THE PRESS, ATHENA OREGON;! MAY 2$.
yosEPH'siiofif:-;
I SHOCKSOPPOSITION
Said To Presage New Deal
Effecting- Republican
Party In State.
I
- Sizing up the shock given the op
position by Joseph's nomination in
the republican primaries, the Port
land Journal says:
That George Joseph's nomination to
the governorship by the Republicans
presages a new deal in Oregon poli
tics was freely discussed by the
politically minded after study of the
detailed vote cast in Friday's ejec
tion. ;,-
Practically complete returns from
all over the state give Joseph a plu
rality of 4361 over Governor Norblad.
With the exception of 30 precinel3
scattered in 1ft upstate counties the
vote stands: . ,
Joseph 50,294.
Norblad 45,933.
Corbett 33,758.
Hall 9646.
Bennett S935.
Jeffrey 1699.
Senator Ed Bailey's plurality for
the Democratic gubernatorial, nom
ination over George R. Wilbur is 1417
with only scattering precincts miss
ing from the count. The vote. .
Bailey 11,125: .' : ' ''VI; .
Wilbur 9,708. .-. :" - v '
- Piper 4,119. : W ;'-:.', '
Hough 2,339. . :
That Joseph is' anathema to certain
organization Republicans . long" "''has
been an established fact. During his
several terms in" the state -senate' he
has carried on" in accordance with his
own conception of public service, and
it is this indcptendence" of mind . and
action that the organization so called
does not care for. ;' .
On the other hand, Joseph's -smashing
plurality of nearly 13,000, votes Jn
Multnomah gives organization,, lead
ers something to ponder.' ;. ' .
However, nearly six "months . will
pass before the November elections
and much can happen politically in a
half period.; ( ... V-., ;
Hermiston Lad Rescues
Boy From Drowning
w Hermiston. Jack Pace, eleven year
old son of Mr. and Mrs; John B. ace
of Hermiston, who was spending Sat
urday at his father's ranch in the
Stanfield district, together with 6
y ear-old Anderson Brown, a neighbor
boy,-was fishing alongthe banks of
the Umatilla river where they met
with a near tragedy of which Jack
was the hero. They, were sitting on
the bank, which is about 10 feet high
when the dirt gave way and the 6
yearold Brown boy fell into about
12 feet of water. - ' ' . -
Without thinking of, danger to him
self Jack immediately plunged into
the pool and after considerable effort
succeeded in rescuing the little boy
who by this time was practically un
conscious, and succeeded in carrying
the small lad up the bank into the
house. . After investigation by -Mr.
Pace and Mrs. Erowri, ' the boy's
father, it was decided that a rescue
from this part of the river would be
considered a heroic deed from a much
older boy and capable swimmer.
Motor Vehicle Licenses ,
Go In Mail This Week,
': -r Licenses Due July 1st
' Salem. Nearly 300,000 application
blanks for motor vehicle licenses are
going into the mails this week from
the, office of the secretary of state,
Hal E. Jioss, in readiness for tl.i ap
proach of the annual registration
period. For the first time in the
automobile history of the state, year
ly license fees will be due July 1,
1929 legislature having changed the
registration year from January to
July, and set June 30, 1930 as the
final date for the use of the .six
months' windshield stickers which
have served since the first of the
year. ;' i '"; ', '
With the belief that the greatest
number of people would find it easier
to pay for a year's license for their
automobiles . in the summer than fit
the first of the year, the legislative
assembly adopted the new fisoal
licensing year, establishing 1930 as
the time for the change to the new
system. Yearly licenses may be pur
chased for automobiles not register
ed before in the state on June 15th.
Applications may be mailed direct
to the office of the secretary of state
at Salem, or may be -presented- to the
Portland branch office, 69-5th Street,
or to the offices of county sheriffs in
all counties except Marion and Mult
nomah, where offices of the motor ve
hicle division of the state department
are ' located. ' . In obtaining i . plates
through the. sheriffs, an added fee of
25 cents is required which goes into
the county funds as compensation for
the service furnished. Temporary
permits to be affixed to the windshield
will be provided by the, sheriffs to
serve as receipts until plates are re
ceived from the Salem office.
V With the exception of trucks oper
ating under the motor transportation
act, passenger cars and trucks will
carry the same kind of plates. ' Those
coming under the transportation pro
visions will be indicated with a: letter
"M" preceding the numerals. Plates
for the new season will fee black with
orange numbers and, will be effective
until June' 30, 1931. . ..J . ? .
McLcughlin High School j
Debaters Are Winners In
, - Annual State Contest
Seven Plead Guilty In ;
Third Federal Drive
Moscow,- Idaho. The law cracked
its whip' over another batch of north
Idaho prohibition , offenders indicted
il) the "third federal drive" and seven
men were sentenced in federal court.
The seven, indicted following "a
drive by dry agents in the Lewiston
section, pleaded guilty and were sen
tenced as follows:
John Mullen, two years at McNeil
island prison, for sale. ?
Edward Burr, eight months m coun
ty jail and $250, for sale. . !'
Robert Poore, Craigmont, six
months in county jail and $200, for
sale. , .
James Turner, six months, county
jail and $250, for manufacture. !
Louie - Mathewson, ten months,
county jail and $250, transportation.
Millard Pancleve, five months, coun
ty jail, transportation. .
Eugene Weinman, four months
county jail and $100, possession and
sale. , . ,", , -
Interest was focused on this "third
drive" in which only about 20 were in
dicted, chiefly because of the Mullan
whiskey rebellion," which netted 80
liquor offenders, including most of
the town officials, and because of the
forthcoming "Wallace trial" in which
two score, including city and county
officials are named.
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A. W. LOGSDON
Main Street' ' Athena, Oregon.
University of Oregon. Basing their
argument on. the increased efficiency
and lowered financial cost that arc
claimed for the cabinet form of gov
ernment, the debate team of - Mc
Loughlin Union high school, Milton
Freewater, won the , decision ; of the
judges in the state championship con
test of the Oregon' High iJcho j! De
bating league Saturday night, r The
specific question of the -debate was
"Resolved, that Oregon, should adopt
the cabinet form of government pro
posed in senate joint resolution 1 p.
16 passed by the S5th legislative as
sembly of Oregon. ' , . -r
Marie Van Slyke and F.,' Claris Vause
battled the affirmative for McLough
lin Union high school against William
Dougherty, Jr., and George Winnq,
who argued the negative side for
Medford high school., . By its victory,
the McLoughlin team won the large
silver cup awarded annually by Pro
fessor and Mrs.,E. E. DeCou of the
university. ',
The two teams had previously been
declared champions of Eastern and
Western Oregon. Each section of ,he
state had been divided into 11 dis
tricts, and a long series, of prelimin
ary debates that took place during the
past several months eliminated all tlie
high schools except McLoughlin and
Medford from final competition. Two
cups, offered by Burt Brown Barker,
vice-president of the university, were
presented Saturday night to the two
teams for their eastern and western
championships. ' ' '';' :"
H. E. Tobie, president of the league,
presided over the contest. The judges
were Dr. Ralph C. Hoeber and Pro
fessor Wayne L. Morse of the univer
sity faculty and Robert Prescott, Eu
gene ; business man.' :
Red Cross To Hold -
Life Saving Institute
San Francisco. Instruction in
swimming, life-saving and first aid
will be offered by the American Red
Cross at a two-weeks institute to be
held at , Hicks Lake, Lacey, .Washing
ton, from June 16 to ,28, it was an
nounced here by Edwin H. Carroll,
director ' of First Aid and Life Sav
ing for the Pacific Branch, American
Red Cross. . b
The institute is open to anyone in
terested in water safety, but - is
especially designed for men and wo
men who , are or wish to become
swimming teachers, life-guards, camp
directors or first ., aid instructors.
Swimming, diving, life-saving, first
aid and camp protection - will be
among the subjects taught. ... ? ;
The fee for the institute is $40,
which includes room, board, instruc
tion, textbook, use., of boats and
canoes, and insignia earned by the
successful completion of the courses.
A Red Cross nurse will be on duty
throughout the sessions to safeguard
the health of the students and, to pro
vide for the comfort and welfare of
the young women. V' , , ''''
Detailed information and applica
tion blanks may be obtained through
the nearest Red Cross chapter or by
writing direct to the department of
First Aid and Life Saving, Pacific
Branch, American Red Cross, Civic
Auditorium, San Francisco. '
CHARGES MADE BY
STATE TREASURER
Money Belonging to Schools
Diverted to Attorneys '
and Undertakers.
Rockne Cancels O. S. C. Date
'The summer coaching school at
Oregon State college June 16-28 will
be conducted without the services of
Knute Rockne this year as the
famous mentor has been ordered by
physicians to cancel all engagements
until fall in ; order to regain his
health to take charge of his regular
coaching woirk. . Paul' J. Schissler,
who has worked with Rockne in sum
mer schools for six years, will be in
charge of the football '" instruction,
and other members of the staff will
handle basketball, track,, baseball and
other, sports. , ';
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"'"Salem-.--Charges that the state's ir
reducible school fund is being depriv
ed of large sums of money each year
through the stripping of escheated
estates ' by : "grasping ' attorneys,
undertakers and other persons with
the approval of : ' generous '' county
courts," are made by T. B. Tvay, state
treasurer. Kay's charges are based
upon records on file in his office. - .
"These records show that grasping
attorneys, undertakeis and other per
sons, -with the approval of generous
county courts, strip tho escheating es
states to the very bone, rather than
permit the funds to be .paid into the
state treasury for, the benefit i of the
common schools,'' , Kay declares. ..
As, an illustration of the extent to
which some of the estates have been
pillaged Kay cites what ha declares
to bo typical examples of some of the
most flagrant of these case.-s. One of
these was a case originating ...in
Southern Oregon in 1010
The estate, consisting almost entire-'
ly of cash, amounted to. $1,242.71.
Notwithstanding the fact that the de
cedant . left no ' debts other than
medical and, funeral expenses other
claimants so stripped .'tho estate that
the state's irreducible school fund re
ceived only $165.15 out of it. And
this amount Was not paid into the
state treasury until this year, nearly
10 years after the estate was. first
closed. ':. ',. , -
. After . allowance of an item of
$207.75 for funeral expenses and cost
of grave lot, the estate was reported
in 1921 to permit the administrator to
spend an additional $140 for a marker
for the descendent's grave. The re
opening of the estate necessitated the
filing of a supplemental account for
which the attorneys charged an ad
ditional fee of $25, making a total at
torney's fee of $175 for administra
tion of a' cash estate. ' ' ; '
, Another case which Kay cites in
volves an estate in Multnomah county
consisting of cash and Liberty bonds
totaling more than $4600 ; in which
the' cost of 'administration and at
torney's fees amounted to -$650. - .
Still another case is cited involving
an estate of $2225.29 in cash which
was reduced to $760.79 by the time
the lawyers undertakers, administra
tors . and other cliamants had com
pleted the work of stripping it. Cash
disbursements in this case show the
following items: Funeral expenses,
$419: preparing cemetery plot and
erecting stone, $470; care of grave,
$10; administrator's fee, $230; attor
ney's fees, $250; filing fee and pub
lication expense, $65.50.
In this case, Kay pointr, out, the
statutory administrator's fee was
$129, but . a generous court allowed an
an item of $250, largely for "super
vising expenditures in payment of ex
travagant bills, and also allowed a
like amount for the attorney for the
estate." ' ' " ; - ,
"Probably the most glaring ex
ample of a raid on the estate of a
decedent dying without heirs," Kay
explains, " was one which consisted
entirely of cash in the Portland banks
amounting to $3552.37. The decendent
left no debts, but by the time the
proceeds of the estate reached the
common school fund they had dwin
dled to $1689.98." '
' "These cases demonstrate that
many of the attorneys adopt the at
titude that since escheat cases are
not contested and there are no heirs
to claim the proceeds of such estates
they afford an excellent ppportunity
for the enrichment of the attorney's
at the expense of the common school
fund or of the heirs in case heirs ap
pear at a later date to salvage what
is left by filing a claim against the
school fund," Kay declares. ; -
"In this they are supported and
encouraged by the tacit approval and
indifference of the probate 5 courts
which allow the final accounts in the
particular cases, and by the inaction
of many of tha district attorneys
whose duty it is to represent the state
in escheat proceedings.
... "As a result the school fund does
not get its just share of the funds
which accrue from this cource and
which are invested in first mortgages
or bonds, the interest returns from
which are annully distributed to the
various school districts. ; ;
"If these depredations upon the
estates of this kind are not discon
tinued," Kay warns, "I will feel it my
duty as state treasurer and as a mem
ber of the state land board, to file ob
jections to the final accounts and to
expose publicly the disbursements
from the estates by publishing the
names of the parties who are guilty
of making the excessive charges and
of the courts that allow them."
CHURCH OF CHRIST
Charles A. Sias Minister
Sunday Services
? 9:50 Church Bible School.
11:00 Morning worship and ser
mon. r" - I , ,
7 p. m." Young people's meeting,
8:00 p. m. Song service and ser
monette. " ' ' -
Choir - rehearsal each Thursday
night, v ; ' ; ' .;
Women's Missionary society meets
the first Wednesday of the month.
Monthly "Church Night" the third
Wednesday night each month.,,. s ,
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More Electricity Used
In the Past Decade
A phenomenal increase of 129 per
cent in the electrical power production
of the nation was written in the de
cade which closed with the end of
1929.
In the post war period between 1920
and the present the production of
electrical power jumped from 43,555,-
000,000 kilowatt hours to 97,293,000,-
000, according to figures of the federal
geological survey.
Generally regarded as mirroring the
industrial activity of the nation, the
use of electrical power rose approxi
mately 10 per cent in 1929 over the
previous' year. Total production in
1928 was 87,850,000,000 kwh.
New York was the ereatest pro
ducer of electrical power with 14,451.,
000,000 kwh, and California was next
with 8,850,000,000.
' Robber Shoots Victim
Baker. Harry Howden of Haines
frustrated an attempt to rob his
garage, but fell with a bullet wound
in his right hip after a gun fight with
the robber. The robber jumped
through a pane of glass in the front
door of the garage and escaped in
an automobile, which was wrecked a
short distance from the city. Howden,
now seriously injured, said he heard
a noise at the garage. Taking a small
caliber pistol, he investigated. Step
ping behind an automobile, he came
face to face with the intruder, who
started firing. Howden is in a hos
pital here.
Honoree Is 92 Years Young 5 ,
Weston Leader: Once again, Mrs
Harriet , Douglas, well-known- and
highly resjfocted citizen of the com
munity, has been permitted to cele
brate her birthday anniversary , sur
rounded by friends and admiring ac
quaintances. Last Wednesday mark
ed the ninety-second observance of
her very own day and found the eld
erly woman in usual health, filled
with good cheer and the Joy of liv
ing, r
Milton Chapter Entertains
Mrs. Theresa Berlin, Mrs. Areta
Gurney, Mrs. Minnie DePeatt, Mrs.
E. L. Hiteman, Mrs. H. A, Barrett,
Mrs. James Cresswell, Mrs. Ham
Pambrun, Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Cop
pock, members of McKenzie Chattr..
O. E. S. of Athena attended a meet
ing of Loyalty Chapter of Milton,
Wednesday evening of last wek.
Members of Crescent Chapter of
Weston, were also present.
Masons At Pilot Rock
Eighty-seven Masons were present
at a meeting of the Pilot Rock lodge
Monday evening of last week, when
the Pilot Rock lodge entertained the
Masters and Wardens' district club.
Visiting members from the lodges of
the county were present. Those from
Dolph lodge of Athena were L. M
Keen, Chas. Smith, Louis Berlin and
Herman Hoffman, , ,
For Sale Rhode Island babv
chicks. Phone 455, Athena.
CLASSIFIED
WATTS & PRE8TBYB
Attorneys-At-Law
Main Street. Athena, Oregon
State and Federal Court Practice
Dr. W. Boyd Whyte
CHIROPRACTOR
Stangler Building, Phono 70S
Pendleton, Oregon, 957 J
Foley's Kidney Cure
kidneys and btedJjr rltrhC
Jensens
Blacksmith Shop
Repair Work
Prices Reasonable
Athena, Oregon
Real Estate
Wheat. Alfalfa and
Stock Land
SHEEP FOR SALE
L. L. Montague, Arlington
Pleads Guilty to Sale
and Possession
B. B. Richards, when in
terviewed by .the Press
man, pleaded guilty to the
sale of the best insurance
obtainable for the money
and possession of more
policies in reserve ready
at a moments notice for
your use and purpose. A
policy for every hazzard.
B. B. RICHARDS,
Insurance
PETERSON & LEWIS
; Attorneys at Law
Stangier Building, Pendleton, Oregon.
Practice In all State and . Federal
Courts. . -
Dr. W. H. McKinney
Physician and Surgeon
Dr. Sharp's Office
Ofilce Hours at Athena 1 to 5 p. m.
Phone 462. Office Hours at Weston
8 a. m. to 12 noon. Phone 83. Calls
made day or night.
We Can
CastYour
Plates
The installation of an
Klcctricaster Stereotyp
ing Machine makes it
possible for ua to accom
modate our merchant
advertisers and others
in tlie matter of making
printing plates from
matrices. Itmcansaval
uahle addition to our
equipment in thematter
oi serving our patrons.