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& Annual Spring Fashion Tea ToBelleldHemMaw La Grande la The Gateway to Wallowa, Printed in La Grande Covering Union and Wallowa Counties he Switzerlat of America VOLUME 32 EARTKtiN OREGON'S LEADING NEWSPAPER LA GRANDE, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1934 MEMIIER A8S0C1ATBD PRESS NUMBER 124 E DOLLAR' CLIME TM TV 1 w wsm TT 7T A TTK FTPI 4 MERCHANTS TO DISPLAY NEW STYLES University Women ,Select Date For .Annual La Grande Event. WILL BE STAGED IN BIG BALLROOM Miss Jean White Selected ( As General Chairman; Other Committee Heads Are Named. name Fashion will be on parade at file Kwxilld Annual Spring Fashion Ten sponsored hy the Ainerlcnn Asso ciation of I'nlverslty Women for the merchants of La Orande on March 3, i the Sureijuweu Inn ballroom. The Fashion Tea was an outstanding suc cess bist spring and with the mer chants enthusiastic ulioiut the results from the display ot spring modes, the university women 'decided lo Kimmor the event annually. The merchants of the city have been contacted antt practicaHy all of them will have displays either in the fashion show or on the mezzanine floor. Miss Jean White Is general chairman of the tea. again this year, her oklll In organization having been largely responsible for tho success of .the event -lost spring. Five hundred women attended the tea last spring and many others were unablo to obtain tickets, since the capacity of tho Sacajawea ballroom was tnxed to the limit. Tickets will go on sale next week under tho di rection of Mlso Mabel Morton and her committee and the sale will continue until the available number of tickets are sold. Several new feature3 have been added this year and It promises to be more colorful than before. Tho show will bo given only In the af ternoon, from 3 to 5 o'clock. Miss Amanda Zabel and Miss Dor othy Klrby have charge of contacting the merchants who will exhibit mod els in the show. Miss Imogen Rus sell Is chairman of the committee which will contact the other mer chants who will show displays on the mezzanine floor. Tea will be served throughout the afternoon at the small tables at which the guests will be seated. Miss Agnw Palmer will have charge of the eervlng and of the girls who will be invited to serve during the afternoon. Mrs. R. P. Tyler will arrange for the tea and , other food. The ballroom and the tables will be decorated by (Continued On Page Five) L. J. Allen Will Be Here Feb. 8 To Meet Clubs L. J. Allen, of Corvallis, assistant state- Four-H club leader, will be in La Grande on Fob. 8, 9 and 10 and meetings will be scheduled with him throughout the county. H. G. Avery, county agent, will arrange his Itiner ary within the next few days. POLICE CHIEF, RECOVERED, IS BACK AT POST Chief of Police Jim Steffen, who has been recovering from a nasal op eration for the last several days, re turned to his duties this morning, feeling very much better. Incidentally, Mr. Steffen also re ceived word this week that his nephew, Leonard Koontz, of Lewis ton, Ida., who enlisted In the U. S. navy two years ago. was one of- the mechanics on the naval planes which made the non-stop flight recently from San Francisco -to the Hawaiian Islands. JACK . HENSLE Y TWIN' OF PRES.' ROOSEVELT Jack llenstay. former on rural rout No. 1, Ijx Grande, today qualified ok a "twin" of Presi dent Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and apparently Mr. I lens ley Is the only person now Jiving In t'nlon county who was born on the president's birthday, Jan. 30. 188!. As a result, Mr. Hensley wlH receive a year's subscription to the Observer without cost. Mr. Hensler was born In Scott county, Virginia, and came to the Grande Ronile valley 25 years ago. Will ROGERS NEW YORK, Jan. 31 Everything Is baaed on psycology and I believe that Ogden Mills, as clever and as able as he Is, picked a bod day to explain to the country that they were pros trate under a tax which they couldn't possibly be able 'to pay. Why, in 0000 cities people had on that very day to lay aside Ogden's speech In order to dress In. silks and plush and enter expensive llmouzlnes to get to the ball. No. Ogden, there was too many silk hats showed up that night to make a tax collector be miss led by the cry of poverty. Tliato speech Just didn't harmonize with ermine and champagne. Yours, , f634. McNntivHt jivmllrntp. fn. LOCAL MEN WILL WORK AT OWYHEE 1,500 Men to Be Employed From Five Counties Lostine .Workers May Come From Ontario. PORTLAND, Feb. 1 W) Revealing that us many as lflOO skilled men wilt bo employed at one time on the Owy hee clam project in Mullieur county, tho. Oregon iieadqimrters of the na tional ' re-employment .emlce an nounced today that workmen for tills Job will lie drawn first from Mullieur county, and then from Dillon, Wal lowa, 'Baker and Umatilla counties In that order. (Continued on Page Three) LABOR COUNCIL ASKS LOWERING ' OF PHONE RATES A petlticn from the Central Labor council of La Orande. urging lower ing of telephone rn'-ti was presented to the city commission in session last night. It was referred to City Man ager Angus McAllister and City At torney E. R. Rlngo. with instructions to report to the commission next Wednesday. The Labor council petition asked the city to Investigate the telephone ratca which the petitioners classed as "exorbitant." The petition also con tended that telephones are worth only half as much now as a few years ago because so many have been removed. Mr. Rlngo explained that the city has no more Mght than any Indi vidual to make a complaint on tele phone rates. All such complaints would have to be made to the public (Continued On Page Pour) PIERCE AIDS IN RESTORING FUND Supplementary action by Director Douglas of the budget bureau will rcstx-re appropriations for control of predatory animals to the same fig ures as for the current year, a news dispatch from Washington said to day. Advance word of this decision was given Rep. Walter M. Pierce late Wed nesday by Director Douglas. Congress man Pierce was one of a delegation of western members of the house who have been campaigning to maintain appropriations for predatory animal control, but until yesterday appeared to make but slight progress. Since then he lias maile his home pit her In the valley or In Ia Gmtvle, and during that quarter of a century has been n reader of the Observer. Asked whether he was unusual ly Interested In the celebration of Mr. Kooseve' birthday an niversary' tl ynr. replied emphatically: "I certainly was. I wlh I could have spent th dfy back In Washington with the president. 3 WEATHER MARKS MADE THIS INTER December Warmest and Cloudiest in History, Friday Warmest Janu ary Day Here. Two of the wannest months ever experienced In La Grande during the winter season, both of them p hieing new a UK line murks on the weather books, came to a Close at midnight last night, ltegnrdless of wlutt Imp pens In the wny of weather In- Feb riinry. La Uranders can boost of the winter of 11)33-34 for many, many years to come. December and January ordinarily bring quite a bit of sub-zero weather and usually two or three feet of Bnow to this city. Instead of .that, December had four scattered Inched of snow and no day colder than 10 above. January did even better, having only one inch oi snow and no weather colder than 24 above. The previous record for a winter's minimum 'was in 1923-20 when the coldest was 13 above. If no sever cold materializes In this month, the oM record will be eclipsed by six de grees. Last December claims two all -time records. It was the warmest month on the average of any December since Oregon weather records were started, also It was the cloudiest month. Its high temperature was 60 above In this city, and of tho 31 days, 20 saw the maximum above 45 and 13 Above 60. On only two days did th maximum drop below 40 above, the lowest maximum reading showing 38 above. Only seven days 'saw the minimum below freezing point. Another Recorn The most Important record this last month took place lost Friday, when .the mercury zoomed up to 00 above, making it the warmest Janu- Continued on Page tiix) Martin King Is Bruised; Hit By Car Last Night Martin King, Union Pacific pen sioner and prominent In Democratic politics, received a scratch over his eye and bruises to his knee and shoulder when he was knocked down by a car driven by Lorene E. Wil liam? last night at the crossing near his home at 1605 Adams. Miss Wil liams was blinded by the lights from another automobile and her car struck Mr. King while he was cross ing the street. His Injuries are not regarded as serious. LADEEZ AN' l PENDLETON BUCKAROOS TO PLAY . The liuckurous lnini the l:llv uill hivurin Im Onuiilu Mitunlay una tlirne tough looking Rt'iHH will niM't the IVrcu'louB TIcith In a hiutki'llmll eninc urf-lnnlni; nt H:l p. in.' No. folks, they'll not wear the chaps they'll appear III regulation Miorls. Jerseys anil basket ball slioe. The I'emllelun eagmi are: back row William liirgrnt, FusK. Donald IjiIiir. Harold Rosenberg anil Harold He. Kraut row Gerald tlniybeal, Dorubniek, Dean (lalloiray, Harold Kason and Jluiinlc Met'lure. SENIOR TALENT ASSEMBLY TO BE HELD ON FRIDAY A talent program, demonstrating the artistic, comic, terplschorlivn. dramatic and other abilities of t,h senior class at the La Ornde High school, will, be presented tomorrow nfternoon, under the direction of Mis Bessie PettiRrew, senior class advisor. The assembly will be held at one o'clock in the .gymnasium, ...T . ; The program Includes a play. "Sauce for the Goslings", in which Melba Shepherd, Carl Douhan, Dom aid Hlgglns, Silvia Turn, Yudath Vic tor, Troy Becker and Lily Blecha ap pear, under the direction of Miss Pcttlgrew. The orchestra, composed of Bob McMillan, Dolores Powell, .Laurence Fillmore, Myron Wheeler, Genevieve Flexer, Isabel Williams, Anita Herr man. Andrea Ainsworth, Mildred Kcagle and Ola Mae Hough, will play a group under the direction of An drew Loney Jr. Mr. Loncy will also present an octette of senior girls and boys, who are Verda Nebeker, Marian Boyles, Lucille ; Thompson, Muriel Weeb, Norman Hogenson, Kenneth Webb, John Williams and Bob Helm Tumblers and dancers, trained by Miss Catherine Osborne, will furnish two groups. The tumblers arc Sophia Gletlhuber, porls Duncan, Muriel Gray, Opal Connor. Ruth Nelson, Florence Daugherty. Nadine Attebury and Lucille Thompson. The dancers are Orvaline McWillioms, Arda Berry, (Continued on Page Six, GEN - TULMEN THE Government's Hog Control Plan Suffers Shock! KOLLISTER, Cal., Feb. I (fl Trio government's "hog birth con trol" program suffered a severe setback hero today when "Reddy," a Duroo-Jersey sow, gave birth to a litter of 17 pigs. Tho oow is owned by Alex Anderson. BYRD CONTINUES FEVERISH FIGHT BAY OF WHALES, Antarctica, (Via Mackay Radio), Feb. 1 (.P) Crews of the Bear of Oakland, supply ship which equaled a record x run from Dunedin, N. Z., to the Bay of Whales, and of the Byrd flagship today worked at a feverish pace discharging winter stores to the bay Ice, six miles from Little America. Haste was necessary, as leaders of the expedition feared crumbing Ice might again threaten the ships and supplies. The Bear of Oakland since mid night has been berthed alongside tho flagship. The 00-yenr-old Bar kentine arrived at 10:30 last night, equalling the record trip of 12 days between Dunedin and the Bay or Whales made by the S. S. Eleanor in 1020 on the first Byrd Antarctic expedition. LITTLE GIANT! HERE SATURDAY : . QUIZ SANKEY KIDNAP CASE Prisoner Confesses Two Abductions, But Denies Connection With Sour- n4 iuiid- C:s: , ;.-..'. . nm;o, ivi. i w) solution oi' tint long, standing mystery of the kidnaping and slaying or Charles An giiHturi LlndherKh Jr., was Nought to day through UcN(loulng of Verne Han key, '. one tlmo ranchiimil who allegedly turned to the "snatch" racket. Sankey, described by authorities as "America's public enemy No. 1" was seized late yesterday by federal agents and city detectives In a barber shop, on information furnished by an an onymous source, and confessed, Mol vln H. Purvis of the federal bureau of Investigation said, that he had par ticipated In two kldnaplngs that of Haskell Bohn, of St. Paul, and Charles Bocttcher IT, the Denver capitalist. From St. Paul County Attorney M. P. Klnkeiicl was en route to Chicago to aid In tho Investigation. Kinkead announced last mouth that he had found evidenco which ho said Indi cated that Sankey, long sought by the law, had had some connection with the Souriand Mountain Lind bergh abduction In New Jersey. Handwriting experts, Kinkead said, had found a similarity In the writing of tho Hoe t tchcr and Lindbergh ran som notes, and a telephone call from Minneapolis to un undisclosed town in New Jersey scene of tho Lind bergh kidnaping had been uncov ered. The call, ho said, was made from a gasoline station, by a man who answered Sankoy's description, ten days after tho Lindbergh baby was seized. Tho prosecutor also accused Sankey (Continued on Ptipo KHlt) INDUSTRIALS AT NEW PEAK TODAY NEW YORK, Feb. 1 W) Tho Stand ard Statistics Co., average for 60 in dustrial stocks closed today at 102.4, tho highest level since September, 1031. Tho top in last sununer's "bull market" was 102.1. Favorable dividend changes In January niunberltig 188, were tho largest for any month since Decem ber. 1930, Standard Statistics Co. re ports. Unfavorable changes, number ing 68, were fewer tlmn lit any Janu ary since 1029. Wheat Today Tlie price of !unl mxh wheat Mood at about .1:1 'j cents bulk here today, according lo quota tion at the Pioneer Flouring Mills. Portland cukIi 73 cents, i:port bid ?7'4 wills. CHICAGO, Feb. 1 llt Formal devaluation of the dollar holjxxJ to stir up maximum advance of lo a bushel In the Chicago wheat market today. Most of tho time, however, general public trading in grain failed to broaden to a material degree. Strength of tho Winnipeg wheat market attracted considerable atten tion here. Wheat closed unsettled at tho same as yesterday's finish to Vic higher, corn unclwnged to o up, oats at 4c decline to c advance, and provisions showing 12(,f l7c gain. JUST BEFORE PRESSTIME 1' EN I) LET ON GlllL MISSING It EDUCE UKIHSCOl'NT HATE " MAY EXTEND CROP LOANS RESCIND P.W.A. (J RANTS PENDLETON, Ore., Feb. 1 (P) Ore gon and Washington police today had been asked to watch the highway) for Evelyn Stevens, 15, a freshman at Pendietou High school, who dls appiiired Tuesday noon ami was re ported hi'' it at Keith t tint day, ap parently liavriig been given a ride by an unidentified motorist. NEW YORK. Feb. 1 W) The New York Federal Reserve bank today re duced the rediscount rate of l'j per cent from the 2 per cent rate which had been In effect since Oct. 20 last. U ASIIINOTON, Feb. 1 W) A bill to extend crop production loans to 1034 lo a total or $35,(100.000 whs approved today by the house agricul ture committee. WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 (A) The public works board today rescinded 30 allotments totaling 91,897,100 for construction of non-federal projects, including a loan and grant of 960,000 to Denver, for waterworks Improve m nt. MERLIN, Feb. 1 Germany to day forinully replied to Austria's threat to appeal to the League ot Nations If Oermnnyi did not cTokc Interference In Austrian ufrulrs by rejecting xiliit for point the seven;! couipbilntH, It was officially an nounced. OFFICERS ESCORT DlLtlNGER'S PALS TO MICHIGAN CITY MICHIGAN CITY, Ind., Feb. 1 UP) John DlUtnger's three outlaw pals came back to Michigan City peniten tiary today convoyed by 18 squad cars of Indiana and Illinois officers and were locked away for safe keep ing. They were brought from Chicago under escort of 75 policemen armed with machine guns, rifles and riot guns. As the caravan stopped at the portal of the penitentiary whence they escaped last Sept. 20, the Michigan City police formed an aisle through which the outlaws marched. Harry Plerpont and Charles Mak ley. threw their overcoats over their heads as they walked Into prison. Russell Clark, his head bandaged, pcemcd to walk painfully, dragging his leg Irons. The prison yard had been cleared for their return, and the usual rout ine of checking the convicts In was dispensed with. They were led (Continued on Page Eighty ICE CREAM PRICE SET FOR OREGON PORTLAND, Fob. 1 (Pj Tho mini mum retail prioca for ice cream In Oregon wero established today at 20 cents a pint und 40 ccntn a quart by order of Max Gehlhar, director of the state department of agriculture. The farmer will get 35 cents a pound for butterfat in the sweet cream used Jn Ice croam production. The minimum price schedule was sot In accordance with the ico cream manufacturers' state marketing agree ment and code. In many places Ice cream lias been selling for as low as 25 cents a quart. Tho general retail ice orcam price in La Ornndo has been ranging from 20 do 25 cents a pint and from 35 to 50 cents a quart, it was reported hero today. CREDIT EXPANSION DUE TO DEVALUATION Ily Cliiude A. Jugger (Copyright, 1934. by the Associated Press) NEW YORK, Feb. 1 - President Roosevelt's proclamation revalulnR the dollar approximately 41 per cent, as understood by Wall street mone tary authorities, has virtually re stored the dcllur to the International gold standard and opened the way to a huge potential credit expansion. It is believed that ttil) tuition ot the dollar In terms of principal foreign currencies has probably been largely accomplished. As bank credit expands, bank de posits grow, and as tho turnover of bunk deposits Increases, that 1b, as DEVALUATION SEES GAIN IN Bond Market Turns Stronger; Wall Street Trade Bullish. . : J: ' ' ' , " ' '' f ' ACTIVE MOVEMENT OF GOLD TO U. 9. Devaluation Described ,by Morgenthau as "1934 Model of Gold Bullion Standard." Ily the Associated Press DomcMtlc financial market surged upward today lit response to devalua tion of the dollar to 50.00 per cent ot Its former parity. Tho dollar quickly advanced In for eign exchange dealings after an early sag In Paris and London, and soon commanded a premium of more than threo per vent over the French gold franc, and the rate Indicated by tlui sterling gold price lit London. Tho New York stock exchange pushed up $1 to more than $4 In some of the moat active trading since July, and scores of issues penetrated new high ground since 1931. The curb market advanced substantially. Bonds were strong, and commodi ties mostly advanced moderately. Wheat gained a fraction of a cent a . bushel at Chicago, and cotton some 60 cents a bale at New York. Walt atreeot bankers were awaiting clarification of treasury regulations before placing heavy orders to buy ftOld ttbroadii",.-. - v . t ' Tho money markets of New York,' London and Paris awaited the first signs of operations by the $2,000,000, 000 American stabilization fund, while the treasury looked for experts to help manago tho huge fund. Tho failure of the dollar to come down to the 69,00 per) cent level was (Continued on Page Two) Senate Favors National Flood Control System WASIUNOTON, Feb. 1 (JP) . The senate today adopted a resolution"- re questing President Roosevelt to pro sent a "comprehensive plan" for the guidance of congress in enacting legislation for a nationwide system of flood control, navigation. Irrigation and power. Tho resolution, presented by Sen ator Norrls Neb.), was an out growth of a conference with Presi dent Roosevelt yesterday in which many other members of both senate and house interested In waterway Improvement participated. A similar resolution la expected to toe offered In tlie houso. Tho information sought would foe gathered from government surveys of tho nation's principal rivers. Tho idea behind the move is to de velop for each section a system of waterway Improvement similar to that undertaken iln the Tennessee valley. Pioneer Dies In Fire Near Pasco PASCO, Wash.. Fob. 1 (JPi An at tempt 'to 64i ve some treasured porce lain from her blazing home at Mesa, 20 miles north of here, today brought death In the flames to Dr. Ora Cos tio, 07. She had removed some house hold effects, and was said to have re entered the building to retrieve -the porcelain. Her body was found near a window. Dr. Castle was a pioneer physician In this district. She was alone In her ranch home when tlie fire broke out. ?heck settlements accelerate, prices normally rlfo. The war time expan ilon of credit brought Bharp increases in commodity prices. The more re cent boomtlme credit growth of 1928 20 wits reflected rather In n Jump in real estate and security prices than In staple goods. How the treasury will use the more than 92,700,000.000 In gold "profit" resulting from the decrease in the gold dollar remains to be seen. Its first move has been to create a $2,000,000,000 stabilization fund, to stabilize the dollar in the foreign exchango market, and to stabilize the (Continued on Page Flvei
