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VOLUME 32
EARTKtiN OREGON'S LEADING NEWSPAPER
LA GRANDE, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1934
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MERCHANTS
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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
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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.
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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
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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-
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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,
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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