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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
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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.
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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.