build an airport ori 100 acres of land purchased by tho city was approved, and 00 men Will be employed. Construction of a field at Chilo quln to form a part of tho alternate coast airway from Tho Dalles to Klamath Falls, was approved, and $5,738 was allocated. Moro than 60 men will got work. ' FOUR JAPANESE UNDER SUSPICION KEARNY, N. J., Jan. 17 (TV-JCura-Jl Takahashl. secretary of the board of tourist Industry of Japan, and the four Japanese engineers who vcro taken Into custody with him when police' found them photographing bridge structures In the Hackensack meadows, will return hero from Now York today to have their passports examined. Although tho five wero. questlone at length late yesterday nnd last night, Captain of Detectives John Helmslcy said tho only question in volved was the regularity or tho men's entry into the United States. , Takahashl, however, was charged with driving an automobile without a license and unlng another person's li cense. Captain Helmsloy said tho men were photographing tho Pulaski elevated highway, the Pennsylvania railroad structure and that of tho Lackawanna railroad whore they cropw tho meadows, when residents of Kearny spotted them and notified the police. HEARING ON BIRTH CONTROL TOMORROW WASHlNOTOrf, Jnn. 17 Tho "birth control and nntlonnl recovery conference" today enjoyed the back ing of a resolution voted by 600 at tending physicians, endorsing pend ing birth control bills, ItearlnnH will bo held tomorrow on Cnpltol Hill on the Identical bills of Representative Pierce, of Oregon, nnd Senator Hastings, of Dolawnio. which would permit dissemination of con traceptive Information by physicians. James H. S. Bossnrd. sociology pro fessor of the University of Pennsyl vania, also raised before tho confer ence another question: "with relief and other social welfare expenditures lis high as they are. Is It not time COMMITTEES GET DOLLAR LEGISLATION Hearings ""May"' Be Held, on iRposevelt's - New . Monetary Measure. " CONSTITUTIONALITY OF PLAN AFFIRMED President Also, Expected to Ask For $1,100,000,000 For Recovery Program Very Soon. 1 WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 VP) Home slight concessions to Henator Glass (D. VuO, the nature of which was withheld for the time, marked the administration's new 'dollar legisla tion us It was started today through congress. , Tho 1 house .' coinage committee, meanwhile, halted Its, other Inquiry into money questions . to speed this latest official bill on Its way,, pos sibly with open hearings. : Chairman Fletcher of the senate -banking committee put the adminis tration measure formally before the senate, but before the changes made could be ascertained the draft was shot to . the printers . so plentiful copies could be made available. The measure authorizes the taking over by the treasury of all monetary gold stocks. Including that of the Federal Reserve banks, permits the president to lower tho gold value of the dollar to between.- BO . and 60 cents, and establishes h stabilization -fund of 2 ,000.000.000 to ;bo taken from thd' profltfronvgold revalua tion. '''H,.v-::vv::. Cvv,. Senatorial-doubters', meanwhile, had White House word that President Roosevelt obtained an afflrmatlvo opinion from Attorney General Cum- (Continued on Page falx) Japan Likely To Devaluate Gold Content Of Yen TOKYO, Jan, 17 (P) Japan prob dbly -will Xollow the monetary policies of tho United 6tates &a laid down by President Roosevelt, Finance Min ister Koroklyo Takahashl Indicated today In an Interview. He asserted the government Is In tensively studying .the problems of gold and devaluation with the In tention of presenting legislation to the Japanese parliament asking pow ors similar to those of the American president. "If America returns to the gold standard with the gold content of ' the dollar reduced, as seems likely." : declared Takahashl, "Japan probably will bo compelled thereafter to de valuate the yon sfmllary In order to resume gold payments." TORONTO, Jan. 17 (PI The Toron to Globe In a special dispatch tram Its Ottawa correspondent said today It was believed ' In cabinet circles that parliament will be asked to re duce tho gold content of tho Cana dian dollar. : , . Steel Production In Good Recovery NEW YORK, Jan. 17 (PI Steel production, says "Iron Arc", Is mak ing a "more rapid recovory than had been expected following tho heavy shipments that wcro mado against expiring contracts In Docember." Tho nntlonal output average, as cstlmntcd by the publication Is 33 per cent of capacity, up two points from Inst woek. Part of tho rebound Is nccountcd for by replenishment of Inventories. 1 that the program of atorlllwitlon of the unfit should be considered anow?" "At tho present tlmo there are such laws on the stntute books of 26 stntcs," ho snld. "Thoy havo been . but litllo utilized. Tills has been duo chiefly to lack of public Interest nnd support." Loroy 8. Bowman, of tho Child De velopment Institute, Columbia uni versity, New York, told the birth control meeting ho felt that under present conditions, "the advent of every person brought Into the world ; to be added to th rolls of thoso on relief must be Justified on a basis of wholesome family and community life." i
