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... . ... ... - .... i Entered at tfae Post Office at Athena, Oregon, as Second-Class Mall Matter VOLUME 49. ATHENA, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 10, 1928 NUMBER 32 PREPARING ROUND-UP Dates of Big Show Are An nounced for Septem ber, 19-22. Pendleton. -It may be Said (and very truthfully) that Pendleton, at thc-close of one year's Round-Up; beirins plans for the mext. . For the great Western exhibition, now in its nineteenth year, has become so well established as a community enter prise, that it is a part of- the life of the community itself. Nevertheless, these pre-autumn days keep Pendletonians especially busy with preparations for the annual event as the dates, September 19, 20, 21 and 22. come on apace. Ihe town wears an expectant air and every where there are evidences of Round- Up plans. Cowboys and cowgirls who are champions and champions-to-be, are comine in their usual numbers. Among the competitors this year will be the big aggregation of hne per formers and beautiful stock known as the Charley Irwin and Eddie Mc Carty outfits (two separate groups). Included in the galaxy of feminine stars is Mabel Strickland, queen of the 1927 Round-Up, and the only wo man steer roper in the world. Pretty Mabel, despite a serious accident to her hand while roping last year, would not relinquish the hemp until she had the steer tied with a neat ness and speed which the cowboys envied. Of course the bucking, as always, will bf a most colorful event and to its stock of capricious horseflesh the Round-Up recently added a large group of bronks which are con scientious objectors so far as saddles or riders are concerned. Dan Clark, livestock agent for the Union Pacific, has gone south to bring back Mexican steers guaranteed to give ropers and bulldoggers plenty of occupation. Ticket orders are " being received daily and plans for special trains made". . Convict Escapes Guard at Eureka Walla Walla. Diving through a window of the train in which he was being taken to the state penitentiary here, Frank J. Becker, sentenced from King county, leaped from the car as the train was leaving Eureka junction at eight o'clock last night and made good his escape. Becker was convicted on a burglary charge and was given sentence July 31 to from three to five years. Shots fired by the guards failed to stop the man and at an early hour this morning he was still at large. Traveling guards, John G. Buscko and H. D. Drain were bringing 12 prisoners to the penitentiary, hand cuffed according to custom, in pairs The guards believed that Becker must have secured a key from some source as he unlocked the handcuff before jumping. Buscko continued to Walla Walla with the remaining 11 pris oners while Drain remained at Eu reka to conduct the search for Becker. Guards were sent immediately from the penitentiary to aid in the search. The escaped prisoner is 23 years old, five feet six inches tall light com plexioned, and weighs 150 pounds. He was dressed in a brown suit and was wearing a brown cap when he left the train. Swim Instruction Is Started Over County The Umatilla County Red Cross life-saving instruction program has begun under the direction of Harold Hatton, who gave free instruction to swimmers at Milton-Freewater on Thursday, Friday and Saturday of last week. This week, on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, he gave in struction at Athena in the Athena Weston Legion pool. Next week, on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday he will give . instruction at Umatilla, in the Columbia river. On Friday, of, next week, he wil re turn to Milton to give tests for life saving emblems. Beginning August 15, two weeks of lessons in life-saving will be given at the Pendleton Natatorium. Budget Committee Appointed Norman Mumford of Freewater, and T.Tt. Hampton and James K. Hill of Pendleton, have been appointed by the county court to serve as members of the 1929 budget committee for Umatilla county. Advancement in Air Won by U. O. Graduate 0 s ASTORIA WANTS EQUAL RATING "T" rTimirTiiMiiiiiiMMlir-iig' UNIVERSITY OP OREGON, Eugen -Advancement in the field of aviatio has come consistently to Archie Loomib a graduate of the University with the class of 1926, according to word re ceived this week by his friends hero. After graduation, Loomis went first into the air corps of the United Btates army. His ability as a pilot was reeently recognized when Loomis was selected to fly the night air mail -between Ban Francisco and Los Angeles. He then received an offer to do engineering work for the airplane division of the Ford Motor company, and he is now with that company. Loomis recently flew through the Northwest iu an army plane. Trailer Blocks Road and Two Men Killed Pendleton. Two Pendleton men, H, S. McCutcheon and Martin Hickey, employed by the Union Pacific at the Rieth terminal, west of here, were Killed near here early Friday when the machine in which they were rid' ing was struck by a trailer attached to an Old Oregon Trail freighting company truck. Mrs. McCutcheon and her daughter and L. E. Erickson and Riley Thompson escaped serious in jury in the crash. Mrs. McCutcheon had driven to Rieth to meet her hus band, and he and the other railroad men were ' en route to their home3 when the accident happened. , The freight truck with the trailer was - westbound to Portland from Walla Walla and pulled over to the extreme right of the road to permit the McCutcheon machine to pass. The trailer struck a large boulder on the shoulder of the highway and swung across the road, side-swiping the McCutcheon car. v Coming to Round-Up The East Oregonian reports that George Drumheller, who for years has brought his outfit there for the Round- Up, will be there again this year, bringing about 50 head pf bucking horses, saddle horses and running horses. Ben Jory, who has been meet ing with success in shows at Gresh- am, Mollala and Ehgene, will be there with 50 head of stock and about 15 cowboys. He plans to go shortly to Sumas to hold a show there. ... La Grande Man Shot George Perry, La Grande barber, was fatally shot just before noon Monday in his barber shop, five small caliber bullets entering his body. He died shortly afterwards at the hos pital. Eddie Fallows, 34, immediately after the shooting, went to police station and surrendered. He freely admitted the shooting', declaring that Perry "had been bothering" Fallow's wife. Wheat Market Down The wheat market has gradually declined over the past week, and few sales have been reported. Yourig People Meet About fifty young people spent a delightful evening at Milton on Satur day, those present being young people of the Christian churches of Milton, Athena, Adams, Helix and Pendleton. Juanita Crawford was in charge of the games. She is the first contest ant in the state to read the book of St John seven times. The next af fair will be August 24 in Pendleton. City Desires to Remain Neu trajBut Wants Same I , Grain Rate Basis. Portland.: Walter M. Nelson, traf fic manager, at the mouth of the Columbia, voiceoV Astoria's plea for a place in the sun as a wheat export port at the I. C. C. hearing. He in dicated that Astoria wanted to re main neutral in the Columbia basin differential controversy between Seat tle and Portland and desired mainly to be placed on an equal rate basis with Portland. Edgar W. Smith, president of the Astoria Mill Company, came out flat ly against the differential declaring that it hampered Puget Sound and Astoria millers exporting to the Orient because they could not take advantage of the early harvest in the territory south of the Snake river. Seattle representatives opened their rebuttal attack just before the ses sion closed, when C. R. Lonergan, rate expert of the Washington de partment of public works was called to the stand. Mr. Lonergon present ed exhibits to show that operating costs on the O. W. R. & N. lines were higher than on the three main railroads in Washington, the Great Northern, Northern Pacific and Milwaukee. Portland's testimony was closed with final cross examination of N. A. Leach of Kerr Gifford & Co., and the appearance of A. button, ot Strauss and Company. Mr. Sutton s view on the differential represented a radical departure from previous witnesses. He was in favor, he said, of wiping out all differentials; that is that Seattle should get the same rate as Portland from the territory south of the Snake river, and that Portland should get theame rate as Puget Sound from the Big Bend and Yakima districts where Seattle now enjoys a. differential. , . a , Forest Fire In Heppner Area Is Now Under Control PROGRESS SHOWN IN FARM CROPS U. S. Department of Agri culture Issues Monthly Report. The fire which has been burning in the Heppner ranger district of the Umatilla national forest since July 27 is well under control and the force of fighters has been reduced from 400 to 150. The area burned over will total approximately 20,000 acres. About 10 per cent of the mature timber in the district was lost. The fire was extremely hard to fight because of a severe lightning storm, low humidity and a strong east wind, together with a scarcity of men due to the harvest season. Men from Pendleton, La Grande and Condon were fighting the flames in addition to the 200 sent from Port land. The fighters were rushed to the scene in stages via the John Day highway. The fire burned in a tri angular district bounded by Heppner, Spray and Monument, enabling the men to get within a few miles of the blaze in the stages before hiking. The largest of the fires was the Tamarack, which covered about 19, 000 acres, the forester said. Five smaller fires made up the other 1000 acres. Most of the burns were in a fine growth of yellow pine and in fir. Harvest crews and men working for the bureau of roads on the Heppner Spray project, gave valuable assist ance. Others working with the fight ers were W. B. Osborne, fire-fighting expert from the Portland office, and Lieutenant Arthur MacKenzie of the MacKenzie-Morrow Aviation company who made four successful flights in observing the extent of the flames. 4 fnne cronorallv have TYinfA rnnirl w.j.-j ' 1 progress during the past month, with haying in full swing and Wheat harv est moving - northward, says the United States Department of Agri culture in its monthly report on the agriculture situation. Growth has been furthered by the frequent rains throughout the east em part of the country, although they have interfered somewhat with the haying and wheat harvest, says the department. The July estimates of acreage indicated some increase in the total crop area over last year but the composite condition of the princi pal crops on July 1 was not quite up to average. Spring wheat is headed and fairly well filled except where it. has been hurt by drought as in sections of South Dakota and southwestern Min nesota. The July reports indicated a total spring wheat crop about aver age but much smaller than last year Wheat harvest is slowly moving up into the North, having been delayed by bad weather. In the Great Plains territory winter wheat is threshing out to better yields than expected in many sections, though some of the grain is reported as rather high in moisture content and low in protein content Stands were thin in central and eastern sections, some areas re porting there would not be enough grain threshed to furnish this fall's seed. Corn is tasselled out and silking in most of the corn belt. Present prospects for the crop are much more favorable than they were a year ago, says the department. Should an average corn , crop or one above average be harvested, its effect on the hog situation would probably be to make the corn-hog price ratio favor able to feeding after October, with subsequent late movement of the spring pig crop. Whether such price ratio may also stimulate increased pig production next spring will be a matter for producers to decide. The prospect is favorable for hog raisers if production is not again overdone. The tendency of crop prices has been downward lately, including prices of corn, wheat, cotton, and potatoes. However, the general price position of farm products as a whole is still the most favorable in eight years. Purchasing power of farm products stood at 95 in May and 93 in June the five pre-war years repre senting par, or 100. Thi3 is the high est level of purchasing power since 1920., . Harold Lloyd In "Speedy" Tomorrow Harold Lloyd will make his appear ance tomorrow night at the Standard Theatre in his big picture of the year, "Speedy," for which it has been necessary to raise the admission price to 10-35-50c. In "Speedy," Lloyd has been given one of the greatest ve hicles of fun he has ever appeared in, and those who have seen the pict ure say the eminent comedian has made the most of his opportunity. Sunday night the Standard will feature its program with new faces, John Stewart and Estelle Brody, in "Mademoiselle From Armentieres," a fine, big Metro-Goldwyn picture, correctly termed "The Big Parade" of the British army in the World War. On Saturday evening, August 18, Mary Pickford will be at the Stan dard in "My Best Girl," at regular admission prices. Scout Camp Ends Its Season Sunday Six weeks of camping at the Boy Scout camp at Camp Rotary on th? Walla- Walla river ended Sunday with the conclusion of the third two week session. About 275 boys enjoyed the camp for varying periods, some stay ing but a week while others remain ed at the camp for the whole six weeks. Every troop in the Blue Mountain council was represented at the camp. , A group of Rangers, the older scouts, have left on a four day hike into the Blue Mountains under the leadership of F. D. Hawley, Scout executive. They packed everything on their backs. - t ; a Harold E. Kirk Harold E. Kirk a Hill Academy Student Harold E. Kirk, who has been in Portland for the past year attending Hill Military Academy is spending the summer with his parents Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Kirk. Cadet Kirk won many honors in athletics and is en thusiastic over his years work at Hill He expects to return in September to continue his high school course. He says that several of the junior and senior classes of the academy are taking training in aviation which is one of the latest additions to the cur riculum. Mill Military Academy tries always to feature what is new est and best. FORGED CHECKS ARE RETURNING Official Blanks of Elks Club Stolen and Name Forg ed On Them. Child Killed In Automobile Collision The four-year-old child of Mr. and Mrs. James Bruce of Helix was killed Wednesday afternoon in that city when the family car, driven by Mrs. Bruce collided with a truck at an in tersection of streets: The child was thrown against the windshield, its throat cut, and death resulted from loss of blood. Mrs. Bruce suffered minor injury from the accident. ; Mr. and Mrs. Bruce formerly re sided in Athena, where Mr. Bruce was employed as salesman at the Athena Department Store. Salem Gets Convention Salem was selected as the place for holding the state convention of the American Legion next year. The choice was made at Medford on the last day of the convention there, which was the roost successful of any hedd thus far. Head Badly Cut Lou Churchill, employed with the Sam Pambrun harvest crew, was brought to town yesterday morning with a badly cut head. Dr. Covan dressed the injury, which required several stitches. Churchill was struck on the head by the header arm, when the machine was started up for the morning's work. A Mountain Party Pendleton and Athena people form ed a party which spent Sunday in the mountains near Cold Spring. Leav ing Athena early, breakfast was en joyed over a campfire. Those in the party were, Mr. and Mrs. Thereon and daughter, Mrs. Strahorn of Fendle ton; Mr. and Mrs. Velton Read; Mr, and Mrs. W. O. Read, Mr. and Mrs W. McPherson and Mr. and Mrs. Vir gil Zerba and family of Athena. Pick ing huckleberries was the diversion of the day. Down State Miller Says Rate Avaded By Portland Mills G. G. Bushman, a miller from Springfield, gave Portland millers a bad half hour when he tcok the stand in the interstate commerce commlS' sion hearing Monday afternoon at the Heathman hotel says the Oregon Journal. He said Portland millers are bring ing grain into Portland on export rates, milling it then shipping it as flour on joint through rates into the Willamette valley, instead of loading it on ships and sending it abroad. For this reason, he declared that the Portlanders can undersell him 40 cents a barrel on .flour in his own tor ritory. And for the same reason, he contended, the Portland millers had induced the Willamette Valley Millers association to bring in the resolution which appeared in the hearing a week ago asking for transit privileges which do not exist. That harmony is not always the rule in the association was attested by the Springfield miller and also by Louis Fisher, Silverton miller, both of whom when questioned by Paul Farrens, counsel for the Southern Pacific, said they did not support the resolution. As for the moral turpitude of using the export rate as a blind to cover flour milling for domestic flour com petition. Bushman was less positive. In fact, he told Examiner Hall that a saving, say, of 45 cents a barrel in production would be quite enough temptation to engage in the same practice. "But I don't get a chance where I am," he lamented. "You don't have the assistance of experts," Commissioner Meyer sug gested. "If there is anythiig the Portland brokers don't know it's not worth knowing," Bushman rejoined. Bushman's testimony was good for a number of smiles. Walla Walla. Forgery operations A which argquite extensive were re- lVnolofl VtnvA iraetA1nif iitltsito fc lima j jr toiiti j wild! l - waa madexnown that someone stole a number of blank checks printed offi cially for the local Elks club and has been using them to obtain money The checks which were printed with the Elks club name in official manner, and which were machine numbered, were on the First National bank of this city. A number of them have reached here. All of the checks cashed are in de nominations of $25. One of them was forged at Yakima and from there, it lb said, a regular trail of them ex tends eastward through Wyoming and Nebraska. The name signed to them was not learned. Bank officials were in consultation yesterday with Louis Romaine, secre tary of the local club, who stated that the checks were stolen from the offi ce at the club rooms. Sheriff's of ficers have been consulted and it is believed that the forger will be ap prehended in the East. It was pointed out yesterday that the local bank and the local club are not responsible for the losses which will have to be borne by the banks which have cashed the checks. Land Opened In Oregon More than 12,000 acres of land in Lake county will be opened to entry by the general public on October 12, the general land office of the federal government announces. The lands are suitable for grazing during the spring, summer and fall and will car ry from 15 to 20 head of cattle per 640 acres. Starkey Forest Fire Forest fire at Starkey southwest of La Grande, spread over 700 acres of timber land Tuesday making a total of 1000 acres burning at that place. Position At Mill Lee Hiteman has joined the clerical force at the Preston-Shaffer Milling Company plant in Athena, taking the place vacated by Clarence Zerba. Portland Wants Oregon Railway Portland. Business interests in the city of Portland demand the building of a railroad from Crane or Burns across central Oregon to a point near Crescent Lake both as an aid to the development of Portland and other Oregon communities and as a pro tection against possible sapping of the commerce of the state by San Francisco interests in the event the Southern Pacific builds north from Lakeview into central Oregon. This view of the railroad hearing before Commissioner McNanamy and Ex aminer Rogers of the Interstate Com merce commission was presented at today's session by II. J. Ottenheimer, director of the Portland Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Ottenheimer also set forth the lively building up of Washington areas in comparison with the less rapid development of Oregon terri tory and cited competitive railroad activity in Washington as the cause of the faster growth of the neighbor state. Drivers of Grain Trucks Are Arrested Arrest of eight wheat haulers in Walla Walla county for overloading trucks by State Highway Patrolman Patterson Saturday brought a flood of complaining citizens and farmers to the offiice of Justice of the Peace Monday. Preliminary hearing will be held this week. Patrolmen state they are not con sidering damage to state roads caused by overloading trucks, but the main complaint is that trucks are not car rying proper licenses. Many trucks carrying tnree tons oi wneat nave one-ton licenses, they allege. Farmers, it is said, have urged truckmen to overload in order to get the grain into warehouses out of danger from fire or rain, the danger from the former being great. Modern New Hotel After an intensive drive lasting over a month, Uaker citizens nave succeeded in raising enough money to insure the construction of a S296, 000 hotel. The hotel will be one of the Multnomah chain. Fred Soli, former Athena merchant, is chair man of the executive committee and Frank McCullough of the citizens' committee. On Train-Air Service Portland will be placed on the first transcontinental passenger train-air plane service out of the Pacific North west August 20, when Great North ern passengers on the Oriental Limit ed will be privileged to buy as part of their transportation a ticket calling for an airplane hop from Min neapolis or St. Paul to Chicago. Harvest Season Closing Harvesting of crops on the light soil lands is nearing completion, and in the heavy soil districts the work is well advanced, with many machines through this week. Man, Dies of Burns Floyd Derrick of Lewiston, was aught in the flames while fighting a grain fire Tuesday, and died as the result of burns.