Bntered at the Post Office at Athena, Oregon, as Second-Clase Mail Matter VOLUME 47. ATHENA, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 12, 1926 NUMBER 45 FASCISM APPROVES DRASTIC MEASURES Severe Repressive Decrees Would Silence Opposition Against Mussolini. Rome. Militant fascism, stung by the last attempt against the life of Premier Mussolini, struck at its foes in a series of drastic repressive meas ures. The decrees approved by the cabinet provide the penalty of death for every attempt to Injure or molest the pre mier, or to strike against the fascist regime; provide heavier penalties,' as much as 30 years imprisonment, for direct or indirect opposition; create an elaborate system of political police to watch every movement of every anti-fascist at home and Abroad, and to put the opposition press out of ex istence. These decrees, whose intention is to still every voice raised against fas cism, to check every hand threatening to strike against it and its leader and to watch ceaselessly the activities' of every suspected enemy at home and abroad, were approved in a historic four-hour session of the cabinet. The premier has taken over" the ministry of interior, the duties of which include command over the po lice forces of Italy, and this is com mented on as for the purpose of giv ing the fascist chief personal charge of the campaign against his adver saries. Mussolini now holds seven cabinet posts and also is commander-in-chief of the militia. He is premier, foreign minister, minister of interior, minister of war, minister of marine, minister of aviation and minister of corpora tions (labor). DISAGREEMENT ENDS ARMS BODY SESSION Geneva. Lacking unanimity on every vital point after five months of discussion, the League of Nations' pre paratory commission on military dis armament brought its sessions to a close. All it could do was to pass a final report wherein were expressed the di vergent views of the United States, Great Britain, Japan, Argentina . and Chile on the one side, and France, Belgium, Italy and other European na tions on the other. , The procedure adopted forbade a final vote on any question before the group. Thus the divergent opinions are in form to be presented to .the league's full disarmament commission at its April meeting. , The work, of the commission, which was to answer seven questions rela tive to methods of disarmament, and thus form the agenda to be used at a league disarmament conference, brought a divergence of opinion at the outset between powers commonly classed as naval powers and. led by Great Britain, .and the continental European powers led by France. The differences of opinion extended virtually to every phase : of military, naval, aerial and economic disarma ment But the grayest difference was between the French thesis tailing fgr naval disarmament on a basis of total tonnage of vessels, as opposed to the American demand , that tonnage be limited according to classes. ' NEW AIR RECORD French Airmen Cover 3750 Wllea. In Non-Stop Flight. Paris. The feasibility of a Paris to New York non-stop airplane flight is considered to have been proved by Lieutenant Coste and Captain Rignut, French military airmen, who have just made an aerial trip from Lebourgetan, France, to Jask, on the Arabian , sea In South Persia. The distance flown was 3415 miles. The time .was 32 hours. . ... j ,:j . The aviators are claiming a record only for distance in a straight line be tween the Lebourget airdrome, and Jask. The actual distance covered., by them, counting deviation from, this straight line, was about 3750 miles, which is greater than the distance between Paris and New York, . - pmtippine btorm Takes Uvea pf 300, Manila. A typhoon, a tidal wave and a flood In widely separate areas have combined in a joint visitation of the Philippine islands, leaving in thir wake deaths believed In excess of 300 a&4 heavy property damage. THIS INCIDENT DEDICATED TO ATHENA DOG POISONER NASHVILLE, Tenn., Nov. 8 (By The Associated Press)) Three years ago, Walter Gasser, dairy farmer, was given a forlorn little shepherd pup which a neighbor had found on a roadside. , Today, Collie, the once homeless waif, is dying, a blackened, singed, blind and crazed animal, but he has paid his debt of gratitude to those who befriended hm. -: . Collie was the - playmate of the children of James A. Johnson, ten ant, on the Gasser farm. Yesterday morning Johnson poured kerosene in to a stove and when the liquid ex ploded and enveloped the Johnson home in flames, the dog raced into the house. He pulled at the bed clothing of Mary Aline Johnson until she awoke and made her way outside. She was fatally burned in her dash for safety. Then the dog leaped into Mrs. Johnson's room and awoke the mother. She died in an attempt to rescue her two small children in an other room. . Meanwhile, the dog ran outside again to the sleeping place of Arn old Hedigar, another tenant. Hedigar jumped to his feet as a howling barking creature sank its teeth in his wrist and then was gone. Willie Stephens was asleep in the rear of a truck. Into the truck went Collie and Stephens was brought to the ground by the frenzied animal. After the fire, which fatally burn ed Johnson's wife and three children, had died down, Collie was found where he had crawled some distance away, suffering burns which are ex pected to prove fatal. GET TOGETHER MEETING TO ORGANIZE MENS LEAGUE On next Wednesday evening at 7:30, a meeting will be held at the Baptist church for the purpose of organizing a Mens League. Rev. Bollinger, pastor of the Baptist church is one of the principal sponsors for the meeting. The organization of the league as stated by Mr. Bollinger, has for its object the bringing together of the men of Athena and vicinity, both young and old. Its purpose is to be devoted to the general uplift and betterment of the community, and Mr. Bollinger be lieves that in no other way can men learn to know each other as well as in a get together movement. McFADDEN IS APPRECIATIVE C. L. McFadden, who made the campaign race as democratic candi date for representative says he wants the people of Athena and Weston to know that he appreciates the fine sup port they gave him in the election. Considering that he was a candidate on the ticket of the minority party he made a good showing. That "Pets" is proud of the race he made, and grateful to everone.who voted for him, goes' without saying. A- good loser, he is, to. It) . Athena he re? ceived 203 votes to 122, cast for Mr. Norvell, his highest opponent. Wes ton gave Mr. , McFadden a fine vote in its heavily republican precincts. WESTON CITY ELECTION Weston Leader: Coincident with the general election -Weston had the fir.;t real municipal contest it has enjoyed in years, with the result that 15,9 votes were cast. The city adminis tration, headed for the past six years by Nelson H. Jones, as mayor was endorsed by a vote of exactly two to one. Jones received 106 votes as against 53 cast for his opponent, James M. Ashworth, . BRYCE BAKER HOME Fred Gross and son, George motor ed to Portland Wednesday, and yes terday returned home bringing Bryce Baker and wife. Bryce is said to be recovering satisfactorily from a re cent operation, when bone grafting was resorted to in the hope of restor ing to use his arm, which was left in a crippled condition from a compound fracture, received a couple of years ago. BASKETBALL PRACTICE Student athletes in Athena high school have turned their attention to basketball and inter-class teams are now playing a series of practice games. Athena high school was forc ed out of football early in the season, following the Pendleton game, for the reason it is said, that other schools in the county sponsoring athletics on a class, par with Athena, did not put teams in the field this season to com pete. " " - ".- Vant Ave i ill Remain State Game Warden Already Umatilla county" sportsmen are conning over whether "or not Governor Patterson will completely clean house of all the out-going gov ernor's ; appointees, which would in clude Ed Averill, state game warden. Averill has done more to ' put the practical edge on game conservation and game law enforcement than any of iiis- predecessors," and the- sports men are a unit in their demands that he he retained in office. "Under Averill's administration," says a local sportsman, "hunters and anglers of the state have come nearer getting what is coming to them, than ever before. They are getting a square deal, and everybody is treated alike; no favorites planted here and there. "There is better game protection, and more fish propagation, and we know the hunters and angler's license money Js going where it belongs in to the fish and game fund, every dol lar of it. "When the tithing bill, a proposed grab of ten per cent of the flsn and game fund to be allocated to the gen eral state fund, came uo, Ed was there on the job to knock it out. And he did. He told the sportsmen and the voters of the state that the tith ing bill was designed to take 10 per cent of the hunters and angler's li cense money and divert it from fish and game propagation, as intended, into the general fund to purchase gas for state automobiles, etc. as not in tended. When Ed got through talk ing about the tithing bill, the voters did the rest. And you know what that was. "Ed is all right, and we want him to go ahead and put more trout in the stream, let loose more pheasants and trot out more deer in the hills. "If you say anything about this send Ed a copy of the paper, with it in. Say, will you?" BOY AND "22" RIFLE Jack, the young son of John Pierce, residing south of Athena, accidental ly shot himself with a "22" rifle at the home place, last Friday. The lad was brought to Athena, where examr ination revealed that the bullet had entered the fleshy part of the right leg, below the knee. Jack was taken to Walla Walla, where the bullet was extracted, and he is recovering from the wound, ON-SOUTHERN TRIP Mrs. Robert Beckham is accomp anying Mrs. Max Durning and moth er on a southern automobile trip, which includes Salt Lake and Calif ornia points. The party will be gone for a month. STEVE'S NEW FLOOR A new floor is the permanent im provement to Steve's store over the last week-end. Little hy little, Steve keeps on adding to the betterment of "Steves" down on the corner. IDEAL COUNTRY PLACE OWNED BY DR. FROOM One of the most interesting places visited by Mrs. . H. I. Watts in Al berta this fall was the country home of Dr. and Mrs. A. C. Froom, on tha shores of Lac Vincent. The lake is surrounded by rolling country and where uncultivated, it is covered with a low bushy growth. The land is very productive wheat and oats being cropped almost ex clusively. "s ' , Thoroughbred cattle and other stock are features of this farm, and each year new sod is broken for cultiva tion. The winters are quite long making the growing season shorter than here but the days of summer are So long that vegetation makes an unbeliev able growth. The lake is situated about one hundred and twenty-five miles north east of Edmonton, the nearest post office being St. Vincent. REPORT MADE ON THE CHILDREN'S FARM HOME, The report of the Children's Farm Home which was given by the of fice secretary, Mrs,. Madge J, Mears, at the State W. C. T. U. Convention held in Gresham October 19th, show ed that fine work has been done dur ing the past year. The acreage is all pledged and $7,484.42 in the treas ury ready for payment. The full amount will be collected by the time the notes are due. . Five cottages are filled with happy boys and girls, to the number of 115 and the Lane county" cottage nearing completion will be ready for child ren December 1, making room for twenty boys. Other .counties are planning for cottages, Coos and Clackamas have already started their campaigns and the 4 southern Oregon counties, Douglas, Josephine, Jack son and Klamath are uniting for one from that section.. . At, the Farm Home Board meeting on October 16th, it was "dec'ded tq erect the next cottage built outside of special county campaigns, in hon or of Mrs. Ada Wallace Unruh, the woman who has done such splendid work in establishing the Home. The Farm Home Board are confident that the people of the state will he please ed with this decision and that they can depend upon them to make thu campaign a success. ANDREW STAMPER DEAD Andrew (Doc) .Stamper, died at his hoine in Weston, Wednesday, af ter a lone illness. Funeral services were held yesterday at Weston inter, ment taking place in Athena cemetery. The deceased Is survived by his wid ow and three children, and also child ren by his first wife. KIDDLE 44 VOTES The official count of votes in Union county gives the election of joint sen ator for Umatilla, Morrow and Unjon counties to Fred Kiddle, republican, over Henry J. Taylor, democrat, by the close majority of 44 votes. Athena Roadbuilding Is Again Under Way Roadbuilding activities were resum ed near Athena by the county court, Tuesday of this week, when one of the big road graders was moved to the new highway leaning north from town. . , The Alex Mclntyre caterpillar, with Ross Catron at the throttle, is being used to pull the county machine in the work of grading the road.. It is understood that the work of surfacing the highway from Duffy school ho'j-: to tho head of Thorn Hollow , will also be started at once in order to save the present roadbed. With the completion of surfacing this, stretch of completed road, tho grading of the Eagle Hollow exten sion will be finished and ready to re ceive rock surface. "THE VOLGA BOATMAN" WITH C. M. EAGER IN PRELUDE Tomorrow night the Standard The atre will present "The Volga Boat man," the second of a series' of bijc super pictures recently booked for showing there, C. M. Eager will ing the Boatman song in the prelude of tomorrow evening's presentation of Cecil B. DeMille's master production in which is starred William Boyd and Elinore Fair. ' Sunday night popular. Oonbtance Talmadge 'comes in her new picture, "The Duchess of Buffalo," which bristles with whqlesome comedy and fine acting. Wednesday evening, Tom Tyler and his pals, a kid, horse and dog will appear in a fine, clean, big Western picture. The fall theatre season is here, and the Standard is showing current pict ures shortly after their play dates in Portland, Walla. Walla and Pendle ton. Read up oh these pictures in the Portland, Walla Walla and Pen dleton papers, , "TOO MUCH WHISKEY" "Too much whiskey" is the reason assigned by Charles O'Harra, a La Grande logger for shooting and kill ing Jack Strum in a logging camp, last Saturday. Strum was killed with a shot gun. O'Harra was arrested Monday when he returned to an ad joining camp, after wandering aVout in the woods for a day and a night after the killing, RODEO PERFORMERS HURT Mabel Strickland, famous Round Up . cowgirl, was severely injured at the New York Rodeo, this week when her horse fell on her. Floyd Stililngs and Norman Cowan, well known Round-Up performers, were also in jured during the Rodeo. HARWOOD HAS CONTRACT Justin Harwood' has the contract for painting the new home of Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Watts at the corner of Fourth and Jefferson streets. He has completed staining the roof in brown. Lest We Forget ..piipiiwhiwi) i injiinmiin iiiimiM i iiiiii i n i i ni.ii tiiiiijuim"w''lw,a" 750,000 IS BUDGETED FOR THE NORMAL SCHOOLS Appropriations amounting to $750,- 000 for construction of new state nor mal school buildings during the bien- num beginning January 1, 1927, were recommended by the board of regents of the state normal schools at a meet ing held. The recommendations now will go to the state budget commis sion for consideration. The regents went on record favor ing a new gymnasium at the southern Oregon normal school at Ashland at a cost of $125,000 and a dormitory td cost of $125,000. In addition to these appropriations the regents approved a maintenance budget for the south ern Oregon " normal school of $35, 006.76, exclusive of the returns from the millage levy. For the state normal school at Monmouth the regents recommended construction cf a combined class and library building to. cost $175,000 and a women's building to cost $150,000. The maintenance appropriation for this institution was recommended in the amount of $127,000, exclusive of the millage tax received by the school. The building program for the southern Oregon normal school was recommended after it had been ex plained that the institution was es tablished less than a year ago, and was not yet fully equipped to meet the demands of the students. For erection of a new eastern Ore gon normal school building under the provisions of a law approved by the voters at the general election last Tuesday, the regents recommended an appropriation of $175,000. A com mittee of regents composed of Frank Miller of Albany, R. R. Turner ol Salem and J. H. Fuller of Ashland was appointed to gather data regard ing the most feasible site for the new school. Under the law the site for the eastern Oregon norntal school must be selected within 90 days af ter the approval of the measure pro viding for its creation. The committee will file its report at a meeting of the board of regent3 to be held within the next few weeks. McNARY IS TO URGE THE RAPIDS PROJECT A Washington special to the morn ing Oregonian says: Action on the proposal to construct a $50,000,000 government owned pow er plant on the Columbia river at Umatilla rapids, will be sought by Senator McNary at the short session of congress. Difficulties over division of the river water between the power project and irrigation works consti tute the only Rerious obstacle in the path of the Umatilla rapids project aside from the natural hesitancy of congress about the size of the ex penditure, McNary believes. He has been In conference with Dr. Elwood B. Mead, feredal commissioner of re clamation, regarding tho proposr.l and is now studying engineering and cost data supplied by Mead. A plant at Umatilla rapids would be capable of developing 500,000 horsepower and would provide a Iarg:e section of the Pacific Northwest with cheap power, federal engineers have reported. McNary is considering; a provision to be added to his bill which would guarantee repayment of the cost of the project to tho govern ment in 50 y-nrs, with interest lit 4 per cent on tho investment. CELEBRATE ARMISTICE DAY Legionnaires centered the attention and interest on the Pendleton cele bration of Armistice Day, yesterday. The Pendleton and La Grande Ameri can Legion Posts had the exercises of the day in charge. The program, replete with interest, was witnessed by hundreds of people. Bands and drum corps enlivened the occasion which was featured by the parade of ex-service men. At noon a luncheon was sriven the ex-service men at Eagle-Woodman hall. Frederick Stei wer newly elected senator, delivered the principal address of the day, and two dances under auspices of the Le gion, entertained the crowds in the evening. GIRL FOUND ON ROAD An 18 year old girl, identified as Lucy Small, of C46 East Sumach street, Walla Walla, was found Mon day night lying at the edge of the Milton highway, near the Braden school, where she had cither been thrown or had jumped from a moving car. The girl when found wa--) in a dazed condition, unable to give an account of herself. One shoulder was badly hurt, and she was bruised about the head. She was removed to a hospital. G00LID6E FAVORS REFUNDJF TAXES 10 to 12 Per Cent Return on This Year's Income Tax Thought Possible. Washington, D. C. The sudden declaration of President Coolidge for a refund of 10 or 12 per cent of this year's income taxes caused a scratch ing of heads both at the treasury and at fhe capi.toj. , . Secretary Mellon proposed after a conference with President Coolidge that the projected income tax refund be accomplished through a credit to the taxpayer on his first two install? menta of income taxes to be paid next year. The secretary believes the credit could? be made as high as 12 per cent of next year's taxes. While the president had suggested a stralghtout refund on taxes paid this year, the secretary held -that plan too costly from an administrative standpoint Mr. Coolidge accepted the Mellon idea. Generally, in republican and demo cratic circles alike, the move was taken to mean that the session of congress beginning one month from now would have the issue thrust up on it froni opposing camps the demo crats holding to their-demand for straight-out tax reduction and the. president's followers countering with the plan for rebates. About 3,000,000 individuals and cor porations would benefit by the pro gram and It was estimated that if im mediate refunds were ordered by con gross, , rather than credit on next year's taxes, it would cost much ia routine expenses to return 200,000, 000 to the taxpayers. Under the program for a 10 per cent refund, the average taxpayers would get little more than $1. ThoBa with taxable incomes of less than $5000..- would get little more than 75 cents each. IMMUNITY GRANTED LIQUORWITNESSES Portland, Or. Tho government lost one of the largest liquor conspiracy cases ever brought into federal court here when Judge Bean, in a lengthy decision, granted six of the defend ants, Including A. Roy Moore, immun ity from prosecution. Judge Dean declared it had been shown that Moore and tho others either were compelled by tho govern ment to testify in tho famous Christen-sen-Smith liquor conspiracy case of last spring or beforo the very federal grand jury which indicted them, and that under section 30 of the Volstead act they could not lie prosecuted. Tho decision is considered one of tho most important ever handed down under the Volstead act. The government contended that the section did not apply to the defend ants on grounds that they did not testify to what had boon expected of them, and that their testimony had nothing to do with the charges later brought against them. In examining them the government was very careful to keep off the ground of tho luter charges, accord ing to representatives of tho United States district attorney's office. Judge Jlean held, however, that the conspiracy charged against the men In the present case existed at the timo of the Sniith-C'hrlstensen trial and that their appearance as witnesses there fore bought them Immunity. THREATtwlNG FACTS OUT Grave Complications Likely to Arise From Investigation cf Catalan Plot. Paris.---Investigation of the activ ities of lllcciottl Garibaldi, kinsmau of the Italian liberator, in connection, with the plot or tho Catalans to In vade Spain from French territory Is assuming a gruve character because? of Its po'.iblo effect on Franco Italian relations. Tho Investigators now nmintain that Garibaldi's illations with Inspector Gonerul I.apolla of the Italian police department and with Lapolla's princi pal assistant, inspector Scala, havo been established beyond question. They an now bending their efforts to fathoming exactly what these rela tions have been. Both lUccottl and Santo Garibaldi, who also Is a grandson of the Italian, liberator, were examined by the po lice. Sante Garibaldi has an office ia Paris,