La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, July 26, 1934, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextSweeping Change In Wheat Control Tactics Likely 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, THURSDAY, JULY 26, 1934 MBMBBR ASSOCIATED PRESS NUMBER 271 m mtmxtm NO NEW CROP WHEAT SALES IN UNION CO. Grain Growers, With Mar 1 ket Up 12 Cents in Three Weeks, Holding VALUE OF '34 CROP ROUGHLY $465,000 Harvesting of Winter1 : Wheat At its Peak With vvoi'K on opting vviiciiL Not Started. Although actual harvesting of the fall crop , of wheat In t'nlou county, now at lift peak, reveals that the crop this your will more, (likely be 750,oK til 800,000 busheU Instead of a some what higher figure eMInuited earlier this summer, the rising nuirket In Chicago ha more than made up the difference, . Taking a conservative estimate of 760,000 bushels lor the now crop In the county, both spring and fall wheat, as a base, the 12-cent raise (based on yesterday's price of 62 csnts bulk hero) slnco July 3, when the quotation was 60 cento locally, has In creased the - value of the new crop nearly 25. per cent. . On July 3 the 750,000 bushels of new crop 'wheat. In -Union-county fields roughly was worth $375,000. At the close of the market Wednesday the same crop .was valued at S405, -000, an Increase of $00,000 In a little over throe weeks time. Every Increase of the price one cent means an addi tional 7,600 to tJfiion.';cwmty;farrn rsl The harvesting of the spring crop has not otarted yet, but Is expected (Continued on Page SIX) Parasites Wage War In Oregon On Apple Worms Hurried to their destination by fast airplane express, 3000 Insect para sites -or the codling moth, are now at work In Oregon, after being liberated by Oregon State college entomologists In Cne Willamette valley, Ho:d Rlvar and Southern Oregon. These parasites, known technically as Asoogaster carpocapsae, were rear ed la the government laboratories In VNew Jersey, having been collected In Western Asia, the original home of the apple. They lay their eggs In the eggs of the codling moth and thess stay with the apple worms until they enter the pupal stage, after which the parasite emerges Instead of the moth. The scientists are not certain as to how much aid these will be In the control of the most serious apple peat, but will watch carefully for the next few years to see the results of their production. ONE CASE OF COMMUNICABLE DISEASE HERE Only one case of a communicable disease was reported to the state board of health from Union county during the last week. It was whoop ing cough. Wallowa county reported a case of typhoid fever, three of whooping cough, and one case each of chicken pox and mumps. Baker county had four cases of measles and Umatilla county one of scarlet fever BICYCLE RETURNING TO OLD-TIME FAVOR With a return to favor of the bi cycle, particularly with Its new style balloon tires and approved features, In La Grande as elsewhere over the nation, bicycle production In the United States In the first six months of 1934 totaled 215.000 units, a gain of 55 per cent over the same period of last year, according to an an nouncement reaching this city, The popularity of the bicycle amcng both boys and girls locally has Increased so much that only recently the chief of police was forced to Is sue a warning that riders must obey the same traffic rules as apply to motor vehicle operators. It Is the greatest revival in bike rldln& in this city's modern history, and the con dition nationally, is practically the same. Will Sees Motive In President's Trip rWMvWS i mma ABOARD S. S. I Wfe 1 MALOLO, July 35 & ka I used to didn't pay much atten tion to reports of the heat all over the east and mid dle west. Just na turally figured that It was the California papers' usual prevaricat ing license, but our ship radio newspaper every day says Its terrible and naturally you got to believe them. They got no lots to sell. Mr. Roosevelt Is out here some where on Japan's ocean fishing. Awful long way to come to fish, I think he come away out here so he couldn't hear the Republicans roar and to get away from any new scheme that his own gang might cook up. Yours, fH. MNuVt Srndleatt, fii. PRIMARY GRADES PRESENT CIRCUS ATE. O.N. TODAY With all or tho glamor and color of the real thing, the primary grades of the ,J. H. Ackerman Training school presented their, annual circus this morning on the steps at the Nor mal school. Miss Edltli Darby and Miss Pauline Day were primary In structors In charges of preparations for the clrcuis and were assisted by a group of student teachers In the summer sessions. As announced by the barker, the rhythm band was first to , appear, (Continued on Paw Six) ' NO 2ND SESSION OF SCHOOL HERE In a story in the Observer yester day relative to the closing of the Eastern Oregon Normal school sum mer session,- an error crept Into the story relative to the "second session." The completion of the term here this week concludes the session here, with only Monmouth continuing with a second session this summer, and the La OrancJe and Ashland schools con cluding their terms until the open ing of the fall quarter in September. LIONS WIN FROM LEAGUE LEADERS For the second time this week, the Lions kitten ball team has defeated teams which had previously suffered no defeats this year. LaBt night they took the strong Greenwood Athletic club team by a score of 9 to 3, leav ing no teams in the undefeated list. The Sacajawea Barbers won from the Elks 6 to 5 at the La Grande stadium and practice games were played on the south diamond of the stadium. Celebration Bills. Due by Saturday The Semi -Centennial U. P. cele bration committee is requesting that everyone having bills against the celebration file them with Lynn Larson, chamber of com merce secretary, not later than Saturday of this week. Aside from the fact - that each month In 1934 so far has shown a substantial increase over the corres ponding month of 1933. the most en couraging factor In the current re port Is that production, which usual ly slackens in the second quarter of the year, has continued to increase In this period In 1934. For example, the figuies for April-May-June of 1933 were 30.00O-28.0OO-30.0O0, where as the record for this year Is 35,000-42.5000-45.000. In view of the fact that production Is alway; unusually heavy in August, September and October there Is every indication that this year will prove the biggest ever known in the toi cycle Industry. The previous banner year was 1920 when 407,000 units were produced. CATCHING UP ON PAYMENT OFWARRANTS City Improves Its Position With Latest Call, and Another One is Possible Shortly. The city of La Grande is gradually reducing Its outstanding general war rant, and the Infest cull issued leaves tint city only about nine months be hind on warrant nuyments the best situation It has been In for wine time. The latest tax turnover, lb was re vealed at last night's city commission meeting, of $8,000 from the county en abled the city to call in the Septem ber and October, 1933 warrants. The financial report for the week showed $3,340.44 of these paid, although City Recorder-Treasurer J. E. Stearns re ported today that some outstanding warrants for which colls havo been Issued have not yot been presented for payment. Interest on twarrants stops with the day of the call, he said. Indications also are that within the next week or two, a new call for payment of warrants by thv'(ty h possible. If this materializes, it will Improve the city's condition in this respect evon tnorcso than at present. The meeting last night was short with all members In attendance. City (Continued From Page Four) Nelson Praised For Success Of .Jubilee Pageant With the Seml-Centennlal Union Pacific celebration pageant, presented here last Saturday as the closing event of a very successful Jubilee, re ceiving widespread attention and commenaauon tne curiam 01 obscur ity that has largely surrounded the pageant was lifted today, to reveal the man who was responsible for Its success. The man who wrote the script, produced and directed the pageant, and who gave many, many hours of time to preparing for lis successful presentation Is A. W. Nol son, local printer and widely known community worker. V One thing that was remarkable about the pageant was tne fact that It was based completely on historical facts, and not fiction that has per sisted to such an extent that many today believe It to be fact. Nelson spent considerable time In being sure that every thing portrayed in the pageant was historically correst, and to many it gave a new insight Into the earliest days of this country. These Things Are Roosevelt to Se6 COULKE DAM To harness Columbia river; Inspection SOAP LAKK BONNEVILLE DAM $20,240,000 Job to t)C viewed" PORTLAND, ORE. DisembnrkB hero fK '?10 1 ASH JJ,i'OKANKW "OUT. " (SWejL- Glasgow Reclamation projocts will receive, major attention of. President Roosevelt on his Journey across tho country to Washington, after ho disembarks from tho cruiser Houston In Portland, Ore., Auk. 3. Following tho routo shown hero, ho will Inspect Bonneville, Coulco nnd Ft. Peck duuis, as well as halt at DcvU'b Lake, N. D., for a study of water table subsidence and Its aKRravation of luo drouth. Another project that will to viewed is tho $33,500,000 PWA lock, channel, and dam work on tho upper. Mississippi River. Tho president Is scheduled to .reach.. Washington on Aug. 10, HEAT DEATHS IN EAST AND MID-WEST MOUNT TO TOTAL OF. 1212 TODAY . . By Tho Associated Press llmt deaths mi inhered 121'.! to day, wli I id nl moderation of tem peratures brought relief to some mm-t Ions, . . - . . 1 - Unofficial tabulations- showed these death figures by states for the entire period of the present torrid blast: Missouri 330; Illinois 316; Ohio 127; Nebraska 60; Iowa 72;. Min nesota 32; Indiana 54; Kansas 30; Kentucky 43; Michigan 23; Wisconsin 16; Pennsylvania 18; Texas 13; Oklahoma 11; South. Dakota 7; Weut Virginia 12; New " York 4; Tennessee 7; MaSsachus etta 3; Connecticut 4; District of Columbia 3; Alabama 3; Maryland ' 3; Arkansas B; Rhode Island 3; South Carolina 1; and Virginia 1. Cf the Illinois dead. 08 periBh ed yesterday in Chicago alone, including twelve aged wards of the county at the Oak Forest in firmary, where 31 have died since Sunday. ' More Ilellef Predicted Relief came yesterday to most of the north central states and to scattered sections of the cen tral, middle and southwestern areas, where drotlght losses havo been especially heavy. More re lief in parts of the mlddlewest and east was predicted for today. Extremely high temperatures dotted yesterday's weather map. Kansas City had a high mark of 108; Indianapolis 104; Omaha 100; Chicago 03; Springfield. 111., 102; Pittsburgh 00; Des Molncs 100; Cincinnati 100, and Em poria, Kan., 115. Usually Settled With p ( SAJHV COULDM'T you SETTLE VT N. r rrr" THT WA.Y THE Reclamation Jobs GLAC.1K11 l'AKK Motor tour FT. PECK DAM Inspection tour 1 $&0AKOTi ' ' 1 NEB.' r L OREGON WEATHER STAYS MODERATE While tho eastern and middle western states continued to bake In an unprecedented heat wave, that haa taken more than 1200 lives, mod erate summer temperatures continu ed In the Pacific northwest. In La Gran do yesterday tho maximum was Qlnbove with .03 of an inch of rain diUb thundor showers. The day was partly cloudy.. TUd minimum this morning of 87 (Continued on Page Eisht) SWIM TESTS ON FRIDAY AT PLUNGE, HERE Ml children wishing to pass Red Cross beginners or swimmers tests and roceivo their Red Cross buttons may do so free at the Crystal Plunge Friday afternoon at 1:00 o'clock, ac cording to Miss Margorlo Horton. Beginners test includes a Jump In tho water over one's head, swim 25 feet and return. Swimmers test requires that the person swim 100 yardi using two standard strokes, swim 60 feet on back, using legs only, tread water one minute, float on back 30 seconds, surface dive for object In eight feet of water, enter water head first in good form. The Pen, Anyway v"i.u. . i on Return Trip DEVIL'S I-AKK, N. D. Whcxo drouth causes will bo studied GREEN HAY. WIS. Only major address of. trip .hero fifc..t wis."- " 1 ROCHKSTKR, MINN For Legion tributo to Mayo brothers V- l IOWA ") Vff PWA channel, lock, dam job chic; J td be Inspected - F TO WASHINGTON STUDIES NEW WHEAT PLAN FOR NATION Return to Normal Acre age Possible in 1935 if That Much Grain is Held Needed. By Charles P. Nutter WASHINGTON, Jirty.Jitt (fl) A sweeping; olismga In the A'AA'h wlieut eoiifrol UictlcswaH under wHisldera t Ion today as tlio' iirotKh tightened tta disastrous grip. Instead of plowing undor to cut the crop, officials studied a plan to re turn to virtually normal acreage noxt year but with an ace In tho hole. If restricted production were found necessary, part of tho crop would be harvested whilo still green to bo used for forage. Uncertainties In tho world wheat situation, as well as lessons learned from tiie drouth, Influence the plans. The new control idea would enable tho nation's farmers to harvest tho( crop on normal acreages if that much wheat Is needed next season or lr the world wheat export agreement collapse nnd the United States de sires more gain for export. Farmers could be held under con tract to harvest unmatured wheat for forngo on government Instructions. It was explained that this plan '(Continued On Page Four) JUDGES FORCED TO WAIT FOR PAY SALEM, July 20 fP) Circuit court Judges will be without salaries for about three months, supreme court Justices and their staffs will bo with out salaries for about five weeks. while 16 pcoplo probably will bo re tired from the payroll of the public utilities commissioner ns a result of tho rejections of the state emer gency board here yesterday. The board flatly refused to allow $38,000 for SHlartea of 28 circuit Judges and (6000 for supreme court Justices ns requested. Tho deflect was tho result or the state legislatures ap propriation on the basis of salary reductions of about 20 per cent, but which the Judges generally refused to take in Its entirety. Those In tho Judicial department who voluntarily compiled with the suggestion of the legislature will be prmnilKcd as well as those who have I been receiving full salaries. The emergency board appropriated H3.000 yesterday. In addition to the 10.000 for the transportation act. the board allowed 60.000 for tho Ore gon national guard and (13.000 for the two tubcrrulonts hospitals. Only M 0.600 remains in the emergency fund. Wheat Today The price or local cash nrw crop wlieiil to oil at about 0i,o hulk ((mIhv, according to the Pio neer Flouring Mills. Portland crhIi HO cents. CHICAGO, July 20 UV) Renewed breaks In grain prices took place at the last today after brisk rallies had practically overcome acute weakness which resulted earlier from flurried selling. Wheat closed nervous, 1 y4 at ao under yestcrday'H finish, Hcpt. new corn yBtlc down. Sept. 0o',4ftC oats 'i'-i ;c jff and pro visions at Sc decline. Via! JUST BEFORE PRESSTIME MIl.ITAItY Hl l.K DKCI.AItKD HONOLULU (IKDKTS F. It. 1.01'IH PAYNE C'ONVICTFB v IU H.IMNC. CONOKKKS MEETS MINNEAPOLIS, July 20 (P) Mllt tury rule mis drcluri'd here today by (iov. Floyd B. Olson, itcttng, lie wild, to "imiintiilii law und order" In the MliimiiollH truck drivers strike. Four thousand national guardsmen took charge, after warring factious In the truck drivers strike fulled to agree mi final peace pluus submitted by federal mediators. HONOLULU, July 38 W) Presldont Roosevelt camo ashore here today and was greeted by officials of tho army and navy. The official Hawaiian band serenaded him. Ho departed a few minutes later unon a motor tour of the Island. LOS ANGELES, July Zfl (P) Con victed or first degree murder for the uxh slaying of his mother nnd broth er. ltlllH It 1 1 (I to 111 Villi Vl.vitttr-nlil student, fined niiollier superior court iruu iiNiay in which a jury will de cide whet her lie Ik sane. Unless found insane lie must lituig. PORTLAND. Julv 20 UP1 Momhfir of the Oregon building congress will meec nere next Tuesday to perfect plans for coordinated action in fur thering tho national housing act In Oregon. HOUSTON, Tex., July 20 A dcntli list that may reach more than 30 whs Indicated today as tho Texas coast mini try from Galveston to Cor pus Chrlstl dug out from the wreck age or an HO-mlle an hour hurri cane. ,. , - j, ; , , COAST EMPLOYERS AGREE TO DROP NON-UNION MEN SAN I'KANCIKCO. July 20 (ff) A meinhcr nf I'rrnldrnt KHwwlt's me illiitlnn bourn Mill! Mliiy IMclfln nxutt ttlitorfront riiiH)(i)m Imcl ngrml t tllrwhnrgu imii-uiilmi ImiRKhurrmcn ns it prcri'quMlii to I Ho rrtiirn to work or slrlkliiB union Htcvwlonw pcmllng nrlill ration of tlm Ihmiiw In tlic walk out. Tho board, which yoatordny an nounced tho lonyHhorcmcn had voted (Continued on Pago Eight) DILLINGER CASE SUSPECT SUICIDES CHICAGO, July 20 () Brought to tho office of tho federal bureau of investigation for questioning in con nection with tho John Dlllinger caso, James Probasco, 07, a wet side resi dent, committed suicide today by Jumping from a 10th floor window to the alley below. S. P. Cowley, in charge of the bur eau In tho abyenco of Melvln H. Pur vis, said the government had been informed that it was in Probasco'a home at 2509 "7rrth Crawford avenue that Dlllinger had his face lifting, operation performed. WHAT AILS AUSTRIA? HERE'S THE ANSWER WASHINGTON!1 , July 20 M What alls Austria? WhorH once Franz Joncph's hunar danced to Strnuvts waltzes in the world's gayest civilisation, despair stalks. Men's hands aro turned against each other. A chancellor lies dead, Hhot In his chancellory. The world watches, fearing war. Austria Is a head without a body. War performed that operation and it In proving no more successful In tho political -economic field than it ever did in the biological. The war camo and then tho peace that for Austria was perhaps worso than war. Tito old f.mpiro boasted more than SO.OTJO.OOO people and over 250.000 square miles of territory. When the surgery of the peace treaties was fin ished, Austria, separated from a dis membered Hungary, had less than 7, 000.000 Inhabitants, and little more than 30,000 square mllca. Natural resources were comparatively slender. Around this pitiful remnant, suspic ious neighbors began erecting tariff walls. Economic rot not, n. Austria, like some noble deposed to penury, began living on a:i International dole, on SMASH NAZIS IN PROVINCE OF STYRIA In Meantime, Wai Clouds Remain Hanging Over Europe. j ITALIANS MASSING TROOPS ON BORDER II Duce Prepared to Send Army Into Austria if the Situation Becomes Worse. VIENNA,- July 20 T The Nazi pntM'li tonight developed Into a wide Hprotf revolt In the ftoutharii proVln vh of Austria. KHtlmateR of the (tend ran to approximately 300' with hun dredH of other wounded. In Styrta akinn 2(10 were reported to have been killed. ' By Wade Werner (Copyright, 11)34, By Aiuoelatrd Preaa) ' V1KNNA, July 20 m t- A new Aus trian government today anuuhed . at the Naxls who yesterday assassinated, ChanroUor Kngclhert Uollfuss, driv ing armed rebel foreeH out of the provlnra or Htyrut into Yugoslavia.. Oovornment troops inarched Into ItAtfigorsburg, Styrla, without oppo sition In the late afternoon after the Naxls who had hold tho town for a (Continued On Page Klve) ; Liquor Revenues In Oregon Reach $326,565 Figure SALEM, July 28 (P) Figures com plied hero Wednesday show that the state liquor commission has realized $320,505 net in liquor revenues from (Con tin nod on Pave FourY Baseball NATIONAL First game; R. H. B. St. Louis 7 10 0 New York 2 6 1 Batteries: P. Dean, J. Dean and Da vis; Kubbcll, Alvcson and Mansuco. Daunlng. First game: It. ft. B. Pittsburgh 3 9 0 Philadelphia 0 3 0 Batteries: French and Oraco; Col lins and Todd. R. H. B. Chicago 3 6 ,0 Brooklyn 6 7 0 Batteries: Weaver, Tinning, Root nnd Hartnett; Znchary and Lopez. R. H. E. Cincinnati .' 12 19 0 Boston 5 12 4 Batteries: Froy, Dorrlnger and Lorn bnrdl; Frankhousc, Man gum, Barrett and Hogan. AMKHICAN R. H. E. Washington r 0 6 3 Chicago . 0 11 1 Batteries: Weaver, McColl and Sew ell, Phillies; Jones and Madjcskl. loans from the leaguo of nations or creditor lands. Tho depression rock ing tho economic structure of the world redoubled her woca. Misery begat political strife. For a while, after the war, socialists con trolled Austria. But the folk of tho countryside, with Catholic christian socialist leanings, would have none of It and tho Marxists soon had to be content with Vienna. Dollfusti, head of the christian so cial government, assumed more and moro dictatorial powers as the Aus trian Nazi movement, gaining vigor with Hitler's rise in Germany, strove to unseat tho "vest pocket" chancel lor. The Nazis, like countless Pan-Germans in both tho relch and Austria, have dreamed of uniting the two na tions. The idea 1 anathema in France, Germany's old foe. Nor has Mussolini seon fit to en courago the Nazi desires. Some say he looks askance at the Pan-German threat notification of Austria, tha Saar, Danzltr7 and other territories with Gcrmlin population and the, consequent change In the balance of power In Europe through new politi cal alignments.