La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, March 06, 1934, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextBetter Outlook Locally For Egg Producers, Retailers fctmtin button ................. SI- La Grande Is The Gateway to Wallowa, . The Switzerland of America Only Newspaper Printed in La Grande Covering Union and Wallowa Counties VOLUME 32 KASTEKN OHECiON'S LEADING NEWSPAPER LA GRANDE, OREGON, TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 1934 MEMIIER ASSOCIATED PllKSS NUMBER 152 mm FLOOD MEM east: (Sranite 4 CE 1 mm H 'HALT STRIFE INPOULTRY TRADE HERE Producers and Merchants Join in Meetings to Tvnn Onf: TCink-s I CANDLING, GRADING STATION'S ASSURED Much Remains to Be Ac complished in the Way of Details Another Meeting Friday. Kuplc) strides lomml In I115I11K II"' liitullry business In riilmi county out tit dittos lintl reorranshiff t.he market problem hi and uroitiitl Iai c.rnutle lmve been taken during the last M linlirs. Till aflernniMI there remain ed many details to lie worked out but t'oniiult'toes representing producers, retailers and consumers admit that there Is an Improved condition ahead. Dlscusalons, some of them extreme ly heated, and resolutions, with stings and threats of boycotts against La Grande merchants, liavo been coming to a head throuKhotit the county for the past two weeks. Mat ters came to a crisis yesterday when E. A. Hanzen. representing the state dairy and food commission, arrived In the city and proceeded to find (Continued on Pago Bx Requirements Of Hog Contracts Explained, Avery 'Considerable misunderstanding ap pear to exist among those who are Joining In the corn-hog reduction program of the AAA as to Just what are the requirements of the contract as to other crops to be planted, said H. G. Avery, county agent, today. The plain Intent of the government in paragraph three of the contract Is to prevent evasion of the spirit of the agricultural adjustment act by signers who might agree to reduce their corn or hog production, or both, and Immediately Increase their total crop acreage or increase some other crop already designated as a surplus bnslc commodity In the adjustment act. Tho limitations on crop acreage specified In this paragraph apply, furthermore, to those who sign up for hog reduction nlonc as welt as those who qualify for both corn ami hog reduction, explain? County Agent Avery. ' Official interpretation of paragraph three received by County Agent Avery explains that when a hog grower signs the reduction contract provid ing for benefit payments to him. he also agrees not to increase his total acreage planted for Harvest, That Is, he agrees not to plant more acres be tween December 1, 1933 and Novem ber 30, 1D34, than will equal, with (Continued on Page SixJ FAIR WEATHER FORECAST FOR EAST OREGON Little moisiur fell yesterday in. La Grande, the total for the 24-hour per iod ending at 7 o'clock this morning amounting to only .03 of an inch. Today was partly cloudy, with the weather report indicating fair skies in the east tonight and Wednesday, with frost tomorrow morning. With the ground full of moisture, a -clear spell would be welcomed by farmers of this county, as it soon would have the soil in excellent work ing condition. BRIDGE FANS! HERE'S NEW WAY TO VALUE llrldpe seems to he nn elaIlr g-.ime, esKH-laIly with the nils elmngeft, etc.. in ooujtniet the lnt year or hi. And .now comes another de velopment! IliM-k Jn New York seven lilch ranking contract bridge experts have announced a new method of valuation of a hand. "This table has been tested br us through months of successful rubber and tournament play and ha been foil ml to be 100 per reiut accurate said a statement Mgned hy David Iturmtlne, Hlch nnl I Frey, Michael T. Gottlieb, Roosevelt King Of The Air BEVERLY HILLS Cal., March 5 M 1 s s od President Roosevelt's speech this morning (it was 8 o'clock here). Yes, I wus up In time, but here Is the Joke on me. I hadn't read It In tho papers. Now I will have to read it, but there Is a great difference between him talk ing and then you Just reading it. He is the king of the air. Course he has the advantage of the rest of us, he don't come on the air till he has something to Bay, and the rest of us we have to come on when we have nothing to say. Not changing the subject too soon, but I feel kinder sorry for that woman sheriff in. In diana. She thought she was sur rounded by men. Yours, Qlilf, HcNiush't Syndicate, Inc. STRICT RULES TO I GOVERN CONDUCT IN LIQUOR STORE NTOItK OPENS TOMOUHOW Waller l.etsman, manager, uii nmi need I his afternoon t hat I.a (iramle's llinior store would open for business at 11 a. m. tomorrow. IVnnlts will go on sale at the slime time. Whether one buys or hut, Mr. I.clsmaii Invites all to visit the store. Just as In any ordinary merchan dise store, so it will be in the state liquor store here, if rules and regula tions laid down by George Li-Bamwie administrator, -are followed ' to the letter. . - j "Tho customer is right." say the latest Instructions to store managers. "If a complaint is received on the quality of any item purchased and the request seems reasonable in the opinion of the store manager, the purchaser may be given another item in replacement thereof, but In no case shall his money be refunded." The regulation also goes on to say that "this office must insist that ail ctorc employes be pleasant and cour- (Continued on Pajre Six) WHEAT CONTROL BOARD TO NAME FIELD INSPECTOR Recommendations for an Inspector to check on the wheat acreage planted under the wheat allotment program will be considered Friday afternoon when the wheat control board meets at the office of H. G. Avery, county agricultural agent. Tho inspector Is hired to work under the direction of the Washington, D. C office but will be paid by the local association. Members of the wheat control board aro E. H. DeLong, Merrill Conley. Tom Wallslnger, Clyde McKenzle, of Sum merville, J. A. Gaskill, of Imblcr; Rex Roulet, of Elgin: William Woodruff, of Union; John Shaw, of North Pow der, and S. T. Baillle, of Island City. FIFTH OF BOOK CHATS THURSDAY The fifth in the series of "Book Chats and Silver Teas" being given as benefits for the book fund of the La Grande public library will be pre sented Thursday evening at the lib- (Contlnued on Page Pour) OMtiihl IjicoIm, Howard Sr hen ken, Kdward Homes Jr., and Waldrmar Von Zedtivitz. An ace has a value of 3, a king 2, ti qiicenf 1 and a Jack .. The total high card value of the park Is 'Hi and the average baud luts a ahie of G'.-i. Depending on distribution, the bidding Is not opened, especially in first or second position, nnlev the hand haja value of 9 or w2. It take a count of II to open the auction with one no trump. Tlie table Is usrd primarily to form an Initial, general idea as to the offensUe strength of n hand. to W WORK GOING AHEAD ON 11 C. W. A. JOBS Four Biggest Are , Fish Hatchery, L. H. S. Field, Hunt, Powder Roads. CITY WORK HERE ALMOST FINISHED Rain Halts , Crews Last Three Days, But Full Work -Week Expected Before Friday. Although weather oomlltlous the hurt few li,v have hroken Into the C. IV. A. work routine Nonicwhiit In this fount y. It va sulil today that all the 2M workers probubly will get In a full week hefure Thursday nlRiit iiulestf heavy rains returned. All C. W. A. men have been pulled off the city Job at the Second street viaduct, and the other city O. W. A. project the relaying of wooden water pipes In tile distributing system with four and six inch cast iron pipes lias been completed. City Manager Angus McAllister said this morning that approximately two days work remained to do at the Second street viaduct, and that city crews would complete the Job as quickly as the weather permitted. He sold that ap proximately one mile of old wooden water mains were replaced In, the other project. The four largest C. W. A. projects unfinished over- the county are the Union flah hatchery, the La Grande High athletic field, and the Hunt and Powder Rlvox roads. . Charles B. ' (Continued on Pbro Pour) Legionnaires Of La Grande Visit Pendleton Post Thirteen legionnaires dressed in remnants of their old service uni forms, attended a meeting of the Pendleton American Legion last night at Pendleton and furnished two num bers on the program. L. C, Morehead and Chas, Proea furnished a skit and the Racketeers musical numbers. A smoker and Dutch lunch followed tho program and meeting. Legionnaires attending from here wcro Harry Owens. Fred Read, E. L. Knight, Hugh Brady, Norman Bestlet, Raymond O. Williams. Prank Planery, Charles Frews, C. O. Uragg, F. O. Hcn ning, Roy Currcy, John.R. Garlty and L. G. Morehead. SOMETHING ELSE TO BE STREAMLINED t : Whatsit? Yes, That's What, This Is a Whatsit L . . 1 ' ' rM''iL v 1 It's a "Whatsit., iC you ro curloUB about this queor, tnllloKS plane, shown at tho Glonualo, calif., air terminal before itu first publio nir test. U'h the Invention of Waldo Waterman, Santa Monica, Calif., veteran flyer, a 1100-pound two-passenger ship which a 100-horsopowor, air-cooled motor drives at 100 miles an hour. ThO wings, which Itavo a .10-foot spread, slope buckwurd at a 25-dcgrco angic, und tho wing tips Itavo etablllzers. BANDITS ESCAPE WITH 5 HOSTAGES AFTER ROBBERY SIOUX FALLS, S. D., Mar. 6 (ff) Six daring daylight bandits, hended by a man thought by some to be John Dillinger, held up the Security National Bank and Trust company today, wounded a patrolman, seized five bank employes, four of them girls, as hostages and fled with cur rency estimated at between ftlO.OOO and $20,000. Armed with machine guns, tho bancUto, fleeing southward, drove off pursuers with a volley over the heads of tho girl hostages'. HEART SPECIALIST EXAMINES INSULL ATHENS, March 0 W Samuel Jusull 3r ordered to leave Greece within 48 hours, called a heart spe cialist to make an examination to day. The specialist hurried to Insult's side but did not Immediately make his findings public. At the same time, Insull's lawyer, P. Rhallis, filed an appeal for cle mency on behalf of his client with the foreign office which, earlier in the day, had formally informod tho 74-year-old former utilities operator from Chicago that ho had to get out of the country. Insull, his lawyers, and his physi cians have contended continually that he was too ill to travel back to the United States where he Is wanted on charges of embezzlement and grand larceny. Daughter Born To 12-Year-0ld Indian Heiress , SAPULA, Okla., March 0 (fl1) A 0)6 pound daughter was born to Juanlta McClish, twelve -year-old Indian oil heiress, at the Sapulpa hospital today. Juanlta, , youngest daughter of Mrs. Wosey Deere, one of the weal thiest of the Creek Indians, and tho baby were reported "doing nlcely"at the hospital. As far as local medical author ities could recall, she Is tho young est mother to undergo a caesarian operation. DEMOCRATS WILL 'MEET AT UNION The Young Democrats, of Union county will cohcluct a meeting in Un ion tonight at which discussion of this year's activities of the club will be conducted, and new members en rolled. All La Grand members de siring to attend may meet at the Sacajawea Inn at or before 7, o'clock, Transportation will be provided, President Leonhardt has Information ho received. In Portland Friday to re lay on to tho Young Democrats. CIRCUIT COURT IS IN SESSION Judge J. W. Knowlcs is presiding over the case of W. H. Crulkshank vs. Mary L. Hall today In circuit court. Tho case involves property rights growing out of an estate, and tho attorneys aro John Hodgin, for the plaintiff, and Jesse Cruin, of El gin, for the defendants. MILLION NEW JOBS IS GOAL SETBYN.R.A. Objective Based on .Sur vey Just Completed By Gen. Johnson's Eco nomic Staff. WASHINGTON. March W) While the presldi'iit'K advocacy of shorten ing work hours to spread employment was cleaving the NIlA wide -conference, tho houxe labor committee to day iinanlmoimly approved the Con nor, v hill designed to errect a 110 hour week ih NIlA Industries.-( . Ily JaiueM Cojw (Copyright H'.'tl Hy Tho Associated Pmwm) WASHINCtTON, Mar. 0 (VP) Ceil. Iliifih S. .lolitLson H.H'kH the linuted latn rc-em ploy in cut nfait least a inU llon more men In private liuhiNtry. TIiLh Ih his in I ilI in ti m and Immediate goal for the overhauling of Nit A, which is now in progress. As tho assemblage of massed code authorities resumed its Hiring of clashing opinions today, It was learn ed on high authority that this ob jective was based on a iturvey Just completed by Johnson's economic staff. Tho survey was reported to show to the NRA chief's satisfaction that fully 30 per cent of tho more than GOO code industries now are abto, and probably willing, to make a further cut In working hours without reduc ing the amounts in. pay envelopes. Such a work week reduction was figured wide enough to alworb ap proximately a million men. Johnson hojcs to get even more code groups to go along. He has ten tatively proposed a ton per cent blanket hour reduction, balanced by a ten per cent increase of wage (Continued On Pago Pour) MISSIONARY DIES 1 IN SNAKE'S COILS BOGOTA. Colombia, Mar. 6 (VP) The denth of a missionary In a bat tle with a python was told today In dispatches from the village of Sin ce lc Jo, department of Bolivar. The missionary, a Heven Day Ad ventlst whose name whs not contain ed in the fintt meager accounts, wo Just outside the village when the py thon caught hlrn In Its colls. A brush fire was burning at the sccno. The struggling man and his reptile captor rolled Into tho flames. Both were burned to death while they fought. Wheat Today The prhie of Ifusil cash wheal nlfNwl at about Tt'l't cents bulk here today, according to iita tlon.H at the Pioneer Flouring Mills. I'orlland cash cents. No export bid. OinCAOO, Mar. 6 fP) Owing largely to lack of aggressive buying rather than to any material prewmro to sell, grain valucw averaged lower todny. Uncertainty over proposed legisla tive measures at Washington and as to grain code development kept tho market within narrow limits. Crop advices were regarded as generally fa vorable. Wheat closed unsteady, fft yAc un der yesterday's flnlfh, corn u c off, train to 1 cent down, and pro vl'iions at 7 to 17 cents decline. JUST BEFORE PRESSTIME HAWI.EY NOT A CANIHDATB WOMAN NAMKn IT. 8. JHOOK 1,200 )1K OK PLAtll'K mt 9 HITS AT STOCK MARKET K A I.EM, Marr.h (1 W) Fonner Congnvwinnn Willis C. Ilawley hus (leeliled not to be a candidate for con grew at the next election, the Oregon Ntutcsmuii said t inlay. The continued llhietm of Mrs. Ilawiey led to his deci sion, the paper stated. WASHINGTON, Mar. 6 W) Presi dent Roosevelt today broke another precedent In naming Florence E. Allen of Cleveland to the federal cir cuit court of appeals Judgeship. Miss Allen, now on the Ohio supreme court, 1b tho first woman to be mado a federal Judge. LONDON, March (I (VP) Twelve hundred ersotn have died within a week In a plague sweeping twenty cities of the United Provinces of In dia, said a dispatch frtrfm tuck now to the Dally Mull today. WASHINGTON, March 6 (VP) Out lawing of all Marginal trading and plnclng stock exchanges on a cash basis was advocated today before the sonato banking committee by Federal Judge William Clark, of New Jersey, who contended that margins lead In "an unconscionable number of cases to either death, dishonor or distress." CHICAGO, March tl (VP) Ir. Alice WynckfHip, scored hy the state ns the "cold blooded munhTess" of her comely daughter-in-law, Itheto, may know her fate tonight. Only the closing arguments of her attorneys, ii short rebuttal by the prosecution, and the Judge's Instructions to the Jury remained today. SCHOLARSHIPS TO BE OFFERED TO OREGON YOUTHS PORTLAND. Mar. 0 (P) Scholar ships at Oregon's institutions of high er learning for ouch studonte as arc unablo to attend college without fi nancial assistance, will bo mado available to approximately two per cent of tho graduates or Oregon high schools who rank in tho upper third of their classes. . (Continued on Page Blxi JAIL PRISONERS ASK FOR KNIVES DENVER, Mar. 6 (P) Pris oners at the county Jail present ed a petition to Warden James Norton today. Said the petition: "Whereas, wo, the guests in south lower ward, believe that our carving ability Is equal to that or ono John Dillinger, late lamented of Indiana, and, "Whereas, the art of carving has been neglected, "Wo hereby petition the war den of this institution for knives and wood blocks oo that we may practice tho manufacture of toy pistols." Tlie warden wasn't Intereitcd. OHICAOO, Mar. 0 (P) Two fresh clues pointed today to the probability that John Dillinger, escaped desperado, Is lurking In Chicago. Tho motor car In which he and a negro companion fled after (Continued on Page Six) VILLARD SAYS U. S. IN ACTUAL REVOLUTION EUOKNE, March 6 UP The United States has been backward in realiz ing that a new state of affairs must come and it is Impossible to deny that this is a revolution, declared Oswald Garrison Vlllard, editor of tho Nation, viewing tho present crisis in his talk to students and faculty .of the Uni versity of Oregon at a banquet in Ills honor here lust nlKht. "It Is a challenge to fight border and pledge devotion again to personal liberty, free speech, freedom of the press and Intellectual freedom," he stated In a talk In which he paid high tribute to the memory or his father I len ry VI 1 lord who has been spoken of as the savior or the uni versity. Mr. Vlllard reached Eugene yester day evening and was guest at a ban quet arranged by students and facul ty. Today he speaks to the assembled SNOW MELTS; RIVERS ARE OVER BANKS Summer-Lake Tempera-, ture Brings Great Dan- -: ger to Many Districts. - SOME FAMILIES ABANDON HOMES Three Children Killed. in , Connecticut Lowlands! in Upstate New York't TTnrlpv Wnfuv i. Ily The Associated Presn . U.t...it ...!. Iiu. Altiuf l.f turn Java. f Miiiititiftr.llkf tomiuvatiim awmIImI -. eastern rivers to t hot danger point to day. Homo streams had left their banks and others were near flood stage. In Connecticut three children were dead and waters of rivers continued, - to rise. Soma families in three towns ; had abandoned their homes and a; high school wus closed. Rain added to the danger. Tho Queens section of New York City saw street flooded when sowers became clogged with slush. Over ln New Jersey Ice Jams In the Pasaalo-i rivcti and. Its tributaries menaced sec (Continued on Paire FourV i v - - " ,. i Mrs. Roosevelt In Cuba Today On Air fVnifiA NUEVITAS, Cuba. (Via Pan-American Airways Radio) Mar. 0 () Tho American clipper bearing Mrs. Prank- ( lln D. Roosevelt and a party of ' friends arrived here at 12:35 P. M., tcday. half way from Miami to Port Au Prince, Haiti, whore they wlll spend the night, , ( MIAMI, Pla., March 6 m MrsJ Franklin D. Roosevelt arrived here today by train from Washington and after a hasty breakfast departed, aboard a large seaplane for Puerto Rico to obtain first hand informal' tlons in the insular possession. ( V Mrs. Roosevelt ato a light breakfast . and then motored to the interna- ' tional airport where she and her party of six boarded the seaplane. t; Six other passengers also were aboard the plane with the first lady. Included In the party was Rex ford Ouy Tug well assltant secretary of agriculture and several economic ex ports who arc to make a survey of. Porto Rico. Among them was Mlsif Lorcna Hickok, investigator for tho federal relief administration. t- The first lady expects to return to the United States In about ten days.: Prince to Wed And King May Forgive tiONDON. Mar. 6 (At Prince Slg vard, of Sweden, and Erlka Patzek tho blond young German screen star he refused to give up despite the pletui of tho Swedish royal family will bo married Thursday, it was in dicated today when the prince filed notice or Intent at the Caxton hall registry office. At Cannes, Prance, Sunday, sources close to King Oustaf or Sweden said. It was Indicated he would forgive hJs grandson, the prince, if he goes through with the marriage to his pretty commoner, despite his pre viously voiced objections, , . , student body at tho university. Tracing the national trend of af fairs, the noted editor referred to tho Harding administration as something for which ono should "hang his hood In shame." "And you don't need to bo told about tlio Hoover administration.'1, ho paid. Then the collapse. ' "It waa an' ulmoht, wonderful thing that we had a man In Washington with courage; I did not vote for him, by the wayv but that man's courngo cannot be exaggerated." "It Is impossible to say what Is go ing to come out of this. It is Inv possible to deny that this is a rovor. lution. It was only a slight exagger ation when Stanley Baldwin said we had given more power to Roosevelt than Hitler holds in Germany, MXu- sollnl In Italy and Stalin In Russia."