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California, Idaho Forest Fires Out Of Control (Sranw 0 7 ll 0 llTtllir La Grande Is The Gateway to Wallowa, 'The Switzerland of America Only Newspafcier Printed in La Grande CoTering Union and Wallowa Counties If VOLUME 32 E.ASTEI1N OKEQON'8 LEADING NEWSPAPER LA GRANDE. OREGON, MONDAY, AUGUST 20, 1934 MEMBER AH80CIATED' P11E8S NUMBER 292 nmrh UJM to 4Kitiittttrt IPCIffF Ifi i FE f" 1 : . D n .i n f ? HIGHWAY JOB NEAR LOSTINE NEARLY DONE La Grande-Wallowa. Lake Road Reported in Fine Condition. WEEKEND DRIVERS PRAISE HIGHWAY Section Between Wallowa And Lostine Improved At Cost of About $83, 000. La Grande people driving to and from Wallowa Uike over the weekend found tlu rreid In the. best condition In loenl history, with Hip highway ontructloii hctwccii Wallowa ami Lost I lie practically finished, tiuil other sections of the road In good condition. The nine mile stretch of Improved highway starting 500 feet west of the went boundary of the Wallowa city limits and extending eastward to the cast boundary of th- city limits of Lostine will soon be completed. The i finishing touches are now being put on and some of the highway depart ment men are leaving for other parts to assume duties. The Hart Brothers Construction company will likely be moving its equipment out within the next two weeks, as it expects to have the last touches of the contract fin ished by that time. The entire stretch of road when completed will represent an expendi ture of $83,000. The work was started in February of 1933 and when going in full swing had a crew of 04 men on the works. There was an average of 30 Wallowa county men benefitted by employment during tho construc tion. The Hart brothers, John and Ed. have maintained offices In Wallowa during the construction period. They as well as the engineers have made themselves a part of the community during their labors in this contract. Travelers over the new road ore liberal with their praise for the now highway into Wallowa. The rerouting of the road through the business sec tion added much to the Improvement Continued on Pago Two) AdventistsFrom Five Districts In Picnic Here More than 300 people were In at tendance at a conference held by the Seventh Day Adventists Saturday at Riverside park. Bible classes together with preaching services made up the program for the forenoon. Musical selections, group singing and preach ing followed the basket dinner which was served at noon in the pavilion. Baptismal services concluded the day's program. Five districts, Cove. Baker, Union. Richland and La Grande were represented at the meet ing. GRASS FIRE IS EXTINGUISHED The fire truck was called to the south end of Twelfth street at 1:20 o'clock, Sunday afternoon to extin guish a grass firp. No bell alarm was turned in. the call being silent. CHAMBER WILL MEET AUG. 28 Tht; August meeting of the La Grande chamber of commerce will be held Tuesday noon. Aug. 28. it was announced today by Lynn Larson, secretary. Usually the monthly meet ing is held the third Tuesday of the month, but it was postponed a week. II. S. ARMY BOMBERS FLY OVER LA' GRANDE Receipt of news here today from the Associated Press In Washington. D. C, announcing the arrival of ten aimy bombing planes comprising the Alaska flight squadron at Boiling field, was noted with interest here. The planes thus completed a note worthy 10.000-mile round trip to the north. Saturday afternoon. Just before two o'clock, ten planes believed to be the U. S. army bombers, crossed over i Grande in formation en route cast. Generally, it was belle vet! this night Was the army bombers. Many local U.S.W.V. Picnic Held Sunday At Emigrant Springs More Than 200 Attend Jay Upton, Candidate For Congress, Main Speaker of Day. The fifth annual Joint picnic of Baker, Pendleton, La Grande and Walla Walla camps and auxiliaries of the United Spanish War Veterans, was held Sunday at Emmigrant Springs. Seated at the tables were over 200. comrades, wives, and friends of the U. S. W. V.'s and after dinner several very Interesting and instructive tnlks were given by Jay H. Upton, Bend, who was the main speaker: J. H. Peare. La Grande; Putnam Yeck, La Grande; Mr. Berk. Salt Lake City. Utah; Mr. Ross. Idaho; J. Beach, rep resenting the department commander of Oregon; S. H. Burleigh, represent ing the American Legion of La Grande; Mr. Kirkendall, past dept. commander. Baker; L. Pinson, Pen dleton, and many others. Mrs. Yeck, La Grande, gave a reading. The auxi liaries of Washington were well rep resented by their department secre tary and past president, who gave a very Interesting talk. Mr. Bants, former resident of La Grande but now of Portland, was also present. The committee appointed for next year's picnic is: Rolla Long, general chairman, of Baker, C. B. Piatt, La Grande, Alex Manning. Pendleton and Chas. Palmar. Walla Walla. J. G. Henry, of La Grande, was general chairman this year. The C.C.C. boys from Emigrant Springs were invited in to listen to tho talks and were served with ice cream and coffee. One of the outstanding guests at the picnic was Chief Gilbert Mln thom of tho Umltilla Indians, ac companied by two of his friends. A beautiful quilt, mad? ,kr ,he ladies auxiliary of La Grande, with Mrs. Anna Piatt as general chairman. (Continued on Page Two) TENNIS PLAYERS FROM LA GRANDE IN GOOD SHOWING La Grande's tennis contingent in the Eastern Washington, clay courts tournament made an excellent show ing, although none of them returned home last night with a title. Dud Starr, however, teamed with Archlo Le Rotix, of Walla Walla, reached the finals in the doubles, losing to Wavno So-bln and Elwootl Ccoks, both of Portland, 6-4. 6-4. Cooke won the slnqles in a hard fought contest with Sabln. The score was 6-2, C-0. 3-6. 4-6. 6-3. Starr also reached the quarter fi nals in the singles, losing to Wes Hartman, of Portland. 6-2, 6-2. In the second round Hartman eliminat ed Shrimp Reynolds, of La Grande, in a close match 6-3. 5-7, 6-0. Roy Nelson and Reynolds, both or La Grande, playing In the doubles, last out in the second round to Jimmy Johnston and Darrcll Kelley. both of Portland, 6-0, 0-1. BEGIN LAST WEEK OF BOYS' CAMP AT THE WONDERLAND The boys' camp at Wallowa Lake, started last Sunday, completed its first week in camp during the week end with, a very successful record for the halfway mark. The following boys completed their camping period Sunday: Ted Cusick. Gilford Hulse. Floyd Parks, Jack Horstmau, Bb Laughlln. Buck Broms Dick Johnson. Bob Swalberg. Earl Carter. Bill Gallcgher. Bruce Ruther ford, Richard Haun. Henry Hess, Mal- i Continued on Pake Three) people saw the planes no over. In Washington today Secretary Dern congratulated Lieut. Colonel H. H. Arnold, flight commander, on the success of the venture. "You have forged a new link be tween Alaska and the people of the United States." he said. "You have demonstrated anew the fkill and dar ing .f cur army and Its filers and the thoroughness of their tral.ilng." Several hundred people cheered the fliers as they swooped to earth after circling the city. Round-Up Queen !5 WW IfUB Introducing Miss Shirley Thomp son, who will be queen of (lie fSllver J u hi lee Pendleton ltouml I'p In September. NEW SCHEME ON EXPORT QUOTAS ADVANCED TODAY LONDON. Aug. 20 & An offi cial statement .of the international wheat conference said today that pro posals to continue export quotas with divisions of the annual quotas into quarterly allotments "were very gen eraly supported" by members of the international commission. The communique indicated that tho conference was unable to announce a "unanimous" ogreement which dele gates admit Is necessary to make any proposals effective. A dispute between Canada and Argentina over 1034-35 wheat export quotas was believed today to be no nearer adjustment. The United. States and Arpmtinu are- the only two nations thus far which have made requests for spccl- (Contlnued on Page Two) CAVELLI FIGHTS WILLS LABOR DAY Ernie Cavelli. flashy lightweight or Walla Walla, who has fought main events in practically every lare city in the northwest, and Young Harry Wills, lightweight of Longvicw. Wash., have been signed by L?o M.'Cothy and Martin Fitzgerald to fight a ten round main event here the night of Sept. 3 at the Sacajawea arena. This Labor day card will formally usher in the fall -winter-spring box ing season. Other events on the card will be announced later. Wills has fought In the Mudlson Square Garden In New York and also In Chicago, and both men are recog nlzod as headlincrs In the boxing gnmo in tho west. THE NRA 1 ilS'aj EAST OREGON RIFLE MATCH TO BE HERE National Guard ' Com panies of. Pendleton, Baker, Union And La Grande to Shoot Sept. 9. Announcement was made today that the annual rifle match of the Second liattallou, IHtith Infantry, will be held jtt the national guard range near 1-a (inmde on Sunday. Sept. !, Four companM will par ticipate. In Grande, iVmllctou, Itaker and 1'iilon. The match has boen hold eight years ond each year Company E of this city has won, keeping the Peare trophy continuously In Its possession. Picked teams from each company will be selected soon for the com petition. Sergeant George D. Oliver has been named team coach here and Lieut. J-.-ise V. Andrews and Oliver (Continued on Pago Four) Legion Benefit Show and Dance Very Successful With a capacity crowd 1n attend ance, the American Legion stoged a vaudeville ond dance at Zuber hall Saturday night as a benefit for the fund to help send the La Grande drum corps to the state convention in Astoria this week, and also help defray expenses of the 103B conven tion campaign. Much fovorablo com ment was heard on -the show, which .watt y-'i'duced by Raymond O. Wll llni. Incidentally, this was the ninth production he has put on for the legion. The La Grande delegation to As toria, including the drum corps, will leave on No. 21 Wednesday noon. Enterprise olao is expected to take this train, and the Eastern Oregon group will be transferred to o special train at Portland which also will carry the Klamath Palls and Southern Oregon legionnaires. A few of the La Granders will drive to Astoria Instead of taking the train. BISHOP HOME FROM EUROPE Most Rev. Joseph F. Mflarth. S. T. 13.. bishop of Baker, arrived In Baker last Friday after an absence of nearly five months In Europe. He visited Ireland. Italy ond attended the Pas sion play In Obcrammergau, Germany. He says that the nations of Europe are bent on war, and tourists from the peaceful United States prefer to make their stay in continental Eurojc very short. MAY YET HAVE TEETH IN IT Macon 'Mothers' WMmm- fell Hovering protectiiiRlv ovnr (lie line of mnirh, Americas queen ot Iho skies keeps n mollicily eyo on California LeRlonimircs ns they pnindo down San Francisco's fnmert Mnrkot st. during tho lGlh annual De partment of California convention. DEATH COMES TO SPEAKER RAINEY LATE YESTERDAY WASHINGTON, Aug. SO (P) The fnuenil of Speaker Henry 'I'. Italney will he held late Wednesday after noon ut ('arrollton, Illinois, By (v, l it. Oleksnii WASHINGTON. AUjr. 20 (!) The flafi flew at half Htaff above the caplto today as WushiiiKtoii'Sormwe:! over Henry T. Ralney and wondered who would fill his powerful post. Tho death of tho silver haired .speaker, a kindly man wha could be come stern In putting the Hooscvclt new deal through the house, came as a shock to friends and fo. alike. Speaker Rainey diel late yesterday at St. Louis from angina pectoris, fol lowing an attack of 'bronchial pneu monia. The successor to the speaker's chair considered by many to Iw the second most important post la the government Is In doubt. The Demo crats will determine their choice at (Continued on Pago Two) Legion Parade! NFA SEVERAL MEN ARE INJURED BY FLAMES 17r,00(),000 Pcet of Tim- I)cr limned in South Boise Basin Fire Gains Rapidly. M IM'Y, ( ill., Aug. M1 Kaging (Mil of eontnil, forest fire today caused Injuries lo wveral men and destroyed morn than l7r.,(l()H.0ini feet of 1 1 in her a.4 nppnixlniately I.HIMI fire fl(;her (might lo co nl ml It. limner belong ing to the tjitiney Lumber eoiiiipaii.v and the I'ealher Klver I. umber coiii- pany wux destroyed. Paul Pltchlyn, assistant regional forester from San Francisco, was hero to direct the fire fighters. The men on tho lines were showing fatigue, some having been on duty :Hi conse cutive hours before they had an op portunity to sleep. (Continued On Page Four) JOSEPH STRONG DIES SATURDAY Joseph LeRoy Strong, I4, passed away very suddenly Saturday after noon at Ills tire repair shop at the Union Oil Co. station. Mr. Strong wiih a pioneer business man of I.a Grande, having started tho first tire repair shop hero some 1H yenrs ago, He hud many friends in this section and Ills passing was a Kieat shock to his family and friends. He 1h survived by his widow and two sons, Clyde, who Is associated with him In busi ness, and Vernon Ijrltoy, of La Grande; by five step-sons, Harold Hoik, ton of Salem; Richard, nf Bray Mill. Ore., and El wood. Willlard and lx-p, of La Grande; two step-daughters Florence Houston, of Pendleton, and Myrtle Lamoreaux, of Salt Lake (Continued on Pago Two) Wheat Today 'I he price ol Iwa1 new crop cash whenl stmnl fit about Wi' cents hulk here loil.'iv, according to t hi I'liiueiT lloiirliiK mills, Portland t-ash 81 cents. No ex jxrt blil. CHICAGO, Aug. 20 Ari Grain prlre advances built up during most of totlayV trading on strength in for eign market and an Increasing de mand for rwih wheat and corn were red tired Just before tli-e wesslon'H cl'wo by a wave of profit taking sales. Wheat closed unsettled at to f'J,c adviince, December new 91. 04 ut 0.r. Corn 'ilshed !flc off to "..c up, December In'-'VK. 0:its iiwd rye reentered fnurtional Hdvanciu. re cemhKT new rye finishing at H(Ic. Mar ley futures showed advances of more than 2c. JUST BEFORE PRESSTIME WAItNS OX FOOD PHH'KS H1Z.V lKAN UKINKTATKI) AIIOI.l'HH Mi:-IOl' TO WKI I'Ur.MMMS l'OH IIOMIfl WASllINtlTON, Miff. 20 (P) Dr. Fred V. Howe, farm ndinlnlstrjitlon rousumerH' counsel, suk Rested ttwlay that cMULsiimrrH watch the drouth situation closely to avoid being vic timized by unjiistlflel price advances. He also said at n press oonreremx that Mime false rumors concerning the food tiltualhui had heen circu- ST. LOUIS. Auk. 20 (VP Dizzy Dean, star pitcher of the St. Louiu Cardin als, woa restored to good standing late today lifter a hearing beforo Kenesiiw Mountain Landls, baseball commis sioner, but tho $100 fine asseaiod AKnltist him for missing an exlilbl tlon KJ"no lu Detroit was allowed to eland. HOLLYWOOD, ml., Aug. 20 (P) Vcrree Teosdate ami Ailolphe MciiJimi will rile notice of Intention to weil Tuesday, the actress uniiouiu'iiil to day. .WASHINGTON, Aug. 20 (AV-Sub-Htantlal premiums were offered the reconstruction corjioratlon today for a group of municipal .bonds held by tho public works administration. SUNNYVALE, Tul., Aug. 20 P) Tho rnltrd States navy dirigible Mu eoti will leave liert at K a. in. tomor row for a Induing flight, to Seattle, Wash., naval officers t Mofrett field announced bent today. 1NSULL REFUSED SEVERANCETODAY BY FEDERAL JUDGE CHICAGO. Aug. 20 (T) Samuel Instill Sr., woh refused ft severanco today and ordered to stand trial with his 10 co-defendants Sept. 18 on the charge that they used tho malls fraudulently In marketing Corpora tion Securities company stocks. Instill had osked to bo tried separ ately, assuming responsibility for the conduct of the Investment house and lU calamitous crash, and pleading that a trial lengthened by the multl- (Contlnucd On Poro Four) BOATING PARTY ENDS IN TRAGEDY PORTLAND, Ore., Aujr. 20 Surviving members of three Portland families today coxmtcd tho traRlc toll of a Sunday afternoon boating' party on tho Columbia river here. One family had lost a mother and son; another mourned a father and daughter; and the third had lost a son. Tho five persons were drowned late Sunday afternoon when a IB-foot outboard motor hoot In which they were riding up the Columbia turned suddenly and capsized. Mrs. O. O. MeCaim and her son Dclbert were killed. Mr. MeCann and his flvo-ycor-old daughter Orva were saved. Police still wore dragging the river for tho bodies of Marvin Gholson, 37, and his six-year-old daughter Audrey. Mrs. Gholson and her daughter, Jean, Kcven, stayed afloat with an automo bile Inner tube until they were pulled to shore. Hilly Nelson a youth, man aged to cling to the overturned boat for a short time, but sank before rescuers reached him. VOTE FOR HITLER IS LESS THAN IN 1933 Hy Lhuer V. Peterson DKHLIN. Autr. 20 n') Germany has given Adoir Hitler a thirty eight million voto "Jo." In Sunday's one man election, called to let the people yuy by ballot If they approved Chan cellor Hitler's action in naming him self, upon the death of President von Ilindenburg. as president too, the vote was : y).ft-'.3r)2.760; "No" 4,204.054; "Invalid" 72.2fl. Some see In these preliminary offi cial figure a a waning in enthusiasm for Hitler, pointing out that yester day's "no" votes were more than twice the number cast In lost Novem ber's plebiscite. Attention Is also calh'J to the sharp decline In the volnnio or Nazi party vtto as corn pared with the NovemlM-r voting. In the November plebiscite there wcio 43,45,000 "Ja" votes, and lu the BITTERNESS BREAKS OUT IN PORTLAND Rightwing Offshoot Prom I. L. A.; Attacked During Meeting. , POLICE ARRIVE AFTER SHOOTING Rocks and Bullets Figure in Latest Echo of Dock Strike Recently Set tled. PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 20 (IF) Three men were arrested and 20 others sought for questioning Into fntul shoot Ihr here today or one ninn and wounding of uuotlier lit a mob at tack on u group of longshoremen who bolted regular union ranks during the reoeidl const srlke. , PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 20 (At Hitter, factional strife dating from tho recent most witerfront strike was blamed for a waterfront battle In which one longshoreman wo shot ami killed ond another wounded, here tmhty. Both James Conner, who -was killed, and R. A. Griffin, wounded toy a bul let, were members of the Columbia River Longshoremen's association fCnnOrtntrt on Pajr Fnurt Al Capone Will ; Finish -Term In Alcatraz Prison NEW OR.IJ3ANS, Aug. 20 OP) Al Capone, America's public enemy No. 1 long beforo the world had ever heard of John Dilllnger, Is on his way to a new prison home. He Is being transferred, with great secrecy, from Atlanta penitentiary to the now Al cotroJi prison in San Francisco bay tho prison federal authorities call "impregnable. " With 42 other prisoners, Capone was whisked out of tho penitentiary in Atlanta In tho early hours of Sun day. Guarded by a picked squad of federal agents carrying automatic shotguns, tho prisoners were placed In two specially built screened and barred railroad cars and started on their way to Alcatraz tho Island pri son fortress designed for convicts con sidered too dangerous to be kept in ordinary prisons. Although federal authorities main tained a tight-lipped silence about reports tho former Chicago gang leader was being sent to the Pacific coast prison, his presence In the group was established by newspapermen when tho convict cars arrived here. Plies and paraphernalia for a Jail break found In tho cells of soma of tho 43 prisoners speeded the plans of tho government to send tho men to Alcatraz. Baseball AMKKICAV LKAfJCB No gomes scheduled today. NATIONAL LEAdlJB Brooklyn 2 8 0 Pittsburgh 6 IS I Hahtch, Clark, Carroll and Lopez; Swift and Oracc. New York 7 13 1 Cincinnati 4 11 2 Par mo lee, Hubbetl and Moncuso; Frcttos, Kolp, Johnson, Klein nans and Lombard!. (November relchstog election tho Nazi vote was 3'J.6S5, 224. With but few exceptions, the 35 major voting districts produced In yesterday's election fewer "Ja" votes than were coat In November. Some observers see this as a failure of the German voters to respond to the ap peals of Nazi orators during the past few days that a larger affirmative voto bo cast so that the world might know the nation Is solidly behind "Meln Fuehrer" Presidont Chan cellor Hitler. ' "Yes" votes placed 80.0 per cent of the total, as against 95 per cent in the plebiscite ot nine months ago. Hitter today took cognizance of the I out of 10 votes opposition with the declaration: "Wo must and shall succeed In winning over the last 10 per cent of the nation for national Socialism." 7 4 SV V"-
