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A BTG JOB. BUT ITS DEAD EASY , It would be 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. ' NOT ONE DAY CAN BE FOUND in the week but that you do not need stationery of some sort or other. We furnish neat; cleaTSng nV?yiowert rates- Fast Presses. modern types, modern work, prompt delivery. - ,p ' VOLUME 48. Round Globe Fliers Arrive in Belgrade Brock and Schlee Cross the , Atlantic to London in 23 Hours. t . Entered at the Post Office at Athena, OreKon, a Second-Class Mall Matter ATHENA, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 2, 1927 Belgrade, Jugoslavia. The round . the world monoplane, Pride of Detroit, piloted by William S. Brock and Ed ward!1'.' Schlee landed here Tuesday from Munich, Germany. " An Immense crowd of people, Includ ing the American consul and many prominent Jugoslav officials, greeted the fliers after their perfect landing, - completing the third lap of their world tour. Munich, Germany. William S, Brock and Edward F. Schlee arrived from London at the end of the second leg of their round-the-world flight In the monoplane Pride of Detroit. Schlee and Brock received an ova tion. The crowd gathered around them, lifted them shoulder high and bore them to the Lufthansa building. "We strayed far from our course over Belgium," Brock said. "We flew aimlessly for half an hour and then found our course again.. We lunched well en route on sandwiches.' London. America's round-the-world fliers, Edward F. Schlee and William S. Brock, completed the first -lap of their hazardous adventure the flight Report Made That Deficit In State Funds Is Decreasing . At Salem latest estimates of the state tax department and the state treasurer's office as to the probable deficit at the end of the present biennium have reduced the figure from $1,500,000, the estimate of sev eral months ago, to $931,739.50. A report by Tax Commissioner Earl Fisher to State Treasurer Kay gives all millage tax receipts over which neither the legislature northe state department have control, re ceipts from all other sources, re. quirements of state institutions, un expended balances, revenues needed for general purposes, state tax levies and all estimated requirements loth under and outside the 6 per cent tax limitation. Total state requirements for 1927 and 1928 are established at $21,360,. 228.72, but of this amount $9,237, 489,15 is not directly related to state government, being mainly millagc taxes and continuing appropriations. The sum of $11,010,151.93 was vot ed by the people. Requirements of "state and state aided institutions for the biennium are estimated at $9,877,284.48, and department and general expenses of state government $2,245,455.09. Valuable Market Hews For Farmers NUMBER 35 Host of Information Now, Given by Uncle Sam's Market News. "Rookies" at the Local Theatre Wednesday Next Well folks, "Rookies" .will be at the Standard Theatre next Wednes, across the Atlantic expanse from Har- day evening to open the mid-week bor Grace. N. F., to Croydon, England, 1 special program series for the fall London's airport in 23 hours, 21 min- months. "Rookies" is said to bo the utes, and won the dis'tinction of being Dest ft long list of War comedies first to make a non-stop flight from that have made their appearnce on American to London. . the screen this season. It's a big Although they landed at the Croy- show with Karl Dane, George K. don field in brilliant sunshine and Arthur and Marceline Day leading in only about 20 minutes behind their a11 tne smashups of the play. AJso schedule the hop was not without Its Harold Lloyd returns in one of his perils, for during Saturday night, when most amusing two reel comedies, some hundreds of miles offUhe Irish "Bumping Into Broadway." coast, they ran into a hurricane that Tomorrow night, First National kept them on the alert for four or five sends Milton Sills to the Standard in hours. one of its best pictures of the screen. "Framed." Natalie Kingston, a new star, divides the lead with Sills hi this mighty story of the jungle and diamond fields. tsunday night will be all-star night at the Standard, when Belle RpnnAtt Tlon T.rin - T a!h Pnvlo AmI t-i ....... -t "-.un.", 1"C"V-Clu c6iuu uiuciais .TomM vw,nA T ..,n cu D v BUZelI Robert T Reckless LEGION MEN COUNTER RED PROPAGANDA Lady." THE PARIS SPECIAL LEA YES PENDLETON TOMORROW electrocution by a formal visit to the Tomb ot the Unknown Soldier, where wreaths were placed on behalf ol American veterans.. Evory effort has been made by ex- tevna J 1 j, . . . .w.. icunaio una uuouiums to tatce rha ia0 rw r . , advantage ot the widespread feeling TZTSi Arml9ll In CV,.n. k. .1. "S'""""'' W '" :::,JTa"am tk seaboard, will leave Fort- 0f p; 6? ,and at 9 Saturday momig fcnn smw. .u 11 T TB' -W trough Pendleton on sched U.U1C, VIU uu.re wa8 im. , ... , . . . ... TT . niPflintB nnn.,W ,ofi t-tlt. -" - 14L M union "7 a6.,u,, p,ciw Portland Limited Ne. 18. r The delegation -win . unuuuu ouicers 01 ms moot tji4 ...u ,rZ::":r.rx delegations will entrain from am, rZ lue Twenty-seven of the 37 repre, luo MlK w inompne. senf.tivA f th Ti- tii.- Riots In rhprl,nrr ... -,.. n . " . ! B, ou uw w t Paris nrill etl f l l MmmnnM. j . iiuniie. " iuiubu away irom r t. Mr-jj . the TTnitPd Sf.t-M ,,ot w , . -."""uucu vl ""'ena, one 01 fircmsn and ao.dw, fStZJ . cI' .?10n delegates, accompanied by co-VanZett. nrntt , " " : cFadden and her father, John Banister of Weston, will board the Legion special at Pendleton, torn or- row evening, co-Vanzettl protest meeting. MOOSE WILL EXPAND ncgionai carter. Granted to Eur CH for Football : ..,.,.i.ri "Jr.. . Fir8t CaU ior tball candidates .,..wC11J,a, ra. cnuimary piam nas been sounded by H. A. Diniick for world expansion and consolidation head coach at Wa-Hi. The program of the Loyal Order of Moose were is to include, besides the issuance of u.eu uen me supreme council grant suits and equipment, the first skull ed a regional charter to the lodges ol practice of the season. Scheduling " ",1V ""u-cu mai oi seven games for sure and the u" ,'""6C8 Ul rance Bnn Germany prospect of three more makes an would be organized into regional units, early start in the faU sport necessary - w iuii,o vuai nao glVvll to Sir John Daniel, Cardiff, Wales, who has been here throughout the convention of the order. Prune Shipments Go Fifty-nine cars of cranes shinned I .. - ri irrom tne Walla Wall. vii t.,. .i . I , . . '""-J -"w luuuu u, omen ana oay erought the season total ud to participated in the annual 755. It is estimate w . " " "",k-u no oiu annual maielV 150 car romoin a Ko .H J wu, rcueuuy. 1 MOW last these will ha .ont (mn f M ci.f, I x- f.. ... """" " . -Luuru, tw uneans, BU- tnere Will deDend nn th. mo,W i-1CiU Yiue-uiciaior,, was eievatett to prices the next fpw 41. . j....... I " mc juoi ui suyreme Qiciaior. According to the Associated Press every farmer in the United States has access to a million-dollar inform ation" bureau! - It is Uncle Sam's market news service, operated by congressional appropriation. Daily, throughout the country, it correlates the radio,- ocean cables and miles of telephone and telegraph wires Jn distributing quo tations. . Allied with the titanic system, co operative "listening posts," clearing nouses of information, are super vised by the bureau of agricultural economics. The information , will show the number of carloads of each variety and grade sold at different prices, ivauroaas wui Bupply figures on th number of cars of each variety of grapes moved to the market. East- ern points will send sunnlfimnfnt reports every 24 hours on shipments received and distributed. "These clearing-houses for market information," economists say, "insure an even distribution of products and an even tenor in prices. By knowing where his produce is needed, the shipper is not faced with the proba bility of a flooded market one day and a skimped one the next. Steady flow to the market solves the prob. lem or individual over-production. and works to a better average. Xhrough the market news service. any part of the country may know exactly how many barrels, bushels or pounds of farm products are rolling to market every hour in the day and the prices offered at all terminal points. . ., . ; . , "Compilation of such vast knowl. edge is made possible through unl. form operation of 7351 niiles of gov, ernment-leased telegraph wires, working 12 hours a day. More than 2000 market reporters supply detail ed information from all principal centers ' in the United States and abroad. Cabled information is ob tained from the International Insti tute of Agriculture at Rome, to wnicn pu countries subscribe, "By telephone at 38 relay Joints and through more than 100 radio stations, every individual or instUu tion in the land Interested : in anv manner of produce market reports, has constant access to the most com plete quotations in the world." JOSEPH CLARK GREW ft V f f - - - v ' C i I Athena Schools Have Bright Prospects Efficient Corps of Instruct ors Begin Year's Work On Tuesday Next. Je;cp'i f!- '. r - . ;. - Zf - nf ttave, vvlicr.i I :c.. :'.". Ccl'-'fj cs iectcd is tj ;:.c .:;.;::;:.:i .-."liv.sjudjr to Tuilcc". Duff Going Good With Boise Team Billy's Nose Peeled While engaged in assisting the force employed in remodelinir the Ar. 4-U , , w.ur iougias nome on Fifth street, Billy Pinkertqn met with fin flfri- dent that peeled the skin gf his pro boscis. Billy was working on the up per story, when he threw a doqr ov. er the side of the house tq the ground below. A hincre on the d caught in the pocket of his overalls, and over the side of the hiHMir.nr with the door, Billy tumbled to the ground Deiow, striking on his nose. Accident Victims Die R. L. Hite of SDokane. Marjorie Wykoff of La Grand died at Hot Lake Sunday of injuries received in an automobile wrort noo. Hot Lake on the Old Oregon Trail highway late Friday. Athena baseball fans will be in terested in the following, written by sports writer jn the Oregonlan: Cecil Elba Puff, the lean f linger from Freewater, Oregon, who showed so much stuff in the San Jose train ing camp of the Beavers and later as relief pitcher but was neverthe less sold to the Three-1 league where he refused to report, has been go ing great guns a Boise. Idaho, since leaving the Beavera, Up to August U Puff had won 18 games for Boise and lost but two, Five of his- victories were ghutout3 Earned runs off him in the 20 games totaled only 19. He struck out U7 and issued only 25 bases on balls. On July Fourth and again on July 10 Duff shut out his opponents and not a man reached second base on him. Recently he won his tenth start in succession with only seven earned runs off him in 92 innings .And on top of this, the Freewater farmer lad has been clumping the ball for a .353 average. AH of which Is going some, even if these records were compiled in the so-called "bushes." Pitching is pitch ing in any league and a man who can go as Duff has been going fig ures to do just about as well in fast company. Waitsburg Woman Leaves Churches Money Activities of the Presbyterian church, both nationally and locally, will profit from the estate of the late Mrs. Mathilde Preston, Waits burg, according to her will, which has been probated . The estate is valued at $150,000 as the outgrowth of the Preston-Shaffer Milling ac tivities. Mrs. Preston left $2000 each to the foreign and national mission boards of the schurch,' $1000 each to the Prebyterian churches of Waitsburg and Walla Walla and $1000 to the National Relief work. In addition $1000 is left to Whitworth college, Spokane, and a similar amount i Whitman college, Walla Walla. Prospects are bright for a suc cessful year's work in the Athena schools. An efficient corns of in. structors have been secured by the board of directors of District No. 7 for the unt n high school, and of District Nj. C9 f r the erade schools. County school District No. 11, will take advantage of the union facilities by discontinuing school work there and employing bus transportation for conveying pupils from that district back and forth to the Athena school. Resumption of the manual training department has created considerable Interest in pupils both of the high school and the higher classes in the grades, The Athena schools open for work next Tuesday morning, September 6th, under supervision of Lee A. Meyer, late principal of the Marsh field high school and the following mgn school faculty members Lee A. Meyer, Superintendent- Indiana University, A. B., A. M.; Graduate work, Chicago University, Experience: 16 years in Indiana, lowa, Washington, Montana nnd Ore- gon. Head of Department of Jour- nallsm North Central High school, fepokane, Washington, three years. Last two years, principal of High school, Marshfield, Oregon. Mildred Bateman, English and American History Oregon Univer sity, A. B., member of Phi Beta Kappa, Honorary Scholarship so ciety. One year's experience at Athena. Home at Milton. Clarence Toole, Athletics, Science, Bookkeeping Oregon University, B. S. Graduate work at California Uni versity. Taught at Prairie City last year. Lives at Portland. Harold Frederick, Manual Train ing, Science, History Washington State College, B. S. Taught at New port, Washington last year. Horns at tnehalis, Washington, Dorothy Brodie, Scwinir. Typing Oregon University, Home, Eugene, Oregon. Oregon's Wild Horse Herds Are Facing Death by Thirst Thousands of wild horses roaming the upland plains of Deschutes and Crook counties are facing death from thirst., Lack of water is due large Iy to the fact that springs er.d streams, sparsely scattered throug- out that country, have all been ap propriated for irrigation purposes. Already hundreds of animals have died, according to A. L. Cross, head of the state work of the Oregon Hu mane society. Plans are being made to organize a great round-up of the cayuses, capture them, ship them to Portland where they will be slaughtered and their skins made into robes and their flesh shipped to France and Bel gium where horse meat is consider ed a great delicacy. County Judge N. J. Biggs of Crook county has informed the humane so citey that he will immediately call a session of his county court to au thorize the round-up in accordance with the provisions of the Stiayer bill passed three years ago by the legislature. He will also ask the county court of Deschutes county to co-operate. Internal Revenue Taxes Two Billion Card Playing and Cigarette Smoking Increases Says Treasury Report. Ancient Skulls of Huge Bears Found Strengthening the opinion that tha somewhat nebulous lava bear was a member of a well defined species, the skull of a small bear, its teeth well worn, has been found under the ice of a newly discovered lava river chamber in the Fort Rock country. Living in Central Oregon with the small bear were huge bears, it is in dicated by the mass of skulls discov ered in the ice chamber. The group of skulls, found by Walter J. Perry or tne ueschutes national forest, are to be sent East for determination. It is believed that the bears of Cen tral Oregon whose skulls have been found In the Fort Rock caverns used the lava chamber as a den in the days when floods of molten rock were spreading over this part of the state, Latin, A. B. Frank Troeh Winner Frank Troeh of Portland, well known to Athena trap shooters won the championship of North America with 188 in Class A in the Grand American trap shoot handicap -"at Vandolia, Ohio. Will Kurtz, of Mon roeville, N. J., won the all-around title for the week by breaking 057 targets out of a possible thousand birds with Frank Troeh, second with a total of 654 breaks out of a pos sible thousand, Search for Body of Brownleo Fails Canadian Trophies Homer I. Watts, who hunted ' in the Peace River Country, Alberta. last fail, has received his mounted trophies of the hunt. Fine head specimens of the moose, cariboo and mountain sheep of Mr. Watts collection were on display this week at the Rogers & Goodman store. Pioneer Farmer Killed Albert Hindman, 72, a pioneer of Baker county, was killed Sunday at his farm near Durkee when a horse ran against him, knocking him 15 feet. He lived four hours after the accident. Tia Juana Has a Million Dollar Fire Hazeltine Chosen Dry investigator. Youth Detained A youth Who Rav ho i. .Tamoa South Bend, Wash. F. A. Hazeltine Parker, a metal worker ot Chicago received notice of his appointment by Prohibition Commissioner Doran as prohibition investigator at an initial salary of $3000. Mr. Hazeltine says be will not qualify for 30 days, both because of his business affairs and because he wants to be certain that the position carries with it oppor tunity for real action. is being held at Corvallis for investi gation after he was detained by police upon suspicion that he was Hairy Hill of Streator, Illinois, sought on a charge of murdering his mother. Miss Edna Hanna of the Malen Burnett School of Music, was in Athena from Walla Walla yesterday. " lit'- Immiitfe C'Mliiiiiiort t $2,000100 was d:iie hy n fire In Tin .Jimmi. Mevlco. A fcenenil view of (lie ruins g Kiven lierewllli, linllilliiffs covering tw blocks were ilosf roved Seventy-five experienced mountain eers who searched the snow banks of Mount Hood Sunday found no trace of the body of Leslie Brown lee, Portland youth who disappeared on the south slope of the mountain last January. Those who participat ed in the search believe that the body will not be found this year. The searchers said they encounter ed a cold, gray fog which descended upon the upper part of the mountain early in the morning and hindered their efforts to scan closely the snow banks and glaciers. A thorough search was made, however, of Zlg Ziag glacier, upper Zlg Zag canyon, Mississippi Head and most of the upper southwest sector of the moun tain, Ancient Memorial Spot A memorable spot, the location of which is known to only a few per sons, has been pointed out by Henry Schaeffer, one of the early settlers of Wallowa county. It is the histor ic dead line at the top of Wallowa hill, established by Chief Joseph and over which he ordered no white men to cross. Schaeffer, accompanied by Hurley Horner, county historian, and H. M. DuBois, made the trip to the spot to place markers. Pemolays Gather Delegates from all parts of Wash ington are at Wenatchee, for the op ening of the three day state conclave of the order of Demolay. Arrange ments are being made to care for 400 delegates, Carroll Murray, Muster Councillor and chairman of the regis tration committee, stated. Delegate's will be sent from 32 chapters in the state. Washington, D. C Card playing and cigarette smoking apparently in--creased in favor during the year end Ing last, June 30, If government tax collection figures, made public at the treasury, afford an accurate basis. Total internal revenue receipts for the year, aggregating $2,865,683,129, exceeded those of the previous year by 1 per cent. The principal Increase in revenue from miscellaneous taxes was from tobacco manufacturers, which amounted to $5,500 766. This was mostly due to the increased man ufacture and sale of cigarettes, which greatly exceeded any previous year, the report said. An increase of $529,054 in collec tions of the tax on playing cards brought this item to $4,742,468. Taxes on admissions' to cabarets and other places ot amusement fell from $23, 980,676 the preceding year to $17,940, 636. This decrease was accounted for partially by the 1926 revenue act in creasing the exemption price on ad missions from 50 to 75 cents. Administration of the tax law for the fiscal year 1927 cost $32,955,873, a reduction from $1.23 last year to $1.15 this year being effected In each $100 collected. New York with $755,079,237, led in total collections, both from income and miscellaneous taxes, while Pennsyl vanla was second with $258,763,804. Illinois was next In line, with collec tions of $217,678,698, followed by North Carolina, which, lareelv as a . suit of the tobacco tax, had collec tions of $205,651,675. Collections la Oregon were $6,711,. 766, and Washington, $13,854,424. MEXICANS SHOOT CALIFORNIA GIRL Washington, D. C Miss Florenco Anderson ot Los Angeles, who was seriously wounded by Mexican train bandits Tuesday, died Thursday at Mazatlan, Amorican Vice Consul Ives reported to tha state department. The state department will make ur gent direct representations to the Mex-. lean government for speedy annrehen- slon and punishment of the culprits, if it appears that local Mexican auth orities are unable to succeed in that task. The department assumes, without specific information from Mexico City that American Chariro there has already mode representa tions to the foreign office. Miss Anderson was the only Amer ican injured out of a party of 11. al though severe fighting Is Indicated by the fact that Ives placed the num ber of dead and wounded us high as 15. Several hundred men participated In the holdup. New Crop Wheat More than 20,000 tons of new crop wheat are to be lifted from Port of Seattle elevators by four vessels bound for the United Kingdom and the continent before September 15, the port commission's books show. New Landing Field The Walla Walla chamber of com merce has made a special appropria tion of $300 toward the work of level ing the new landing field for air planes on the veteran's hosnital grounds near that city. PLAN FLIERS' MEMORIAL Flowers Will be Cast on Waters of the Pacific Ocean. San Franclyno. Memorial services at sea for the six men and one woman missing in connection with the Dole flight were being planned by San Francisco citizens. The- plans were to have the Matson liner. Maul halt 700 miles went of San Francisco on September 16, on her voyage to Hawaii, while flowers ara cust upon the waters during offering of prayers and singing of anthems by clergy ami passengers aboard. Letters were sent to all known rela tives of the lost fliers telling of tho memoriul plans, seeking suggestions and offerings to take to sea any flow ers sent here for tho sorvlees. Coclidge Told of Columbia Basin Plan It:ipH City, 8. D.Carefol sludy ol the proposed Columbia River Busio reclamation project In Washington stata was promised by President Cool. Idgo to a group of western citizens who called to explain the proposal. The delegation was headed by Sena tor Wesley L. Jones of Washington. Mr. C'oo!nl? understands the Colum bia liver project would cost more than $100,000,000. and while he favors such proportions In a general way, he miide It clear that he would like more In formation on this giguntic uiidertuk, In.