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About The Athena press. (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 26, 1927)
A BTG JOB, BUT ITS DEAD EASY It would bo a big 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. 41 - NOT ONE DAY CAN RE rnnvm Entered at the Post Office at Athena, Oregon, as Second-Class Mail Matter VOLUME 48. ATHENA, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 26, 1927 Seven Persons Lost In Hawaiian Flight A Freak Storm Sets Fields Afire Strips Shade Trees A freak electrical storm with lit tle rain, vivid flashes of lightning Not a Single Trace Found nd higl? ; d v!loci ; didTfminr of the Missing Pacific Fliers. la county Monday evening, In the west end of the county, lightning set fire to stubble in the fields and to grass on grazing lands, Two buildings in Pendleton were fired by lightning bolts, and 80 acres of stubble was burned at the Ralph Tachella farm east of that town Farm buildings were 'saved from a fire started by lightning near Echo, when 50 men turned out to fight the flames. At Echo the home of Tony Cunha was saved from a grass fire, and other fires started in the vicinity of the Echo Rod and Gun club house. Survey of damage , done in the Walla Walla valley indicated that Milton suffered the most. A small cyclone' struck that city, uprooting shade trees tearing up concrete sidewalks. ' blowine down light and telephone poles and doing much damage. Packing houses work ing night shifts were forced to Sus pend for a time because of the se verity of the electrical storm. At Preparations Under Way to Open School High School Students Wil Confer With Superin- tendent. " Athena High School and Athena Grade "Schools will open for the year's work Tuesday, September 6, Monday September 6 being Labor Day.' The usual preparations for school opening are under way and plans for a successful year's work are being perfected. ' With this end in view and on ac count of change in the curriculum of the high school, and in order to fa cilitate the work of opening school, all boys and girls who expect to at tend high school are requested to call at the office of the superintendent sometime Wednesday or Thursday, August 31 and September 1. and make arrangements for the' course they expect to follow during the en suing year. In a letter to the Press, Superiu- San Francisco, Cal The vast Pa cific ocean continues to hold fast the fate of the seven persons who dared to fly over its thousands of milea of landless water from the shores of California to the islands of Hawaii. No trace has been found of Pilot Jack Frost and Navigator Gordon Scott of Los Angeles, of the Golden Eagle, nor of Miss Mildred Doran, the beautiful young school teacher who bravely shared the dangers of John Auggy Pedlar and Lieutenant Knope, who piloted and navigated the plane named in her honor, since their planes roared away frorn the crowded Oak land airport to win glory and the prizes offered by James D. Dole. Several days have gone by since Captain William P. Erwin of Dallas, Tex., and Alvin H. Eichwalt of Ala meda, Cal., flew out to sea to search the waves along the whole route to Honolulu for traces of those who had preceded them. - From their plane, the Dallas Spirit, they radioed the gay messages to friends and the Jests of men going light-heartedly to great ad venture. And then through the 600 miles of air came their S. O. S. piercing the" night that overspread the ocean: "We went into a tail spin S. O. S. We came out Pt it, but were sure geared, It was $ close calj. We thought it was pH pff, but we came nZnt V a . B8 W,TO Uv .ftownnnTfTm ' and the selection of a competent rjtri?" : WM VlJ P fining instructor is having . wmuui see me .... --r ""6 m,a ,,f t;mit; a Wo 0. t .. WAS HKpd tha -tJl i,k....u.oV.e cuucjvih ,u auuiuer . . . B. U. B. . . ' " fvj bumiummt 1,. 0f ft, n ...u i. That k ,. - , " ... before an imnrnvU .If.. A ,B'V vi v"" "f"" IC . u, laol. ucnru irora Jlirwin . .. . """" :u t-roetoH in flio ,,!, V nnrl JiMnWaM -ru. elad olas . ferna ami- f,V.. - I " "'' vvHC ..,.. imj euuns 01 08 " .. ' - "'- them In this dpnnrtmpnt nav.1 oi- w brilliant summer fWo TV P"- ln 11118 ePrlieni r 'coo.ij, omcu or inerciHUit-cmit 1 unuci j:t;i 11 n. . steering a.course along the 2400 mile was farming m a frock of brown here has decided to take advanta irront o t, crene de ohena with . '. . ueciaea 10 taKe aavantagj f'' ,eveai au7 irace or tne three . . 3 w"u wuie a ed in that dist.nVt flnH hiA h I - - WVJ Helix a barn on the farm of Peter tendent Meyer requests that high Weidert was struck by lightning and school students be made aware of considerable hay, feed racks and im- the above arrangement, and for that plements were destroyed. purpose the Superintendent will be The storm passed over Athena in m ms office from 9 a. m. to 3:30 p. vivid flashes of lightning and gists m, on the dates above mentioned. of swirling dust. No rain fell. Also at that time - the enrolling of high school students will take nlace. Miss Kathren FrOOm and a general discussion of the work Bride of Mr. Cooley "'Ih S "3 u " I I. ' xl - A it 1 i Miss Kathren Froom of Athpna ... m ine nB 8cnoois nH T.vman ri .t-ma tms year 18 apparent, ihe resump. ma'at the To,, STbJE " the 8JCh0l.bard mother Mrs T.mr P iij ui 'uui irauung uepanmeni, HENRY C. 5 HEINZ her.:y u. -icinz cf Atlanta, a- was clewed president of Klwania In ternaiionnl for 1927-23 pt thq flosing sesoion of the eleventh annual conven tion of thej prganizatlon In Memphis,, lenn. r.ir, nein? Is pctlyo ps a busi nccs executive and a leader in many cm? enterprises, Bjissipg planes.. WILL PRESENT BASIN PROJEGTTOjCOOLfDGE Spokane, Wash. A conference with President Coolidge at Rapid City, S. p., August 30, has been arranged for a rZTlZ:. r ge circle of friends, nounced bv lv b nm Ji.i ? , She raduated from Athena high thfe I LmmlS?' ft?? k-l and later attended O. A. C, " V ,1 v lH where she rece ved an A. R. degree The conference with th m-DoMM L. . ucKte" i. .hnnnnn.-d M.7-; ??e .BM uht fr 8everal years at letter bom B N T" " Mr. Cooley is also a graduate of lAW TUftnlr J 1 1 p. . "m;,T "7, wked for school bus service to en- w C ' I able the children of No. 11 to attend ...a., nci, iricivme mre oi a. ail tciiuiewn tepa jna pefmony. Following the wedding ices and Bridge. Guard Killed hnla'a inlr. . n u . i , i I f .' 1 a . 1 . ... , u.iuoo .aivc were servea 10 ine imnon caKer or Arlington, ' was guests who included Mrs. Laura struck by a passenger train and in troom, Mrs. Cooley, Mrs. Mildred stantly killed Monday night, while Froom, Mrs. W. S. Ferguson and Mr. j guarding a bridge at the crossing of fete Abercrombie. the John Day river. Baker's bend Mrs. Cooley is most attractive and was decapitated, and found a hund red feet down the track from the body. The train crew was atmarent- ly unaware of the accident. The guard is survived by three children at Arlington, letter from Everett Sanders, Mr, Qool- r.. . DC"cl wnicn Wo.A. C. and is emnlovpd hv an nil . New SchQpI Building Weston's now cnlirJ v.niii;n i m L":i?t2!d5 company. :.t . Portland here he &-n .completed and is now ready for couple will reside following a honey- ?ccePlnce by the school district, moon spent at Long Beach, Wash ington. - ment for the committee on' the Cjr Jurabia basin irrigation league at 9: 9 Tuesilay, August 0.'' V The object of the conference, W, Gill pointed out, is to lay before the president the basic facts and details of the project. The official reports -made of the project, for which funds Boys and Matches Two small boys, Billy McFadden and Jack Miller, with a bunch of k.v. h.nn .ntu.,. . " ie tomDinauon mat ;r, u.l n!ir.esiaeni hissed causing . serious con- r. f : . at tH. rear of 0 he V- McFadden and LeGrow resi- Wr. GUl saii S f C0?f?r?npe' dences, Monday afternoon. The boy, ' set the tall dead grass afire and only ..... . the timely arrival of Charles Mc v.n.i. ukiv ivi-m pniuug I'sriana, iiauae WKenson and one ,,.,. ' ' . . OT two other men- saved a coPle of ...... wwniy 9enaf Mceo 9 garages and a barn from the path of To4l 8pu. the flames. Quick, hard work on y Walla Walla, Wash. The deeds to the part of the men put out the vaua wana county's interest in the grass fire. rasco-Burbank toll bridge have been sent to the state highway department, Injured in Aecident i ranKim county commissioners al Mrs. Delbert Clore met with ready have signed, and the state board serious accident on her way to Pen- u expected to authorize the transfer dleton from Vale Sunday. Her cai ct the property to state bands, aftr was crowded off the highway into wtacn tne bridge will be made a fret the gravel on Cabbage hill causing structure. It was built in 1921 by wheel to be smashed. Mrs. Clore tho two counties which each issued was thrown out of the car and suf bonds for 1115,000. fered severe bruises and was badly Since then each county has received snken up. The other occupants of t.s,ouu tn tons, and Walla Walla coun- tn car, Mrs. Nellie Taylor of Pen ty has retired 515,000 of the bonds, the dleton, Mrs. Clore's father-in-law, remamaer going into the road and and the two children of Mrs. Clore bricge fund. The two counties will were not injured. Mrs. Clore The new building occupies' the site of the old Eastern Oregon normal School building. The Annual Cowboy Dance September 1 As the Round-Up season officially opens Sept., JL, everyone gets that old spirit to make the coming show the greatest in the history of the Pendleton Round-Up. It is neces sary to have a good starter and this already has been planned for the evening of September 1 in the dance hall at Happy Canyon, "This dance will have p seven piece orchestra and additional fea tures that will make it one of the best dances of the season," says E. C. Olaen, in charge of the Round Up dances. "All people look forward to this dance as the start of the buckaroo season and every effort is being made to have it the biggest of the year." Written In Memory of Honored Pioneer Apple Harvest Coming With prune hpr.vgsfc well started, orcnaraigts are now turning atten tion to the apples. Work will get under way in Milton-Freewater or chards about September 1. Fruit washers are now being installed, and everything prepared for the picking and packing. Growers this year will pack smaller apples than last, and C grade will contain apples ns smaH as 1758. ' Forest Fires Rage Forest fires, which were temporar ily quenched by rains of last week, have sprung up with renewed fury. and during the past few dijys have caused much damage to merchant able and growing timber. A pall of smoke almost ohscured the sun in thin part of the county, Monday, James T. Lieuallen Gives Life Sketch of Late Hugh McArthur. As one by one, the dropping by the wayside of that grand and courag eous family of pioneers is now rap' idly erasing forever their presence among us who came after, it" is a source of great pleasure to the a v. erage newsp3;'r to receive biograph ical sketches tf t'-.elr lives. . The following is written in mem ory of the late Hugh McArthur, by his brother-in-law. Mr. James T. Lieuallen, Sr., of Adams, Oregon: To the Editor. "In writing the biography of HukL McArthur's Jife, I will say that I have been well acquainted with him for more than sixty years. I had the pleasure to attend one term of school where lie was teacher when I was a boy of 12 years. Being an oldtimer myself and feeling it to be my duty to give some of the reminiscences of the early and late life of Hugh Mc Arthur, I will say that he was a father and brother to me.- "He was a typical highland Scotch man, was fond of good books and en- oyed the bagpipe music very much. He was born in Glasgow, Scotland, October 14, 1840; moved from Scot land to Canada with his parents in 184; came to the United States and from New York around Cape Horn to San Francisco, in 1862. In the spring of 1864 he came to Umatilla county, Oregon. Twq yeani were spent by him in ha mining camps of uregon, wasnmgtqn, Idaho and Mon tpna. 'Jn loa he engaged in a general merchandising in partnership withT t. Lieuallen, at Weston, a small trad ing point at that time. , In 1870 he was united in marriage to Miss . Aman. aa J. Lieuallen, who crossed the plains with an ox team in 1863, witfi her late parents, Josiah and Johanna ieuaiien, wno were pioneers of Uma tilia county. He taugh school'in the eany aays o,f this county in the old log gchQoJ house, better known to the old pioneers as the Rawhide school house. in the early part of his life he and his wife lived in Weston, Athe na and Pendleton. In about 1902 ho and his wife moved to Portland, Ore gon, where he erected a beautiful three story residence at 581 E. An keny street, where he died August 15, 1927, at 8:35 at the age of 86 years, ten months and 1 day. "It is well and fitting at this tjme t Pen.Vqn. soma of the kind, pets, at tributed, tQ him through his life! To the young men and young women of this county I will state that we should honor the old pioneers, who stood the hardships in the early days ana maae it possible to develop and to christianize and civilize the beau Unnoticed Reform Now Taking Place On Oregon Highways The State Motor Association points oat . that almost unnoticed a reform is taking place in the elimination of billboards and hot-dog stands from Oregon highways. Slowly but . surely the Highway Department is acquiring land along the right-of-way bordering on scenic and historical- sections. This auto matically eliminates , the hot-dog stand and the billboard, two of tho greatest detractors from the beauties of the state. The highway commission has gone about the acquiring of these prop erties quietly and unobtrusively and while others have complained ,of the nuisance along the highways, the Commission has sought to correct the eviil by acquiring the property rights in scenic sections. Every motorist in the State of Oregon approves of this action of the Commission posterity the same beauties of nature that the present day motorist enjoys. NUMBER 34 Coolidge Wants More Submarines President Will Recommend Authorization for Ad ditional Cruisers. Jap Scott, Pioneer of ,. . Walla Walla, Dead Rapid City, S. LWresident Cool, idge will recommend authorization for additional cruisers and submarines at, the December session of congress, it was announced at the summer White .House r It was made clear that the execu tlve has no plan for a specific number of new surface and undersea ships. He will lay down a general policy and, permit congress to work out the Bolm tion. ' . Mr. Coolidge, however, will not fa vor imnififilnto w "WJJi vWi IttHUIIM HIP I1HW snip construction at thn we does not' believe in the policy whereby congress would authoriza construction of the vessels and then appropriate the money. He wants the authorizations passed at the next session and appropriations made later The Walla Walla Union reports throu8h the budget bureau in the reg. the death of William (Jap) Scott, 85, ular -way. Rumania Buries One Kin j and Enthrones Another divide 1707 non from bfl ststi Warship Plan Thief 4s Held. Philadelphia, Pa. A plot involving the theft of cruiser plans from the naval base at Newport News, Vaand their sale to a foreign power if the navy department refused to pay foH their return, has been brought to a udden end here with the arrest of Svea rXtn Berg. 24 years old, a Danish draftsman formerly employed at the Newccrt News base, t 1 1 -& now at the home of her mother Pendleton. is Bisulphide Treatment -Samuel Pambrun, Alex Mclntyre, Floyd Pinkerton and others are treat ing the wild morning glory patches in their grain fields with bisulphide. The conditions are said to be ideal for the treatment at this time. Holes are bored approximately 18 inches deep in the soil with an electric drill. and the fluid is poured into the holes. I y-" y "fViV- ii i I - - s ., v jar' " fzrrxv.. vi u frt. late Sunday evening at the home of , , reason for thfs Policy, it was his hrnther.in.tnw R n win- ft explained, is that the president dtwn a long illness. He suffered an at- ?0t belleve any emergency exists for tark of th fin aovornl n,r.ntv, oo-o ,mmedlate ship construction, desnita . - . v.ivi.a KV I .1. . , ' and was never able to regain his ""onie of the Geneva dlsarma- strencth. . touierence and the annarenfc He was nnn nf fVio vnlluu'a .orl!. plan of Great Britain to increase fur. . ,..vr . vw- . . - , est citizens, first coming here in 1862 " . B cruiser strength. m 1,10 snme time Mr. Coolldea for his People in the Grande Ronde mad! known hat he 'ntends to recora. valley. As a buckaroo and freighter " , ("sposlUon of the American he was familiar with the entire ""r.81" niarme to private interests northwest in the early days. ' "'"eaiaieiy. He does not believe ia a gnip on the Beas operated Potatoes Certified Dy the federal government which is It has taken longer this season to not Perttted at a loss of revenue. The certify the. Weston Mountain potato government merchant marine was c6n- crop than in former years, due to a Btructed at a cost of S3.500.000.ooo largely increased acreage. Experts and $3,000,000,000 has been loet, he, irom U. A. U.. have iwnnnt.lv InannfK ""MUittlUH. ed the fields ef the mountain district. A la Cli.Ml-n 1, . 1 a . . . . ... nucha;; l . ! ,v eJ. e..,"e,? -".rt r .,ro,.s.l ,he eIres , srandfather. -w. ,,.,.a,Lm lt. ,miv Wicuaei was proclaimed ling to succeed hi." tifyl homes that we now possess. At this time I may refer to another in stance in his life. "He was one of the nine men who owned the first header and thresher in Umatilla county. I will not take time to mention their names, but the only survivor of the nine is Robert Jamison, of Walla. Walla. "He had the respect and was hon ored by all men who did business with him. He was a good financier, loaned money of his own and that of other people: was never known to sue a man or cause him any trouble. I may quote from the late Robert Coppock, who said to me, that he was one of the best men to borrow money from in Umatilla county. To my certain knowledge in the panic of 1833 when his money was loaned to the farmers, they were willing to surrender all of their holdings to him for their debt and begged him to accept the land as payment. He gave them encouragement by dropping the interest on the principal, furn- shing them seed wheat and paying the taxes on the land until such times as they could pay the princi pal. He was a great philanthropist in many ways, not letting the rirrht hand know what the left one did. He was generous In his donations to churches and other benevolent so clties, and more particularly was proud to help the baby home in Portland. "During Mr. McArthur's long ill ness he had the careful and undivid ed care and attention of his devoted ife, and more to this care in par ticular, than anything else was the life of this good man Droloncod. By his request his funeral way preached in the little Baptist church at Athena. Rev. Bollintrer. nf th Baptist church of Athena, preached the sermon, which was taken from Hebrews, 12th Chapter, verses 11 to 15. The choir of the church furn ished the music, including a beauti ful solo sung by Rev. Carl McCon- nell, a nephew by marriage. The floral offerings were beautiful, com ing from friends in Multnomah and Umatilla counties. The pall bearers were six nephews of his, two sons of George W. Lieuallen, of Athena, Ore gon, two sons of J. T. Lieuallen, of Adams, Oregon; Edgar Leonard, of Waitaburg, Washington and Ray mond Banister, of Weston, Oregon. l here were In attendance the immedi- ate relatives of his wife and himself numbering from 75 to 100, including one of his own nephews, Scott Mc Arthur, of San Frppiisco, ua .,, buried in the Masonic cemetery In Athena, Oregon.'' SAGCO AND VANZETTf EXECUTEDIN B0ST0N Boston. Sacco and Vanzettl lost every move they made to save their lives by court action. Everywhere their attorneys turned in their frantio efforts to keep the two anarchists out of the death chair they ran up against legal walls. Tuesday morn- ing they paid the penalty of death exacted by the state for murder. Both Sacco and Vanzettl made brief speeches in the death chamber before they took their seats in tha chair, Vanzettl protesting his inno cence to the last. The crime for which the men wero sentenced to dio was a double mur. dor. On the morning nf Ann m 1920. Frederick A. Parmenter, pay master, and Alexander Berardelll, his guurd, arrived at the fuctory of Slater & Morrill company, South Braintreo, near Boston, to puy off employes. They carried $15,770 in satchels. As thoy were about to enter the factorv door, two men approached and fired upon them. Both fell mnHaii wounded. Tho two robbers crabbed tha satchels. An automobile, uhirh hwi bcon waiting nearby, sped up to tlia curb. The satchels were thrown In and the robbers clambered Into the car, which was driven off at high speed. LYLE CALLED TO CAPITAL Northwest Dry Director Wanted In Washington At Once. Washington, D. C Roy Lyle,, pro hibition director for the Pacific north .west, baa been "strongly urged" to come to Washington at once for a conference with his superiors ln spite of his personal reluctance to leave Seattle this week. In reply to a telegram sent him last week by Dr. J. M. Doran, com inisaloncr of prohibition, asking that ho come to Washington for a confer ence immediately, Director Lyio was said to have replied that he could not gut away at onco and would prefer to delay his departure for at least a we k. Doran wired back that Lyle's presence here wus Imperative, which, is deemed equivalent to a command that he start east as quickly as possible. AsaiHtant Secretary Lowman and Dr. Doran refused to disclose sped flcally what matters would be dls cussed with Director Lyle. But they indicated thvt somo fault is found with conditions In the Pacific northwest.