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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.
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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. ,.: