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' ' ' ' " ' ' ' , ' . " One Road Bid Rejected; Hqrt Bros. Get Wallowa Job La Grande Is The Gateway to Wallowa, ' "The Switzerland of America ' Only Newspaper Printed in La Grande Covering Union and ' Wallowa Countiea wmttmt .mm. w .ill VOLUME 32 EASTERN OREGON'S LEADING KErTSPAPEB LA, GRANDE, OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 1934 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS NUMBER 113 JOBS iiJLiVUAiJ c E ON CoWo A0 m . ..V, - - LA GRAB'S $83,867 BID IS ACCEPTED Provides For Improve ment of Wallowa-Lostine Section of Road. MAY READVERTISE . LOCAL PROJECT Northwest Road Com pany's Bid of $4,577 For Job Here Reported J Above the Estimates. The state highway commission late yesterday rejected all bids received for the proposed improvement of the ' La Grande-Wallowa Lake highway from the U. .P. railroad tracks to the Lo Grande city limit, and awarded a contract to the Hart Construction Co., of La Grande for Improvement of the I Grande-Wallowa Luke high way from the west, city limits of Wal lowa to the east city limits of Lostlne. The bids on the La Grande project were rejeoted, It Is reported, because they exceeded the engineers' estimates of the cost. Northwest Road Co. was low with a bid of 4,577. Bids also were rejected for a similar Job at Pendleton, and one at Springfield, Ore. It Is believed locally that the pro , Ject will be readvertlsed for bids, which will be opened at some future date to be set by the commission. This Is the usual procedure in such cases. , , The awarding of the Wallowa-Lostine Job to Hart brothers of La Grande was welcome news to this city, as It Is expeoted that quite a number of Union and Wajlowa, county men will be given work on,. the pro ject... Too Hart bid' was-483,887,, which proved the lowSst'Tjia-.bffcred. - WALLOWA, Ore.. Jan. 19 (Special) The new right-of-way for the high way through Wallowa has been ob- 1 talned. It will go from the west city limits up Madison street to First street. It will be necessary to move one barn and one house off the right-of-way, says the Wallowa Sun. The improvement will be a 40-foot road bed graded, graveled and sur faced with a 20-foot oil mat through the town.-- i Contract was let, January' 18 for the widening, surfacing and the oil ing of the Wallowa Lake ' highway from the west city limits of Wallowa to the east city limits of Lostlne. Contractors will be required to hire local labor In so far as is possible. The city of Wallowa Is contemplat ing Installing new water pipes from the corner of First and' Alder streets to Madison street before the highway ; construction work is done. Jackman Confers With Richards, Avery, Rampton . E. R. Jackman, farm crops field ox pert from Oregon State college, ar rived this afternoon to meet with D. E. Richards, of the Union experiment station, H. G. Avery, county agent, and H. H. Rampton, assistant, to as sist In working out a field crop dem onstration which will be ca'rried on by the county agent's office this year. Four Missionaries Safe At Foochow FOOCHOW, China; Jan. 19 W Four American missionaries, lsolaUxl near Kutlen as a result of sharp fighting In the- region, were reported today to have come -through the ex perienee unharmed. ' They are Rev. W. 8. Bissonette of Canton, Ohio: Dr. and Mrs. H. N. Brester of Xenia, Ohio, and Miss aMr- tha Graf of Cincinnati.; ELK ARE INCREASING IN WALLOWA FORESTS Recently the wild life count for Umatilla national forest was an nounced, and today the count for the Wallowa national forest was re ceived here from Enterprise. It reveals that wild life held its own during the year of 1933, and the report estimating the number of animals of various kinds in the forest follows: . Game animals 3265 elk. 50 moun tain sheep. 11,250 mule tall deer and 490 brown or black bear. - Predatory animals 2560 cos)te. 375 lynx or wildcats, S mountain Hons, 9350 porcupines. ' Fur bearing animals 180 beavers. 125 foxes. 635 martens. 760 minks, 1081 badgers, 3160 weasels, 66 otters, Will Rogers 'soys:'" BEVERLY HILLS, Oai., Jan. 18 I am still trying to stay off writing about the 60-cent dollar. It looks like the argument is pretty well taken caro of without any expert aid from me. We got France scared so the experi ment has already paid for Itself. Cuba kinder nosed In on the front page egaln -today with a new presi dent, but It's getting so that's not news. So about two more presidents and they will bo back with tho want ads as news. Tammany Hall had the biggest quake in years. A Mr. Flynn, a very able man and friend of our president, who heretofore only- had one district, lias taken over the whole thing. Tam- mnnv deaths, however, are always temporary. Yours, MoNnusht Syndlcou; inc. 39 GRADUATE FROM EIGHTH GRADETODAY Last of "A" Class Stu dents to Enter La Grande High Next Monday. with tim entrance of '30 cradc uni,wii frntiiiinrp into La Grande High soliool Monday morning, when they will begin regular classes of the sec ond semester, the last of the A',' classes' will have gone Into -past his tory.-. TIUS WaS UllUUUHWU Herbert Evans, of the' city 'schools', to--dav In giving the names of the eighth grade graduates. . r . , ... . Last fall, "A" and "B" classes were discontinued, and achievement tests were used to adjust students to class es beginning their terms with the (Continued on Page Four) DANCERS PRAISED BY AUDIENCE AT NORMAL SCHOOL Authentic Interpretation and a mastery of technique marked tho dance recital presented oy me r ruaci James dance group last night at the Eastern Oregon Normal school. - Tho artistry of 'the dancers was aug mented by the perfection oi mo ac companiments played by Arthur Frazer, concert pinniaw win, (Continued on Page Six) COVE HIGH PLAYS HERE SATURDAY The La Grande Tigers left this af ternoon by automobile for Enterprise, where they will meet the Enterprise Savoges In a scheduled basketball game tonight. It will bo the only contest with Enterprise until the basketball tournament In March. Tomorrow night two games will be played In the L. D. S. Recreational hall here with the Cove High school. The second tenms of the two schools will meet at 7:15 o'clock with Jlggs Burnett as referee, and the first teams will go Into octlon at 8:15 p, m. with Clive Moore as referee. This will be tho second meeting be tween the Cove and La Grande teams, the Tigers winning at Cove some time ago by a decisive score. 15 Ushers, 650 skunks, 650 coons, 600 muskrats. Game animals killed by man 177 elk, 425 deer, 34 bear; hunters num ber 1900. Game killed by predatory animals 32 elk. 410 deer. Predatory animals killed on and adjoining the National Forest 165 coyotes. 48 bobcat and lynx, 29 bear, 987 porcupines. The report said that the elk herd i- ,niina with in iinnsuallv laree calf crop reported, also that deer appear to oe increasing siignii), w,m fewer killed In 1933 than In 1932. An Increoso also Is noted In bear, coyotes, lynx, porcupine, beaver. To New Post x u Marrlncr S. Eccles, prominent Ogden, Utah-, banker, named as sistant secretary of the United States treasury by Secy. Morgon tlmu. Eccles, known as a sound and progressive banker, has built up a large financial institution in i his native state. POSSIBILITY OF NIGHT CLASSES FOR ADULTS HERE , If enough members of the adult population of La Grande and this community are Interested in nlffht school to further - their education. there Is a possibility that night schools may bo inaugurated here through the -use, or -3r. w. A " tuwu This wns announced today by Supt. Herbert Evans, of the city schools, who nt present Is making a survey to determine the demand for such classes. It Is merely a preliminary survey to determine what classes might be organized. If and when further C. W. A. funds arc made available for such use. Anyone interested Jmufy I'oglstcr either at the city library at Fourth and Pennsylvania, or at any of the city schools, whero blanks are avail able. All persona 16 years of age or over may enroll, and classes would be organized .according to demand for them and would be held at a place and time most convenient to those enrolled. Suggested subjects, and there might be others If the demand were suffl clent, include arithmetic, grammar and composition, geography, history, citizenship, naturalization. French German, Latin, Spanish, English (in eluding book discussion, lleterature, public speaking and written Knglish) iContlnnen on Page Fourv WORK BEGINS ON HATCHERY IMPROVEMENT -- . : - - - A . : IU : New, Modern Building, 44 By 100 Feet, to Be Built at Union. CAPACITY WILL BE , 3,000,000 FISH Old Building Not to Be Abandoned, ' But Will Be Modernized at Some Future Time. UNION,, Ore., Jan. 10 (Special) More details regarding the Imiirovc- ineiitff to be made ut the, IMuoil ll-.r. hntahery have been received hero u-lt.ii nHKiinuuv. that the nlant wl.'l be the scene of union activity during the next few weeks with tt crew nt 47 men at work on the construction of a new hatchery building mid In- the general Improvement of the nalcucry grounds. , In pursuance of the ten-yoar pro gram of the state game commlnslon Improvements costing 15,Bla have been authorized and will commonco immediately. Tho C. W. A. to pro vide 8,190 of this amount and the game commission the remainder of 7,328. ', ... ., ' ' The now building, whloh probably will be located ,to. tho east of. the present hartchory building, will ibe 44 feet bv 100 feet, will have a cement floor, 24 large tanks and a storage plant sufficient to oare for w ions of fresh fish food. A new water sys tem. wlU be Installed, using 24-lnoh pipe lines. Tho capacity of the new building will throe million fish, The old building will not bo aban doned but will be equipped with new .tAliti.suid a new cement foor os soon . (Con'ilnucd On Page Four) Validity of New Monetary Plan Is Challenged My Clarence M. Wright i u AKillMlTON. Jan. 10 m challenge of the constitutionality of the Roosevelt dollar devaluation bill was given to the senate today by Carter Glass (., Va.) as the adminis tration speeded efforts to obtain en actment of the legislation by Tuesday. He assorted that Attorney General Cununlngs in upholding the meas ure's constitutionality had omitted supreme court decisions pertinent to the question. Tho administration gave the word that possage of the measure by Tues day was 'llmpcratlvo" becauso of re financing operations to bo under taken soon. .WHY EDUCATORS GET DISCOURAGED They'll Talk Way fahini - M.iil.ii..iir..'iii. MIIMMMimH il Ill I in I'm II I Hill wMwwwmn- mmmmmmm fpiKSpaK iiiimi'ir'in'miiiimin!! ii '-Hi J -I Tracing the route for 40,000 miles of debating, literally around the ' world, these two young OJnlverslty of Washington students i will make , Honolulu -iielr first stop on scheduled debate and lecture appearances ; In a 100-step Itinerary taking more than a year, M. Lyle Spencer Jr, left, and Robert K. Burns are piotured as they glance over a globe at , the V, of W. .;;,.,..-.-.,.,.'... FEAR FOR SAFETY OF BANKER HELD BY KIDNAP GANG j- . ' ,-: ST PAUL, Jan.. 19 Wl Blood stains on both front nnd rear seats of Edward G. Ilreniers aiiioinooue, ionay Inspired fears for the safety of the a7-ynir-o1d hank president, held for 80o;i)00 ransom by kidnapers who have' threatened hlin with death, ' . enlotches of Mood smeared the front seat of the .Bremer sedan when It vAis ,found In, an outlying rosl dena.1. district sh6rtly after 10 a. m Wednesday morning, It was-disclosed today. . '.. . ' " ' - ,- Indications were the kidnaped owner and head of the Commercial -State bank, whose faitftier, Adolph Bremer, Is a peroonal friend of Presi dent Roosevelt, was slugged whon he resisted hlB captors as they Invaded his car. i "''..'. :. . - i . American- Legionnaires were called upon today to make an active searoh foriBrcmer. N Spurred by the death threat, made In a note left on the back door step of the homo of Walter Mageo, a wealthy contractor and friend of the abducted president of a St. Paul bank, the local legion outlined plans of the search by .Minnesota members as well as by members In tho neigh boring states. (Continued on Pago Six) IIAKIIISON KIHHEIl I11KH NEW YORK, Jan. 19 (P Harrison Fisher, 67, rfVtlst, died unexpectedly today In Doctors hospital after an emergency operation last night. 'Round World INCREASE IS MADE IN VETS' ALLOWANCES President Roosevelt Au thorizes Liberalization of the Economy , Act. ; WAHIUNGJON, , .liiu,.JJlW3- rreil dent Roosevelt. today authorized oi Increase In veterans allowances of 2 1, 092,205. ' . f ' :' He ordered the liberalisation of the economy act upon receiving a report of a study made by Director Hlnes of the veterans bureau and Director Douglas of the ibudg&t. , The main Increase In government expenditures for veterans under the order results from liberalization of the eligibility rules for hospital treatmont In non-sorvico connected cases bo aa to provide this treatment. In cases of emergency or extensive medical and Burglcal caro. The order increases the rates of pension for war veterans suffering with - service-connected . disabilities from $90 to S100 a month for total disability and proportionate increases for such veterans suffering with less than total disabilities. Burial and funeral allowances for deceased war votorans Is Increased (Continued on Page Six, SEVEN CONVICTS ESCAPE FROM PEN LANSING, Jan. ID (!) f Penr that seven convicts who escaped from the KiiiiBRB fltnte prison today may hove kidnaped Louis DrcBHcr, a tencher In a rural school near Wallula, Kns., as a hostage wns expresed by prison authorities this afternoon. Dresser failed to appear at his school today and Ills car was found abandoned nine miles southwest of tho school shortly before noon. Pour of the convicts woro reported to have been sighted In underbrush near Wallula, not far from the prison, by a small girl who said or.e appeared to be wounded. Prison guards were searching the vicinity. Warden Simpson denied today that prison officials had received advance "tips" 0:1 the break. However. Chief of Detectives John T. Duncan of tho St. Joseph, iyo., police department said he notified prison authorities yesterday of a con templated break. Wheat Today The .price of local caKh wheat Ktnod at about 5.'1!4 hulk today, according lo (jiiolallens at the I'lonpcr flouring Mills. Portland cash 72 cetltH. No export hid. CHICAOO, Jan. 19 (Pi Increased complaints of drought conditions ovor the United States winter wheat belt southwest and west today supple mented to a decided extent tho stimu lating offects of an abrupt rise or sterling. Comprehensive reports Indicated Wojtern Kansas rainfall to be IT per cent below normal the past year, with this the third successive year of sub normal moisture. Wheat camA firm, lp2Vic above yesterday's finish, corn ?4f4,Hc up, oats t Ho advanced, and provis ions varying from 6 cents decline to a r:-w of 7 cents. JUST BEFORE PRESSTIME ''.'--'- NKW BANK REGULATIONS GKR.MANV OUSTS GAJXAGI1ER THUKB 1'I.UNOB TO DEATH .... ; . . KILL WIIAI.ES OKI' L. A. WASHINGTON, Jan. IB W) Regu lations prohibiting Insured banks from, paying Interest on demuiul do IHMlts were Issued today by the de posit Insurance corporation. ' BERLIN, Jan. 19 W) Leo Oalla ghef, ..Los Angeles attorney, was or dered today ito leave Germany within three days os "an undesirable aucn,' HIlANUHAl, Jan. 18 (i Sirs. W. H. Grouch.-of Bl Paso, Texas, took lier 'tnu sons, William, a, and Thom as, 7, one under each arm and lumped off the roof of all 8-story nriHlrtinent house torihty. All three were killed.' ' . LOS ANGELES, Jan. 19 m Three more whales were harpooned uat out side Los Angeles harbor. Toot makes six tho killer boat Pont Saunders lias brought into tho San Pedro wnallng station In the past two weens. , , WASHINGTON, Jan. 19 P Sec retary WaUace today placed Ills sup- nort behind legislation to include cuttle as a basic commodity In the agrlc-natural adjustment program but woriutu cattlemen . tnnt "tiiere ib nothing sudden or miraculous that, can be done for beef." . , BIRTH CONTROL OPPONENTS HAVE THEIR SAY TODAY WASHINGTON. Jan. 19 m The birth-control vntrovorjr wua called "InconceJvoblo, , distressing and dis gusting" by Dr.' Howard Atwood Kelly of Johns Hopkins university, speaking today on tho Plorco otath oontrol bill. "Think of an elaborate conference on birth control In the Mayflower hotel I" ho exclaimed to the house JU--dlolory -committee. , ' "auch a thing -would : have been Inconceivable 20 years ago; and a groat social gathering, too, at which details were talked over. Disgusting-'1 He told tho committee he was the fathor of nine children. He spoke critically of college . campus morals, Into which, he sold, seniors Intro rinrMl freshmen. . Dr. Honry J. Orosaon, speaking ior Dr. William Oerry Morgan, former president of tho American Medical association, said there was "not one scintilla of truth" In the contention of birth control crusaders that the medical profession was bohlnd thoir cause. He road a tologram from Dr. MoT can ' voicing to tho committee -his "continued vigorous opposition" to tho nroDosod ohango of tho orlmlnol code to permit medical dissemination of birth oontrol Information. .Dr, Honry W, Oattcll of Philadel phia, 47 years a physician, author of 100 books, said his bollcf, as a Proa byterlan, wns that birth control would change the ten commandmonts to say "thou shalt covet thy noignoors wuu ' (Continued on Paire Rli) BROWN CANDIDATE FOR MEIER'S POST SALEM, Jon. 10 W The first public announcement relative to the gubernatorial contest this year was made hero today by Sam H. Brown, of nervals, who declared he would filo a candidate lor tho Bepubli can nomination for governor. Ho seeks the position now held by Julius L. Meier, who has not yet uimam whether or not he would no a canm date for re-election. Brown, a member of the state legls. laturo for many years and present state senator from Marlon county will seek tho nomination on a single pledge, ho stated, that of an "honest and efficient administration. 4 BENEDICTINE MONKS SEE SEA "MONSTER" FOHT ArtiUHWS, liirrrnrM, Scotland, Jim. II) W1 Tunic now fuiir henedlrllnc nionkn of Fort Augmlus Abbey to add their tentlmnny to that of iiersons who rlaim to have seen the l-odincM "Monster." tome they do, despite Hie taunts of the incredulous de spite, Inn, the charges that the Ko-nilled sen monster, serpent, gUint squid or tvhat-clsp-hnvc-lliey. Is Just n niylli Invented to SHORTAGE OF MONEY CAUSE OF REDUCTION Nat ion-ali Retrenchment , Taken Today Union: ' County is Affected FOLLOwisAPPROVAli OF MORE PROJECTS State Gives Authority For -Flood Control.' and Booth Lane Jobs in Un-; iort County. 1 ADMINISTRATION ACTS TODAY WASHINGTON,. Jan. 19 W) Seeing tho time growing ahoxit toe fore exhaustion of civil works em ployment funds, the administra tion, put - under way today a plan to expedite the.prosldent's recom mendation to congress for over a billion dollars . out of :which -. the OWA would be .financed untl spring months, v - i ; .- As soon, as now -funds are avail able, employments will he put on o, 30-hour-a-week basis.-It -is plan ned; however, to reduce the civil works force 1,000,000 men every two weeks af ter February 15 : ' ,An unexpected curtailment of - working hours and 4uota expansion nationally today In civil works( caus ed .by too- rapltfj expenditure of Ted- ' eroll funds available,, wns ordered fry . linrry Hopkins, .U. 8, adnUnUtator, todayr-anid. It iwils .expected It: wouhl . cause reduced pny envelopes for lHKt '. week to 4.000,000 C, W.. A, workers, In ' every seetloiv of-the. U.. S,r?-:i Fi; ;f J. H,-Peare, chairman of thQ-losal -- P; . W,- A:, .board; reoMVejl- tt -lengthy, tegroni.- this, morning, from Elmer Goudy, utoite administrator, telling of the curtailment.'.; .' - i- ' : -.i; . The telegram followed si, wire 'late- yesterday giving approval to two more Union county projects. No. ' 39; for floqd control: of the Orande-Ronde river below Imbler, and - No. .40, for Improvement '- of Booth -lone, 'from Moss ohapol to the Pteroo ranch. The (Continued From Page Four) Wynekoop Trial f . Is Postponed To Monday Morning CRIMINAL COURTS BUILDING, Chicago, Jan. 19 (P) The murder trial of Dr. Alice IJndsay Wynekoop , was postponed today until Monday because of the 62-yoar-old defendant's physical condition. - Defense attorneys announced, that Dr. Wynekoop 's condition was gravo and that she hod spent a bad nlg-ht, aggravated by nausea,. Hor pulse was glvon as 100 and hor temperature as 00.6. -, . ' . , : , . ' 1 ' i '- ' Dr. Earlo" Gray, a heart specialist, warnod that hor condition was such that her life was In constant danger. Ho said a stroko might conic ait any time. Dr. Wynokoop Is charged with mur dering her daughtcr-ln-law Rhetn. Looking extremely tired and her face an ashen gray, she was wheeled Into court a fow minutes before tho . trial was scheduled to got under way. After a conference of principals for half an hour In the Judge's chambers It was announced that tho trial would bo postponed until Monday. :S Greece Man Oust Samuel Insult- Sr. ATHENS. Jan. 19 UPi The re porter of the suprome state council recommended today, to the council, that Samuel Insull Sr., formor Chi cago utilities operator, bo expelled, from Greece. Tho decision is expeoted next Tuesday. In tho court corridors It wns ru mored that president Roctlvnn of tho council and the sevon other Judges woro evenly divided as to what course they should tako. Intrigue simple tourists. Abbott lluiiter-llliilr questioned the nionk.H. ,- t "Not only have we seen the creature once," he said they told hlin. "We have seen It on sev eral occasions." And the AhlMitt himself fam iliar with lock ness for half a (witlury write that lie was con vinced the wlerd nnd mysterious monster netiialy haunts the deep valors of the lock. '
