La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, July 21, 1934, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Text! ' ) J.I it ,' ft f 1 I H ! Mayor Declares Portland Port Open To Commerce La Grande Is The J Gateway to Wallowa, ! ' "The Switzerland Only Newspaper Printed in La Grande Covering Union and Wallowa Counties mum m;:. VOLUME 32 EASTEHN OKEQON'S LEADING NEWSPAPEB LA GRANDE, OREGON, SATURDAY, JULY 21, 1934 MEMBER AHHOC1ATED' PRESS NUMBER 267 GION COEPS M BMLL1 ANT H mMiui OW FIREWORKS END PROGRAM HERE FRIDAY Crowd at Stadium Last Night Held Down by Threatened Rain AUDIENCE PLEASED WITH DRILL, MUSIC Spokane, Boise, Enter a. prise and La Grande Legionnaires and Og den Band in Big Show. Although threatening went her thnt turned tu mln about the time the fireworks exhibition came to an end. kept a large portion of the crowd away, a thrilling, colorful American Legion drum corps demonstration and pyrotecluilcal display concluded yes terday's program or the Semi-centennial 1'. I, celebration here. Probably not more than 2500 wit nessed the program, but had the weather been clear at least double that number might have gone through the turnstiles. Regardless of the size of the crowd, however, the show was a- decided success. The snappy, well drilled legion corps of Spokane, Enterprise, Boise and La Grande put on one of the finest exhibitions ever witnessed here, delighting the crowd with their intri cate maneuvers and harmonious mu sic. La Grande, Spokane and Boise finished fifth, sixth and seventh in (Continued on Page Four) Float Winners In Parade Are Announced Here Winners In the three classes of floats entered In the U. P. celebra tion parade here yesterday morning were announced today, after a great deal of deliberation by the committee- of out-of-town citizens in the reviewing stand. First place In the commercial floats was awarded to the Utilities float sponsored by the West Coast Telephone Co. First place in the organization floats was awarded to the Northside Improvement club. First place In the best decorated car in any class went to the I. G. A. Etores. After first place selections were announced and these were the only ones receiving prizes when asked for the honorable mentions, the committee decided that since all the floats were exceptionally good, they all should receive honorable men tion instead of selecting a few probably by unusually close ballot ing. Apples And Blossoms On Same Branches A Gravenstein apple tree on the property of E. S. Salisbury on Al bany street has apparently become a little confused In its dates. Ap ples are ripe and ready for con sumption on a part of the tree and on the same limbs, blossoms are beginning to show their color and are as large as any blooms of the early spring. The blossoms are confined to the ends of the limbs, the fruit being nearer the center of the tree. While this is not an altogether unheardof sight, It Is still quite unusual. LA GRANDE IS GIVEN NATIONAL PUBLICITY La Grande is enjoying widespread publicity over the west and nation ally as well as a result of its Semi centennial U. P. celebration, and the Western Union Meeting association of the Brotherhood of Locomotive En gineers and the Grand International Auxiliary. Both before and during the cele bration papers over the two states of Oregon and Washington have been generous in use of both stories and pictures of this city and its celebra tion. Preceding the W. U. M. A. session 4 national publicity was giren La 11 Orande by the Engineers Journal. Throughout the northwest the last two days, nearly every newspaper has carried accounts of the U. P. Jubilee and Its many events. Postmasters Greet Big Jim SANTA MONICA. Cal.. July 21 One of the funniest angles to the strike in San Fran cisco. Bartenders had been out of work for 14 years. Just been back In for six months, then called out again. I was working yesterday and missed all the lunches they give my friend, Jim Farley. Everybody in the state but Baby Leroy is running for governor, so Jim indorsed Leroy. He arrived at 4 o'clock in the morning, an un earthly hour, but In spite of that there was over 200 men there, every one a postmaster. It's a mighty poor town Unit Jim hasn't got one staunch friend in. Yours, tfCu. Co?" Ii4. McN.ujht Synillt.l.. fn. WRESTLING AND BOXING TONIGHT AT L D. S. HALL Tho final event of the sports pro gram of the Semi-centennial U. P. celebration will be held at tho L. D. S. Recreational hall at 8 o'clock tonight, with four of the best wrestlers in tho west participating in a double main event, with Harry Elliott, Port land referee and University of Ore gon coach, as the official. The match was moved Indoors by action of the committee this morning due to this emergency. Bulldog Jackson, rough and tough and wrestling out of Portland for several months, will meet Del Kunle, Salt Lake City, In one event. Robin Reed, of Reedsport, Ore., will tonglo with Mickey MaOuire, of Salem, in the other. All four men are middle weights and extremely popular with fans throughout the northwest, where they have been In main events in every large city In tho last two or three months. Preliminary to the main events, two (Continued On Page Four) LA GRANDE NINE BUNCHES RUNS TO DEFEAT INDIANS The La Grande Blue Mountain league baseball nine proved too strong with the bat for the Mission Indians here yesterday afternoon, in a seven-Inning game at the stadium during the Semi-Centennlal U. P. cel ebration. The La Granders bunched their hits In the second to score six runs and added another In the sev enth to give them a 7 to 2 victory. In the second, Williams, Indian catcher, reached first on an error by (Continued on Page Three) PLAY FINALS IN TENNIS SUNDAY Finals for the tennis tournament which were to have been played to day, were postponed until the weath er clears up, and it was expected that they would be played tomorrow. This, however, depends upon the condition of the weather as play will not be resumed until the rain ceases. Winners yesterday were Nelson and Reynolds who defeated Carlson and Ferguson In the men's doubles by a score of 6-1, 6-4. In the women's singles Mary Frees defeated Ruth Singleton with 6-4, 7-8, 6-2 scores. The final set-up for the mixed (Continued on Page Three) The Portland press In addition Is using many pictures. The Oregon Journal today Included three fine scenes of the celebration here, and the Oregon! an sent its "Candid Cam eraman" to the city Thursday, and as a result had a double column of La Grande pictures today-(includ ing one of Dunham Wright and P. J. Powers, the old train, one taken at the rodeo, another of an old pros pector. and one of a girl dressed in old-time fashions buying a ticket at the carnival. Many of the people who have vis ited La Grande this week never were in this section of Eastern Ore gon and will go home with a new realization of the country of which La Grande Is the central city. Pff 1 INDIANS IN JUBILEE PAGEANTRY i $ " ' INDIANS AT JUBILEE ARE CAMPED ON THEIR EARLY Headed by Gilbert Minthorn, chief of the Cayuse tribe, and head of the council, some 100 full blooded Indians from the Umatilla reserva tion are in La Grande and appear ing in tho .various festivities of Semi-centennial If PI, celebration. In full regalia, they were one of the outstanding features of yester day morning's parade and this aft ernponj's pageant and drew wide spread attention from the crowds. The Indians are encamped during their stay on the Hubert Anderson ranch Just outside the city, the same grounds as was used by In dians for encampment in this val ley long before the coming of the white man. "It is the finest camp ground we have ever had at any celebration In which we have par ticipated." was the expression of Aaron Minthorn, son of the chief, a college graduate and formerly sec retary of the tribal council. The Indians camped here repre- 50 Graduates Of E. 0. N. Offered Teaching Posts Approximately fifty members of the 1934 graduating class of the Eastern Oregon Normal school, or more than 70 per cent 6r the total class membership, have received teaching appointments for .the com ing year, according to a report is sued from the Normal school place ment service. Lest year the Eastern Oregon institution led the three Oregon normal schools In placing Its graduates with a total of 78 per cent. This year promises to exceed that fig ure. Among those who have recently received appointments are: Vclma Charlton. Merril: Eileen Cochrane. New Bridge: Prances DuPuls. Uma tilla county; Velva Hammack, Wal lowa county: Kermit Myers. Union county; Sara Sherman, Wallowa county; Bonnie Ruth Thomson. Uma tilla county; Mary White, Morrow county. A hundred members of the Vina t Ilia, (jayuse and Walla Walla, tribes of Indians are In 1-a tirunde for the I'. P. celebration, forming n spectacular division of the parade yesterday and partlcimt ing in the igeunt this after noon hi full tribal trapping. Above Ls an Indian chief with Old iilory. TRIBAL GROUNDS sent three tribes, the Cayuse, the Umatillas and! tho Walla Wallas. They are the same as are seen an nually at the Round-Up. Gilbert Minthorn, their chief, was elected several years ago In the modern way of election, the first time this cus- (Contlnued on Page Two) Federal Board "We certainly hope we can save money for the taxpayers." Ho declared Eugono O Sykes, chairman of the new Federal Communications Commission when, as shown here, he and incmhm-s of tho board met at Washington to study telephone and telegraph rules. Heated In frnnl arc JiicIl;q Kykcs (center), Corinth. Mls3.: Col. Thad Ilrown (left), Columbus, ).. and Paul Walker (rlghll, Oklahoma City. Standing, left lo right: Dr. I. H. Stewart. FL Wort);, Tel.: 11. II. I'nyne, New York; Noruiao S. Cuso, Providence. It. 1.. and llainuson Gary, Tyler, Tex. CELEBRATION CLOSES WITH NIGHT EVENTS Historical Pageant To Be ; Held at Stadium This Afternoon. A celebration dance, the grand finale. to the Semi-Centennial II. I. Jubilee, will tie held tonight at 0:H toVlouk at the I'tfacujaweu Inn, with Queen Fuye und her attendants present. he concluding events on the three- day Keinl-centeunlat Union Pacific celebration hero this weekend, com memorating the fioth ii n nl versa ry of the coming of the railroad to La tirunde and Eastern Oregon, were scheduled to be held this afternoon and evening. (Continued on Pane Four PRESIDENT NAMES R. R. BOARD HEADS Hy Francis M. Stephenson ' ABOARD U. 8. S. HOUSTON WITH PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT, July 21 (Al Far out on tho Pacific waters, President Roosevelt had picked the men to administer the newly estab lished railroad agencies. While carrying on his official af fairs en route to Hawaii, Roosevelt announced Murray Latimer will be chairman of the new railroad re tirement board. Ho also named three members to tho national mediation board to administer rail disputes William M. Lolserson of Yellow SnATigs, Ohio: James M. Commit -of Washington, D. C; and John Car mody, chief engineer of FERA. Beck, Enochs In Tie At Tourney At Golf Course In tho second day of play of the U. P. celebration golf tournament, Johnny Beck, of Walla Walla, and Harry Enochs, of Tacoma, tied for first place, each making a net scoro of 71. Beck won first tho day bc foro with a net score of 70. Fred Spaeth, of La Grande, was third with a net of 73. In splto of tho rain today, it was exacted that tho tournament would continue, play having been started this morning and concluding In tirrc for players to attend the pageant at the La Grande stadium this after noon. Farley To Speak In Portland, Ore. PORTLAND, Ore.. July 21 fm Jnmefl A. Farley, pcwtmnstcr general ana chairman of the Democratic na tional committee, will deliver an ad dress hero next Tuesday evening at a public banquet In Multnomah ho tel. It was announced today by Carl C. Donaugh, chairman of the state committee. Meets to Study Telephone Rates AT THROTTLE It, wiiH Mrs. Casey Jones who "mounted to the cabin," as u feature of celebration of the HOth anniversary of railroading In west Kentucky nnd west Tennessee. The willow of tho song-fa utcd engineer is shown hero In the cab of the rep I leu of the first loconio tlvo to run In that section, ut I lie festival In l-'iilton, Uy. . QUIET TODAY AFTER BATTLE Sixty-eight Persons Hurt in Bloody Fight Due to Truck Drivers' Strike; Protest Police Action. MINM:Arl,IK, .Inly 21 OT Quiet riileil fcMlny where )iwlrday Bliot Kinw rourwl and (iK persons suffered Injuries from huokshot or hcntliiKH III the JUIniieuiiolls truck driver strike. Deliveries of milk and Ico wore made as usual despite the announce ment 12 hours earlier by strlko lead ers that no such deliveries would bo miado today as a protest against tho police shooting of pickets who at tacked a truck of merchandise. (Police- wero ready to aid owners In moving trucks but Adjutant den cral E. A. Walh denied ossuranco oi aid from the national guard had been promised Chief of Police Michael Johannes In convoying ve hicles. Street cars operated as usual though taxlcab drivers had walked out In sympathy strlko. Pickets halted crosstown buses of (Continued on Pasre Two) JUST BEFORE PRESSTIME a ItKACll HIIINCI.F. AOHEKMENT l ARE HITS PANAMA A1STHALIANS WIN MATCH REOPEN CHOP LOAN FUND WASHINGTON, July 21 ( Ca nadian red cedar shingle producers and the Mi A have reached uu agree ment, It was learned authoritatively roda), under which exports of Ca nadian shingle to this country will be voluntarily limited to a stipulat ed percentage, of domestic consump tion. PANAMA, July 31 (fl1) A number of persons were reported killed this morning by a second scries of earth quakes which caused the national wharf at Puerto Armuelles to col lapse. No estimate of the number killed and injured was available. WIMBLEDON, Eng., July 21 (Pi Vivian Met ) ruth, 10-y ear-old Austra lian tenuis star and his mure fa mous teammate, Jack Crawford, to il ay humbled Sidney It. Wood Jr. and Frank Hhtclds In the opening singles matches of the Australum-Unlted Slates Interone final of Davis cup pluy to practically clinch the flve uuitch series. WASHINGTON, July 21 (P) Under pressure of drought over much of tho country the farm credit associa tion today re-opened Its emergency crop loan fund until Sept. 1, KLAMATH FALLS, July 21 tfP) The woir.t forest fire In several years was reported burn lug today in Modoc na tional forest, eust or Wlllownuicti In Northern California, RUSSO-AMERICAN : DEBT PARLEY TO COME TO AMERICA WASHINGTON, July 21 !) Russian-American debt negotiations which havo reached a stalemate In Moscow will bo transferred to Wash ington next week. Announcement that the negotla- tlons will hereafter bo conducted by Secretary of State Hull, Assistant Secretary of State Moore, and Alex ander Troynnovcky, tho soviet am bassador, was made by tho depart ment following a visit from Troyan ovsky. Tho negotiations wore started bo twoon William C. Bullitt, the Amer ican ambassador, and Maxim Lltvln off, soviet commissar of foreign af fairs, Immediately after Bullitt wont (Continued On Pope Pour) The price of local rash new crop wheat slood at about H cents today. Portuuid cash HZ cents, CHICAGO. July 21 (A1) Stimulated by an official weather forecast indi cating next week would give no sub stantial relief from drought, grain prices ruled stronger late today. A good portion of new purchasing orders for wheat came from sources northwest, a circumstance deemed significant of more unpromising prls pects In the spring crop belt. High est prices of tho day wero reached Just before the final bell. Wheat closed firm, 1 cent to 1 above yesterday's finish, September new 1.00''2-, corn 1-1 up. oats Vi- advanced, and provisions vary ing from 10 cents lower to S cents up. Wheat Today WASHINGTON GUEST ENJOYS PIONEER DAY A communication from a visitor to the first day ot the U. P. celebra tion here from the state of Wash ington, who aks that her name not be UM'd, was received today by the Observer. It was entitled "Pioneer Day, 1034" and follows: "There was never such a lovely day; as Uncle Dunham Wright said: 'It was made to order. "And I do not remember ever see ing a jollier or more hospitable crowd. All were guests and all were hosts in turn, as friend met friend and school mate greeted school mate. Many had not met for ten, twenty, thirty or even forty years; and It was 'How you have changed, Maryl' and 'John, I hardly knew youl' "All honor to the old pioneers who braved tho dust and heat and fatigue to come out that we might look Into their faces and shake their hands once more. Many thanks too to tho NO VIOLENCE AS CARGO AT ; DOCKS MOVES National Guardsmen Ane Ready Nearby in Case of Trouble. GENERAL STRIKE TALK IS VOICED Labor Leaders Hope fot Speedy Settlement But Lay Plans for Possible Walkout. SAN FRANCISCO, rfuly 21 (40 Shots were exchanged between three men and u national guard sentry on strike dnjty at the waterfront here toduy. The sentry) arrested the men. Commerce hunvnied along the water front hero today, with union drivers operating long lines of trucks to the piers. PORTLAND, Ore., July 21 (P) A declaration that the harbor had been uiwnetl ; tluit those having freight on the wharves should re move It, and that "effective protec tion" will ha given them If they do, was made here today by Mayor Joseph K. Canton. For tho past ten weeks tho maritime workers' strike has held tho port of Portland In vir tual deadlock. Yesterday, with one thousand na tional guardsmen encamped within a tow minutes' run of the olty cen ter, cargo was worked on three ves eela and,,ft.-flaravan of. tank .truck under police convoy relieved the gasoline drouth, - - Today ships wero being loaded or unloaded, and railroad tank cars, full of gasoline or oil, were to be taken out of the huge terminal sec- (Conttxtued From Page Pour) Hot Spell Over i Mid-West Takes ' Hundred Lives By The Associated Press J Heat fatalities In the current spell exceeded 100 today. Missouri alone counted thirty-three dead in the past two days. Nebraska, whose farmers have seen their crops wither under the devastating heat rays, re ported twenty-three dead In a little more than a week, Th figures for the remainder of tho torrid area were: Kansas, four; Oklahoma, six; Con necticut, two; Ohio, three; Minnesota, three; Chicago, sixteen; Qulnoy, 111 three; Iowa, six; Now York, three; Texas, ten; Joltet, 111., Pennsylvania and Indiana, one each. Temperatures of mora than 100 degrees were common yesterday throughout the stricken area and no general relief was In prospect. Meanwhile the loss In livestock grew hourly. Horses were reported falling dead In the harvest fields and cattle, ill from thirst and hunger were perishing In the pastures. i ' ' 1 H Baseball First game: r. h. E. Chicago 3 6 1 Philadelphia 1 10 1 Batteries: Weavor and Hartnett; O. Davis and Todd. sons and daughters of pioneers, whoso faithful work and Interest made every one comfortable and happy. Tho president and several of his helpers were heard to remark that the enjoyment of the day had repaid them for all their hard work. We will not forget the kindness of the Union Pacific, whose reduced rates and special service, made It easier for many of ua to arrive. We will not mention the food ask any one who partook of the abundant and delicious array. "The brief meeting of Blue Moun tain university students held at the close, was the dessert at the end ot tho feast. It was too bad that some did not hear the call to be present. "Altogether, It was the most de lightful and heart-satisfying pioneer meeting I ever attended, and worth coming many miles to' be present, k A VISITOR."