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Newspaper Page TextA BIG JOB. BUT ITS DEAD EASY It would be a biff job to tell one hundred people any thing that would interest them in your goods, but its dead easy if done the right way; This paper will tell several hundred at once at nominal cost. life NOT ONE DAY CAN BE FOUND in the week but that you do not need stationery of some sort or other. We furnish neat, clean printing at the very lowest rates. Fast presses, modern types, modern work, prompt delivery. 41 Entered at the Post Office at Athena, Oregon, as 8econd-Clasa Mail Matter VOLUME 48. ATHENA, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 8. 1927 NUMBER 27 Byrd Forced Down : On French Coast Dense Fog, Prevents Land- i ing the "America" in Paris. , Paris. Battered by storm and en veloped in endless, blinding fog, with compass out xf order and out of gaso line, the giant trans-Atlantic mono plane of Commander Richard B. Byrd dropped like a wounded gull into the sea at Ver-Sur-Mer on the coast of Normandy 175 miles west of its trans oceanic goal. Not until virtually the last drop of gasoline was gone did the American argosy give up its determined grop ing in the impenetrable' fog for the landing field at Le Bourget. After more than 40 hours in the air, the end of the heart-breaking suspense came, The great plane, which had leaped with such power from the runway at Roosevelt field, struck violently in shallow water, tore the wheels from the fuselage, plunged out 200 yards off the beach, and then sank to the top of its wings in the booming surf. It was then that Commander Byrd's painstaking foresight came into play, and the rubber life raft that he had been so careful to test before hopping off proved its Bervice. Clinging to their now helpless ship, the four American airmen succeeded in launching their raft, and, manning it, rowed quickly to shore. AIRMEN RECEIVE GREAT OVATION Paris. Commander Richard E. Byrd and his three companions on the trans Atlantic flight of the giant monoplane America, when they arrived in Paris, received a tremendous ovation from a huge crowd that filled the St. Lazare railroad station. The great crowd filled the station almost to the bursting point and over flowed into every nearby street. So dense was the throng that Com mander Byrd and his- companions, af ter a short reception upon their ar rival on the station platform, had to fight their way to waiting automobiles while the crowd cheered wildly and threw flowers in their path. The tremendous enthusiasm was not confined to Paris, and every station along the line from Caen, where the American aviators went from Ver-Sur-Mer, was jammed with people when the train passed. NATIONAL EDUCATORS MEET Dr. Suzzallo Outlines Ideas at Opening Session in Seattle. - Seattle, Wash. The 10,000 delegates and visitors attending the 65th annual rnnTAnHfln if iha Katnna TiMiiratirtn association here heard themselves re ferred to as the "master workmen," upon whose efforts depended the fu ture of democracy in America, and also were exhorted to declare the in dependence of education from politi cal control. , , ' In his presidential address, Dr. Francis G. Blair of Springfield, 111., speaking on "The American Melting Pot," declared the American school system was the "very pit" of the melt ing pot, and the school playground was the "greatest kindergarten of democracy ever conceived." Dr. Henry Suzzallo, ex-president of the University of Washington, called upon the educators to oppose' the movement toward centralization of .control in education. He urged that active direction of educational matters be left to the educational profession, much as engineering matters are left to engineers, and health problems left to doctors of medicine. Marion Hansell Presented Silver Mounted Spurs On Thursday evening of last week, Omer Stephens and other Athena friends tendered Marion Hansell a reception in honor of his victory in the Northwest trapshoot contest at Portland, when he won the Dayton and Multnomah medal trophies. A splendid dinner was served at the Stephens home to twenty-two guests of the evening. Henry Collins of Pendleton officiated as toastmast er, and E. C, Rogers, in a few well- chosen words on behalf of the as sembled banqueters, presented Mr Hansell with a pah of beautiful sil ver-mounted spurs as ' a token of their esteem. Short talks were made by all pres ent in a sort of informal round-the table fashion, - sociability being the key note of a splendid -evening of pleasure.- Those present were. From . Pendleton Henry Collins, Finis Kirkpatrick, Guy Matlock, Dr. Hanavan, Mark Berthel, Dick Rice and Philo Rounds. , ji ," From ; Athena Marion , Hansell, Omer Stephens, Dr, - Cowan, Fred Boyd, Bill Littlejohn, Chance Rogers, Bert Ramsey, "Ish" Watts", Art Doug las, Marvel Watts, - Alex Mclntyre, Bert Richards, Rich Thompson, Fay LeGrow, Glenn Dudley. East's Attention Is Drawn To McNary Editorial Speculation, Ore gon Senator for Office of Vice-President. Historic Jackson County beat Has Passed Out With the closing of Oregon's su per-criminal trial, when the DeAutre monts were sentenced to serve their natural lifetime in the penitentiary, the historic old county seat of Jack son county, at Jacksonville, passed out of existence and the scat of county government has been trans ferred to Medford. Sunday-morning two of the officials started- moving to their temporary quarters in the armory in Medford, pending the completion of the new city hall courthouse building. The court" last week issued an order di recting all county officials to move to this city "by July 1 or as soon thereafter as possible." ' The passing of one of the three first seats of government in Oregon will be without legal dramatics, but near pathos, despite the outward air of the common place. Private and county trucks stripped the court house of its glories, acting under rush orders. Annual Grain Grower's Tour Monday July 11 The annual Grain Grower's tour will he held Monday July 11th. " This event will open at 1:30 at the Uma tilla County Grain Nursery, located a mile north of the Pendleton-Walla Walla highway on the Helix road on the A..B. Rothrock place. Professor G. R. Hyslop head of the O. A. C. farm crops department and B. E. Stevens superintendent of the Moro Experiment - station will be present, and every grain grower in the county should hear what they will say. There is a fertilized plot in the nur sery that is well worth seeing. Fol lowing the nursery inspection there will be a short tour to see a five acre fertilized field of spring grain and land cropped last year. At an other field will be shown the result of different planting .dates of Fed eration, showing a difference of eight or ten bushels. Stops will be made-at other places of interest. The Washington Bureau of The Portland Journal says: Under the caption "McNary for vice president," the Western Star in an editorial Tuesday . speculates irf a favorable vein on the talk pf the Oregon sen ator for second man on the Republi can ticket next year. , It points out that McNary would balance the ticket in more than the geographical sense, because of his connection with farm relief legisla tion, if he and President Coolidgs can agree upon a measure, "new or slightly different" from the one that was vetoed. The editorial is based on the suggestion of Senator George H. Moses of New Hampshire, in a ro cent interview, that Oregon may furnish the next nominee for vice president. It proceeds: "McNary is chairman of the sen ate committee on agriculture. He has courage and ability to get things done. In the 10 years he has served in the United States senate he has played important roles in the drama of legislation. In his own state he is strong politically and personally. the leader of his party. During the recess of congress Senator McNary has been at work on a new farm re lief bill, which it is hoped mav re ceive the support both of the corn and wheat belts and of the president. "There have been rumors in the past that Senator McNary was flirt ing with a suggestion that he run as vice presidential nominee with Former Governor Frank O. Lowden of Illinois, another friend of the farmer, at the head of the ticket. But from Oregon comes the report that Senator Moses looks to the Pacific Coast state to furnish the nominee for vice president and almost in the same breath Senator Moses declares his belief that President Coolidge can have the nomination for president if he wants it. "Possibly Senator Moses still has in the back of his mind some thought that Coolidge will in the end decline renomination, and then McNarv might be the tail of some other P.e- pubhcan's kite, Lowden or Hughes or Hoover. But the implication is that the Oregon senator might well be the running mate of President Coolidge in 1928. "Selection of Senator McNarv would be a recoenition of the far west which has not hitherto been ac corded by the Republican party, furthermore, the nomination of Mc Nary would 'balance' the republican ticket in something more than treoer- raphy. The Oregon senator's name has been linked more closely with farm relief, the kind of farm relief that the ' corn and wheat farmer have demanded, than has that of any other man in congress, with the pos sible exception of Representative Haugen of Iowa. Great Northern Construction Begins. Bend. Construction of the Great Northern's railroad from Bend to Che mault, connecting the Oregon Trunk With the Southern Pacific, will start immediately, Ralph Budd, president of the Great Northern, announced when ha arrived in Bend heading a party cf railroad officials. 7000 Churches Looted by Gang. Cincinnati, O. Curing the last 27 years bis gang committed 15,000 rob beries in 7000 churches in the United States and Canada, to obtain loot total ing $51,000, Ray iiarsJea, arrested re cently in Upper Sandusky, O., con fessed to detectlra here. Funeral of John Ridenour Funeral services for John Ride nour, who died at Sheridan, Montana, Thursday ot last week were held at Memorial Hall in Weston, Sunday af ternoon at 2 o'clock under auspices of the KnighU of Pythias of which order the deceased was a member. Mr." Ridenour died of typhoid fever after a severe illness of a few days. Mrs. F. B. Boyd, his sister, left Wed nesday of last week for his bedside, but he passed away while she was en route. - Jail Prisoner Suicides "James C. Downing came to his death by taking poison the first day of July between one and three 4. m., in the county jail at Pendleton with suicidal intent," reads the verdict re turned by a coroner's jury which met in Hermiston Saturday afternoon to probe the circumstances surrounding Downing's death after his widow had declared that she did not believe his death was due to "acute alcoholic poisoning" as announced by county authorities. The Bend Link to Klamath' Railway Is to be Rushed 1 The general contract for the con struction work on the remaining 43 mile stretch of railway needed to tie Bend to Klamath' Falls has been awarded to the Hauser Brothers Con struction company and work will go ahead as soon as practicable, accord ing to announcement by Ralph Budd, president of the Great Northern rail way to the Portland Telegram. This was Budd's answer to the be lief entertained in, some quarters that major operations 'on the. work might be held up pending approval by the interstate commerce commission of the various trackage arrangements which the Great Northern has made for the extension of it- operations from Spokane and Portland to Klam ath Falls. , "The only question before the com mission affecting this construction," said Budd, "is whether the Oregon Trunk shall build it for the account of the Great Northern, as previously suggested by the commission, or whether the Great Northern will as sume the construction in its own name." "This question has no bearing on the actual construction pf the line. We are going right ahead with this work and expect to have it completed this season." Actual signing of the general con tract with Hauser will be deferred until after the interstate ' commerce commission has passed upon the Great Northern's request to assume the contract directly, it was pointed out, but this is not expected to de lay the work. The 45 miles of road will cost about $1,750,000, it is believed. Mr. and Mrs. H. IT. Hill mntnro i '"u.un, j wvy Heppner one day this week. Beginning to Harvest in Light Soil District A few machines in the light soil district north of Athena have com menced harvest operations. One is being operated by . Ralph McEwen, who has 800 acres to harvest. While no definite reports have been receiv ed at this office, it is expected by the ranchers of that district that the wheat crop there this season will turn out 30 to 35 bushels per acre. Ideal weather conditions prevailed this' spring to insure a good crop on light soil lands. Winter moisture was conserved by spring rains, and absence of drouth and hot winds dur ing maturity stages, made ideal con ditions for wheat growing. Farmers are finishing haying. Ma chinery has been repaired and tuned up and everything is in readiness for harvesting the 1927 grain crop. Endurance Driver Elmer Steele, attempting to break the world's endurance record for con tinuous driving by driving for 144 hours, is holding up well. The test will end .today at noon at the E. R. Schiller garage Pendleton where he will be released from his shackles by Tom Gurdane, chief of police. . Fire Destroys Barn The barn on the Caton place south of Athena burned Tuesday from an unknown cause. It was filled with hay. The place has been farmed by James Duncan, though the buildings had not been occupied for some time. Say Livestock Raiser Discriminated Against Conditions Laid Before an Interstate Commerce Hearing. Charges that livestock raisers of the northwest are discriminated against, as compared with other sec tions of the United States, and that discriminations are also- made against different sections of the northwest were laid before examiners Stiles and Parker of t!.3 Interstate Com merce Commission at a hearing held at Portland, Tuesday. ', . The hearing was conducted for the purpose of obtaining data on which to reconstruct the entire livestock freight rate structure, the commis sion recognizing that many apparent improprieties and inconsistencies ex ist in the present schedules. Sitting with the examiners at the hearing was John W. Raisch, commissioner representing the public service com mission of Oregon. Testimony has already been taken at Salt Lake City, and following the Portland hearing, the examiners will go to Los Angeles. Arthur Caery, attorney represent ing several northwest livestock as sociations, took the lead in present ing the views of the livestock indus try. Eight other attorneys were present representing various live stock organizations, while the rail ways of the northwest were represen ted by a dozen or more lawyers. In explaining the case which the livestock industry of the northwest expects to sustain with testimony of this hearing, Ce'ary contrasted the treatment of the industry of the northwest by the roads in that sec tion. "In the southeast the railways do everything possible to nurse the im periled livestock industry along, while in the northwest the roads are try ing to levy every possible transporta tion tax on the industry," he declared. University Orchestra Dance The University of Oregon orchestra will arrive in Athena Sunday, and Monday night at Legion Hall, the or chestra will give a dance. The or chestra which is one of the best musical organizations in the state, is making a summer tour, through in tercession of Roland (Scotty) Kret zer, were prevailed on to include Athena in the itinerary. Lovers 4of gooa dance music are assured that they are in for a most enjoyable evening, Monday at Legion Hall. The orchestra will make its first appear ance at the Standard Theatre, Sunday night, where it will be featured on the program. Hadley at Berkeley O. C. Hadley has registered at Berkeley for the summer session, and with Mrs. Hadley and son Roland, is residing at 2306 Haste street, Berk eley. Mr. Hadley writes that what he has seen of California, lacks a lot of coming up to Oregon, lie has met Sabin Rich, former Wa-Hi coach, and Everest, Weston coach on the camp. US. Presidents Summer Church and Young Pastor J ' ! - Jfl1'''1'ff'Tln-lrwfTlllllrlll .mvt"ml m mi mmm mix.. i..'iiwwHiMi)jmi'i"iiii.mi' 1 fen - 1 Vn c Vlj M. -'i , -sH 1 v, iri 1 ' 1 ' -,r! ill 'A 1 This 13 Utile Congregam;ii ttiur-.Ii ot Iktuxi ', 8. v.iiere I'nwJdent Coolidge r.w.s!iljs daring liis vaca tion, and at the left I llalph Lium, twenty-) ear-dd fctu-i.-nt in Carletou collide, Nortlifield, Minn., who Is servins us its pastor. - .-' -.:.'-.. Lindbergh, Lone Eagle May Come to Portland Charles A. Lindbergh, the lone eagle, wants to visit Portland. He told Lieutenant Oakley G. Kelly so, but couldn't make any promises, says the Telegram. "I had a long chat with Lindbergh," explained Kelly, "and invited him to make us a visit. The Pulitzer inter national airplane races will be held in Spokane in September, and Lind bergh expects to attend, So I urg ed him to come on to Portland,, I would like to visit you awfully well,' the colonel said, 'but I just can't make any promises. I'm al most sunk with invitations now, and I'm in the hands of the public for a while. But I'll come if I can.'" So if the trans-Atlantic hopper gets out to Spokane this fall, it's dollars to doughnuts that he'll swoop down to Portland to see our famous posies. Kelly is still overcome by the great receptions he saw in , Washington, New York and St. Louis.- He flew with the Lindbergh escort in ali these cities, and he is overcome with enthusiasm when he Btarts to sound off about his trip. "Never saw anything like it guess I never will again," he declar ed. "And as for Lindbergh, he is a mighty fine lad. He certainly has handled himself very well in all the pow-wowing that has been goin on over him." Indians Are Celebrating On the Umatilla River Feasting, dancing, horse racing and discussion of tribal affairs are on the program for the gathering of the Umatilla, Walla Walla and Cayuse Indian tribes encamped at Cayusa this week. Several hundred Indian families are included in the camp, and a large number of tepees have been erected along the banks of the Umatilla riv er. One large circular tepee is re served as the council chamber for the aged Indian chieftains, where mat ters of tribal interest will be discus sed and plans for the coming year formulated at the pow-wows. Members of Chief Peo post, No. 61, of the American Legion, the only all Indian post in the country, have con structed a dance pavilion where a modern jazz orchestra is holding saw in addition to the Indian dances being carried out in the encampment. The modern dances are very popular with the younger generation. A number of whites motor to the camp daily to see the Indian activities. To Reduce Auto License The first step in a move to initiate a measure providing for reduced li cense fees on motor vehicles was made when H. H. Stallard and George Bylander, Portland, filed with Secre tary of State Kozer an application for a ballot title for such a measure, The proposal of Stallard and Byland er, as set out in their letter to Kozer, is to establish a flat license fee of $3 a year for, all motor vehicles, in cluding automobiles, trucks, motor cycles, etc. Weston Cleaned Up One passing through Weston at the present time sees but litiio ef fects of the flood of two weeks ago. The good people there dug out find cleaned up the mud and silt which the turgid waters deposited on their streets and lawns and in thdir cel lars and homes. Aid offered them was courteously refused, they elect ing to courageously stand their in dividual losses. Earwigs at Echo J. Frank Spinning found a number of earwigs on his rose bushes and has specimens of the pest on exhibi tion at the drug store says the Echo News. Portland has been fighting this destructive pest for several years but this is the first time they have been found here. The earwigs eat all the foliage from the plants they attack and also destroy a lawn. They are said to be equally destructive to clothing if they get into a house. John Lcroux John Leroux, 61, who came to Walla Walla in the '70s, died after a short illness Friday. He waa born at Montreal Octobar 15, 1S62, and when he finished echool came to Wal. la Walla, working in a bakery. Later he and hi brother started a black smith shop, running it tor 10 year. He then farmed 13 years and f jr 10 years operated a shop in Umapine, He retired teVerai year? jtgo, Greatest Treasury Surplus in History Much of Excess to be Spent Before Next Congress , Convenes. Vasnington, D. C. The treasury surplus for the fiscal year which end ed June 30, was 635,809,921.70, the greatest In history, . Total ordinary receipts for th year were $4,129,394,441.10, and the cost ot operating the government chargeable against such receipts was $3,493,584, 619.40. v This particular surplus will have been dissipated, however, before con gress meets to draft a new tax bill, and any reduction must be based on estimates ot the surplus for the cur rent year. Of the total excess, $611,000,000 al ready has been applied to retirement of the publio debt, the treasury an nounced. Part of the remaining $24, 000,800 has been carried over as an increase in the net balance in the gon eral fund, and will be used for debt reirement purposes. "More than one-half of the surplus of $635,000,000 is due to receipts on account ot disposal of capital assets, back tax collections in excess of tax refunds and other items of a fast dis appearing or non-recurring character," Acting Secretary Mills said. "It will be apparent, therefore, that without these special and non-recurring items which aggregate $370,000,000, the sur plus would have been about $265,000, 000, of which a considerable part is to be attributed to decrease in expendi tures, some of which represent a post ponement rather than actual savings." Total ordinary receipts showed an Increase over the preceding year ot $167,000,000. The principal items of increase were customs receipts, $26, 000,000 Internal revenue receipts, $32, 000,000 foreign repayments, $11,000,- 000; on account of railroads, $5J,000, 000; from federal farm loan bonds and other securities, $29,000,000 and mis cellaneous receipts. Income tax receipts aggregate $2, 225,000,000, compared with $1,982,000, 000 in 1926 and as against treasury estimate of $2,190,000,000. EXPERTS PREDICT HUGE WHEAT CROP Walla Walla, Wash. The largest wheat crop In many years Is predicted by grain men here. Carl Roe, district manager of the Kerr, Oifford Grain company, estimates that 5,000,000 bushels will be harvested in this county, 6,000,000 in Umatilla, 2,000,000 each in Oarfleld and Columbia, and 1, 000,000 in Franklin. Turnover in farm machinery Indi cates exceptional activity not dupli cated since the war buying. Sales run uniformly through Walla Walla, Hay tun and Columbia counties, I'omroy dalors reporting 35 combine har vesters and 25 binding machines sold, with harrows and plows. Sale price ol combines averages $3000. Starbuck and Fields, northeast, in dicate from 40 to 50 bushels to tha acre in many places. This total of 16,000,000 bushels for this section will be greater than an; In 10 years, say grain men. Hawaii Needs Famous Plane. Washington, D. C. Lieutenants Multland and Hegenberger will not fly back to the United States, and the plane with which they reach Hawaii will be left there for inter-Island fly ing, the war department decided. Robbers Raid Woodland Postofficc. Longview, Wash. Robbers who broke Into the Woodland, Wash., poxt offlce, escaped with $600 stamps and $15 cash. Bay Cities Welcome Aviators. San Francisco. San Francinco and Oakland are preparing an claboraU w leoiiie for Lieutenants Maitland and llegcnberger, pilots of the big armj Fokker monoplane on the virgin voy age to Hawaii. The filers will return to San Francisco bay July 12. Saplro Suit Retrial Set for Septembei Detroit, Mich.-Federal Judga Free M. Raymond set September 12 as t tentative date for the re-trial of Aaron Suiii'ts JI.Ouu.nou libel suit- against Uvurv Fori and the Deacbora Jad'j pend.ni. ,.: