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Improvement Of Fish Hatchery Nearly Completed 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 LEADINQ NEWSPAPER LA GRANDE, OREGON, SATURDAY, AUGUST IS, 1911 MKMI1ER ASSOCIATED PRESS NUMBER 291 KID! A E EVANGELIST UNION PI AWT NOW BEST IN STATE, CLAIM .Work Conducted During Spring and Summer With Federal Help. , NEW WATER LINE GIVES BIG FLOW Possibility Later of Addi tional Outside Ponds to Supplement ' Those In doors. Tin' Oregon slate fish hatchery ul 1'nlon, undergoing an Improvement program that Is costing lit the tirlgh horhood of $1.1,0(10 and which Is Hear ing completion, iinay In- classified now us tin "best hatchery In this slate." Engineer Cowgtll, of the state game commission, In a recent Inspection trip to Union, Is authority for the statement the Union plant Is probably the best In the state with the new improvements. It Is believed that everything will be completed so that the commis sion's plan of raising Eastern Brook and Rainbow trout there In great numbers, beginning this fall, will go ahead as scheduled. Work on the plant was started last spring under the CWA, with the state furnishing much of the materials. Later, when the CWA became n thing of the past, the work was continued under SERA. The food storage building Is prac tically completed, and the work on the main structure also Is about fin ished. .The new water line.. Is com pleted and Is furnishing all the water required for operations there. The pipe Is 12 inches In diameter and takes water from Catherine creek some distance above the hatchery. Latest reports from Union Indicate (Oontlnii-n on Pum 1rourv Reynolds Wins In First Round OfNdTourney One La Grande racquet wielder was eliminated In the singles and another progressed to the second round in the first morning's play of the Eastern Washington clay courts tennis tournament Friday at Walla Walla. Reports of the afternoon matches In which Dud Starr and Bill Cooper were to compete have not been received. Shrimp Reynolds won In the first round by upsetting Crane Walker of Walla Walla 6-2. 6-2. Burke Inlow lost to the ranking star of the tournament, Wayne Sa bin. of Portland, who Is being doped to win the singles championship. The score was 6-0, 6-2. Finals were to be played tomorrow. HOT WEATHER GIVES WAY TO COOLER DAYS A decided break In the heat wave occurred here yesterday with the mercury stopping in its upward course at 82 above. This was 16 degrees cool er than the 98 above mark registered on Thursday, The minimum this morning also was 11 degrees cooler than the 62 above Friday morning. The outlook for the coming week is for generally fair weather with temperatures some what obov normal in the Interior. BABY BORN TO UNION COUPLE A baby girl was born to Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Robinson, of Union, yes terday at Hot Lake. Both mother and daughter aro doing well. TAKES HER KITTENS TO INFANTS' DEPT. For it erv outstanding mmi-o of the fitness of thine. H Is he IIpimI that ".Millie" th" Mine pet at rk'ht's drug store, has earned a pl:ti-e of honor. Ihirliiy the la-t mc when two small wooly kit tr.O. name to bless Mr. Mllle. she secretly and somewhat f$ the til trest or her owners, took up her abode In the infant's wear de partment of the Montgomery Ward store. After their arrival the kittens were very carefully placid In a safe and oh-cure rortier of Will Recognizes Manchukuo MUKDEN, Man chukuo, Aug. 18. I'd heard how no body seemed to be able to recognize Manchukuo and there has been such a lot of trou ble about It, but I recognized It the ml nu to I got Into the hotel here. It's not near as exciting as you might think. There's lots of news, but It don't seem to be originating around here. Yours, ftl(. MeNtiitht Syndicate, fiia. FOREST FIRE RAGESTODAY ON IMNAIIA Burning Over 200 Acres C. C. C. Boys From Baker a n d Wallowa Are Called A forest 'Ire starled on t lit fm naha river slv miles north nf Fish lake In linker county Thursday art cruooii, had spread over SUO acres or land this morn I The wind, blowing from the west, spread the fire down the. Imnaha river, which Is the dividing lino be tween the Whitman national forest and the Wallowa national forest. Fifty civilian conservation, corps workers were sent to the fire from the Susanville camp this morning to supplement the 50 Wallowa C. C. C. workers already at the fire. Forty moro young men were sent to the blaze from the Wallowa side, increas ing tne total number on the fire to 140. More eoulpment, including a 100 man fire-iightlng unit. 3000 feet of hose and two more pumps were rc- (Contlnued On Paye Four) ANNUAL FOUR-H CLUB PICNIC AT UNION AUG. 22 The annual Union county 4-11 club picnic which always draws a large crowd of members of the organiza tion in this county, will be held next Wednesday. Aug. 22, at the experi ment station at Union. The hour for beginning the day's events has been set for 0 o'clock, according to E. L. Woods, assistant county agent in charge of 4-H agricultural clubs. A livestock judging contest will be held with club members competing for places on the winning club teams. The winning club has its choice of Roing to cither the State F'air at Salem or to the Pacific International Livestock Exposition in Portland, the second place team to ko to the show the winning team cioes not attend. (Continued on Page Two) FARM FIRE NEAR LOSTINE FRIDAY LOSTINE. Ore. (Special! iFire at the Edgar Hook farm Friday burned tho barn, all outbuildings and an old house, located Just behind the new house. Dairy implements, including a milking machine, were destroyed. Hook had been milking 50 cows. All that was saved was the new home, in spite of tho calling of fire departments from both Wallowa and Enterprise. The origin was unknown. t he depart ment in v lilch wear ables may be found fur oung Mer. of a like r,v. Member, of the store staff as well as the fond owners of "Mil He" hclicie that ink Is a remark able display of Intelligence hut It has been necessary within t he hist fi-w days to remove the new arrhal to their own home where "Millie" promrv keeps watch over her twins one of which s "Millie -!u n lor" and the other of the Merncr sex. , HUNTING TO BEGIN HERE Nimrods to Declare War On Grouse in Union, Wallowa, Baker Coun ties. Confident that good grouse shoot ing will greet them, scores of Ul Crande hunters are Impatiently awaiting the opening of the season next Monday morning. And (many more nimrods scattered through Un ion. Wallowa anil linker counties arc waiting Just as impatiently. The opening of the season next Monday is important, not only be cause of the opportunity to bag a few grouse, but because It also sig nalizes the arrival of the fall hunting season. From Monday on thero will bo something to shoot at almost contin uously until winter. The grouse sea son hero is to close on Sept. 20, but that is the day the deer season be gins. Chinese pheasants may be hunt ed after Oct. 15, also (tiling rian pheasants, and the duck season opens near the close, of the same month. The elk season begins on Nov. 5. The bag limit for grouse Is four birds in any one day or eight in any seven consecutive days. IH'NTKKS ASKL'I) TO Itti f AHLTl'L JOSEPH, Ore. (Special) With the opening of the grouse season In Wal lowa, Union and Baker counties next Monday. Aug. 20, a great many hunt ers will be taking to the field. The plea of the forest protective agencies of the- three counties to all sportsmen Is to use the utmost care with lire . (Continued on Fngo Two) Playgrounds To Resume Activity Monday Mornin Earlier this week a program was published providing for games and supervised play at the l-a Grande stadium and Greenwood field for tho two weeks' period beginning Monday. Today Ira Woodie. in charge of the program, announced the remainder of tho schedule. Football and Softball games will be provided from 10 to 12 a. m. and from 2 to 4 p. m. on Mondays. Wed nesdays and Thursdays at the sta dium. Free swimming will be provided for the boys at Crystal Plunge from 3 to 5 p. m. on Tuesdays and Fridays, and for the girls from 1 to 3 p. m. the same days. These playground and swimming activities are open to all children. OKLAHOMA, f9mM&Mlkl i Direct wiee HERE'S HOW NIAGARA FALLS The luiru-d i.anadiiui Hoi-schou lulls 01 Numiini pruHcn(l r new tnco lo BtKhUeeru nrtor tiuiidrcds ot tons of rock pitched wlih n dciifonliiR roar from t ti c Up of tho crrnt to Iho Korso 1G0 foot bolow. At (ho point shown in the circle, tho water in plunging over tho brink In the new curvature formed by the rock collapse, this new recession belnB about 100 feel deep and 150 to 200 yards loiiR. The "t'ction that fell extended beyond the first notch of tho horseshoe, from Iho Canadian side and was close to U-jat Island. IIUEY LONG MACHINE IN LOUISIANA GIVEN BROAD POWERS IN RIOTOUS MEET Ity .lack Adams ItATON KOI (ill, 1 .11., Aug. 18 (!') The llney 1. Long machine, today held t he broadest powers of military and political control ever conferred on a single taction in lonlslaiia. Tho Louisiana legislature hand ed over the powers to Senator l-onc In tho early hours today amidst a welter of parliamentary confusion, marked by exclusion of newspaper representatives from the house, sluggings In the lobby, fist fights on the floor and arrests In various parts of the state house. Uproar and disorder -such as has seldom been witnessed in Louisiana's always tumultous legislature filled the closing hours of tho assembly which (Senator Long called to enact legislation broadening his powers over elec tions, the courts, the national guard ami the local city and parish governments throughout the state. Squads of state highway police men and the state bureau of criminal investigation officers In LOUISIANA AND NORTH DAKOTA PPOT plain clothes Bwarmed through the state house throughout tho "tMght .as houco and uenato rushed (Contmuod on Pago Two) PORTLAND GROUP TO ASK INQUIRY PORTLAND, Ore.. Aug. 18 WD The bloc seeking more federal aid highway funds for Portland and Multnomah county has gone "militant" and Is clamoring for a federal investigation of the highway commission's allot ments of the fund. That was tho group's answer to tho commission's emphatic "No" to tho group's demand, for moro funds. Georgo L. llauHch, chalmian of tho city-county commJttee declared the plea for investigation will bo based on tho tenet that about 17 per cent of Oregon's share of the fund wiui al located to Miltmmah county which encompasses nearly 80 per cent of tho state's unemployed. LOOKS NOW JEWS FORCED TO SUPPORT HERR HITLER Stiitcmonfi Issued hy Na tional Germua Society; Some May Vote Blank, However Ity A. I. Stefferud ULRIIN, Aiir. IS mi .lews came forward (Hfay to siiipor( Adolf Hit ler In tomorrow's plebiscite, called to approvo his assumption of the pow viti of Iho president. Tho statement of the national Gor man society of Jews said: "Wo find ourselves In agreement with tho political testament of the honored Paul von Hindenburg. To tho Fatherland Ik long also tho life and soul of tho German Jews who do not know any other Fatherland." How ono section of IJerlin's Jewish population feels about tho plebiscite, however, was indicated In a statement of several middle-class Jews to tho Associated Press. They said they would cast ballots "Iwcauso Nazi pres sure compels us" but those votes will bo blank. BELGIAN BALLOON NEAR YUGOSLAVIA Git AH. Austria, Aug. Ill (I'i The Ilelglan stratosphero balloon was sighted hero at 7 p. m. (1 p. m. east ern standard time) drilling south eastward toward the Yugoslav fron tier. BUUSSKLS, Aug. IB !' Tho Bel gian national radio broadcasting sta tion la to today nenled reports which had been circulated to the effect that Max Cosyns and Nereo Vanderllst had achieved a stratosphero altitude rec ord over Czechoslovakia. BltUSSEI-S. Aug. 18 (,V-H was an nounced today that a wireless report from the stratosphere balloon stated that Max Cosyns and Nereo Vander llst had ascended 22.000 meters (27. 178.37 feet), a height which, If veri fied, has broken all existing altitude records. Wheat Today "I he price of local new crop cash wheat slmtd at ahorit U.',', ci-iitH balk lie' 1'hIu.v, according to the PJoiiriv Mooring MIIIh. Purllaiid raMi HI cent. No ex port bid. CHICAGO., Aug, 18 (P Fears of sudden frost In Cimnda l-d to lato up turns of wheat prices today, and also rallied the corn rnar''t. There was also late buying of wheat In connection with euMmates that southwestern millers had disposed of fiOO.000 barrel.? or flour In tho last two days, largely to casternbakery Interests. 9 Wheat closed firm, 1 -2 4 above yesterday's finish. December new $1.04-: corn J-l cent advanced, December 70!4-h. oats ln up. and provisions unchanged to 6 cents gain. JUST BEFORE PRESSTIME I.IIT KI TIKS ON HAY, CiKAlN TO ItlMHtdANIZK MIA PAYNE Jl'ltY IX DEADLOCK t MOVR AtJAINST FILM ACTOIt WASHINGTON, Aug. 1H (W Sen ator Pra.ler (It., N. D.) said today President. Itoosevelt had iiuthorl.ed lifting of duties on hay, grain and other livestock feeds lniHirteil Into the I'nlted .states from Canada, WASHINGTON. Aug. 18 (flV-Presl- dent Roosevelt today asked Hugh S. Johnson to work out an NTtA reor ganization and put it Into effect. LOS AMiKl.KS, Aug. 18 W1 A 5ii hour deadlock of a Jury which heard tho Insanity plea, of Iuils It tide Payne, Ul, convicted of killing his mother and brother with an axo last May, hail emits! today In n declara tion of u nilstiial. Septemher 11 wan set for a re-hcnrlng. SACRAMENTO, Aug. 18 (P) Dis trict Attorney Neil McAllister, of Sac ramento county, said today that as part of his drive against communist activities he will petition tho courts for Injunctions against James Cngney, Hollywood film actor, and Ella Win tor of Carmel to prohibit them giv ing financial aid to radicals. WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 (JF ThO National Park service was given nil allotment of $80,m( today hy the public works administration for wid ening and completing (ho rim road In Crater Lake national park, Ore gon NO AGREEMENT IS REACHED ON EXPORT QUOTAS Hy Albert W. Wilson LONDON. Aug. 18 A-) Tho world wheat conference failed to agrco to day on export quotas but, as was ex pected, officially accepted 600,000,000 bushels as tho estlmjited world de mand during tho crop year beginning tills month. Tho conference also agreed that tills flguro might be increased In view of tho worldwide shortage of animal feed and tho possibilities of using a con siderable amount of wheat stocks for anmn1 fotn purposes, Tho flguro of approximately 000, 000,000 bushels was proposed by An drew Culms of Canada, Tho flg- (Contlnued On Page Four) NEW VACCINE TO FIGHT PARALYSIS PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 18 (VP) Dr. John A. Kolmer, professor of medlclno at Templo university and d I roc tor of tho Research Institute of Cutaneous Medlclno of Philadelphia, has an nounced what he said was a success ful vaccine against infantile paralysis. Dr. Koluw;r said tho vacclno's ef fectiveness has been demonstrated In experiments with monkeys, followed by Injections Into the bodies of him self and a laboratory technician, Miss Anna M. Rule of Nova .Scotia. HKATTLK, Wash., Aug. 18 (!) Tho Htato department of health reported It had been nd vised of lf2 cases of infantile paralysis In the state, most ly on the east side, during July and up to August 13. Three deaths were reported In July, two in Spokane and one In Yakima. U. S. LABOR PICTURE FEATURES STRIKES Hy the Associated Press .Strikes, with ono KlgimUc movc rrwnVlnvolving 825,000 workers pos slblo presidential action waning em ployment labor's prediction of moro Jobs: of such is the nation's labor pict.uro today. ' Tho United Textile Workers of America, claiming a membership of, 300.000. voted at its New ork con VftQiou last night to -ell out work ers In fiilli'd trades as well asln tho cotton t'xtlie Industry. '1 ho strike Is to start by Sept. 1. Cotton textile workers total 500,000; woolen and worsted, silk, rayon and svnthcllc rayon kilters number 326, 000. "Only Picsldent Roosevelt" can pre vent tho strike, said Thomas F. hf.c-i Mahon, president of the textile work ers. Tho knitters were promised the backing or tho American Pedant ton of Labor. President Roosevelt said In Wash ington ho would Investigate the dls puto between striking bus drivers and CAPTIVE IS i RELIEVED OF 40 DOLLARS North Car'olinan Driven Around Country Since Abduction. DEMAND MADE ON AIMEE YESTERDAY Letter Demanding $25, 000 Turned Over to Po lice Shortly Before Re lease of Evangelist. NASHVILLE, Tonn., Aug. 18 OF) R. H, Askew, 2H-yeur-oll North Carolina evangelist, walked Into the Nashville pollcu station today and said ho had boon lu (he hands of kidnapers since last Tuesday. Dressed In overalls, the Pour-Square gospel minister said his three abduc tors had taken his clothes away from, him in Washington and then driven him around tho country until about daylight this morning when they put him out on tho edge or Nashville. He told of being driven to Richmond. Washington, Knox vl lie "and I don't know where elso." Askew said he was en route from Ooldsboro to Sin 1th field with 40 to buy some brick for his church, when ho was stopped by a man at a cross roads between Catch-My-Eye and Pine Level. Tho man, the evangelist told officers, told him h? had a sick child In Raleigh and asked Askew to go to a hospital thero. Askew said ho agreed. ' I Arriving fn Raleigh, the evangelist continued, they stopped near a city park,. A car drov up with thrco men and one, poking a pistol against his ribs, told him, to "step In." 'I got In," ho added. Tho evangelist related that the thrco men gavo his passenger "some money" and then started off with him. talking to him a while and then forcing him to take some tablets "something thac made me sleep," A letter demanding 926,000 of Almee Scmplo McPhcrson, the evangelist, for relcaso of Askew was turned over to Los Angeles polico yesterday, but tho minister said ho did not know why ho was abducted and said he had not been asked to sign any notes. Asked by detectives what tho three men talked to him about during their travels, ho replied: "They woro try- (Contlnued on Page Pour) Fiendish Murder Of Young Woman Stirs San Diego SAN IMEGO, CaL, Aug. 18 WV Choked to deatli in what police say was a fiendish murder, the body of pretty 10-year-old Cella Cota was found In tho back yard of her home today. Sho had been the victim of a criminal attack, police say. Tho girl's father Is Edward Cota. local customs broker. Apparently the murder is another In tho series in which girls and women have been the victims of un identified fiends here in recent years. Virginia Brooks. 10-ycar-otd school girl, was slain and mutilated In tho spring of 10:)1. Soon afterward the nudo body of Louise Teubor, 17, was found hanging to a Black mountain oak. Hazel Bradshaw. pretty tele phone operator, was stabbed to death. Mrs. W. D. ("Diamond Dolly") Bib bens was strangled. tho Chicago Motor Coach company. Tho federal department of labor ro ported last month's drop In Indus trial payrolls was 350,000 men, 910, 400.000. Strikes, weather and season al factors wero hold responsible. William Green, who as president of tho A. P. of L. promised support to tho tcxtilo workers, said in Atlantlo City that seasonal fluctuations and "stimulation from tho NRA" will In crcaso employment next month. Labor will ask restoration of the CWA, how eve Tho strlko of approximately 2500 employes of the Mobile and Ohio railroad was averted when both sides agreed at St. Louis to arbitration by tho national mediation board. Mediators continued their efforts at t he copper mines in Butte, Mont.; at tho Kohler plumbing factory in Kohler, Wis., and In Minneapolis, where the truck drivers are striking. Petitions In n back-to-work move ment wero circulated at plants of the American Aluminum company, In the Pittsburgh area,
