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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
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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. -
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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.