La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, August 22, 1934, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Text100-Acre Forest Fire Burning In Ladd Canyon La Grande Is The Gateway to Wallowa, 'The Switzerland of America Only Newspaper Printed in La Grande Covering Union and . Wallowa Counties VOLUME 32 tASTKUN OltEOON'S LEADING NEWSPAPEB LA GRANDE, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1934 MEM11KH ASSOCIATED PHB8S NUMBER 294 tt?tttttg 65 FIGHTING BLAZE SOUTH OF THIS CITY No Valuable Timbei' Men aced Hope to Control Fire By .Night. EMIGRANT SPRINGS C. C. C. BOYS HELP Battle Against Forest Fires in Western Idaho Continues Without Abatement. A forest fire, covering approxi mately 100 ucres of cutover slash Iiibs In burning today In Lartd CUnyuii with l Inree "'v of men expecting lo have the fire, under control by evening. The fire started yenterduy on the creek near Ihe mill, and by night Had reached the top of the mountain. State Fire Warden I. C. Morehead Is at the scene and some nine or ten other state men, along with 55 C.C.C. boys from Emigrant Springs camp. The forest service at Baker sent a truck and equipment to use In bat tling tno blaze, which is on state land. Conditions are not particularly favorable, with low humidity and much high grass in the tract. It Is believed that no valuable timber Is menaced by the flames, which are thought to have started from a clgaret. BOISE, Idaho. Aug. 22 UP) The battle against forest fires In Western Idaho shifted today to the Middle Pork of the Payette river where a 3,000 acre blaze was burning out of control. In the Boise national forest, where 20,000 acres lay charred by a five day fire, the blaze appeared Hearing control. V. F. W. Post To Install Safety Signs on Roads The Mi. Emily poit No. 2990 of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, at semi-monthly meeting at the Eagl--s hall last night, authorized Its com mlttee on safety to go ahead with the Installation of caution signs at tlie three entrances to La .Grande, The sign would caution motorists against lvckless driving In the city. Plans for a survey of unemployed members were launched, also, with the records to be kept on file In statr headauarters. A member to take charge of this work locally Is to b named later, according to Command er Fred Roberto. Several members also are making plans to go to Pendleton Labor day. when the Let 'er Buck V. F. W. post there will dedicate Its new club house. GOLF CLUB IN TROPHY PLAY AUGUST 25-26 Country club members tire looking forward to this weekend, when one of the most important local tourna ments of the year will be held at the golf course the 36-hole handi cap play for the Sacajawea trophy. Eighteen holes will be played each day by most, although a few may crowd the entire 30 holes Into one day. ROOF FIRE ON COVE AVENUE Considerable damage to the roof on E. R. Humphreys" home at 1808 Cove avenue was caused by fire this morning, of an unknown origin. The fire department, answering an alarm at 11:05 a. m held the blaze to the roof and soon extinguished it. The recall was sounded at 11:35 o'clock. LA GRANDE FACING EARWIG INCREASE Unless some action Is taken quick ly, chances are La Grande will be overrun with earw:; next year. This Is the belief of officials here, who arj endeavoring to obtain sufficient pub lic si$port to obtain 6,000 -jrasltlzed earwigs for immediate release In La j Orande. Lynn Larson, secretary of the La Grande chamber flf commerce, re ports that 27 persona have donated a dollar to the fnd, but that $18 more Is nrded to purchase the 6, 000 pest killers. "The time te getting short and If something isn't done soon, there'll be plenty of earwigs to fight next year." 1 -arson said today. County Agent H. II Duce Running Dictators' School HSINKINO, Man chukuo, Aug. 21 No more monkey shines In Austria, The Austrian chance llor has been, visiting Mus solini and learn ing a lot. This fellow Benito Is running a free school for dicta tor. They all com-a to him to learn how You don't have to to put it over. worry about dictators In America un til Rex Tiurwcll passes his entrance exams at Mussolini's academy. Youra, Cit fa?" l34 MeNaiirht Svmllrct. lW ONE KILLED; TWO INJURED ON HIGHWAY Oregon Trail Near Telo caset Scene of Accident To Kansas Party. , Mrs. (icorge Van Orsdnl, of Sal hut, Kiiii., whs almost Instantly killed near Telwaset about 3 o'clock this after noon w lie ii her rj.r overturned four time on the Old Oregon Trail high way. Her daughter, Vera Van Orsdol and Mrs. M. K. Oartln, both of Hul- Iiiii, suffered minor I n Juries. The two passengers were dozing at the time immediately preceding the accident and were unable to tell Just how it happened. It appears. Coroner Cleorge Walker reported, that the car swerved from the highway onto the shoulders and then overturned. Mrs. Van Orsdol's skull was frac tured. The group was en route home after a visit on the coast. It was learned. ' Corner Walker brought the body to La Grande about 3 p. m. and expected to make further investigation of the fatal accident later today. ROTARIANS ENJOY MUSICAL PROGRAM The Lit Grande Rotary club lunch eon tcday was turned over to a musi cal program, witli Mr, and Mrs. Charles Mixer, who have entertained the group frequently In the lt.it sev eral months, making a farewell ap pearance. They are to leave here during tho coming uek. Miss Genevieve Jordan, of Seattle, daughter of Sam Jordon of the La Grande hotel, played two violin selec tions. Mr. Culp, of Boise, was a visiting Rotarian. Dr. Ray Murphy presided In thi ab sence of President Oscar Warnock. TENNIS TOURNEY TO BEGIN FRIDAY The La Grande Tennis club will hold Its annual club tournament at its courts In West La Grande Frldny, Saturday and Sunday, it was an nounced today. Dud and Leella Starr are offering a trophy for the men's singles. Other trophies are being pre sented by the club. Finals will be phyed on Sunday. OF (illtL TENNIS PI.AYEHS PHILADELPHIA A Throw away your eyebrow tweezers and you won't need eyeshades. Is the advice of Dr. Fred S. Humlock to girl tennis play ers. Hunlock. player and tournament director at a club here, says the fad of fhining the eyebrows has been responsible for more than one femi nine player resorting to a visor for protection from sun glare. "Instead of pulling out their eye brows the girls should encourage them to grow thick," he says, "and they wouldn't need visors." O. Avery believes 6.000 parasitized earwigs aro necessary to handle the situation here, and doubts that a .smaller number would do much good. Unless action is taken soon, Larson indicated it would be necessary to give up tho plan and return to the donors what money already has been CA'lected. He said that wherever tried, the parasitized earwigs have proven the most effective method of killing out the peg First earwigs were discovrr ed here lat year, and sines then they have been found In every section of the city, with every prospect of a tre mendous increase during the next 12 months. Seeks to Improve American Ballet Florence Meyer, daughter of the former head of the Federal Re serve Bank, Eugene Meyer, an nounces she will seek to con tribute to American art through the Improvement and development of the ballet as a nutlve dauca form. She has lust returned from study with European wasters. SIX ALREADY IN RACE FOR S Pel It Ions for nix candidates for election as city cumin Is loners of Ijx Grande are now being circulated, It learned today. The petitions are for the three- present ciHinnirisltmern, V. II. Melville, William Conrtlt umE F. J. Lotteti, and for Ailhur.Hremcr, .1. K. Fitzgerald and William (Jrliler. Petitions for Bremer were started several days ago. and petitions for the others were put into circulation yes terday afternoon. Two hundred twenty-five names of legal voters ai? required to nominate, but circulators are being advised to obtain between 250 and 300, to bo sure that there will be sufficient legal voters in cluded. Nominating petitions may be filed up to a p. m. Sept. 22. Both Fitzgerald and Grider are former city councilmen. serving back In the days when the Beaver Creek water system was installed. There are rumors that one or two more may enter the city commission race. If tills occurs it will throw the election into the fimt and second choice system of preferential voting. The city charter provides that If there are more than twice the number of candidates for the number of offices vacant, first and second choice votes will be taken. If ten candidates were to appear, making the candidates (Continued on Page Threa; THE fckgffl-gc" LEAVE TODAY FOR ASTORIA La Grande Group Deter mined to Bring-1935 Convention Here. CHAMPION CORPS TO DEFEND TITLE Part of Local Delegation Takes Noon Train Others Making Trip in Autos. Determined lo hrlng (lie 1SX1 state convention to Ui Cnimle, more than luiir n hundred members of'the Am erican l.t'ulou Hst and Its auxiliary today were en mute to AKUirUi, tvlu-ro the ilKII convention begin tomorrow. Part or flic l.a (Iruudc delegation left on) the noon train today mid the re mainder were motoring. . ' The La Grniulers were headed by Commander Fred Read; tho only nom inee for 1034-35 commander Buck Knight: Fral E. Kiddle, past', state commander who Is a standing dele gate to all state conventions by vir tue of his former position. Official delegntes- aro Victor Eck lcy. Chester Thomphon. W. E. Wllkln-3 (Continued on. Pago Two) Brooklyn Gang Evades Police Despite Traps Ity Dale Harrison BROOKLYN, N. Y., Aug. 22 (A1) A new arch criminal, craftier than a Capone and deadlier than a Dilllnger, hid today from the law. with the largest loot of cash ever taken in an American holdup jingling in his Jeans. - His $427,000 robbery of an armored truck yesterday was so smoothly and his escape made so swiftly that his trail ran everywhere today Into dead ends. The police, falling In their quickly set trap yesterday to snare the des perado and his men. turned their full strength today Into the hunt. No arrests have been made, but scores of men, women and children witnesses to all or part of the holdup have been questioned. Some credence was given to a theory the crime was conceived In the brain of some former bootlegger made desperately poor by repeal. This theory was given substance by the finding Inst night of empty money bags possibly the very bagH in which the $427,000 was being transported in the rear of FMnnerty's bar ano grill at 2115 Emmons avenue, Sheeps head Bay, Brooklyn. The robbery Is without precedent either in the size of the cash loot or in the nature of the theft itself. Never before has an armored truck of the United Trucking corporation been robbed. AWFUL MORAL EFFECT In a Sphere All Their Own " -" . .V, . ...., ' 4 , All that goes up must come down nnd Dr. William Boobo and OtU Barton took udvanlago of lhat tact to sot a now diving record, tuolr Kieut steel balliysnhero tuklnK them down 3,028 feet oft Bermuda. Here the start of the descent Is pictured the sphere U Doing raised from the deck of their barge preparatory to being lowered. JAPANESE EYES .TURNED TOWARD ARIZONA TODAY TOKYO, Aug, 22 W) Arizona to day supplanted Manchuria as Japan's principle trouble zone, the afternoon newspapers devoting a great deal of space to the difficulty between Am erican and Japanese farmcm In tho Salt River valley. The developments In Arizona eclipsed even the squabble with Rus sia over the China Eastern railway as a topic of editorial comment. Officials welcomed the action of William Phillips, acting secretary of state at Washington, who In a tele gram to tho Arl'Aona governor urged that the Japanese fanners there be protected against violence. Phillies' message was regarded as evidence that the United States government seeks to prevent the situation from becoming an international issue, but the foreign office is wn telling the developments anxiously. (Continued on Page Five) GOSH, IT SeerAS ) AS IF MOTHIMCT IS PERWAM9MT ANY MORE I 24 NEW NAVY SHIPS TO BE BUILT SOON Government Awards Con tracts Plans to Make U. S. Navy Second to None. WASHINGTON', Aug. 2'J (n The program fo rulsu the fulled Stales navy to a power nnsm himm on the seas swung forward today wtlh award of contracts Tor t-oiiHtrm'tlun of Z righting vessels. Eleven of the ships will be built by private shipbuilding yards and 13 by Navy yards. The construction awards were: One 10,000 ton light cruiser to tho Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock company, Newport News, Va.. ai 1,650,000; another light cruiser to (Continued On Page Tlve) BIG REPUBLICAN VOTE IN MONTANA CHEYENNE, Wyo., Aug. 22 iAf A heavy Republican vote, in sharp con trast to the overwhelming Demo cratic majority which the state re turned in the 1932 general election, was registered as tabulation of yester day's balloting in the Wyoming pri mary continued today. The early loads established by Con gressman Vincent Carter, candidate for the Republican nornlnstion for U. 8. Senator: A. M. Chirk, for the Republican nomination foj governor, and Leslie A. Miller, Incumbent, for the Democratic gubernatorial nom ination were maintained. On the Democratic side Senator J. O. O'Mahoney was unopposed as was Paul R. Oreever, candidate for con Kress. Wheat Tcday The price of loeul easli new crop wheat Mood at a hou I, (iu hulk here today, aeeonllng to the Pioneer t'loiirlng Mllh, Portland iilsIi KpjC. ti export I j ltl . CHICAOO, Aug. 32 i. After minor rallies, wlwat prices today sagged at the clone to a net fractional loss Corn, on tho other hand, worked In to higher ground, quotations moving up almost a cent, but reacted to an urn? ven finish. The decline was In fluoncod to some extent by reports of good rains In part of Oklahoma and Texas. Wheat clo-e to ""ic down, De cemter now at ftl.05'j, '4. Corn sxiwed 'if! loss to c gain. Decem- bT 'iptlons cl-wing at 7H'ic to 1,4 c after hitting a high of 70r. Oats and rye showed little change although late deliveries of rye were fractionally lower, Lfird was slightly higher. JUST BEFORE PRESSTIME coi.i.KUK c()-i:i mi inn:iti;it C.U'ONK THAIS' AltltlVKH OK. POI.lNtl TAKES POSITION CANADA TO Ill'Y MIAMI IIIIt.MIMUIAM, Ala., Aug. 23 l) The iHMty of Miss Fuyo New, miming llowurd college H)-ed, was found by volunteer wan-heri this utter noon In a cornfield near lmiulale. Her tluoa( had iM-en cut uiwl he luul been dead for at least 24 hours. Harold Taylor. '!!, was heia for iU'stlonlng. SANRANOISCO. Aug. 22 IJP) A heavily guarded convict train, sup posedly carrying Searfnce Al Oapone and other dmpenuloes, was run sec retly onto a bargo nnd taken to the new federal prison on Alcatnu island In the bay here today. AMtANY, Aug. 22 A Dr. I. V. Poling, Preshyterlan olergyntan, lias acxvjitl a position as field man for the state board nf higher education. He will travel about the state s eon tart man between the lUgh schools and state colleges. , OTTAWA. Aug. 22 m The do minion government has accepted tenders under which It will inn-chase 220,000 ounces of silver at an average price, of 4fi,40 cents an ounce, Cana dian funds. Announcement to this effect was made today toy Sir George Perley, acting minister of finance. OAltUOIXTON. III., Aug. 22 (P) A speelal train, hearing President Roose velt to the funeral here of Speaker Henry T. ItaLuev, arrived at 3:35 p. m., 0, S. T.) VISITS WESTERN OREGON POINTS 1EUOENE, Aug. 22 (P) J- Making a majestio right-angle turn over the center of Eugene, ihe great dirigible Macon soared westward toward the coast after thrilling thousands of EugenncnnB hero this morning. PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 22 (A) The United States navy dirigible Macon left Washington behind as she ar rived over Portland at 10:17 a, m., headed toward her base at Sunnyvale, Cal. SEATTLE, Aug. 22 AV-Tho United State navy dirigible Macon, her sil very sides gleaming In the rays of an August sun, visited the Pacific northwest today. She paid Seattle a 20-mlmito call on her maiden trip to the northwest. GANGSTERS KILL 2 IN MONTREAL MONTREAL, Aug. 22 (4) Detec tives of tho homicide squad seized six men In a raid on a small hot.? early today and rushed them to head quarters for questioning In cornice tion with the slaying yesterday of Charles Felgcnbaum, paroled smug' gler. Detectives said five of the men arrested were United States citizens and the other was a Canadian. Tho raid climaxed a night of police ac tlvity. Authorities expressed fear that United State. gangsters wero seeking a haven In Montreal. Felgcnbaum was shot to death as ho stepped from his automobile late yesterday, tho second man to be kill- (Continued on Page Four) DeHhong Is Yanks' "Fireman" NEW YORK It Jimmy DeShong 's proving a great day-saver for the Yankees. Two of the yearlings best mho performances have come In after- nieces of double-headers after the Yanks had lost the opener. Once he itopped tho Athletics with one hit and another time checked Boston with four harmless blows. RURAL THIL0 VANCE' SOLVES 250 CASES lly (ieorge Tucker MT. HOLLY, N. J., Au. 21 (A) OrlKzled old Eil:u Parker, Burlington county's rural Phllo Vance, Is one up on those big game hunters who go Into the Jungle with only a camera. Ho catches murderers with postage stamps. His amazing consistency has plied up a record comparable to any In American criminal history, with more than a&Q cases successfully solved and 121 murderers hanged or electro cuted. How docs he do It? To understand old Ellis you've got to come down here and get acquaint ed. You've got to b-ecome a part of this tranquil community where things are bo quiet that even tho birds haven't been startled slnco Washing ton swung through on tho trail of the British, You've got to trudgv SHORT HOURS, HIGHER PAY FOR 200,000 President Approved Changes By NRA in Cot- -ton Garment Industry. CHANGE WILL BE ' EFFECTIVE OCT. 1 Move Also Expected , to Permit Re-employment of 10,000Cost to Con sumer Small. ;. WASHINGTON. A nr. 22 UFU NBA today announced presidential approT-j al of a reduction of weekly work hours from 40 to .10 without any cut In weekly wagea for the 200,000, workers In the cotton garment Indus-k to. President Roosevelt signed an exi ecuttvo order late yesterday amend-'1 Ing the cotton garment code to UtttL end. The change is effective Oct. 1- NRA said the effect of the order. would be equivalent not only to an increase of about 11 per cent In tho hourly pay rato and a rise of about 10 per cent above May 1 levels in piece rates, but would also permit re-employment of more than 10,000 workers. ' The direct cost to the consumer ofi the shorter hours, higher wage rateai ana re-empioymenc oi me many thousands of workers was estimated by officials at less than two per' cent. Evangelist Says Kidnaping Just A Hoax OOLDSBORO, N. C, Aug. ?2 Rer. H. KfjAhkew. "our .Square Oospel evangelist, comesesa toaay, onsrur Paul Garrison said, that his atorr of being 'kidnaped waa untrue and1 that he wrote the ransom mesaaaea received by1 his wife. , f "I needca a rest and hod to getT away," the sheriff quoted Askew saying in explanation of his action. The 28-year-old levangt3t dis appeared August 13. He turned up in Nashville, Tenn., four days later and told offlcors there he had been held prisoner by three men In a big green automobile. (IKTS LONE VOTK, WINS CANYON, Tex. W Becauso hi received a single "write-In" vote, O. N. H irrlson Jr., can be county sur vcyor if he wishes to qualify; for the office. There were no candidates In tho election, but one voter wrote la Harrison's name. Baseball American League H. E. 7 i Chicago LoAton i (10 lnnlnga). Batteries: Tlotje luid Shea; W. Per rell and B. Perrell. FIRST OAMB: R. H. B. Cleveland 0 3 3 No v York I 14 O Batteries: Pearson. Lee, Wlnaganl er nnd Berg: Oamez and Dlckoy. SECOND GAME: B. jr. B. Cloveland 10 14 1 Now York 4 10 1 Batteries: Harder and Pytlak; De shong, Murphy, Broaca and Dlckoy, Jorgens. B. H. B. St. Louis 0 8 0 Philadelphia 3 7 0 Batteries: BIneholder, Andrews unit Hcinslcy; Dietrich and Berry. No National league garws eched" uleU today. around the countryside and visit with the neighbors. You've got to taUc crops with them and pitch horse shoes. Lifted Ills Fiddle Parker has been chief of Burling ton county detectives 41 years, but he wasn't always a detective. He used to stroke a fiddle In a hill-billy or cliestra at country dances. Then some sneak -thief stole his fiddle and Ellis was so enraged ho became a detective. After that he u&xl to chase horse thieves through the cranberry bog, and then eventu ally ho becn to solve murder mys teries. In dealing with a case the first tiling he does Is learn th facts. Then he sits down and reasons things out. tftOut here, he says, indicating ths ' j (ConUnued on Page Two)