La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, August 24, 1934, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextMail Truck Driver Robbed Of $509000 At Butter, Pa toniir Xa Grande Is The Gateway to Wailowa, 'The Switzerland of America Only NewspaJer Printed in La Grande Covering Union and ' Wallowa Counties VOLUME 32 EASTERN OREGON'S LEADING NEWSPAFEB LA GRANDE, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 1934 MEMUEB ASSOCIATED PRESS NUMBER 296 t" IT. HA1MS F01EST FIRE SPREADING 'J' X r r I, L 1 CREW OF 95 WORKING TO HALT BLAZE Started From Grass Fire Late Yesterday Near Pratt Place. ABOUT 500 ACRES REPORTED BURNING Some Good Timber in Flaming Area Look out Tower Not Menaced So Far, Report. Niiicty-rive forest (Ire tighten were working rrverlHhly toilay on the west Flope or Alt. IlurrlK, east of Elgin, In an uttenipt to cnlll rontrol of a blaze that already lias covered approxlmate ly roo acre of tlmlierlaml. 1-ute this morning the flumes were still out of Urol, hut the spread wus not bo lust us during Inst nlKhl. Fifty-five Emigrant Springs C. C. C. boys end 40 other firefighters, In charge of state fire wardens, were on the scene this morning, according to reports received here. In addition to the main burn, sev eral spot fires were reported. Some of the timber is of a merchantable quality, while much of it Is repro duction. With the humidity low and the forests very dry, and rocky slopes that make construction of fire guards very difficult, the crews of men are facing a serious situation. Tho lookout tower, which last night was believed menaced, was thought out of danger today. The fire Is about a mile from, the tower and unless a strong wind comes'up, it Is believed It will escape the flames. The fire started about 4 p. m. yes terday afternoon In grass near the Ed Pratt place along the road, pre sumably started by a clgaret thrown from a car, according to reports reaching L. C. Morehead. The fire burned In grass about a mile to the timber, where It caught. About 30 men were put on the fire1 front early lust evening end the others were re cruited as rapidly as possible. Early last night about 100 acres wero burn ing and the spread was quite rapid, (Continued on Page Eight! Valley Escapes Full Force Of CoastHot Spell Whllo the state as a whole swel tered yesterday. La Grande escaped unusually high temperatures. The maximum here was 91 above, slight ly warmer than earlier this week but hardly more than seasonal. The min imum last night was 55 above, four degrees warmer than Thursday's low. The weather forecast today indi cated continuance of fair skies, but with cooler weather in the interior of tho stato. Maximum temperatures yesterday Included Walla Walla 92, Yakima 92, Roseburg 100, Medford 100, Portland 93, Seattle 86, Boise 90, Baker 88 and Spokane 84. Tho country east of the Cascades was experiencing relatively cooler temperatures than that west of the mountains. Wholesale Food Prices Gain In The Last Week ' WASHINGTON, Aug. 24 (P) The highest level of wholesale food prices since August, 1931, was reported to day by the labor department for the week ended August 18. For the same amount of food the retailer had to pay $L in 1926, he had to pay 74 cents last week. The department's Index for the week was 2.5 per cent above that for the previous week and 15 per cent above that for the corresponding week last year. WALLOWA LAKE BOYS' CAMP ACTIVITIES An inter-tent swimming meet was held Sunday afternoon with tent No. 4. headed by Dan Biggs, winning. Noel Slenning of Portland was high point man of the meet. The events and winners are as follows: SO-yard free style (Juniors John Kopp), (sen iorsNoel Slenning) : 60-yard back stroke (Juniors Bob Allen), (seniors John Biggsi; 50-yard relay tent No. 4 (Kopp, Allen, Dan Biggs); quarter mile boat race tent No. 4 ( Horold Weeks. John Biggs, Don Sheltonl; reading race Slenning; tower diving Jack Cox; boat tilting tents Nos. a and 6 tied. Saturday a meet wilt be held to determine the winners of the two aquatic me do is which are Russia Is Just Kidding on Sale TCHITA, Siberia. Aug. 22 Been waiting to reach a j town that Ameri-, can readers could pronounce. OUIta, that Is an old Am erican word. Came up through Korea, then the length and breadth of Manchuria. Wa3 two days on, the Chinese Eastern railway. That's the one Japan, is trying to buy, but take this tip: Russia won't sell. She is just kidding them. Tell you some thing about all the military preparations on both sides. I saitf some time I would tell you. This Is the heart of Eastern Siberia. All a beautiful prairie, not a tree, not a fence. Just gross up to your stir rups. Tomorrow we paw around beau tiful Lake Baikal. Yours, DRUM CORPS IS SECOND IN 40-8 PARADE La Grande Legion Active At Astoria Convention; Brady Elected to State, Office. The La firamle American Legion post continued to hold the limelight hi the state convention nt Astoria yesterday and last night, according to Associated Press reports. In competi tion Inst night the La tlromle drum corps was second to Portland Past No. I In the prize for the corps In cluding the most -10 et 8 members. Tonight l-a Ornnde will defend Its stale championship In annual com petition. In the 40-8 society election yester day, Hugh E. Brady, of La Grande, was elected avocat, one of the state offices of this organization. The Corvallis American Legion drum corps took first honors for the best appearance in the convention parade last night. Portland post No. 1. was second with Roseburg third. The annual colorful drum and bugle corps competition will be held tonight with the La Grande corps attempting to defend its state cham pionship. Awards also will he made (Continued on Page Thread ANNUAL TENNIS TOURNEY BEGINS ON CITY COURTS Drawings for the annual city tennis tournament were completed last night at the offices of Charles Reynolds and matches were being played today (Contmueo on Page Eight) FLOWER SHOW IS OPEN TO COUNTY The Neighborhood club annual Pall Flower show, to be held in the La Grande hotel large ballroom Aug. 30. will be open to exhibitors from any part of Union county, it was emphasized today, and the club will welcome out-Qf-town blossom dis plays. All flowers must be entered by (Continued on Page Efyht) to be given to the swimmers in camp. best all-round Two axes are V be given to the two scouts who show the most work and advancement in scouting. Two cups will be given for the best all round campers. The boys returned Tuesday from an overnight hike. Part of the group went to Bear Camp, about four miles up the river, the remainder going to Horseshoe lake In the Lake Basin. About 12 boys went on a four-day i hike on which they will take In all (Continued on Page Pour) DAMSITES IN THIS COUNTY ARE VIEWED Three On Grande Ronde, Including Meadowbrook, Inspected This Week; Contract Received. Willi Hie eontraet arriving here last night, and with u preliminary checking of dam sites affected the middle, of the week, work Is helm; raslied on the .Meadonurook duniH.te sarvcv, tieorge. T. Cochran, newrtary of the (Irande Itonde Heservolr Co., announced today. The reclamation service olloted (10.000 to this survey with the un derstanding 4,000 would be supplied locally. Mr. Cochran said the com pany expected no difficulty In pro viding this sum, and that the work was colne ahead immediately, with expectations that some of the pre liminary work would be completed by tho time everything Is ready for the actual beginning cf the survey prop er, which will Include drilling into foundations, etc. to determine under ground conditions. Wednesday Foster Towlo. In charge of the Umatilla river survey and the federal rehabilitation of the Stan fleld project, accompanied by Mr. Cochran started a general survey of the Grande Honda river. Meadow brook and Catherine clock damsltcs, and viewed the valley from an Irri gation standpoint. The project at Meadowbrook la primarily a flood con trol project, but the government also Is viewing It from a drouth preven tative phase, also, which would en. (Continued on Page .Two) - : i , - Dan Cupid Must Go On 'National Basis' In Germany BERLIN. Aug. 24 (At The nazzl government has decided to put mar riage on a "rational basis." Eugenics officials Issued today a list of 10 commandments for the guidance of German youth when ap proaching the complex business of marriage. It's all right to "marry for love. but first the young couple must con sider whether their marriage "helps the nation." "Seek a mate mot a playmate for matrimony," says one commandment. i It Is also undesirable, warns an other commandment, for anyone in good health not to marry. Not to do would break "the chain of the generation." "Remember, always, thou are Ger man," says commandment one. ax 1 V , &tms mwM. DOCTOR MAY EXPERIMENT ON "I would not hesitate to use the vaccine on my sons." nr. John A. Kolmcr, professor of medicine ut Temple I Diversity In I'lilladetphlu, asserted In nnmninrlng that he had discovered u preventive vaccine for Infiiiitlle paralysis. If further laboratory testN uf the new discovery verify IiIm clalniH, Or. Kolmcr mnv Inject the devitalized virus of the disease Into the systems of his hoys, John Jr., 15, and Punlel, 11, with whom liu is pictured uhove. MUSSOLINI SEES WAR IN AIR - SAYS ITALY MUST BECOME MILITARISTIC i;oi.o;na, Italy, Aug, 21 ( Tlio "Idea of wur Is flouting in the air" or Europe, Premier MiisMtltnl told ft. i KM) ol fleers today as he suld it beeiioove.s Italy to betumie a militaristic, even a warlike na tion." "No one In Europe wishes war," he Nil (I uh Jin addressed the men from the turret of a heavy as sault tank at the close or Italian army maneuvers. "Hut the thought of It In nail around as, "AX the end or July an uufor seeu situation wleveloHil which was hhnilnr to that which pre vailed In UH I. If we had not sent our divisions to the frontier complications might have result ed tluit could not have been re solved except hy the voice of the cannon. "It- Is noi. necessary to he ready for the war of tomorrow, hut for the wur of t inlay." While his officers cheered him vociferously Mussolini continued: "We must become a military nation. We might even add a warlike nation. "The jmlltlcul, economic ami A VICTIM OF THE NEW n 5 IF TH MAsTlOMAX-IZACTIOM OF SILVER., FOLLOWINU3 THE ABMPOWMEMT of the gold STAMPA-RO AS MEAWS OF expePirAEMTAL. IMFLATIOM TO ReGULATe FOR.E(GM ex. CHANIGE, KAkES POSSIB" K ANi INCRSSE IM CaOVERMMEMT ALLOVMEkTrS FDR UNlPeRPRODOC- TIOM OF FARM FROPOCTS, IM ACCORPAMCF WITH THE A AA-, THEM HOW MAMY E6GS COULD A HEM AND PAY AMP A EFFECT WOULD TK5 HAVE OA) i THE AMERICAM LEAGUE. BATTIMG AVEQACTES AMVHOW? spiritual life of the nation ought to bo bused oil Its military necea-KllleW-. llecau.se certain tuitions rim and others decline It develojts that despite good will conferences and treaties war will accompany the fortune or nations through - out tho centuries." The entire Italian people, he added, today Is ready to resjMind a single unit In case of need. Torttlre Bandits Active In Europe BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, Aug. 24 W) Roasted allvo by torture ban dits. Dmitri Uadioyevlch. a farmer of Gulubats was at tho point of death today In a local hospital. In an effort to save his father from the horrible tort.ure Riwiioyevich's jon, who was bayoneted in cold blood by tho bandits and seriously wounded, finally rovealed the sec ret of the hiding place of his father's money. Tho family hoard totalled $140. DEAL A HALF LAV fM A HALF, AMP WHAT OWN SONS TURN UPWARD DURING WEEK IN BUSINESS Farmine Districts in Cheerful Mood; Iletail Business Shows Gain. NKW YOHK, AllB. 21 Ml III nuiliy division of liiiMiii'ss, Hiilct tli Mwkly Ullll & llniilstrwt tmili! review IjmIiiv, lln-n- was a rtwldwlltiiril for the bet li-r thin week, mill 111 llililltlon. "there wan n fitroiiK revival of He.ntlineiit re Bnrilliis a more vigorous expansion or full hiiKhtcNK than npiM'areil to he In proscet a monlli ao." According to tho summary, tho farming district ore In a more cheer ful mood and the outcome of harrajt Ini!. now In full awing, is running ahead of the quotas Oct, even In tho drouth-stricken states. "Tho rexrts on retail distribution this week." continued the review, "provided a 'basis for mono encour agement than, at any time since hint April, as the rise above tho abnor mally expanded total of a year ago 13 placed conservatively at 6 to 10 per cent. "In nearly all Industrial divisions (Oontlnuod on Page Two) 10 PCT. CUT IN WHEAT IN 1935 WASHINGTON, Aug. 24 (At The AAA may follow up Kb latest wheat movo by relaxing the Kovcrnnicnt'8 control over cotton, corn and 1iok It announced laBt night that wheat production would bo cut only 10 per cent in 1035 In contraat to the 15 per cent slash colled for this year. Wheat was regarded as the bell wether, indicating how the official minds are working. Farmers are asked to cut their normal wheat area of G5,B0O,00O acres down to only 60,000. 000, Under average conditions this is expected ia produce a crop of 775,000,000 bushel. Wheat Today The prlro of local csudi new crop wheal Mood lit about fiK cent hulk today, acconlliig to the Pioneer I'loiirlng Mills. Port, land cnxh 8.Vi cents. No export bid. CHICAGO, Aug. 24 T) Distinct apathy characterized the grain mar ket today and a sluggl'di trade caused wheat prices to fluctuate narrowly about the previous day's closing quo tations. Wheat endl with fractional gains. Front In Canadian regions and In the Dakota caused little anxiety. Liverpool's strength wat an early buoyant factor. Wheat advanced V2 to lie as com pared with yesterday's finish, Decem ber new cloning at 1.04 oi $105. Corn was u, l i4c up. Dec. 78 u, 70c: oats c-c up, rye -6c up and bailey unchanged to He up. Provis ions were slightly higher, JUST BEFORE PRESSTIME JOHNSON TO IIK.Ml MIA . lKOI 1 ItOAD IMMMKCTN w STATU I'Ol.iri; CHAMiti nttii.u WOMAN ACTSUS TAYI.OK WAKIIINCTOV. Atiir. ''-I tA lnd- tloiit lt4Misevelt jh formulating with aides u legislative program for mak ing perimuieul cvrtalu pluws of the emergency nut I mini recovery act and he umioumt'd tmlay he exiMt'ted Hugh S. Jo has on to continue us tul mliilstrutor. PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 24 Th? otate highway commission today eliminated two projects from lta fed eral fund program to provide 10O. 000 for extension of the Wilson River road as an aid to timber salvage op erations In the burned area of Tilla mook county. They were the pro posed bridge across the Moialla river, (63,000, and the reconstruction of the Columbia river highway at Cascade liocks, $50,000. ASTOIIIA, Oil'., Alls. 21 ("I Tniiw fer or statu polli control from llic governor to h coniinlHftlou was rnwu miMiilfHl In u retoliitlon tut roil iimm! toilliy lit tlin tftute Allierliiill 14'Klon convi'iitloii tmliiy. BIRMINGHAM, Ala.. Aug. 24 (P) Harold Taylor, accuftcd by police of the murder of Fayo New, Howard col lege co-ed, today was charged, with assault with Intent to ravish Mrs. Clara Cost In a warrant a worn out by tho woman. AVASIIINflTON, Aug, 21 W) Presi dent lUHwevelt was described today as favoring tho reocntly organized Am erican Uherty leaguo so far ok It gow lu Its principle! for support of the constitution. DILLINGER GANG GUNMAN KILLED BY POLICE FIRE ST. PAUU Minn., Aug. 24 ( Once more a woman has led a Dll llngcr gangster to the end of the out law trail. Homer Van Meter, John DlllinKcr's ace grnman, walked Into a police trap inst night and fell, full of lead, In an alley. Dllllngcr himself was similarly slain July 22, baited to his death In an alley, too by a woman. Van Meter, the slUti of the Dll llngcr mob to die, was betrayed un wittingly by his Interest In a woman. Her name is being withheld. Police said Van Meter had been "going around" with her and that relatives of the woman, suspicious of him, had gone to the police-, A check satisfied (Continued on Page Elght BROTHERS MEET AFTER 20 YEARS Master Sergeant Carlton P. Smith, U. 8. army air service, arrived In La Orando this morning, accompanied by Miwtcr Sergeant M.F. Susemlhl, for a few days visit with his brother. Hurley D. Smith, who ho fhad not seen for 20 years. Both aviators are now stationed at Brookfield, San An tonio, Tex. Harloy was at tho La Orando air port this morning while his brother, Carlton was circling the army plune pre para toy to a landing, and both had qui to a thrill out of the meet ing, their first in two decades, Carlton left hero when a very young boy, enlisted In tho U. S, army air ( Continued on Page Eight! WRONG REACTION IS CLUE TO MURDERER This Is the third and last article In a scries. Hy ;eurj;e Tucker MT. HOLLS", N. J., Aug. 24 iVF) In a voice so gisitlo and reassuring It might have bc?n intended for a child, Ellis Parker tild: "Dear Mrs. Ollbcrson, you are tho murderer of your husband." "How can you say such a thing?" she blazed. "Then why were these stunning widow's weeds purchased only last week concealed In the attic of your homo?'' ' ; When the chief of Burlington county's detectives produced exhibit A the battle was over. It was the clincher, yet old Ellis know the wo PLANE SOARS OVERHEADAT CRIME SCENE Police Believe Aircraft Used By Robbers to . Make Escape. UMATILLA MAN IS SHOT LAST NIGHT Two Suspects Held at Pendleton Lead in Armored Car Robbery Discounted by Officers, m'Tl.Klt. Pa. Aug. 24 m Three gunmen wearing dark glasses held up an unarmed mall truck driver today and em-aped with a $.10,000 payroll. Police wild It wan tho richest haul or IU kind In the Hint or y or the PltU burg district. The money, en route to nearby Lyndora by registered mall, was to meat the payrolls of the Standard Cav company and the American Rollins Mills plants. Willie the robbery was In progress an airplane soared overhead, leading District Attorney Edgar H. Negley, oD Butler county, to express the opinion.' It might have landed nearby and, picked up the robbers. PENDLEH'ON, Ore., Aug. 24 (B) Allen McMUlar, 22, and Henri Dlveny, 18, both of- Spokane, were- arrested, here today by state police for ques tioning Into tho (mooting .of Will; Shepard, 58, at Umatilla .last night. Shepard, a round house mechanic, was shot when he surprised thre men afc.hiB jpnae. ; . The men were charged with carry", lng concealed weapons, although Mo Millar had a gun-carrying permit lsi (Continued on Page Bight) Kansas Farmer's Daughter , Upsets London NEW YORK. Aug. 24 (P) Word came . from London today that a Kansas farmer's daughter Rosy cheeked, dimpled Oene Dennis Is figuratively knocking the Britishers for a bally loop. Oene has been In London since early spring and Is known all over England a tho American "girl psychic." She has appeared at three London theatres, has given "readings" at the afternoon teas of a big Lon don hotel, has been interviewed on coming events by most of the large newspapers of England, and, In addi tion has written a weekly article for the London Sunday Dispatch at a pay rato of 250 an article. An Associated Press dispatch from, London today attributed her present fame to her sensational prediction that Windsor Lad would win the derby which ho did. Miss Dennis named Windsor Lad on a London stage when the horse (Continued on Page Two) Baseball NATIONAL FIRST GAME: R. H. JS, Boston v 2 7 1 Cincinnati X 7 0 Batteries: Brandt and Hogan; John eon and Mnnlon. , .' AMERICAN R. H. E. 8t. Louis ...i 1 2 8 0 Philadelphia j. ...... 15 0 Batteries: Hadley, AndrowB and Orubo; Culn and Hayes. man wa, guilty long before the new black shoes, dress, veil and hat were discovered. Ho knew because It Is his practice to study the way men and women reach to circumstances Involving murder, and when their reactions are not) natural hs Is hot on the trail, .story And .Sequel J William Qllbepjon was a wealthy lumberman of Lakehurst, N. J. So far as anyone knew his home life was perfect. Shortly after 2 a, m. one blistering night MrH. Oilberson. clad only in a nightgown, staggered out of her (Continued on Page Two) -1v ) 'A' 5 -J