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5 Advertising The cAthena Press circulates in the homes of readers who reside in the heart of the Great Umatilla Wheat Belt, and they have money to spend Notice I If this notice is marked RED, it sir nines that your Subscription expires with this issue. We will greatly ap preciate your renewal $2.00 per year Entered at the Post Office' at Athena. Ore eon, as 8econd-Class Mail Matter VOLUME XLIJI. ATHENA. UMATILLA COUNTY. OREGON, FRIDAY; OCTOBER 13, 1922.; OF LiQDORlH SHIPS PROHIBITED All Vessels Barred From Hav ing Liquor Aboard in Amer- lean Territorial Waters. Washington, D. C All vessels, American and foreign-owned, are pro hibited from having liquor on board in American territorial, waters under an interpretation of the prohibition amendment and the enforcement act handed down by the department of justice. ' . .'" . ''; . " ;' ' '. t Moreover, the transportation or sale of Intoxicants on American craft, wherever operated, was held to be in hibited. - American territorial waters were construed to include those not only within the three-mile limit of con tinental United States but also those within the same limit of the Philip pines, the Hawaiian islands, Porto .Rico, the Virgin islands and Alaska..! So far as American ships are con cerned, the sale or transportation of liquor will cease at once, or as soon as those vessels reach their home ports. In the case of foreign ships the decision will become operative as soon as the necessary, regulations can .be prepared and t promulgated " by , the treasury department, Court action looking to . a final determination of the application of American, dry laws to foreign ships en tering American ports were foreseen by both Attorney-General Daughtery and Chairman Lasker of the shipping board.' "':''X;'W--As RED GROSS BEGINS REARJEAST DRIVE "Washington D. C Plans for Imme diate relief , work in the near east overshadowed all else when the annual convention of the American Red Cross was opened here Monday by Its chair man, Judge John Barton Jayne. Thou sands of delegates were ii attendance from all parts of the country. . Judge Payne read a letter from Pres ident Harding, who was unable to at tend the opening session, expressing satisfaction because of the organiza tion's unfailing strength and readiness for every emergency. President Harding has designated the American Red Cross and the Near East Relief to supervise the collection and administration of a . near east emergency fund, a drive for which is to be started at once. This decision was announced by the president late Sunday, following con ferences with a special committee of which Will H. Hays is chairman. CANCELLING DEBTS FOUGHT Senators Say America Should Make No More Loans. Washington, D. C Cancellation of allied debts to the United States was opposed unanimously by three sena tors McKinley, republican, Illinois; Spencer, republican, Missouri, and Harris, democrat, Georgia, in discus, sing their Impressions of an extensive tour of Europe, where they were Amer ican delegates to the inter-parliamentary peace union. - All three agreed on their arrival here that there was much suffering and economic distress in Europe, but that the American government should make no more loans there. They united in predictions that Germany would work herself out of her present diffi culty,. :, AA : ; Gusher err U. 8. OH Reserve, Casper, Wyo. The first gusher to be brought in on the Teapot Dome, United States naval reserve, forty miles from Casper, came in with as estimated flow of about 20,000 barrels dally. This will be the largest oil well In Wyoming. " 1000 After Baltimore Dry Agents; Baltimore. Riot calls were sent tP all eight Baltimore police stations when, a crowd of more than 1000 pe sons surrounded a saloon, which was raided by prohibition agents, and threatened the lives of the agents. Oregon's Gasoline Tax $140,375, Salem, Or. August sales of gaoln In Oregon as reported by 'dealers to the secretary of state returned a tax to the state aggregating 14U74 , end broke all previous monthly rec ords, 511 No Exposition For Mr. Meier Julius Meier; father of the pro posed Portland "1925" exposition af ter a trip abroad, does not favor hold ing the exposition at this time.' In his report on his journay around the world, Meier said he did not re ceive encouragement for the under taking in any foreign country. The nw plan for financing the exposition was characterized by Meier as un sound and he declared he could not lend his support to the project. . Meier condemned as dishonest any effort to lead the people of the state to believe that the exposition would be financed entirely by the proposed $3,000,000 tax on the city of Port land. The state at large would even tually be required to pay liberally for an exhibit, he stated. "The original plan contemplated state participation with the city, the latter bearing $3,000,000, ' the state $2,000,000 which would be borne prin cipally be business interests of Port land." said Meier. This plan, during my absence as I am now informed, has been changed, and it is proposed to have the city bear the $3,000,000, and the business interests $1,500,000. This plan deviates so far. from the original plan that it becomes an en tirely new one and to me is unfair arid not based upon sound business judgment x - "It is my bsnef that for an enter prise the magnitude of this,' which is no different from any other business proposition or enterprise, in order to be successful must be supported by all communities and the state as a whole. The benefits are not alone for Portland and as I have stated pub licly many times that this form of exploitation was for the colonizatoin and betterment of the state of Oregon and not for the city of Portland and that while Portland was willing to assume and share the major portion of the taxes and expense, in order to secuethe -proper result, the entire state must participate. J "In order to raise the funds for the exposition it would be necessary to have at least $6,000,000 raised by all of the agencies of the state and no one should undertake to decieve the people of the state into believing that the state will not be called upon for at least $1,000,000 and possibly $2,000,000 to make a proper presen tation of the state at the exposition, 1 "I consider any plan whereby the state is not to participate is not hon estly made. It was the endeavor of my associates and myself in this matter to keep it out of politics and it should not be used by any individ ual for the purpose of playing politics with the people of the state. To go out and tell the people of the state that the exposition is not to cost them anything is done for the purpose of deceiving them. ' "I was informed upon my return that it is now proposed to delay the exposition until 1927. It is my thought and belief that the-matter should be left in abeyance until we should be able to tell what the fu ture will bring the other nations and ourselves, whereupon proper provis ion can be made and a world-wide ex position can be held with credit to the state of Oregon and the North west. .:" V A-"- "It was assumed by some from my first report or interview, that I had attempted to kill the exposition. All that I did was to report foreign con dition as I found them; and in this I am only making an additional re port and offering my advice. . "I feel H my duty to make this re port and give my opinion as o the holding of this exposition. What 1927 will bring us under the present con ditions no one can tell. Let us wait a return to sound government and a safe basis upon which to proceed and then combine our energies and carry out our purpose, "I do not believe the tine oppor tdne for initiating the matters refer ring to the exposition, and therefore I cannot give rny support t the pres- plan,'' : ...-.-,.; A.' A - LINGTON-HEFPNER LINE V OAH. McPherriri has discontinued his Weston-Pendleton stage run and has formed a partnership with Roy E. Burke, The 'n?w f Jrm wil estab- lish, the Arlinger-Heppner auto gtage line, andhave. purchased . another WUUUUW Xfit Twq through trips will be made each day-over the line, which is 46 miles long, serving the towns of Arlington, Cecil, Morgan, lone, Lexington and Heppnerv . CHARLEY PIERCE QUALIFIES I AS A FRIEND OF GRPHANS Charles M. Pierce, at one time a Weston banker and well known to all the people of this section, is, up from Los Angeles, cheeringly greeting old friends and acquaintances. Charley is known-in Los' Angeles as the orphans' friend. In seventeen years down there he delivered 121 tons of foodstuffs to orphans' homes and took . the parentl ess little ones on no less than 200 free excursion trips. AH this was done at a per sonal expense of $5000 and has earn ed him scores of letters- breathing gratitude in every line. ,,A, This benevolent work has not been altogether unselfish, for from it Charley derives a vast amount of pleasure. He now thinks, talks and almost breathes orphans, and would probably eat them if they were edi ble according to civilized standards. He is the enthusiastic disciple and advocate of the :, orphans wherever he goes. Just now, in Oregon, he is working for . the orphans', homes in Oregon.' He will shortly perform a similar mission in Washington, and then contemplates a trip eastward. He does not solicit and takes no money in hand. His evangel is de voted solely, to securing bequests for the orphans in the! wills of all friends whom he can interest in their behalf,, i- ' -V ';;. "Destitution is more general than people In your own prosperous region-have any idea of," says Charley Pierce. "Not only" orphans, but homeless grownups, are reckoned in the urban army of sufferers. In Los Angeles- today more than 20,000 peo ple either go hungry or are fed by the hand of charity, and in Portland the- ' number i of I, unfortunates f is approximately 7000." REPORTED MISSING . One of the. best comedy-dramas, ever screened will be at the Stan dard Sunday evening, "when Selznick's great production? "Reported Missing,'-' staring Owen Moore, will be shown. This is the picture that packed" the Liberty Theatre, Portland, every night for two weeks, recently. Tomor row night' Bill Hart wil play "Whito Oak," a Paramount picture of sterl ing quality, These pictures are of higher quality, the kind that , will be billed at the Standard hereafter, PRUNES AT $35 TON The prune crop of the Walla Wal la valley will bring $35 per ton this year, , as against the higher price of last season. The unusally large fruit crop throughout the country, is said to be the reason for low prices for fruit of all kinds. ' ' NEW HIGH RECORD All previous records for gasoline consumption in Oregon were broken during August, when 6,761,657,3 gal' Ions were sold, according to reports filed with Secretary - Kozer by the various distributors. Receipts from the state tax on gasoline totaled $140 373.34 during August this year, com pared to $125,123.34 for August, 1921. Timber Barons Are After Pierce The Portland Journal has dug up a $25,000 slush fund,' that is being raised by the timber; and lumber in terests of the state to defeat Walter Pierce for governor. The Journal says:' : A -A 'A'A ; 'V:. '.'' '.A- "Walter M. Pierce ias grown suffi ciently dangerous as' a gubernatorial candidate to the timber barons of the state to arouse S. B. Cobb, of the Standard Box & Lumber company, and other of his associates, to raise a subscription pot of $25,000 for use against Pierce in the remaining days of the campaign Of this total sum $14,000 has been subscribed, accord ing to one of those asked to put his name down for $1000. "This, the most interesting develop ment of the past week in political circles, came to light during the past day or so while Cobb was carrying his subscription list about in search of signers. -fi V "It is Cobb's argument, so the rela tion has it, that Pierce in his public speeches here and there over the state, has proclaimed his intention, in the. event of his election to work for the enactment of a severance tax of $1 the thousand en all lumber cut within the state, Such a tax, Cobb has been insisting, would put the big lumber owners and lumber men at a great ' disadvantage and prove . dis astrous., to the. business,; . "Amone the subscribers to the fund so far, it is related, tq W, L, Thom son of the First National bank W. B. Ayer of the Eastern & Western Lum ber company; Ben Selling, the cloth ier; S. B. Cobb; I. N. Day, former state senator and well-known paving contractor; John B,i Yeon, owner of the Yeon building and member of the state highway , commission; J, C, Ainsworth of the United States Nat ional bank, s,;, , "In addition to these subscriptions, all marked paid and in the sum of $1000 each," there are various other smaller amounts subscribed from $199 up, bringing, the total signed for up to the present time .to $14,000, The ultimate total is to be $23,000,; "Seeminglysince the sinews of war are being gathered together In such generous amount, the forthcoming days of the gubernatorial campaign are to be full of interest, advertise ment, propaganda and other means of spreading the gospel from the view point of the anti-Plerce camp. From now on there will be no cessation Of political hostilities until after the last voter has walked into the booth Nov ember 7, marked his ballot and placed, it in the box," -;., ARROWHEAD COLLECTION -A rare collection of arrowheads from what was formerly called Indian valley, now regarded as an extension of Grand Ronde valley, has been sent for preservation in . the Oregon history museum by Professor Dykstra of Imbler, Union county. The collect ion was gathered by school pupils, OREGON-WHITMAN . . . GRIDIRON BATTLE The Oregon-Whitman annual grid iron battle will take place at Round Up Park in Pendleton, next Friday afternoon, October 20. As this will bef 1.1 1 US I me umy- uig cunierence game piayea in Eastern Oregon this season, much interest is manifested in the result. The fact that wise management is taking the high school teams of the county to the game admission free, has created a friendly feeling in ev ery community, and the principal wish is that the staging of the big conference contest in Pendleton, may be the fore-runner for games later. Oregon is known to be strong in most of her 7 on'tions, and the fact that the Missionaries held the husky Idahoans to a three-point margin at Walla Walla last Saturday, lends strength to the claim that, Borleske's aggregation will give a good account of itself in the Oregon melee. The Missionaries and Idaho played straight football Saturday, all the way through, and only the cleverness of the Mathews machine in blocking open plays, prevented Whitman from scoring. The balance in weight favored the Idaho squad and the ball after the first "period was most of the time in r Whitman territory, but when striking distance was reached, Borleske's lighter bunch always held tight and punted out of danger. The Idaho score came the last of the first half on a drop kick by Fritzke. This clever player, who was with Wy oming last year, is said to have been declared ineligible, and if so, the Ida ho game which was protested by Whitman, will count them, nothing. ! ML. Watts In x ' At the citizen's mass meeting Fri dayvening, M. L.' Watts was nomi nated for mayor by acclamation. No other nomination for this office being made. M . ;.-, J , For councilmen, three to nominate, the following names were placed in nomination; O. O. Stephens, Wm. Mc Leod, A. M. Johnson, Raymond Gei- ssel, E. C. Rogers, J, F. Herr 'and A. A. W. Logsdon. - . t There being three candidates to be nominated, the chairman announced that the voting would be by ballot, and the three names receiving the highest number of Totes, would be de clared nominated., , . The result was. Stephens, McLeod, 21; Johnson, 8; Geissel, 3; Rogers, 3; Herr, 8j Logs don, 12. ' -- . .- ' Stephens, McLeod and Logsdon re ceiving the. highest number of votes cast, were declared to be the nomin ees. E. A. Zerba for treasurer,! and B. B. Richards for recorder, present in cumbents, had no opposition, and re ceived their nominations by acclama tion. . ' : E. C. Prestbye was chosen as chair man of the meeting and E. C. Rog ers's secretary. Rogers and other's de clined to f ccept the nomination for councilmen, when their names were proposed,- PENDLETON-ATHENA ! Tomorrow is high school day in Athena. One of the big school events of the season takes place tomorrow afternoon, en the local gridiron, when the teams of . Pendleton and, Athena meet in the first foot-ball game; of the season here. Pendleton played the sturdy Hermiston team to a stand still last week and lost by one point. Basler has his team. jn. good shape for the fray, regardless of the loss of Kirk at center, " Kirk broke his left' wrist last week' in scrimmage with Walla Walla high, and James Hodgen, will play center for Athena in tomorrow's game. , - WHAT ARE THEY 7 Millions of minute white insects, resembling tiny millers have been hanging over Athena and vicinity for several days. They are noticably lar ger than when they first appeared. Where they came from and whence they goeth, no one is prepared to say. TOOK CHANCE ON RAIN Many of the farmers have com pleted .seeding and their general hope now is that rain will come in time to start growing before the seed stops in the germinating stage, withers and dies. This fall for the most part big chances have been taken on rain fall at the proper time. It is said that the lower moisture is below the seed bed, and surface moisture is needed to bring it up, " EDWARD LAFAVE, AGED ; 96 YEARS IS DEAD Edward Lafave, for many years a prosperous farmer in the "district southeast of Athena, died at Walla Walla where he had been taken the fore part of the , week for medical treatment. Mr. Lafave died at the advanced age, of 96 years, and only during the last, few months had he been in a poor state of health. He is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Louis Bergevin .and Mrs. Joseph Ber- gevin, besides a number 1 of grand- enwaren. .,..... ,,,.., . Funeral services were held in the Catholic church this forenoon at 10:30 interment being made in Athena cem etery. The deceased was born at Wolf River, Canada, and when eight years of age went to Illinois with his parents. Whei a young man he came west and engaged in mining and meat packing. . In the winter of 1867 he came to Walla Walla, and was married to Miss Mary McBain, who preceded him to the grave, several years ago. Mr. Lafave came to Umatilla county in 1884, settling on the farm where he has since resided. dam wM w ; mm - ' w j p m pi r - - tOtFW i ........ ' I - J BAKER-GROSS Mr. Bryce Baker and Miss Verva Gross were united in marriage at Walla Walla, Wednesday afternoon, in the presence of the bride's fatiu-r, grandmother and friends. After the ceremony the party re turned to Athena, and in the even ing the home was filled with friends of bride and groom, where n wedding reception as held. Yesterday Mr. and Mrs. Baker left for Spokane where they will spend a week visiting Mr. Baker's relatives. . The contracting parties are well and favorably known in this part of the county, where the bride, a daugh ter qf Fred Gross, was raised. The Groom is the son of Rev. Baker, a former Athena pastor, who now re sides in Steptoe, Wash. " SPOKANE POTATO SHOW Plans are being rapidly perfected for the second annual Pacific North west Potato Show and Growers' Con ference to be held at Spokane Nov ember 21 to 21 The management is confident this second exhibition will far surpass in quantity and quality the s")w given last falL EAST END APPLE SHOW Interest is centering in the East Umatilla county apple show, which is to be held at Milton-Freewater, Oct ober 26 and 27. A large number of pnzes wiu De awarded and a prem ium list covering, the different var ieties and exhibits has been circula ted. REHEARING ' HI S. P. : : f ; CASE.IS:DEIIIED Protracted Litigation Over. Di vorce of Southern and Cen tral Pacific Ends. Washington, D. C. The supreme court denied a rehearing of the case brought by the United States,, in which it directed the Southern Pacific com pany to divorce (itself t of ownership and control over the .Central Pactflo railroad. .' v'-v A. The court at its last term rendered an opinion which 'reversed the United States district court for Utah and held that the ownership and control of the Central Pacific by the Southern Pa ctflo 'was In violation of the Sherman anti-trust act on the ground that the two systems were - competing , under the law. .:, . ';, V. ''. ,;. r-:- ' ! Aftor the decision of the court last June a number of petitions were pre sented to congress, from commercial and other organizations discussing the probable effoct'of the decision.? Some urged and others opposed, its enforce ment, but the supreme court. In re fusing to reopen, the case, brought the protracted litigation to its last stages, and a mandate will now Issue under which the United States district court for Utatuwlll proceed to give effect to tne decision, .. v , 5 , " . TURKS ARE TOLD TO ACCEPT OR FACE WAR it , t Mudania.- The. allied generals sub mitted their final 1 armistice conven tion to Ismet Pasha, the Turkish na tionalist representative, Monday, night " "We have gone to the extremity of concessions,", declared Lieutenant , General Harrington. .....::. - ,! J; "The convention we submltted-ls Great Britain's last word. It, now . rests with' Angora whether- lhe. world .. shall have peace or war.'y- The allied terms Include withdrawal of the Turkish troops from the WU tral zones of the Dardanelles and Bos porus, a limitation of the number of Turkish gendarmes to be allowed in Eastern Thrace, and non-occupation of that province by the Turkish 'army until after a peace treaty is signed. Ismet thanked General Harrington and his colleagues and said he hoped the Angora assembly . would approve the terms. '- 1 WASHINGTON WHEAT. SHCHT Spring Yield for 1922 Placed at 10,552,000 Bushels, ' . ,A Spokane, Wash. The spring wheat crop of Washington for 1922 is placed at 10,652,000 bushels, according , to figures announced by O. S. Roy, agri cultural statistician, in charge of the division of crops and livestock estU mates of the United States depart ment of agriculture here. . The yield Is estimated at 9.2 bushels an acre, one of the lowest yields to an acre on record. The spring wheat production in 1921 was 17,205,000 bushels. The quality of this year's crop is estimat ed at 84 per cent, as against 91 per cent last year. ;" -:; - ' The all wheat crop for Washington Is estimated at 31,347,000 bushels for October. The September forecast placed the all wheat crop at 32,907,000 bushels. Coast Car Shortage 85 Per Cent Olympla, Wash. Less than 15 per cent of the number of freight cars ordered for territory west of the Montana-Idaho line are available, with no improvement for the shortage In sight, E. V. Kuykendall, director of the de partment of public works, announced. Reports of the railway department show 8358 cars ordered for the ter ritory and only 430 available. - HARRAH IS IN 'FRISCO , M. D. Harrah, the Ingleside gar age man who- mysteriously disap pedted a few weeks ago, has been located in San Francisco. His wife has received letter from him con taining money and an expression of his desire to hear from her, tut no explanation was given as to why he left home Portland's Fair Date Changed to 1927. t Portland,' Or.Portland's projected exposition will not be held in 1925. By unanimous action of the fair com mlttee, after long deliberation, the big International undertaking has been postponed for two years.; . Hereafter It will be known as the 1927 exposU tlon. t - ,1 Harding Endorses Near East. Prlve. Washington, D. C.A nation-wide appeal for funds for relief of the thou sands of refugees In the near east was authorized by President Harding. The moner will be distributed through the American ed Cross ami the Near Saat Relief,, working JoiiHir; ' , - - NUMBER 40 A 4A