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About The Athena press. (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 24, 1919)
1 i circulates it, 'ho reside irf t .. UraetUla Whc-. .ve money to spend Notice! If this notice is marked RED, it sig nifies that your Subscription expires with this issue. We will greatly ap preciate your renewal $2.00 per year : -as entered at the Post Office at Athena. Oregon, as Second-Class' Mail Matter VOLUME XL. ATHENA. UMATILLA COUNTY. OREGON. FRIDAY. OCTOBER 24. 1919. NUMBER 42 MARKS SPOT OF YANKS' LAND! TOM CORWINE : f GREAT ENTERTAINER France Lays Cornerstone of Monument at the Pointe de Grave. WALLACE PRAISES FRENCH President Pol are Urges Both Na tion! to Guard Against Estrange - men Lafayette Sald for America' From Same Port. Point de Grave, France. France paid lasting tribute to. American ac tive entry into (he great war by lay ing the cornerstone of a monument here commemorating tiie landing nu the spot of the first contingent of American troops in 1917. Sfleecbca by President Poiniure and Hugh C, Wallace, the American ambassador, were the features of the exercises, appropriately held on the birthday of Lafayette, who sailed for America from this same port In 1777. '. ; The scene was a brilliant one. nurat ous detachments of French and Amst tan soldiers, sailors and ma rinas assembled among the sandy dunes of the Pointe giving color to the picture. The guard of honor, for instance, wa composed of United States marines, many of whom were veterans of the fighting on the Maine in 1918. i Distinguished Gathering. 1st addition to. Premier Ciemenceau. Marshal Foch and other distin guished Frenchmen, numbers of prom inent Americans assisted in the cere mony, among them Frank L. Polk, un der secretary of state ; Gen. Tusker H. Bliss and Brig. Gen. W. D. Connor, now commander of the American forces in France. The French repre sentation included also Marquis de Chambrun, a descendant of Lafayette and a member of the Joffre mission to the United, States. iln J.017 ; Andre Tardieu, and deputy Maurice Damotir, chairman of .to cSmmrttef In charge of the exercises. A band from the V. S. S. Carola played. " ' ' . A crowd of some 3,000 ' 'witnessed vie ceremonjf.', s 'l vl "ij J , j . t iV '',( "resident Foineare In his speech ed to America to continue that relationship which ' caused the ted States to come to the aid of France. "In the plains of Plcardy, Lor raine and Champagne by the side of 1,400,000 whom the war has mown down," said ho, "sleep your Ameri cans whose mothers do not know their tombs. They all sacrificed to the same ideal the French died for. "Let us bend down over these tombs and listen, it is the same voice which everywhere arises from the depths of 'the earth. 'We have suffered,' they say, 'In order that the world should become free.' To you iow falls the duty to watch that never again may leap up this danger which we have removed. Do not allow France and America to estrange themselves one from the other. Do not draw .apart those hands which are now joined. Be on your guard that there shall never be kept between you misunder standings which sooner or later might be transformed into disagreements. " 'Tomorrow no more than -yesterday can you dispense with each other. Separated you will quickly be exposed to the offensive return of violence. Side by side the peoples who have won the war will be strong enough to make such war impossible.' " Praises Spirit of France. American Ambassador Wallace said the monument would be to "victory and liberty." The speaker praised the spirit of France and said tur while "many and great are the glories of France there Is none that comparts with the glory of the Marne." Ambassador Wallace, after is dwelt upon the oart Litfa ad played in the Hevolr' Id j t United Stat' e Possesses Remarkable Powers of Iml , . tation and Mimicry. Tom Borwine is prince among enter tainers. He fills every minute with fine fun and laughter. All that he does is original. He imitates no one and no one can imitate him success fully. 'J he Jollet Dally News say, "Tom Cprwine has the most marvelous throat In existence. He is a living won der, possessing four distinct throats in one, so that he can make a concord ance of sounds that no other voice has ever accomplished." He imitates birds, animals and mechanical contrivances with a perfection that is uncanny. His humorous sketches are irresis tibly laughable and have won for him a nation-wide reputation. JINX PURSUES BRIDAL AUTO Blowouts Were Overcome, but Lack of Years Was an Effectual Bar at yj, ' License Bureau. .Baltimore. Luck was- tth- Alien . Walter Dehuff of Dallastown, Pa., a prospective bridegroom, when he slip ped from bed at 4 a. m. and at the wheel of his "flivver" sped toward Logansville, Pa. His bride-to-be, Miss Esther Hilde brant, was waiting for him at a lonely spot on the road and they turned the radiator toward Baltimore, but there Dehuff's luck deserted him. First came blowouts and then engine trouble and finally a damaged axle, but repairs were made and the "flivver" continued toward Baltimore and a mar riage license. But the blow which he received at the marriage license bureau will take two years to fix, unless he asks his parents for help. He Is only 19 years old and the clerk would not Issue the marriage license without the consent of Dehuffs parents, so the pair re turned home. 01 Conflicting Thoughts !0 1 8 WMSSSWS Sight Large Sea See em; Immune to Eul ets. Reno, Nov. Doubt not the au thenticity of tills, for the nation went dry long since. Four hunters report a sea ser pent 25 feet long In Yuramld Lake, largest fresh water body west of the Great Lakes. It has huge fliiK and a serpent's tall, comes to the surface of the wa ter and Its hide Is Impregnable fo' bullets.' ' "I The hunters who slim 'he. 8(1 lmal but who report It ed uf ter being hit unhurt arc J. S. Neff. Mike Nngy, W. J. Keff anil M. Gent. They were Camilla's on "he shore of the lake Men the monster was first slanted the-said. SHOW YANKS ABOUND Y. M. C. A. Conducts Sightseeing Tours Through France. FAMOUS BAR NOW GROCERY California House Had Five Preel denta and On King aa Guests. Sacramento, Cal. The Diamond bar, famous for nearly fifty years as a part of the old Auzerais House, of San Jose, Cal., is being fitted up for a gro cery store. The Auzerais House, in West Santa Clara street, housed five presidents of the United States and was for a time the abode of a king. It was built in 1863, according to John E. Auzerais of San Jose, and the bar room was the meeting place for many of the inenWhose names have' been written into the history of California. President Grant was entertained at a banquet in the Auzerais House In 1879. The following spring King Ka lukau of Hawaii was a guest, and in September of the same year President Hayes delivered an address from the bajcony. President Harriso, was a guest in lS91and both Mckinley and Roosevelt visited the fameus ojd hotel on their tours of tiie BniCd Sfttes. REPAIRING GERMAN CABLES Britain Also Putting Lines to Bel glum Into Pre-War Condition. London, England. Every possible effort Is being made to restore to Its pre-war basis the cable system of th" World, it Is announced. The five Anglo-German cables which were cut by the British fleet In the early days of the war are being repaired and so are the four cables connecting England with Belgium. Cable communication with Iceland, which was interrupted by the war, has Just been restored. Messages now are being dispatched to Australia in as many hours as it required days In war time. Communication with the Euro pean continent is steadily improving. Gold Coins of 1855 in Tree Felled by Storm Mobile, Ala. I. L. Robertson, aged resident of St. Stephens. Ala., In Washington county, near here, found several thousand dollars in gold coins. The money was In a rusty tin box that was exposed to view when a tree was blown down recently. The money was In $1, $2.50, $5, $10 and $20 gold' pieces of the date of 1855. Battlefields and Castles of Leading In. terest After Paris Has . Been Seen. Chantllly, France. The progress of the sightseeing doughboy through Prance, after, be kit s through with battle fronts, Is from One beautiful spot to another. Of cfrarse, the battle fronts come first, and the Y. M. C." A. trips to Chateau-Thierry, Belleau Wood, Rheims, Soissons and the Che-min-des-Dames are so popular that the boys have to draw lots every day for the coveted free tickets, as only 100 persons can be taken on eacli trip. But all the other trips the Y. M. C. A. has arranged for American soldiers and sailors are studies In beauty and art and history amid pleasures and palaces, and the eagerness and in telligence with which the boys go on these expeditions Is plain evidence of their essential soundness of heart and mind. The first day, as a rule, the boys get aboard the big "Y" sightseeing auto mobiles and see Paris. Then they go by special train to the palaces of Versailles, Fontalnebleau, Malmaisnn and St. Germain. Next they come back to Paris and spend a day In the Louvre. And then those still keen for palaces are Invited to take another trip to the jewel of them all, the fa mous chateau of the Condes and Mont morencys at Chantllly. Thousands o' American soldiers have visited Chantllly this year and have learned something of a place which many wealthy tourists overlooked. In deed, though many Americans visited Chantllly In years before the war, a large percentage of them saw only the race course and never visited the chateau. Yet many experts hold that though a number of other museums outrank it in size, nowhere in the world not excepting the Louvre is there a more exquisite collection of objects of art. This Poker Player Was Thoroughly Cleaned Out Cobalt, Kan. So completely cleaned out was Jean Paul As selln after a poker game on Third St. here that when he came to R. L. O'Gorman, J. P., to swear out a warrant against a fellow player whom he sus pected of stealing his roll, he could not produce the dollar fee demanded. He had to borrow ten cents from Chief of Police Konnville to make up the re quired sum. Asselln chnrges, that $190 disappeared during ills temporary absence frem "the scene of operations, and he swore a warrant for 'the ar rest of Sam Borlich, Known to the police as "Minnesota," ac cusing him of stealing the money. 4 -t-r-r-T"Ti"-tr-t--r;ririr-trir;-ii!it 'tm BLIND, HANDS GONE, WRITES Crippled Soldier Becomes Competent Typist Through Patient Train inn. London. Blind and deprived of both hands. Sergt. Alan M. Nichols of the Second Durham light Infantry refused to be classed as an "unemploynble," and today can write letters as profi ciently as any normal stenographer. Nichols' restoration to a self-supporting basis was accomplished through patient training, a specially construct ed typewriter, a pair of artificial alum inum hands and his own Indomitable spirit. Recently he passed a writing test of two hours and fifteen minutes, his "copy" necessitating only two corrections. WHISKERS AS OLD AS HE IS Wants to Change Absurd Name. New York. Justice Callahan, In the supreme court, has reserved decision In tiie application of Leon Abouta Beckh to Change his name to Leon Atallnh. Abouta Beekh said he was born in Damascus, Syria, February 10, 1877, and has three children. The name Abouta Beekh, lie said, means 'father of cooking," and Is so absurd that It has all his life subjected him to ridicule. He said he wanted to pre vent his children from enduring the same ridicule. a ka Poison From Snake B'te. S. D. Heroic action of his snckiti? poison injected from f a rattlesnake from his ' life of Gaylord Town ears old. of Mellette jiy was walking with is the prarle near their ake. Which had been luster of weeds, struck sed. A friend of the, the wound causing It i alter which Mrs. Towr t,t the poison. Tbefangs - struck the boy twice Lion Kills Rams. 1 Grass Valley, Cul.---For the th'r' time within n few days a mountaii i lion has raided a sheep corral In th ! lower part of the county. Five raw i each weighing over 300 pounds, wen killed In this .aid. Two of the for , animals, valued a $W! eaciT wt' j dragged more than ifclft yard, fn j two -previous raids thirty-four (hV were killed, '.'-. in Weil j Regains "ifM. j.-rAlmot blind si i Sep 1915, .Joseph Culshaw, ex-eol-jathed several times In St. W;l s well. North Wales, and hait re efed his sight, he says. . . Mkk ft - lull by- 8' tr - In inn'." ait 'V ' rn . " Itne- w Imv- -.bed 'sr.' fdjb he'n-' . nto pin- irlly the 1 ' . - bored nffet the shj iperat his . deebir-i ',- the firs- 1,1 -nci ! was ' 'Mwi j, aftet ' '' was fin liar 4 aWhi-ii:: f Magazine. ' And Former County Auditor In Cali fornia Is Hovering Near the Eighty Mark. Santa Ann, Cal. Who's got the old est whiskers? V"- - Other townsr hnve entered contest ants in the race for oldest hirsute adornments, but Santa Ana only now Jumps Into the fray with a set of whiskers slxty-on years old. If any body can beat that, let them come for ward or forever hold their peace. The proud possessor of the aged beard Is J. H. Hall, former auditor of Orange county, who Is now dividing, his time between Santa Ana and the East. Captain Hall, a 0. A. R. man, never has shaved, and the whiskers which now adorn his face are on the roots of the "fuzz" which showed up when he was In bis teens. Not a Tight Fit Equipment was being issued to the recruits. On the previous day thejr had received shoes and as the men came up the officer asked each how his shoes fitted. .One man said: "Why, air, I van do a right about face wtth Bt marisf my alioaa." ' Child Hurt by Log. Maryville, Cal. G. F. Winiams brought his little daughter from Rack erhy to a local hospital, recently, for treatment for Injuries she received when struck by a rolling log, a twig of which entered her mouth and pierced her neck, pinning her to the ground. An operation may be neces sary, but It is believed the child will recover, Williams Was sawing a log on the side of the hill, it Is under stood. His two small daughters were standing below on the hill watchlcg him. As the log went hurtling down the side of the hill It- struck both chil dren. The other girl was only slightly hurt. Bulging With Coin. Washington The government bos so much "coin of the realm" that it actually bulges out the walls of the vaults containing it. The treasury has asked congress to appropriate $1,500,- 1 000 to make the vaults secure and pro vide additional ones. The treasury's gold and silver was accumulated dur- log the vat, 1 KILLS MORE THAN WAD INVENTOR OFllG BERTHA" IS INSANE Tuberculosis Claims 150,000 Victims a Year. Survey Indicates 2,000.000 Unsuspected Sufferers From Disease in Nation. New York. A survey of the country shows the United States is face to face with a condition more menacing to Its people than actual warfare, ac cording to the report of the executive committee of the National Tuberculo sis association. The survey shows nn annual death rate from tuberculosis In the United States of 150,00b, and more than 1,000, 000 active cases of the disease in the nation. ,' To combat and prevent the spread of the disease, an intensive national campaign is necessary, it was asserted. Funds for the campaign will be sought by a ten-day sale of Ited Cross seals, beginning December 1. The total of the several state budgets will be more than $0,500,000. During the discussions, attention was called to the revelations of the war-time medical examination boards, made up largely of members of the as sociation. Official' figures were cited, showing that of the men called to the colors, nearly 100,000 were tubercu lous. It was pointed out that the death rate of 150.000 a year from one pre ventable disease means the sacrifice of more lives than the United States army lost in the year it was actively engaged In the war. BRITISH SELL WAR STORES Government ' Offers to the Public Im mense Quantity of Goods and Factory Plants, Washington. The British govern ment Is offering at public sale, either by auctions or bid from private par ties, an enormous amount of goods, stores and all kinds of property ac cumulated Iri the course of the war and now held In quantities far beyond the needs hi time of "peace. ! AjflSeclnl publication known as "Sur plws," copies of which have been re celved here, show that this property includes whole factories fully equipped for manufacturing all kinds of com modifies. An effort Is being made to dispose of much of tills property abroad and special bureau has been established In London to interest export houses. Ghosts of Victims of Huge Gun Have Unseated His Reason. SUCCESS BRINGS REMORSE JUST A MATTER OF MONEY Ontario Town Would Pay for Ameri can Coal In Own Cur- rencya Windsor, Ont Orders placed by Mayor Winter with n United States firm for 000 tons of anthracite coal, quoted at $12 a ton, including freight, and ex pected to be paid for In Canadian money, must now be pnld for in United States currency, according to word re ceived here. Tiie demand for United Slates money will make about 42 cents difference a ton, the mayor says. The order is held In abeyance until it can be learned Whether another Amerlcun company will accept Canadian money. Cared for Town Clock. Bucyrus, O. Care of the lown clock passed out of the hands of the Keh rcr family, which has had It for more than fifty years, when George J. Keh rer Jr., was taken III mid had to dele gate his tusk to the court house jani tor. About twenty years ago the elder Kehrer died, after tending (lie clock for thirty years, nnd the Clock stopped. For n month a stranger struggled with It, but It would not run more than forty-eight hours consecutively. Then his son took care of It and ever since the townspeople have set their watches by It. ' ' w : tsT "e Prize Fish Yarn of 1919. Topeka, Kan. The champion "fish tale" for 1019 was brought to this city by Mr. and Sirs. Paul Lovewcll, who returned with their family from Lake Koronls, Minn., where they spent two months. The family consisting of the pa rents, two sons and n daughter, caught a total of 168 pike and bass, In addition to pickerels which they did not count. They showeil n snap shot with n catch of 40 fish averaging two pounds each. Mersly Breach of Discipline. An air cadet In Rngland recent swooped down toward a country road while practicing diving and struck a carriage In which two convalescent officers were driving. Both officers were killed. When the cadet was put on trial the defense set up the pies that there had been no such culpable negligence as would Justify a verdict of manslaughter, although the pilot had committed a breach of discipline In flying low over the road. The cadet was acQuitted. Men Whose Minds Failed to Stand Up Under Strain and Horrors of War His Only Com panions. Berlin. The Inventor of the "Big Bertha," which first shelled Paris on March 23, 191S, from a distance of nearly 80 miles, now is an inmate of the German state asylum In' Ander-. nach. Men whose minds failed to stand up under the strain and horrors of war are his only companions. Tiie Inventor does not associate with tiie other inmates. At rare in tervals he speaks with the doctors or nurses In the hospital, but then only a few words. But, once when an American soldier entered, the Ger man's face lighted up like that of a child with a new toy. To the aston ishment of the hospital attendants he at once approached the visitor and began to converse with him In Eng lish. As he talked his Interest In young American seemed almost pathet ic. He asked of AmerIca,w.Aerlca's part In the war, what,, mnerica ex pected to do with Germany, and par ticularly was anifbus to learn what America thought of the German air raids "during the war and the boni hnrdmeut of Paris by the "Big Ber tha." Tells Story of Life. Then, as If afraid that the young soldier from overseas was about to sentence him to some horrible punish ment, he suddenly began to tell the story of his own life. As a young man he had studied at the greatest universities in Germany. Chemistry and mechanics had been his favorite subjects, and in these he showed great aptitude. As was nat ural in Germany at that time, his re searches soon took him into the field of perfecting weapons of war. His work In tills line attracted the attei non or nis government, xney gjrve him every opportunity for stnny. He was sent to England, America anil France. In those places he studied at close range the guns used by the armies, the chemical composition of explosives and the methods of manu facturing great shells. When he re turned to Germany he was given stock in the Krupp works, at Essen. Profit ing by Ids studies and what he had icarned In other lands, this man set abifnt to develop what would event ually fisyhe mightiest cannon In tho world. eW, ,' ' Then came August, 1914, and the war. According to the . Inventor, hi--efforts were redoubled. Tfle.,llg guns, which destroyed the forts of 'Beteiuiri, were not suHlclent. For years, Inventor said, he had dreamed nnrt planned a weapon that would reach Paris, and when tho war came he, together with the greatest scientist of Germany, began working upon the cannon. Success Brought Only Remorse. In the spring of 1918, the Inventor said, they believed their plan had been accomplished, The great gun was finished and moved to a spot In the lines from Which Its shells could rench Paris. Finally came the day when It was fired on Purls for the first time. Apparently it was a suc cess. For a few days nil Germany celebrated, the Inventor said. For him, however, this Joy was short lived. Hardly had the celebration end ed whetl the allies seemed to take on a new lease on life. Instead of dis couraging them the great gun ap peared to have driven them to great er efforts. "Then came the stories of the suf ferings caused by the gun," the in ventor said. "Instead of killing sol dlers we liart murdered women and children. My nights became sleep less. When I did drop Into a doze my dreams were terrible. I became sick with the thoughts of my work. I lost weight, I could not face my family, und the sight of women and children on the street mode me faint. Then something snapped." i A committee of five of the Portland police department appeared before Mayor Baker, with a request that there be a horizontal Increase in salaries of approximately $20 a month. The seventy-fifth anniversary of the founding the Oregon City Congrega tional church will be made the occa sion for the holding of the 71st state conference of the Congregational churches of Oregon, a three-day ses sion being called for November , B and 6.