Entered at the Post Office at Athena, Oregon, as Second-Class Mail Matter
VOLUME 47.
ATIIENA, .UMATILLA. COUNrY, OREGON, FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 20, 1926
NUMBER 34
DEPARTMENT PLANS
NETW0RK0FA1RWAYS
Full Freight and Passenger
Service From Coast to
Coast Contemplated.
Haul Smith's, N. Y. Plans for
hlanketiug the country with a not
work of 'commercial airways were an
nounced by Secretary Hoover of the
department of commerce during a visit
with President Coolidge.
At the same time, the progress the
deportment is mahing in supervising
the development of commercial avia
tion was indicated when ,Mr. Coolldge
approved two routes it recommends be
laid down, one for a transcontinental
airway from New York to the Pacific
coast and the other for a southwest
ern service from Chicago to Dallas
and Fort Worth, Tex.
In announcing the action of the
president. Mr. Hoover expressed the
belief that within six months full pas
senger, express and mail service will
be in operation on the trans-continental
route.
At the same time he indicated that
announcements .wuldt be made soon
for other commercial airwaysrprovid
ing, in general, lines along the Atlantic
coast, in the Mississippi valley, the
Great Lakes region, the northwestern
states and the Pacific coast, Including
the far northwest. "
Government encouragement and as
sistance In the development of com
mercial aviation has been made pos
sible by legislation which grew out of
the investigation of the entire aviation
situation by the president's air board
last winter.
The immediate program contem
plates the rendering of the same aid
to aircraft that the government now
gives to navigation and anticipates
the turning over shortly of the trans
continental air mail carriage to private
companies.
UNIFORM GAS LAWF
URGED fON STATES
Sair Lake City, Utah. States must
co-operate in making uniform laws gov
erning taxes on gasoline or, on account
of the interstate features involved,
there will develop conflicts making it
necessary to pass this function over to
the federal government.
Thi3 represents the consensus of
opinion of those who attended the
group conference-of gas tax adminis
, trators' from several Western states
here.
Group conferences will follow at
Atlanta August 20 and Philadelphia
September 22, after which the organ
ization will be complete for the na
tional conference to be held probably
at St. Louis in November.
Sam A. Kozer, secretary of state
for Oregon, and H. E. Crockett, Utah
secretary of state, were elected to bo
vice presidents in the national organ
ization. Mrs. Henrietta Kniest of Jef
ferson City was elected executive sec
retary, subject' to confirmation by the
ether groups.
-Among the delegates present, were
James Duce, Colorado; J. W. Walker
.and A. H. Augstman, Montana; Co
burn Russell, New Mexico; F. E. Lu
kins, Idaho, and F. F. McKlnnpn, Missouri,
Pomerene Winner Over Woman Rival.
Columbus, Ohio. Ohio democrats
have nominated former United States
Senator Atlee Pomerene to oppose
Senator Frank B. Willis, republican, In
the November election. Pomerene,
who served 12 years in the senate de
feated Judge Florence E. Allen by ap
proximately 20,000 votes. Senator
Willis was nominated by a plurality
of almost 4 to 1 over his nearest opponent.
New Ruling Hits All Rum Vessels.
Washington, D. C. The right of the
United States government to search
and seize American vessels engaged
In Illicit trade anywhere on. the high
seas was upheld by the department of
Justice. Under an opinion by Attorney
General Sargent, any vessel of Amer
ican registry may be seized for viola
tions of the prohibition and cusComs
laws whether or not it 1? within the
wnitorial waters of the United States.
Miners Trapped 153 Hours Saved,
Salem, Ky. Five miners, Imprison
ed in the Hudson zinc and spar mine
for 153' hours, were rescued end
brought with them a story of prayer
meetings, rather than of humansuf
ferlng. . .
HUM RESIDENCES IN
PROCESS OFJONSTRUCTION
Athena's status as a home-building
town is being appreciatively aug
mented at the present time. Four
new residences are in the various
stages of construction, and another
is in prospect of building, if not
this fall, work on it will begin in
the spring. ;
The new residence built by Vic
Harris at the corner of Fifth and
Cnlleire streets, which is to be occu
pied by Mr. and Mrs. Fred Kershaw,
ready for occupancy by the first of
the coming month. A new garage
has also been built on the premises.
On Third street, south of Current,
Dunlao & Son contractors, are pour
ing the concrete for the foundation
and basement of the fine bungalow
which is to be the home of Mr., and
Mrs. Max Hopper. This residence
will comprise five rooms, full base
ment, and all modern Conveniences,
including a garage.
At the corner of Fourth and Jeffer
son streets excavation has, teen, com
pleted for the new home of Mr. and
Mrs. M. L. JVatts. When completed,
this will be one of the finest homes
in this part of the county. It will
contain seven rooms, all on the
around floor, with full basement arid
will be modern- in every respect. It
will be built of pressed brick and
stucco.
Just north of the Watts residence,
at the corner of Fourth and Adams,
W. S. Ferzuson is rebuilding and re
modeling the big house ho recently
purchased from Mrs. George Dick
son. Excavation is being made for
a basement, and material will ' soon
be on the ground for the contractor.
KILLING WILD MORNING
. GLORY WITH ACID, SUCCESS
Alex Mclntyre and Venard Bell
have assembled a machine for boring
holes to receive bi-sulphide in the
process of eradicating wild morning
glory patches in their fields. They
have a gasoline engine and genera
tor which furnishes the electric cur
rent to the drill, mounted on a mo
tor car. The outfit is rigged up like
the machine used by Ralph Allen.
Raich Allen has completed "shoot
ing" carbon bisulphide into the wild
morninar elory patches on the Char
les Williams and Walter Adams
farms, south of Athena.
The Weston Leader says Allen is
now employed at the Charles Price
place near Westohn with the device
he has invented for killing wild
morning glory. It consists of a small
gas engine, an electric generator and
a drill mounted on a car, and with
this he is able to drill houes in the
soil for about two feet deep at the
rate of four a minute.
Carbon bi-sulphide is poured into
Lthe holes and tamped down, with the
result that in due time the morning
glory is exterminated. The operation
is said to have brought good results
on various ranches in this part of
the county.
The treatment is said to cost only
half as much as the salt method rnd
to leave the ground in condition to
produce a crop the following year.
HIGHWAY GARAGE
Robert Cutler and a force of men
have been engaged this week in lev
eling the grounds for the construc
tion of a garage and storage house
for the maintenance department of
the State Highway, on its Athena
property at the corner of Main and
Second. A portion of the building
material j3 now on the ground.
NOW OPEN FOR TRAVEL
The Thornhollow grade is now
ready for travel. The grade is now
completed more than two .thirds of
the way down the grade and cpen to
travel. The new grade' road is fin
ished to a point where it crosses he
old grade road more than two thirds
of the way down. All of the grade is
now five per cent or less.
ATHENA PIONEER PHYSICIAN
DIES AFTERJLONG ILLNESS
After a lingering illness of several
months, Dr. Leonard Dell, well known
pioneer physician of Athena," pass
ed away at St. Mary's hospital, at
Walla Walla, August 13, at the ripe
age of 88 years, three months and
fourteen days.
Born in Green county, Tennessee,
April 30, 1838, when a youth he be
came a resident of Sullivan county;
Missouri where he received his edu
cation, taught school and later, prac-1
ticed medicine with a high degree of
success. On October 18, 1874, he was
united in marriage to Elizabeth Mo
berly, who died in this city Septem
ber 22, 1913.
Dr. Dell leaves two sons, York and
Henry Dell of Athena; two brothers,
Seawood Dell and Frank Dell of Mis
souri; two neices, the Misses Flossie
and Vera Dell of Walla Walla; one
nephew, Cecil Dell of Lcwiston, Idaho
For almost 59 years Dr. Dell had
been a member of the Masonic order,
and for many years was honored with
the office of tyler in Dolph Lodge of
Athena. " ' For Over 30 years he had
been a faithful member of the Chris
tian church of Athena. Funeral ser
vices were held there Sunday after
noon at 2:30 o'clock, and the deceas
ed's Masonic brethren had charge of
the services at the grave.
The doctor came to Athena (then
Centerville) in 1886, his family arriv
ing here the year following. He was
graduate of McDowell Medical Col
lege of St. Louis, and retired from
practice in 1900. He took active in
terest in civic affairs, but especially
in the schools.. He was of a pleas
ant disposition, a firm friend, espec
ially fond of children, and his happy
smile and greetings will be missed
in Athena for a long, long while,
HOOSIERS TO PICNIC
Hoosiers, former residents of In
diana now living in Umatilla county,
will gather together Sunday, August
29, at the Joe Remos farm, one-and-.
a-half miles south of Echo, to cele
brate the annual Hoosiers' picnic;
says the Stanfield Standard. This
year's Iloosier picnic is expected to
be much larger than in former years,
because its scope formerly of only
local extent has been enlarged in an
effort to draw all Hoosiers in- the
county to the celebration. Nearly;
50 met together at Hermiston last
year,
DEER ENUMERATED
According to estimates of forest
rangers, there are about 59,000 head
of deer in the fourteen national for
ests of Oregon, and over 22,500 In
the eight national forests of Wash
ington; a total of approximately 81,
500 for the two states.
DEER WILL BE PLENTIFUL
SAYS UE WARDEN
China pheasants are unusually
abundant in eastern and western
Oregon and deer are plentiful in ev
ery section of the state where deer
are to be found, according to E. F.
Averill, state game warden, in his j
monthly report. ;,
The report reads in part: "Reports
from farmers and others throughout
the Willamette valley indicates an
abundant supply - of Chinese pheas
ants. This is the more pleasing be
cause many of the birds . hatched
during the month of May were killed
by the cold rains. The otherwise?
long favorable breeding season has
apparently overcome ' this serious
mishap. - Malheur, Baker, Union,
Umatilla and Morrow Counties all re
port even more birds than are to be
found in the Willamette valley.
"Reports from every section of the
state in which deer are to be found
seem to indicate bright prospects for
a successful deer season. Even in
eastern Oregon, where many of the
sportsmen were alarmed because of
the great number of bucks killed dur
ing the fall of 1925, has reported an
unusually large crop of fawns.
"This is attributed by some to the
mild winter and by others to the
fact that the United States Bureuu
of Biological survey has succeeded
in reducing the number of prefatory
animals which formerly destroyed
large numbers of young fawns earlier
in the season."
Averill says the three game farms
at Pendleton, Corvallis and Eugene
are in good condition regardless of
the dry weather. A total of 3320
China pheasants were liberated dur
ing July and over 23,000 of these
birds have been hatched this season.
The Wool Industry in South Africa
(UHanmE.S. Bulled. Bhmmteln,O.F.SH AJtlca)
Si
PEACH HARVEST IS A
MONTH EARLIER IN VALLEY
FUNDS FOR SHOW
Weston Leader: Of the funds avail
able for agricultural and horticultur
al exhibits in Umatilla county, the
county court has allotted $300 to the
annual Weston potato show.
The coming on of the peach har
vest from two weeks -to a month
earlier, than usual will catch many
housewives unprepared if they are
not watching the markets closely,
says the Walla Walla Union. Peaches
will be out just that much sooner,
say the fruit men and canners should
be ready to start immediately if they
are to get in on the peaches while
they are in season.
Peaches of all kinds are ripening
early and many of them out of the
regular order. The Crawford crop is
on full force and the Elbertas will b,a
picked much earlier than usual. A
large crop of peaches is in prospect
and the price is reasonable.
HARVESTER KILLED .
Al Short, pioneer resident of Day
ton and Columbia county, was in
stantly killed when the combine har
vester on which he was separator
tender, turned over three times on a
steep side hill on the Earl McGeo
ranch, about 12 , miles from Dayton,
on which Mr. Short was employed
No one else was seriously injured.
til
Unilprwood&lIiKk-nvnnd
II tutity u-uvlcnx with pnnnhn looms m dfficQi
Sole the Overseen.
Tha Union, of South Africa la rightly
classed mnonff tho grout wool producing-
count nes of tho world. Cli
matic conditions there are ailmirabiv
adapted to tho breeding and raisins of
tho Monno typo of cheep with a
strong, staphs wool.
A large part of this- country is suit
able only for the raising of sheep,
and tha government Is making- pro.
gressive and intelligent efforts to im
prove both the sheep and the manner
of preparing the wool for market,
Jackals being1 a strong menace in
South Africa, long-time government
loans aro extended to sheep owners
for tho erection of jackal-proof fenc
mg. Government sheep experts ere
maintained permanently in alloted
districts so that their pervjcea and
advice may be assured at a nominal
fee.
The mutton sheep of South Africa
is the fat-tailed, black headed Cape
a non-woolod eheep. As no cross
breeding for mutton lambs' Is done,
the wools aro purely Merino ia chai
actor.
Progress in this South African in
dustry is particularly noticeable in
Jhe harvesting. Despite the fact that
Kaffir labor can ho secured at the
equivalent of $3.50 American, per
month, there Is a trend towards tha
modern shearing machine a.s against
tho age-old band blades, which, even
in America, have not been discarded
by many otherwise entirely progre.
sivo wool raisers,
A study of this fact, however, read
ily reveals tha reason for it. While
there 1s a first cost for the machine,
tho unskilled black adapt.'i himself to
its iiso much more readily than to
the hand blades, and soon docs a. re
markably smooth Job Of shearing with
l!rj machine, ..' ' ' -
Onco adapted to the usa of the ma
chine, its economic yalUQ u demon-
Four of a Itnd. Kaffir children.
stratcd in tho materially greater num
ber of eheep phoiiv daily, the better
market valua of tha wool, tho fewer
maimed sheep, and not least Im
portant, tho nddiiional 5. to 32
more- wool obtained with tho machine,
over an4 ubQvo tho amount o wool
secured with tho hand blades. As a
consequence, tho maehino resolves
itself into a small investment with
certain and Wg returns.
Steadily, tho science of wool-marketing
ia South Africa is fast ap
proaching the scientific efficiency of
tha Australian marketing plan, which
Is. without doubt, tho most practical
and efficient in, existence today.
Considering that the four provinces.
Natal, Transvaal, Orange Frea State,
and Cap Province, which comprise
the Union of South Africa, hava
20,000 square milc. Jess of territory
than Oregon, Washington,, Idaho,
Montana, pnd Wyoming combined, it
U surprising to note.that they contain
two and ono half -times as many shcc
as our five ptates named,
Thla alono, makes that country a
strong contender for future leader
whip in tho wool industry. It Is inter
esting to note however, that the grout
bulk of foreign progressivenesa iV duo
to American initiative, American im
plements,, and niuehliiery and AtnnrU
can ' Ingenuity. Tho South African
wool industry holds true to this in
that American methods and Ameri
can jn.'U'luviury aro destined to take a
largo find important placo in the eco
nomlq progress of tho far distant
Union of South Africa.
MEAT MARK HARMLESS
People often wonder whether the
pui'ple meat-inspection mark is harm
ful. The purple dye and ail other in
gredients of tho marking fluid as ap
plied by the Federal meat inspection
service are entirely harmless, says
the United States department of agriculture.
BRILLIANT ARMY AVIATOR
LOSES LIFE IN A SPIN
LIVESTOCK EXPOSITION
The premium list of the Sixteenth
Annual Pacific International Live
stock Exposition to be held at Port
land, Oregon, October 30-November
6, inclusive, has just been received
and carries awards from all sources
of approximately $100,000.
TWIN CITY BANp
The Twin City band has received
a contract from the management of
the Pendleton Round-Up to play in
that city this year.
Innocence Abroad
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" INVITATIONS RECEIVED
Invitations have been received by
local friends of Glen Button to his
marriage to Mis3 Sylvia Gilflen,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James
Llewellyn Gilflen of Bellingham.
Washington. ' The' wedding took place
in the First Christian church in Bell
ingham Wednesday.
POPULATION OF PEN
The population record at the blatc
penitentiary was broken yesterday
when the number of prisoners reach
ed 692.
J v tctrngw. W. H. V.- - t . J
The brilliant careeer of an army
air ace, Lieutenant. E. H. Barksdale,
who was credited with having bagged
half a dozen airplanes during the
World War, and who many times es
caped death by a hair, was ended at
McCook field, Dayton, Ohio, when he
jumped front his plane and his para
chute failed to open.
Shot down from a high altitude
and wounded during the World War,
Lieutenant Barksdale merely scoffed
when death reachod out to him.
Time and again he grinned when his
motor failed and ho was forced to
jump and use a parachute to descend
to earth from comparatively low al
titudes, Necessity again demanded thut he
jump. While more than 1,000 feet in
the air, in full view of F. Trubeo
Davison, assistant secretary of war,
in charge of aviation, his plane went
into a tail spin.
Apparently realizing he would be
unable to right the plane, Lieutenant
Barksdale jumped. Ilia parachute
caught in the fuselage, the plane
swung over and over and the officer
was seen to fly through the air. He
was killed instantly. Barksdale en
tered the army air service goon after
the war was declared, and in a short
time his ability in the air attracted
attention of his superiors and he was
sent to France,
RODEO WINNERS
Frank Wood, of Klllensburg, Wash
ington won the saddle championship
at the Vancouver B. C. rodeo. lie
was awarded $1,500. Second and
third money was divided among F.
i E. Studnifk, of Slay ton , Oregon;
j Pete Knight, of Crossficld, Alabama;
j Pete Vandermeer, of Alberta, and
! Mike Stewart, of Tulare, California.
j Clara Bell, 19-ycar-oId Calgary girl,
rode a steer, which was pronounced
the wildest at tho exhibition.
MEXICAN REBELS
RRESTEQ IN 11. S.
Federal Agents Get 150 Organ
ized Revolutionists Near
Mexican Border.
San Diego, Cal. Facing charges of
plotting a revolution in Mexico, 150
men, headed by General Enrique Es
trada, former Mexican secretary of
war, were in the county jail here as
the result of a widespread round-up.
Along with General Estrada, his
chief of staff, General Aurelio Sepul
veda. and Earle C. Parker, local hard
ware and arms dealer, also were cap
tured. .
Agents of the United States depart
ment of justice, aided by city, county
and other federal officers, captured
what was to have been an armed party
of invading insurrectos only three
miles from the Mexican border. In
formation gathered by government
agents led them to the appointed ren
dezvous at Dulzura where General Es
trada and his staff were concentrating
their forces preparatory to a descent
upon the towns just below the border.
, An armored truck, two 10-ton truck
loads of rifles, machine guns and am
munition, other trucks for the trans
portation cf men and supplies, and
about 150 Mexicans made up the ma
terial and personnel of tho captured
expedition, while government agents
also capturad documentary evidence
and complete sets of plans for the Insurrection.
FOREIGN
LIQUi
ML OF
liCATEQ
New York. Immediato organization
of a "bureau of foreign control," in the
prohibition department, to direct tho
practical application of the prohibi
tion agreements between this country
and foreign nations, was announced
here by Jlrlgndler-General Lincoln CC
Andrews upon his return from Europo
after reaching an agreement with Eng
lish statesmen on tho liquor smuggling
situation.
It Is even possible, he acknowlodgod,
that tho work of this bureau may en
tail sending prohibition men to for
eign ports.
"My first work in Washington," he
8id, "will be to build up the machin
ery that will put into practical effect
tho compacts we now have with Can
ada, Mexico, Cuba and the European
countries, and especially tho agree
ment just consummated with England.
I plan to establish a new, small bureau
of foreign control, which will have
active supervision of this work."
Although ho would not disclose de
tails of the agreement with England,
General Andrews was highly elated
with the result of his trip.
FAST MAIL IS ROBBED
A FAMILY GATHERING
Milton Eagle: A gathering of re
latives was hdd at the home of Mrs.
Sarah Walden up the Walla Walla
river on Sunday afternoon. Those
present were Mrs. Walden's cousins,
John Stevenson, Violet Stevenson,
and William Duncan, of Nelson, B.
(.'. Mr. and Mrs. William Potts of
Pendleton, Mr. and Mrs. Archie Mc
lntyre and daughter Velma and Wil
ma; F. A. Cline and family, John
Walker and daughter Jennie, all of
Athena. 1
Robbers Tie Up Clerks and Rifle
Registered Packages.
Green River, Wyo. Two masked
bandits who concealed themselves In
a mail car of the westbound fast mail
No. G of the Union Pacific robbed tha
registered mail car of an undetermined
amount and escaped.
According to the story told hero by
A. J. Miller and Jack Madigan, the
two clerks In tho car, the bandits con
cealed themselves in a car used only
for storing mall and in which clerks
enter only for sacks, v. iiieli they take
Into the "working cur" for sorting.
After the train had left Rawlins one
of the clerks from tho registered
"working car" entered the storage car.
Tho two robbers covered him with
guns and tied him up. They then
went into the "working car" and got
the other clerk whom they also bound
and brought into tho storage car.
Washington State Pretests Grain Rate
Olympla. Protest against a threat
ened freight rate reduction on grain
and grain products originating in Mon
tana and North Dakota to the eastern
seabuiird was forwarded by tho state
department of public works to the in
terstate cuniiucree commission in
Washington, I). C, on the ground that
U would disrupt the markets' and give
the middle west mills undue advan
tage over the mills of this stato.
Cummins Fortune Left to Daughter.
Di'H Moines, lit.- Senator Albert B.
Oummliif Kit tho principal portion of
his e.sta.tv1 of $70,0ii0 to his only child.
Mrs. Kate Cummins Kawsou of Do
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