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tttritttt La Grande Is The Gateway to Wallowa, "The Switzerland of America Only Newspater Printed In La Grande Covering Union and Wallowa Counties VOLUME 32 EASTERN OREGON'S LEADING NEWSPAPER LA GRANDE, OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 22, 1934 MEMBER ASSOCIATED' PRESS NUMBER 243 flPb INDEPENDENTS SEEKMAHONEY FOR CONGRESS May Be Named to Oppose Upton and Pierce In This District. SALEM, June 22 Organiza tion of the independent convention to be held here next Monday morn ing waa taking definite shape here today but the final plans would not be announced until Sunday, It was learned from sponsors of the move ment at the state capltol. The convention Monday will be for one purpose only nominating Peter Zimmerman or Yamhill county for governor but a subsequent gather ing of the same group will be called to name candidates for the three congressional positions. Candidates for these offices have already been mentioned and they are taking the matter under consideration, political observers here declared. ' Sam Brown, who ran second for the Republican nomination for governor, is the one favored to run indepen dent for congress in the first district against James W. Mott and R. R. Tur ner. Republican and Democratic nominees. Willis Mahoney, unsuc cessful Democratin nominee for Gov ernor, was slated to run. for congress from the second district against Jay Upton and Walter Pierce, the major party nominees. Frank Hilton, who ran for Republican nomination for district attorney of Multnomah coun ty, had under consideration permit ting his name for the Independent In the third congressional district All three of these mentioned "can didates, however, face eome legal ob stacles In their campaigns because they had already filed for party nom inations in the primary at -which time they filed statements they would not accept the nomination of any other party at the general election. Attorneys however disagree on the Interpretation of the pledge and sup porters of the independent movement state the legal obstacles could easily be overcome. Normal Summer School 1 Classes Get Under Way About 125 children are enrolled In the Normal Training school for regu lar class work for the summer. Regular academic activities here be gun with music, art and physical education classes making their sum mer plans as well. An unusually in teresting summer of work is planned. In addition to the regular singing of the children, work is being offered In class piano, music appreciation, or chestra, rhythms and toy orchestra and creative work In constructing In struments and tunes. A varied pro gram in folk dancing and simple clogging is also being offered. The playground committee Is mak ing possible free swimming two af ternoons a week so that summer school children may enjoy that re creation In the afternoon. ELKS MAKE PLANS. FOR PICNIC JULY 1 At an enthusiastic and largely at tended meeting of the Elks lodge last night, plans were made for a picnic for Elks and their families to be held at Mcacham Lake on July 1st. During the meeting It was voted to send R. R. Carey, exalted ruler, to the Elks national convention at Kansas City which begins July 15th. After some discussion of the matter, it was decided to enter a kitten ball team In the league, and R. E. Wil liamson, past exalted ruler, was ap pointed as chairman of the commit tee in charge of this team. Practice will be held Monday evening at 6:15. Members to meet at the Elks temple. Meetings of the lodge will be held on the summer schedule from now on, with one meeting in July, on the 5th, one meeting in August and two meetings in September. In October the regular weekly meetings will be resumed. 'QUEEN OF THE SEAS' WILL BE SCRAPPED LONDON, June 22 VP) The queen of the seas Is abdlctlng. England's giant Cunard liner Mau retanla. which smashed transatlantic crossing records with almost mon otonous consistency for more than 20 years, will be scrapped, it was report ed today. She leaves June 30 on her final run to New York. When she goes to the graveyard the Mauretanla leaves a colorful his tory not all of it concerned, with lowering minutes on the run between continents. She carried thousands of American doughboys to France during her varied World war service and brought them back again. She rose supremely to the test on occasions when speed seemed vital. In covering the 160 miles between her and the sinking freighter Imle- Prices Rise On College Degree KOLL YWOOD, Cal., June 31 Yale gave Presi dent Roosevelt a degree but they made him make a. speech for It. De grees are getting higher priced. That's the most anybody has given for one in years. The president kinder held up for his brain trust. He said he would take brains anytime In preference to poll t ice. He Just as good as admitted you couldn't get both In the same body. -1 He paid a very high compliment to congress, and he should. They had Just adjourned the day before. Yours, tH, McN.ugU Syndle.U. fn,. PLAYGROUNDWORK RECEIVES SUPPORT OF TOWNSPEOPLE The La Grando Community Recrea tional committee reports that their requests for financial and moral sup port of thet city have been met with generous response. While civic, religious and fraternal organizations haVe made possible the payment of salaries of the two super visors, and the school board has loan ed all equipment at Greenwood and High school fields, added equipment was necessary, and the need was fill ed by contributions from a number of local business houses. There is still need for more equip ment, due to the large numbers of children that have turned out for the playgrounds. Citizens are asked to bring in anything they have that might be of use, to the playgrounds: tables suitable for ping pong, games, or athletic equipment of any kind. All adult organizations are also urged to organize volleyball and kitten-ball teams, In preparation for tournaments that will be held later in the summer. Two volleyball courts on each playgrounds and baseball diamonds are open to adults every evening from 6:30 for practice. Those who have contributed equip ment to the playgrounds thus far include: Grande Ronde Meat Co.: I large roll wrapping paper for kite rnekln La Grande Book and Stationery store: 1 set of boxing gloves, two (Continued on Page Fourv COMMITTEE TO DISCUSS NOTE FROM HOPKINS PORTLAND, June 22 VP) The state emergency reller committee will meet here next Thursday to give at tention to the demand of the federal government that unless Oregon de frays a fair share of tho cost of un employment relief, federal aid will be discontinued. Governor Meier late yesterday Is sued the call for the meeting. Ho had been advised by Harry L. Hopkins, federal relief administrator, that by August 1. Oregon must have avail able sufficient money to meet federal expectations for carrying on roller work In this state. HOLD THREE IN ATTACK CASE NEW YORK, June 22 VP) Three youths were held for the grand Jury in Yoikvllle court today on charges of felonous assault as a result ot their alleged attempt to attack Shirley Meredith, 24. who told police she was the daughter of the Reverend Ernest Baltram, dean of the Trinity Pro Cathedral, Sacramento, Cal, Miss Meredith's bail, of $1,000, in which she was held on a technical vagrancy charge to insure her appear ance against the men, was continued. She was returned to the Florence Crittenton home to await disposition of her case July 6. The prisoners art Frank Zahora, 22, a laborer held without ball because of a long police record: John Zlttel, 25, held In $1500 ball, and John Betz, 23, held In $1500 bail also. ham In 1926 the Mauretanla broke her own speed record, attaining knots. Loaded with 5.000 wounded British troops, she steamed from the Dar danelles to England In one week in 1015. The giant vessel conqtiered the best in speedy crossings until the German Breman appeared on the scene in 1929 and cvt the Mauretania's record for a Cherbourg-New York passage by five hours to four days, 14 hours. Since her launching In 1906 she has experienced hurrlcans, icebergs, rescues at sea, fire, groundings. And this year she capped it off with two sea serpents. Members of the crew reported having seen two not one off Nassau In March. The vessel will not be scrapped un til she completes a four-months voy age after her next New York crossing. President's Daughter Is Nevadan 14 U Mrs. Anna Roosevelt Dall, daughter of President and Mrs. Roosevelt, pictured as she stepped off a train in Truckce, Cal., preparatory to establishing residence in Nevada, where it is rumored she will seek 'a divorce from Curtis Dall. Samuel Flatt, Reno attorney, escorts Mrs. Dall and "Buzzle," one of the famous White House children, to a waiting car. BOOTLEGGER IS GIVEN SETBACK1 BY BOTTLE RULE WASHINGTON, June 22 W) By decreeing that every liquor bottle must bear indestructible marks of Identification, Secretary Morgeuthau hoped today to cut the price of legal liquor and boost federal revenue. Af ter July 1, the names of symbols of manufacturer and distiller must be blown into the glass or each bottle. To refill It will be forbidden. Just as refilling tobacco containers is sub Ject to heavy punishment. Secretary morgenthau called the announcement "the most serious blow struck at the bootlegger" since repeal. It was made under a recent resolution of congress. Morgenthau had discovered that bootleggers were buying second hand bottles and palming huge supplios of illicit liquor off on the public as legal stuff., One company making a well-known rum complained that 90 per cent of the liquor distributed under Its tiame was Illicit. M'NINCH IS NAMED NEW POWER HEAD WASHINGTON, June 22 (P) Presi dent Roosevelt today reappointed Prank R. McNlnch of North Carolina as chairman of the federal power commission for a five year term. Tho appointment, announced by the White House, was made despite objections from Senator Bailey (D. N. C.) Bailey will have an opportunity to oppose the nomination when congress meets again next January. Bailey's position dates back to the 1928 presidential campaign In which McNlnch wns tho anti-Smith leader In North Carolina nnd was referred to by "loyal Democrats" as a '"Hoovcr-crat." THE BEST NEWS WE COULD READ RIGHT NOW WW 2 JtJ Prisoners Object To Cellmate's Glass-Eating Habit LOS ANGELES, Juno 22 If Robert E. Buckley wants to eat light globes, stray bits of metal and such things between meals, the other pri soners of the Los Angeles county Jail will have to put up with It. It's his stomach and his diet, al though some of the metal dollcacies he munches may belong to other prisoners. And the county's psychiat rists InBlst his unorthodox taste Is no sign that he Is insane. So Super ior Judge Charles S. Burncll overruled the protests of Buckley's annoyed cellmates, and sent him back to Jail for six months for receiving stolen property. Buckley nte that sort of thing for so long In a clrcuB act ho thinks choice bits of metal and glass are "table delicacies." Oregon Supreme Court is Breaking Ail Speed Records SALEM. June 22 VP) Only four reversals were returned by the Ore gon supreme court In opinions on the last 25 criminal cases, a survey pre pared by Arthur Benson, clerk of the court, revealed hero today. The court renders opinions in the ohort time of four and half months from tho fil ing of an appeal, It waa also an nounced. The survey was made at the re quest of courts In other states who wish to know the procedure of the court here In establishing a record as one of the speediest in th0 United States in disposal of cases and clear ing the dockets. The survey covered tho last 25 criminal cases decided, and the time of rendering the decision was the average computed. Tho average time from tho filing of tho appeal to the arguments by attorneys Is three and a half months, whllG opinions are handed down within 20 days follow ing arguments. GERMANY IN BOLDRETORT TO CREDITORS Threatens Severance of Commercial Relations i If Debts Forced. BERLIN, June 22 (A") A warning that she would sever commercial re lations was Germany's answer today to threats of othor nations to enforce collection of interest of her foreign debts. k " Dr-HJalmar Sohacht, president of the rclchsbank, said bluntly "it is no use to threaten or scold us." Following the relch's recent six- months moratorium on its obliga tions, France and England have dlB cussed creating clearing houses which would Impound German commercial funds to meet payments frozen by the moratorium.' He" explained the relchsbank's stand to foreign correspondents and diplo mats yesterday, suggesting a return to Germany of her former colonies as a possible solution of the debts prob lem. $595,000 Granted For Dredging Of Columbia River WASHINGTON, June 32 ) Ap proval of allotments totaling $1,512, 400 for maintenance of authorized river and harbor projecta In the Pa cific division for the fiscal year 1035 was announced by the war depart ment today. The allotments are from regular war department appro priations. The largest allotment. $505,000, was for the Columbia and lower Wil lamette rivers below Vancouver and Portland. Other allotments included: Willamette river above Portland, and Yamhill river, $63,000; Humboldt harbor and bay, California. $82,100; examination, surveys and contingen cies, Portland district, $23,250; Tilla mook bay and bar, $16,000. FARM DEBTS ADJUSTER HERE E, A, McCornack, of Eugene, who is state supervisor of the farm debt ad hiutftient commit toe is in La Grande today conferring with E. H. DeLong, chairman of the Union County farm debt committee, and with other mem bers of this committee as well. He also called on tho county court and mortgage holders having mortgages on farms. Mr. McCornack was for several terms a member of the state house of representatives and Is now candidate for state senator from Lane and Linn counties. County Democrats Organize for Year Organization of tho Democratic party In Union county has recently been made, and the officers of the party here announced. B. F. Owsley is to be chairman of the group during the forthcoming political campaign. Wesley McDonald Is to bo Secretary; J. D. Woodell, treasurer; Martin King state commit teeman, and Gcorgo Rogers, of Elgin, congressional committeeman. Trunk Sought As Clue to Her Fate A large trunk belonging to "Cap tain" Ivan POtlrrJny, European adventurer, Is being sought us u clue In the mysterious disappear ance of Affiles C. Tufverson (above), a womuii attorney who married Poderjuy In New York last December and vanished two weeks later. He 1h being tletulueil In Vienna. AGNES TUFVERSON BELIEVED LIVING BOSTON. Juno 22 (P) The Bos ton American says It has unearthed a clue Indicating that Miss Agnes Tufverson, missing New York lawyer was alive and In Boston as late as this month. The American says Mrs. Ruth F. Hall, 26, of Melrose, employed In a Boston cleaning establishment Identi fied a photograph of Mrs. Tufverson published In a recent edition of the American as that of a woman who had visited her place of employment twice. The first visit, tho American said, was made on May 16 and the second, botwoen Juno 1 and 10. On both occasions, tho Amcrlcnn quoted their Informant as saying, the woman left a dress to be cleaned. Lumber Industry Shows Continued Business Decline WASHINGTON, June 22 (P) Con tinued decline In the lumber busi ness for tho week ending June 16 was reported today by the National Lum ber Manufacturers association. Production, as roported by 1,44 mills, dropped to 174,510,000 feet, compared with 178,676,000 feet for tho previous week, whllo shipment were down to 144.130.000 feet against 166, 002,000 and orders declined to 138, 076.000 feet from 164,388.000 feet. PORTLAND, Juno 22 W) New busi ness amounting to 41,530,000 feet, 10 per cent moro than for tho previous weok, but 13 per cent under the 3 year weekly overng0 for June, was re ported today by tho Western Pine as social ion for tho week ending June 16. Shipments for tho week wero 67, 770,000 feet, nnd production, 61.114, 000 feet. Orders totnled 41.329,000 feet compared with 60,152,000 Tcct for the corresponding week a year ago. Orders for tho year to dato have in creased 11 per cent, tho association , said, over tho 1033 total for tho cor responding period. International Law Invoked Over Hearst Landing In France BORDEAUX, Prance, Juno 22 fP) Th0 "technically lllegnl" landing at the iflrport hero yesterday of William Randolph Hearst nnd his party wns the subject of an official report to Paris today. Tho plane remained only half nn hour and the American pu Win her and his friends stayed Innlde while gasoline was loaded. Customs officials demanded papers and found visas wore lacking. The pilot, In accordance with French regu lations, sought and obtained permis sion of local authorities to proceed to London, declaring the landing was due to conditions out of his control. An order expelling Itearst from France still stands out, officials said, but would not bo enforced. Former Premier Edouard Hcrrlot said this a year and a half ngo to the chamber of deputies In replying to a question. Wheat Today locnl wheat today Atom! at about fi2 opiiI-h, Portland wheat, Jiriy, was 73c, and .September 73 Vie. CHICAGO, June 22 m A ten dency to climb showed lUelf at times In wheat prices today, owing largely to unfavorable threshing returns from Central Illinois and from Ne braska. Trade attention was arreted by the fact that the Illlnoiu-Nebraaka yields were estimated at but 2 to 8 bushels en acre, and hardly fit for milling purposes. Wheat closed nervous, ffl cents above yesterday's finish, July 60 ' c, corn down, July 54c, oat ac off,' and provisions un changed to a rise of 10c. 4 I JUST BEFORE PRESSTIME FIKK IN Kl'CiKNK ItOAH MONKV ALLOTTKIk I'KK.HIUKNi; SI NI'KMtS ACT TO CI.KAN IV MUV1KM Kl'OKNB. June 22 ..r uiHlctermliM'd origin guttwl the seo ouil story r the concrete anil brick planft of the Kugene Fanners cream ery hrre irtly berore midnight last nleht. Us wan eKtlntatvd at be tween $'..'0,000 and $'J5,00O. it was fully covered by Insurance, there be ing HppriixImaU'ly $,,ooi carried on (lie building and content. PORTLAND, Ore.. June 23) Ore-J b". wiuwimgum ana Montana will receive $1,623,003 of the $7,000,000 appropriated for construction of na tional forest roads for tho fiscal year of 1035, District Engineer W. H. Lynch announced today, Oregon will recolvo $010,134, Washington will re ceive $403,627 and Montana will re ceive $610,232. WAHIIINHTOV, June 22 W Presi dent Roosevelt has Issued a procla mation niipemlliig provisions of the' iMivlK-llacon net of March 3, 1031 w i not provided thot nil laborers cmi nliivnat In Mm nnimfiiii(in r ..i.n..' bulkriiigH be paid the prevailing rate of wages for work of a similar .nature. NEW YORK. June 22 (O1) Strength ened arrangements for maintaining tho quality of motion pictures wore dleclosod lato today by Will H. Hays, president of tho Motion Picture Pro ducers and Distributors of America, Ino. PWA WORK WILL BE PUT THROUGH AS FIRST PLANNED WASHINGTON, Juno 22 (VP Only one PWA project in Oregon has been rescinded, and that action was taken on tho suggestion of tho original sponsors, It was announced by the Orogon public works offlco here today In connection with yesterday's state ment by Secretary Ickes that 07 al lotments, scattered over the country, had been rescinded, , Tho one project definitely romoved from the field, It was said here was the BakoVk. sewage disposal project, and this was done at tho request of tho Baker city council following an announcement that tho state emer gency rcliof administration had prom ised the labor for tho sewage disposal plant If Baker would furnish the material. To finance tho latter. Baker Is confident of ability to sell bonds In tho opon market, thus eliminating the necessity of borrowing from tho government. THOMAS SAYS HE IS NOT CANDIDATE PORTLAND, Juno 22 (P) Charles M. Thomas, atate utilities commis sioner, declared hero Thursday ho Is not a prospective independent can didate for tho governorship of Ore gon. "Having 'entered upon a task that is only purtly completed," ho said in connection with his work as utilities commissioner, "I have repeatedly stated that it Is my clear duty to continue such tank until It Is accom plished." SIX CHILDREN INJURED WHEN HOUSE FALLS CHICAGO, June 22 iP) At least six children wore buried, two of them seriously In Juried, whon an unoc cuplcd frnmo house In which tlioy wero playing, collapsed today. Fire department squads rushed to the rescuo and dug Into the snarl of debris In search of tho victims. Six were tnkon from the wreckage within an hour and treated at a hos pital. Hundreds of other children and several frantic mothers swarmed around tho ruins. George Wlcczorek, 10, and Stanley Bconck, 12, suffer ed fractured bones. The children were playing on the second floor of the ramshackle struc ture when It toppled. Tho roof fell In on tho trapped youngsters. Scarcely a tlmbor remained upright. Rain fell heavily as the rescuers piled through tho tangle. FOUR COUNTIES REMIT TAXES SALEM. June 22 VP) Four Oregon counties today remitted In full to the state treasurer their second quar ter 1934 state taxes. Harney county sent In $5,683.92; Morrow 7.fi77.0H; Lane $38,527.78 and Ynmhlll $1(J.U0701. All second quar ter taxes are duo by July 1. Meier Grants Two Conditional Pardons SALEM, June 22 A1 Conditional pardons wero Issued by Governor Julius L. Meier today to Normal B. Newell and Jack Berry, serving terms of one year each In tho Multnomah county jail for assault. Both men werft committed o:i Novo mix? r 13, 1033. PREDICT BIG DROPINCOST; OF BUILDING Plan Under Way To Assist Home Con struction Program , WASHINGTON. June 22 VP) Down ward revision of building material prices under NRA codes, to roenforco the administration home building and repair program, was said today by an authority In tho construction industry to be planned within the next fortnight. Not even awaiting President Roose velt's signature or the housing bill, the Industry was depicted as contem plating cuts of from ten to fifteen per cent In its charges. While components of the Industry have Insisted that present cost-protection prices have been the minimum at which plants could be operated and employment maintained at maximum,' It was said leaders In the business expect the housing program to bo increase volume that there will be no decrease In employment and net prof its will suffer but little. A drive to reduce building costs has been under way for some time. Tho reduction has two main objec-. tlves: To increase activities under the housing program, which Is designed to encourage building of new homea and the repairing of old; and to carry out tho announced pollsy of NBA to keep prices from mounting to excess. EMBARGO THREAT IS MADE IN STRIKE SEATTLE, Juno 22 OT atrlklng longshoremen treatened today, as po lloe and waterront employers grad ually opened the port to shipping, to lay down an'embargo In Europe, Aus tralia and the Atlantlo coast on all ships loaded hero by non-union men. W. T, Morris of- Tacoma, speaking for tho northwest Joint strike com mittee of maritime workers, said ar rangements were completed in for eign ports for the embargo. on .Seattle shipping and declared notification from longshore leaders, here .would put It In effect. The agroement to work Alaska ships wan terminated last night when the strikcrs, 'wh6 sali Mayor Charles . h. Smith had broken It because non union men under police guard unr loaded the motorahlp Modavla, de clared they would not handlo any more Alaska' ehlpplng. 'BRAIN TRUST' IS DEFINED BY GEN. JOHNSON NASHVILLE, Tenn., June 22 (fP) HresRIeht Roosevelt's "brain trust' a "one-man brain trust" carried tho vigorous endorsement today of Gen. Hugh 8. Johnson. "Yes, there is a brain trust In Washington all right," the NRA ad ministrator said last night In an ad dress, "but the brain Is the brain of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the trust Is tho faith of tho whole American people. ' "What administration critics do not llko," Johnson said, "Is the fact that th0 brain trust Is not a 'yes trust their way." All p reside n to havo advisers, he said, but President Roosevelt's repre sent "tho best brains of a cross-section of tho United States," while som0 former presidents took counsel of "mon from Wall street, men who looked as If they had Just swallowed a watermelon." Yankees Monopolize English Tennis Meet LONDON, Juno 22 VP) America's four Davis cup playors today fought it out among themselves in the semi finals of tho Queens club tennis tournament and when the smoke of play and argument had cleared away Prank Shields and Sidney B. Wood Jr., were tho surviving flnallsta. Baseball AMKHfCAX LEAGUE Cleveland 4 10 1 Now York 1 3 0 Pearson and Pytlak; Gomots and Dickey. Chicago 10 3 Boston 11 18 3 Gaston, Kevtng and Shea; Oster melller and H. Ferrcll. St. Louis 3 3 1 Philadelphia 3 3 1 3 Andrew, McAfee and Hemslcy; Ben ton and Berry. (Tic- 7 Innings, game called dark ness). Detroit - 11 14 0 Washington 3 7 0 Fischer. Hamlin and Hayworth: Burke. MlllUnn, McColl and Phillips. AD NATIONAL New York 2 11 4 Chicago 15 18 0 Clark, Castleman and Mancuso; Leo nnd Hartnett, Phelps. Philadelphia 4 11 1 Cincinnati , 3 6 1 Collins and Todd; Klenhans. Dor ringer and Lombard i. NATIONAL I-KAOl B N Boston 6 0 0 Pittsburgh - 7 11 3 Belts, Mangum and Hogan; Mel no, Blrkofer and Padden. '
