La Grande evening observer., February 06, 1934, Image 1

Secretary of State Hal E. Hoss Dies During Night
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VOLUME 32
EASTERN OREGON'S LEADING NEWSPAPER
LA GRANDE, OREGON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1934
MEMUER ASSOCIATED PRESS
NUMBER 128
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JURY FINDS
JOEBRAATON
NOT niJII TY
Charge ,Was Assault With
Dangerous Weapon With
Intent to Rob.
virpnTfT REAGHED
MONDAY AFTERNOON
Acquits Defendant of Al
leged Attempted Hold
up of Boys Last Christ
mas Night. ;
Joe lima ton wns cleared (if the
clinrRe of wwnult 1tll a (luiiBCroiis
uvapon Willi Intent to roll late yex
terday afternoon h.v a Jury I" the
circuit court. Ilraaton nm cliarfed
with havlnR held lin Dwlght Smith
on Clirlntmoii nlRlit when tile latter
was returning to his home from the
La Grande hotel where he had been
prnctlxlnir boy scout work.
Judge J. W. Knowles presided over
the case which was tried by District
Attorney Carl Q. Helm and B. J.
Kitchen, attorney for the defense.
Jurors were Victor Johnson, Prank
Richer, mest Bugh, Emit Milter,
C. t. McKlnnls, Harlan Roger, Reese
McAlllBter. J. J. Peck, Ray Knight,
Charles Holmes, H. J. Nellson and
P. M. Huffmnn.
Braaton alleged that he stopped
the boys with the Intention of giving
them a drink, but when he saw that
they were young he tried to send
them home. Dwlght Smith testified
that Braaton stuck something against
his ribs and told him to "stick 'em
up." Elsie Martin who lives near the
scene where the -encounter -occurred
also testified that he heard the de
fondant tell the lad to "stick them
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$127 Forwarded
To Warm Springs
From Ball Here
Total collections amounting to 221
weto made from the President's Birth,
day ball held at the Sacajawoa Inn
on Jan. 30, according to Martin Fitz
gerald, chairman of the executive
committee. The sum sent to the
Warm Springs foundation for which
the dance one of 6000 throughout
the United States was held was 127.
Ninety-four dollars was used for
expenses as follows:
Orchestra 40.00
Advertising to Observer 13.50
Punch
Nelson's Printing company
for tlckots, cards, etc 13.50
Postage 2.20
Rlchardsons for scroll 1.50
Bohnenkamp Co., decorations 85
La Grande Book and Stationery
Co., decorations I-.. 8.00
Sacajawca Inn for ballroon
and equipment : 9.30
United Aircraft
Activities Told
In Senate Quiz
WASHINGTON. Feb. 6 m More
United Aircraft millions rolled by the
senate air maii investigating commit
tee today as it turned from contempt
citations to its chief business, in
quiry into mAll contracts.
W. E. Boeing, chairman of the
united board, told of receiving 318.076
shares of United Aircraft and trans
port stock for his Boeing aircraft
and transport holdings. At the May,
1929, high, United shares were quoted
at 951,628,313, he agreed, as Chair
man Black Introduced records to that
effect.
Ho said the property for which
these shares were received was car
ried at $487,149 but was worth much
more, representing the accumulation
of 19 years' business operations.
HIGH GRADE GOLD ON
EAST GRANDE RONDE
The "lone prospector" of the east
fork of the Grande Ronde river, which
territory Is practically due west of
North Powder, was at the Union
county town the other day, with a
little bottle of gold to testify that the
gravels of the river on which he Is
working have ore values.
What surprised Clarence Carr, the
gold seeker, however, was that he
was told by a Baker gold buyer that
the small amount or gold he had was
of the highest grade that Mother
Will
fa
ROGERS
5ays
BEVERLY HILLS, Cal. Peb. 5
Well, all I know 1b what I see by the
papers and I eee wnere the manu
facturers' sale tax comes up In con
gress this week. They been needing
that for a long time and I imagine
It will pass but Its not going to do
what a lot of 'em want It to, replace
the Income tax, and there Is no rea
son why It should. You are going
to need sales taxes, both federal and
state, Income tax and a lot of other
kinds. It's a great country, but you
can't live In it for nothing. Yours,
liW, McN.uVnt Syndicate, fie.
UNIQUE DANCES
ARE INCLUDED IN
THE "PIED PIPER"
Several unique dances will be fea
tured In "the opera, "The Pled Piper
of Hamblln." to be presented by the
Eastern Oregon Normal school . on
March 2. These dances are being
composed and directed by Miss Mar
Jorle Horton, physical education di
rector for girls. Normal and Training
school siudenUf will be aec-n in the
performances.
The first dance to be presented
during the performance will toe the
"Rustic Dance," done by the citizens
of the village. Tlicn will follow a
group of Training school student per
formances. The "Dance of the Tops
and Jumping Jacks" will bo given by
tho sixth and seventh grade girls.
The seventh and eighth grade girls
will present tho "Danco of the Toy
Soldiers." Then will follow the
"Dance of the Dolls" by the fourth
and fifth grade glrl. The'ioncluUlng
dance of the opora will feature the
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C. E. SOCIETIES
CELEBRATE DAY
While Christian Endeavor societies
over all the naitlon celebrated the
fifty-third anniversary of the found
ing of that organization Sunday, the
local societies were no exception.
At the Presbyterian churoh, tho
high school group together with sev
eral members of ithe young peoples'
C. E. Forum gathered In the churoh,
presided over by Miss Hulda Ander
son .advisor. Several members gave
talks relative to the history, organ
ization and Ideal of the C. E. move
ment. The date of the organization was
February 2, 1881, tho founders being
Dr. and Mrs. Frances E. Clark, of
the Wllllston Congregational church,
of Portland, Maine. In Oregon, this
year Is being celebrated as the feolden
Jubilee year, as tho first organlratlon
was started In Foreat Drove in May,
1884, Just three years after the first
society ' was formed In Portland,
Maine.
FOG ROLLS INTO
VALLEY AT NIGHT
Fog. which Is not so frequent In La
Grande and the Grande Ronde valley
as in most other sections of the Facl
flc Northwest, rolled into the valley
shortly before midnight last night
and was still here at mld-mornlng,
with visibility ranging from a block
to three blocks at different times. It
was the first fog of consequence here
since the morning of Armistice day,
1933.
Maximum temperature here yester
day was 49 above with .08 of an inch
of rain falling from cloudy skies,
The minimum this morning was 36,
and at 7 a. m. it was up two degrees.
The weather forecast was for con
tinued unsettled weather tonight and
Wednesday with no chanf? in tem
perature. Nature produces. He Is one of a group
of North Powder people who have
been working claims in the Blue
mountains.
As to snowfall In the upper region?.
Mr. Carr, according to the North
Powder News, reported there wan two
and a half feet of packed snow at
the sheep corrals on the Indiana
road.
His trip to town was necessary to
get supplies.
PRESS HEAD!
if
I ft-- ,.!&- jkvJf'-J
F. j. wneeier, pumisner of the
Milton Eagle, who was elected
president of tho Oregon Press
Conference, at its recent cession
held at the school of journalism
at the University of Oregon.
WILL MARK SPOT
WHERE PIONEERS
FIRST SETTLED
After several unsuccessful attempts,
the Union County Historical society
was formed and under Mrs. Kate
Haniey, president, lias completed Its
first year. Tho purpose Is to record
accurately tho ihlstory of the county,
preserve vnluable and Interesting rel
ics of the early days and to mark the
sites of important events.
Already much, valuoble history hr
been lost through tho deaths of oc-
tlve participants In historical events
and haste must be mado to record
the facts while those remaining are
still alive, society members report.
Committees are getting all avail
able information for recording tho
actual history and this summer the
society will place a stone marked on
the slto of the first settlement in
the valley In 1801. A little band of
19 persons, nine men, two women and
seven children with the Ben Brown
and William Lcasey families, arrived
In tho Grande Ronde valley with the
purpose of establishing a permanent
home where no white man had made
a home before. They selected a place
several miles north of the point where
the road entered the valley in the
district now known as Mount Glen.
They chose thfes out of the way place
because It was more protected from
the regular Indian trails through the
valley as well as a sheltering cove
(Continued on Papo Three
A MAN'S
DEATH COMES
TO OFFICIAL
whiif mm
Funeral at Salem Thurs-;
day Afternoon Entire
State Hour n s Secre
tary's Passing. , . .
SI,KM, Feb. 6 (ff) Funeral ser
vices for Hal E. Hons,, secretory of
state, lll be held Thursday, Feb. 8,
at 2 p. in. from the ('luitgh-lhtrrick
chapel In Salem.
SALEM, Feb. 6 m The depart
ment of state in Oregon today wns
silent nnd nil doors of ItH various
office closed following the death
early this morning or Hal R. Hoss,
chief of that division of government
for the post six years.
Death claimed the secretary of state
while he was asleep, shortly before
one o'clock, and he slipped Into un
consciousness peaceably, Mrs. Hoes
said. She was at his bedside when
the prominent official silently turn
ed overrhis duties to other and sur
rendered his custody of the seal of
the state.
Unable to come to his office the
past few weeks, Hoss at all times
kept In closo touch with his staff
and the affairs of tho government.
A few days ago he issued his last
HAL K. HOSS
public press release In which he ac
counted for the funds taken In for
federal gasoline tnxea.
No arrangements were announced
today for his burial, but It was indi
cated his body would be taken to
Oregon City where ho was engaged In
newspaper work for many years and
from which city he came to assume
his political dultles In 1028. Services
for Hoss would also be held In the
'Continued on Pace FourV
BEST FRIEND IS HIS
Ml.
Settles for
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LIQUOR STORE
APPOINTMENTS
NOT COMPLETED
PORTLAND, Peb. 6 WV The
Oregon liquor control commission
said at 1 p. m. today that because
of the necessity of rcchccktng lists
of agencies and of store personnel,
no tmouncemcnt of names or loca
tions could be made until late this
afternoon.
The board sr.!d names of store em
ployes will bo announced locally In
ttie cities In which they will work,
and store locations will be made pub
lic at the same time. The list of
state agencies will be announced
through the Portland office of the
commission. .
Light Earthquake
In Seattle Today
SEATTLE, Fob. 6 W A slight
earthquake shock at 5:20 a. m. today
wus reported by several residents of
Seattle districts, particularly Queen
Anne Hill. Distinct shocks, lasting
several minutes, were reported by
some persons.
TACOMA, Feb. 0 W) An earth
quake sharp enough to awaken many
persons was felt here at 6:15 o'clock
this morning.
MOTHER
Over Million
The Bevcn
year fight
Mrs.
Constance
May '
Oavln,
wife of a
Los Angeles
bank clerK,
carried on
for a
daughter's
share in tho
estate of
James L.
Flood, son
of the fa
mous Com
stcck bcrifinz!
king, ended
in a com
promise set
tlement. Mrs. Oavln
will receive
cash and
property
totaling about
$1,200,000.
This Is about
two-thirds
of the
amount Mrs.
Gavin asked
when she
sued the
estate,
claiming
she was a
daughter of
Flood.
JAPAN FEARS
U. S. TREATY
WITH CHINA
American Aviation Ac
tivities Cause Officials
Deny Any Agreement .
Ity (llenn Halili
. (Associated Prtvn Foreign Htjiff)
TOKYO, Felt. 0 (I1) Kokl Iflroto,
foreign mlniHter. told tlie house of
porra today that Japan Is endeavoring
to learn whether a secret t nitty ex
ImU between the United State uiul
China which obliges Amcrlmiis to
asMl.st In China's uvlatloti develop
ment, Hlrota'n statement was In answer
to a question by Atsuslii Akalko, who
asserted that tho now Chines air
ways with American backing has been
establishing air bases At Amoy and
olsowherc in Fukien province from
which bombing planes could cosily
attack Formosa.
NEW YORK, Feb. 6 (II Officials
of Pan American Airways, which Is
half owner of tho Chinese air route,
said today that any possible occret
troaty between tho United SUites and
China for tho development of avla
tlon "Is so secrot that wo don't know
anything about it."
The American officials emphasized
an assertion to the effect that the
United States government had north
Ing whatover to do with Pan-Ameri
can's Chinese agreement.
, "It Is likely that tho source of the
Japanese nervousness," said one offlc-
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COMMITTEE FOR
CATTLE MEASURE
WASHINGTON. Feb. fl m The
senate agriculture committee today
favorably reported the Connally bill
to designate cattle as a basic com
modity under the agricultural adjust
ment act, a similar bill having been
passed by the house yesterday.
If cattle takes .a place In the act
as a basic commodity, tho farm ad
ministration would have authority to
levy a process! ng tax on beef and
other cattle products and pay bene
fits to producers.
Wheat Today
The prlee of Iwal i-jihIi wheat
stood at Mioiit r:tij eentn bulk
toil ay, iin-onllng to quotations at
the Pioneer Hoitrlng .Mill, Port
land cnh ?:) cents. No export hid.
CHICAGO, Fob. e (PI A sudden
out burnt of buying hoisted wheat
prills In tho last few minutes of
trading today, -and losses of about 1
cent were more than overcome.
Eastern houses were conspicuous In
the late upturn, which was associated
with strength of securities. Chicago
speculative sellers made haste to
itwltch their market position.
Wheat closed firm, Vfcc off to Vc
up compared with yesterday's finish,
corn unchanged to ftc lower, oats
VtfiMc down, and provisions showing
9 to 12c gain.
JUST BEFORE
PRESSTIME
KNOX CASE AIUWKU TODAY
AIM EE LOSES .COURT CASE
UVTCII TANK Kit EXPLODES
OK AND JI'RY QltlZ UK GINS
HALEM, Feb. 0 UP Reviewing for
the second time their original argu
ments on the legislative liquor con
trol act, attorneys for the city of
Klamath Fnlbt and the Mate liquor
commlsKlon today presented their
case to the Oregon supreme court
for final decision on the constitu
tionality of the statute.
LOS ANOELE3, Feb. 0 P Judg
ment of $5,900 against Almee Semple
McPherson-Hutton, evangelist, was
awarded today to assignees of J Roy
Stewart, 1s.tr, motion picture director,
because of her failure to carry out a
contract he had with her to make a
movie based on her life.
HAMmiRO. (Sernmny. Feb. (fl1)
The lMiteh motor tanker Stormvogel,
Willi a cargo of gasoline a hour d, blew
up eight mile west of N order ney to
day. Two vessels In the vicinity rush
ed to the rescue but found no trace
of the ship or ll crew.
WASHINGTON, Fob. 0 (P) A grand
Jury investigation or alleged activi
ties of Joseph Sllvorman, a Washing
ton and Now York dealer In army
surpluses, whs begun today with
Harry H. Woodrlng, assistant secretary
of war, among tho witnesses.
ROME, Feb. II (fl) An American
woman, her Kalian husband mid their
baby daughter were found smothered
to death by snow today after an
nvjUiinche swept over their winter
sports lodge near llolognola. The
woman was thu former Miss Helen
IIuwklnN, of los Angeles,
MONTHLY FEE FOR
GRAZING CATTLE
CUT TWO CENTS
PORTLAND, Feb. (I Wl") A reduc
tion of about two rents a head in
tho monthly fee for cattle grazed on
Oregon nnd ' Washington mitlonul
forests, a nil an Increase of about one
fourth cent, a head Tor sheep grazed
on these hinds has been ordered.
E. N. Kavanagh, assistant reglonnl
forostor hero, said tho monthly fees
tor 1034 have been determined and
are now effective.
Monthly fees Tor sheep will be
about 2 Va cents a head, and for cattlo
about eight cents a head. Last year
the sheep fee was 2 cents, and for
cattle, 10 cents.
4000 PROVINCIALS
ARE MASSACRED
PEIPINO. Feb. 6 (fl'i - Four thou
sand Nlnghala provincial troops were
massacred when forces under tho
rebel general Sun Tlen-Ylng occupied
Pinglo, said Chinese news dispatches
today.
The advices also reported that 700
workers had been killed In a coal
(Continued On Page Four)
TINY IILIOIIT AIDS AUSTRALIA
IN WAR ON PRICKLY PEAR
MKLBOUIINB, Australia WP) Help
ed by a tiny blight with a long name
cactoblosrls cactonim Austrlalla Is
winning a war agnlnst the deadly
prickly pear.
Over an area of 00.000.000 acres
the tiny blight has attacked the en
enmy, and there is definite prospect
that the plant will be exterminated
In Australia with In a comparatively
short time.
In the last two years more than
8.000,000 acres of lund previously of
fected by tho pear have been opened
lor permanent settlement In Queensland.
FAIRBANKS
IN DltORCE
Dy Albert W. WllMin
(Associated Press Foreign Stnff)
LONDON. Feb. 6 m Douglns
Fairbanks Sr., American film star,
was served notice today that he has
been named as correspondent In a
divorce action instituted by young
Lord Ashley against tho doll-like
Lady Ashley.
The law firm of Gordon, Dndds and
Company announced the service of
the notice and Immediately Lady
Ashley, who once played the hero
ine's role In the play "The Whole
Town's Talking" had all London town
talking again.
She herself, however, separated
from her husband and residing In
PARISIANS'
BULLETS HIT
II S FMR4Y
Police Open Fire on Mob
Attempting to Storm ;
.Chamber of Deputies
ENRAGED CROWD
TURNS TO FORCE
Ministry of Marine Build
' ing Ignited By Mob Af
ter Police Opened Fire
on Battlers.
PARIS, Feb. 0 (P An enraged
mob set fire to the ministry of
marine building, near the United
States embassy, on the Place lc
1 4i Concorde today after police
had fired on the battling crowd.
The mob stormed the ministry
presunuibiy to get arms with
which to reply to the police fus
illade. The fire was extinguished nfter
half au hour.
Shortly arter the shooting the
ehamber of deputies gave Pre
mier Daludler . his third vote of
confidence of the day by a b id
iot of 3(0 to 20.
PARIS, Feb. G W1) Police opened
Tire on n molt attempting to storm
the oltAinber of deputies today and
at least one innu wns killed and one
wo nun i probably mortally wounded.
The American embassy was spattered
by bullet fire.
The police bullets wounded at least
thirty persona as the fire u mas hod
against the walls of the embassy,'
diagonally across the square from, tho
police barricade. - ',;'''", .w' -
Insklo tlio chamber of deputies,
whoro poltco and troops wore mobil
ized, It was reported Hint one guards
man had been killed and 200 persona
Injured.
More than. 3.000 persons rioted
against the authorities In the great -squaro
where onco stood the guillo
tine of the French revolution.
But (there was another mob out
break also at tho city hall. That
building was filled with soldiers call- .
od out to reinforce tho police who
woro , overwhelmed by forces of
communists, young royallslo, and so
cialists. Rightists charged the government
with dictatorial methods.
A short time previously tho Dala
dler government had received a voto
of 300 to 217 expressing the cliam
bcr's confidence.
F. R. Nurses Cold
As Heavy Snows
Blanket Capital
WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 W) Moro
snow blanketed the capital today,
causing automoblllsts and-pedestrian
plenty of skidding trouble, while hun
dreds Including President Roosovolt
nursed colds.
Washington was Just about dug out
of one of Its heaviest snows of tho
winter when more descended yestor
day and a bit more early today. -
The president's cold was not seri
ous, but on the advice of his physi
cian, he stayed away from the execu
tive offices yesterday to catch up on
his correspondence. The doctor said
he could go back to tho office today,
if ho cared to.
WILL ATTEND
BAKER DINNER
Charles H. Reynolds, president, and
Harold C. Boone, secretary of tho La
Grande chamber of commerce, will bo
among tho local business men at
tending tho annual meeting of the
linker chamber of commerce tonight
at Baker.
SR. NAMED
TRIANGLE
tho Mnyfatr district, flatly declined
to make any comment on the case.
Fairbanks maintained a "dignified
silence" even as ho did during his
marital troubles with Mary Pickford,
his equally famous wife whose dlvorco
action still in pending In California.
Idy Ashley and Mary Pickford are
two distinct and contrasting types of
beauty. As for Lord Ashley, the heir
to an earldom dating back nlno gen
erations, he is a serious, sober-faced
youth with a drooping military mous
tache. Lady Ashley is of medium height
and slender. She has been described
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