Prune Harvest Will Begin Thursday At Cove, Union
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VOLUME 32
EASTERN OREGON'S LEADING NEW8PATEB
LA GRANDE, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1934
MEMBER ASSOCIATBD PRESS
NUMBER 300
CALIFORNIA NOMINATES SINCLAIR
iYIELD BELOW
NORMAL BUT
OUALITYGOOD
expect to m a r k e t be
tween 25 And 30 Car
loads in Valley.
PICKING 2 WEEKS
EARLY THIS YEAR
j Price Tendency Upward
in T.jisf-. WppU- Tflaho's
n . T t- ir ...
urop, inow rseing nar-
vested, is Short.
Prune picking Ir scheduled to be
X I n Thursday morning at In Ion and
Cove, the two largest producing ren
ters In the .ronde Itonde valley. Tills
is approximately two weeks earlier
thun lu normal years, when pit-king
begins about Sept. 10 or 12.
Indications are that the crop will
be below normal In size In this
county, due partially to aphis dam
age earlier In the season and to
winterkill two years ago, which re
duced the number of bearing trees.
Quality of the prunes, however. Is
reported to be the best In recent
years, and in addition, the price has
been showing an upward tendency
the last week. Hair bushel baskets
were selling at 80 cents In Payette
the first of this week.
The prune season has been com
pleted In the Freewater district, and
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Mrs. Dunbar To
Attend Health
Meeting Sept. 19
Mrs. Saldle On-Dunbar, executive
secretary of the Oregon State Public
Health association, will be in La
Orande on Wednesday, Sept. 19 at the
annual meeting of the Union County
Public Health association. President
H. E, Dixon is . announcing today.
Tho' meeting is to be held at 7:30 in
the evening in the small ballroom at
the Sacajawea Inn. It Is also stated
.that the new county nurse. Miss
Erlckson, will have been on the Job
then long enough to be able to tell
something of local health conditions.
Mr. Dixon in. his Initial announce
ment states that the public as such.
Is Invited to attend.
TRACE OF RAIN
FALLS IN CITY
THIS MORNING
A trace of rain fell In La Grande
this morning, between 8 and 7
o'clock, but that's nil it amounted to.
The precipitation was so meagre that
it failed to measure one-hundredth
of an inch, and as far oo government
records will later show, there was no
moisture.
Cloudy skies continued today and
the weather forecast continued to in
dicate thunderstorms In Eastern Ore
gon tonight and Thursday, with
moderate temperatures. Tuesday
maximum was 89 above, nine degrees
cooler than the 98 above registered
on both Sunday and Monday.
EARLIER OPEN DUCK
SEASON LIKED HERE
Union and Wallowa county sports
men hailed with delight the change
announced yesterday In the migratory
waterfowl shooting season for this
year. The change, which opened the
season a eek earlier, works to the
advantage of sportsmen in this sec
tion where the first wintry freeze us
ually arrives early in November.
Actually, local sportsmen favored
a much earlier opening but they re
gard this as much better than the
first plan, especially since the sea
son is uniform In Oregon and Wash
ington. Many local sportsmen, how
ever, were disappointed In that shoot
ing days were continued as Fridays,
Saturday and Sundays. There was
quite a bit of sentiment here for
Wednesdays. Saturdays and Sundays.
According to announcement by the
state game department regulations
promulgated by the secretary of agri
culture on recommendation of the
U. S. biological survey named the
following open dates:
October 19, 20, 21, 26, 27, 28: Nov
ember 2. 3. 4. 9, 10, 11. 16, 17, 18. 23.
24. 25. 30: December 1, 2, 7, 8 , 9. 14,
15, 16. 21. 22 and 23.
These dates apply for ducks, geese,
brant, coots, Wilson snipe, or Jack
snipe. The bag limit for all such
Women Doing The
Work in Russia
MOSCOW, Aug.
82 Talk about a
town on a boom.
This is It. I never
saw as many
buildings going up
in my life.
You have heard
of equality of sex
(in Russia. That's
not bo. The women
are doing the
work. They are dig
ging a subway.
Have talked all
day today with Morris Hindus, Wal
ter Duranty and Louis Fisher. Here
are three men that know their Russia
from A to bolshevlkl. I am so full
of facts and statistics that I feel like
a brain truster.
By the way, I got my little Chinese
professor with me yet. They can fool
me, but they can't fool him. Yours,
tfCu. Co?
fH. HcN.u",ht Syndic.!,, ft...
QUEEN SHIRLEY
OF ROUND UP
VISITS HERE
Accompanied By Mothei',
Queen of Round-Up 25
Years Ago, And Pen
dleton Rotarians.
(Jiiccn Shirley iif 'Pendleton's Silver
Jubilee Kminil-I p. accompanied liy
Hit mother. Mm. Herbert Thompson,
who was queen of Die first Kound
l'p a quarter of a century ago, and
nine Pendleton Itotarlans were ln
(IraiKle guests today. ,v .
The group, with the visiting Rotar
ians resplendent In -colorful - shirts
and cowboy hats, attended the Rotary
(Continued on Page Three)
FLOWER SHOW TO
OPEN THURSDAY
AFTERNOON AT 2
The doors of the annual Fall Flower
Show of the La Grande Neighborhood
club In the large ballroom of the La
Grande hotel arc to swing open to the
general public tomorrow afternoon
at 2:00 o'clock and the show will con-
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GOLF TEAM MATCH
TO BEGIN SEPT. 2
Another country club golf team
match, to be played from Sept. 2 to
Sept. 9, inclusive, with Ben Madlll
and Bill Howard as team captains,
was announced today. Anyone unable
to play will default to his opponent.
The winners will be rewarded with a
dinner served by the losers.
The pairings follow, the first named
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birds excepting geese and brant Is
12 in any one day and not to exceed
12 in any three consecutive shooting
days.
It was provided further that the
bag limit shall not be more than five
each or In the aggregate of either
ducks, canvaasbacks. redheads, greater
scaups, lesser scaups, rlngnecks, blue
wing teals, greenwlng teals, cinnamon
teals, shovellers and gadwalls and all
such ducks shall be counted with and
included In the dally limit of 12.
There Is no open season on wood,
ruddy or bufflehead ducks.
The bag limit for geese and brant
is four In the aggregate In any one
day and not to exceed four In any
three consecutive shooting days, with
the possession limit at any one time
not to exceed four.
Maximum for live geese decoys Is
10 and for live ducks 25.
Permit with accompanying regula
tions will be Issued for bMtlng or
feeding upon application to the chief
of the U. S. biological survey.
No waterfowl, except crippled birds
not otherwise retrievable, shall be
shot while renting on water or land
on any baited premises. No waterfowl
shall be shot on any baited premises
after 3 p. m.
HI
Fair Champ
Here's a duck that Joe Penner
could sell. For six weeks Rose
mary has been laying throe eins
per week In her hideout at Wings
Of A Century at the World's Fair
where she appears In the cast.
Champion ducks lay at the rate of
four eggs weekly, so when one r.
fleets that Rosemary must go on
acting, her egg laying Is not to be
sneezed at. The coming champion
Is pictured here In the arms cf
Mary Ann Pearl, a Juvenile mem.
ber of the cast.
TIGERS TO PLAY
FOUR FOOTBALL
CONTESTS HERE
A little more than three weeks and
the Eastern Oregon In terse hoi astic
football season will open, with La
Grande playing its first game in de
fense of Its 1933-34 district champ
ionship at Cove.
Coach Ira Wootlie announced today
the first contest would be played on
Sept. 22. Practice wil lformally begin
the first day of school, Sept. 10, bo
the Tigers will have less than two
weeks to prepare for the first contest.
Four games will be played in La
Grande and four out of town, Includ
ing what fans believe will be two of
the toughest on the 1934 schedule
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'YOU REMEMBER ME WE MET DURING THE WAR'
BANK TO AID
IN FEDERAL
HOUSING PLAN
First National To Make
Loans to Those Eligible
For Repairing, Remod
elling Property.
The federal housing administration
hi Washington today liimouiMHKt the
acceptance of oimtrm-t of Insurance,
under the modernization credit plan,
for the First National hunk of ' m
(; ramie, whereby tlte 'local Institution
Is eligible to make loans to property
owners to repair or remodel homes
or business places.
Under the government plan, banks
entering Into this agreement are
guaranteed 20 per cent of the volume
of the loans made for this purjKZje.
With this guarantee and the addi
tional requirements of the govern
ment plan,, the possibility of any.
losses to co-operating banks Is negli
gible. Officers of the Flint National said
today they entered into the agree
ment In a spirit of co-operation with
the national recovery plans of the
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Wilford E. Stitt
Will Leave Soon
For New Zealand
Wilford E. Stltt, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Charles E. Stltt of this city,
expects to leave in the near future
on a mission for the L. D. S. church.
He will be stationed In New Zealand
for between two and one-half and
three years, but it is not known def
initely what, his particular line of
work will be In this field.
Stltt ex pec to to leave here about
Sept. 10 for Salt Lake City where he
will spend a week In the mission
school there. From Salt Lake City
he will go to San Francisco and sail
from there late In September for New
Zealand.
TEXTILE INSTITUTE SHUNS
CONFERENCE; BIG STRIKE
SCHEDULED FOR THURSDAY
WASHINGTON, Aug. !!) fP Call
ing the rerusul of the eoitou tevtile
Institute to take part In a confer
ence with the labor relations board
an Indication "they nre still more In
terested In exploitation than recov
ery," Francis J. Gorman, rhairimui of
tho strike committee of the lulled
Dog's Heroism
Tlerc nre some who insist a dog couldn't know what he was dolus, j
Tlerc nre some who insist a dog
but when 11-months-old Donnkl Hancy, Oakland, Cnllf., picked up'
a piece of meat on the lawn of his home, "Bum" grabbed it from ills
" hand nnd gobbled it. Ten minutes later the dog was dead. "Poisoned
meat," diagnosed tho veternarian. Now Tinky Pooh, Bum's father,
takes up the vigil guarding his young master.
EASTERN OREGON
COUNTY AGENTS
IN CONFERENCE
County Agent Harry G. Avery re
turned last night from Pendleton
where he attended a meeting of the
County agents of eight Eastern Ore
gon counties at the Hotel Pendleton
!;,wtiird.ay, , Two. officials of Oregon
State college. Denn William A. Scho
enfeld and William L. TeuUich. as
sistant county agent leader, were
present for the meeting. They are
making on extensive study of the
method of keeping the agricultural
f Contlnu-M on Pair Two)
Textile union, arranged hue today to
set tho hour and div for ronniiem'
mi'iit of the textile strike before noon
tomorrow.
(orniiiu said that InaKinueh as the
mill owners hud refUKeil to attend to
morrow' peaee (tinrerence. before the
labor hoard there seemd little use of
atleiKliiiiee hy union leaders.
Saves Baby Pal
couldn't know what he was doing,
F. R. REGARDS
GOLD PROFIT
AS 'NEST EGG'
President Laughs Off In
V f Queries ; London
Interested; Tans Wor
ried.
liy rraneis M. KtepheiiRon
I1VME PA UK, N. Y., Aug. 2!l (At
President Ititofii'vcK empliastzed to
day at his regular press conference
here that It Is only the ultimate In
tention of the government to use the
gold profit, from ifevulnul Ion of Hie
dollar nnd he laughed away Inquiries
of Inflation hy Immediate use of (his
ruiid.
The president spoke in response to
questions about the speeches last
night by Secretary Morgenthau stat
ing the purpose to employ tho 2,
800.000.000 gold profit eventually for
retirement of the public debt.
He called attention to the word
ultimately and said that meant a
time pretty far In tho future. The
gold profit fund, he added, Is a nest
egg and would be so regarded.
(Continued on Page Three)
500 PARAGUAYANS
KILLED IN BATTLE
LA PAZ, 'Bolivia, Aug. 20 lP) A
bloody clash between Paraguayan
and Bolivian forces In the Carandayty
Hector on the Chaco In which 500
Paraguayans were killed and 1,300
wounded was reported today by tho
Bolivian wor ministry.
Tho war ministry also claimed thot
many Paraguayan prisoners captured
told of hardships Paraguay's forces
are suffering, among them lack of
water and scarcity of food. The iso
lation and fatigue of tho campaign
has resulted lu the death of many
Paraguayans, it was asserted.
Wheat Today
Tlte price of local ruMi new
crop wheat stood ul about (7
cents hulk today, arconlluf? to the
I'ioueer l-loiirlug .Mills. Portland
cash HHi-V cents. No export bid.
'CHICAGO, Aug. HO V, Enlarged
speculative buying descended on tho
grain market today and prices ad
vanced sharply. Bullish factors stimu
lating trade Included realisation,
bawd on authoritative survey, of
heavy f rml damsge to small grain
crops In Northern Alberta and Sas
ktchewan. Canada, strength in for
eign markets and a sprinkling of In
flUon gossip.
Theat closed iwHkfl higher than
yesterday'-. finish, Due. new 1.0:i6
, Sept. new options showed the best
gain, finishing at $ .02 T8 , a range
of 4 f- 1 'c advance. May closed ut
Corn gained 1 'gc, December
closing at 80 i.i 7c. Oats were ,J&
c higher, rye wMic up and bar
ley showed a range unchanged to
2J4c advance. Provisions were higher.
JUST BEFORE
PRESSTIME
lU'ltLKY SAYS "SMKAIt GANG'
LANDS FLAMING AIKPI.AN'B
HOPKINS FOR SINCI.Alll
ItKTFItN DAVIS TO l.OMHJN
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2f) (fT) Pat
rick J. Hurley, Hoover secretary or
war, denounced the American Liberty
League today us a "smear ping." Thus
the Okhilionian became the Grst out
standing Itepuhllran to comment
fornially on this organization.
BE7THANY, W. Va Aug. 20 m
With flames from the motor stream
ing Into his face, Lieut. G. H, Niac
in tyre, army flier from Crlssy Field,
Ban Francisco, brought an army ob
servation airplane to a successful
landing In a field near Bethany this
afternoon.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2f) (P) Harry
L. Hopkins, relief administrator, said
tiHlay the nomination of I'pton Sin
clair as the Democratic, candidate for
governor of California was "great
business."
HYDE PARK, N. Y., Aug. 20 WV
President Roosevelt today ordered
Norman H. Davis to return to London
next mouth to resume the Informal
conservations with Groat Britain and
Japan in an effort to clear the way
for a successful navjil limitations
conference next year.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 20 (A1) The
administration Is ready to lower the
hours of work uiul keep Intact p res
en wages for any Industry In which
that action Is found udvlsahle. At
the same time It wan disclosed that
two officials of the recovery organi
zation, iilackwell Smith, nnd Leon
Henderson, had submitted their re
signations to Hugh S. Johnson,
BIG CUT IN U. S.
LIQUOR TAXES IS
TO BE PROPOSED
fly fee 11 it. Dickson
(Copyright. 1004, Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Aug. 20 Slashes
In federal liquor taxes and Import
duties to eliminate the bootlegger-
will bo proposed in the next congress
by a group of rep rose ntatlvos who
led the rejeal fight.
The fact that the treasury hoa not
reaped tho harvest of revenue expected
from liquor sales and the continu
ance of larger - scale bootlegging
prompted the move.
Proposals to rcstor the old domes
tic rate of 91.10 a ga 'on on 100 proof
liquor, and to slice .he $6 a gallon
tariff by 50 per cent are being con-
(Continued on Page Two)
BETTER PAYMENTS
ON FARM LOANS
PORTLAND. Ore.. Aug. 20 (At An
optimistic report of federal laud bank
operations In Oregon was given today
by E. M. Ehrhardt, president of the
Institution.
He reported a 27 per cent Improve
ment in payments of Installments on
long term federal land bank and com
mission mortgages the first seven
months of this year compared with
tho corresponding 1033 period.
NEW DEAL COST TO
BE TALKING POINT
WASHINGTON. Aug. 29 (At Sec
retary Morgenthau'H view that the
cost of the new deal lu Its first 10
months may run as low as S50B.OOO,-
000 is expected to be a talking point
lu the fail campaigns.
There appeared no doubt that the
figuring the trmumry head did before
a nation-wide radio audience last
nl;ht would be acclaimed by friends
and assailed by at least some foes.
Estimates of new deal costs by the
two camps have been billions of dol
lars apart.
Morgenthau's statement that the
$1:800000.000 "profit" the government
reaped by its gold policy eventually
would be applied to reducing the na
tional debt also aroused much In
terest. Word from Wall Street was
that thiH was regarded as reassuring
and likely to bolster the government
bond market.
Observers hold that when the treas
ury pays out gold certificates backed
by this profit. It will mean a cur
rency inflation of $2,800,000,000. Many
onlookers had predicted that this
would be the eventual decision of the
government. But Morgenthau made
AUTHOR WINS
DEMOCRATIC
PREFERENCE
Socialist Author .Who
Adopted Old Line Party
Piles Up Big Vote.
MERRIAM WILL BE
G. O. P. CANDIDATE
Sinclair's E-P-I-C Plan ten ";
Abolish Poverty in;
State Responsible Fon '
Landslide. : .
8AV FIMNCIHCO, Aug. M UPtVp- '
ton Sinclair, HociaUst author turned
lemorrut, and acting Governor Prank ;
Merrlatn. Republican, piled up In- -
creasing totals today In the Callfor- ;
nla primary as they swept toward tha -N'ovfimbcr
elections whlef i , soma .
Democratic, leaders feared might ;
weaken the party's congressional dele
gation.
Sinclair's colorful campaign which)
he said brought victory to president '
(Continued on Pags Two)
Quarter Million
Dollar Fire Hits
Calif ornia City ;
QUINCY, Col., Aug. 20 W Att '
Investigation to determine the ori
gin of a fire that destroyed half tho '
business section of Qulncy, county
seat of Plumas county, was pressed
today by Plro Chief William. Barrett. 1
-urkuimiU'd 'for weeks by Forest--',
fires that throatened to wipe out tha
city, it remained, -Ironically,- for ft
blase starting In the center of town.
to bring about one of the worst holo
causts experienced here.
(Continued on Page Two)
Baseball
AMKIUCAN LKAGUE
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 20 (tf") Lyn-
wood (School Boy) Rowe's bid for '
his 17th consccutlvo pitching1 victory
wob crushed today by tho Philadel
phia Athletics who knocked the 23-year-old
Arkansas hurler from the box
in the seventh Inning when tha
Athletics were leading 10 to 3. . ;
(First Gome)
Detroit J2 30 3
Philadelphia 7 14 t '.
Aukcr, Marberry and Cochrane;
Cain, Mahaffey and Hayes.
Chicago 3 4 0
New York 18 0
Lyons and Madjeski; Broaca, Mur
phy and Jorgens.
NATIONAL LEAOVTU
New York 0 3 1
Chicago . 1 5 0
Hubbell and Danning; Warntko
and Hartnett.
(First Gnmo)
Boston 11 12 O
Pittsburgh 0 4 3
Bctts and Hbgan; French, Lucas,
and Grace. ;
(Second Game)
Boston 0 7 0
Pittsburgh 7 11 1
Mangum. R. Smith and 8pohrcr;
Hoyt and Padden.
clear that "for the present" the gov
ernment would continue to keep the
$2,800,000,000 "under lock sndkey."
So there Is no saying when the' cur
rency will be issued.
Secretary Morgenthau said that
from March 4 1933, to June 30, 1934,
the gross public debt Increased about
$G, 000.000. 000.
Making an "Inventory of assets"
for his listeners, he said that "egalnst
this gross increase we can offset,
either now or ultimately, the follow
ing assets:
"(1) An Increase In the treasury's
cash balance of $1,000,000,000:
"(2) Tho 'profit' of $2,800,000,000
resulting from the reduction In tho
gold content of the dollar;
"(3) Tho Increase In the assets of
tho agencies wholly owned and fin
anced by the government, amounting
on Juno 30, 1034, to $1,098,000,000."
Although Morgenthau did not carry
this exposition to Its conclusion, It
would leave a net deficit of $506,
000,000. Thus, on the basis of Mor
genthau's theory, this sum, would ba
tne cost of the new deal so far aa
It Is reflected In -the Increase In debt.
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