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I I I I I I Wednesday, January 27, 1937 LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER, LA GRANDE, ORE. PAGE THREE Society Freda Smith, Society Editor. Main 600. Neighborhood Club Spends Enjoyable Afternoon Tuesday The members of the Neighborhood club spent an interesting and en- Joyable afternoon Tuesday at the clubhouse when they held their regular meeting. The business session was opened at 2:00 o'clock with Mrs.

H. C. McClay, president, presiding. CommitLee reports were heard and Roesch, chairman of the Doernbecher hospital committee, reported that $25.00 was collected for, the Doernbecher fund by the Neighborhood club. Mrs.

J. K. Wright read a memorial to Mrs. L. Denham, a devoted member of the club, who recently passed away.

Mrs. McClay then introduced Miss Anne Gillis, who gave 8 colorful and interesting talk on "Present Day Spain," describing many of the cities, the people and their characteristics. R. L. Saling, of the Eastern and Power company, was guest speaker a and gave a very instructive talk on "New and Modern Equipment For the Kitchen," which carried out the theme of the meetIng, "Kitchen Kraft." His talk was illustrated with electric models.

A violin solo, Schubert's "Serenade," was played by Maelizabeth Cooper, accompanied by Mrs. Clark Wheeler. "Resolved That Kitchen was held, on the subject, More Influence On the Home than the Living Room," Mrs. A. T.

HIll took the affirmative and Mrs. Fred Fox, negative. The debate was both clever and amusing and the members voted that both presentations of the question were equal. Tea was served at a table attractively decorated with marigolds and tall orange tapers in silver holders forming the centerpiece. Mrs.

E. A. McEachran and Mrs. Fred Spaeth were in charge. The next meeting was announced for February 9 and will be in charge of "The Little Theatre" group.

Interesting Meeting Planned By P. T. A. Based on the year's theme, "Character Growth: Home and School Responsibility," the Central P. T.

A. will present 8 program offered by the committee at the meeting Friday, January 29 at 3:00 p. m. The church will be represented by Rev. George Marrs who will give the invocation: home and school in dramatic form by pupils of Miss Snider's and Mrs.

Heassler's rooms, and community agencies will be demonstrated by the Camp Fire Girls under the direction of Mrs. Hurley Hagood, and the Boy Scouts by L. A. Kennedy's troop. Pupils from Miss Garrick's room and Mrs.

Ingle's room will sing during the program. A talk on dental care will be given by Dr. J. B. Blackham.

At 2:00 p. m. the study group will hold an instructive discussion on motion pictures. Lodge Installs New Officers Installation of officers was held at the regular session of the R. N.

A. lodge Monday evening. Mrs. Bertha Conklin was installing officers and Nell Montgomery, ceremonial officer. The following were installed: Martha Hansen, oracle; Bessie McManus, past oracle; Gladys Huff, vice oracle; Margaret Swart, chancellor; Lucille Price, recorder: Bernice Suydam, marshal; Velma Vedder, assistant marshal; Eula Webb, musician; Lillian Shewmaker, manager, and Reta Gaertner, drill captain.

Refreshments were served by Mrs. Shewmaker and her committee. Riveria Study Group To Meet The Riveria Parent-Teacher assoclation study group will meet Friday, January 29 at 2:00 p.m. at the home of Mrs. Guy Wetzel, 2117 Cedar street.

Mrs. Della Fitzgerald, county health nurse, will be the speaker. SOCIAL CALENDAR Wednesday, Jan. 27 8:00 O. E.

Masonic hall, Thursday, Jan. 28 2:00 Francis Brown Auxiliary, Mrs. Alma Conley, 1602 Adams. Friday, Jan. 29 10:00 Stitch and Chatter club all meeting, Mrs.

C. N. Palmer. 2:00 Central P. T.

A. Study group. Presbyterian Missionary society, Mrs. Ray Murphy, 1st and O. avenue.

Riveria study group, Mrs. Guy Wetzel. 3:00 Central P. T. schoolhouse.

8:00 Kilkare club, Mrs. Martha Cole. Tuesday, Feb. 2 8:00 Y. W.

E. M. E. church basement. NEWS BRIEFS Party PostponedThe next regular meeting of the Eastern Oregon Commandery will be held on the scheduled date, Feb.

9, but the party, which was to have been held Jan. 26, will Instead be held Feb. 23. Lyman Pledged- Howard W. Lyman of La Grande, junior in secretarial science at Oregon State college, has named as a pledge to Scabbard Blade, nabeen, tional honor society in military science and tactics, announced Jim Cook, Captain of Company G.

2nd Regiment Scabbard and Blade. Scabbard and Blade is one of the best known of the honor societies on the campus. To be eligible the prospective pledge must meet high scholustic and character requirements as well as showing outstanding ability as A leader. 111- Clem Wallace, who returned last night from assisting City Manager A. McAllister in the repair work on tho Beaver Creek pipeline, was reported ill at his home today.

Suffers From FluHorace Knapp, city water superintendent, was reported ill at his home of flu Supt. Gralapp SpeaksA. L. Gralapp, superintendent of La Grande schools, was the chief speaker today at the Rotary club MARSHALL RITES HELD AT WALLOWA WALLOWA, Jan. 27 (Special) -Mrs.

Kate Marshall, long a resident of Wallowa, died Sunday evening at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Earl Sherod of Middle Valley. Mrs. Marshall, who was 63 years of age, had been in poor health for several years but her death came unexpectedly after a few days illness due to a heart allment. She is survived by four children, Mrs.

W. E. Chapman and Albert Marshall iat Enterprise, Mrs. Earl Sherod and Jesse Marshall of Wallowa, Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon at the M. E.

church with Rev. E. A. Pollock in charge and burial was in the Wallowa cemetery. HUG FUNERAL TO BE FRIDAY AT ELGIN, ORE.

Funeral services for Mrs. Lizzie Hug, who died carlier this week at Enterprise, will be held Friday at 1:30 o'clock in the afternoon at the Christian church at Elgin. Burial will follow in the Elgin cemetery, with Snodgrass and Zimmerman in charge. Many Bargains Listed On "Want Ad" Page MRS. MARY SMITH DIES LAST NIGHT Mrs.

Mary Ida Smith, ill for a long period of time of diabetes, died at the Grande Ronde hospital last night. Funeral services will be held at the Snodgrass and Zimmerman mortuary at 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon, with burial in the Masonic cemetery. She was born in West Virginia Aug. 26, 1874 and was 62 years, months of age. Survivors include her widowed husband, Henry S.

Smith; children, son, Burford A. Davis, The Dalles, and two three, daughters, Mrs. Bessle Watkins of Modoo Point, and Pearl Iverson, of La Grande. Mrs. Smith made her home at Third street.

Mary Ida Shreves Davis and Mr. Smith were married Feb. 2, 1910 in Raton. N. Mex.

They came to La Grando in 1911. NEWBILL RITES TOMORROW AT I Funeral services for John H. Newbill, of Summerville, who died of a stroke last weekend, will be held at the Snodgrass and Zimmerman mortuary tomorrow afternoon at 1 o'clock. Burial will take place in the Masonic cemetery. were Immediately mobilized to carry out if necessary the greatest exodus in history.

Secretary of War Harry Woodring, acting swiftly in America's greatest emergency since the World announced that headquarters for the mass evacuation would be established at Jackson, Miss. The sudden, drastic step followed a report from army engineers, emphasizing the imminent danger of vastly increased floods along the Mississippi once the swollen torrents of the Ohio spills its crest into the "father of waters." Levees May Not Hold Army engineers said the billiondollar new levees flung up along the lower Mississippi after 1927 and not since tested by severe floodscould 'handle only 2,400,000 cubic feet of water a second. The raging Ohio, it was pointed out, will dump a minimum of 00 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 0 cubic feet into the Mississippi when the flood crest hits Cairo, Ill. Whole cities and towns, along the stretch from Cairo to the Gulf of Mexico, fall under the mandatory program of flight from the path of invasion. The crest and the start of the "super flood" predicted by Lieut.

Col. Eugene Reybold, district chief of U. S. army engineers in the region below Cairo is expected to break within a week. From army headquarters at Washington, D.

telegraphic orders chicked out to corps area commanders at Atlanta, Omaha, and San Antonio, to have complete evacuation plans in readiness by 6 p. January 29. Secretary of War Woodring ordered them to prepare to evacuate a minimum of 500,000 persons along the 2,000 miles of levees on both sides of the river. Scores of railroad flatcars were mobilized to carry out the wholesale exodus. To Use All Forces The secretary of war also authorized the use, not only of regular army troops, but members of the civilion conservation corps, the national guard and the Red Cross.

As the far south prepared to flee, another day of watery terror gripped the graveyard of almost buried towns, Villages and farmlands on the once pleasant Ohio river valley to the north. With the army of homeless swelled to 750,000, the toll of known dead by drowning reached 137 hundreds more were missing- and estimates of property damage soared far beyond the $300,000,000 mark. completely overshadowing the havoc of Mississippi river disaster. Snow, hunger and 1 pestilence wrote a black picture of human misery. At Louisville, Health Commissioner Dr.

Hugh R. Leavell said at least 200 victims had died of diseases. "Many others have been trapped in their homes and drowned inside the dwellings," said Dr. Leavell. "Other bodies may have been swept down the river." As the flood waters momentarily paused in their four-day rise to record-breaking heights in.

the Ohio river valley, army engineers at Cairo, the dike-walled island city where the Ohio pours into the Mississippi -directed the labors of 1,000 teers hastily throwing a 3-foot earthen bulwark on top of the 60-foot seawall against the oncoming assault of the Ohio's crest. Below Cairo, in the line of approach, residents of Tiptonville, and New Madrid, were told to evacuate the riverside region at once. "The levees are sure to break." warned George Myer, Red Cross national director. "Those people will drown like rats in a trap unless they get out now while there is still time." Senate to Pass Bill In Washington, D. senate Democratic leaders called for speedy approval of a $790,000,000 flood relief fund, already approved by the house, as reports of human suffering poured into the national capitol.

President Roosevelt promised all of it would be spent to aid the flood victims if necessary. The Red Cross set aside its iginal $5,000,000 relief quota and asked for unlimited assistance. The president gave personal tion to co-ordinating the government's succoring of the flood stricken cities. He said the emergency in the Ohio river valley would not be ended until Thursday night. Many cities opened their doors to exiles from the flooded areas.

Columbus, Ohio, prepared to shelter 5,000 and Charlestown, doubled its 3,800 population overnight with 2,500 hungry, cold and homeless refugees arriving from Southeastern Missouri. Preparations were made at Memphis, to accommodate 50,000 as the exodus from the surrounding country proceeded apace. Mayor H. R. Debassey of Parkersburg, W.

appealed for conservation of food in the face of shortening supplies. Portsmouth, Ohio, cheered its I mayor's statement that "we've got it whipped" the Ohio slowed toward a standstill and the citizenry turned to restoration of necessary services. Memphis was assured by its officlals that it had little to fear from the record flood due next week. They predicted only the outlying sections would be inundated. Louisville Inundated Louisville fought flood, fire and disease with three- fourths of the city under water.

Three separate fires added about $570,000 to the damage already placed in excess of 000 in unofficial estimates. Twenty bodies were found floating in the streets. The hospitals were filled with patients, indirect victims of the flood, and Mayor Neville Miller sald "there is the constant threat of disease and epidemic." Cincinnati watched hopefully as the river inched from the high stages which had halted its power and water plants, spread fire, privation and the threat of disease. The water supply was rationed and citizens carried it from "water stations" in pails, jars and bottles. Some drinking water came from other cities by tank car.

Mass movements of refugees from flood stricken cities in Indiana gained impetus as Evansville and other cities prepared for the crest of the yellow waters, expected within 48 hours. More than 75,000 had been driven from their homes and cold. hunger and sickness added to the suffering of those who stuck to their posts. Many Bargains Listed On "Want Ad" Page Newspapers In Flooded Areas Try to Continue CINCINNATI, Jan. 27 (AP) With faltering power, by hand, and by mimeograph, newspaper editors in the flood area struggled to continue publications.

In some cities and towns. presses capable of printing thousands of coples an hour were under water but the newspapers still appeared as little handbills. In other cities, continued publication was impossible. Many newspapers in Southern Indiana were forced to suspend. The New Albany (Ind.) Tribune was pubfished by hand press until Saturday.

then closed down. The Paducah, Maysville and Ashland. Kentucky, papers have suspended. The Louisville Courier- Journal and the Louisville Times will be published in Lexington beginning today. Cincinnati newspapers overcame many difficulties to continue working.

The Portsmouth (O.) Times continued to circulate by boat and free. It was being printed in the Chillicothe Scioto Gazette plant after being issued as a two-column handa jobshop on a Portsmouth hilltop during the first day after the Times plant was flooded. The Ironton Tribune and the Pomeroy Tribune were closed down. The Point Pleasant (W. Va.) Register finally suspended publication after struggling to "hit the street" with a mimeographed edition.

The Parkersburg (W. Va.) Evening News and the Sentinel turned to hand set type, running off a one-page paper on a hand press. Artist Paints, He Declares, For 'Common People' By Hal Boyle Associated Press Feature Service Writer JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. What the "common people" think of his art concerns Thomas Hart Benton more than the opinions of critics. Benton, one of the nation's foremost mural painters, started a wave of praise and criticism with his murals in the Missouri state capitol lounge.

"I like people," he says, "and primarily I paint for them. If they can see something in these paintings out of their own lives, I don't care what they know or think about art." Interprets Midwest Scene Black-maned, diminutive Benton. great-nephew of Missouri's early day statesman of the same name, has bristled his mustache at artistic convention before. His practice of dipping his paint brushes in the turbulent life about him has brought him jibes as recognition AS a leading interpreter of the chaotic midwest scene. Classicists call Benton a radical.

Communists, on the other hand, heckle him at lectures "until I have to sit on them." "Get me right," he says earnestly. "None of my stuff is propaganda. I'm a realist. I paint what I see. You supply the materials.

I can't always be painting pictures of people going around in frock coats and carrying Bibles. They don't act that way." No 'Bulgy-Thewed Females' The legislature appropriated 000 for the murals which depict the history and present life of Missouri. "A waste of money," said one legislator after seeing them. Another reported that on first entering the room he got an impression that the walls were falling on him. The bulgy-thewed females, clad In scanty stone gunnysacks, to represent LAW.

JUSTICE and AGRICULTURE in much of the nation's statehouse art have no place in Benton's murals. Instead are found Huck Finn and TRY THIS NEW WAY TO DRIVE! PRESTO! FLICK TO THE GEAR YOU WANT (Same familiar gear positions) LIFT A AND GEARS SHIFT (You can forget the clutch pedal) Hudson and Terraplane dealers every- to pull a gear lever or touch a clutch where invite you to try the magically pedal yet nothing new to learn. easy new way to drive with Hudson's There's a car ready for you, Come new Selective Automatic Shift. No need in today no obligation. I HUDSON No.

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The longest visible ray of science is 25 centimeters, just under one foot. It in also the newest. This ray was photographed at the radiation laboratory of the Ity of California, directed by Dr. Ernest O. Lawrence.

It Is brilliant lavender beam. Its shape, in the air, is almost a perfect beseball bat. Comes Out Of Box It 1s made of deuterons. These are particles whose existence was unknown until four years ago. They are the secret of heavy water.

They are the kernels or nuclel, heavy hydrogen, the hydrogen double off normal weight, which when combined with oxygen makes heavy water. This lavender ray emerges from a platinum window, in a metal box, lying between the poles of an 80-ton magnet. The ray is driven out of the window by energy equal to five and a halt million volts of electricity. The great magnet and box are a "cyclotron," where the particles are whirled around until they emerge as a visible ray. Not Instantly Fatal This ray will disintegrate atoms.

But It will not disintegrate with any visible speed a particle of matter big enough to see. It is dangerous to man, could even cause death, but not at a touch. Its effects would appear like burn. Rays with far greater energy have been photographed lately at the California Institute of Technology. But they are atomic in size.

They cannot yet even be seen in the air, although they exist there. These rays are single tracks, in a cloud chamber, cosmic ray meter, developed under direction of Dr. Robert A. Millikan. The tracks are atomic particles.

Cosmic rays set them off by hitting, and exploding single atoms. Like Fireworks In these still atomic-size rays lie the huge energies depicted by fiction, provided there is anywhere a reservolt for such rays. The part of the atom from which the particles come is held together by a force about one million times as strong as gravitation. The force has been measured, but its nature is a mystery, except that it sems to be electrical. The rays in Dr.

Milligan's metal boxes bounce and swirl like July Fourth mussed fireworks. They are like baseballs bounced off invisible barns. By studying the tracks of millions of baseballs, anyone would form some idea of the size, shape and structural material p4 the barn. Intead of baseballs to study, Dr. Millikan's staff sees the bouncing of several different kinds of particles off or out of the invisible "barn" nucleus of an atom.

Tom Sawyer, an oldtime county sent political meeting, a Missouri coon hunt, Jesse and Frank James staging a train robbery, and Frankie and Johnnie, characters in the well known song. Every face in the murals except one is that of a person living or who has lived in the state. $183,473 Voted To The Capitol Decorating PORTLAND, Jan. 27 (A) The capitol reconstruction commission approved $183,473 Tuesday for decorating Oregon's new statehouse. The largest single Item is $65,000 for wall murals and rotunda decorations.

The allocation included 000 more than original estimates for ings In the legislative chambers and painting and decoration nom the ceildecoration of the governor's offices. The commission decided to withdraw sculpturing appropriations from the contract held by Ross B. Hammond, builder, and deal directly with the artists. A decision on the responsibility of the costs of printing additional prints was left up to Ralph Moody, assistant attorney general. Original plans submitted by Livingstone and Trowbridge, the architects, were only for bidding purposes.

Salary Boost Dented The commission tabled a request from Allan Toole, clerk of the works, for a salary increase from $300 to $400 a month. E. C. Dalton favored the Increase but withdrew his motion pending further investigation. Dalton said Toole was required to be on hand 15 hours a day.

Dr. H. H. Olinger opposed the increase, saying he understood Toole wanted an assistant at $300 month as well as the pay increase. He urged paring overhead, and estimated the commission would gO $100,000 more than its estimates.

Toole advised the commission to make allowances for a 2 per cent overcost on production, but Morris Whitehouse, Portland architect, said the cost would not exceed 1 per cent. The assistant attorney general announced Salem's approval of a plan to turn over 99 feet of Wilson park. The commission will investigate the most of moving a bandstand. Consideration will be given an additional Item for accoustic plaster to deaden the sound of typewriters and machinery. Adding to the storm over the mur- als, first commission Benton has received from his native state, Is a charge that he used $2,751 worth of eggs in painting them.

The artist, who mixes his colors with egg whites. declares it was "only about $10.50 worth." of New York' Benton, now 47, spent 24 of his 30 years as an artist in New York but says he's home to stay. He now heads the painting department of the Kansas City Art institute. "I'm sick of New York," he explained. It's full of talking radical I say talking because they never anything else.

This part of the country la going to dom. inate the coming social change and I want to be here to see what happens, not just to hear about it. If a Cold Timely use of this especially designed aid for nose and upper throat, helps prevent many colds. 30c and VICKS Zion Will Open Men's Store In Music Co. Rooms S.

H. Zion, former manager of the New York store, announced- today he will open a men's furnishings and shoe store in the old La Grande Music Co. location at Adams avenue about the first of March. He plans to stock the store, so far as possible, with Cregon-made products. Mr.

Zion, who has been in Grande the last four and a half years, said he belleved there WAS a real need for a type of store here such as he plans to open. The New York store will close its doors Saturday night and will remain ciosed for an indefinite period while it is remodelled. When reopened, it is to present an entirely new type of store. It is believed the reopening will take place in the early spring. ade at -Price 56.1c lb.

salers: meunder- Sugar bales, city Ily pathard bluehard, whole cowboy fifty 80,000 ahoma Is now South- ACHING HEADS AND SPOTTY EYES Don't let constipation ruin your health. Read Mr. Davidson's message of cheer: "Kellogg's ALLBRAN has sure been a godsend to me. This is the first relief I have ever had. Believe me, I will be a booster for Kellogg's ALL-BRAN aS long as I C.

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"That Good Coal" Just Phone Main 17 -01- Stop Our Red Trucks (With White Letters) anywhere in town, they will be glad your order, or give you information, for Better Coal and Better Service. Home Lumber Coal Co. 0 luncheon at the Fireside, explaining the school system's entrance into the safe driving program. A compulsory course for ninth graders will be started next semester, to become a permanent course in L. H.

S. George T. Cochran announced the Red Cross drive ta raise an emergency sum for flood relief. 111- Miss Cecelia Reynaud is confined to her home because of a severe cold. La Grande VisitorWillard Tubbs, member of the state police force at Arlington, was in La Grande today visiting friends.

ImprovedMrs. W. H. Safford, who has been confined to her home for the past several days because of the flu, is reported as somewhat improved and able to set up. Condition GoodThe condition of Guy Chapin, in the Grande Ronde hospital, ill of pneumonia, is reported today as being good.

Name New JurorsWith grand jury called for session today, S. G. Ruckman and J. A. Gaskill, two members, were unable to reach La Grande due to snow-closed roads.

Weldon Vedder and C. W. Bunting were selected to complete the grand jury, which opened its scheduled session today. Army Ready For Big If Necessary in the disastrous flood of 1927 would be affected. Thirty-five thousand motor trucks Continued from Page One Lovely LOVELY HANDS-.

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