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VOLUME XLIII.
ATHENA. UMATILLA COUNTY. OREGONFRIDAY. OCTOBER 20, 1922.
NUMBER 41
RAILWAY EMPLOYES
GRANTED WAGE RISE
Pay of 451,911 Men Lifted 2
Cents an Hour by Rail
road Labor Board. ,
Chicago. The wage bill of the na
tion's railroads was Increased an esti
mated $22,125,000 by a decision of the
United States railroad labor board
granting increased pay of 2 cents an
hour to 451,911 maintenance of way
employes. ' ' ' :
Four, of nine groups of the United
Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way
Employes and Railroad "Shop Work
ers were affected : by the raise,; the
largest single group , being common
laborers. Th. decision raised mini
mum rates of pay for the classes
affected, from the present 23 and 35
cents to 25 and 37 cents. ' V
Chairman Hooper of the labor board
In a statement following the decision
aid that the board . based its find
ing on a general upward trend in
wages since the board's decision of
last July reducing wages for this and
other groups of workmen and not on
any pronounced change in living costs.
The decision marked a victory for
the public group of the board which
proposed the 2-cent Increase, the pro
posal being rejected at first by the
three members of the railroad group,
who favored no change, and the three
members of the labor group, who fav
ored a much larger increase. '
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II. S. BOND OFFERING
IS OVERSUBSCRIBED
Washington, D. C The , treasury'!
new offering of $500,000,000 of 4&
per cent 30-year bonds has been over
subscribed Approximately , 21,000,000,
000, it was announced by Secretary
Mellon. Books for cash offerings
closed at noon October 14.', """V-
Subscriptions for which 4 per cent
victory notes or December 15 treasury
certificates are tendered in payment
will be received and allotments will
be made in full until November 1.
Approximately 1150,000,000 of such
subscriptions already have been allot
ted in full under the terms of the of
fering. '' - ;
Subscriptions received to date, ac
cording to reports in hand, were said
Jo aggregate more than 21,650,000,000,
of which about $1,400,000,000 represent
cash subscriptions. Of the cash sub
scriptions inore than $325,000,000 was
In amounts not exceeding $10,000 for
any one subscriber.
LAND TRUST IS HELD VOID
Washington State Anti-Alien Law
Prevents Any Circumvention.'
Olympia, Wash. The supreme court
upheld the antl-ahen land law pass
ed by the 1921 legislature, construing
it as a bar to the holding of prop
erty in Washington by citizens for
aliens under a declaration of trust.
The decision was in the cas6 of the
state against E. J. O'Connell and wife,
J. D. O'Connell and Pierce Lonergan,
and reversed Judge Gilliam of King
county, who sustained a demurrer in
the complaint. , ,
The state sued to escheat to Itself
lands held by J. D. O'Connell and
Lonergan for E, J, O'Connell and wife
and D, P. O'Connell, a minor, all
British subjects,, under a declaration
of trust executed after the passage
pf the anti-alien land l&vr,
Hoover Against Debt Repudiation,
Toledo, O. Repudiation of the loan
made by the United States to the allied
and associated nations during the war
would undermine the whole fabrie of
International good faith, Secretary of
Commerce Hoover, a member of the
Hied debt commission, declared in an
address here. . He added that be did
not believe any public official, either
In the United States or any other
country, could or should approve their
cancellation.
Athena Licked
Pendleton 9 to 7
Five Injured When Dirigible Burns,
i Ban Antonio, Tex. The artny dirt
glble C-2, which recently completed a
transcontinental flight and had reach
ed San Antonio on its way back to
Washington, was burned while being
taken from its hangar at Brooks field
preparatory to a night over the city.
Four members of the crew and a news
paper man, one of the passengers,
were Injured when the dirigible fell
tni cum!, no raunti r'j'rL
' T ,ii innMimi I m i irr-
th the ramparts manned with the
brawn and muscle of Athena athletics
the local gridiron citadel . withstood
the shock of combat delivered by the
Pendleton high school eleven Satur
day, and in the last minute of the
terrific struggle, Wilbur Harden was
crowned hero of the conference epic,
when he caught a long forward pass
and carried the ball over the enemy
goal line in a fast run, converting
the score from 7 to 3 in Pendleton's
favor, to 9 to 7 for Athena.
BaslerV men ripped , up the Pendle
ton line at will and made consistant
yardage throughout the game. Only
once . did the Pendleton' line develop
stonewall resistance. Shortly after
the opening of the fourth quarter,
Athena had worked the" ball down the
field: in the hardest fought moments
of the game, brought it up to the
goal line and lost it on downs with
only inches to go.
Pendleton opened the game by kick
ing off. Both teams attempted yard
age but were forced to punt; Athena"
made a beautiful forward pass, and
the ball on Pendleton's 35 yard Hne,
it was shot back to Kretzer who made
a neat drop kick, sending the sphere
between the goal posts for the first
score of the game; Athena 3, Pendle
ton 0. '-,.''
In the second Pendleton uncorked
some pep and worked the ball into
Athena territory. With the ball on the
15 yard line, Athena made first down
on three ripping line plunges. Then
a forward pass was attempted. The
pass was intercepted by Stonebreaker
who raced over for a touchdown. Goal
was kicked by Morrison. Score, Pen
dleton 7; Athena, 3. Athena followed
Pendleton's scoring by smashing down
all resistance, carrying the ball to the
Pendleton ten yard line where scor
ing was stopped by the whistle, end
ing the first half. ,
With the opening of the second
half,, both jteams were on their mettle
and straight football was resorted to,
Athena endeavoring to recover Pen
dleton's margin of points, and the
county seat team on the defensive, to
hold the score. Time and again B.
Hodgen.was used as a human batter.
ing ram, and always pierced the Pen
dleton line for gains. Kretzer, Pink
erton and Harden vcere on top of ev
ery play, with Banister, Shick and J.
Hodgen giving a good account of
themselves. Forward passes in this
quarter were all lost, and the teams
seesawed up and down the field with
no scoring.
Shortly after the beginning the last
quarter, the break of the game went
against Athena. After Pendleton had
punted the ball away from her ?0
yard line, Athena again brought the
Basler catapult into play and smash
ing all opposition into smithereens,
clutched the ball, on the brink 'I
Pendleton's goal. Here, for the first
time in the game, Taylor's .machine
held the line and Athena lost the ball.
Punting out of danger, the Pen
dleton eleven recovered but advanced
only a short distance, when Athena
again started to make yardage. Fin
ally, in midfield she was held, and
Kretzer punted. The ball soared to
ward Temple, but he fumbled the
catch and Athena recovered the ball.
Then the most brilliant play of the
game 'was put over. Pendleton was
crossed with an unexpected forward
pass that was good for yardage, and
Harden raced for 25 yards through a
broken field for a touch down. Kre
tzer failed to kick goal. Score, 9.
Pendleton, 7. In one minute more of
play the whistle sounded the end pf
the game. The lineup: :
Athena Pendleton
D. Rogers c M, Manning
L. Schick ' rgl Johnson
F. Williams Jgr Morrison
J. Hodgen rtl Warren
B Anderson, Itr Molstrom
A. Hodgen ret Adkinson
L. Banister ler - Earnhert
Pinkerton c Stonebreaker
W. Harden fb Temple
L. Kretzer rhbj Heyden
B. Hodgeq Ihbr Gillette
Athena substitutes Anderson, Bow
er, Coppock, R. Kretzer and Campbell
Pendleton substitutes Karrah, Fran-:
chier, Morton, ; - : !
Officials: Harry Rarey, referee, of
Helix, former Willamette man: J.M.
Miller of -Pendleton, Umpire,' former
O. A. C man; Omer Stephens, head
linesman. ".'V "' I- i -TU' '''
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Trajan Tucker and family aw
domiciled for the winter; 'months in
the Vanderpool property on Broad
street, Weston'- . - .
WHEAT ROWERS PREPARE
TO FIGHT SMUT EVIL
Experimentation in copper car
bonate .treatment of; grain is being
carried " out by. approximately 125
Walla Walla county farmers.
- More than b.UOO pounds - of cop
per . carbonate have been purchased
by wheat growers of, the county
for use as smut preventative on next
year's crop. It is -estimated , that
32,000 acres of land will be sown with
wheat treated by the new chemical.
.From the use of. copper carbonate
as a smut preventative in Australia,
where it has been used for. several
years, and in California where it is
used on a commercial basis, . wheat
men believe that a big saving in the
amount pf seed wheat may be effect
ed. In addition to this economy, checks
so far made that germination of seed
is better with the dry treatment than
when the grain is soaked in water,
and the wheat gets an earlier start
in" the fall, and the plants are more
vigorous. . " j ':
The dry . treatment is more con
venient than the wet treatment, too
it is pointed put When bluestone
and formaldehyde are used, seeding
jnust be jdone within 24 hours or else
the seed must be dried out before
seeding. With, the dry treatment the
copper carbonate may be applied at
any time and may be done when the
seed is cleaned. , It can be held in
definitely without injury.
One elevator at Prescott, Wash,
this year installed a machine which
treats the wheat as it is cleaned,
and farmers hauled in their wheat
for a distance of 10 miles in every:
direction.
Toll Gate Road
Booster Meeting
DICKENS DAY AT CIVIC CLUB
Tuesday was Dickens Day at the
Athena Civic club, and the program
was enjoyed by a small number of
members. The biography of ' the
author was given by Mrs. F. B. Boyd,
leader, and two very interesting pa
pers prepared by Mrs. Louis Keen
and Mrs. F. E. Russell, each showing
a deep apreciation of his works, were
reaa, . Mrs. . teen's . paper was arer
view of Dombey and Son. Mrs. Rus
sell's subject was Dickens, and ex
ponent of the Power of the Pen.
Delicious , refreshments were " served
by Mrs. Fred Pinkerton and Mrs.? A.
H. Mclntyre, the color scheme of
pink and white being carried out in
ices and L cakes., . Tho "Cleanup" and
"Tree" committees reported. The next
meeting will be November 7, when
Mrs. W. O. Read will lead a Thanks
giving program. i;h .... -
SEARCH IS ABANDONED i
Search for L, H. Smith and Mi
chael Kelly, escaped convicts, for
whom the Washington state peniten
tiary guards have been seeking since
Tuesday night, was abandoned accord
ing to word received from the prison,
r ootpnnts or the fugitives were
from there the convicts are thought
to have boarded an v Eastbound
freight train. Possibility of the pair
hiding in the neighborhood of Uma
tilla is thought remote by peniten
tiary officials." ,
Delegates from the Weston Com
mercial club and the Weston Moun
tain Community club were entertain
ed at luncheon Tuesday at the Hotel
Dacres by the' Walla. Walla Commer
cial club, the occasion , . being , a
booster meeting in . behalf of the
Blue Mountain highway.
Col. Paul H. Weyrauch presided,
and short addresses were made by
Congressman ..J. W. Summers of
Washington, Robert E. Allen, John
B. Coan and others, f Many facts of
interest concerning the ' proposed
road linking Union and Umatilla
counties and the rich mountain agri
cultural region which it will serve,
were brought out byy the .several
speakers. Its importance in afford
ing mountain recreational advantage
for thousands' of people was also
emphasized.
A telegram was read from Senator
Poindexter of Washington pledging
his support to the enterprise, and
also from Congressman N. J. Sin
nott of Oregon, who was in Lake
view, expressing his regret at being
unable to attend and his interest in
the proposed road. ,,
The conclusion reached by the ,
meeting was that work, work, and
yet more work will be needed to
properly bring the proposed Blue
Mountain highway to the attention
of congress and the forestry ser
vice. Congressman Summers empha
sized the need of. concerted,; jpatient
and persistent action on the part of
all the communities interested, as
while the project possessed great j
merit, there were , many demands
upon the limited funds available for;
road construction in the country's
numerous national forests. I
Those from Weston and the moun
tain , present at the meeting were
Nelson H. Jones, E.,M. Smith, S.. A,
Barnes, J. B. Coan, W. B. Hall, C,
W. Metz and , Clark Wood. Pendle-
ion wasep;resentei: b Senator Roy
Wi, Ritner and Ben Burroughs.
RANGE RIDER CLAIMS THAT
. INDIANS SLAUGHTER DEER
George Brace, forest ranger, was
in town Saturday from his station at
forks of the Umatilla river. He re
ports that a band of ; Indians ; has
practically exterminated the deer of
that section.. Last winter an unusual
ly large number of deer, he reports,
were driven out of the mountains by
the heavy snows and remained along
the river. This spring- the does were
so weak that they dropped " their
fawns in that locality instead of on
the higher altitudes, with the result
that the whole herd remained in the
low lands.
. When the '-.n season came, a big
bunch of hjnters were, on
hand, and the work of extermination
was ' methodically carried , on until
but few if any deer remain there;
Mr. Brace says the Indians did not
stop at shooting the bucks, but the
does and their fawns were also killed
by the Indian hunters, who hunted in
squads and made regular drives af
ter the game animals. .
BIG PICTURE TOMORROW
One of the biggest pictures of .the
year wil be at the Standard Theatre
tomorrow night, when Cecil B. De
Mille's "A Fool's Paradise" will be
presented. This picture is acclaimed
to be one of DeMille's screen' tri
umphs. In this picture more money
has been expended for lavish settings,
thrilling, spectacular scenes, than any,
other picture produced by Paramount
this season. Dorothy Dalton has the
leading .role in the play and the
climax is reached in a fight to the
death with a flock of crocodiles. Sun
day night Vera Gordort, "The Mother
of Humoresque," will be seen in the
beautiful picture "The Greatest Love,"
' WHEAT MnVF.n AT tl '
traced around Vansycle canyon, andlAVonBiderabje 8mount o wheat
fmm ts tits MAmrin4a 4-1 sv sV 4 T . . ... .
was sold this week when the market
price reached $1 per bushel. Several
large holdings here passed "into the
hands of buyers at that price. At
Pendleton, 300,000 bushels were d$'
posed of by farmers.
. SPUD GROWERS MEET
One of the largest and best "spud
meetings" yet held on Weston moun
tain occurred last Saturday evening,
when the school house was filled to
capacity. Informative addresses by
Colonel Paul H. Weyrauch' of Walla
Walla, president of the Blalock
Fruit Co., and Lee Lampson, the
Blalock manager at Kennewick, were
greatly appreciated. These . talks
were along the lines of organization,
grading and marketing. Six more
members were signed up for the Wes
ton Mountain Seed Potato Growers
ssoi.tion, making twenty in all,
and it is said that, a number of oth
er . signers are in immediate pros
pect The Blalock Fruit Co. is said
to have offered to handle the asso
ciation's . product , of seed and com
mercial stock at en cents per sack.
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RED CROSS ROLL CALL" "
- The American Red Cross is ap
.pealing for.world-wide renewal of
membership during the annual Roll
Call to be conducted from" Armistice
Day, Nov. 11, to ? and including
Thanksgiving Day. Nov. 30. In Chap
ters throughout the Country the eq
uipment and trained relief workers to
cope with local disasters is always
ready, and the system of communica
tion makes it possible to consolidate
relief measures without losti of time
for use in .great emergencies which
might occur in any part of the Uni
ted States.
, SON FOUND IN JAIL
Because Tom Calder, 23, Just dis
charged from the army, was placed
in jail for . moonshining, a mother
and her son who had been separated
for -14 years and vboth of ' whom
thought the other dead were reunited
at the Baker county jail. Tom's moth"
er, now Mrs. S. H. Myers of Portland
clasped him in her arms and both
weepingly rejoiced in the reunion, re
gardless of the setting. She had read
the account of his imprisonment in a
newspaper. ;
Shoots Girl and
Then Kills Self
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Her Farewell Appearance
, A. T. (Jimmie) Read, former Wes
ton boy,' shot Helen Stackhouse, his
sweetheart at her home in Portland
Sunday afternoon, and turning the
weapon on himself, fired and killed
himself instantly,,
' Young Read was well known in
Athena, and in company , with his
brother Ralph of Portland, was in
Athena during Round-Up week. The
Oregonian recounts the tragedy as
follows: J
A. T. Read, 23-year-old draftsman
and ex-Oregon Agricultural college
student,! shot and killed himself yes
terday after seriously wounding
Helen Stackhouse,: 18, to whom he
had been engaged for eight months.
The shooting took place in the base
ment of the girl's home, after the
girl refused to reconsider her deci
sion to break off the engagement.
The girl broke the engagement
Thursday because of his frequent
exhibitions of bad temper. '
' Calling at her home to plead with
her as he had each day since her
decision, he asked her to go to the
back porch with him, where they
would be out of hearing of her par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. S. T. Stackhouse.
, Once on the back porch he sug
gested the , basement Reluctantly
but unafraid because of his evident
calmness, the girl did as he requested.
For 15 minutes he argued with her,
she said last night in the Good Sa
maritan hospital, where opiates had
been administered to allay the pain
of the gunshot wound an inch below
and to the left of her heart
The mother upstairs once even
heard the girl laugh; not the least
evidence was there of a scene. And
then, . evidently feeling that his ar
guments were useless, the youth
pulled out two letters which he read
to the girl Then she became afraid,
for a wildnes's ' crept into his tone,
and his letters, one to her mother
and one to his brothers and sisters,
asked"forgiveness for what he was
about to do."
"This is for your mpther," he told
her, pointing to the one letter, ac
cording to her. story. "This," he
went on, "is for my brothers and
sisters,, and. this" pulling, out a pis
tol, "is for you." -
Thirty seconds of pleading, even
tears, helped not the least. "I ran
for the. basement door," she said,
"He fallowed me and then he shot
me and all the time not a word did
he say."
Alarmed by her daughter's voice,
raised in appeal, the mother reached
the top of, the .stairs from the back
porch in time vO see Reed shoot and
then turn the weapon on himself.
The bullet went directly through
his heart, bringing death at once
Fearfully frightened and half wild
with pain, the girl ran to a neigh
bor's for help, found no one home
and then raced, blood all the while
spreading out upon her dress, a block
and a half to Ingrams store at 69th
and Glisan streets. The police were
called from there and by the mother
from her own home. '
His own justification, as he had
formulated it, appeared in Reed's
letters to the girl's parents and to his
own relatives.
"I loved her madly; I couldn't live
without; her" " ran . like a refrain
through them both.
("You've hurt me and now I'm 'go
ing to. hurt you," Helen said he told
her after he had read that letter to
her. . At the time he wrote the letter
he did not have her death In mind,
the girl thinks. '" '
Reed was draftsman In the em
ploy , of the Pacific Telephone A
Telegraph company. He is survived
by elht brothers and two sisters as
fojlows: W. O. Reed, Athena; J. T.
Reed, Pomeroy, Wash.; Harvey and
George, Vancouver, Wash.; Joseph
and Ralph, Portland; Leo and Ray,
Enterprise; Mrs. A. O. Wood, Mount
ain Home, Idaho, and Mrs. M. E.
Schurte,' Arlington,
"He was a very lovable boy," said
Mrs, Marlon Cafferty, with whom
Reed had lived. She showed bitter
ness when the girl's name was mentioned.
GARS ORDEREO 1
FOR WESTERM FRUIT
Interstate Commerce Commis
sion Acts to Prevent Heavy
Loss on Apple Crop.
Washington, D. C. Orders have ,
been issued to eastern roads to deliver
to western carriers at Chicago within .
the next 10 days S400 refrigerator cars
to aid in the transportation of the
northwestern fruit crop. This action
followed urgent telegrams received
mainly from the Washington state
senators and representatives, who told .
the commission that it was' vitally
necessary to get a very large number
of refrigerator cars to the northwest
at once to prevent a loss of millions
of dollars on the apple crops of the
Yakima, Wenatcb.ee and Okanogan
valleys. . ;
It was admitted at the offices of
the iaterstate commerce commission
that the movement of the perishable
fruit crop of the country is one of the
most serious problems confronting the
car service division, which 1b under
Commissioner . Altchison. The de
mands are coming from all sections of
the country, particularly from the
northwest, It was said. ' .
: To meet) air demands from every
seotlon there is a total of only 60,
000 cars in the United States, and
Oregon, Washington and Idaho com
bined could give one eastbound haul
to each of these cars this year, an of
ficial of the commission declared. - At
the same time, however, he said the,
frantic demand for ventilated cars is
coming from Michigan, New . York,'
West Virginia, Colorado and a dozen
other states, just at a time when the
commission has . finally satisfied the
same sort of an appeal from .Cali
fornia, where the movement of the
grape crop was for a time equally as
serious a problem as the apple crop
has lately become. . j ,
BRITISH REJECT
-' . PHEASANTS ARE LIMITED
. Pheasants are limited as compared
with, numbers last year. While many
hunters have had no trouble, in sec
uring the limit, the majority are find
ing birds wary and scaroe. Some are
of the opinion that this should have
been a closed season on the birds.
Following a severe winter, the. first
hatchings were small, the .result be
ing a light crop f or .tfea. season, ; ,
RIGHT OF SEARCH
Washington, D. C British rejection'
of the American proposal for 'a treaty
to extend the right of search of vessels
up to 12 miles ftt-shora was contained
In a note to Secretary Hughes by Am-.
bassador Geddes. The communication
was In reply to Mr. Hughes' note of
June 26,. setting out difficulties, en
countered by American prohibition en
forcement officers in , checking the
Illicit flow of Intoxicants into the Uni
ted States. 1
The American note dealt particular
ly : with smuggling operations from
British possessions In waters adjacent
to the American coast and suggested
"methods by which the existing ex
tremely unfortunate conditions might ;
be remedied." Among these was a pro
posal for careful supervision of regis
tries and clearance papers granted to
suspected vessels and "an Interna
tional arrangement between the Uni
ted States and Great Britain under
which the authorities of each nation
would be authorized to exercise be
yond the three-mile limit of territorial
waters a measure of control over ves
sels belonging to the oher." . . ,
BRITAIN BEGINS PAYMENTS
150,000,000 to Be Applied en Interest
of War Debt.'
New York. The British government
made the 'first payment of American
war loans to' the United States gov
ernment Tuesday when checks and
treasury certificates totaling 150,000,
000 were paid to the federal reserve,
bank here for the general account of
treasurer of the United States by J.
P. Morgan t Co., acting as agents Of
the British government. -
The British war loans of approxi
mately $4,500,000,000 has been for
some time the center of discussion
regarding the payment to this coun
try by her war allies of war loans of
more than $11,000,000,000. A British
commission with power to negotiate
terms for the payment of the British
loans Is expected to arrive here soon
to discuss the situation with Wash
ington officials. According to unof
ficial advices from London, Great
Britain has promised full payment
MMwauKeuts"KfiThinfl bonoest.
Cleveland, O. Sidney J. Jennings of
New York was elected president of
the American. Mining congress by the
board of directors here. Milwaukee
wsf ilcted as the next meeting place
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