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X4r Entered at the Post Offloe at Athena, Oregon, as Second-Claaa Mail Matter VOLUME 47. ATHENA, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 18. 1926 NUMBER 25 V. BRAZIL WITHDRAWS FROM LEAGUE SEAT Resignation Is Result cf ! Con troversy Over Permanent Seat in Council. .Geneva. The Brazilian government Sunday announced its formal with drawal from tho League of Nations In a telegraphic message to the league secretariat. ' Foreign Minister Pacheco announced Brazil's resignation in a cable to Sir Eric; Drummond, secretary-general of the league. By the terms of the league covenant, the resignation cannot be come effective for two years. . - Through this step Brazil "completes the action begun last -week when Senor Mello France, Brazilian delegate to the league, resigned, from, the council. Brazil now has severed all connection ' with the league; Brazil's resignation was the direct resalt of the controversy over seats in the council,' the South- American gov ernment Insisting on a permanent seat in the face of opposition by all the other delegates, with the exception of Spain. The other delegates, it was pointed out by observers, are determined to keep the pledge made at Locarno to give Germany a permanent seat ' in the league. ARE VISITING RELATIVES - . Mr. and Mrs. George Gerking and daughter Blanche, accompanied by Mrs. J. W. , Pinkerton left , Tuesday afternoon for Spokane. The Gerk ings will visit at the home of Mrs. Errol Kenworthy, their daughter, and Mrs. Pinkerton will remain at the home of Mrs. Effie Allen, a niece of Mr. Pinkerton until Monday whence she will continue, on her way to ' McLeod,' Alberta' where she will visit her sister Mrs. C. E. Thompson, and also a brother. She will be gone indefinitely. RESERVOIR OVERFLOWS For the first 'time in many month the reservoir of the Athena water works system reached the peak of capacity and overflowed, Wednesday.. Since replt ing the . old mains with new, across the flat to the pumping station there has been . a ; constant gain in quantity of water in the re servoir. The supply was gained how ever, by all sources being .drawn up on, including , the pumping-, station, the springs and the -well at the head of the system. - RAIN HELPS POTATO RAISERS Mountain farmers completed plant ing potatoes in time to receive bene fit from copious rains which fell in the uplands the fore part of the week. A large.' acreage ' has been planted , by potato raisers on the mountain!. ranches this season, prin cipally all of the seed being from certifie3 stock. The Irish Cobbler variety along with Netted Gems is becoming a favorite with mountain potato growers. MARRIAGE AGE PUZZLE Although he is 34 years of age and eligible for marriage, Harry Pearcy of Salem is wondering what he is going to tell the county clerk when he applies for a license next week, Pearcy admitted that he was born February 29, 1892, and has had only seven birthdays since that time. In the year 1900, February failed to show up on the calendar and he mis sed a birthday. In other years he al so has been disappointed for want of a birthday celebration. BI6 TRADES UPSET WHEAT MARKETSUPWARD TREND Charles D. Micheals, . reviewing whfeats price conditions for the' Chic ago Tribune says: The immediate course of wheat prices' is largely dependent. upon op erations by a number of large pro fessional traders here and in the east. Their purchases and sales of millions of bushels at a time nullify the effect of the general trade condition and market news and frequently turn prices in an opposite direction from what they would naturally -takei-So long as these conditions exist, it is difficult for the average trader to as sume a fixed position and operate to any extent with profit. . , The world's wheat situation is con sidercd as moderately, bullish. , Crops abroad are turning out "smaller than early J expectations." In the United States wheat estimates are being re duced, and it is regarded as certain that the winter what yield will fall short of estimates- of a month or more ago. The government report given out last week suggested 543, 000,000 bushels. . As the department! of agriculture increased the yield inj Kansas by announcing on Saturday that the state would have 163,000,000 bushels . or . 3,000,000 bushels :: more than originally estimated, this should make the crop of the country, 546, 000,000 bushels, a loss of only 2,000, 000 bushels for May. Trade expectations are that the United States will have around 750, 000,000 bushels and possibly 770,000, 000 bushels of all wheat. The latter would be 100,000,000 bushels more than last year. With . a theoretical carry over of' 50,000,000 bushels on July 1, there will be around 800,000, 000 bushels as the season's supply, or about 50,000,000 bushels . more than last year's total supply, when the carry over was 87,000,000 bushels. - Indications are that Europe will raise less than last year in leading importing countries and with small reserves and a possible improvement in their financial position, they will probably have .to import about as much wheat as this season. The car ry over - is so small that, the world will, go- into- the new crop season with -unusually light - reserves of wheat and., a close ad justment . of supplies to requirements. , , What this will mean in prices is dependent more upon the : volume of speculative buying that . comes into the market in the next six months than any other factor, as it must be admitted from the action of the wheat market -in the last few years that price levels have been produced more by speculative than by actual consumptive and export buying. With a large speculative buying power prices should work higher. Without Tt the present level may.be difficult to maintain. Harvesting is on in the , southwest and a few cars of new winter wheat have come to the Chicago market. There "will be no general movement for 'several weeks, and possibly not before the middle of July. ATHENA. PUPILS SUCCESSFUL IN SECOND EXAMINATION ' The. second examination for the sixth, seventh and eighth grades was held June 10th, at the school house under the supervision of Mr. Milton I. Miller, the seventh and eighth grade teacher. , Those taking the Oregon History examination over and passing are Leland Jenkins and Ralph Moore. Marjorie Douglas took the examina tion over to raise her grade and she was very successful as she raised it from 79 to 95. , I James Wilson Who failed in the May examination ' in Civil Govern ment passed with a grade of 92 and now is the proud owner of a diploma. GYPSY- ICEr CREAM L MRS. BECKNER INJURED Mrs. Fred Beckner (Francis Wil liams) suffered" painful injuries Tuesday evening when driving near Pilot Rock. A car ahead which was parked at the side of the highway, suddenly turned across in front' of the Beckner car. Escape from col lision was impossible and though the Beckner . car : was not : overturned, Mrs. Beckner. was thrown in such a wsfy that she suffered a broken nose and other injuries and bruises. She was hurried to St. Anthonys hospit al in Pendleton. ' WHEAT! CHARGES REMAIN Schedule of discounts and scouring charges ' on wheat from Umatilla county will remain the same this year as last, it was announced by Fred Bennion, who attended the an nual convention of northwest millers and wheat growers held at Spokane Friday and Saturday of last week. Request of this section for a wheat quotation basis on bulk wheat of 58 pounds a bushel was denied by the convention, but it was admitted that the time is rapidly approaching when this basis will be justifiable. TOMATOES MOVE AHEAD Field grown tomatoes have appear ed on the Walla Walla market two weeks ahead of the previous earliest date. Alta Rogers, Sunnyside, near the state line, has started marketing his crop at the same . price as hot house tomatoes. Rogers has 38,000 plants on his eight-acre tract. To matoes will begin moving in largo lots within a week or ten days Ap proximately 125 acres are planted in the valley, this being a 30 per cent increase over 1925. FORMER RESIDENTS HERE Rev. and Mrs. Gisler of Anton, Washington stopped in Athena Wed nesday and visited Mrs. Jane Harden. Rev. Gisler had been to Aberdeen, where he was a delegate to the con vention of the Odd Fellow. there. They were on their way home from Salem where they visited relatives and friends. Mr. ani Mrs. Gisler will be remembered by many aj they formerly resided here. . J. C. PENNEY QUITS Tomorrow will be the last day on which' the"' J. C. Penney company store will do . business in Athena. That portion .of the . stock left on hand when the doors close tomorrow night, will be shipped to Goldendale, Washington, where a new Penney store is to be opened and managed by Charles Dudlitj', who has been at the head of the store in Athena. FIRE WARNING GIVEN Fcrest Rangers are warning peo ple who go into the - njcuntains to camp, to use every precaution when building camp firea. With the com ing of dry weather, the fire menace again becomes dangerous. RAIN HARMED CHERRIES The Lambert cherry crop was just at the stage where Monday's rain ?r the Milton-Freewater district,, crack ed the fruit to some extent. OLDEST OREGON BORN Mrs. P. M. Edwards, oldest sur viving white girl born in Oregon territory, died Saturday and funeral services were held in Hillsboro un der auspices of the Methodist Episco pal church. . Mrs. Edwards was born October 3, 1840, at Sauvies Island. Her parents came to America fiom England. HUCKLEBERRIES FROZEN Practically all the huckleberries in the mountains were frozen the nights of June 8 and 9. According to For est Ranger Albert "Baker, the frost was half an inch thick on the plants each of those nights at Mottet Mea dows, nine miles east of the Toll Gate. He says there may be a few berries left on the sheltered slopes but all of them are frozen out on the top.. The B. Y. P. U.' of the Baptist church will hold a Gypsy Ice Cream Social on the MJ L. Watts lawn Sat urday evening beginning at 7 o'clock. Gypsy Princess, D' La Volga-, will be there in her gorgeous attire with her many jewels and loads of wit and humor. By her knowledge of he solar system she is enabled to speak with scientific authority with respect to the planetary, influences upon mankind. She will tell you your na tural tendencies and in a certain way indicate what you should and should not do to make life a -success. No matter 'how bad your lot may seem to you,' and how difficult it is for you to get along in the world, you can readily change all darkness td brightest sunshine, if you will go about it in the right spirit. ; The Princess can tell you the con ditions, inclinations and fortunes of men and women from the various lines and characters which ; nature has imprinted in the hand and which are as various as the hands that have them. She is -also proficient in the art of physiognomy,' reading . you as you look into her eyes. The program of the evening follows: 7 o'clock, Jolly Joy Maker's orches tra; selection, Mr. and Mrs. Law rence Pinkerton and C M. Eager; solo, Miss Edna Pinkerton; orchestra, Jolly Joy Makers; solo, Mrs. O. H. Reeder; reading; selection, Mrs. O. O. Stephens and Mrs. R. B. McEwen; se lection, Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Pink erton and C. M. Eager; solo, Mrs. R. B. McEwen; reading; solo, Mrs. O. H. Reeder; piano solo, Miss Freder ica Kershaw. BIDS CALLED FOR ATHENA STATE HIGHWAY BUILDING MILLIONS WIPED OFF Department of interior figures, made public placed the wiping off of onstruction charges . against irriga tion 'settlers at $27,456,371, in ac cordance with the new omnibus re clamation adjustment , act, with the Newlands project in Nevada receiv ing $5,462,376, the largest charge-off The Umatilla project charges, total ling $1,479,944, are included. SNOW FALLS IN IDAHO Snow fell in Wallace for several hours Monday, following one of the heaviest rains of the season. At Mullan and Burke, . two inches of snow covered the ground. GRVILLE POTTS DISAPPEARS AFTER mpiE WRECK , Mystery surrounds the disappear ance of Orville Potts, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Potts and brother of Mrs. Archie Mclntyre, since the find ing of his wrecked automobile on the highway near Arlington, Tuesday. Mr. Potts left Pendleton, for Ar lington, Monday, failed to return and since that time he has not been seen. Search was instituted and his wreck ed car was' f qund Tuesday but no trace of the driver has developed. Since then a continuous search has been made and the relatives of the young man are distracted. Among bids for construction called for by the state highway commission, is one calling for the construction of a corrugated iron building at Athena which is to be used by the mainten ance of way men on the state high way. Bids are to be opened at Sa lem July 24, it was announced. The building, which will house the equipment used in the work of up keeping the highway east and west of Athena, under supervision of Rob ert Cutler will be constructed on lots at the corner of Main and Sec ond streets. -.- The city -1 1 a deed " to ' the lots in transfer to tlu State of : Oregon, some months ago, and they, have been used by the highway maintenance de partment as storage ground for its equipment since the tarnsfer of the property, took place.. BILL McKENZIE. FARMER MAY BECOME OIL KING William McKenzie former . well known resident of Weston is here on a visit- from the-Judith Basin country in Montana. Mr. 'McKenzie is farming quite ex tensively in Montana and has raised some excellent wheat crops there. Recently in the course of digging a well on his pro'perty he came up on conditions indicative of oil. He at once called a geologist who upon looking into the matter became con vinced that oil is present in that vi cinity. Mr. McKenzie is now leasing . his property on a royalty basis and hap every reason to believe that his new venture will, be a success, PRISON ESCAPE FOILED An attempt of three convicts to escape from the hospital ward of the Oregon state penitentiary was frus trated Friday morning when guards found Don Hall,- two-time loser, hid ing in the prison tailor shop. Fred Blake and Lee Duncan, companions of Hall, were said by officials to have returned to their cots when they dis covered that Hall had been appre hended. . TOM PAGE ACCUSED Seattle Charge of subornation of perjury was filed against Thomas D. Page, brother-in-law of Miles Poin dexter, of Spokane ambassador to Peru. Page was attorney for Thom as McMahon, convicted here Satur day of robbery and murder. Thomas Ferdinand Randadli, a witness, after swearing that he saw McMahon at a certain place at the time of a hold up, changed his narrative and ex plained that "Mr. Page is my folks' attorney and I thought my testimony would help out." BOARD IS TOLD WHITMAN - COLLEGE ISJ FINE SHAPE Whitman college is in excellent fin ancial condition with an endowment fund of $1,187,512.53 exclusive of the recent Thomas Burke bequest of $100,000; and' it has buildings and grounds valued at $413,720.10 not in cluding Lyman hall and the new girls dormitory owned by the Whit man Building corporation and rented to the college, President S. B. L. Penrose reported to the board of overseers at the annual meeting. The dormitories are leased to the college and when debt free will be turned over to the institution. There were 608 students regularly enrolled in the college, in addition to 241 at the conservatory of music, making a total of 849. Dr. Penrose recommended that the duties of Dorsey M. Hill, treasurer, be extended, and that he devote half his time to acting as financial or field agent to visit alumni and prominent people of the northwest. The veteran educator who on his election to the presidency of the col lege in 1894 was the youngest col lege president in the United States told the board that aside from his blindness he is in splendid health, and hopes now to round out forty years of service, at the institution. The college will be able now to in crease salaries of the faculty mem bers long in service, but still not adequately, he stated. The report states that the faculty is not large enough in proportion to enrollment, being at the ratio of one professor to 15 students, whereas the ratio should be one to ten. WILL RESIDE IN MILTON Armonde de Merritt will arrive this week from Marshfield and win be employed with the Standard Oil company at Milton, where with Mrs. de Merritt he will reside. She has been with her paernts, Mr. and Mrs. Henry. Dull for several months and their friends are very pleased with the prospect of having the young couple settle so near. YOUNGSTERS GET LICENSE A boy aged 18 and a girl 17 weve issued a marriage license at Walla Walla, the parents of the couple giv ing their consent to the marriage. The contracting parties were Floyd Hodson, of Walla Walla, and Thelma E. Bruice, of Freewater. June Bugs FLAG DAY OBSERVED Annual flag day was observed in Athena " Monday, when flags, were displayed on' Main street in front of stores and business houses. "THE SEA BEAST Coming to the Standard Theatre for a two-night engagement, Friday and Saturday June 25 and 26,. is a super picture acclaimed by the na tional board of reviewers as being one of the best productions of the year, "The Sea Beast," founded on one of the greatest sea stories ever written, , "Moby Dick." The stellar acting of John Barrymore, Dolores Costello and George O'Harra, bring out in vivid portrayal, the living characters that forced Herman Mel ville's book into the class of best sel lers, and the screen version all that could be desired. Two nights show ing will give Athena and vicinity the advantage of viewing the great pic ture from good seating vantage. GIRL RESCUES POET Miss Statira Smith, 14-year-old Portland girl, rescued Leland Davis, 31, Portland poet from drowning in the ocean at Rock Away Beach. Davis became exhausted while swim ming about 500 yards beyond the breakers and almost opposite Twin rocks. Miss Smith was swimming not far distant, but the writer sank twice before the girl reached him. The strong tow made the rescue dif ficult and the couple were carried nearly half a mile before the beach was reached. - - . .. : T PLUNGES TO HER DEATH Alberta Legge, 15, a Seattle high school girl was swept to her death over the 275-foot Sunset falls near Index Washington, Sunday. Leaping from rock to rock at the top of the falls while her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Leggee and two brothers, were Bitting nearby, the girl slipped and was hurled over the cataract. The waterfall has claimed the lives of 20 men who attempted to leap it in boats. WHEAT EXPORTS Wheat is moving from Portland in unusual volume at the present time, exports for last week amounting to a total of 1,088,961 bushels. Flour exported during the same period totaled 10,855 barrels. A prediction made by Overbeck & Cooke on pres ent volume of shipments, approxim ately 6,000,000 bushels of that cereal would clear from Portland during the month of June, in addition to flour shipments, TWO DIE WHEN PLANE CRASHES Pilot and Observer Killed When Airship Plunges to Ground in Flames. Vancouver, Wash. Lieutenant Henry Walton Goode, of Portland, was burned to death at Pearson flying field, Vancouver barracks, when Lieu tenant Oakley G. Kelly's big DeHavl land plane took fire while in the air and crashed to the field. , , Lieutenant Julius Charles Syfford, Hanford,: Wash., quartermaster's re serve corps, on temporary duty at Van couver barracks, observer with Goode; was thrown clear of the wreckage but died as a result of his injuries. A loosened connecting rod tore through the crank case of the motor, according to Lieutenant Kelly, who in vestigated, causing the accident. The plane, which had just taken off and was about 200 feet in the air, burst in flames, which shot from the crank, case,' Lieutenant Kelley, who saw the accident from the vicinity of his of fice, said. - "Goode apparently realized the dan ger and tried to land," said Lieutenant Kelly. "He made a hairpin turn' and then the plane appeared to sink to the ground. The nose hit the field and skidded a short distance." Mrs. Goode witnessed the fall, be ing among the few spectators on the ' field. Lieutenant Goode was a second lieutenant of the 321st observation air aciuadron. CHANGE IN MARINE ACT IUDVOCATED Washington, D. C. Chairman Jones of the senate commerce committee, who opposed the sale by the shipping board of the five vessels of the Amer ican-Orient mail route out of Seattle to the Dollar interests, introduced two amendments to the merchant marine act which he said would militate against a recurrence of similar trans actions. One would declare the policy of congress to be the discouragement "of monopoly by the American merchant marine." Opponents of the Dollar sale had contended It would encourage mono poly. The other amendment would de fine domestic communities primarily interested In the lines as the geo graphical division of the coast lines of the United States, together with the ports from which tho lines to be sold run or are intended to run, and the regions naturally tributary to the ports and coastal divisions. THREE HUNDRED COYOTES A total of nearly 300 coyotes were killed by United States biological survey hunters in Oregon during May, according to the monthly re port issued by Stanley Jewett, lead cr of predatory animal control. Tho big kill of the month was made by H. II. Gub:;er of Klamath Fulls, who killed 21 coyotes and 5 bobcats, all adults. Tom Rice of Condon took i 30 coyote pups and 2 adults, an ex (( optionally large kill. 12 DIE IN MIDWEST STORMS Hundreds of Homes Flooded and Bridges and Roads Washed Away. Chicago, 111. -Hundreds of flooded homes, bridges, highways and railway tracks washed out, electric and tele phono service disrupted and scores of fires were" In the wake of wind, elec trical and torrential rain storms that swept the Middle West, causing thous ands of dollars in property damage as well as bringing relief to drought Htricken areas. The number of dead in week end storms totaled 12. Tim deaths Included six in Illinois and six In Iowa. Itockford, 111., experienced its worst flood In 36 years. Hundreds were forced to flee from their homos whilo others took refugo on the roofs and in upstairs rooms. Farmers of the middle west called the storm "a million-dollar June rain." They said that any damage to crops was much more than offset by tho soaking of thirsty flolda which had been suffering from drouth. The fruit crop also was grimily benefited by the rain, they reported. Public Hearing Refused Dyment. Eugene, Or. A public hearing for Colvln V, Dyment, dean of the college of literature, science and arts, recently deposed by ihe board of regents of thu University of Oregon, was denied by the vote of the board, members of tin) 91st division, who took up tho fight for Dean Dyment, were Informed. Norge Pilot Now Major General. Home. Colonel I'mlierto Nohllt fwho Hupi'M"!"!!'1'''! t in' ccn::i ruction of the Auiunilx. ii pillar airship Norge, and t. ..!... 1 .1... J.-. i... j iaiur yiiuio i .mill hi n?t iiitiiu over tho north V'' lo -la;U:i, has been made a majut' t-n.-i l for hi U-u.'.. ,