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

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Newspaper Page TextTourist Travel Increasing; Here-Big Year Expected t i La Grande Is The Gateway to Wallowa, ' "The Switzerland of America Only Newspaper Printed in La Grande Covering Union and Wallowa Ceunties VOLUME 32 EA8TEKN OKGGON'8 LEADING NEWSPAPER LA GRANDE, OREGON, FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 1934 MKMIIEIt ASSOCIATED PKESS NUMBER 179 TLOOII RAGING: s engoi L JREGON TRAIL TRAVEL GAIN IS REPORTED Motorists Show Increase Over 1938 First yuar-, ter in . La Grande. GOOD YEAR AHEAD FOR MERCHANTS Sales to Tourists Expect ed to Increase YVitn buo stantial Gains in Regis trations. Since Jail. 1, a tiilal or KIR loilrlsts Lihovo rcRLsli'ml nt (he I41 mni(le Tchamlier or cmilniorre nrflrrs, rfprc--Ifiitlii? a considerable Increase over 'It he tlrst three nioiilhs of. last year. Swlien the fifiiire was only $K on Mar. All). The flsnro on Mar. :il this year iua-s 108. a ealn of nearly Hal per cent. 'Hlnce April 1 the rush of registration ias been quite heavy. So far, most of the tourists nre iom the far western states, wim ftnly a few from Nebraska, Oklahoma, ,'.tc, and only one car has come through from an eastern state that f from New York City. Which indi ;vfcates to local observers, that the real 5 tourist rush with the eastern and outhern states heavily represented still In the future. While La Grande allowed a gain hi a substantial nature for January fr-fcnd February of this year, the regis tration of tourists in Oregon as a i-ivholc showed a 25 per cent decrease pas compared with January and Feb Ijruary of 1033, During March, how ffever, the state figures leaped from .1 .(Continued on. Pago Thrtie u f"Eastertide" To Be Presented At Church Sunday The cantata "Eastertide" by Dan iel Protheroe. will bo presented at jtho Presbyterian church Sunday eve t iilng. April 8 at 7:30 o'clock by the ; Presbyterian choir, Andrew Loney Jr y directing. The cantata Is full of re g finemcnt, beauty and delicacy, with S in excellent interpretation of the fasslon and Resurrection story, all of ' Which will be told in an appealing tnanner with music and song, It is announced. The program follows: PART I. THE PASSION Chorus, "There Is a Green Hill Far Away.' Alto solo. "When the Morning Was ome, Mrs. w. n. iJonnciiKamp iir. I Baritone solo, "And Pilate flsKea J. Them." Ralph Gelbel. Chorus. "We Found This Man Per verting the Nation." Baritone solo. "Then Pilate Called , Jesus," Donn Poarch. Chorus. "And They Were Instant "With Loud Voices. " i Bass solo, "When Pilate Saw That He Prevailed Nothing," Austin Dunn. ;j Chorus, "His Blood Be Upon Us." ' f Organ, "Ths Maroh of Calvary," ilrs. Harlcy Richardson. Bass solo, "Now From the Sixth Hour There Was Darkness." Donn Poarch, (Continued on Pajre Threo) MILK CONTROL AGENT HOLDS MEETING HERE Tom Cunning, representative of the nte milk control board, conducted meeting of milk salesmen, distri butors and producers at the city hall this morning, explaining the require ments for carrying out the new law. Mid answering a number of questions P't by local men. Some argument developed during the meeting In re gard to certain points of the new law. ?Mr. Cunning is to go to Baker this afternoon to hold a similar meeting there. He met with the Pendleton tft'lk group last night. SUNTAN BENEFICIAL BUT SUNBURN ISN'T if With the sun-bathing season very flar. and merchants already laying in stocks of brief bathing suits, tfiorts. sun-back pajamas and over alls, etc.. the old question of whether ttie sun's rays really do one much ood comes up tor frequent dlscus 4 on. .1 The Observer is In receipt of an nlcle written for the Associated Press by Dr. Iago Galdston. promin ent authority, on the question of un-bathirur. Make Yale A C. C. C. Camp? HOLLYWOOD, Cal., Apr. 5 Out to the studio here whero we are working night and day on a picture come Dr. Professor Angle of Yale, I had always thought that a fellow from Santa Barbara n a mod Harkness was tho angel of Yale. This was an aw ful nice fellow and a very pleasant, charming wife. He wanted m to help him on a couple of things. Want to get Yale mad a COC camp and have education put on the basic In dustry list. He Is looking for five men for the line and three backficld men. He Is on his way to Honolulu, whero he has heard of a quarterback. Yale Is doing nil she can to get back among tho 400 of football teams. Ho is doing all he can to get Yale graduates to take up some otrwr work than "braintrusting." He thinks it's a business that won't last. Yours, 1934, McNuujIiJ Syndicate, Ino. WHISKEY CREEK ANGLERS ENJOY THE REST LUCK Fishing yesterday, tin the opening day. of th season, was kknI, had an indifferent, depending largely upon where one fished. Whiskey crock ap peared to yield tho best catches of the day. Bill fclglcr and Bon returned to La Grande last night from Whiskey creek With .50 trouty-the bltfgest;. reputed, catch of the day. Henry Parsons, of La Grando, also caught 21 fish In the same creek. A group of Union men made some nice catches of trout In Wallowa river yesterday using clusters of sal- (Continued on Page ThreeC SENTENCE ROYS SATURDAY MORN Ernest Conradt, 16, and Billy Weiss, 14, yesterday afternoon pleaded guilty before U. G. Couch, Juvenile Judge, to charges placed against them by the police. The two pleaded guilty to a Joint charge of stealing chickens and Conradt also admitted entering a house and stealing money. The two are to be sentenced at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning, officers an nounced. Wiley Blancett, policeman, reported today that Conradt admitted entering four more houses in addition to those reported yesterday. They were: Roe (Continued on Pago Three) SULLIVAN JOINS FERA STAFF HERE A placement worker. Attorney Sul livan, of Canyon City, has arrived here and will be on the FERA staff in Union county. Temporary quar ters for him will be established this weekend In the Sacajawea Annex. His work will include much of the In vestigating of those registered for work, it Is stated. Under the FERA men will receive work proportionate to their family needs. For example, an unemployed man with a family of two or three, will draw less work per month than the unemployed man with a family of five or six. Half a million dollars has been al loted to Oregon for FERA purposes, according to announcement In Port land today, and it is presumed that Union county will receive a portion of this. So far. no definite word has been received here as to when work may begin. According to Dr. Galdston tanning Is beneficial to one's health, but burning Is sometimes injurious. Sun bathing should be taken at first In small doses, he says. "One should not bathe during the period from 10 in the morning to a In the afternoon." he states, adding "the head should be protected." He re gards over-indulgence as exposing oneself to the aim's rays for too long n period before one Is able to be come Immune to ordinary sun-burn. In Death Case 3SS5S Luke S. May, Seattle's chief of detectives and famous criminolo gist, who Is In charge of the Brem erton, Wash., multi-murder inves tigation. V.F.W. AUXILIARY TO RE ORGANIZED Not only will a Veterans of Foreign Yars post be organized here Satur day evening, at a meeting to be held at the Eagles hall at 8 p. m., but a women's auxiliary to the group also will bo formed. Word has been received from Pen dleton that tlio V. F. W. mombora there, who are to conduct tho In stallation of officers In La Grando, will TSo accompanied toy auxiliary members who pian to induct tho lo cal' women officials Into their chairs, --rho meetlnfr-Sat unlay Wfa'htt . to be attended by State Commander Swpet land, who will present the charter to tho La Grande post, is open to tho public. .Refreshments will bo served. Frankie Monroe Is Winner Over Ros PORTLAND, Ore., Apr. 6 (P) Frankie Monroe, of Lakevlew, took a clean-cut decision from Ros Duma gullcti of Manila, at St. John's last night to supplant an unpopular de cision ho gained over tho Filipino lat week. Tho stinging lofts of Dumagul.es, 126, gained him an early advantage, but put Monroe. 133, Into a bcllgcr ent mood. In the) second round Mon roe traded punch for punch with his opponent, and showed race fighting form as he slugged to victory In the third and fourth rounds. JUST WHEN wv DOG DRIVES FURIOUS SOW FROM BOY, 6 Elvin Prince, of Wallowa, Saved From Death . By Pet Animal. WAIXOWA, Ore., (Spw.nl) A near tragedy was averted by a shepherd dog on the farm or Wayne Prince, about seven miles east of Wallowa, the other day. The falmlly had missed a brood kow from their herd of swine and Klvln, eix-year.-old son. In coin puny with Ills grandmother, set out to look for the mining animal. Kuii nhtg on In advance of His compan ion, the small hoy tame upon the hug In a brush thicket and Hhe made a furious attack knocking lilm to the ground and dragging lilm by one arm down Into tho liriinh. The shepherd dog then entered the scene of battle and attacked the sow, causing her to turn her attention to the dog until the boy was rescued. His coat was torn off and prints of the animal's teeth were left In his arm. Ills face was badly scratched and a deep gash cut in the back of his head. The Prince family feels that there Is no doubt but that the dog saved the child's life. The dog escaped from the encounter unin jured. State Will Open Bids April 26 On : . $2,50000 Work . PORTLAND, April 0 W While cfyccHitMi -.coaitinuecU-on the low bid for the first of the Oregon coast bridges submitted to tho highway commission yesterday, the road de partment was making plans for open ing bids on more than $2,500,000 work April 26, the biggest single day's bid opening In the history of the stato highway department. In addition to the opening of bids on the second of the five coast spans the Coos Bay brldgo estimated at $2,255,052, tho department will call for bids on $300,000 road projects, it was announced here today. The de partment has $560,000 remaining to be let out of the more than $6,000,000 public works fundB. The last of this will be awarded May 17. Award of the first bridge, the one at Waldport over Alsea Buy was ex pected to be made Monday. To date the low bid of Llndstrom & Felgen son, Parker & Banfield and T. H. Banflcld, for $685,040, appeared In order. EVERYTHING WAS Beauty Plus Brains Net Contract fl&Vt :;;! jk- v'ssil A. ..Combliiniion ol Ueiuuy and brains lilm contract when a Ehnrp-eyed producer found her in a Hollywood screen cnorus and signed ner ror seven years. Jean was born In i Michlcnn and educated In a Los Anuclcs convent-, ONLY ONE RACE IN PRIMARY VOTE IN WALLOWA CO. ENTERPRISE, Ore., (Special) With filings for the May primary elections completed, the following candidates in Wallowa county .are in the race. Only one primary contest existB, that for district attorney. For county commissioner: Harry O. Harmon, Democrat, Leap; L. Couch, Wallowa, Republican. District attorney: Robert V. Chris- man and George E. Richards, both Republicans of Enterprise. For state representative: Dr. C. T. Hockctt, Republican, Enterprise; J. W. Fisher, Democrat, Wallowa. L. F. Allen, stato representative, will not be a candidate for re-election. He recently moved to Hot Lake to be manager of the sanatorium. Ernest F. Johnson, county commis sioner, who will retire Jan. 1, 1035, has held the office continuously for four terms. GOING NICELY netted Jcun Olmlburn a Incrntlvo MRS. MASSIE ATTEMPTS TO -KILL HERSELF Figure in Sensational Honolulu Assault Case of .1932 Will Recover is Report. GKNOA, Italy, Apr. fi Shlp'N off I - or (he S. S., Itoma Mild to day tlutfli Mrs. Thalltt Fortewtie Mas sle, principal figure In the wnsu (loiml Ilonulutii assault case of l!i:t:!, attempted Milcldi by slashing hath wrists and tlirmvl,!ig hi'i-w-lf Trom the liner's lop deck on the voyage from New York. Prof. Darrio Borclli, director of tlio nervous ailments clinic in Genoa, whero Mrs. Masslo has ibeen taken since the Hlilp's arrival yesterday, confirmed tho offlccra' rcKrt. The director said that Mrs, Mus- slo told him she attempted suicide when tho steamer was three days out from Genoa because: 'I wanted to die. I regretted, hnv ing got a divorce from my husband.' Mrs. Massio and Lieut. Thomas (Continued on Pago Two) ANOTHER CHILD DISEASE VICTIM GOLDS RO RO. N. C, Apr. 0 fUj Tho name of two-ycsir-old Ivl Tliompson of Way no county was add ed today to the rolls of those meii il science Is attempting to savo from unnatural death for Levi is slowly "turning to stone." His cose, physicians said, parallels that of Benny Hendricks of Wilkes barro. Pa., who to gradually becom ing ossified, the victim of a disease that causes the muscle of tho body to aydmllate nalclum which should go only into strengthening tho body's bones. Tho Thompson '-hlld lives with his parents, Mr. and Mm. Bnitus Thomp son. In Mt, Olive, near here. Wheat Today Tim prlcr of luc:tl in Mi wheat stood at iibitul H'i c-nfK bulk 1 1 (-r- I'hIuv, acivinllni; it iiifitji t Ions nt t lift I'lonrcr I'lourlng Mills. Il'initaiitl (Jili 7'i M'nt. KjMrt bid (fl'-i cents. CHICAGO. Apr. fl tot Rye distin guished ltfielf today with a Jump of 1 cents a bushel. Tho Jump of ryo was apparently owing to awertlons that the United States import duty on rye would soon be raised. Rye closed 3trong at tho day3 top flirures. other grain nearly at a stand still, -wheat VrC off to c up com pared with yesterday's linlsh. May BQ & i, corn uncliangod to 'tc h i gher, aits u nc hanged to 'nc ad -vancefi. and provisions un:hainrl to 20c gain. JUST BEFORE PRESSTB1E ... i'l.OHlll.V CONSTA11I.K SLAIN 30(10 t'NKMI'l.OYUl) IN JtlOT . KXTOKTION I'l.OT FAILS HITS AT IIOLDINO COMI-AMEH s MIAMI, Okla., Apr. 0 (F) ronsliv- liln 'ul Campbell mm nlalii unil Ciller of I'ullce IVrcy lKijd, f Common. liir Urrv, pnut klilnnH-il tmluy by two outkiws umi (heir woman com IWHlon. - MINNEAPOLIS. Apr. 8 OT Threo thousand unemployed milled about 'blood-spattered sidewalks today aft er authorities had. twice ropulsod on slaughts against tho city hall and courthouso. Eighteen porsoiui wore Injured. Twonty-flvo others woro In Jail. CI.KVRLANI), Apr. (!) All cxlor llon j)lot iieolimt Mayor Harry L. Da vis, ihrculciihie lilm with iliiil.li anil (leiiuimlliii; $1.1,000, won illclowcl hy polloe Umluy. Ilillna set n trap for the extortionist hut ho did lint up peur. WASirJNOTON, Apr. 6 (!) Wliat were termed abuses In the operation of holding companies, togethor with payment of largo siUarloa to officials of the American Tclophone and Tel egraph company, woro reported to day to tho houso Interstate com moroo committeo by Dr. W. M. W. Bplawn, following a threo-year study ordered by congress. Tho roport roc ommended that tho first stop In reg ulation bo a thorough Investigation into tho Bell Telephone companies. ttKNKVA. Apr. HP) riilnem clr olw nlli'Bi lloday tluut .raimn iihuis 1 wlze I'elplng nnd put Kinporor KnilR . Tell of Miinehlikiio on the tlinnie there ns emiieror or the northern prorlnnw of Clilnn. THREE EUROPEAN NATIONS EXPECT TO IMPORT WHEAT ROME, April 0 P) Tho return of three groat European nations, Prance, Germany and Italy, to the status of wheat Importers Instead of self-sufficient producers was prom ised today at a session of tho world wheat advisory commission. M. Davlnct, tho French dolORato, stated his country would abandon Its policy of wheat solf-sufflcicncy (Continued on Page Two) Do You Suppose She Swallowed A Flashlight? TRIESTE, Italy, April fl (P) A mysterious light emanating from the breast of Slgnora Monaro, a patient in Pirano homital. Is rousing wonderment In medical and official circles. Tho populace is most Interested but Is sharply divided In Its vlows, one group afflrmlnK that a mira cle Is taking placo and tho other that Slgnora Monarco swallowed a flashlight. Army Mail Flier Killed in Crash AliTOONA, Pa., Apr. 0 (I1) The body of Second Lieut. John Leland MnAllster, 25. who leaped from hi falling; army plane, was moved to the Duncansvlllo airport today pending word from federal authorities. Tho officer had been flying tho mail from Cleveland to Chicago for the post month. NATION OBSERVING ARMY DAY TODAY WASHINGTON, Apr. 0 to) It's Army day today, and tho tread of marching feet, of soldiers parading up Pennsylvania avenue, revives a memory. Seventeen years ago at 1:10 o'clock this afternoon a signal from a White Houso window shot around tho world the message: "America Is at war." Wood row Wilson walked the streets of Washington that 17-year-old day Mrs. Wilson beside him; both deep in thought toeforo turning back to the White House, taking up a pen and signing his name across the war resolution. As ho traced tho last stroke, a na val officer, standing In a window near Wllson'u desk, semaphored si PROGRESS IS REPORTED IN MANY LINES Next Quarter to Be Best in Four Years, Dun & Bradstreet Says RETAIL BUYING IS iSETTING FAST PACE Lumber Business Gains Noted Men at Work on Railroads Increase 8.58 Per Cent By the Associated Press The business situation over the. country appears more optimistic with each passing quarter, and. the out-, look for the next three .months ap pears to bo brightest In four years. Business propects for he second quarter "generally are conceded to be potentially capable of producing the most satisfactory results for any sec ond quarter In four years," Dun Ss Bradstreet said today. ? The oxpectod slackening In the' pace which retail buying set before Easter has not appeared, the agency reported although sales of some ap parel lines have roccded this week from tho "extraordinary high totals" of tho preceding weok, buying of fur niture, housewares, electrle refriger ators and rugs increased by a wldo percentage 1 ' ' "Sales of men's and women's wear ing apparel, howover, still are in the lead, whllo there has beon' no dim inution In tlie call for drygoods. Sales of hardware, paints, gardening tools and seeds show overy . indication of outdistancing spring figures for the last three years. ind proviriCqnijlU; sivo proof of a reawakene'd' .interest "" In the home and garden." ' ' An Increase of 20 per cent In new lumber buslhoss for the first quarter of 1034 over tho 1033 period was re ported today by the National Lumber ' Manufacturers association. The' sur- . (Continued Prom Page Pour) Latest Clues In "Orgy Kulings" . Point to Kimble COi;ti D'AI.KNK, Idaho, Apr. 0 (P) Slicrirr H. J. McMillan today said Sheriff I). i. ItlankeiiMhlp or Bremer ton, Wah., decided Harry Kimble held hern Tor iiiiestlonhig In connec tion with the Bremerton mum slay Iiikh or last week, was In no way In volved In the murders. SEATTLE. April fl m Spurred on by "startling ovidonce" which identified at least one of the recent associates of Eugene Chenevort, a victim in Bremerton's "orgy killings" last week, authorities peered today at prints of undeveloped films found In his home. Two of the prints, Chief of De tectives Luke S. May announced, were those of a man of swarthy com plexion, who was stripped to his waist and who was making a display of his powerful muscles and chest. Pour persons stepped forward and Identified him as tho' pictures of a Harry Kimble, a road house operator In Western Washington, who had; (Continued On Page Pour) Old Timer Bags 38 Rattlesnakes GRAND COULEH DAM. Apr. fl (P Putting on a free demonstration, William "Daa" Smith, old-time or chardist, climbed up th coulee wall, brought down 38 live rattlesnakes, and then extracted tho poison from them. lently to tho navy department, then across the street. Tho word, awaited, flashed Instan taneously to tho furthest military and naval outpost orders to go Into action. Franklin D. Roosevelt, young as sistant secretary of the navy, was one of the first to receive it. His was a tank of seeing that the na tion's naval cordon offered no loop holes to German sea raiders. Today is Army day again, and he wired from his yacht In southern waters that the celebration "Indi cates In part the gratltudo of our nation to our army which so val iantly served th is country la Its overy emergency."