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Entered at tha Post Officio at Athena, Oregon a Second-Claea Mail Matter VOLUME 49. ATHENA, UMATILLA COUNTY; OREGON, FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 13, 1928 NUMBER 28 NOTED LAWMAKER AT MU. A New Law Is Demanded? to Stop The Cattle Thieves mm mum ' Baker, Or., The legislative com mittee of the Oregon Cattle and Horse Raisers' association has been instructed to prepare a bill for sub mission to the' next legislature to protect Oregon stockmen who suffer heavy losses through killing, by thieves, of teef cattle on 'the range and in .. private ' pastures, . and the transportation of such beef to mar kets by motor trucks. This, jc is be- . The Oregonian News Bureau at lieved, constitutes a menance which Washingtonr!-C4 --anBoljnCSjnhe tfiMSfens" to 'cost the cattleman his death Monday at George E. Chamber- profits. It is said that present laws lain, ex-United States senator from are inadequate to cope with the theft Oregon and ex-member ox the United evil. i States shipping board, who died at The stockmen are planning on the George E. Chamberlain Of Oregon At Rest In Arlington. his apartments in the Wardman Park hotel after a lingering illness. In keeping with the expressed wish of Mr. Chamberlain, his body was laid to rest in Arlington " national re-establishment of the orderly mar keting system similar to that under which the association worked in 1924, and which - was abandoned because such a bill passed at the 1927 session cemetery, where many of his intimate 0f the legislature was found by the inenus uuruig i.t years spent m cun-i federal Courts to De unconstitutional, "Our roads form a new hazard, : said F. Ai Phillips-of Baker. "The number of types of cattle thieves has increased, and ; with this, brand In spection has become even more, im portant. .- Present thieves can steal cattle at night and market them several hundred- miles away before dawn. We need more enforcement j ef laws and making it compulsory on 50 per Cent Cut Is Asked for Grain at Portland Meeting The Oregonian says that a reauest ror a &u per cent reduction in grain rates into Portland drew gasps from railroad representatives attending inta.i. . His uiKi.uiui bummeree commission i n . . - hearing which opened at the Heath- OOldier betS $5d00 and An THE Dill! IT (limn Annuo LU DP IILHH U HLLUII man hotel Monday. The request was voiced by W. P. Ellis, attorney for ine uregon public service commis sion, and came as a distinct surprise. J. P. Newell, consulting engineer for the Oregon commission, and the Ohio Cripple Receives $4150 Cash. O-.t A i . - S'sr w s? 3ssr?riV3 ...vvv v iiiw mug uyci u, vuiuinr gress are already buried, Funeral services were set - for Wednesday and was accompanied by military ceremonies - appropriate to ,the interment of an ex-chairman of the senate comimttee on military , af fairs, the position he held during the Wilson administration.1 The Scottish Rite order of Masonry also had a part in the services, as Senator IraVeye View ef CMcaao'a iL All.. Beautiful Themt In Which the Mercantile Mart Will Be a Dominant Factor. of the three De Autremont brothers, who killed four men in a mail train robbery in the Siskiyou mountains of Oregon October 11, 1913, was an nounced here today by Charles Rid diford, district chief of the United States postoffice inspectors. The apportionment was made under direction of Mr. Riddiford, in whose hands was placed most of the re- Weekly Farm Market Review Issued From Oregon State College Unofficial statistic! . i w m w i w x f vt WU V Ul V rhamhAVlAin araa a VH Jawma MaoAH ! a . . I . . .. ........ "o u56' .. martcet-aressea neeito present ws i estimates on the -world wheat crop At Arlington cemetery Senator hide with the ' carcass. Brand in- ranging around 200,000 bushels less Chamberlain was laid to rest beside spection is important at North Port- than harvested last year. About half his first wife, who died in 1925. land and should be .continued." of this shortage is in the United Following his defeat for re-election The organization has elected Her- States and is mostly represented by One Awful Inning Gives Championship Game To the K. Cs. as senator from Oregon in 1920, Sen ator Chamberlain was appointed " a member of the United States ship ping board, on which he served for two years. He left the board to form a law partnership with Peter Q. Nycee under the firm name of Cham berlain & Nycee. A paralytic stroke in February, ; man Oliver of John Day president; C. L. Jamison of Portland, vice- president; James Mossie of Dayville, second vice-president, and Judge Duby of Baker was re-elected sec retary and treasurer. The next meeting of the association will be held in Baker. 1926, left the senator an invalid, and Harvesting Begins his participation in the affairs of the firm from that time until his death slight. The firm was reorgan In Athena District was ized in that year to include Clarence I. Long, ex-senator from Kansas, and the name was changed to Long, soft wheat The official estimate of the United States cron will be re leased this week. Although European wheat markets were generally firmer last week with some price advances, the general tone of the domestic markets was lower because of marketing pressure brought by early harvest of hard red winter wheat "particularly. Spring wheat was firmer. Soft red winter was quoted in south central markets from $1.54 to $1.72. Durum wheat continued dull. Rye markets were lower although production estimates continue to in- George Sheard brought the first load of wheat of tht new crop into Athena Wednesday afternoon, which Chamberlain and Nycee. Senator ne aeuverea at lne rre8ton-onaiier dlC8te a very 8mall crop Jn tne Vnitei Chamberlain was still a member of lt waB tnJck , loa4 f bul States...... . , .... this firm at the time of. lis death. P"am and ,was dumped iniu Good mill demand caused firm wheat His end was not unexpected by ne new scaies recently inswuiea prices on the Pacific coast for milling members of the family, as he had ine mui nana,e DU1K - A wheats, but the export situation in numoer oi macmnes are Bwrwng uv tne Orient may not be good for sever- m mis locum., mm wiwi wtuiu ai montns aue to a very large wheat weather, harvest will be under way crop n the lower Yangtze valley in next week. China, which is going to Chinese at Harvesting gram is under way in the lowest prices since 1924, been sinking slowly for the past two weeks, and doctors had warned sev eral days ago that he could not sur vive long. George E. Chamberlain, ex-governor of Oregon, ex-United States sen ator, ex-member of the United States shipping board, attained the zenith of his public career when, as chair man of the senate committee on mili tary affairs he handled several of the major pieces of war legislation. The career of Senator Chamberlain was colorful, marked with unbroken nous report on rate structures and railroad operating costs in Oregon. Taking advantage of a lull in the testimony, R. J. Hagmen of St. Paul, representing the Great Northern, Northern Pacific ' and Milwaukee roads, asked Mr. Ellis to explain just wnat testimony was intended to show, Mr. Ellis minced no words. "We want a substantial reduction in rates on all grain products in the north- sponsibihty of directing the great west." he said. "We want iui world-wide manhunt for the De reduction of substantial fin - Autremonts, Roy, Ray and Hugh cent. We intend to show that erain The government offered $6000, and has been bearing more than its share the Southern Pacific railroad, the ex in both interstate and intrastate cam. press companies and the state of Ore merce. gon posted enough to make the re- "We are makine no suinrestinna wards total $15,900. All rewards are to who should absorb the lna in to l)e apportioned on the same basis One bad inniner the third, when "venue, but regardless of the finan- as tnose 01 the government, Kiddi- five runs spattered across the pan, 0181 condition of the cariers, we in- Iora Btalea- spelled defeat for Athena, winners 8ist the ratfis should be reduced." Thomas Reynolds, soldier stationed of the "Bie Six" nennant. and c-ave- Mr. Hagmen was on his feet acain a San Francisco, is to get $2000, the the championship game to the The raiir0ads I represent are not entire amo unt ottere d by the govern- Caseys, topnotchers of the Walla maKin? a return now," he said, meni Ior ine arresi i nugii ue Walla vallev. After the awfni thiwi and it seems to me it in vnnr rtdt Autremont, and enough of the rest Athena settled and but two Irishmen to show where the difference would to total 5300, Reynolds saw photo reached first base. Bannister allowine made up." graphs of Hugh at San Francisco, but three hits and striking out five He the" asked Mr. Ellis if the Ore- and had him arrested at Manila Feb in the remaining innincs. . I gon public service commission in. Iruary 11, 1927. Both teams scored one run in the tended also to ask for extension of Albert Collingsworth, of New Bos- second. Then with the liisasteriona territory affected bv the Coin mhio ton, Ohio, is to receive $1700 of gov- fifth out of the wav. Athena made basin differential. Mr. Elli HiM nnt ernment money and approximately the other score of the game in her commit himself. but intimated that $4150 together. Collingsworth, a half of the sixth. such a request was probable before criPPle witl both feet amputated, and A combination of three hits and conclusion of the Portland hearings. blind In one eye recognized Irom three timely errors was resoonsible Later, however, Mr. Newell said Pictures Roy and Ray De Autremont, for the five runs in the third The he believed the differential territAr,, whom he identified as workeers in a anuuiu oe extenaea north to the main line of the Milwaukee railroad and to mciuae uamas Prairie. score: Athena 01000100 02 K. of C....... 01500000 6 Batteries Bannister and McPher- rin; Witt and Leraux. success at the polls until his defeat lar the vicinity of Dry Creek, west of Milton and also in the Walla Walla valley. Later grain cutting will be gin in the Waitsburg-Dayton district. It will be several weeks before har vesting begins on the high ground north of Pomeroy. Grain, which is just beginning ,to ripen in that sec tion looks even and crop prospects for a third term as senator. No other public official in Oregon was so intimately and personally known to the people as Senator Chamberlain during his years in this state. Even a dozen years at Wash ington in the senate failed to lessen his hold on the good will of the people. He was an outstanding ex ample of a democrat repeatedly elect ed in a strong republican state. By nature a politician, Senator Chamberlain's energy and ambition carried him from a clerkship in a . Mississippi store across the continent to Oregon and, step by step, up through the offices of deputy county clerk, member of the state legislature district In the west and southwest portions of Umatilla county, and northwest of Pendleton, harvest has been under way for several days, with varying reports as to the yield. Reports from the Juniper countr, north of Helix are to the effect that a splendid crop of wheat will be harvested there as the result of rainfall at the proper time. Old Timers Here Three Athena oldtimers graced the "neveraweat bench" on the hotel corner for a couple of hours Wednes day afternoon and responed to happy greetings from old friends. The august trio were none other than John McKinnon and Ed Taylor of attorney, attorney-general k.. ..... .j D; Mj. and governor to the United States V! .. Iv... .!. t. .u v. i t rurwunu, aciiabv, wiicre lie ucuaiiie cuhihimiii ua the military affairs committee and a leader of administration fights for war measures. Jolly as ever, they appear ed to their friends just boys grown older, and time seems to have dealt gently with them Although Senator Chamberlain was a staunch democrat, running for of fice in a state where republicans of ten outnumbered democrats two to one, he was never previously defeat ed for office in the many years he spent in public life. He was always victorious, although fellow demo crats running on the same party tickets were, often overwhelmingly beaten. He had a genius for making and holding friends. A life-long repub lican who had always opposed Cham berlain on party lines said: "Ths secret of Senator Chamberlain's un broken hold upon the people was his faithfulness to publie duty. He kept every pledge. He worked hard. Distribution of Fish Fish from the hatchery at Bingham Springs was distributed in the dif ferent streams of Umatilla county this week by Tom Craig and Walter Hychman of the state Fish and Game Department. Modern Woodman Picnic The Modern Woodmen of America Camps of this district will hold a picnic at Emigrant Springs on the Old Oregon Trail in the Blue Moun tains, Saturday and Sunday, July 14 and 15. Eye Hop$ and Shipg Along Printed Pag When the eye runs alung a line of print In a book, It does not travel smoothly , from left to right of th page, but Jumps from time to time, taking In a whole word or, perhaps, few words at a time, and then Jumping on to a fresh group, says My Magazine. If the eyeball Is Illuminated with a ray of light, which It reflects back again on to a moving photographlo plate, the photograph will show ex actly, In the form of a number of lit tie stripes, or bunds, what movement the eye has made. xuese pnoiograpns, made' with t special Instrument used at the psy. chology laboratories at Stanford unl- rerslty, have enabled those studvins the languages to make a very fasci nating discovery. This Is, that th eye finds It much more comfortable to read from the bottom of the past to the top than from the left to the right, and so we find that the an cient Chinese, some of the earliest people to Invent writing, had the woo. derful sense to adopt the most suit able style of writing, for they started at the bottom, of the page and wrote upwards. Another Interesting discovery from the study of these photographs la that the eye never bothers to begin read ing a line of print from the very be ginning, nor does It ever travel right to the end. It focuses Itself on the second or third word of a new line. and takes In a little picture of the meaning, and then skips on to the next stopping place. Pendleton Shooting Scrape As the result of a shooting scrape at Pendleton Monday evening, Tom Benson and Bob Steele are in St Anthony's hospital and Fay Loveland is released from jail. Bensen has a scalp wound and Steele was shot under the eye. After the shooting, Loveland surrendered to the police. Injured Foot Fred Singer injured his foot at the swimming pool one day recently, and """" ucc"" t ar niber had to resort to the use of crutches ht Iuf Australian league, which Boyt Educational Tour$ Boyg In parta of Australia hava been touring thejr country in an edu cational campaign that has been de clared a snccess. They are memhr to get around. New High Power Line Workmen who are erecting the new high power line for the Pacific Light & Power company, from Pendleton to Walla Walla, are now in this vicinity, having stretched the wires through Athena this week. Pig$ in Clover In a district near Pretoria, pigsties made of marble and buildings cement ed with pure white marble are quite common. Practically every kind of marble Is found In this district, which la about forty square miles in extent The only reason that this valuable stone is not exploited Is because of the lack of transport. The railway doea not extend near the district Stone equal to the best Parian mar ble could be quarried there if the problem of transport could be lv& was organized to develop the youthi oi Australia, one party of 800 from west Australia has Just completed a trip to Adelaide and Melbourne, and another composed of 170 from Sydney and 180 from Queensland toured Can berra, Oeelong, Ballarat and Mel bourne. The special trains carrying the lads arrived In Sydney at the same time, and the travelers headed by a twelve-year-old drum major marched to the town ball to be welcomed by the mayor, partake of a dinner and listen to an organ convert Similar entertainments were given In other cities. The government paid the trasa- portaUon cost. Bury Child's Clothing to Be Rid of "Spirit It has taken half a century for peace omoers in tne hard-coal fields to learn what motive Inspires those who bury the clothing of children. Thli Monte Blue Cominir In "Across the Pacific" factory at Steubenville, Ohio. Mrs. Emma L. Maynard, Ports mouth, Ohio, private detective who was called in by Collingsworth to as sist him. is to receive the same amount " " Six Steubenville policemen who participated in the arrest are to re ceive $100 each from the government offer for the arrest of Roy and Ray. J. H. Bradstreet, Ross H. Cunningham, Wado Bougher, Ernest Schroeder, Thomas Bignam, niAw-A m . divine Diue, one oi tne screen' greatest favorites has been hooleH to appear at- the Standard Theatre Their names are tomorrow night in Warner Bros., thrilling romance of the air. "Across the Atlantic " M HI.. i. ... i. j I i a u.n nrBCtlCA in the anthraxlta MmtrIMm ttna I k.. .1 u .. . 11 I , " -" lonowing weu known screen The brothers are now serving mystinea state police, as well as offl- stars. Edna Mnmh r. mt.i. t i v,- rw -iu, vnc, uvivukub ouu own-I ana Knnerr. iiher I ... cn , - . v waitiu. Z5T.: J5 EVSZ .. F- Say night's entertainment AlZZZ. J -I the standarJ offers Metro's flashing bod th.re, " 3,mT comedy. "Detectives," with Karl Dane uicc.u. dvuicuuies me Dun- a r v in . Arthur, stars of the leading roles. .Maa 1 w ... . . . ww mig uceu uunea aeen ana nave i-.i.:.h i...n -.. 4L . 17. iwwaies- in me leading roles. I lne coasi. i:ss iees ninery mciua- ment SS! 'V ?9ttl Marceline Day is the girl in "Detec- ed a visit to Portland, Seaside, Seat ment of the mines or by the caving of j hL n -i!; ti. the v w r. a mnferen Y. W. C. A. Official Miss Margaret Lee returned Mon day 'from a two weeks vacation on the coast. M?ss Lee's itinery includ- Welsh, Scotch. Irish and, German miners gradually displaced by Slavs, Poles, Russians, Italian and Monte negrins, who now predominate la the collieries, these murder scares have occurred la the hard-coal fields until now the hurry-up call from some per. on who tells of the discovery by 1. - . . . .... - T "vt vi a ounaie or ciotmng usually ia-dlsoonnteri hv the Come onr iasr winter tornr n xtvmr oimseu to delve Into the mystery, and tie, and the Y. W. C. A. conference at Seabeck. Miss Lee was elected to one of the seven Seabeck offices and in this capacity she will have charge of all Y. W. C. A.'s in Normal Schools of Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana and also of the smaller col leges of Washington, including Whit man and the College of Puget Sound. the M nt hre..h. t .. W,CB "u na one oi tne most lm- w ill r ci lea m me WOrKingB. nortant Darts in which she hna nonn i.VDY kin .a K- .a .V. 4 ntrf I . " T .Mb. vi.v .i I -ao "ie. Rain Helps Crops Weston Leader: D. W. Ulrey was in town on a trading mission Satur day from his farm on Reed and Hawley mountain, and said that mountain crops in general were show ing the beneficial effects of the re cent showers. Spuds were helped a lot, but snrintr srrain mieht look bet ter without threatening a surnluM. national democratic convention at The rains caueht Mr. Ulrev with his Houston, addressed the Kiwanis ciuo hia innnlrr int tha r,,.,. ui'. .1 clover hay harvest in progress. He of Pendleton, Tuesday, and gave an vealed that the hH.i says he is getting a dandy yield of civvei, wiuuii ne eBkinimeB at inree tons to the acre. Peterson Addresses Club Will M. Peterson who was one of the delegates from Oregon to the vealed that the burial clothing is an overseas custom, used ny the peasantry where youngsters are subject to convulsions. The old idea that a child is "possessed" still prevails in some families, with the belief that to bury the entire clothing outfit of a little boy or girl will mean that the spirit goes along with the garments and is burled with them. This discovery adds another oualnt Idea to coal region customs. The oddest one Is that which is followed In the treatment of hernia. The be lief prevails in certain quarters that hernia can be cured by a tree if the treatment is followed in the spring. A tree in the woods Is found that shows signs of the sap starting to How after the winter period of Inertness. Its bark is split and then a bindln Is placed across the gash, the bandage being clothing of the person who suf fers from the hernia. The belief Is that as the new growth bridges the cut the muscles In the abdomen of the sufferer grow together and the rupture is cured. interesting talk. One of the interest ing things said by Mr. Peterson was that the race between Hoover and Smith illustrates the fine opportuni- Lake Fishing Enjoyed ties for young men in this country, F. B. Radtke and son Fred greatly both candidates having been orphans enjoyed a recent fishing trip to Mir- and having worked themselves to the ror Lake in Wallowa county. In front. company with a friend they made the Mother Rescues Child trip by auto and pack horse. Stand- Walla Walla. Mrs. John Thomsen ing on snow banks that fringed the saved her 2-year-old child last night lake shore, they took a satisfactory when fire destroyed her home out number of brook trout to supply the side the city limits. She was visit- camp larder besides packing several I ing a neighbor, Mrs. P. W. Rimbey. layers in fern-packed creels to bring Noting her home on fire she rushed back to home folk. into it and saved her 8 months old baby, ordering a 2-year-old child to New Baptist Pastor follow her. The child failed to come Rev. H. E. Dow late of Princeton, 0ut and she rushed in again. The Maine, has been called to fill the child was slightly burned. Both the homes were Thomsen and Rimbey destroyed. The chairman of a local council In Ireland was not an educated man. He was giving his account of the year's splendid work done by the council. He read th report by the medical officer of health, and quoted the death rate as 12.9 per thousand. "Mr. Chairman," asked one of his opponent, thinking to make capital out of bis lack of education, "what does 12 point 0 meanr What does it meanr replied the chairman, looking severely at his ques tioner. "It means that out of every thousand inhabitants 12 hare died asd 9 axe at the point of death." pastorate of the First Baptist church of Athena. With his wife, Rev. Dow has been visiting at Gresham, and is expected to arrive in Athena this Grass Kills 40 Cattle week and conduct services at the Yakima. Poison of June grass, Baptist church. Sunday. He has al- growing on the range of W. E. Cole- ready met with his congregation and man, lower, valley stockman, killed delivered sermons in the local church. 40 head of a herd of 117 beef cattle almost ready to ship to market. The Fighting Morning Glory herd has been ranging on Indian Charles Williams and other farm- lands north of Bickleton. The poion, 1 ers in this vicinity are going over according to stockmen, appears to be morning glory patches on their farms developed in the grass under certain with applications of carbon bisul phide. A carload of carbon bisul phide is to arrive in Athena this week, and will be distributed to farmers by F. S. LeGrow of the First National Bank. weather conditions. Many cattle be come immune to it, and it is seldom that a loss such as that in the Cole man herd is suffered. A Former Teacher Miss Chandler, former teacher in Back From Camp Kiwanis the Athena schools, was here from The Wauna Campfire Girls, thirteen Sheridan, Oregon, this Week and visit- in number, have returned from a ed at the home of Marion Han- pleasant week's camping at Camp sell. Miss Chandler was accompanied Kiwanis. A wonderful time was had on her Eastern Oregon trip by Miss by the Athena group. , Booth of Sheridan.