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Entered at the Poat Office at Athena. Oregon, as Second-Class Mall Matter VOLUME 47. ATHENA, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL lfi.1926 NUMBER 10 BURBANK LOSES LONG BATTLEJOR LIFE plant Wizard Dies at California Home After Two Weeks' Illness. Santa Rosa, Cal. Luther Burbank, Wed plant culturist, died here at 12:13 A. M. Sunday. For two weeks the distinguished scientist had been ill at his home, with intermittent rallies and relapses. . Nervous ex haustion complicated by a heart at tack caused his death. Burbank was born at Lancaster, Mass., March 7. 1849, son of Samuel W. and Olive (Ross), of English and Scotch ancestry. He was the thir teenth of 15 children born on his father's 200-acre farm. He attended the Lancaster academy, from which he was an honor graduate. Next to the potato, the accomplish ment which brought first fame to Bur bank was the spineless cactus, where by he turned a worthless desert growth into a valuable forage and fruit ing plant. In recognition of this work he received in 1912 a United States grant, congress under special act turn lng over 7680 acres of non-irrigable land to be located either In California, Nevada or Arizona. It has been estimated that Bur- bank's 100,000 or more experiments with plant life involved the planting, pollination,' observation and propaga tion or destruction of a billion in dividual vegetable growths. From this vast number, however, only 385 were selected and recommended by him as of value to humanity. Some of these were under his observation for 25 years before being given to the world. SECTIONAL TRACK MEET IS 0N TOMORROW AFTERNOON SENATE UNSEATS BROOKHART 45-41 Washington, I). C Senator Smith W. Brookhart, republican insurgent of Iowa, was unseated in the senate In . favor of Daniel F. Steck, democrat, by a margin of four votes. The vote, 45 to 41, came after a week of debate. Until the very hour of the roll-call the result was in doubt, but 16 repub licans Joined with 29 democrats in voting to unseat Brookhart, over whelming the nine democrats, 31 re publicans and the one farmer-labor senator, who supported him. Immediately after the result was an nounced, Steck was escorted to the rostrum by Senator Cummins, repub lican, Iowa, and sworn i by Vice- f resident Dawes, The unseating of Senator Brookhart Injects a new issue Into Iowa politics, as he is expected to run against Sen ator Cummins in the approaching pri mary. He plans formally to announce his candidacy soon. For this reason Senator Cummins declined to vote on the contest. Borah and Gooding of Idaho, Stan- field and McNary of Oregon and Dill find Jones of Washington all voted In favor of Brookhart. ATTACK LONG-BELL CHARTER (tookholder Opposed to Clty-Bu,lldlng Activities, Kansas City. A quo warranto to proceed in the Missouri supreme court baking that the Long-Bell Lumber 'company's charter be revoked, or that It be ordered to cease its city-building activities in Longvlew, Wash., has teen approved by North T. pentfrafc f orney-general of Missouri, j Attorneys for Mrs. F. J. Bannister, the stockholder who is objecting t he company's activities which she charges are not authorised by its phafj ter, and attorneys for the company 'fcere notified of Attorney-General Gen try's decision, necessary before the jlalntiff can start the proceedings. 'The attorney-general's decision comes after extended hearings on the complaint of Mrs. Bannister. ' " - foliar Bid Accepted by Ship Board. Washington, D. C. The United .States shipping board voted to accept the 4,500,000 bid pf the Stanley Dot p lar Interests for the Admiral-Oriental l steamship line, which operates from, t Puget Sound to the Orient j ' -New York Presbytery for Dry Law. J xr in., x- v t , -ow xuifc.-j.iic new jura, jrrvuu- tery, at its annual meeting, adopted resolution affirming that the Presby terian church "stands by the letUr ,'nd spirit of the jrohlbitlo? .1 The annual sectional track meet will be held in Athena tomorrow af ternoon, beginning at 1:30 p. m. The schools of Helix, Weston, Ad' ams and Athena will be represented in this meet. Mr. King of Helix, who is section' al director, expects to be in Athena Saturday morning to assist in put ting the track in shape. Athena High school will be re presented by the following athletes Granville Cannon, Dalbreth Taylor Arthur Taylor, Ray Dudley and Ar- mand Bell. - Those who will compete from the Athena grades are as follows: Di vision A George Pittman, Robert Lee, Lowell Jenkins, Maxine Moore, Fern Carstens, Mary Jane Miller and Marjorie Montague. Division B Roland Wilson, Emery Rogers, Leland Jenkins, Arleen My rick, Ralph Moore, Lenore Volwilef' and Betty Eager. Division C Wayne Pittman, Ar thur Crowley, Jack Moore, Georgie Green, Marguerite Moore and Goldie Miller., Division D Lawrence Knight, El- don Myrick, Harold Kirk, James Wil son, Thelma Schrimpf and Vlrgie Moore. The relay team will be com posed of Lawrence Knight, Eldon Myrick, Harold Kirk and Wayne Pittman. The winners in this meet will be eligible to compete In the county meet to be held in Pendleton May first. FIRE DESTROYS PACKING PLANT WORTH $175,000 JOSEPH N. SCOTT FILES FOR JOINT REPRESENTATIVE Joseph N. Scott has filed as a can didate for Joint Representative from Umatilla and Morrow counties. Joseph Scott is a native of Umatil la county, a wheat grower and a land owner and taxpayer in both Umatilla and Morrow counties. He submits the following platform for the consideration of the voters of this district: "If I am nominated and elected, I will, during my term of office, work for the best interests of this dist rict and the State of Oregon. "I favor a State Income tax with a property tax off-set. "I stand for law observance, im partial enforcement of all lawi, and honesty in public life. "I believe that the Humane Society has power under present laws to deal with any abuse of animals and I shall oppose legislation designing to hamper the Pendleton Round-Up." ARMY CRAFT SOUGHT The National Aero-nautical as sociation will make yigoroijs efforts to obtain resumption of service on the Pasco-Elko air mail route in less time than the 60 days that the pri vate mail contractor has said would be required to put disabled planes In. condition for flight. The present plan, according to Valentine Gephart of Seattle, governor of the associa tion for the state of Washington, is to secure temporary use, through lease or loan of some of the many available military craft, and at the same time to do everything possible to speed the contractor in the work of repair, BARBER SHOP SOLD Last week announcement was made of the sale of Russell's barber shop to Lee Whitehead, of Walla Walla. This week Penn Harris purchased James Haworth's interest in the Ha-worth-Harris shop, and will conduct it hereafter as sole owner. Mr. Ha worth, accompanied by his father, will leave next Monday on a motor trip to Tennessee. Returning from the South this fall, Mr. Haworth contemplates locating on the coast, probably at Marshfield. MUST REGISTER TO VOTE Persons who have reached their twenty-first birthday since the last election, those who have changed pre cincts - since that time, newcomers and women who have married since the last election must register to vote at the nominating primaries to be held May 21. Registration books close April 28. WOOL DAYS HERE With wool shearing on in Eastern Oregon buyers are flocking to the Echo, Arlington and Pilot Rock sec tions. Sales so far, however, have been limited. One .. clip of 35,000 pounds is. reported sold at a price of 30 cents. Damage caused by fire at the Pen dleton Provision & Packing company plant early Sunday morning, was placed at $175,000 says the East Oregonian. Insurance to the amount of $100,000 was carried on building, contents and equipment. .Pendleton's fire department was called to the plant Sunday morning at 3:20 o'clock by a boy who saw the flames from the Columbia River highway, who said that at that time flames were leaping high -' in to the air and the . entire building seemed to be afire. Efforts - to get at the flames from the packing plant fire plug was im possible as this was but twenty feet from the burning building. Cause of the fire has not yet been determined. Center of the fire and the starting point, fire officials said, they believed was either in the office or in the store room immediately un der the office where . considerable paper, packing cases and other ma terial of this nature was stored. Plans for rebuilding the plant, will depend upon the stockholders of the company. A meeting of these stockholders will be held probably in ten days. A call for a stockholders meeting will be sent out and this will require several days. Four or five days will be necessary for the fire insurance adjusters to complete their surveys. The building eovered approximate ly 150 square feet of ground space and was filled almost to capacity at the time of the fire with meats. Men day morning the main packing room in the center of the building was still smouldering and fireman said they believed several days would elapse before it was entirely out. Fire Chief W. E. Ringold and twenty-five volunteer and paid fire men fought the blaze for approxi mately five hours but were unable to save the main building which burned fast owing to the inflam mable character pf its contents. It was the largest and hardest to control fire in the twelve years Chief Ringold has had charge of the fire department, and lack of water pres sure did much to prevent saving part of the buildingi. HOSPITAL DAY PLANS A committee recently named &t Walla Walla for the purpose of working on plans for observance of Hospital Day at U. S. Veterans' Hos pital. The day, which is an annual event, falls on May 12. Quite an elaborate program js feeing prepaid ed for the occasion, including a num ber of addresses. Plans are also be ing made to take care of the visitors who always attend the affair. DEMOCRATS GOME TO THE FRONT WITH FULL TICKET Umatilla county democrats will be in the field with a full ticket at the coming primary election, for the first time in many years. Heretofore the democrats have had vacant places on their ticket, and especially has this been so in the legislative column. But this year it's different. The unwashed and unterrified are coming up with a bang, seasoned with all sorts of 'enthusiasm. Uncle Henry Taylor, who at first thought he wouldn't make the race for joint senator, changed his mind to succeed himself, and is in the race to win., J. N. Scott is an avowed demo, cratic candidate for joint representat ive and E. C Prestbye, Athena lawyer has announced his candidacy for sen ator from Umatilla county. James S. Johns of Pendleton, and C. L. McFadden of Athena, have an nounced their candidacy on the dem ocratic legislative ticket, subject to the will of the voters at the primary election. Mr. Johns is a well known business man of Pendleton, and Mr. McFadden is the proprietor of the drug store here. He served overseas in the world war, has been command er of the local Legion Post, and member of the Athena, city council Mr, Prestbye's entrance makes a complete democratic legislative ticket. And listen. E. C McCook, a Pen dleton democrat, adds fuel under the boiling pot with the announcement of his candidacy for the office of County Judge. Opposing Mr . Mc Cook in the democratic primaries, is another Jeffersonian, T, G, Smith, of Echo, pe there you have a whiff of some really old-time democratic campaign spirit. HIGH SCHOOL PLAY "THE THREE LIVE GHOSTS" Bert E. Haney, former member of the United States shipping board, is a candidate fpr the democratic sen atorial nomination. He unexpected ly announced his intention of enter ing the race for the senatorship at the conclusion of his address Tuesr day night before a grWP of promin ent democrats gathered for the Jef ferson day banquet, at Portland. POTATOES HIGH Potatoes were declared to have reached the highest price for this time of the year the Chicago mark; ets have ever known- Wholesale merchants are now paying from 5.50 to $5.75 per hundred pounds for the remainder of the fall crop. AT PROMOTORY, UTAH Writing from Promotory, Utah Ray Logan greets his Athena friends with his usual hello. Ray is foreman of a Western Union construction crew. He is engaged in reconstruct ing the telegraph line along the shore of Salt Lake. Where he is camped, the Union Pacific and Cen tral Pacific roads were connected on May 16, 1868, and near there Central Pacific forces laid ten miles of track in one day. "Three Live Ghosts" a comedy in three acts was the vehicle chosen by the Athena High school dramatic de partment Tuesday night at the audi torium. Credit is due Miss Eva Randall director, who made the selection of both the play and the cast. The comedy lives up to its name and the audience was in a roar the entire evening. The characters were all well tak en. Miss Juanita Woodruff as Mrs. Gubbins. the cockney English moth er of one of the "ghosts" was per fect in her pa-t. Miss Woodruff is well known i Hhena audiences and lived up to her f.rmer brilliant per formances. Miss Belle Anderson, who has played the lead in several high school plays appeared to advantage as Peggy Woofers, while Miss Jen namae Read as the attractive Rose Gordon was ideal in her part. Miss Lois Mclntyre was a charming En glish lady and Spoofy found no dif ficulty in making love to her. The three live ghosts, characteriz ed by Ray Dudley, Melvin Coppock and Granville Cannon were a par ticularly happy selection. Ray Dud ley as Jimmie Gubbins asserted hi3 masterful tendencies and saved sev eral critical crises by his "treat 'em rough" style. Granville Cannon carried his part well, while Melvin Coppock as the poor shell-shocked "Spoofy" was a scream. Detectives who lived up to theit requisites were efficiently played by Fred Radtke, William Coppock and Clifford Woqd, The play In the opinion of the sev erest critics, Is said to have been the best ever presented by a hieh school class here and far above the average amateur presentations. The auditorium was packed with an appreciative audience, a large number being out of town people. Between acts a style show was pre sented by a group of girls including. Helen Hodgen, Roma Charlton, Gene vieve Rogers, Genevieve Baker, Kath ryn Mclntyre and Dorothy Lee, while Edna DeFreece and Lois Johnson furnished appropriate music. The gowns displayed were furnished by Pilcher and company of Pendleton and were most attractive. An exhibition of the Charleston was made by Edwin McEwen and proved very popular with the audi, ence as he received a hearty encore. Phyllis Hqdgen aeeompanied him at the piano. HERMAN ILL. Binger Herman, ex-eongressman from Oregon, and former commis sioner of the United States general land office, is critically ill at Mercy hospital in Roseburg. Mr. Herman is 83 years of age. EX-MAYOR IN FIELD J. S. Norvell, well-known merchant of Helix, announced that he has en tered the field for the republican nomination for representative from Umatilla county, Mr. Norvell is a former mayor of the city of Helix. WORTHLESS CHECKS Three youths are being held for passing worthless checks on Milton Freewater and Walla Walla mer chants. They were apprehended at Pomeroy, Washington, Home: Traffic Signals V I Trrr,rtrt. W III M WINTER WHEAT PROSPECT . IS F00N0 TO RE GOOD The present high condition of win ter wheat with practically no winter killing of the acreage last fall indi cates the probability of a very ex cellent wheat crop for the Oregon 1926 harvest, says F. L. Kent of the United States department of agri culture. March weather was favorable to the growth of all fall seeded crops and pasture, as well as permitting considerable spring seeding, says the Oregonian. March rainfall was less than 20 per cent of the normal pre cipitation for the month. There was little frost and much sunshine, with the result that the spring season is variously estimated to be from two to four weeks earlier than normal Rain was reported to be needed in some sections, but rain and snow early in April relieved the situation over a large part of the state. Due to dry weather last fall, much of the winter wheat was seeded late in the season and went into the win ter in rather poor shape. However, with good moisture and very little freezing weather all over the Oregon wheat growing areas, the crop made good showing during the winter and is now close to average condition for this time of the year with the growth considerably ahead of an av erage season. .While a close check has not yet been made on winter killing, it is known to be very light, as there was no severe cold weather anywhere in the state's wheat grow ing regions and no excessive moist ure to "drown out" fall seeded grain m the western rart of the state. Condition of the Oregon winter wheat crop on April 1, 1926, was es timated at 96 per cent, comnared with 65 per cent on the acreage le- maining after the severe winter kill of a year ago, and the ten-year av erage condition of 8T per cent. The United States winter wheat condition on April 1 was estimated at 84.1 per cent, compared with 68.7 per' cent reported a year ago and the ten year average April 1 condi tion of 79.2 per cent. Four private crop reporting agen cies estimated the April 1 condition of winter wheat at 87.6 per cent, 85.4 per eent, 85 per cent and 87.1 per cent respectively. These same estimators placed the probable pro duction for the United States based on April 1 condition at 640,000,000 to 589,000:000 bushels, compared with the final estimate for 1925 of 398,000,00 bushels. AT CONVENTION Manager Charles Dudley of the local J. C. Penney company store, left yesterday to attend the spring regional buying convention of man agers of the organization which will convene at Portland, today. Daily sessions will be held for ten days. Resident managers of over one hund red stores from this and adjoining states will be in attendance, 'the nrst two days will be devoted to formal discussions by executives and managers of the company's affair and a banquet will be held torpor row evening at the Hotel Multnomah. Then willfollow eight days of buying goods for the fall and holiday trade. GRAIN MOVEMENT SLOW Over a million bushels of wheat produced in Walla Walla county dur ing 1925, approximately 25 per cent of the season's crop, still remains to be marketed, according to grain deal ers. This fact, together with anoth er upon which all are agreed that very little grain is being marketed at the present time, was revealed, re lative to the present status of the local market. BEST FOR SENATOR Dr. J. A. Best of Pendleton, is op posing L. L. Mann for state senator, in the republican primaries. Dr. Rest formerly resided at Weston, but has been a resident of Pendleton for 23 years. He has served Pendleton as mayor and was in the medical corps during the world war, six months service in France. WON THE PRIZES Holders of the lucky tickets, draw ing the prizes at Steve's Grocer Saturday night, were: First prize, 58 assortment canned goods, Floyd Pinkerton, ticket No. 012947; second prize, set of dishes, Art Douglas, ticket No. 014544; third prize, 25 lb sack sugar and 50 lb sack White Diamond flour, William Pinkerton, ticket No. 11C07. WETS END DRIVE ON VOLSTEAD ACT Canadian ex-Officials Tell of Improved Status Under Restricted License. Washington, D. C The first week'a drive against the Volstead act before a senate committee was wound up by the wets with the testimony of Cana dian ex-officials as to improved con ditions in provinces which have turn ed away from prohibition, and with further demand of labor leaders for legalized beer. Sir William Stavert of Montreal, ex member of the Quebec liquor com mission, declared that province had "banished the bootlegger" by return ing to restricted license and had In creased temperance. Describing conditions in Manitoba, since prohibition was voted out, Francis William Russell, president of the Moderation league of that prov ince, said there was an increasing pur chase of beer and wine and a falling off in hard liquor consumption and that conditions as to temperance had improved. Demands for legalized beer were presented to the committee by Mathew Woll, vice-president of the American Federation of Labor, and John Sull ivan, president of the New York State Federation of Labor. Modification of the Volstead act would be a good thing for prohibition, enforcement, District Attorney Emery Buckner of New York told the senate prohibition investigating committee. Interrupting the presentation of the case of the wets, a corps of 65 dele gates from civic, temperance and other women's organizations passed before the senate prohibition committee Mon day urging- enforcement of the Vol stead act and opposing any modifica tion of the national dry laws. "We represent the homes, the church and the school," was the slo gan contained in the testimony of the first witness, Mrs. Henry M. Peabody of Beverly, Mass., chairman of the Woman's National Conference for Law Enforcement, which is meeting here. "We stand for enforcement and no modification. We have a strong feel ing that the women ought to be repre sented by the men who hold our views." ASK ALASKAN RULE CHANGE Secretaries Work, Jardine and Hoover Urge Reforms In North. Washington, D. C Complete reor ganization of federal government ac tivities in Alaska was recommended by Secretaries Work, Jardine and Hoover in Joint letters to the chair men of the house and senate terri tories committees. They submitted a bill which would place all Alaskan activities of the de partments of agriculture interior and commerce under a slnglo administra tive head in each cam). A federal con stabulary for Alaska was suggested and the secretary of the Interior would be directed to inquire into its feasibit- ity. The constabulary would take over the enforcement of all federal lawa In Alaska. Two Enter Lists for Gooding Toga. Boise, Idaho. -The formal announce. ment of Attorney-General Conner that he is a candidate for the republican nomination for United Slates senator against Senator Gooding gives to the senatorial situation a three-cornered effect because Joseph H. Peterson of Pocatello, cx-attorney-general, has made it known that lie could not re fuse the toga. Both Conner and Pet erson indicate that they stand with Senator Borah on the world court issue. Miami, Fla.A daughter of the late William Jennings liryan will deck a seat in the national houne of repre sentatives, where once her father served. Mrs. Ruth liryan Owen an nounced that she would seek the demo cratic nomination for the Fourth Flor ida district at the primary on June 8. Oil Law Peace With Mexico Near. Washington, D. C Distinct progress toward removal ot foreseen probable causes of friction between Mexico and the United States over application ot Mexico's new petroleum and anti-allea and laws to American nationals it disclosed In tho voluminous corre spondence between tho two govern ments on the subject during the last five months, made public by mutual agreement. ,