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Bntered at ttie Post Office at Athena, Oregon, as Second-Class Mail Matter VOLUME 47. ATHENA, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 3. 1926 NUMBER 48 OREGON BOOK DEAL INJUNCTION ISSUED Board of Education Restrained frcm Accepting Views of Book Commission. Portland, Ore. Temporary injunc tion was granted' against the state board of education to restrain the board from accepting the school book recommendations of the textbook com mission, on the ground that only three of the five texSbook commissioners were legally appointed and that conse quently the recommendations of the commission are not legal. David F. Graham' citizen and tax payer of Vale, Malheur county, is the plaintiff. The state board of educa tion consists of Governor Pierce, Sec retary of State Kozer and State Su perintendent of Public Instruction Turner. Service will be had on Kozer and Turner as soon as possible. It is the contention of of Graham that of the five members on the text book commission only three, George Hu3 of Salem, A. C. Hampton of As toria, and M. A. Miller of Portland are legally appointed, and that F. C Kent of Corvallis and Miss Winifred Winnard of Portland are not legal members. , CANADA PROPOSES DRASTIC RUM CURB Victoria, B. C. Rum running be tween British Columbia and points along the Pacific coast in the United States will be dealt a serious blow.it was believed, if the Canadian parlia ment adopts legislation recommended at the royal commission of customs . inquiry here. That Canr.da should build Its own rum chasing fleet, comprised of fast fully armored vessels carrying guns, " was suggested by Attorney General A. G. Manson of British Columbia. Manson reviewed the smuggling sit uation and attacked the present cus toms regulations. These regulations, he declared, have defeated the ends of the treaty between Canada and the United States intended to stamp out l'quor and narcotic smuggling. Private liquor exporting houses of British Columbia should be abolished by legislation, Manson said. . He urged that legislation be adopted to govern overland shipments of li quors between Canadian cities by way of a United States city and requested a Canadian customs patrol service In Canadian waters. YOU ORDER CHICKEN AND - THEN YOU GET SPARROWS RAILROADS INCREASE WAGES 1 CO, 000 Shopmen Affected by $3,000, POO Increase. Chicago, 111. Eleven railroads oper ating out of Chicago have granted wage increases that will add J3,000, 000 annually to the pay of about 100, 000 shopmen. The advances range from 1 to 3 cents an hour, In most cases an hour ly Increase of 2 cents, and either are already in effect or will be by the end of the calendar year. , The move was negotiated through local employers' associations, but rail way officials said that the first major and general increases ince those incir .dent to the strike of shop workers in 1922 were voluntarily granted and not forced by demands. There have been advances on some of the roads since 1922 but of smaller proportion!. Among the roads involved are the Union Pacific and Great Northern. , Miss Dorothy Koepke, former Athena high school pupil, who is now studying and traveling in Italy, writes interestingly to her parents at Glendale, California. Miss Dorothy says Italian is Greek to her, but she thought birds were the same every place. That is, she thought so until she tried ordering roast chicken in Florence. In a recent letter she re counts some of her adventures in Italy!" "Day by day we pick up a little Italian, but we had a funny ex- penence ordering luncneon. Alter the macaroni and wine we decided we wanted chicken, but none of us knew the word for it. One of the girls, after we had done much cackling and crowing, hit upon the idea of saying 'ceccello,' which is 'bird' in Italian We all began shouting 'grande cec celli!' 'big birds' then, v and the waiter's eyes beamed. We were so pleased that we had made ourselves understood. "After waiting about an hour he brought in a huge platter a terrible- looking concoction. They were birds all right, as we found out later sparrows! considered a great del icacy here. They were prepared with the heads and feet and insides intact everything but the feathers! "So the many cats that make them selves at home on the chair; and tables of Italian restaurants had a good feed, as we didn't dare hurt the poor waiter's feelings. "We do a great deal of walking here. In fact I have already walked out one pair of good stout shoes. They last such a short time over these cobblestones. And we have climbed a good deal about these lovely mountains. Last week we all went up to Vallamboosa by automobile It is an enchanting place, with lovely villas and an old monastery. We took our lunch and climed to the top of a little mountain and looked out ov er the whole world. "Saturday we went to the Archaeo logical museum and saw many Egyp tian mummies and interesting things. Sunday, to the American Episcopal church in Florence. In the afternoon the American consul and his wife and some others came in for tea. "Wednesday we visited the old Et ruscan ruins at Fiesole, three miles from Florence. "Have visited the Ufizzi, the larg est art gallery here, and went later to the studio of Celestine, one of the greatest etchers in Europe. He b with the salon in Paris and one of the jurors for the Beaux Arts. "This is the seventh century of St. Francis, a well-beloved saint, and everywhere are demonstrations for him. Tomorrow we are going up to Miniato, where there is a large cere monial. Today, after church, we went to a lovely red cathedral, S' Solrodere d'Ognissantl, and watched the most wonderful ceremony. The cardinal was in high state, thousands of can dles lighted, music was chanted, in cense burned and gorgeous colored robes were worn. "Friday we watched 80,000 Fas cist! parade in honor of Mussolini entering Rome four years ago. He is a wonderful man and is worshiped here. "Soon we are taking a three day trip to Pisa and in December we go to Rome and perhaps to Munich. Umatilla Rapids Bill Will Be Introduced Land Bank Director Named. Boise, Idaho. Election of Hugh Sproat of Boise as director of the Fed eral Land bank of Spokane gives southern Idaho two of the seven mem bers of that directorate. K. E. Shep herd of Jerome is the other, having been appointed last spring. Mr. Sproat was elected to represent the thlFd dis trlct, winning over A. W. Cauthorn of Portland by a vote of 90,806 to 52,454. The votes were cast by the various farm loan associations and counted and announced by the farm loan board In Washington, P. C. New Milwaukee Company Forma. New York, N. Y. An important step in the reorganization of the St Paul railway was conpleted here when a new company, to be known as Chi cago, Milwaukee & Pacific Railroad company, was organized to succeed tht present railway company, now In w celvership. THE KEEPER OF THE BEES" BY GENE STRATTON PORTER One of the best pictures to come to the Standard in a long time, will be shown next Wednesday night, De cember 8, when Gene Stratton Port er's "The Keeper of the Bees," will be presented at regular admission prices. Side' by side with "The Girl of the Limberlost," Mrs. Porter gave to the reading world and to the screen two arreat stories and two splendid photoplays. Tomorrow night Rupert Julian's magnificent production, "Three Faces East." will come to the Standard with a Cecil B. DeMille cast featur ing Jetta Goudal, Henry B. Walthal, Robert Ames and Give Brook. This is one of the big DeMille pictures. made by his own company, vividly depicting the World War secret serv ice. Sunday night Norma Shearer and Conrad Nagel, screen favorites will be seen in "The Waning Sex," her gorgeous follow-up to "His Secre tary," presented at the Standard re cently. Come and see if a career real ly does take the place of romance in a girl's life. She's a lawyer in this one! HEART FAILURE CAUSES DEATH OF HAMP BOOHER A Washington special to the Ore gon Journal says Senator McNary and Representative Sinnott have com pleted the Umatilla Rapids develop ment bill which they will introduce in two houses of congress early -in December, authorizing the expendi ture of $45,000,000 for a 310-foot dam and power structure at Umatilla Rapids, contingent upon the ability of the secretary of the interior to contract for sale of power in amount sufficient to return the cost of the project, with interest in 50 years. This contingent provision, which re quires power contracts in hand to pay for the project before the gov ernment spends any money on it, is borrowed from the Boulder dam bill covering another great power project whose backers are so certain that they can market the power that they readily agreed to make construction dependent upon the advance sale of power. iJost studies nave snown mat power will be produced at the switch board at Umatilla Rapids and at Boulder dam at something like the same low cost and it was "felt that favorable consideration for Umatilla Rapids would be greatly advanced if it was put on the same pay plan as Boulder dam. The $45,000,000 authorization fol lows the estimate made by engineers of the reclamation service after care ful studies in the field. The bill cov ers all purposes, power, irrigation, improvement of navigation and flood control. It provides for a special fund out of which construction will be financed and Into which revenues will be paid, the fund to be created and replenished as needed during construction by sale of bonds of the United States. Expenditures will be made from the fund only upon appro priation by congress. To guard against the "hogging" of the transmission field by powerful companies, it is proviaea mat any company, contracting for 100,000 horsepower or more shall share the use of main transmission line with smaller users un to 25 per cent of the capacity of the line. Title to the works is to remain in the United States, but the electric plant, or un its of it, may be leased for a term not greater than 50 years under ap propriate provisions of the water power act. McNary and Sinnott point out that the reservoir created by the great dam will back up the water for 90 miles and provide an ample inland waterway for future commerce on the Columbia. While sitting in a chair at Lee Whitehead's barber shop Saturday - . . . - J if morning, heart lanure causeu uie sudden death of Hamp Booher, well known Athena citizen. Death came with scarcely a struggle, a few gasps and the afflicted man had passed away. The remains were at once removed to Miller's undertaking room. Apparently Mr. Booher was im proving 4b health,' since moving to Athena from Weston, where he had disposed of his farm, and relatives and friends were 'iriprepared and shocked when hia sudden demise took place. , For many years Mr. Booher was in business in Athena. He retired and purchased che beautiful farm home of the late Robert Jamicson on the outskirts of Weston, where with his wife, he resided until ill health forced him to sell the place a year ago. He purchased the present 'home on Third street, and last summer moved there. He was born in Missouri, and at his death was aged 57 years, one month and 27 days. He came to Athena when a young man. On De cember 6, 1893, he was united in mar riage to Miss Minnie Johnson, of this city, who with two brothers, William Booher of Athena and Charles Booher of Adams survive? him. Of a family of ten brothers, seven have preceded him' to the grave, all, with one exception, pass ing as the result of heart, trouble. Funeral services, which were in charge of Pythian Lodge, No 29, Knights of Pythias, of which the deceased was a member, were held at the Christian church Monday &f ternoon, at two o'clock. Hit and Run Driver Left Death In Wake One dead and one in a Walla Wal la hospital with serious injuries, is the toll left in the wake of a hit and run automobile driver, whose ma chine struck Harry and Eugene Zac harias, brothers, on the highway, north of Freewater, Thursday even ing of last week. The eldest brother, Harry 23, died without regaining consciousness. The younger brother is in a serious con dition. . The boys were '.lading a cow along the highway near their home when struck and the driver kept on, speed ing away. The young men were re moved to their home and immediate ly taken to the hospital. Officers working diligently on a clew, finally issued a warrant for the arrest of C. E. Kingsley, a barber at La Grande, charging him with the offense. Kingsley who drove from Walla Walla to La Grande Thanks giving night, denies knowledge of the collision. Alfred Bushnell, occu pant of the car, told La Grande of ficers that he thought the car hit some thing, but was dozing and could not positively say. One of the headlights on Kingsley'a car is broken, and officers say that glass was picked up at the scene of the accident, INSTEAD OF DRIVING CAR HE IS WORKING FOR CITY MAC HI CHAMPIONS Defeating LaGrande Thanksgiving Day, 13 to 6, Mac Hi won the East ern Oregon scholastic football cham pionship. Athena people who wit nessed the game, said it was a real gridiron battle, in which the best team won. OFFICERS INSTALLED Installation of officers for the 1927 district convention of Rebekahs, which will be held at Hermiston, took place at the annual - convention held in Athena last week. They are: Chairman, Edna Beddow, Hermiston; vice' chairman Nellie Bean, Freewat er; secretary Margaret Pitzer, Pen dleton; treasurer, Stela Reeves, Stan field; marshall, Mrs. Farley, Pendle ton; conductor, Mrs. Curley of Helix; outside guardian, Laura Grm, Boardman; inside guardian, Rather -ine Keen, Athena; L. S. chairman, Anna King of Weston; R. S. vice chairman, Hilda Peters, Echo; L. S. vice chairman, Janet McEwen of Mil ton. The convention will meet next year with Hermiston. DEER IN FIELD Till Beckner saw a band of eight deer in his field south of Athena, on Thanksgiving Day. Five does and three fawns were in the bunch, and apparently they had come down from the mountains on their way to the winter feeding grounds over in City water service was cut off sev eral hours Tuesday evening, when the system was clossed down to repair a fire hydrant that had been broken when Jack Murphy struck it with his. Ford car. Wednesday, when Jack was brought before Judge Richards, he was reliev ed of the privilege of driving his "kair" for the period of one year, and for the, next sixmonths he will "work for the city, his earnings go ing toward the support of his fam ily and not for purchasing gasoline. When the fire hydrant was broken and the Ford struck a telephone pole and careened into a yard on upper Third street, it was evident that Jack had lost sight of his general direc tion or the "alkie" in the radiator had become "het up." Anyway, the judge, in adjusting the case, made provision for support of the family by the head thereof for the winter, instead of its being thrown on the charity of the city, as it has been in the past. JOHN KEEN SUCCUMBS FROM HEART FAILURE Death came to John W. Keen af ter one hour s illness from heart failure at his home near the State Line, Sunday morning. ' Arising from his bed, Mr. Keen started the fire, but returned, telling his wife he would lie in the bed until she had breakfast prepared. Short ly after, Mrs. Keen thought plie heard her husband call, and going in to the bedroom she saw that he was in distress. He complained of being in a chill and arose and went to the kitchen and seated himself in a chair beside the range. Mrs. Keen called a neighbor to summon a physican, and soon after the neighbor arrived, Mr. Keen ex pired. The remains were brought to the home of Mrs. Fred Gross in Athena, a daughter of the deceased. Funeral services were held at the Methodist Episcopal church in Athe na, yesterday afternoon at two o'clock. The Masons took charge of the services at the grave. Mr. Keen was born in Dallas, Tex as, July 1, 1854, and died at the age of 72 years, four months and 27 days. In Arkansas, he was married to Miss Emily Easterwood, who pre ceded him to the grave, passing away June 27, 1909. They crossed the plains in 1873, settling in Idaho, and com ing to Umatilla county in 1877. For many years they made their home on the farm northwest of Athena On December 11, 1917, Mr. Keen married his second wife, Mrs. Louise Kumm, of San Francisco. Deceased is survived by his widow, and the following children by his first wife; W. H. Keen, Louis Keen and Mrs. Fred Gross, of Athena; C. W. Keen of Pendleton; Mrs. Minnie Mitchell of Pasco, and John Keen of San Diego, Calif orina; One sister, Mrs. Perkins of Freewater, and a half brother, Henry Keen, of Olney, Texas, and also six grandchildren. FATE OF FARM BILL RESTSWITH SOUTH Coalition of Westerners and Southerners Needed to Pass the Bill. Washington, D. C The fate of tha McNary-Haugen farm relief bill lies in the hands of southern senators and . representatives. Managers of the measure admitted that a coalition of westerners and southerners is needed to pass the bill. They asserted that nearly all of tha westerners were for the measure, and in view of the depression in the cot ton market they believed he chances were good for drawing substantial sup port from the south. Already assurances have, been given Senator McNary, representing Oregon, author of the bill, by large rice inter ests, that they favored the measure, and this indorsement was counted up on by sponsors of the bill to influence number of. members of congress. Indorsements also have been received from several farm organizers in the cotton belt. While this support has been com ing from the south, word also has been received that some of the demo crats are shying away from the prin ciple of the bill on the assumption that it would commit them to a high tariff, which they believe needed for successful operation of the proposed relief bill. HE'S A GOOD SHOT Weston Leader: Newt O'Harra fpund hunting good Sunday on the Winn pond northeast of town, where he ran into a big flock of mallards that had come up from the Touchet country with the storm and settled down upon the first water that they Grant county. A couple of years ago j found. All he had to do was to shoot deer came into the door yard at the Beckner place, and dogs put them to flight. into the flock after he had flushed the birds, and ten fell to his scatter gun. Go i?i ' (p. HIGH SCHOOL PLAY AT THE AUDITORIUM THIS EVENING "A Family Mix," Athena high school play, under direction of Miss Mildred Batemar. will be presented at high school auditorium, this even ing, beginning at eight o'clock. Rehearsals have brought out the fact that the play this evening will be. one of the best presented by the school for several years past. "A Family Mix," is a comedy in three acts and the cast has been coached to present it cleverly. The cast of characters is as follows Ethel, Bob's sweetheart Edna DeFreec Sally, the maid and Jobson's wife Belle. Anderson Miss Campson, an old maid LaVone Pittman Louisiana Johnson, a colored lady Lucille Smit Robert Brown, the hero and center of "the Mix' Dorsey Kretzor Deacon Smith, administrator of tlj estate of Bob's Aunt Granville Cannon Jobson, the hired man..Cilfford Wood James, the chauffeur John Kirk MYSTERIOUS QUESTION IS ANSWERED FOR DEC. 16TH In answer to the mysterious ques tion mark followed by the date De cember 16th that has been seen about Athena for the past two weeks The Etude club wishes to announce an evening entertainment to be given on the above date at the Athena high school auditorium. The programs given at the regular club meetings are always worthy o public presentation, and in response to numerous requests the club win appear in a program drawn largely from the year book of 1926. The first part of the program will consist of semi classical numbers bv the club chorus, solos, trios an duets both vocal and instrumental This will be followed by stunts and ekits which will tickle the risibles of the most solemn. This entertainment will not re place the annual operetta which will be presented after the holidays Popular pi kes of 25 and 35 cents will prevail as the club prides itself upon being a community affair and one of its aims is to stimulate interest music. MEXICAN Gil LAWS ACCEPTED BY BRITISH Washington, D. C Acceptance by all the British oil interests in Mexico of the provisions of that country's pe- troleum laws, which have been the subject of extended diplomatic cor respondence between Mexico and the . United States, was announced in tele- grams received and made public by the Mexican embassy'. The telegrams also said that "La Corona," an important Dutch com pany, as well as "aomo American and other corporations," already hud com plfud with the requirements of the oil laws in the same form as the British. interests. State department officials, declining to comment on the embassy's an nouncement, preferred to let the re cent notes made public by Secretary Kellogg speak for themselves. Regarding this particular phase of the diplomatic negotiations, tha American government in its note of July 31 declared Mexico claimed the right to convert unqualified ownership Into terms of years by the simple de vice of requiring the existing titles to bo exchanged for concessions of lim ited duration. RAIL CONFERENCE DUE Joint Use of Klamath Falls Line to Be Discussed. St. Paul, Minn. Proposed use of Southern Pacific tracks by the Great Northern and Northern Pacific rail ways Into Klamath Falls, Or., will be discussed at a conference of rail offi cials in Chicago, December 10. The conference will be attended by William Sproule,. president of the Southern Pacific; Ralph Budd, presi dent of the Great Northern, and Chas. Donnelly, president of the Northern Pacific, it was annouicod here. Involved is the question whether tho Great Northern and Northern Pacific may contract for use of the Southern Pacific tracks from Paulina, Or., into Klamath Falls or build their own line as an extension of the Orenon Trunk. MOTHER WHITMAN STUDENT Mrs. Blanche Myers of Portland who vas found strangled to death in a small room of her home there Monday night, was the mother of Robert Myers, a student of Whitman college. College Building Fund Is Favored. Spokane, Wash. Inductions that sufficient funds to complete tli a unfin ished building program at Washing ton State college will ha asked of tho next legislature by Gove: nor Hartley was given here by A. H. Gardner, stato director of jff i-tf?n-y. Wlih Governor Hartley and Ohif L. Olson, stato di rector of business control, Mr. Gard ner stopped here after having rtpput a day at Pullman In conference with the state college hoard of regents up on Iho budget. Nine Lose Lives When Tug Explodei Anacortes, Wash.---Nine lives wa the toll of a new tragedy ot t ho sea which ociuiied when the steam tay Bahaua as wrecked while towing n log rnft between Anacortes and Dolt Ingham. Tho cruit was sunk by a tec yifin holier pou',.hi.