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VOLUME XLIII.
ATHENA. UMATILLA COUNTY. OREGON, FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 24, 1922.
NUMBER 46
SPECIAL SESSION OF
CONGRESS CONVENES
Consideration of Ship Subsidy
Bill Is Main Business Be
fore the House.
Washington, D. C Congress met
at noon Monday In special session call
ed by President Harding primarily to
consider the administration ship sub
sidy bill. With only two-week re
maining until the beginning of the reg
ular. December session, it la expected
to sit continually until adjournment
Bine die March 3.
Enactment of. the administration
merchant marine bill was urged upon
congress by President Harding as nee
essary to relieve the government , of
present "staggering losses'', in opera
tions of the war-built merchant fleet
and to establish a program, of assured
shipping to serve the nation in war
and . give a guaranty of commercial
independence in time of peace. .
Personally addressing - joint - ses
sion of the house and senate, the ex
ecutlve declared an actual monetary
saving to the. government 'would re
sult from the proposed law... He chal
lenged every insinuation of favored
Interests and the enriching of the spe
cial few at the expense of the public
treasury. The legislation, he assert
ed, automatically guarded against en
rlchment or perpetual bestowal--.
"If success attend, as -we hope, it
will,", he added, "'the government out
lay Is returned,-the inspiration of op
portunity to earn remains, and Amer
ican transportation by sea is main
tained." Mr. Harding declared it would be
most discouraging it a measure of
such transcending national .import
ance must have its fate depend on
geographical, occupational profession
al or partisan objection.
PACKER MERGER -.
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vi. iw iiniiwiiiw
Washington, D. C President Hard
ing will make the final decision for
the government on the proposal that
Armour & Co. purchase Morris ft Co.,
another of the "big five" - Chicago
packers, it was indicated, in high ad
ministration circles. : The . president
already has discussed the matter with
J. Ogden Armour and will go over it
in detail with Secretary Wallace as
soon as the experts of the department
of agriculture have completed their
study of the plan.
The executive was represented as
being of the opinion that the basis of
the information now in his possession
that there would be no objection at
law to the proposed consolidation, in
view of the stricter government regu
lations of the packing industry pro
vided for in the packers' and stock
yards control act.
It was emphasized, however, that he
was keeping an open mind until all
the facts bearing on the situation had
been presented.
NEWBERRY RESIGNS SEAT
Says He Would Be "Hampered by Par
tisan Political Persecution."
Washington, , D. C Truman . H.
Newberry of Michigan, whose . right
to a place in the senate has been a
subject of long and bitter controversy,
has submitted his resignation with a
request that it become effective im
mediately. In a letter to Governor Groesbeck,
made public here, Mr. Newberry said
he bad been impelled to retire volun
tarily because of the defeat of hie
republican colleague, Senator Town
send, in the election of November 7.
The turns of events, he said, would
make it "futile", for him to attempt
to continue his public services, since
he continually would be "hampered
by partisan political persecution."
The resignation brings to an end
a fight which already has made po
litical history and which, it appeared,
would be resumed early in the session
of congress which began Monday.
White Case to Be Carried Up.
Topeka, Kan. An agreement with
William Allen White, that the case
charging him with violation of pro
visions of the industrial court act.
in placing a strike sympathy, card in
his office window,' shall be carried
into the supreme court direct, under
an agreed statement of facte - baa
been reached, ..T-c?'; "
PierceWilliHsive
No Pie Counters
Governor-Elect Pierce will not be
embarrased by the Democratic party
chieftains in dispensing political pie
The Democratic party as an organization-
j wants only to' , assist Mr.
Pierce to make good every campaign
pledge. ; Democratic leaders of Ore
gon are not demanding anything for
themselves.
These facts became known at La
Grande, after an all-afternoon con
ference between - the"; governor-elect
and Dr.' J. W. Morrow, national Dem
ocratic committeeman,, and Dr. C. J
Smith, chairman .of the . state v Dem
ocratic central committee Confer
ences were held in between- dinners
and speeches delivered by the trio to
the home-coming day of Blue Mount
ain grange, which Is the home, of Mr,
Pierce's grange affiliation.
At the grange hall Mr Pierce re
viewed the incidents of the campaign
in considerable detail-... He . was - re-
cieved with enthusiam. Dr.' Morrow
and Dr. Smith also spoke, both dwell
ing upon the thought that it is now
up to the voters of Oregon wfio want
tax. reductions and economic reforms
to put their shoulders squarely behind
Mr. Pierce.
Later in the day the three men were
closeted and immediately af terwarla
Mr. Pierce went to Imbler for another
jollification and banquet and Dr.
Smith left for New York and .Wash-,
ington. , At the close of the confer
ence the Portland Journal represen
tative was advised that policies of the'
Pierce ' administration received first
consideration and that the executive-
elect had been assured there would be
no embarrassment hurled at him over
the pie counter.
Mr. Pierce is assured by the party's
spokesman that the party is anxious
to see the Pierce administration make
good and is not Dickering over petty
patronage, - J
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FARMERS, CATTLEMEN
SMILING; RAIN DID IT
The rains that fell during the last
several days have brought smiles to
the faces of the farmers and stock
men of the Umatilla district They
are greatly pleased. ,
The winter wheat has assumed its
bright green color, and promises . a
good stand. All through the county
a fine showing of winter grain is in
evitable. Until lately the condition
of the wheat crop had the fanners
guessing. ..-"
The stockmen are also showing, a
smiling countenance, and for good
reasons, The open weather that has
prevailed for the entire fall has
meant that the cattle and sheep
could graze, while at this time last
year, they were on winter feed.
With acontnuance of the present
weather, feeding stock may not be
come necessary for several weeks.
Further precipitation that is ex
pected, together with the warm
weather will cause grain to germinate
rapidly.
HOLLOW HEART POTATOES
Having had two carloads of po
tatoes shipped as.U. S.. 1. rejected
in California and sent back because
of "hollow heart," potato growers in
the Yakima district have asked for an
immediate official inspection to find
whether any of the crop this year will
grade No 1. The shipper of the re
jected carloads did not know that the
spuds were defective, having judged
by external appearances, and it is
expected that other -shipments sent
eastward may be turned for the same
reason. Hollow heart is not a disease,
and about the only way this defect
can be discovered is by cutting the
potato open. A small percentage of
hollow hearted spuds disqualifies a
shipment for the high grade.
DUDLEY-FRIEDLY
Mr. Max Dudley, son of Mr. and
Mrs. E. A. Dudley of Athena, and
Miss Jaunita Friedly, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Manuel Fnedley of Pendle
ton, were united in marriage Wed
nesday afternoon at three o'clock, at
the home of the bride's parents. Rev.
Gressman being the officiating clergy
man. The wedding ceremoney was per
formed in the presence of relatives of
the bride and groom, little Cathrine
Friedly, sister of the bride, being the
ring-bearer. Both bride and groom
have a host of friends in Athena who
wish them happiness. They will reside
on Mr, Dudley's ranch near La Crosse,
Washington. ,
THE. STORM SATURDAY
YOU KNOW HOW TIS
One of the biggest pictures in point
of interest ever screened'' at the
Standard Theatre, will be shown Sun
day night, when "The Storm," Star
ring House Peters, supported by n
brilliant cast will be exhibited. The
Storm, with the exception of "Foolish
Wives" and ''Human Hearts" is per
haps the greatest achievement of
Universal in pictures. The Storm and
Human Hearts, which comes to the
Standard on Christmas night, are the
two greatest pictures that will be
shown here this year. In point of
attendance and receipts, they are the
leading pictures shown in Portland
this year.
On the evening of Thanksgiving
Day, a special picture, "Jan of the
Big Snows," will be shown at regular
admission , prices. Tomorrow . (Sat
urday ) night, Dorothy Dalton, Par
mounts's gifted star, will be seen in
"The - Woman Who Walked Alone."
This picture is based on the widely
read story of "The Cat Who Walked
Alone.V.
All pictures except The Storm and
Human Hearts( will be exhibited at
regular prices, so far as booked into
January. Many of these pictures
scheduled at regular prices include
super specials, such as "The Prisoner
of Zenda" "The Good Provider, "Be
yond the Rocks" and others.
Voter's Edict Is
Newberry Doom
THANKSGIVING DAY
OBSERVANCE IN ATHENA
Thanksgiving Day will be appro
ipxiately observed in Athena. In the
evening there will be union services
at the Baptist church. The' services
will be along the lines of significance
of the spirit of the occasion as set
down by our forefathers in observance
of the day.
In . the. afternoon, the football
teams of Athena high school and
Umatilla will meet on the local, field
for .the first game ever played by
teams representing these schools.
A special picture program will be
given at the Standard Theatre, start'
ing at ?:45, and the Athena-Weston
American Legion post will give a
dance at Legion HalL.
NEW BISHOP INSTALLED :
William P. Remington, formerly
bishop suffragan of Montana, Sunday
was inducted into office as bishop of
Eastern Oregon for the Episcopal
church. Bishop Page , of Seattle,
president of the province of the Pa
cific, read the invocation service. He
was assisted by the largest delegation
of bishops of this church ever gather
ed for such an installation, including
the venerable Bishop Lemuel H.
Wells, now active, who was one cf
the pioneer missionaries . of this
church in the Oregon country some 50
years ago, Bishop Walter T, Sumner
of the Oregon diocese, Bishop F. W.
Keator of the Olympia diocese, and
Bishop H. Tourette of Idaho, present
ing also the missionary council of the
church.
Resignation of Truman H. New
berry as United Statel senater from
Michigan is put down here as a direct
election, in which most of the sen
ators who voted for him and ran for
reelection, were defeated.
The incoming senate - contained a
majority committee to vote for oust
ing of Newberry in event his case
should come up. In his own state
he was the issue, and the veteran Sen
ator Townsend who defended New.
berry, was defeated. ; Woodbrige N.
Ferris, the successful Democratic
senatorial candidate, declared immed
iately after the election that his vic
tory was a repudiation of Newberry.
Ke announced that the first thing he
would do when he - was sworn in
would be to reopen the . Newberry
case. .
The Newberry case was an issue in
every state Nwhere a senator who had
voted to seat him was . up ..for .re
election. Most of these senators fell
by the wayside. . Nine of these 13
senators were beaten either in the
primaries or in the election. New of
Indiana and McCumber of North Da
kota went down in the primaries.
Pro-Newberry senators ; defeated in
the election were: Calder, New York;
Freylinghuysen, New Jersey; Franc J,
Maryland; Dupont, Delaware; Kel
logg, Minnesota; Poindexter, Wash
ington, and Townsend, Michigan.
Newberry was the subject of the
most cutting attacks by Democratic
senators, both in the senate -or on the
stump. They loudly demanded that
Newberry resign. But the Michigan
senator kept a screen of complete si
lence over himself. ,. He" Refused to
take the senate floor in His own de
fense, except to read a brief prepared
statement. After . his J vindication
numerous Republican senators who
were un for reelection anckfeared the-j
Newberry issue would prove embar
rassing to them, privately expressed
the hope that he would resign. But
he hung on and then came the casu
alty lists after the election. It was
apparent to him that he would be
voted out of the senate should his
case be reopened.
T'The country has gone to hell", hia
political manager said on reading the
complete returns.
Newberry still kept silent. Now his
resignation ends the senational case
and vacates one Michigan senatorial
seat. ;
Newberry was elected to the senate
in November, 1918,- defeating Henry
Ford the Democratic nominee. Short
ly thereafter, indictments were hand
ed down by the federal grand jury at
Grand Rapids against Newberry and
more than 100 of his political aides on
charges of conspiracy to violate the
election laws in . the primary cam
pain preceding the general election.
This grew out of the alleged use of
large sums of money by Newberry
workers in an effort to defeat Ford.
TWO MORE FOOTBALL
GAMES SCHEDULED HERE
The two remaining football games
of the season are scheduled for play
on the home gridiron. This after
noon the Umatilla team meets
Athena high school. Umatilla is said
to be a good team, and an interest
ing game is anticipated.:
Next Thursday, Thanksgiving Day
the! Endicott Wash.,fast team will be
here, and the fans are looking for
the; hardest game of the season.
Endicott has a splendid record, and
Athena having been defeated but once
during the present season, is going
out: to win from the Washingtonians
There will Is no return game with
Endicott this j cr-. but Athena later
in the season will go to theWashing
ton town to play Basket ball in re
turn for the Thanksgiving Day grid
iron contest
With football out of the way for the
year, basketball practice will be com
menced at once in the local gym, with
all lettermen of last year on the
team, except one. , The aggregation
that won for Athena last year touted
to be stronger in the game this sea
son with the result that a higher
standard of proficiency may be expected.
INDIAN GIRI AT U. OF O.
Eleanor Houk of the Blackfoot tribe
is the first Indian girl to attend the
University of Oregon. Her home is
in Browning, Mont, a small town sit
uated a few miles from Glacier Nat
ional Park. She- received her gram
mar school education and a part of
her: high -school education at Carlisle
Pa. the largest Indian school in the
United States, which was abolished
by the goverment during . the war.
Coming to Oregon in 1918, she enter
ed Salem high school, and graduated
in 1920 with high honors. The fol
lowing year she taught in the lower
grades at Chemawa, Oregon's Indian
school. This fall she enrolled as a
freshmen, the intention of completing
four full years in the department of
physical education.' ' - . ;
Klan Planning
Another Measure
GAME IS PLENTIFUL
- "We could have killed a carload of
deer if we had wanted to violate the
law." This was the remark of J. G
White ofWalla Walla, who, with his
brother T. A. White, also of that city
and Dan Kinney of McMinnville, Or.,
returned Sunday from a hunting trip
of several weeks in the Little Salmon
river region of the Blue mountains.
The nartv returned with the limit
of deer, three Rocky mountain goats,
two elk and a black bear. According
to the hunters, the deer as well as
manv other kinds of big game, are
plentiful in the regions they trav
ersed.
WIND HITS COLUMBIA
Wind of such intense velocity that
it tore automobile tops to ribbons was
encountered by eastbound tourists, on
the Columbia river highway between
Corbett and Crown Point, Tuesday,
according to motorists. The wind
was from the east. High wind has
been prevailing in the Columbia river
gorge for two weeks.
D
Legislative Mill Opens Up
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A
Officers 6f the Ku Klux Klan an
nounce that efforts will be made to
pass a compulsory public school act
in the State, of Washington. Major
L. I. Powell "king . ; kleagle of the
Pacific domain of the K. K. K.". is
now in Seattle preparing for the cam
paign, says the Walla Walla Union.
The act will be similar, to the one
adopted in Oregon recently.
. "The same law will be in effect
within 12 months in Washington",
Powell asserted, "and all parochial
and private schools will be forced
out of existence. Our first step
will be to stage , a big membership
drive in Seattle and other cities of the
state and get enough followers to in
sure adoption of the measure whan
it comes up. . Aa a preliminary to
the- campaign we plan to hold a bis
open-air demonstration -somewhero
just outside the city, with all the
Klansmen in Western Washington
and a Ku Klux . Klan . special from
Portland , in attendance."
Powell said that, there . are 42
"klans" in that state the largest in
Seattle, the next in Spokane, third in
Tacoma. . But, he declared Washing
ton is far "behind" Oregon in this
respect. ',
"There are 22,000 klansmen in Port
land alone", he asserted, "and I don't i
knew how many more in the rest of I
the state". ; j
LIVES ON 6c A DAY;
SANITY EXAMINED
Because he declared that he bought
all the food he needed for six cents a
day Arthur Belour was detained by
Spokane police as an insanity suspect.
Belour had $672.85 in his pocket when
apprenended which he said was his
savings as a result of frugal living.
"I save on food and you can too, if
you try", he remarked to a policeman.
"I live on two yeast cakes a day I get
up in the morning and eat a yeast
cake, drink two or three .cups of
water. -. .
In a short time the yeast begins to
swell up and my appetite is satisfied
I do the same thing at. night.,- It
only cost me six cents a day for my
meals.. I used to do it with dried
apples, but yeast works better and is
cheaper." . -Belour
was released when pro
nounced mentally sound by examining
physicians. ;
HEARD MRS. SALING SING
Athena friends heard the beautiful
voice of Lela Saling in song by radio,
last night Through courtesy of Ray
mond Geissel the Press family list
ened to Mrs. Saling's concert num
bers, broadcasted from the station nt
Telegraph Hill, San Francisco. Her
singing sounded remarkably, clear
and the announcer said: "Mrs. Sal
ing hones Mr. Jesse Gordon, at Pen
dleton. Oregon. Miss Helen Worth-
ington, at Portland, Oregon, and oth
ers are enjoying her singing tonight."
Mr. Geissel has a remarkably fine
radio equipment established at his
home in the north part of town.
VETERANS REHABILITATED
With 1154 injured World War vet
erans, of this district rehabilitated,
the Pacific Northwest of the United
States Veteran'sBureau leads all oth
er districts of the country in the
number of vocationally rebuilt former
service people as compared with the
number entering training. This an
nouncement was made by L.CJesseph
northwest district manager of the
bureau, who stated that there are
2767 others in training at the ex
pense of the government now. Only
veterans who received disabilities in
war service which prevented them
from resuming their pre-war vocat
ions were adwarded training. .
KEEPING DRY IS JOB
The biggest job of the prohibition
workers is to hold on to prohibition,
Miss Agnes E. Slack of England de
clared in an address before the nat
ional convention of the Women's
Christian Temperance Union. Miss
Slack, honorary secretary of the
world union and an English delegate
to the convention urged the contin
uation of hard work because she said
the entire world movement hinged up
on its success in the United States.
Resolutions declaring unalterable op
position to any modification of the
Volstead act that will permit the re
turn of light wines and beers were
adopted.
GREAT NORTHERN ,
OPPOSES DIVORCE
Continuation of Present Rela
tions With Burlington
Is Desired.
Washington, D.C.r- Ralph Budd,
president of the Great Northern rail
way, attacked the selection of . the
Great Northern by the interstate com
merce commission as the road to be
divorced from the Burlington in the
proposed consolidation of northwest
roads. '
Budd argued In hearings before the
commission that if it is felt that either
the Great Northern or the Northern
Pacific should be divorced, it should
be the. latter. He testified that argu
ments advanced for grouping the
Great Northern with the Chicago, Mil-,
waukee & St. Paul, opposing it to a
union of Northern Pacific and .the
Burlington ."for. competitive reasons,
were erroneous."
Contentions that the Northern Pa
cific and the St. Paul were parallel
and competitive In Montana are un
founded, he declared, because the re
gion where the roads parallel Is moun
tainous and sparsely settled and little
traffic originates there.
, President Byram of the Chicago,
Milwaukee & St. Paul was one of the
most agreeable witnesses to be . im
agined. He said he came to help the
commission, not to hinder. He. said
his company was favorable to the
commission's plan, which would com
bine the St. Paul and Great Northern
and would just as readily accept a
plan uniting his road with the North
ern Pacific. . '
.He suggested, however, that if any
further consolidations were contem
plated his road would welcome a com
bination, with the Union Pacific.
CLEMEIICEAU GREETED
WITHWHOHORS
New York. Georges Clemenceau,
war-time premier of France, came to
America Saturday on a mission of
peace.
The fiery old tiger earnestly voiced
the purpose of his tour in a brief re
sponse at city ball to an address of
welcome by Acting Maydr Hulbort
"In the world at this time," he de
clared, "is a crisis which hasn't been
settled. . How it will end, nobody
knows. If you take the wrong side
well, the war counts for nothing and
wo may have to go to war again. If
it turns out right, and the right thing
is done at the right time, then it will
be the greatest step for the civilization
of mankind."
Although he came as a private citi
zen, the famous French statesman was
accorded the honors of a diplomat. A
personal representative of . President
Harding Assistant Secretary of State
Bliss went down the bay to welcome
him and , invite him to the White
House.
PERSHING TELLS WAR PLANS
Government Control of All Resources
In Event of Conflict Contemplated.
New York. National defense plans
of the . war department contemplate
governmental control of the entire re
sources of the country under "an ef
ficiency council, or board of control,"
General Pershing announced here at
Madison Square Garden before the
Merchants' association of New York.
"According to these plans," General
Pershing said, "the industrial and
manufacturing Institutions, agricul
ture and transportation would be un
der government control, while per
sonnel pertaining to all of them would
be mustered Into the service as ara
those that are called to the colors.
An efficiency council, or board ot
control, conforming to our experience
in til? war, would then be placed in
charge of all resources with authority
to make such disposition ot them ai
would best promote the success ot the
cation in war."
Washington, D. C Prices ot pota
toes have reached the bottom, accord
Ing to the department of agriculture
averaging only 20 to 30 cents a bushe!
to growers In the West and rangluj
from 40 to 50 cents a bushel at east
ern shipping points. Some westeri
farmers are giving potatoes away t
anyone who will dig them and otheri
will not dig them.