La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, June 29, 1934, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextSpokane Drum Corps Corning To La Grande Jubilee La Grande Is The Gateway to Wallowa, "The Switzerland of America xwxht mwptraw (iharrtirr Only NewspaJer . Printed in La Grande Covering Union and Wallowa Counties VOLUME 32 EASTERN OUEQO.VS LEADINU KEWSPAFEB LA GRANDE, OREGON, FRIDAY, JUNE' 29, 1934 MKMHEK ASSOCIATED PRESS NUMBER 249 m... IN-WESTOM mm GETS $140,00(0) .v-.-vv EILG NO LACK OF MUSIC FOR CELEBRATION I Washington Champion ship Corps to Bring 20 Men and Drum Major. PORTLAND TO SEND DELEGATION HERE Rose City Chamber of Commerce Organizing Gi"oup of Citizens to Visit La Grande. POHTLANDEItS COMING ! A delegation of Portland fit i -kenti will participate In Ui (Jrsnde'M railroad celebration July l!i to 21, It was announced In Port land Ante Friday by the 'trade and commerce department of the Port land chamber of commerce. The pufly'wl'll le-ive by train the night of July 1!) and arrive here the morning of Friday, July 20. AftKiirnnce that three crack drum and bugle corps and two top-notch bands will) be here Tor the seml-ocn-tennJul'U. P. celebration wan received today when a! letter came to John It. (Jorlty -front Richard II. Guy, drum corps manager In Spokane, statins that tlip Spokane American Legion drum corps fof 20 men anil a drum major, will positively he here for the Jubilee. There Is a strong probability also that a fourth drum corps, the Boise legion championship corps of Idaho, also will attend, but definite assur ance Mas not "Been received op. yet. i 'he other two corps to participate In (Continued on Page E!ght) 5 Days of Golf Scheduled For Jubilee Visitors Golfers who come to the semi centennial Union Pacific celebration here July 19, 20 and 21, or to the western union meeting of the Bro therhood cf Locomotive Engineers on f My 17, 18 and 19, had better bring their sticks along. Tournaments will be held every day during these five days at the La Orandc country club, which boasts one of the finest nine hole layouts In the Pacific northwest. And the course will be In excellent condition, members of the greens committee of the club report. The B. of L. E. tournaments are open to all visiting golfers at the con vention, and prizes will be offered each day for both scratch and handi cap events. Open sweepstakes tournaments will be held each day of the Jubilee proper, also with prizes offered the winners. This Is open to either pro fessionals or amateurs but the com mittee insists that all participants must have certified handicaps to file with the club. Entry fee will be one dollar each day, which Includes greens fee. Cards announcing the tour.mments have been posted In' every golf club and hotel In the northwest, the pub licity committee reports. UNION COUNTY IS LEADING IN HEALTH REPORT Union county continues to rank as one or the healthiest In Oregon In the entire northwest, as a matter of fact. The weekly report of the state board of health Just received here shows no communicable diseases dur ing the week Just passed in this coun ty. Eleven other Oregon counties. In cluding Umatilla, also showed per fect slates for the week. In Wallowa county one case of flu was reported. Baker had a case of flu. two of small pox and one of chtckenpox. MAY FISH MOUNTAIN STREAMS ON SUNDAY Fishermen of Union and Wallowa counties will have new streams open to them on Sundoy. July 1 at least, ho legal fining has been done In these waters since last year. Oa Sunday morning all tributaries to Wallowa lake to the falls in sold tributaries will be opened to anglers, to remain open until November 30. Several of these streams furnish nice Will Pays Tribute To Jimmy Wedell : Wf.- nm m nnmw BEVERLY MILLS, Cal., June 28 And they lay to rest Jimmy Wedell died as a soldier fi A t IJ lu tno discharge or his dutv for h was teaching somebody else how to lly. When you real ize aviation as the greatest advance ment In our times, and America as spending the most money, yet our whole government, whole army, whole navy, had to wait to see how fast they could fly, till Jimmy Wedell ( through his own personality and personal honesty got financial back ing from a generous and public spir ited Mr. Williams) would make the plane. Who knows but what aviation might not be permanently set back 100 miles an hour, through the loss of this fellow, with the knowledge that was burled with him? Such men should be grabbed up at once and put into our government service. He had one thing that was in keeping with all great aviators and that was his modesty. Yours, I tI4. McNiu'rht Syndicate fn. U.S. OFFICERS TO TAKE NELSON TO PORTLAND JAIL Two United States marshals from Portland axe here today for the pur pose of taking Stanley Nelson to the Multnomah county Jail pending fed eral grand Jury action on a charge of breaking a seal, entorlng, stealing, concealing and possessing goods from a box enr in Interstate transporta tion. His bond was sot yesterday ji ts.OOO, which he was unable to false. Marshals DeLong and Rlckard will leave the other four arrested In raids late Wednesday. ; Stanley P. Stiles, one of the four, furnished bond and was released, and Mrs. John Monroe Marvin was freed on her own recognizance. Her hus band Is now serving a three-month sentence In the county Jail on a charge of possessing stolen property. He was sentenced June 22 and prob ably will serve out his term here be-j fore being turned over to lederal au thorities, officers said. (Continued on Page Two SCHOOL BUDGET HEARING IS SET FOR SEPTEMBER 8 The non-high school board of Un ion county has named Saturday, Sept. 8 at 2 :00 o'clock as the time tar the hearing on the annual budget for the coming school year. The budget as drawn up covers the high schools at La Orande. Union, North Powder, Im bler, Cove and Elgin. For these schools a total of $23,330.61 Is asked (Continued on Page Sir, Jumbo and Firemen Are In Mourning Tana Is Dead Firemen are in mourning today and so will a lot of others who have watched little Tana, pet chipmunk, go through her antics In the little cage in the fire sta tion next to the window on Wash ington avenue. Tana died during trie night. She was about flve years old belonged to Mick Riley, who turn ed lier over to the fire laddies to keep company with their male chipmunk. Jumbo. Jumbo's a bit lonely today, and already the boys are talking about hunting a new mate for him. strings of trout during the summer months. All other lakes and tribu taries were opened to anglers June 15. but will close on September 30. Salmon fishermen who resort to spears and gaffs of various descrip tions will have to give up their sport on July 10. as the spearing season ends at nightfall June 15. Salmon may be caught by hook and line, however, throughout the year. Heads Shriners I I.?H.jgJf2 Shriners or the nation will be led the coming year by Bana 8, Williams, above, of Aualt tem ple, LcwlKtou, Me. He was ele vated to Imperial potentate at the convention In Minneapolis, CROW SHOOT TO COME TO CLOSE -SUNDAY AT NOON The 1934 crow, mngple and hawk shoot sponsored by the La Grande Oun club will pome to a close at noon Sunday, July 1, acoordlng to Floyd Lannlng, club secretary, who reports 'keen Interest the last several weeks In the shoot. Large quantities of both eggs and feet of the three pests have been turned In to him by those taking part In the shoot. Eleven, cash prizes are offered In one division, which lists eggs of crows, magpies and hawks and feet of crows and magpies. The other di vision, restricted to hawks feet, has V r- 1 r (Continued on Page Seven) Kills Deer Out Of Season But All's Well Jack Biggs killed his deer last night, quite a bit ahead of the an nual fall open season, but it's per fectly O. K. with the game war den. Biggs was driving along the highway near Five Points after dark when seven deer suddenly came onto the road ahead of him. He did his best to avoid them but oruck one of the animals, a young buck, killing It. He turned over the carcass to state policemen. MUST BE TOO 1 NO SHORTAGE OFGASOLINE LIKELY HERE Local Distributors Believe There Will Be Plenty, of Fuel in This District. Although the gasoline and fuel. oil situation In Portland and Western Oregon apparently ;ls,enniiig some what acute, with a shortage threat ened because of the tiock strike, 8o cal distributor 'toduy were of the opinion La U ramie hud HUle to worry about. At present there Is a fair supply or gasoline on hand in the La Grande territory, and several expressed the belief that Tf the Western Oregon shortage was folt here, It would ,be remedied by shipping in gasoline from points eaBt of La Grande. In the Umatilla county area" some concern was being felt by wheat men who feared they might not b able to secure sufficient fuel for harvest ing operations. ' ' SAN FRANCISCO, June 29 W) " Negotiations for peace in the Pacific coast maritime strike continued here today after the rejection by employers of a new settlement offer. Rejection of the plan and the de parture of Joseph P. Ryan, president of the International Longshoremen's association, for the east brought the dispute to a new deadlock, leaders on both sides admitted. PORTLAND, Ore., June 29 (P) Nineteen striking longshoremen were Continued on Pago Seven) Mrs. G.W. Allen, Pioneer, Passes ' During Morning The death of another pioneer resi dent or La Grande occurred this morning at 10 o'clock when Mrs. O. W. Allen, of 1515 Jackson avenue, quietly passed away after an illness of one week. Mary H. Aurand was born in Wayne, Wayne Co., New York on Nov. 19, 1846 and at the time of her death was 87 years, seven months and 10 days of age. She was married to O. W. Allen in Wnukon, Iowa Jan. 20, 1865, her husband preceding her in death Dec. 10, 1928. Survivors Include two children, Mrs. Clint Haynes and John Allen, two grandsons, Guy Kennedy and Vernon Allen, and one sister, Mrs. Ida Grlsvold, of Maywood, 111. Funeral arrangements have not been completed. The body is at the Snodgrass and Zimmerman mortuary, BUSY TO LOOK AT THE CALENDAR JUNE WWH PF. NOV'. V(. AMERICAN HEIR WEDS TITLE! ML... -- - The tradition of American helresHes marrying European noblemen !. was reversed in Vienna when a Kuropeun noblewoman married au Almerinin heir. They were PrlnccsH Maria Antonla de llrag.ii.za, sister of the pretender to the throne of Portugal, and Ashley Chauler or New York, great o grandson of John Jacob Astot. The couple, shown here, will live lit New York. MID-WEST HEAT : WAVE FATAL TO : SCORE PERSONS By The Associated Prefw More than a score of deaths were attributed today to sizzling tem- (Contlnued on Pasro Seven) Marie Dressier Is Past Major Crisis SANTA BARBARA, Cal., June 29 (P) Mario Dressler's Indomitable will, which challenged death's threat, car ried the 62 -year-old actress past a major crisis in her Illness today af ter a staff or doctors at her bedside had abandoned all hope she would live to see dawn. She was resting more comfortably tills mo lng. F.R.H0PEST0 FINISH WORK BYT0M0RR0W Approves Bill Liberalizing War Widows and Orph ans 'Compen sation Gives Kadio Address. WAMIIINtiTON, June 21) (!) Presi dent Knnsrvclt tonight signed an ex ecutive order Imposing an. embargo on nilais and munitions shipments to Culm. WASHINGTON, June 21) Ml Presi dent Itooscvelt Iium virtually complet ed the membership or tho newly cre ated stocktexchangu and communica tions commissions and an announce ment! Is In prospect tomorrow. Th0 president signed an order to day ierm!ttlng bidders on govern ment contracts to go under their prices filed with NRA code authori ties by as much as 15 per cent in au effort to eliminate a aeries of Identi cal bids. He also approved a bill liberalizing laws covering compensa tion for World war widows and or phans and acted upon the form mort gage moratorium and the railway pension bills, but deferred announce ment of their disposition until he could prepare a statement later. Driv ing toward a cleanup of government affairs, he definitely fixed his de parture for his Hawaiian cruise Sun day afternoon. WASHINGTON, June 20 ) Presi dent Roosevelt's radio talk of lost night in which he lashed "die-hards" and pledged a vaster new deal prom ised toduy to resound in the cam paigns for the fall elections, Friend and foo alike studied the (Continued on I'ago Seven) Wheat Today The price of kiI cash wheat stood at about 52 cents liulk here today, axrdlng to the Pioneer Flouring Mills. Portland cash 71 cents. No exjMirt bid. CHICAGO, June 20 - Notable weakness of grain prices today con trasted with strength shown yester day, and there also was a pronounc ed contraction In trading. Corn led the decline and at times dropped more than '2 cents a bushel. Cooler temperatures and some mois ture for the corn belt did much to Indflce selling and to restrict demand from buyera. Corn closed heavy, 2'itf2ic un der yesterday's finish, July 68 t c. September GO1 c wheat weak. ivff'2c down. July 0Q6tc. Sept. 91i(01',;c, oats 1-. lc off. and pro visions varying from 5c decline to an equ; gain. JUST BEFORE PRESSTIME (iOV. LAX;i:it SKNTKN('El) DEATH TOLL INCltKAKKl) iu;i,u;k allotment madb cotton wins (h11.f t1ti.r PAIMIO, N. I).. June 80 VP) (Jover nor William Ijiuger, after winning the Republican nomination lit Tuesday's primary election, today was sentenced to IK mo ut lis lu prison and fined $10,(100 lu federal court for conspir acy to defraud the I'nltrd Htuteti gov ernment, Ho was convicted of soli citing fumlK from federal relief workers for maintenance ' of MThe Leader", an administration newnpaper. OLYMPIA, June 20 P) The death toll of the explosions which levelled the plant or the Denn Power company near hero Wednesday was raised to 11 today. William Barto, 46, plant superintendent, died here from injuries received in tho blasts, WASHINGTON, June 21) (A1) State allotments for July announced today by the relief administration Included: Oregon: relief, $iH,u(H; drouth $75, (MMI;,. transient,.. $l!,u(u;.. resmrch, $1,700; totul, $01)5,700.- SANDWICH, Eng., Juno 20 m Henry Cotton, 27-yoar-old British professional, today won the BrltlHh open goir championship with a 72- holo aggregate or 2H3. Sid Brows, pro at the Durban golf club In Nutal, South Africa, was second with 286. The Americans entered finished far down the list. HUATTI.U, June l) OT All order flxtimriliiK upprovitl of imwent mini mum mill price of lumlwr for tin llldi'flullo time upyoiitl July 1 mm Ihhmi IrtNiied by AdiiilnlHtnitor ,1olin fton, the WttHt C(Muit Lumbermen's niMmuuitloti vtiH ndvlKed toduy. . GERMANY STUDIES PROTEST OF U. S. ON MORATORIUM lly Waller K. IJrockmann BERLIN, Juno 20 (A1) A warning that a boycott on German goods would only force this country toward complete economic . independence came today while officials Btudled a United States note protesting tho debt moratorium and blaming Nazi policies for It. Tho government, a high official In dicated, will take its own good timo to study tho no to before deciding on a reply. No cuo has yet been given tho Nav.1 press as to how to Interpret (Continued on Pago Eight) BAKER TO BEGIN WORK MONDAY ON DISPOSAL PLANT BAKER, Ore., May 20 The city Friday received approval of the pro posed Baker sowage disposal plant project from tho stnto emergency re lief administration In Portland and will start work on tho project Mon day after more than a year of nego- (Contlnued on Pago Two) Fliers Over Ocean On Trip to Poland HARBOR GRACE, Nfld., Juno 20 7I Benjamin and Joseph Adomo wlcz, aviations' adventurous brothers, swung Into the eastern sky shortly after dawn on their projected trans atlantic flight to Warsaw, Poland, their ancestral home. 160-YEAR-OLD TURK DIES IN ISTANBUL 1ST AMU L, Turkey. June W W) Dcalh cniiKht up today ullh Zaro Agha, Turkey's MHIhikcIuIi who onc houMed h would live forever. The plcturestiue old mau who claimed Hid ear and felt deeply hurt when anyone doubt ed it ill imI by a ijulrk of fate In the children's hospital. For" two months' Zaro Aglin, wliote lonffcvity brought liim from oliM-urlty to world fame ami liPKtduay when he wiw "past ."0," had been III. He watt Mif-It-ring from a variety of ailment. Including HrlRl!t' dlseiwe and gland und bladder disorder. IMiyftlclaiM said u contributing GRADING OF 7.3 MILES IN NEW PROJECT Two Contracts Now Un der Way on Highways : Oat of Elgin. ADDITIONAL WORK IS WELCOME NEWS Tentative Allocations An nounced State High way Commission to Seek Bigger Sum. , Am allocution or $140,000 for, the tilgin-Westoii highway hu been made by the state highway commission of rcdcrul forest highway funds 'for ex jKindlture Lu Oregon during the com ing year, It was learned here today, Approximately $735,000 In forest high way funds him been allocated to this suite, the commission revealed today, and of this union nt about 'ono-flfth, Ium i been li! located to the Elgin, roadi The present allocation, Is still ten tative, sinco the commlsulon hopes to secure an even greater sum of money for Oregon, and expects to investi gate tho reasons lor the reduotloii from 14 por cent to 8.7 per cent of the total national allotment, and then, file a protest against the slash. With the Elgin Job allocation now set at $140,000, locally it Is believed the road 1b uiuq of this much with a re (Continued on Page Eighty The Reporters Furnished ; ; The Blushes! CHICAGO, June 20 W Dressed In a smile and th0 bride at least, a wedding ring an Armlllo girl and a Milwaukee bridegroom wore pro nounced man and wife today In a strictly nudist ceremony at the worlfTg fair thoy call "a Century of Progress." The brldo was Jean May, 23, of Amarilto, Texas, and her husband, Charles Mueller, 24, of Milwaukee. Of the wedding party of nine, only tho minister deigned to wear clothing. Ho was dressed In a goat skin, and, walked about gingerly In bare feet, stubbing his toes now and then. The nudlste had selected ns a 'back ground for their ceremony the Bet ting of dinosaurs, trlceratope, bron tosaurus and other denizens of the "world a million years ago" at the World's fair site. Camormen and reporters furnished th0 necessary blushes, watching the bridal party step into a boat to glide down a "lost river," disrobe behind tho scenes and then reappear prop erly undressed for tho wedding. Miss May had been an adherent of thQ Roselawn, Ind., nudist colony and Mueller was a disciple of a colony at Mirror Lake, Wlu. Baseball National League R. H. E. Brooklyn 2 13 0 New York 7 7 1 Batteries: Mungo and Lopez; Fits Simmons, Bowman and Richards. R. H. E. Philadelphia 6 11 1 Boston 4 8 0 Batteries: A. Moore, Johnson and Wilson; Brandt and Spohrer, Hogan. (10 innings). A liter lain league ' Detroit at St. Louis, postponed; rain. cause to bin death wus worry over hdcnce'ff ftkcptlclKiii of his agj Prohalily hl proudest poases Hlon wum a certificate purporting to show ho wns horn lu J 77-1 before the American colonies de clared war on Great Britain. 7am had hurled ten wive and had another desert him. Num ber U got angry 8 1 v -years axe when her iiged hurdinnd decided lie wanted a 12th wife -one young and pretty and refused to come home after playing around In New York mid l-omloiu The nn in Iter of children? Zaro boasted that at !)Q his 3(Jth off spring was horn.