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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
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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
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Athena Schools Have
Bright Prospects
Efficient Corps of Instruct
ors Begin Year's Work
On Tuesday Next.
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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.