The Gazette-Times
PUBLISHED WEEKLY AND DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTERESTS OF MORROW COUNTY
Volume 41, Number 10.
HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 1924.
Subscription $2.00 Per Year
HEPPNER WINS
Y-!
This Week
GETTING DOLLED UP
ONE-SIDED GAME
MEMORIAL DAY
E
BILL IS
CROP ESTIMATE 50
per mjm
Fields Are Spotted, Says
County Agent, and
Badly Hurt.
Kilkenny Receives Best
Price of 38 Cents for
Largest Clip.
FINE STUFF PICKED
Choice Fleece Only Change Hand;
Activity Greatest of Seaman With
Many CI I pa Offered.
Orer 400,000 pounds of wool was
purchased from local sheepmen at
the wool sales here yesterday. A
lively Interest was shown hy the
sheepmen and close to a million
pounds was placed on the market.
The largest clip purchased was that
of John Kilkenny, weighing over 100,
000 pounds, which went to Burke, buy
ing for Boston mills, at 38 cents.
This was also the best price received
at the sales. Burke, Stanneld and
Charlie Green, all representing Bos
'ton firms, were the main buyers.
Thirty-eight cents was the price
at which a big part of the wool sold.
Among those receiving this figure
were O'Connor Bros., W. B. Barratt,
Phill Cohn, Anson Wright & Son,
W. II. Cleveland, Emil Groshens and
Frank Monahan. D. O. Justus sold
for 37 cnts. Several other small
slips were sold around 38 cents.
Only about half of the wool up for
sale was disposed of, many sheepmen
not being willing to sell at the pre
vailing prices. However, it is thot
from the prices offered at previous
sales over the country so far this
season, that the local growers have
received a' very fair return. Up to
the present time there has been very
little action in the wool market here
and yesterday's sales mark an inclin
ation towards IWIier activity.
Buyers showed great partiality
toward the fine wools yesterday, and
nearly all that was sold was of this
nature. They were very ciitical in
going through the fleeces and picked
on the choicest fine wooh. Some
coarse wool was sold, but only a few
small lots that were held by sellers
of large clips of fine stuff.
Curran Home Scene
of Pretty Wedding
Misa Marie Curran and Mr. J a red C.
Aiken, Popular Yoong Couple,
Married Tuesday Morning.
A very pretty home wedding was
that of Miss Marie Agnes Curran to
Mr. J a red Cecil Aiken, at the home of
the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs.
M. L. Curran, in this city at 6:30
Tuesday morning. The ceremony was
performed by Rev. Father Cantwell,
pastor of St. Patrick s parish. Cath
olic church of this city, in the pres
ence of relatives and friends of the
contracting parties.
The beautiful ring ceremony was
ufied with pretty little Miss Helen
Groshon, cousin of the bride, as ring
bearer. The bride was attended by
her sister. Miss Helen Curran as
bridesmid, and Mr. Paul Aiken, broth
er of the bridegroom, was best man.
The bride was simply attired in a
blue serge suit for traveling, with a
beautiful corsage of flowers at the
waist. Her sister also wore a blue
serge suit with a similar corsage.
The bridegroom wore a blue travel
Ing suit.
Following the taking of the obli
gation the bride and bridegroom led
the way to a sumptuous wedding
breakfast, where the huge wedding
cake surrounded by a wreath of sweet
peas adorned the center of the table.
The delicious repast was served in
three courses. Immediately after the
breakfast Mr. and Mrs. Aiken were
accompanied to the train by the
wedding party and took their leave
Artistic Magic at Chautauqua
McDonald Birch Will Make Last Night "Joy Night."
Artistic magic alluring allusions bewildering mysteries will opet
the eyes and ears and minds of Chautauqua fnns on Joy Night. Whet
McDonnld Wren waves his manic wnnd strange things begin to hnppen,
Mr. Illrcli is the youngest professional magician on the stage an(
through his natural artistic talent and ability has elevated his exlilbltlot
to the level of real art. He Is a mind reader, too, and has bewildering
surprises for people of every age and taste. A rein of genuine humoi
runs through Mr. lurch's program. He Is a born humorist and keeps uj
a running chatter of willy snylngs, stories and personal remarks to tin
audience that Is Infectious.
Kpcrlnl scenery and stage equipment are carried for "Artistic Magic'
Tt will he a clean, clever exhibition of the very latest In everythlni
magical and mysterious,
Though Many Errors and Loose
Playing Prevalent, Game
Interesting to Fans.
Though loosely played and some
what one-Bided the game between the
locale and Arlington on Memorial
Day furnished considerable amuse
ment to the fans. Arlington's reor
ganized club which crossed bats with
the locals is made up mostly of high
school boys who are lacking in ex
perience. They showed themselves to
be mighty good sports, however, with
no crabbing and took their drubbing
of 14-6 in good part.
Errors were quite numerous on
each side though the visiting lads
made the greater number. These er
rors were responsible for many Hepp
ner scores, and a blow-up by the lo
cals in the ninth was responsible for
Ave tallies for Arlington. Freddie
Roberts struck out five Arlington men
in the ninth before the tide was stem
med, and two- men who fanned the
breeze crossed home plate for mark
ers. Campbell, Arlington's boy pitcher,
resembled Harold Lloyd with his
horn-rimmed spectacles, and lived up
to the resemblance 'by amusing the
stands throughout the game. He had
a wind-up which fooled 'em. The
batter became so engrossed in his
contortions that every once in a while
he failed to see the ball come across,
and largely due to this Campbell
struck out 7 men. Heppner hit the
boy hard, however, getting 18 clean
bingles in all.
Fred Roberts was not forced to ex
ert himself a great deal to hold the
lads from the river city. Only when
his support weakened did he bear
down, and even at that he had to
strike out five men In the ninth be
fore the required three took the
count. Fred had high batting honors
with two three-bag, one two-bag and
a single hit out of five times at bat.
This game finished the season (or
Heppner, placing her in third place
in the Morrow-Gilliam county league
and throwing Arlington into the ceU
lar. There is rumor of a game for
the Fourth of July here, but nothing
definite has been decided.
Box score:
HEPPNER AB H R E
McPherrin, e 6 2 2 1
Hughes, cf - 6 2 2 0
Anderson, I . . 2 11
Roberts, p 6 4 8 1
Aiken, If 4 2 2 0
Moore, 2 - 5 2 10
Cason, 3 2 1 2 1
Stout, rf 4 0 0 0
Crawford, as 4 Oil
Reitmann, 3 2 10 0
Driscoll, rf 0 0 0 0
Totals 41 18 14 5
ARLINGTON AB H R E
R. Wheelhouse, c 4 0 10
C. Wheelhouse, 1 4 0 10
Douglas, 3 4 1 2 1
Whiton, ss - 3 1 1 5
Linn, If 4 1 1 0
Campbell, p 4 0 0 0
Farley, cf ...... 4 2 0 2
Burton, rf - 4 0 0 0
McDonald, 2 4 0 0 2
Totals 36 B 6 10
for Portland. The newlyweds expect
to visit Victoria, B. C, before re
turning from their honeymoon, and
will spend a few days at Portland
and Seattle.
Mr. and Mrs. Aiken are both well
known young people of this city, and
their marriage is the result of a
courtship of two years duration. Mrs.
Aiken, the eldest daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. M. L. Curran of this city, is
a graduate of Heppner High school
with the class of 1022, and Mr. Aiken,
son of Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Aiken of
this city, was graduated from Colum
bia College of Portland the same
year. The young couple have many
friends who wish them much happi
ness throughout a long married life.
Born To Mr. and Mrs. Walter
Rood on Monday, June 2, a girl.
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WHEAT NURSERY
MEETING, TRIP TO
MORO JUNE 13-14
D. E. Stephgps and Prof. G. R.
Hyslop Will Speak, and Meet
ings Will Be Interesting.
A field meeting: will be held at the
wheat nursery on the Troy Bogard
farm north of lone. Friday, June 13.
The nursery is located along the road
a quarter of a mile west of Bogard's
house. The time of the meeting has
been set for 1:30, and cars will leave
lone at 1 o'clock for the nursery.
D. E. Stephens, superintendent of the
Moro Station, and Prof. G. R. Hyslop
of the Oregon Agricultural College,
will be present and will speak at the
nursery. After the meeting at the
nursery is finished, the trip to Moro
will be made across country, and Sat
urday, June 14, will be spent at the
Moro Experiment Station. All those
who have ever visited the Moro Sta
tion are enthusiastic regarding the
work of the station and the good
they received by visiting It, Mr,
Stephens states that the various prac
tices being tried out at the station
are showing some striking differences
this year.
At the nursery in Morrow county,
there are many items of interest to
local farmers. In all, thirty-five va
rieties of winter wheat are being
grown as well as eight varieties of
winter barley; six of spring barley;
twenty-six of spring wheat; five of
spring oats, field peas and flax. One
of the most interesting features of
this year's nursery is the try-outs of
three selections of white Turkey
wheat. ThiB wheat apparently has
all the characteristics of Turkey Red,
except that the grain is white and
two of the selections in the nurseries
are showing up very well. Also fif
teen varieties that are smut-resistant
are being grown. Several of
these are smut-free and have not had
any smut in them fn the last three or
four years. Others are practically
free, having less than one per cent
smut when planted heavily smutted
and untreated. In the treatment tests
Fortyfold, Turkey Red, Bluestem and
Hybrid 128 were given nine methods
of treatment and two check sections.
The three brands of copper carbon
ate used in the county last season
are being tried out for their effective
ness in controlling smut.
Those planning to make the trip to
Moro are requested to notify the
County Agent as soon as possible bo
that hotel reservations at Moro can
be made. Also, those wishing to go
who have no means of transportation
should notify County Agent Morse ai
once and arrangements will be made'
for them to ride with some of the
people who are taking their cars.
Members of the Heppner Boy Scout
troop, who have been spending ten
days on a camping trip near the
Hamilton ranch, are expected to re
turn to the city today, Reports
reaching town have It that the boyp
are having a "ye old time." Just what
their good time consisted of we will
learn when they return.
Mrs. Catherine Erickson, deputy su
preme commander of Women's Bene
fit association, will Institute a review
In I. O. O. P. hall, Heppner, next
Thursday evening at 7:80, to be
known as Heppner Review No. 12.
Pendleton review guard team of
twenty ladlea will put on the work.
Mrs. Smith and granddaughter,
Miss Lois Livingstone, returned Tues
day evening from Portland. They ac
companied Mrs, Livingstone to Port
land last week, and Mrs, Livingstone
remains in the city for a more ex
tended visit. '
MEMORIAL DAY OBSERVED.
Memorial day was fittingly observed
at the Fair grounds Friday morning
by a program in remembrance of the
nation's war heroes, with a large
audience in attendance. Rev. F. R.
Spaulding, pastor of the Methodist
church, delivered the main address
and S. E. Notson presided and offered
a few remarks appropriate to the
occasion. Gen. Logan's "General Or
der No. 11" was read by Paul M.
Gemmell and Miss Bernice Woodson
gave Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.
Musical numbers filled out the ser
vices. The program was in charge of
the G. A. R. and American Legion
posts of this city.
LABOR MEETING SATURDAY.
Farmers 91 the county who are in
terested in taking some action on the
harvest wage scale for this season
will meet at the County Agent's of
fice in Heppner, Saturday, June 7 at
2 o'clock. At this time steps will be
taken to decide upon a fair wage
scale for this season. Following this
meeting there will be a meeting of
delegates from Wasco, Sherman, Gil
liam, Morrow and Umatilla counties
who will meet at the Moro Experi
ment Station Sunday, June H, in an
effort to standardize the wage scale
in the wheat producing counties in
Eastern Oregon. All farmers who
are interested in this question are
invited to attend.
MASONS VISIT IONE.
About thirty members of Heppner
Lodge No. 6, A. F. A A. M. visited
lone Lodge No. 120 last night, there
being ten members of Arlington Lodge
present also. Work in the 3rd de
gree was put on and officers to fill
the stations were selected from the
floor. Fololwing the work refresh
ments were served. A very enjoyable
evening is reported by those attend
ing.
General Hines Explains Simple and Official
Method to Aid in Computation.
Written Specially for The Gazette-Times
By ROBERT FILLER
(Through Autocaster Service.)
Washington, June 4. It is easy for World War veterans to find
out how much insurance they are entitled to from the Government
if they will follow the simple computing method used by the Veterans'
Bureau. Director Gen. Hines has issued instructions with an explan
ation of how to include the 25 per cent increase.
The increase of 25 per cent should
not be added to the number of days
served in the army before the service
credit is multiplied by the factor.
The factor was compiled by Gen,
Ilines and is the official method de
vised by the bureau.
Gen. nines Rives the following di
rections for the use of the factors.
Allow $1 per day for each day of,
home service.
Allow $1.26 per day for each day of
foreign service.
Deduct $t)0 from this sum.
Multiply the balance by the factor
opposite the age (nearest birthday)
as shown in the table below.
The result will be the amount of
the adjusted service certificate.
As an example:
Age at date of issue, 27.
Home service 125 days.
Overseas service, 110 dnys.
One hundred and seventy-five mi
nus 60, times $1, equals $111,. One
hundred and ten times $1.25 equals
$137.50.
Adjusted service credit, $252,60.
2.632 factor at ago of 27. $252.50
service credit multiplied by 2.532
equals $639.33.
Six Cylinder Love at
Chautauqua First Night
Three Act Comedy One of Very Best;
Dayies-Qualen-Greene Entertain-
era la Opening Feature.
"3sX CjlinJer Love," from the peu
of William Anthony McGuire, which
will be played in the big tent the
first night, June 30, has been a bigger
hit than any of the last decade. Wit
ness this by its phenomenal run of
54 consecutive weeks in New York
city and having been chosen as the
vehicle to open Chicago's New Harris
theater.
It is brimming with humor, clever
lines and tangled situations, and is
one continuous roar of laughter from
start to finish. Something absolutely
new in the villain line is promised.
It won't be the slick city chap, the
wild west rough-neck, or the chap
with black moustache and red tie.
This villain is slender and rakish in
build, purrs like a kitten and has
a thirst like an elephant. In fact
it is nothing more or less than an
automobile, and as everyone must ad
mit a benzine buggy has played vil
lainous roles in more than one family.
The story is that of a young couple
who fell victim to the lure of the
motor car. But they found there was
more to owning a car than buying it.
Fair weather friends gather around
them they indulge in wild extrava
gances they cannot afford and go on
the rocks while the second couple
take ownership and are led into sim
ilar difficulties by the soulless vil
lain. There are so many funny situa
tions in this comedy so much humor,
so many laughs, that the lesson of
extravagance it carries will be easy
(Continued on Page Six)
$639.33 is the adjusted Service Cer
tificate.
To compute your Hon as use the
table of factors as to age as com
piled by Ihe Veterans' Bureau.
Age-fnctor
20 2.545
21- 2.544
Age-factor
43- 2.439
44- 2.436
45 2.418
46 2.398
47 -2.891
48 2.S61
49 2.315
50 2.324
51 2.302
52 -S.279
53 -2.254
54 -2.228
651.201
56- 2.172
57- 2.143
68- 2.113
69- 2.0S2
60- 2.050
61- 2.018
' 62 -1.986
63- 1.954
64- 1.921
65- 1.889
22- 2.542
23- 2.540
24- 2.539
25- 2.537
26- 2.535
27- 2.532
28- 2.530
29- 2.527
802.524
31-2.521
82 2.517
83 2.513
84 2.509
352.504
86 2.498
87 2.492
88 2.485
89 2.478
40 2.470
41 2.460
42 2.460
RAIN WOULD HELP
Much Grain la Still in Condition to
Be Relieved by Good Showers;
Farming Results Shown.
Morrow county's wheat crop is not
all gone, and a conservative estimate
of thia year's yield Is 50 per cent
of normal, is Roger W, Morse's, coun
ty agent's, estimate of the crop situa
tion as it now stands. Mr. Morse
says the drought of the past month
has hit the crop an awful jolt, but
at that there will be grain to har
vest. "Fields are mighty spotted," says
Mr. Morse, "and this year's yield will
show a premium on poor farming."
He says there is not much difference
in the appearance of crops in the dif
ferent sections. Though the grain in
the south end is later chances are it
will do no better than crops in the
north end unless a good rainrelieves
the withering effect of the present
hot weather. There is a chance if hot
winds should come instead of rain the
crops all over the county would be
practically a total loss.
Much of the grain that appears to
be entirely burnt up is not in as bad
shape as it appears. This was brought
to Mr. Morse's attention by a farmer
below lone. In cutting some of his
withered gram for hay this man
found that there was still sap enough
in it to gum up the sickles. It is
Mr. Morse's belief that a good soak
'ng rain on the grain in this condi
Jon would cause the heads to fill and
make a yield well worth harvesting.
Stands are better on the deeper soil
aid north slopes where the moisture
vas held longer and these fields will
harvest fair yields. It is well evi
denced that the farmer who has plow
ed deep and worked his land well will
be greatly repaid for his work thiB
year, especially, for the farmer who
has succeeded in holding moisture in
the ground for the longest period has
succeeded in bringing the stand far
enough along that it will make grain
in spite of the drought.
The whole situation is still very
much of a guess though, in Mr.
Morse's opinion, and no farmer can
say exactly what bis crop will roako.
There is only one thing sure, and
that is that the crops are badly hit
and the threshing alone will deter
mine the outcome.
Though rain was predicted with the
change of the moon, there is no sign
of its arrival here. Clear, hot days
with west winds and cool nights have
been prevalent the past week. Little
evidence of a change is shown by the
barometer.
CONDON GRABS
CHAMPIONSHIP
GAME AT IONE
By Hard Hitting and Clean Field
ing lone Beaten 8-5. Drake's
Homer Feature of Batfest.
Condon walked off with the first
game with lone in the championship
series of the Morrow-Gilliam county
league, with the score 8-5. lone got
off to a bad start in the first two
innings. The Condon batters found
Roche, who started on the mound for
the Egg City, and got in two runs
the first inning and five in the sec
ond, when Fred Roberts replaced
Roche.
Roberts went on the mound "cold"
and was at a disadvantage. How
ever, he succeeded in bringing Con
don's bat-fest to a halt, and with one
run in the third Inning their scoring
was finished. lone had hard luck in
placing their hits all through, and
combined with the neat fielding of
their opponents, which was almost
phenomenal at times, were held score
less until the seventh.
Then it was the lone boys started
a merry-go-round which nearly prov
ed the undoing of the Wheat City
aggregation. Condon's lead was too
great, however, and the rally, which
netted five tallies, ended their scor
ing. Werner Rietmann started the
ball rolling with a clean bingle into
left field. Roberts walked and Eu
banks singled, filling the bases. A
'single by Vic Reitmann scored W.
Rietmann and Roberts; then Cleo
Drake made a hero of himself by
knocking a homer. Big Charlie Fiti
maurice, Condon catcher, then gave
Clow a chance to come down to earth,
and they put a stop to the balloon as
cension. Wheir and Bob Fitzmaurice. short
stop and second baseman for Condon,
did more than their share of holding
lone, by cutting o"ff hits. Wheir
brought the stands to their feet once
by diving out hesdlong and picking
a hot drive a few inches off the
ground with one hand. Another time
he stretched out full length and
stabbed a hot drive, which might
easily have been classed as a hit,
Bobby Fits also cut off a drive by
happening to be in exactly the right
place to grab it.
Condon was surely at her best Sun
day, and if sh shows the same class
of ball in the second game of the
series at home next Sunday, there is
tittle doubt but that the pennant will
be hers. Next Sunday's game will be
played at Condon.
News received here today announc
ed the birth of a daughter to Mr. and
Mrs. A, A, Amort at their home in
Corvallis at 6 o'clock this morning.
Mrs. Amort will be remembered by
Heppner Iriends as Miss Melba Griffiths.
- By Arthur Brisbane
Mars Will Teach Us.
Hope for the Hopeless.
One Good Deed.
The Great Derby.
Sending photographs by wire is at
last perfectly successful. This will
mean more to the education of this
earth than we can realize now. Mere
ly gratifying cariosity or capturing
criminals by telephotography on this
little planet isn't the important
thing.
What can be done on wires can
be done through the ether that sepa
rates this earth from other planets
in our family.
We shall get from these planets
radio portraits showing faces of their
strange inhabitants and radio "blue
prints" from Mara showing ua how
to dig canals to store the waters of
the oceans when frost, rain and at
trition make this earth perfectly
round, leaving no natural cavities to
hold the water.
If the earth were absolutely round,
as it will be in a few million years,
! the ocean would cover it about a
1 mile deep everywhere. We must know
j how to prevent that. Mars, tens of
millions of years older than Earth,
will reach us by radio.
If that sounds preposterous remem
ber what you would have said twenty (
years ago if you had been told that !
a preacher in Chicago some day would
be heard in Los Angeles and New
foundland in the same second.
ftepub'ican gentlemen that tried to
"frame up" Senator Wheeler, as cor
rupt detectives once in a while
"frame" a victim when they need a
scapegoat, are in trouble. Men in
Montana who thought that copper
shou'd control the state, and the men
in Washington who thought oil should
control thti Nation, both disliked
Wheeler and decided to put him in
jail. They will wish before the thing
is over that they hadn't made that
attempt. It wasn't a good time for
it, although it has doubtlesa often
been done before.
Here's hope for the hopeless, the
victims of hay fever, Mr. Cooldige,
who has a "rose cold," sits for forty
five minutes in an air-tight room,
breathing in air mixed with Chlorine
gas. He leaves saying "the trouble
is gone."
Chlorine gas cures colds in men
and epizootic in horses. Why should
it not cure, or at least relieve, hay
j fever that tortures thousands for
weeks every year?
When European nations decided to
take what money they could get from
China after the Boxer uprising, the
United States got some of the in
demnity cash, and then realized that
it was international blackmail. The
money was sent back to China to be
used for education. China now thanks
the United States Minister, saying
that other nations have followed our
example.
"So shines a good deed in a naughty
world."
The Dutch Reformed Church of
South Africa opposes prohibition say
ing: "Wine is the gift of God vhich
no one should desecrate."
That church takes seriously the
Bibie statement that the founder of
Christianity, by a miracle turned wa
ter into wine, to make a wedding
more cheerful. Some American
preachers say that wine thus pro
duced was non-alcoholic. But is it
likely that wedding guests would
have considered that a miracle worth
while?
The Senate Committee of Agricul
ture rejected the Ford bid for Muscle
Shoals by a vote of 10 to 6. That
isn't final, but it shows how difficult
it is to get anything through in
Washington sometimes. It isn't quite
so difficult if there is a "little black
bag." with the right kind of lining
in the offing.
Wall Street men will discover that
Secretary Mellon who had no trouble
in cutting hundreds of millions off
the national expenditures, will easily
find a way to finance the soldeirs'
bonus.
Tens of thousands gather at Louis
ville, Kentucky, all excited, eager,
speculating, hotting on "the great
American Derby." The winning horse
will get $50 000. For half the money
that a good jockey earns in a week
you can buy an automobile that will
run any ten horses to death every
day and never get tired. Speed in
horses no longer moans anything use
ful. Racing, betting, horse excite
ment will continue, for it takes men
a long time to got over anything they
have been doing for a thousand years.
A CHANGE IX BUSINESS,
A change in business sometimes is'
forced upon a company by the atti
tude of its patrons. We have always
tried to give the best service possi
ble regardless of time, conditions or
place, refusing no one service or
credit in our undertaking work. But
strange as it may seem we find many
forget to settle such accounts and
fts a consequence we have decided to
put our undertaking work on a cash
bnis. We believe this will work no
hardship on Morrow county's worthy
citizens. All old accounts not paid
or satisfactorily secured will be of
fered for sale.
July 15th, 1924.
CASE FURNITURE CO.
Relief Measure Takes
Count 221 to 134
In House.
SUBSTITUTE ASKED
New Measure to Include Swine and
Other Products; Farmers to
Bold Conference.
(Wednesday's Oregonian.)
Washington, D. C, June 8. The
McNary-Haugen export corporation
bill was finally killed In the house
this afternoon by the overwhelming
vote of 224 to 154. Immediately the
republican steering committee grant
ed an audience to representatives of
the agricultural districts, resulting
in the decision to have a new bill
drafted by which the war finance cor
poration would be authorized to pur
chase all of the exportable surplus
of the 1924 wheat crop and swine,
also the products of wheat and swine,
with a view to stabilizing the pro
ducer's prices. The president also
would be empowered to declare an
embargo on either of these staples.
The authority of the war finance cor
poration would run to July 1, 1925,
while the McNary-Haugen bill pro
visions extended over five years.
It is understood that the steering
committee indicated its approval of
the proposal and that the proaident
will be urged to pat -his administra
tion behind it for passage before ad
journment Saturday. When opponents
of the McNary-Haugen bill heard of
the new plan some of them denounced
it as worse than the export corpora
tion scheme because, they said, it was
now proposed to do practically the
same thing in such a way as to com
pel the United States treasury to
take any resultant loss. The McNary
Haugen bill, they pointed out, placed
the loss upon the producers.
Conference Is Called.
Simultaneous with the adverse
vote, the farm organization which for
six months has fought the battle in
Washington for the passage of the
McNary-Haugen bill issued a call for
a nation-wide conference of farm or
ganizations to be held at St. Paul
July 17 and 18, to "perfect arrange
ments for expanding and carrying on
the campaign for agricultural justice
and equality. The statement said
that representatives of the farmers
refused to accept today's decision of
congress as final and that step would
be taken to "continue the work for
the principles of the McNary-Haugen
bill."
The defeat of the bill came today
after the house, by a vote of 101 to
64 had rejected a motion by Jones of t
Texas to redraft the bill to the com
mittee on agriculture with instruc
tions to resubmit its provisions to
apply only to wheat and hogs. Rep
resentative Aswell of Louisiana,
ranking democrat of the committee
on agriculture, rose and urged all
those who opposed the bill to vote
against the motion to recommit.
Democrats Against Bill.
Southern democrats fell upon the
bill en masse and, with eastern dem
ocrats and republicans, furnished the
votes to make its demise certain. The
vote for the bill included 100 repub
licans, 52 democrats and two fanner
labor. The vote against included 101
republicans, 122 democrats and one
socialist. The solidly radically Wis
consin delegation, ten of whom are
LaFollette worshippers, divided, five
for the bill and six against.
Voting for the bill were: Cooper,
Frera, Browne, Nelson and Lampert;
against the bill Volgt, Schneider,
Schaefer, Peavy, Beck and Victor
Berger. The vote of the Wisconsin
delegation appeared to create more
interest than any other feature of
the final test because of the vocal
activities of Senator LaFoilette in
the last few days with reference to
helping the farmer.
The result was not a surprise be
cause it had been foretold in the
roll call of last Saturday night when
the opposition to the bill forced ad
journment by a vote of 180 to 136.
Today's vote indicated that with all
members present and voting the op
position would have had a majority
of about 100.
The statement issued by friends
of the bill after its defeat had been
announced was signed by George C.
Jewett of Minneapolis and Portland,
genera) manager of the American
Wheat Growers' associated, as chair
man of a committee which included
representatives of all of the leading
farm organizations, national and
state.
Action Held Unjust.
"By failing to enact into law the
principles of the McNary-Haugen ex
port corporation bill," the statement
read, "the present congress has re
fused to concede to American agri
culture equal opportunity and equal
protection with that which the nation
grants to other industries and insti
tutions. Congress has freely admit
ted the plight of the farmer, but it
has refused to tnke steps dictated by
simple justice, to which have precip
itated nation-wide agricultural col
lapse. "We cannot believe that thi deci
sion of congress is to bi taken as
final. Otherwise we should have no
choice except to return to the mi!
Hons of people who compottj trm
farming industry of the country with;
the word that the American natk-
no longer hid a place for them, their
'work, or the production of their htnd.
' and toil. We beiievo the decUiun of
1 congress in refusing ju live to agri
culture Is dictated more hy miiundor
! standing of the underlying oau-ie of
i present Conditions, than by a cold
blooded purpose of industrial and ft-
nancial aggrandizement, aceontplishd
'through the ruin of the farming in
dustry. j ''With this belief we urn taking
1 what steps lie within our puwur tu
i continue the work for the principles
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