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Bntered at the Post Office at Athena, Oregon, aa Second-Claaa Mail Matter VOLUME 47. ATHENA, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 21. 1926 NUMBER 21 h I POLISH, MINISTRY FORGEDJO RESIGN Marshal Pilsudskl Leads Sue cessful Revolt Against Government. Warsaw. Professor Edmund Bartel has formed a new Polish cabinet. His government will take the place of Premier Wltos, who resigned, along with President Stanlslaw Wojciechow ski, after Marshal Josef Pilsudskl, leading the' Polish revolt, had estab lished himself in control of Warsaw. MarBhal Pilsudskl is minister of war In the new cabinet. Civil war, which for three days has ranged in and around Warsaw, con verting the ancient capital into a bat tle ground with an estimated cost of 200 killed and more than 900 wounded, has ended for the present with com plete triumph for Marshal Pilsudskl. In a statement issued Premier Bar tel says: "My government has been formed to clear up the situation. It guarantees security and bids the citi zens be calm and continue to work. This government will continue only until the election of a president by the national assembly, which will oc cur with the least possible delay. The government will firmly adhere to the constitution." M. RadaJ, who has assumed the pro visional presidency, also issued a statement laying stress on the urgency of reverting to a strictly constitutional order of things as soon as possible. MARX WILL HEAD ' GERMAN GARINET Berlin. Wilhelm Marx, former chan cellor, has accepted the request of President Paul Von Hindenburg that he form a cabinet. Marx will retain all the members of the cabinet of Dr. Hans Luther,. wbo resigned as chancellor following pass age in the reichstag of a non-confidence resolution which was introduced by the democrats. The reichstag ac tion was caused by former Chancellor Luther's attitude in upholding the dis play on public buildings of an alleged ly monarchist flag along with the em blem of the German republic. President Hindenburg called Marx to the chancellorship after Minister of Defense Gessler had failed to form a cabinet. Police were forced to charge Into a crowd of 15.000 demonstrating nation alists and communists Sunday night, and one onlooker is reported to have been seriously wounded by a wild bul let which was fired from the crowd. CHARGE-OFF BILL PASSED Plan Wipes Out Approximately $15, 000,000 Water Right Claims Washington, D. C. The senate pass ed and sent to conference the house resolution wiping out or suspending approximately. $15,000,000 In water right charges on certain federal irri gation projects in the west and south west. Owners of certain portions of land served by irrigation projects are affected and the charges are removed or suspended temporarily because of the fact that the land In point Is either permanently or temporarily unpro ductive, or for other reasons, The charge-offs and suspensions in clude the following: Okanogan proj ect, Washington, $720,700; Umatilla project, Oregon, east division, $986, 632; west division, $5995; Yakima project, Washington, $3063. In addition, all payments upon con struction charges are to be suspended against lands found to be temporarily unproductive, but these payments will be reinstated if and when the land becomes productive. f 119 Estates Pay Washington Taxes Olympia. Inheritance tax collec tions for April totaled $59,318.43 on 119 estates, while six escheats netted f S6S1.19 cash and $1550 appraised val ue of real estate, the grand total being $69,549.62, according to G. W. H. Da Vis, supervisor of inheritance and es cheats. There were 533 new cases opened during the month. House Passes Bill to Help Veterans Washington, D. C The house unan imously passed the revised Johnson bill to provide $30,000,000 over the next three years tor the aid of 27,000 'disabled war veterans. PRIMARY ELECTIONS ARE - BEIEDJVER STATE The primary elections are being held throughout the state today, and the number of ballots cast, on ac count of the intense interest created in the nomination for a republican United States senatorial candidate, promise to be many. The democrats will have an easier time in the matter of settling the nomination of their candidates than will their republican brethern. The "-county and legislative con tests have been carried on quietly and decorously, and apparently no ill feeling has cropped out in the pri mary election campaign. On the legislative ticket, the re publicans have for State sen ator Dr. J. A. Best and L, L. Mann; for joint . representative, Roy W. Ritner and T. P. Gilliland For representative they are offer ing S. A. Miller, of Milton; Glenn Dudley of Athena, and J. S. Norvell, of Helix, The democrats are putting forward H. J. Taylor for joint senator, who will run against Fred Kiddle, repub lican, in the general election this fall, neither having opposition in the primaries. E. C. Prestbye of Athena has no opposition in the democratic primaries for state sen ator, neither has Joseph N. Scott of Pendleton, for joint representative, and the same is true of Curren L. McFadden of Athena for representa tive. In the republican camp, Frank Saling and L M. Schannep are out for the office of county judge. The democrats have two aspirants for this office, E. C. McCook of Pendle ton, and T. G. Smith of Echo. J. b. Hales, republican, has no opposition for commissioner. . Four republican candidates are out for county treasurer: Mae M. Fried ly, C. K. Cranston, G. W. Bradley and Bettye DeHart The democratic candidate is O. F. Steele of Pendle ton. Ralph Folsom of Pendleton seeks the republican nomination for coun ty coroner. ATHENA GIRL SURPRISES FRIENDS WHEN MARRIED Miss Mildred Stanton surprised her friends when she was united in marriage to Mr. Harry J. Hubbard of Sacramento, California, by Rev. Hanney at the Christian church in Walla Walla, Wednesday, May 12. The marriage ceremony was per formed in the presence of the bride's mother, relatives and friends, after which the happy couple returned to Athena. They will reside at Sacra mento, where the groom has a home provided for his bride. The bride, who is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Stanton of Athe na was raised in this city, is a graduate of Athena high school, and until recently had held a position of responsibility at the state hospital at Pendleton. Mr. Hubbard is a veteran of the World War, having spent twenty, seven months overseas. He is a na tive of Sacramento, where his re latives reside, and after September first, Mr. and Mrs; Hubbard will be at home to their friends there. In company with Mrs. Stanton, the newlyweds motored to Heppner, and spend the week end with Mr. Stanton, GILLIS IN SMASHUP A. M. Gillis came to town Satur day, wearing a discolored optic and flinching from miscellaneous bruises as the result of being in a smashup, in which his car was completely wrecked at a point between Echo and Pendleton, Thursday night of last week. Driving along the high way, Mr. Gillis was about to pass a car parked on the edge of the road, when the occupants suddenly flash ed on their lights. The glare of lights blinded Mr. Gillis, and his coupe dashed over a twenty foot embankment. The parked machine drove away, the persons in it nev er stopping to ascertain whether Mr. Gillis was hurt. Another car came along and the driver brought Mr. Gillis into Pendleton. OPEN ROAD SOON The Weston-Elgin road, via Wood ward's Toll Gate will be ouen for traffic in about ten days, so it is reported. A crew of men are work ing this way from Elgin, clearing the road of fallen trees and snowdrifts. ATHENA EIGHTH GRADERS REMARKABLY GOOD WORK Mr. Hadley and Mr. Miller have been serving on the eighth grade examination board this week. They report that the Athena pupils did exceptionally well in the examina tion. The eighth grade pupils who passed in all subjects are as follows: Virgie Moore, Cecil Pambrun, Har old Kirk, Thelma Schrimpf, John Kirk, . Eldon Myrick, Jack Moore, Lawrence Knight, James Wilson the other member of the class failed in 6nly one subject. Virgie Moore se cured the highest average, 96&. 'the average for the entire class was slightly above 90 per cent All those taking the physiology examination in the sixth grade made passing grades. Two members of this grade failed to pass in Oregon History. All seventh graders passed in Geography with good grades. Ihe highest going to Myrtle Campbell who received a grade of 95. INSTALLATION OF FOUNTAIN The installation of the new foun tain equipment at McFadden's Phar macy has been under way this week, and the fountain is now in operation and its product is being enjoyed by the public. The installation of this fountain is a credit to Mr, McFad den's progressiveness, for it is equal to any outside of Portland. Made of tile, finished in onyx, with mahogony top and back fixtures it is the last word in modern fountain manufact ure. The application of the Frigid aire cooling system is a feature vast ly appreciated . over the old block ice system. PLAYED WITH ECHO "Dutch" McPherrin and "Shorty' Geissel had a playing engagement on the Echo team in the Irrigation league Sunday in the game at Ar lington. "Dutch" caught and "Shor ty" played third base for the sand toads. Arlington won, 6 to 3, SORROWFUL ENDING IT A SUNDAY-SCHOOL PICNIC A sorrowful tragedy occured dur ing the Adams Sunday school picnic, which was held at Bingham Springs resort, Saturday, when Wallace, the ten year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Allen, residing on a farm west of Athena, was drowned in the swim ming pool. A number of the boys in the party went swimming in the pool, follow ing the picnic dinner. After a while the Allen boy was missed by his com panions, so it is said, and immedi ate search brought the body from the,, bottom of the pool. v Efforts to resuscitate the lad prov ed vain, and the body was taken to a Pendleton undertaking establish ment. " The boy could swim some, and according to reports. his com panions thought nothing of his ab sence, and no one saw him go under the water. Funeral services were held at the church in Adams, Monday afternoon and burial took place at Echo.- The family have the sympathy of all, in their bereavement. BERT E. HANEY Accompanied by Hon. Will M. Peterson, Judge J, W. Maloney, and a couple of other" willful, willing democrats, Bert E. Haney, domocra tic candidate for United States Sena tor, visited Athena for a short time Monday. Returning to Pendleton, Candidate Haney addressed a mass meeting of voters, Monday evening. STEIWER SPEAKERS Steiwer for senator speakers were in Athena Wednesday evening, and spoke on Main street to a largo number of interested listeners. Har old Warner, A. C. Mclntyre and J. Alger Fee made addresses. A trio of male singers accompanied the speakers. GRADUATING EXERCISES BEFORE LARGE AUDIENCE Graduating exercises at high school auditorium Friday evening were witnessed by a capacity audi ence, every seat being filled, and a number of people were oblidged to stand in the entrances. The address by Rev. Howard Stov er was delivered in his usual pleas ing, scholarly way, and will long be remembered by all who heard it. Dean Pinkerton, in well chosen words, made the presentation of the class gift, a beautiful silk flag. William Coppock delivered the sahv tatory and orr.tion in a free, capable way that rr distinction for himself and credit to the .hool. Superintendent Hadley presented awards of merit to scholars who had not been absent or tardy durin.j the school year. A number received awards for the yeaf, and Clifford Wood received award for a period covering five successive years, while Howard and Herbert Reeder, broth ers, theirs covering three successive years. , Lawrence Pinkerton, chairman . of the board of Union high school dist rict No. 7 presented the class diplomas. PRIMARY TEACHER ELECTED Miss Evelyn Sellars of Bovill, Ida ho has been elected as primary teacher for next year. Miss Sellars is a graduate of the Cheney Normal school and has had two years wotk at Whitman college. She has had the primary work in Bovill this la3t year. She is exceptionally well qualified in music. COWBOY DROWNED - Floyd Williams, 23, Okanagon, Washington, cowboy, was drowned Tuesday, when he fell off his horse while fording a slough near the Umatilla ferry slip on the Washing ton side of the Columbia river. The body was recovered. """"Tlii 11 "' a Specially Built for 1. Can be used with equal success on hillside or level fields. 2. A real 2 -man machine. Bagging platform, centrally located, well balanced. Men work close to gether. 3. Header platform is parallel to ground at all times. No grain skipped, 4. Operates equally well up hill or down. 5. Cylinder, 24" long, runs on self aligning, enclosed ball bear ings. 6. Five square feet of grate surface beneath cylinder and main beater provides for immediate separa tion of 80 to 90 of grain at the cylinder. 7. Wide separator (44") permits straw to spread thinly over straw racks for thorough separation. 8. Air blast of shoe fan is distrib uted evenly over entire area of shoe screen, whether machine is going up or down hill. 9. Recleanihg device in addition to shoe similar in action to fanning mill. Cleans grain thoroughly. Q, Power-operated leveling de vice. The operator merely moves a clutch lever the power does the rest 11. Screens are automatically lev eled. 12. All bearings supported on brack ets attached solidly to the frame, not to sheet metal siding. 13. Auxiliary engine same as used in Harvester trucks and tractors. Ball-bearing crankshaft. 14. All drive chains are short. Double roller chain and cut steel sprock- - ets on cylinder drive.. These cTHachines are now on display at our Store ROGERS & GOODMAN (A Mercantile Trust,) ATHENA, ORE Hillside Harvester-Threshers WHERE ATHENA TEACHERS WILL SPENDJHE SUMMER Athena schools are closed for the summer and the teachers have left for their vacations. Miss Lorraine Terry will spend the summer in Seattle at the home of her sister. She will attend summer school at the University of Wash ington when she will major in mus ic, studying both vocal and instru mental. Miss Dorothy Rodman ex pects to take summer work at the University of Oregon. Both Miss Terry and Miss Rodman will return for work here next fall. Miss Merle Best who has taught the Primary grades for the' past three years will not return here next year. She will attend summer school at Oregon Agricultural col lege, taking courses in Psychology and Household science. She expects to visit a college friend at Weiser, Idaho during the summer. Milton I. Miller popular eighth grade teacher and family have mov ed into the Winship property on Fifth and College streets. Mr. Mil ler will help harvest the Art Doug las 1926 crop and will take up his school work in the fall. Albert Logan, Athena's coach for the past two years will not be with us again as he expects to enter Boston Institute of Technology. -Miss Eva Randall will spend part of the summer at Newport and may enter University of California later. She will not return here. Miss Gertrude Mclntyre will bo married to Randolph Cook in a short time. The young couple will take up farming on the Rees place near Helix. Fred Pinkerton will spend several weeks in Portland this summer and will be with us at the opening of the school year. Professor Hadley's plans are in difinite but he expects to spend most of the time during the summer month's in Portland. ' . ' - COUNTY RECEIVING DEEDS FOR EAGLE HOLLOW ROAD County Judge Schannep and Com missioner Hales were in Athena the fore part of the week, and while here informed E. C. Rogers, presid ent of the Athena Commercial As sociation, that the county was re ceiving deeds from the land owners for the right of way locations on the Eagle Hollow extension of the Wild Horse, market road. Obtaining the deeds removes the last obstacle in the way of making the permanent survey for locating the grade lines for the Eagle Hol low extension connecting with the Thorn Hollow grade. ,The greater part of the extension of the Adams road, leading from the Coppock place south of Athena, to the Thorn Hollow-Eagle Hollow in tersection, has been fenced and grad ing will begin on it and the Eagle Hollow extension, on completion of the Thorn Hollow grade, which is now well under way. DEATH OF BABY DAUGHTER Regret is being expressed by the friends of Mr. and Mrs. Armond De Merritt, at the death of their infant daughter Lucinda Dee, which occur red midnight Monday. The baby was only several hours old when it contracted pneumonia which finally proved fatal. Simple funeral ser vices conducted by Rev. Bollinger of the Baptist church, were held at the home of Mr. nnd Mrs. Henry Dell Tuesday afternoon and interment ma4e in Athena cemetery. Mrs. De Merritt will be remembered as Miss Lucinda Dell and friends will be glad to learn that her condition is not serious. MEETINGS CLOSED The series of evangelistic meetings conducted by Rev. Glen Hutton and Rev. Carrol Fairbanks were brought to a close Sunday night. Athena people feel that a great deal of good has been accomplished in the past several weeks and will be glad to learn that Rev. Hutton will occupy the Christian church pulpit during the absence of Rev. Hackett. Rev. Fairbanks will spend several weeks in Spokane and Seattle and will re turn to the Lawrence Lieuallen ranch where he will take an active part in harvest operations. GRAIN FALLING Growing grain in the low places and over-fertile spots in the fields is reported to be falling to the ground, on many of the farms in the Athena district. NORGE ARRIVES IN TELLER SAFELY Captan Roald Amundsen Successful in Polar " Flight. is Nome, Alaska. Captain Roald Amundsen, Lincoln Ellsworth, Captain Oscar Wisting and Lieutenant Oskar Omdahl of the crew of 18 of the dir igible Norge, arrived here from Teller, 75 miles northwest, in the launch Pip pin at 5 o'clbck Sunday morning. The Norge reached Teller from Spitzber gen via the north pole at 8 o'clock Thursday night. Amundsen, a Norwegian was leader of the arctic flight; Ellsworth, aa American, , second in command, and Omdahl and Westing, especially charged with landing the Norge. The Norge landed at Teller 71 hours after having left Kings bay, Spitzborgen. The air voyage took the dirigible across the north pole, where the ex plorers dropped the flags of three na tions. Considerable time was spent at the north pole making observations, the Norge having descended to within 600 feet of the ice and rose to an altitude of 4000 feet. They brought here with them the answer to two more of the great mys teries of the Arctic. They had established, they said, that no great polar "continent exists; and they have proved it possible to travel from one side of the world to the other via the straight line across the pole by air. Omdahl explained why it had been necessary to land at Teller. "There was such a heavy fog and snow that we were fortunate to sight Teller," he said. "It was impossible to reach Nome, as we fell short and had to make a forced landing. The Norge landed on the Ice at Teller and the gas was Immediately let out. She Is now almost totally disabled." "We have proved conclusively that there la no land north of Alaska," On- dahl concluded.' ' BLAST WRECKS II. S. EMBASSY Buenos Aires. A bomb was ex ploded In front of the United States embassy late Sunday night. No one was injured and only slight damage was done. The American ambassador, Peter Augustus Jay, was not In the embassy at the time, but returned about ten minutes after the explosion. He was at a loss to explain why the embassy should be bombed, but the theory was advanced by some that the incident was connected with the recent denial of a new trial for Nicola Sacco and Tarbo-Lomeo Vanzetti, convicted in Massachusetts of murder. The bomb, which exploded In front of the main entrance of the embassy, tore a hole In the left side of the door and shattered several windows of the building and of neighboring houses. Only servants were In the building at the time of the explosion. They at first attributed the noise to the burst ing of a tire and did not realize a bomb had exploded until police arrived with in a few minutes. A police Investiga tion was begun Immediately. COAST GUARD IN TURMOIL Veritable Upheaval Predicted In Gov -err.r.ci.l Clfdca. ... . Seattle, Wash.-Th" United Stntes coast guard In the Pacific northwebt was In turmoil after a statement of Roy Lyle, federal prohibition admin istrator for the district, that "at least five or six" members of the service had been indicted by a federal grand jury here, which named nearly 200 persons. Roy Olmstead, under 4 years' peni tentiary sentence for International 1U quor conspiracy, was declared by fed eral officers to head the group named In the Indictments. Arrests gavo evidence that when all warrants issued on the 37 Indictments have been servod there will be a ver itable upheaval In Pacific northwest government circles. Membership Trophy Won by Idaho Indianapolis, Ind. James H. Mc Glnnlss, member of the national execu tive comralttoe of the American Le gion, conceded the Mndsley member ship trophy cup for th!s year to the department of Idaho. The award Is made annually on the basis of percent uge of Its old membership eniolbd by March I of each year. r