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About La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959 | View Entire Issue (July 23, 1934)
10,000 Thrill At Closing Pageant Of Celebration 30a (&mnb? La Grande Is The Gateway to Wallowa, "The Switzerland of America Only NewspaJw Printed in La Grande CoYerinj? Union and Wallowa Coantiea vmm VOLUME 32 EASTERN OREGON'S LEADING NEWSPAPER LA GRANDE, OREGON,' MONDAY, JULY 23, 1934 MEMBER ASSOCIATED' PRESS NUMBER 268 wmmowwFN am voting' today .HISTORY OF OLD OREGON RE-ENACTED Figures of Pioneer Days Step Forth to Walk Once More. INDIANS PLAY AN IMPORTANT PART Pageant of Transporta tion Follows Historical Prologue in Closing Event of Jubilee. . Ktillders of t lie Oregon country, long since passed on to their final reword, stepped from the pages of history here Saturday to- play their famous parts again for the reverent ottentlon of 10,000 Ncmi-Ceiuennlal V. V. celehration attendants, who gut he red In the Ia (irnnde stud I inn for this fltml event of the Juhllee regardless of cloudy, threatening weather. But the re-enactment of scenes of a century gone by was not all. It served as a dramatic prologue to an equally effective portion of the clos ' lng program of the. celebration, the pageant of transportation, replete with show and thrilling episodes. Queen Faye and her court took their place preceding the opening of the pageantry, and then half a hun dred Indians appeared over the edge of Table mountain west of the sta dium soon to ride down the slopes over the original Old Oregon Trail, a sight that has not been seen here for many, many decades, and may (Continued on Page Three) 60 Boys Enroll -For Camp To Be Held Near Union About 00 .boys have already regis tered for the camp on Catherine creek to begin July 28 and continue through August 5. according to Elmo Stevenson, who Is In charge of activi ties at the camp. It la expected that there will be close to 100 boys regis tered for the camp, regarded as a very good attendance. About 20 of those already registered are from Union and It Is expected that there will be an equal number yet to register from there. Stevenson stated that the camp is not only for Boy Scouts, but for all boys of the city who wish to attend. . The attendance, however, is usually v mode up mainly of Boy Scouts but no boy need be kept from attending the camp because of non-membership in a Boy Scout troop. Rcgisterations are being received at the chamber of commerce offices and complete information regarding the camp is available with the registra tion blanks. CELEBRATION SUBJECT OF SHORT TALKS A. K. Parker, Walter A. Bean and , Homer Lcffel spoke briefly at the ' 'Lions club luncheon today at the Sacajawea Inn, mentioning the fine co-operation shown by La Grande business and railroad men In staging the Semi -Centennial U. P. celebra tion. The remainder of the hour was spent on committee appointments and other club matters. T. M. Fisher, of Boise, was a guest. "PHANTOM WRITTEN During the Scml-Centcnnial U. P. celebration pageant at the stadium Saturday afternoon the significance or a song sung by Mrs. W. H. Parkin eon was missed by many In the thou sands of spectators. It was "The "Phantom Caravan." theme song of the event, and was written as a poem shortly before the Meacham Old Ore gon Trail celebration in 1923 by Wil bur Shaw, then pressman for the Ob server but now of Pocatello, Idaho. Later Mrs. Parkinson volunteered to write music for the poem and Leo Cullen Bryant assisted In arranging the score for the band. The poem by Mr. Shaw follows: THE PHANTOM CARAVAN Impatient, with the urge of life And fierce desire, that dared the strife. They gave the promises of years Will Finds Lots Of 'Alibis' S. 8. MALOLO. San Francisco, Cal. July 23 Just steaming out of the beautiful 8an Francisco bay. Put ting a bridge across It. They will bridge to Honolulu if the government don't run out of credit. Could wire later In the afternoon, but better get this off while I am able. As a sailor I am a big success as a "red" trying to run a strike. Drove to San Francisco and stayed all night. You have seen towns full of many things, but did you ever see one full of "alibis"? Everybody on both sides of the strike had noth ing to do with starting it and every one of 'em was responsible for stop ping it. Everybody has a sore back from taking bows. Nobody seems to be responsible for starting this strike. I Just know It was that darn Dllllnger again. That fellow should be deported. Ship ahoy! 9Tili, MtNtuihTsyndlotU, too. REED AND KUNKLE WIN IN SNAPPY WRESTLING CARD Robin Reed, 157, of Reedaport, Ore., added another victory to.hls long list here Saturday night when he defeated Mickey McGuiro, of West Salem', also 157, and Del Kunklo, 158, of Salt Lake City, surprised the fans with a win over Bulldog Jackson, 161, of Portland, in the Semi -Centennial U. P. celebration' wrestling and boxing ,card. It was the closing sports event of the Jubilee and attracted a crowd of approximately 1100 persons from Eastern Oregon and Walla Walla. "Both main events and the two box ing matches pleased the crowd, which (Continued on Page Two) ESCAPED WALLA WALLA CONVICT CAPTURED HERE John Carl McKcnzle, escaped trus tee from the Walla Walla peniten tiary, was being held In tile county Jail today awaiting the nrrlval of Washington state officers to return him to his cell. McKenzle was arrested here Sun day by City Policemen Ray Fullmer and Robert Coy after he hit Henry Nlblcr In a downtown alloy near Depot street with his fist,, breaking Nlbler's Jaw, The convict at first at tempted to hide his Identity under the alias of Murphy but Information received from Walla Walla enabled officers to recognlzo him. McKenzle Is alleged to have as saulted Nlblcr, who was taken to the Grande Ronde hospital for treatment. Enterprise Float Wins First Prize In Saturday s story of the win ners of first prizes In the Friday Seml-Ccntennlal U. P. celebration parade here, there was an unin tentional omission. The float en tered by Enterprise was awarded first prize by the committee In the non-compctltlve entries from outside communities. CARAVAN" BY SHAW i To stake their claim on strange fron tiers. They pause not at the dreamers' dawn That men call death, but hurried on To blaze the way and drop the bars. Of trails that stretch beyond the stars. Their Heritage was chance and change Their endless road is an open range. That seek forever alien climes And ardent suns of summer time. Their campfires glow in greener vales. Their tents are pitched by peaceful trails. Though they who won the west are gone. Their phantom caravan leads on. A. L JUNIORS WIN TITLE SUNDAY 3-2 La Granders Defeat Baker And Burns to Take Championship. The I A Grande American Legion Junior baseball team, coached and managed by Kaymond O. Williams. won the district clutmplonshlp In a playoff at I laker Saturday and Sun day, defeating linker 14 to 2 In the first game Saturday and winning from Bums 5 to 3 in the cluunplon- shlp game Sunday. As a result, the local team will participate in the playoff for the Eastern Oregon district some time before Aug. 13, with the winners of The Dalles, Hood River and Bend groups. If La Grande were to win then, they would enter the state championship finals at Astoria later In August. It was the second time La Grande won the district championship in the last several years, and the title game yesterday with Burns was a thriller. In the eighth Inning, with the score tied at 3-all and with two Burns runners on bases, McCoy made a spectacular running back-handed catch to stop a Burns rally. Earlier In the game Harlan Pratt cut off two Burns runs when he snared a difficult drive between Second and (Continued On Page Four) Portland Tennis Players Return With EJO. Titles Mrs. Leolla Starr, of Portland, won the championship in the women's singles of the Eastern Oregon tennis tournament, and El wood Cooke, Port land, won the men's singles during the finals which were played yester day at the La Grande courts. Mrs. Starr won from Mary Free3 by a score of 6-3, 6-4 and Cooke won from Dudley Starr, Portland, 6-0, 6-2, 6-2. In the mixed doubles Lcella and Dudley Starr won from Elwood Cooke and Ruth Singleton, La Grande, 6-3, 0-4 for the championship and Cooke and Dclph Slegrlst, La Grande, beat Roy Nelson and Shrimp Reynolds, both of La Grande, In the men's doubles, 0-1, 6-4, 6-4. The final matches were delayed un til yesterday because of the rain Saturday. Cups which will be pre sented to these winners are being displayed In the window of Peare's Jewelry store. THE END & ? ffi; ;';p plf SfpfltS i , -v. . .-mi mp?- Strike Rioting n iii. t.j Tear gas uomDs were used Dy Seattle ponce m battling DncK a throng of longshoremen who attempted to invade 1 piers where strikebreakers aro loading and unloading ships. Mounted police are shown forcing strikers' back, while clouds of tear gas arise. GRAVE CONCERN FOR SAFETY BYRD LITTLE AMERICA, Antarctica, July 23 (A) Grave concern for the safety of Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd was felt today. The trail leading to his lonely woather observation outpost was lost. A tractor party which set out Friday to bring him back to the main, bo&e reported It could not pick up the trail. The Jup win 50 miles out on the 123-mile run. Orange flogs . with which the trail had been marked could not be found past that point, the relief party reported yesterday. Byrd followed the trull four months ago to take up his lonely sentinel duty. Dr. Thomas C. Poulter, in charge of the group, said it had battled In bitter weather to reach the 60-mile station. Temperatures ranged from 50 degrees below zero, to 71 degrees below. The expedition traveled 130 nauti cal miles to attain the 50 nautical miles, Dr. Poulter reported, zlg-s&ag-ging back and forth over the Ice borrlcrs. A nest or deep crevasses lies ahead. Members of the group had been sleepless since 5:30 a. m. Friday. The flags were completely snowed OF THE DILLINGER CASE Rages on Seattle's Waterfront IS FELT OF ADMIRAL IN ANTARCTICA under In places and elsewhere wore barely visible, ; A scouting crew on sklls was en deavoring to pick up tho trull, aided (Continued on Page Two) MURPHY WINNER AT GOLF COURSE Jack Murphy, of La Grande, made low net score on tho final day of tho golf celebration tournament and was awarded tho first prize of a set of Sorenson Tuckahoe woods. Mur phy made a net score of 72, the gross scoro being 80 with a handicap of eight. Johnnie Beck, Walla Walla, made second low net score of 74 and was awarded a Bystander bag. Fred Spaeth, of La Grande, was closest to the hole on tho sixth and thereby won a set of club head cov ers. Henry Enochs, of Portland, was closest to the hole on tho third and won three Sliver King golf bulls. On Friday Jack Murphy also won a Nun Stub Iron for being closest to tho hole on the seventh. DILLINGER IS SLAIN SUNDAY BY US, AGENT No. 1 Tublic Enemy Shot Down in Trap As He -Leaves Neighborhood " Theatre." " 7 (('opyrlnht, 11)31, hy AsHorlnt4Ml Presx) 1IK A;, July HA !') IHMihKi'r'H dead I lie. HwnKKetvd from a neighborhood thcal re Iut nltit itit(r the raking Tire of government guns. 'I'imi lute he hiiw (he gleaming nIh1 of the tntp net. for Him, Hit hand went for his gun. Too late. Three bullets tore Into his body one In tho neck, two In tho ibody. He staggered, fell. It was tho end of John Dllllnger. Tho hour whs 10;40 p. m., Chicago daylight time. Tho place was Just outside the Biogriiph theatre, a neighborhood movio at Fuller ton and Lincoln avcmicB, on tho northwest side, in territory where tho blood of mony a Chicago gangster has flowed before Had the climax of thin bonk rob-bor-despcrado-klller's career been pre-arranged It could havo been no more sensational. There was even an audience, loitering about the vicinity of the theatre, drawn by tho presence of so many department of Justice agents that for a time some believed a holdup whs planned. (Continued From Pago Four) POLAND FACING TYPHOID TERROR WAIISAW, July 2A (At Outbreaktj of typhoid fever in some sections of Poland were reported today as drink ing water was polluted and 200.000 were estimated nearly destitute be cause of tho floods. The threat of a typhoid epidemic throughout the f!Kxt area caused ap prehension whllo Warsaw awaited with fear a fourth Mood crest mov ing from Cracow down tho Vistula river. Tho known dead already number 240, and terra of thousands homolcss. The lack of drinking water 1a pres sing because the rivers have been polluted by corpses and are unfit for use. Damage is estimated In excess of $200,000,000. Wheat Today The price of local .nrw crop cash ulwi it KltHxl nt about' li.'f rents hulk here today, according to (he Pioneer Flouring Mills, Portland cash Hi vnt. CHICAGO, July 23 m All de liveries of corn topped today this neason's previous peak price records. Increasing complaints of corn crop deterioration from heat and drought were outstanding. Corn elated firm. I'iP-Jc above Saturday's finish, September 00 'B ! ',;c, wheat easy -'c down, Sep tember new 1.00f.i M.UOVi, oats un changed to c higher, and provisions unchanged to 10c decline. JUST BEFORE PRESSTIME . WUUKIN'G ON SCIKKtL lU IKiKT r. s. not iu.ks tk am wins U MKKit EMI'LOYMKNT UP I1ISHOP FA UK It FOUND DKAI) I'OltTLAND, .inly 23 (P Wrestling with the di'Hiwnite flnaiu'lnl prospects nt the coining; hlennluni, 1035-37, the Htate bonnl of higher eilutiition today heard a lengt Ity detuiled report of (he situation from Chancellor W. J. Kerr, mid after tmuMactiiiff other rou tine bus In cks, went Into executive hps Ion with the finance committee this ufteriHKHi to decide what tenta tive budgets will bo submitted to the governor In advance of the next leg islature. WIMBLEDON. Eng.. July 23 WV George M. Latt Jr. and Lester Stoefen today paired to defeat Jack Craw ford and Adrian Qulst, of Australia, In doubles and give the United States a fighting chance In the interzone final series of Davis cup play. The scores wero 6-4. 6-4, 2-6, 6-4. WASHINGTON, July 83 (A1) A three per cent IncreuKu in employment In tho lumber Industry for April over March wax shown today In u report by the Nationul Lumber Man u fact ur erh ahsw hit Ion. The report -also re vealed an upturn of 1:30 per cent In total payrolls for tho Industry. GLACIER PARK, Mont., July 23 () Bishop William F. Faber, presiding hoad of tho Episcopal church of Mon tana, missing since Friday night from Two-Medlclne Chalets. Was found at noon today drowned in Paradise crook. HEAT WAVE TOLL NOW AT 275 IN MID-WEST, EAST Hy Tho AHNoclaleil Press Whllo the heat wave gripping tho country brought tho toll of the dead to higher levels todny, tho north eastern states were given a welcomo rosplte. Tho temperature in New York City was only 75 at noon, compared to 83 nt. tho fiimifl limn vnHLni'dnv. Pennsvl- !vanla and the New England states roported generolly "more moderate temperatures. The death list now stands at ap proximately 275, with the heaviest casualties being reported from the center of the Mississippi valley. All sections have paid trlbuto to the sun tho cities with lives and tho coun try with livestock, ravaged crops and ' (Continued on Page Thre LOCAL EPWORTH LEAGUERS HOME FROM INSTITUTE Members of tho Epworth league of tho First Methodist church, their chapcroncs and some of the local people who wero on the faculty of tho annual Epworth league Institute havo returned from their camp ground at Wallowa lake, quite enthu siastic over tho sessions Just com pleted mid also bringing with them tho coveted prlsw, the efficiency ban ner. Winning this banner covers rec ords and activities1 of tho entire year as well as points made at institute. (Continued on Pago Three) DILLINGER SEES GUN MOVIE BEFORE DEATH Ity The AssofhiliMl Press The coup which brought about John Dlllinger's end was executed without a flaw. Commendation poured In even during tho post-midnight hours. "Gratifying os well as re assuring." Attorney General Cum mlngs declared at Washington. Department of Justice agents had known for several days that Dllllnger was on the north side. Purvis learned ho planned to attend the Blograph theatre. Ho selected 15 crack Bhots by a grim coincidence one for each victim of murders attributed to the Dllllnger marauders. The source of the information was un revealed. Thoy arrived in time to watch him purchase a ticket and go in to see "Manhattan Metodrama." It was a gunman's holiday for America's No. 1 gunman. The film concerned a myth ical "Dliickle Gallagher," a New York gangster who carried his murder mis sions even into Madison Square Garden. ARBITRATION QUESTION IN THEIR HANDS Situation Generally Quiet Along Coast, Await- ; ing Balloting. EMPLOYERS AGREE I TO SUBMIT CASE All Votes to Be Counted in Frisco Portland Pickets Fail to Stop Gas Deliveries. PORTLAND, Ore., July S3 VP) In the hands of the longshoremen who railed the strike, today raited the rate of a universal )wiive proposal that would end the 711 days of commercial parulysU resuming from the walkout of maritime wwken May 0. A thou-, sand guardsmen, meanwhile, - were sUtloiinl at Camp Wlthyoombe near here. Employers have agreed to arbitrate all phases of the dispute. Today longshoremen voted whether to sub mit their entire case to arbitration at the hands of the president's me diation board. Between noon and 8:0O p. m. Port land longshoremen wero to cat their ballots. E. P. Marsh, department of labor conciliator, brought 3.800 bal lots with him by plane from Son Francisco today. All ballots will bo ont to San PranclBco as soon as the last vote Is marked hero, and they will be (Continued on Page Throe) t :' Six Victims Of Fatal Accident Identified Today ELLENSnURO, July 23 (P) O. A. Love, city policeman here, and Milt" Cammozzy, garageman, who spent tha . entire night at the wreckage of art -Ellensburg car carrying six persons to tholr deaths between here and (Continued on Page Three) Baseball AMERICAN R. H. K. Washington 11 18 1 Chicago - 8 10 1 Batteries: Whltohlll and Sowoll: Gaston, Hovlng and Madjeokl. NATIONAL R. H. B. St. Louis 6 16 0 New York 8 10 3 Batteries: J. Doan and Dolanoy; Schumacher, Salvcston. Bell, Smith and Mancuso. R. H. E. Chlcngo - 8 13 0 Brooklyn 3 10 9 Batteries: Malone, Tinning and Ilartnctt; Munns, Leonard, Carroll and Lopez, Sukcforth. . ' : R. H. E. Pittsburgh 2 10 2 Philadelphia 3 11 " 4 Batteries: Swift. Chagnon and Pad den; E. Mooro and Todd. R. H. E. Cincinnati 4 8 '.''6 Boston 3 9fj Batteries: Derringer and O'arrell; Brown, Bolts and Spohrer. Captain Tim O'Ncall of the East Chicago, Tnd., police department, who participated in a gun battle against Dllllnger and John Hamilton during an attempted bank robbery there last January, also brought four of his men to the showhouse. The slaying of Sergeant William O'Malley In the E;ist Chicago skirmish furnished the only murder charge against Dlllln ger. Two Chicago detectives swelled the force. The federal men were as signed to stations and assumed the nonchallant airs of so many Idlers. The $10,000 placed on Dlllinger's head by the government and the $5000 offered by the state of Indiana cannot be accepted by the federal men, Purvis said. Ho added that he doubted any of the Indiana patrol men would share In the rewards cither. f John Dllllnger was 33. For 31 of those years, passed uneventfully In (Continued on Page Three)
