La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, July 31, 1934, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextUnion County Farmers To Get $50,000 Federal Cash 1 I m (fatmibt lEtmtttw (b&t met La Grande Is The Gateway to Wallowa, "The Switzerland of America Only Newspaper Printed in La Grande Covering Union and Wallowa Counties VOLUME 32 EASTERN OREGON'S LEADINO NEWSPAPEB LA GRANDE, OREGON, TUESDAY, JULY 31, 1934 rr MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS NUMBER 275 MJEY LONG CALLS OUT GUARDSMEN FINAL MONEY ON ACRE CUT PLAN IS DUE Grain Growers Expecting , Allotment Checks in Near Future. LAND MEASURING WORK COMPLETED All Necessary Now Be- fore Payment is Check ing of Figures, Accord ing to Conley. The second payment of the wheat allotment checks to Infon county farmers for acreage red net ton con tracts, originally expected en filer in thfl summer, Is expected to he avail able as soon as checking of the acre ages which have been taken from production this year Is completed. Roughly, something more tluin $50, 000 will lie paid Union county grain grower In this Niutl payment or the 11)84 contracts,, This payment will be on the basis of 6,000 acres of wheat land now out of production ami the reduction in acreage Is figured to mean a reduc tion. In production of approximately 16,000 bushels, according to Merrill Conley, of the Union county' allot ment committee. This figure is taken from ft four-year average from 1029 to 1032, inclusive. The measuring of the wheat land has been oompleted, but It is not known whcn the checking of the figures will be concluded, This payment Is for the second part of 1933,- the- first payment for 1934 will be available in October of this year. This latter payment wm dc oi aovuv no,uw,w, AH the whoat contracts are in effect (Continued On Page Five) Young Peoples Conference On At Wallowa Lake The La Grande Church of Christ is well represented at the annual young pcopl'j' summer conference which opened Sunday at Wallowa Lake. Ac companied by Rev. Paul DeF. Mor tlmore a member of the faculty, the following young people left here Sat urday and Sunday and will remain throughout tho week: Beba and Bc tha Kail, Carroll Price, Maxlne Noah, V-Ylvlan and Madeline Gallagher, Vlv lan Hamman. Katherinc Wagner, Roy Fleshman. Wllma Smith, Deta Daugh crty. Dorothy Hlgglns, Dorothy Smutz, Luclnda Bishop, Alma De Long. Wllma and Mildred French, Ed gar Draper, Marian and Sarah Draper and Delorla Stuart. Miss Goldle Ruth Wells, mission ary, who is at home on furlough, preached at the church at Pendle ton Sunday and In the afternoon came to La Grande and accompanied the local young people to the lake. Dr. Walter L. Myers, of Eugene, for merly of the Bible college, also pass ed through La Orande Sunday en route to the summer conference where he will bo one of the Inatruc torti, 1 1 ! Reports from the conference since Its opening are to tho effect that there Is a very good attendance and many of those present are "fresh men" at the conference. FIRE AT HOME ON N AVENUE The flro truck was called to 1203 N avenue at 8:45 o'clock last night to extinguish a fire that started on the exterior of tho home, which be longs to Mrs. Alice Hens. The flro was quickly extinguished, with prac tically no lose, Fire Chief C. T. Lindsey reports. The recall was at 9 p. m. Cause of the fire Is unknown although It apparently caught In some dry leaves next to the house. VALUE OF WHEAT IN VALLEY CROP GAINS Taking 750.000 bushels as a conservative estimate of the lfKU I'nlon county wheat crop, at the closing of business .Monday the crop wan valued at S498.7.W.00 nnd If wheat goes up half a cent today the value of the crop will pass half a million dollars. This represents a gain In value In exactly one week of JU1.2."0.O0! no wonder the farmer I a lilt more cheerful these days. Can't Figure Out Roosevelt Trip WAIMEA, Hawaii, July 30 Well they got rid of all the big 'Democrats now and the Islands can settle down to steady gossip. They can't hardly figure Mr. Roosevelt's vis It out. They can't tell If he come to see them or come to get some fish or come to Impress somebody. I am not naming anybody, mind you, that he told he still would stand for no monkey business In the Pacific. Any how whatever he come for. It was a big success, that 1b, If It wasn't for fish. The fish didn't bite, but everybody else did. Yours. 9ffli, M.N.utkl Syndics!, lea. 85 BOYS IN CATHERINE CREEK CAMP Baker, La Grande And Pondosa Youths Plan ning Hike to Lakes LateH This Week. With a total or 85 boys established hi camp under t lie direction of Elmo Stevenson, the boys' tump on Cather ine crook, oust of Union, Is off to a successful start, according to word received here today. - -" i Thero are troops present from Baker, La Grande, Union and Pondosa and the boys are busy from 6:00 o'clock in the morning to 9:00 o'clock (Continued on Page Five SLOW RESPONSE IN CAMPAIGN TO CONTROLEARWIGS Approximately ten persons have called either Lynn Lareon, chamber of commerce secretary, or County Agent H. G. Avery expressing willing ness to aid In obtaining a quantity of parasitized earwigs for liberation hero in an effort to control the ear wig pest In this locality, It was said today. The county agent estimates that 6,000 parasitized earwigs would thoroughly cover this city in the campaign, but 3,000 would do a great deal of good, and possibly handle the problem although It would take more time. Three thousand can be ob tained for 945. and It Lb estimated that if 35 more persons express will ingness to contribute a dollar each, a big step would bo taken toward eradicating tho peat. It la said that earwigs, whilo not so bad here as in some localities, are Increasing rapidly (Continued on Pae Two) ASSESSMENT FOR JUBILEE IS MADE At a meeting of the Soml-Ccnten-nlal U. P. celebration general com mittee last night at the chamber of commerce offices. It was agreed after a thorough check of all avail able data that a total 80 per cent assessment would be necessary. In other words. If a person underwrote tho celebration to the extent of 100. ho would be expected to pay a total of $60. If $30 already had been paid, then ft final $30 would discharge his obligation. All underwriters are urged to have their checks turned In before Thurs day night. Monday's price of fi' cents a bushel for new crop local wheat set another new high mark for 1033-34, The old 1033 mark of (.", cents made In July, lf):3 was surpassed Saturday when the lo cal quotation was 0S', rents. Each additional cent gain lit the price of local wheat odds $7, .'oo.oo to the total crop value In I'nlon county. iii ini wi CHANCELLOR ll'HUm - t..!iik.ilm.,,)iiHilJHi The new Austrian chancellor, named successor to the Main . Kngclhert DollfusH, b Dr. Kurt Kchiischnlgg, above, who wax (minister of education In the Doll fuss cabinet. The choice nf President Mlklas to heud the new government Is a hitter foe of .socialist and played a large part In smashing the Socialist revolt. WATER SHORTAGE IS FELT IN SOME SECTIONS OF E. 0. Although the dry year and warm sumrrwjrln. Eastern Oregon la hcjrjn nlng to be felt In some communities, tho water situation In La Orande re mains practlcaly normal. Thero Is plenty of water available here, with tho Beaver creek reservoir practically full, and supplying enough water for La Orande to require only a few hours of pumping each night an ordinary procedure during normal summers here. Prom Pendleton comes word the water from McKay dam may be turn ed off In ten days, the dates to de pend upon how much Is used below for Irrigation. In Baker, because of a shortage of water available from the regular sources on the Baker watershed, the city has placed In use three deep wells owned by the city on Spring Oarden avenue. Commissioner George Henry announced. The water taken from the three small wells on the east side is abso lutely pure,- according to tests made by the Oregon state board of health. Tests made of the water on July 9 and 26 show tho water to be In "A" condition. Commissioner Henry start ed pumping water from the wells about 12 days after the first test revealed the water to be pure. If the pump at the wells were operated continuously It would lift between 80.000 and 85,000 gnllons of water every 24 hours. Approximately (Continued on Page Two) fiifrerdiinis at the point between wooded mountains where a huge powerhouse will rise at Itounevllle iHim . . . and begin pulling t work one of the great rivers of the wirld. President Itoosevelt will view this project (pictured above) when he visits Oregon this week. 1.000 ATTEND CO OP PICNIC AT THE COVE Directors Elected During Business Session' Several Talks Heard About a thousand people attended the annual picnic of the I'nlon County Co-operative Cmilinery asso ciation belli yesterday all day at the Ascension Park at the Cove... The figure appear to be conservative In asmuch as the creamery furnished 1)00 pint containers of their Ire cream to supplement the big dinner served at noon, hilt It was necessary to send to Im (Intnilc for 20 additional gal lons to. serve, the entire dinner crowd. At the short business meeting. directors were elected, Tom Johnson being elected to succeed himself as representative for the Cove district. L. F. Wright elected for tho Mt. Olen district, Eldon Rush for the Elgin (Continued on Page Six) Girl "Thumbers" Get A Ride -After Two Hours To those who think hitch-hiking Is a snap especially if tho said hitch-hlckers are , young women with a reasonable amount of attractiveness this morning furnished a somewhat surprising . spectacle. Two young women, probably 20 , yours old more or less take your , vivolce, wJh a couple ot suitcases and a hat box, stationed them selves on Adams avenue across from tho Foley hotel and started the process of thumbing a ride to the cast to Wyoming, as a mat ter of fact. One was d rased in white slacks and the other In more conven tional garb. Both were optimis tically Inclined as they took their "station" at 8:20 a. m. A little step of a dance, plenty of smiles, a flirtatious flick of the "hitch hiking thumb" at boy bicycle riders as they pascd, Indicated the pnlr to be in high spirits un doubtedly expecting to get a lift pronto. But, for some reason or other, after some hundreds of cars had passed the "station", including a number of through cars, the girls were still trying to get that lift. They wcro not so overabundantly supplied with optimism as when they started their thumbs to wag ging they even took turn about sitting on the suitcases to rest their weary "dogs." And so on until 10:25 a. m. when they finally got the lift. Just 2 hours and 5 minutes by the clock for two fairly pretty young women wtih luggage to hitch-hike out of La Grande! No. the reporter didn't find out their names or even their tele phone number. ROOSEVELT TO SEE BONNEVILLE DAM ITALIAN TROOPS READY TO ACT Massed along the Austrian border urp. 75,000 of the best trooim In llnly's army, ready for any eventuality thut nmy develop out of . the Nazi uprising. Above Is shown a crack In Tun try unit In muneuvcn near the frontier. WOMAN SHOT TO DEATH; EX-HUBBY 'ADMITS SLAYING SAN FRANCISCO, July 31 (fl) Jealousy of a divorced wife who would not talk to him and assortedly shared her apartment with another man caused William C. Ma lone to kill her, authorities said today as they pro najl to file murder charges against the former El Paso hotel man. & Lou I so Malone, attractlvo 20-year-old beauty shop employe, died lato (Continued on Pago Two) SUPT. EVANS AND FAMILY RETURN HERE Superintendent and Mrs. Herbert Evans and two children returned Sunday evening from Portland where Mr. Evans haa been attending the University of Oregon summer session for tho lost six weeks. Mr. Evans Ia now busy making preparations for tho opening of school hero on Sept. 10. PAY VISIT TO GRAND COULEE J. E. Reynolds and grandson, Junior Reynolds, returned Sunday night from a trip which took them to tho Coulee Dam in Washington. They left hero oh Wednesday and while they missed the hot spell here they encountered terrific heat n Washington, There wan much activity, and they saw ten embryo towns, beginning at Coulee City, some of them having nob moro than two houses. msmm "V-s'' STRIKERS AT WORK TODAY ALONG COAST Oregon National Guard Demobilized By Gov Meier As Ixng Walkout Formally bnds. PORTLAND, Ore., July 111 (A1) On-gon porl.s, after HI days of com mercial paralysis, resumed normal and unrestricted opemtlmi today h striking marltlino workers returned to their Jobs. Less than one hour after moro than 1,600 men had gono back to work on Portland's waterfront. Governor Jullua L. Moler ordered dcmobllhm- J tlon of the Oregon national guard contingent or 1,100 men who had been encamped within a short dis tance of the city, (ready to quell any waterfront disturbance. The troops were called two weeks ago wlwn a general strike threatened. The maritime workers, longshoro nwn, senmen, ships' officers, grain handlers, dock workers and office help, swarmed into their reupectlvo (Continued on Page Six) VON HINDENBURG IS CRITICALLY ILL BERLIN, July 31 (fl) Dou Inch land waited and worried today for news of tho venerablo President Von Hlndenburg, leader in war and pence. Physicians' bullotlns from Neudeck, whoro tho 80-year-old soldier lies seriously ill, were anxiously scanned by street corner groups. Word passed quickly about that tho Illness might be his last. When Chancellor Hitler at Bay routh, Germany heard of tho Illness ho immediately prepared to return to Berlin, ( NEUDEG'K, July 31 (J) President Paul Von Hlnclenburg's physicians is sued the following bulletin at 6:15 p. m. "There Is no change in tho presi dent's condition, at least no deter ioration, He took a little nourish ment at noon. No fever. Pulse sat isfactory." Wheat Today The price of local rush new crop wheat hIwmI at about (ifie hulk here today, according to the Pionwr flouring mills, Portland cash 83n, CHICAGO, July 31 m Falling off In speculative trade went hand In hand with lower prices today for grain. Pause in dealings was associated more or less with doutit as to how tomorrow's August unofficial crop es timate would bo construed. Corn showed better rallying power than wheat did. but upturns failed to hold In either grain. Wheat cloned henvy, yBmc un der yesterday's finish, Sept. new 1.00 o $1,01; corn (a c down, S-ept. 09 attc, oats fl 1 VgC off, nnd provisions varying from 2c decline to 12c advance. JUST BEFORE PRESSTIME IDAHO TOWN THKKATtiNEI) .MltS. (OLMAN l)lV(HU't;il l'lHATKH ATTACK HUIV? rOHKHT I'lltK lt,(;iNi WAItDNtilt, Ida., July 31 (ff) Fanned by Jilgh winds, a fire for a time threatened the entire town of Wurdner eari; tmlay. A bank building wum piu-tlally burneI, a lodge build ing, two garages and the furniture of three apartment house were de stroyed. LONDON, July 31 W A divorce court ted ay granted a decree to Mrs. Ronald Col man, formerly Thclma Ray of the British stage, against her hus band, the motion picture star, in an undefended suit. - CHICAUO, July 31 An an onymous tip that pirates were aboun the excursion si earner "City of Grand Rapids" bound for MMwaukra sent coast guards niter the vessel today hut Its master rndloed ; a message "everything okay." The const guards, nevertheless, were ordcrcil to proceed. BIEBER, Cal.. July 31 VP) A for est fire, wliiohi already had destroyed or cramAed timber estimated at more than 10,000,000 feet, raged along a 15 mllo front on Dig Valley mountain today. ' WASHINGTON, July 31 m Tho Hulled Ntutes, through. William C. Itiillltt, Mh iiniltassjidor! to Mosoow, Is seeking nit agreement wltH tho Soviet government under which umvnntel aliens of Russian natloiuulUy muy be departed to that oountry. . PARIS, July 31 (fl1) Tho mlllcn of Franco today openly defied tho govorumont's. eIfnrts to regulate tho MURDERERS WHO KILLED DOLLFUSS DIE ON GALOWS N HOI "IS "HISIL HITLER" VIENNA, July 31 P) An of ficial account of the execution of Franz Holzwchor today said that as ho stood on tho gallows boforo he was hanged he shouted: "I dlo for Gormanyl Hell HItlerl" Otto Planotta, said tho account, shout ed: "Hell Hltlorl" Ity tint AKKiK'latcd l'rpKH Tho Nnzl who led conspirators into tho offlco of Chancellor Dollfuss l&Bt Wednesday and the accomplice who pulled tho trigger on the gun which killed tho government leader were both han(("d today for high treason by sentence of a court martial. , Thoy went to their deaths saying: (Continued on Pago Two) GREAT BRITAIN WINS DAVIS CUP WJMHI.EDON, Eng.. July 31 !) Oroat Britain today retained the Davis cup, historic international ten nis trophy, ns Fred Perry, aco of tho Hrltlsh forces, dofoated Frank X. Shield, 6-4, 4-fl, 0-2, 16-13 In a des perately fought fourth match to clinch tho scries with three victories. Perry won out in one of the longost and most bitterly fought sots of cup piny, tho long fourth, to register Oreat Britain's seventh victory in over a quarter of a century of Davis cup competition. F. R. TO SEE GATEWAY OF NEWEST DOMAIN Ity WIIIU Thornton (NBA. Berviro Staff Correspondent), PORTLAND, Ore.. July 31 When President Roosevelt land. here on his way back to Washington he will en ter the gateway of a new domain to bo created by the government', plans to put the Columbia river to work. The two huge dams being built to harness the Columbia at Bonneville and tho Orand Coulee are well un der wfty. But they are only a part of the general plan to develop the entire Columbia river basin with a series of other damn, navigation and Irrigation projects that will virtually create a new empire on a par with those rising in. the Tennessee and Colorado vulleys. Since the coming of tho white KINGFISH IN SUDDENMOVE BEFORE VOTE Militia Takes Charge of New Orleans Regis- ! tration Office. DOOR BATTERED IN 1 DURING THE NIGHT Governor , Allen Says Ac tion Taken to Protect Office From "Insult, Intimidation." NEW" OIII.EANS, July 31 (IP) Or ilcro fur tli mohlllzatlon of all com miik of the New Orleans national guard wcro ontercfl Ifwuecl this after noon to fuipnlenient the detachment that hutt nlKht uplzetl tlie city voters re-lHtratlon offlro under a proelama tlnn of partliij martial law iMtied by (lov. . K. Allen with the advloe of lluey P. Lonff. . NEW Oltl.KANS, July 31 UP) Sen ator lluey 'I'. I.ong idjreoted a pre election attack on the 'city adminis tration today, hlft national guards- (Continued on Page Sir) : ' i Insull Requests Separate Trial; . Promises to Talk OHICAao, July 31 m -f.' BamueZ Insull profossed today to be rondy to make "full end f runic disclosure" of all the details of his business opera tions and asked the United States district court to. grant him a trial separate from tho 16 others accused of mall frauds In the marketing of corporation securities company stock. In tho petition for a severenoa presented toy his attornoy, Floyd B. Thompson, the elder Insull said ha would be hindered In presenting his full statement and his dofense If tho records were cluttered with the evi dence relating to his son and other directors of corporation securities who wero indicted with him, ' Insull assorted that he accepted full responsibility for his acta and for tho acts of his business associates (Continued on Page Six) Baseball NATIONAL LEAGUE (First Oamo) B. H. E. Pittsburgh 4 9 4 Cincinnati 6 13 1 French and Padden; Brennan, : Klclnhans and Lombardt. B. H. 8. Philadelphia 4 14 1 Brooklyn a 9 a O. Davis )ond Wilson; Leonard, Clark, Carroll and Lopez. (Oaino starts at 7th Inning re payment of July 3 protested game) B. H. IS. St. Louis 1 a Chicago 7 13 3 P. Dean. Moonoy and Delanccy; Warncko and Hartnctt, ' . AMERICAN LBA(U!E B. H. H. Washington 3 6 2 Philadelphia 8 10 1 McCool, Crowder, and Bolton; Mar cum and Berry. (First Oamo) B. H. B. Boston 3 3 3 New York 11 14 0 II. Johnson,' Walberg, Mulligan and R. Ferrell, Lcggett; Oomea and Dickey. u u man, tho Columbia haa been known and used an a mighty avenue leading from tho sea far1 Into the Interior of tlie northwest. But It has never been put to work, cither for navigation, power, or Irrigation, to realize any thing like Its possibilities. 11 preen Mountain Chains The Columbia rises In tho high, mountains of British Columbia, and. then, turning southward, enters tho United States to drain most of Ore gon, Washington, Idaho and through, tributaries, Western Montana, Turn ing westward it cuts through both, tho SlerA Nevada and Coast ranges, and winds through the vast plain be tween those mountain chains. , (Continued on Page Three) 5-