La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, July 11, 1934, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextIndians To Have Part In Parade And Pageant La Grande Is The Gateway to Wallowa, "The Switzerland of America Only NewspaJer Printed in La Grande Covering Union and Wallowa Counties 3 f-er .Wr VOLUME 32 BAKTEKN OHEOON'S LEADING.' NErVSPAFBB LA GRANDE, OREGON WEDNESDAY, JULY 11, 1934 MBMIIBII ASSOCIATED PRBSS NUMBER 258 COPS FI1E ON HAND STMIE1S P01 fs'i.1'?'.'- 'I'm" 9 GROUPS FROM THREE TRIBES COMING HERE Umatilla, C a y u s e and Walla Walla Indians in U. P. Celebration. - PLAN TO CAMP ON , , ANDERSON PLACE ' Ceremonial Dance to Be Featured in Pageant to 4 Be Held Saturday, July 21. A Inrje sroiip of liniitllla, Cay line ami nulla IValln Indians will nnn one or Ilie most'liiterestlni; swCloas of tile Friday morning parade here next week during tlio Seinl-t'eiiten- nlal 11. 'P. celebration. It will be the flrsti time In 30 or more years that Indian have taken part IK a parade In La Unilule. In addition, the In dians will appear In the Saturday af ternoon luigcuut at the m (iramle stadium. Thirty Indians from the Umatilla, Cayuse and Walla Walla tribes will bo here headed by Gilbert Mironorn, chairman of the Indian council at Cayuae, The Indians are to camp on the Hubert Anderson place toy the Grande Rondo river, and probably will arrive by next Tuesday. Tlielr horses are bc- lnir herded across the Bluo Mouii' tainii and are not expected until Wednesday, July 18. The Indians will present in full I tribal regalia a ceremonial dance in - Jhe paseantand in addition four In Gian women and girls will' 'participate In the pageant. The Friday parade will start nromntlr at 0:30, the celebration commlttco is emphasizing. It Is nec cssary that there be no delay because of later activities, and anyone late getting into the line ot march will simply be out of luck. Those entering floats are urged to register Immediately with the chanv ber of commerce, and then contact the chairman of the division In which the float Is to be entered. Walter A. Bean Is chairman of tho patriotic di vision. Vernon Bull, railroad and fra ternal; Homer Lct'fel, commercial, and Arch Parker, Indians and miscel laneous, i Quite a number of floats already have ibeen registered. Jane Smith Will Reign Over Big Jubilee Rodeo Miss Jane Smith, daughter of Post master Tony D. Smith, and one ol the most popular young women of Union, has been selected -as "Sweet heart' of the rodeo, which Is to be staged here during the Semi-Ccnten-nlal Union Pacific celebration by Ben (Continued on Page Two) NEWS CAMERA WILL "SHOOT" CELEBRATION Outstanding scenes of the Semi centennial Union Pacific celebration to be held here July 19, 20 and 21 will be recorded by motion picture cameras and shown throughout the nation later In news reels. This was definitely announced hcre by Mark Corey, manager of the RKO exchange In Portland, and distributor of Pathe news in tho Pacific north west, who visited this city this week and assured Don Meyers, ot the Lib erty theatre, that a Pathe news cam eraman would be here to take pic tures' of the railroad celebration. JUMBO GREETS NEW MATE WITH ANGER I nut ho ha.s a partner now hut hi won't warm up to her! That's the Itiintlnn'at th? fire station, where chipmunk are the fire Li ri (lit (wt. mne time ago Nana, the fe male 'member of the pair of chip munk that had lived at the sta tion for more than u year, dlrd. Jumbo, her mate, a rather large chipmunk, niw left all alone. The other day a little boy, whose name was not obtained, brought n cute little female chip munk Into tho station at a mate Even a Democrat Can't Bring Rain MULBSKOE. Tex., July 10 Flew all night just to get over here to the Mashed O outfit, to the calf brand ing at Bwlng Hal eell's, an old boy hood friend. They are branding 5009 calves but the whole cattle coun try la mighty dry. The government Is doing what they can to help 'em out but even a Democrat cant make It rain but they are going to bring that up at the next congress. There Is no finer and more satis fying business In the world than the cow business, when you get half a chance, but when the elements are agin you, you are Just like a candi date that' run second. This Is a part of the famous X. I. T. ranch that was the biggest In the world. An Eng lish syndicate got It for building "Ma" and "Jim" a state capKol, a capltol in Austin. Yours, 1114, MrN.uulit Svn,licl. fiis. 102 BIRTHS IN UNION CO. IN 6 MONTHS Fifty-One Boys and 51 Girls Born in .First Half of 1934, Records Reveal One hundred' and two Imhlwf Were horn In In Ion county" during the last six months, .according to statistics available today from Dr. Webster K. Kms, clty-rminty physician. Exactly the same number of hoys and girls were listed In this total, there being 51 of each horn during the period between .lumiury first and July first of this year. This number Is slightly less than the number reported during the sim ilar period of 1033. there having been 109 children born last year during tho first six months, 65 being girls (Continued on Pajre Four 6 UNION COUNTY YOUTHS ENROLL AT C. M. T. CAMP Duly uniformed, outfitted and as signed to companies, six Union coun ty youths now are In the midst of four wcelts of outdoor work and play as guests of Uncle Sam at the ninth annual Citizens' Military Training camp now in progress at Camp Hurl burt. at Vancouver Barracks, Wash. They are W. A. Hudelson. North Powder; R. O. Oesterling, La Grande; (Continued on Page Two) ACAPPELLACHOIR TO SING JULY 21 The La Grande A Cappella Choir will be one of the features at the Scml-Centennial U. P. celebration pageant Saturday afternoon, July 21, at the La Grande stadium. Under the direction of Andrew Loney Jr., the choir will sing two of Its num bers which have been so well received by La Granoe audiences. Mr. Loney, who Is studying at the University of Washington summer school, will make a special trip to La Grande for this occasion. (Continued On Page Five) for Jumbo. They were put together, but )u in ho didn't approve. Apparent ly he, like mnne other mem hers of the masculine w. was a bit choosy. Anyhow, Instead of en dearing advances, li went Into a race and 'the firemen had to take the little lady away from him. Now 4 11 mho merrily spins a wheel In Ills hig cage, and the little "friend" hides awuy most of the time y her sleeping bo In another til uige nearby. Wlmt to do: MEMORIAL TO PIONEERS TO BE UNVEILED Dedication of. Monument Near Mt Glen Set For Sunday, July 15. The first monument to bo erected to the memory of pioneers In this roller will be dedicated next Hun- day, July 15, ot 18:30 o'clock and the public is given an urgent Invitation to be present for the exercises. This monument which commemor ates tho arrival of the pioneers who spent the first winter here, has been erected by the Francis Brown auxm lary to the 6ons and Daughters of Union County Pioneer association and the Union County Historical as sociation, on tho hill Just entering Mt. Olen, and In front of the old Horner home. The stone rests on 16 feet of ground which was donated for the purpose by Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Brlggs, the present owners of this place which (Continued on Page Two) City Ornamental Lights to Shine During Jubilee La Grande's ornamental lighting system, of which this city Is justly proud, will Bhlnc In all ite glory dur lng the Seml-Centonnlal Union Pa cific celebration, thanks to the East ern Oregon Ldght & Power Co. which several' weeks ago agreed to co-operate with the city in" this respect during Ktho celobratiOn; In response to ft, re quest by J. -a. 'iMcixiugniin, general manager of the celebration commit tee. , At present crews of city workmen (Continued on Page Two-) COLE ACTS TO REGAIN LICENSE Suit In the Marlon county circuit court In Salem was filed today by Donald P. Cole, of La Grande, to com- ) pel Public Utilities Commissioner Charles M. Thomas to restore license plates authorizing him. to operate as a contract carrier. Cole's permit was revoked by the commissioner some time ago and his license plates were taken up as a result by the state police. The can cellation was made on the grounds that Cole's operations were not in line with the provisions of the per mit, officials here said. SIAMESE TWINS DENIED WEDDING LICENSE If you don't think the routine of a inarrlugc llcenne clerk can tii'tome 11 little i-ompllmted, what wouhl vou do IT Violet Hilton (left), one of the .Shimete twiim, nnne nhuig with her prHpoitlvc ihiiKhand, Maurice UunlHTt, and asked for. a license to wed?. H riiiKtered the New York authorities, but they finally ruled against grunting the permit. Violet. Ijimliert and Daisy, the other twin, lire shown bear lug up under the bad news ut the New York lleenNc bureau. INSTALL WARNOCK AS PRESIDENT OF THE ROTARY CLUB "Iwly elected officers' of the ' La Grande Rotary club were Installed to day at noon at tho La Grande hotel. Oscar Warnock Is tho new president. H. H. Richardson Is vice president and Rev. Clarence Kopp was re elected secretary. Members of the board of directors are H. H. Richard son, Lester Kingsley, Oscar Warnock, Francis Greullch, H. W. Fredericks. Roy Grcttum and Harry MoKinlay. The out-going president,- Dr. James J. D. Haun, Is ex-officio member of the directorate. There also was some discussion of club business during the meeting. Rotarlan Glen Culp, of Boise, was present, and A. K. Parker was a visi tor. FIHH THICK S CAI.I.KI) ' OX I'ltL'ITLKSS ilL'N The flre department was called out at 1:30 o'clock, this afternoon by a false alarm, turned In over box 32. LITTLE MAN, WHAT NOW? Stimulation Of Lumber Lndustry In '35 Predicted s y By IL C. lluntor V' it VArfKINGrrON. . July 1 1 M Stimulation of the lumber in dustry of the far west to audi an extent that consumption In 1035 will be at loast 143 per cent of that for 1034 was predicted today, 4 After pointing out that pres ent consumption of lumber was proceeding at a rate wiilch prob ably would mean a total of 17, 500000,000 feet for 1034, Dr. Wil son Compton, general manager of the National Lumber Manufac turers association, said that un der the administration hounlng program "with proper corollary activity on tho part of the In dustries themselves," consump tion could bo Increased to a total of at least 25,000,000,000 feet next year. Such an Increase would mean , a net gain of approximately 43 (Continued on Page Plva 'i-v'-f' Tu. .yr?-?rttf6?f ' WHEAT PRICE UP 5 CENTS OVER NATION Sensational Gain Due to Government Crop Re port Issued Tuesday Wheat price generally throughout the nation advanced five ccntu today over TiicmJuv'n closing. Portland cash today hum Ihted ut 71 cents, compared with (if cciiIh yesterday, and local c-ash wheat was 11 1 to about r0 cents, ciitiiipared with Mt yesterduy. CHICAGO. July 11 (P Oraln markets were electrified today as a result of tho sensational government crop report placing the nation's 1034 production of grain at tho lowest fig ure in 33 years. Wheat prices soared five cents on the owning transac tions, the limit permitted In a day's . (Continued on Page SUfc GERMANY AFTER OTTO KLEMPERER BERLIN, July 11 OV) A warrant was Issued today for tho "temporary" arrest of Otto Klcmpcror, who has conducted varlBlis American orches tras, and Is now In Vienna. Klcm pcrcr, a Jew, was former musical director-general of tho State opera In Berlin. - The warrant for his arrest waj Is sued by the relch ministry of finance and was made public In the official gazette. It wau also stated that the musician's property was to be con fiscated, Klemperer, who left Germany early In 1933, was accused of tax evasion. VIENNA, July 11 W) Engelbert (Continued on Pago TwoJ Wheat Today The price of local cash wheat Mood ul about Jill cents bulk hero today, I he highest, this year, according to the Pioneer flouring Mills. Oil Jan. 30 the IiIkIi was TiTiYt cents. Portland cash 71 cents. No export hid. CHICAGO, July II M'l Straining against arbitrary high price restraints, wheat and corn worked themselves to a standstill late today, reaching a point where all offerings ceased. Maximum prices for today were reached and maintained owing to what was generally regarded as the most sensational government crop loss repoit ever Issued from Washing ton. For a while wits, rye and bailey afforded a refuge for traders who ore stopped In wheat and corn, but finally every grain on the list was up to tne limit. Wheat and all other grains closed strong, wheat up Sc, corn 4c, and oatn 3c, September new wheat 93c, Provisions cluM-d unchanged to 17c higher. JUST BEFORE PRESSTIME m llltl HUH AT AltLINGTON lIKi AlltSIIlP CONOKMNEI) com; nut no imu ntkiks SWlMH.KIt TK1J.S STOltY KVKItKTT, July 11 AV-The manual tmlulng and domestic science build Iiirs of Arlington High school were destroyed by fire today, 11 ml the high school and several adjacent build ings. Including some dwellings were aflaLue. WASHINGTON, July 11 W Secre tary Swanson told reporters today that the airship Los Angeles had been condemned as unsafe for further flight. It has been designated only for experimental use In Its hangar and around a mooring maBt at Lake hurst, N. J. WAsiUNdTOX, July 11 iP) One big code fur 4.10 Ninall Industries Is expected to emerge from NltA's hop per momentarily. This code, curry ing the recovery unit another long stride on the road to simplification, will touch only such basic standards oh wage, hours mid prohibition of child labor, it will nut coutuln price fixing. NEW YORK, July 11 OP) Noble John Moore, admitted swindler, told a federal jury today that ho and others regularly paid William J. Gra ham 16 per cent of their bunco swag for police protection and "no-question" banking service in Reno, Nov. WAHIIINdTON, July 11 ,(P) Tho now communications commission was sworn Into office today and I mime -dlutely planned to Investigate tele phono and telegraph mien. F. R. SEES ERA OF UNDERSTANDING IN THE AMERICAS CRISTOBAL, C. Z July 11 (P) President Roosevelt's cruiser, the U. S. S. Houston, dropped anchor In the harbor hero today and received aboard Secretary of War Goorgo H. Dorn, pre paratory to a trip of inspection through the Panama Canal. In nn address at Cartagena Tues day Mr. Roosevelt assured Colombians this Is an era In which "each and everyone of us lives and lets live." There Is a new era of relations In tho Americas, ho said, expressing the Continued on Page Four) LIQUOR LOSES IN' MISSISSIPPI VOTE JACKSON, MlflH., July 11 W Mis sissippi held ItA pin co among the dry states today by a votg of approxi mately 2 to 1. Incomplete, unofficial returiw Irom yesterday's prohibition referendum Bhowed deleal or the hard liquor bill by a vote of 47,275 to 25.240 In 058 of the 1,500 precincts of the state. Th0 wets conceded defeat. Senator W. B. Roberts of Roscdale, co-authur of tho Roberts-May compromise hard liquor legalisation bill, said tho re sult was a "mandate US the governor, sherlffu and other peace officers to make a determined effort to enforce the present laws and ond tho pres ent unspcakablo conditions." By voting dry tho people rebuked tlielr legislature. Thc laHt legislature authorised beer at tho same time It put tho liquor Issue bcfnro tho voters and four per cent beer wus Jir.it as far as MlsslsHlpplans chon0 to go in the legalisation of alcoholic beverages. BEAUTY QUEEN DIES BLAME 'QUACK' POTION NORMAN, Okla., July 11 tT) Be lief that Marian Mills. 20-ycar-old campus beauty queen at the Univer sity of Oklahoma, died as tho result of an attempt to prevent motherhood wa-3 expressed today by County At torney Paul Updegraff. He said he based hla theory, pend ing a poett mortem report, upon the story of Mrs. Hazel Brown, cook lor tho Delta Upstlon fraternity, In whONe apartment tho girl's body was found" yesterdny afternoon shortly af ter Ncal Myers, a pharmacy student, had -jummoned a physician and then disappeared. Mrs. Brown, Updegraff said, ad 4 INJURED BY '! BUCKSHOT IN : CLASH TODAY Officers Fire Shotguns Into Crowd of Long- : shore Pickets. - ' CITY COUNCIL TO INVESTIGATE.CASE None of Men Injured Fatally Bloody Shirt Waved at Meeting ! of City Dads. v ' RAN FRANCISCO, July it (flV A ploilRe to co-opemte fully with Prinl-. ilcnt lloosevclt's Inbor dloputea boniyl! In .negotiations to nettle tne niarlUmo Htiike mill thereby prevent; a posolble general vnlkout of other 'trades waft mmle hcre tcwlny by the watrfron(, employers. ' , 1'ORTI.ANl), July 11 im Bloofl wufl iiplllnl here today as police fired shotguns Into a crowd of pickets on Port land's 'strike-torn waterfront. Four men, all Btrlklng longshore men, were wounded by buckshot from tho pollco guns. The four were mem bers of a Inrge group of pickets who blockaded a railroad track and pre vented train crows from moving a freight train onto a municipal ter minal. Hospitals oald none of the four will die. About a dozen shots wore fired,. Labor groups and tho city council Immediately startod nn Investigation of tho shooting."' " ' It was leaned Jy many observers tho bloodshed would -' precipitate general clly-wldo strike by more than 00 of the city's 105 labor unions. This general strike has been threatened for several days. ' (Continued on Page Two) Jacksonville, 111. Hit By Tornado Several Injured JACKSONVILLE, til., July 11 W Hall, rain and a tornado left Jack sonville strown today with the litter of wrecked homes and garages, up rooted trees and a snarl of broken communication lines. Swcoplng down on tho city and neighboring farms last night, the storm caused property damage unof ficially ostlmatod at 760.00O and In jured a score of residents, three seri ously. Hall battered down the crops long suffering from drought, broken at (Continued on Page Two Baseball NAT ION A I, I.KAOIT. Pittsburgh 2 6 0 New York 3 7 0 Hoyt. Swift and Paddon, Grace; Schumacher and Mancuso. at. Louis 2 8 3 Philadelphia B 8 0 Carloton. Haines and V. Davie;' P. Collins and Wilson. U (Fist Game) B. 'It. B. Chicago 3 Boston 1 Bush and Hartnett; Rhem, ft 0 o o Betta and bpoh rer. ' (Second Game) R. H. E. Chicago 2 8 1 Boston 1 31; 1 Malonc and Hartnett; Brandt1 and Spohrer. Cincinnati 3 9 4 Brooklyn 6 11 1 SI Johnson, and Lombardi, O'Far rell; Bongo and Bukeforth. mitted that MIsh Mills, tho daughter of Klbort M. Mills, an associated pro fessor at tho university, had been taking a "quack" medical prepara tion, Cho&cn In 1030 by Frederic March, movie star, aa tho university's "most beautiful" girl. Miss Mills also was elected "mo.it popular." She was grad uated last month, and was engaged to Harry Bernard Doud, University of Oklahoma engineering student, who liven in Shreveport, La. Monday night, Mrs. Brown said. Myers introduced her as his wife and asked to spend the night, which they did, the girl sleeping with her, 4 lie young man In another room.