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VOLUME 48.
ATHENA, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 2. 1927
NUMBER 48
Corporate Tax )
Cut Date Is Fixed
Organization Favors Reduc
r tion of Debt Instead of
Lowering Taxes.
: J '
Washington D.tJ. Over the protest
of the lollddemocretlc membership,
the house ways and means committee
decided to make the proposed reduc
tion in the tat rate of corporation in
comes apply to payments due next
March S. The vote was 13 to 10.
Determination of the question dis
posed of the last of a number of major
issues that have developed during the
drafting of the $236,000,000 tax reduc
tion bill that the committee plans to
present to the house shortly after con
gress convenes next Monday.
Chairman Greea said republicans
felt that corporations should receive
the benefit of tb,e proposed cut in the
rate from 8 Mi to lift per cent as soon
as possible. Ha added that in previous
years such reductions always had been
applied to payments due the following
March. ' .
- Representative .Garner, of Texas,
ranking democrat on. the committee,
contended that corporations already
had included the tax on 1927 earnings
in the sale prices of products and
thereby had passed the tax along to
the consumer.
I EARNED INCOME TAX -PROVISIONS
SOUND
Washington, D. C; That the earned
income provision of the; income tax
1 law should be retained, but the meth
od of calculation may be greatly aim.
p'ifled, is the conclusion of the advi
sory committee at experts embodied
in the report at (the Joint committee
oa internal revenue taxation.
Thia recommendation, which runs
counter to the opinion of almost all of
, the 41 internal revenue collectors and
agents whose ideas were sought by
the treasury department, may be fol-
. lowed. The revenue collectors do not
like the earned income allowance be
cause it is bothersome and the cause
of many errors and arguments. They
find that It has increased their office
work and therefore the cost of collec
tion, and many of them regard it as
comparatively unimportant. The tax
experts, however, say that reduction
of the tax rate for earned income is
sound and equitable, and far from in
significant. '
The record shows that out of 2,501,-
166 individual income taxpayers all but
125,171 are affected by the earned in
come provision, and it makes an aver
age difference of 15 per cent in their
taxes.
McLaughlin High
Accepts Medford Hi
Football Challenge
' Milton Plans have been com
pleted for a post-season state cham-.
pionship foot ball game when Mc
Laughlin Union high school accepted
the challenge of Medford for a game
Saturday Dec. 3 to- be played at Mil
ton. McLauehlm Union high school,
aa eastern Oresron football champion,
has been undefeated in Oregon for
three years, and - Medford,. southern
Oreeon championship, has been un
defeated for five years. ..
McLaughlin Union high school last
Saturday challenged Grant " high
school of Portland but Grant refused
to play.
McLauehlin teleeraphed a guaran
tee of $900 to Medford for the Sat
urday "contest. Last year Medford
challenged McLaughlin to a cham-
nionshin srame at Medford and offer
ed $900 as a guarantee. The state
board refused permission for the
game last- year, however.
The state' athletic board has rec
ognized previously - Grant, Medford,
The Dalles and McLaughlin as the
outstanding teams of Oregon. Grant
has 'withdrawn and The Dalles has
already been' defeated, having lost
its pame 'with - Washington high of
Portland,' Which in turn lost to Grant
high of Portland Since The Dalles
lost to- Washington, which lost to
Grant, It " eliminated itself. Mc-
T.mio-hHn and Medford are the only
two outstanding undefeated teams
in the state at the present time.
Former , Athena Banker
Passes in Nebraska
F0LS0M DEATHS 13
Four Prison Officials and 26 Inmates
Wounded.
Folsom, Calif. The blame for the
Folsom prison riot, with its loss of 13,
two of whom were guards, and more
than 30 wounded, was placed largely
on six convicts, a "lifer" and a killer,
three robbers, a burglar and a forger
men designated as "hard" even by
the other prison Inmates. They are
facing the gallows for their part in
the rioting.
Tony Brown, 31-year-old gangster, is
thought to have been the leading fac
tor in the revolt It was Brown, ac
cording to prison officials, who wield
ed the revolver and who moved among
the other convicts, urging and threat
ening when some of the more timid
wished to capitulate.
In addition to the dead one of the
guards was slain and the other died
of heart failure adduced by excitement
there are four prison officials and
26 convicts recovering from wounds
Reorganization or MiiwauKee is upneid
Washington, D. C The supreme
court has denied the petition of the
bondholders' defense committee of the
Chicago, St. "Paul Milwaukee rail
road for review of lower court dec!
sions approving the reorganization
plan accepted by the majority bond
and stockholders.
Farmer Held aa Bank Robber.
Spokane, Wash. A little more than
an hour after a lone outlaw bad held
np and robbed the Opportunity State
bank at Opportunity, a suburb, of
about $1000, B. L. Taylor, a rancher
living near Chester, about three mes
from Otportuaiiy, had been arretted
as the router.
Pilot Rock Boy Won
First Place On Radio
Ted Roy "Singing Black-
Smith" Will Enter Na
tional Contest.
The following,1 ' relative to the
death of L. D. Lively, years ago
cashier of the First National Bank of
Athena, is taken from a Nebraska
newsDaoer of recent date: L. D.
Lively, 65, idled at a' Lincoln hospital
Monday after an illness of several
months. He had been taken to the
Lincoln institution for treatment
several weeks ago but failed rapidly.
He was an extensive land owner near
Gilmore where he ' had resided the
past 25 years.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs.
M. A. Lively, and by one son, E. L.
Lively, also by four grandchildren, all
residing near Gilmore.
The remains were brought back to
the Brewer Funeral home in South
Omaha from where the funeral was
held this morning at 10 o.clock.
Burial was in West Lawn cemetery,
near Omaha.
Weston Wins First
Basketball League Game
The Blue Mountain basket ball
league opened Monday night with a
hotly contested game between Milton
and Weston town teams which Wes
ton won by the score of 21 to 15.
The game was a fight from start to
finish, the score at the half being
tied at 11 all.
The second half saw the winner
draw ahead making 10 points-while
Milton was making four points. The
game was close and greatly in doubt
until the final whistle had blown,
Jim Hodgen of Athena played on the
Weston team.
Weldon Bell in Hospital
Weldon Bell, Athena high school
boy was stricken with acute appendi
citis Friday, and was immediately
taken to a Walla Walla hospital, by
Mrs. B. B. Richards. Dr. Sharp ac
companied the patient to Walla Walla
Examination by Dr. Keylor revealed
that an immediate operation was nec
essary The appendix was removed,
and the patient has been recovering
satisfactorily.
Mrs. T. a Wells Dead
Mrs. T. B. Wells, a pioneer woman
of Pendleton, and well known in
Umatilla county, died last week at
Corvallis. The body was brought to
Pendleton for burial, funeral ser
vices being held Monday afternoon
from Methodist Episcopal church.
Mra. Wood Injured
Mrs. Arnold Wood suffered the dis
location of her right elbow, when
she tripped and fell down a flight
of stairs at the Imperial hotel in
Portland, last Friday. She was taken
to the Good Samaritan hospital for
treatment.
Pilot Rock Poultry
David Boyd, Pilot Rock poultry
dealer, will ship a carload of dressed
turkeys to Chicago on December 6,
Between December 14 and 16 the Pil
ot Rock dealer will ship two more
carloads to points on thia coast.
San Francisco Miss Emilia da
Prato, 20-year-old soprano of South
San Francisco, who sang as No. 17
and Ted A. Roy, 22-year-old ' tenor
of Pilot" Rock, who sang as No." 10,
were announced as winners of the
far western district radio "audition
by Roscoe C. Mtchell of New York,
field director for the Atwater Kent
Foundation, who directed the audition'
last Monday night,
The girl winner was born in Italy,
and came to California when she
was three years old. She is the
daughter of a butcher.
Miss Hortense Mills Hough, con
tralto, of Pasadena, singing as No. 3
and Loran Pease, baritone, of Reno,
Nevado, singing as No. 12, were nam
ed as alternates. The vote from lis-teners-in,
which counted 60 per cent,
exactly paralleled the vote of the
judges, two from eacn state, which
counted 40 per cent. A total of 100,
321 ballots was cast by listeners,
completely swamping tabulating fa
cilities and causing a 24-hour delay
in announcement of winners.
The vote was well distributed, ,the
races were very close, and every con
testant got at least one vote from
one judge.; Emma Woodland, Utah;
Ernest Peed, Idaho; Donald Novis,
southern , California, and Catherine
Green, Washington, made particular
ly strong showings.
The district winners, Miss da Pra
to, pretty brunette who sings in the
bel canto tradition of the best Italian
opera," and Ted Roy, sudent at Ore
gon Agricultural college, known as
the "singing placksmith," will repre
sent the far west in the national ra
dio audition to be held in New York
on December 11 and broadcast over
a nationwide hookup.
The ten participants in the finals
will be received by Presidtnt and Mrs.
Coolidge in the White House prior
to the audition. The national radio
audition is held to give opportunity
and development o young amateur
singers of genuine talent, and cash
prizes totaling $17,500, and' musical
scholarships are offered the winners.
Jaunita Woodruff
and Frank Williams
Wed Thanksgiving
A beautiful home wedding was
solemnized at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Arthur Coppock, Thanksgiving
day, when Miss Juanita Woodruff
daughter, of Mrs. J. C. Riley and niece
of Mrs. Coppock, with whom Miss
Woodruff made her home, became the
bride of Frank Williams, son ,of
Charles Williams, prominent farmer
of this vicinity. .
The aeremony was at high noon.
Just as the clock struck the hour to
the strains of a wedding march rend
ered by Miss Dorothy Lee, the bridal
party led by Rev. Bollinger marched
in front of the fire place where the
mantel was a solid bank of fall flow
ers. 1 A large screen banked in flow
ers with the letter W interwoven
and lights of a soft yellow shad?
made a very fitting and pleasing
scene. The bride was attended . by
Miss Ruth Williams sister of the
groom, while Kohler Betts acted as
best man.
The bride was beautiful in a love
Jy gown of pale pink satin crepe,
with pale lavender applique and car
ried a huge boquet of brides oink
roses and lavender flowers inter
mingled and streamers were tied with
daisies. Miss Williams was lovely
in a dress of pale yellow crepe-de-chine
and carried an arm boqtiet of
roses also.
Rev. Bollinger, read the service,
the ring ceremony being used. After
the ceremony twenty friends and re
latives repaired to the dining room
where a bounteous dinner was served
by Mrs. Coppock, assisted by Mrs.
John Tompkins, Mrs. Ralph Seagel,
Mrs. Clarence Hands and Miss Mar
garet Lee. A large center piece of
white chrysanthemums was used on
the table. -
The bride was pleasantly surprised
a few hours before the wedding when
her sister and family Mr. and Mis.
Ralph Seagel of Myres, Washington
arrived. : The: happy young couple'
left immediately- ' sifter ' dinner for
their farm home south of Athena.
Christmas Stocks
Now On Display
Many Novelties Interesting
to Children Practical
Gifts Noted.
With the Christmas season at hand,
Athena merchants are arranging
their holiday stocks for display, and
four firms in the city are putting
forth "special inducements to keep
Athena holiday trade at home.
Many lines of suitable practical
gifts are noted in the displays, and
the lines carried this year appear to
be more varied and complete, than
heretofore.
There is a variety of toys this
year, and at a glance it is seen that
manufacturers have made wonderful
strides advancement in the produc
tion of their wares. Mechanical
toys dominate and are sure to create
more than usual interest in the minds
of the children, who are looking for
ward to a visit from Santa Claus
on Christmas eve.
Athena firms who are making
special efforts to take care of the
home holiday trade this year are
Athena Department store, Toys, nov
elties, furnishings; Steve's, toys,
men's furnishings; McFadden's Phar
macy, toys, novelties, Japanese ware,
etc.; Rogers & Goodman, silverware,
sleds, wagons etc.
There is some talk of a community
Christmas tree, but no definite action
has been taken regardng this feature.
However, it v is probable that the
churches will have Christmas trees
as usual.
Charge for Auditorium
The school boards at Weston hav
adopted rental rates for the auditor
ium in the new high school building.
The Leader says: The boards agreed
upon letting the new High School
auditorium for paid local entertain
ments. A flat charge of $15 is
made, and of door receipts above
this amount 30 percent goes to
the schools and 70 percent to the
lessees. The charge permits of two
nights' rehearsals. No rate was made
for traveling companies, which it is
understood are not desired in the
auditorium. '
The Indebtedness i
of Oregon Schools
Given in Totals
Salem The total bonded indebted
ness of school districts in Oregon is
$17,791,402.15, according to the an
nual report of C. A. Howard, state
superintendent of schools. School
buildings and grounds are valued at
$49,357,465.32, and the value of
school furniture is $5,211,298.77.
The average monthly ealary of
male teachers in Oregon is $167.69
and of women teachers $117.95.
The number of pupils enrolled in
the elementary " grades during the
last year was 144,701 'and in th
high schools 41,258, and the percent
of attendance of all pupils was 95.7,
The total amount received by the
schools of the state during the year
was $26,942,454.26, and the total ex
penditures was $23,783,852.54.
Details of the New
Ford Car are to be
Given Public Today
Today everybody will learn in de
tail what the new Ford car is to be.
At every Ford Dealer's emporium,
open house will be held and the car
that is expected to revolutionize the
automobile industry will be on ex
hibition. The Press has been invited
to hop over the hill and inspect the
new car in Otis Adams' Ford agency
at Weston.
A public reception is to be held
there simultaneously with similar
gatherings at every : Ford dealer in
the United Stales, thus constituting
a part of the greatest automobile
show in the history of the industry.
While no detailed descriptions
have yet been given out by local
dealers, the Ford ' Motor Company,
from its headquarters in Detroit, has
announced that the new Ford car
will be as far in advance of present
public demand for speed, flexibility,
control in traffic and economy . of
operation as the famous Model T
was in advance of public demand
when it was introduced in 1908. :
Dealers have not yet been advised
as to the prices at which the new
Ford will sell, but definite assuranc?
has come from Detriot that the
prices will be entirely in accord with
the policy of the Ford Motor comp
any to provide the best possible au
tomobile at the lowest possible price.
"Clubbing a Husband"
at Auditorium Tonight
"Clubbing a Husband" is billed for
tonight at High school auditorium.
The cast is from the Loyal Gleaner's
Sunday school class of the Christian
church, and the proceeds "are to go
for the benefit of the Sunday school
The admission price is 25c and 35c.
The cast of characters is as follows
Mrs. Blanche Newman
Lorraine Pinkerton
Mrs. Henrietta Ashton..Ruth Hackett
Maud Ashton Edna Mclntyre
Belle.... Alta Michener
Bridget Effie Haworth
Mrs. Ottoway ...Bessie Thompson
Mrs. Ferris Blanche Crawford
Dr. Jordon Mary Harris
Mrs. Whitney Oletia Miller
Mrs. Reynolds Katherine Keen
Mrs. Harry Hudson Myrtle Potts
Mrs. Skylark .. Inola Venable
Change in Ownership
J. E. Snively has sold his Twin
City cleaning and pressing plant at
Milton-Freewater to T. E. Smith,
formerly of LaGrande. Mr. Smith,
who has fifteen years experience in
the cleaning and pressing business h
now in charge of the plant, and his
delivery car is making regular trips
to Athena.
FARMERS INSIST MUSCLE SHOALS BE PUT TO WORK
PRODUCING CHEAP FERTILIZERS
By R. F. BOWER
Member Of President Coolidge's Muscle Shoals Inquiry
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Muscle Shoals The Farmer's Dream Of Cheap Fertilisers
What will be the next chapter In
the lone and hectic career ot
Muscle SVUT
The magnificent power dam stands
fully completed; the f 11,000.000 air
nitrate plant Is fully equipped and
ready to operate; the turbina
generatori costing nearly half a
million dollars each are In place
and electric current It being gen
erated, yet so nitrates are being
produced.
Only a part of the eleetrle current
! being utilised and thia goaa to
the power monopoly of that region
the Alabama Power Company et
pries that falls by more than half
a million dollars a year to pay even
4 per cent Interest on the fair
peace-time eost of the dam and
powar plant The price received by
the Government is only two mills
per kilowatt hour.
At the same time farmers are
buying millions of tons of fertilizer
each year. The use of fertilizer If
slowly Increasing but It would go
forth by leaps and bounds It cheaper
fertilisers were available. President
Coolidge's Muscle Shoals Inquiry re
ported that proper utilization of
Muscle Shoals would cut fertilizer
eoeta.41 per cent.
ram organisations have been
able to work out with the leading
atr nitrates producers of America
the American Cyanamld Company
proposal tor the operation of the
Muscle Shoals plants on a bails
oven better than that offered by
Henry Ford and finally withdrawn
by-him when Congress wore him
out with Its dilatory tactics.
No wonder, then, that farmers
are demanding of Congress quick
and full disposal of the .Muscle
Shoals question la accordance with
the purposes adopted when the tax
payers' money was appropriated for
this project; namely, for the pro
duction of nitrates for explosives in
time of war and fertilisers in time
of peaeo.
Congressman W. F. James, of
Michigan, aetlng chairman of the
Military Affairs Committee of the
House, has the chief responsibility
for getting early action on this mat
ter when the naw fnntfui
sembles in December. Congress was
reaay 10 vote on a Muscle Shoals
leasing bill last session, especially
the Madden bill Introduced hr rvm.
gressman Martin Madden of Illinois,
enairman ot me powerful appro
priations committee. But Mr.
James' committee nHnnrn.rf iih.
out giving Congress the opportunity
io vote on any Din.
National Grange
For Debenture Plan
Committee Votes for Reduc
tion on Payments Due
March 15.
Standard Theatre
i Picture Program
Coming to the Standard Theatre
tomorrow night is Rex Ingram's "The
Garden of , Allah" starring Alice
Terry and Ivan Petrovich. Ingram
ia the director who made "Ben Hur"
and his "Garden of Allah" is made
on a big super-picture scale. The
picture is shown tomorrow night at
the Standard at regular admission
prices.
Sunday night Colleen Moore comes
to the Standard in the madcapping
comedy of her career, "Naughty But
Nice.'! '. . , : .,. .
Announcement is made of the book
ing at the Standard of Metro-Gold-wyn's
current release of "Becky,"
with Owen Moore and Sally O'Neil,
for December 11. First Nation
al's big comedy hit of the season,
"Lost at the Front" is coming Sat
urday night, December 10.
Three Escape Death
When Plane Crashes
Eugene, Tragedy was narrowly
averted here Sunday afternoon when
an International biplane, piloted by Ed
Ladue of Long Beach, Cal., became
unmanagable in the" face of a stiff
breeze shortly after a takeoff and
crashed nearly 50 feet into the center
of the Eugene municiple flying field.
Ladue was badly shaken up and
suffered injuries to his head.' He was
given medical attention. Two passen
gers, a man and his wife, were with
Ladue in the plane, but other than
being shaken up were uninjured, ac
cording to reports from the flying
field.
Nearly 100 persons who were at the
field to watch the commercial fliers
operating their take off witnessed the
accident. After rising from the field,
Ladue, it was said, banked his plane
too sharply and as a result of the
heavy south wind was unable to level
the machine. The plane crashed im
mediately to the earth.
Death of Mrs. Staggs
Mrs. Martha A. Staggs, wife of
George W. Staggs, residing in
Weston, died Tuesday at St. Mary's
hospital, Walla Walla, aged 59 years.
Mrs. Staggs is survived by her hus
band, three sons, Emery,' Herman
and Glen Staggs of Weston, and one
daughter, Mrs. James Beamer of
Weston. Funeral services were held
yenttrday afternoon at the United
Brethern church in Weston.
Pledged to Friars
of the Athena Gun cloiowdodowdMari
Beryl Hodgen of Athena, a student
at University of Oregon has been
pledged to Friars, upper-class honor
ary society on the college campus.
Pledging to Friars takes place twice
a year when the. most outstanding
student leaders are taken into the or
ganization. Mr. Hodgen is active in
student affairs and captain of the
college football team.
Held Turkey Shoot
Marion Hansell and other members
of the Athena Gun club held a turkey
shoot on the local grounds last week.
Pendleton and Athena shooters par
ticipated, the trophies being turkeys,
ducks and geese.
, Cleveland, Ohio. The National
Orange closed its annual convention
here after adopting resolutions direct
ed to congress reaffirming its position
that the "export debenture plan" Is the
only sound and workable way to
achieve farm relief, favoring an in
crease in the tariff on corn, demand
ing a tariff commission Investigation
on wool Imports and asking approprla- '
tions for an extensive program of fun
damental research by the department
of agriculture.
"Farm relief through export deben
tures depends neither upon appropri- .
ations nor special taxes," the adopted
report said. "By .debenture method
farm relief can be attained with ad
ministrative simplicity, directness and
economy of operation."
The grange approved proposals lor
legislation to reduce the national debt
rather than achieve further tax reduc
tion, but went on record as favoring
the repeal of the war tax on automo
biles in case congress insisted upon
further tax reduction.
A resolution to the American Medi
cal association asking that steps be
taken to check the dwindling supply
ot country doctors, "who threaten to
become extinct within 10 years if the
movement toward the city and special
ization continues at the present rate."
FEDERAL MARKETING
FUND IS PROPOSED
' Washington D. C One , of the
trends in the attempt to solve the vex
ing farm, relief. prpble,m, as. evidenced
by conversations of agricultural lead
ers In congress, Is toward a bill to
create a government fund to be used
in disposing of surplus crops.
While the farm leaders are confin
ing their .discussions of a new bill to
their own circles just now, it Is known
that some of them have reached the
view that since President Coolidge ve
toed the proposal to raise money for
marketing surpluses by levying an
equalization fee on the farmers the
only alternative is for the government
Itself to produce the funds.
To this end, consideration is being
given to a measure calling for crea
tion of a revolving fund of $250,000,
000 or $300,000,000. This fund not only
would be available for loans to co-operative
marketing associations, as pro
vided In past administration plans, but
it could be used to meet losses from
the marketing of surplus crops.
It is understood that President Cool
idge has been advised that such a
plan Is regarded by most farm sena
tors as the only alternative to the
equalization fee which he has disap
proved as unconstitutional, and It is
bellveed he Is giving the proposal ser
ious consideration.
OREGON LOSES SAND CASH
Washington In Future to Get Most of
Sand Revenue.
Salem, Or. Although the states ot
Oregon and Washington have agreed
to an equal division ot any royalty
that Is collected on sand removed
from the Columbia river during the
past seven years, virtually all future
revenues from this source will accrue
to the state of Washington.
A member of the Oregon state land
board said that virtually all of the
sund removed from the stream In re
cunt years had been obtained from the
Washington side, and that there was
no reason to believe that the opera
tors would shift their dredges to the
Oregon side of the channel in the fu
ture. The state of Washington, while
agreeing to a division of the royally
received on sand taken from the Co
lumbia river during the past seven
years, has refused to operate under
such an agreement in the future.
Ksrachia, India. Hundreds of per
sons are dying dally In the cholera
epidemic In Assam and Bengal.
Ritola Again Wins Cross Country Run.
New York. Willie Ritola of the
Fionitih-Amerlcaa Athletic club won
the national A. A. U. cross country
championship for the fifth time since
1922 at Van Cortland park. He cov
ered the five and seven-eighths mile
jourcy In 23 mlmitp and 27 1-5 seconds.