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A BIG JOB, BUT ITS DEAD EASY It would be a big job to tell one hundred people any thing that would interest them in your goods, but its dead easy if done the right way. This paper will tell several hundred at once at nominal cost r - r 3M NOT ONE DAY CAN BE FOUND in the week but that you d not need stationery of some sort or other. We furnish neat, clean printing at the very lowest rates. Fast presses, modern types, modern work, prompt delivery. Entered at the Post Office at Athena, Oregon, aa Second-Class Mail Matter VOLUME 43 ATHENA, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, DECEMBER 12, 1930 NUMBER 50 A HEROIC RESCUE the ii T n Pilot Wasson, Guided By a Signal Fire Finds Two Alive, Burke Dead. v White Horse, Youkon Territory Two months since they disappeared in a seaplane in the now frozen Yukon wilderness, ' Bob . Marten, Wrangel, Alaska,, prospector and Emil Kading, German plane mechanic, were found alive Wednesday, but their pilot, Captain E. J. A. Burke, was dead. For the past 23 days the only food the men had was a caribou they had killed. Aside from , being greatly weakened by their ordeal, the men showed no other effects excepting that Kading suffered two frozen toes. j After three other fliers are pre sumed to have lost their lives in the search and two more are now missing three weeks, Pilot Everett Wasson flew back here Wednesday with Mar ten and Kading,' both in the last stages of- exhaustion. They said Burke died from exposure November 20. The plane, loaded capacity with the rescued men, will have to be flown back' to bring in Burke's body. The men were located by their signal Are, 40 miles from where the three had abandoned their plane in the head waters of the Liard river. Two other fliers, R. I. Van Der Byl and T. H. Cressy, flying to Burke's rescue ever an inland route have not been heard from since they left at Thutade Lake, B. C., three weeks ago. ,, - . The rescue, one of the most spec tacular in aviation annals, was accom plished through the heroism of Was son and his guide, Joe Walsh, veteran prospector, after two U. S. Navy and seven other American and Canadian planes had withdrawn from ; the search for the Burke party- and the other rescue plane, carrying Pilot Robin Renahan and two Seattle men, which is now believed to have plung ed into the se near Prince Rupert, B. C, ''v..-. - ,- - Seventeen days ago Wasson located Burke's plane, apparently undamaged and frozen in a lake about 50 miles from Wolf Creek, -Yukon. Returning he found Burke had landed safely and found a message carved in a tree, which read': "October 17 Leaving for Wolf Lake. Need food badly." Wednesday, they, found Kading and Marten alive about 40 miles from the deserted plane. They had lived fru gally on what wild game they could kill after their provisions ran out. The bitter cold, however, had taken the life of Burke. The pilot, whose home is in Van couver, B. C. is survived by a widow and two sons. '' ... The rescue solved the greatest mys tery in the history of aviation in the far sorth since the disappearance Of Colonel Carl Ben Eielsn and Earl Bor land, who were found dead in north ern Siberia after" a three months search. Oregon Census Shows Ten Persons Per Square Mile Oregon has an average population of 10 per square mile, according to final census figures, as compared with 8.2 10 years ago. Multnomah county has a density of 779.4 per square mile, while Harney county, the most sparsely settled, has one person to each square mile. Klamath county grew most rapidly, with an increase of 183.9 per cent; Lincoln second, 62.8 per cent; Jack son third, 61.3 per cent. , Twenty-six counties increased in population ' and 10 decreased, Port lands final figure is 301,815 and there are five other cities of more than 10, 000 Salem, Eugene, Klamath Falls, Medford and Astoria in the . order named. . , . Nine cities have between 5000 and 10,000, ranking as follows: Bend, La Grande, Baker, Corvallis, Pendleton, The Dalles, Oregon City, Albany and Marshfield. " ' New Manager Here . . H. H. Lawerence is the new man ager for the Union Oil company in Athena, taking the place of Clifford Wood, who has been transferred to the company's office at Pendleton. Mr. Lawrence who , has been with the Union company for over two years was formerly at the Pendleton sta tion. The Lawrence family is living in the Lila Kirk cottage on Third street. Two sons are in the grade school here. .' : T Investigate Bread Price ' The Justice department at Wash ington has instituted an investigation into the price of bread to "ascertain the reason for the spread between the price of raw material and the finished product, Attorney General Mitchell said the inquiry was initiat ed by the department without sugges tion fxtta any f oir ce. . . . . MAdoo Wants Surplus Wheat Fed Unemployed Los Angeles. Congress, J William Gibbs McAdoo believes, should ap point a commission to transform millions of bushels of wheat, purchas ed by the farm board in an effort to stabilize its price into food for the unemployed. ' , . ' McAdoo has been in telegraphic and letter communication with leaders of the house and senate and the eco nomic .conservation committee of America for several weeks. . At the suggestion of Senator Joe T. Robin son, former secretary of the treasury and one of the leading Democrats of the nation, submitted a number of. suggestions. Mr. McAdoo said: "My ideas concerning the disposi tion of this wheat may' be briefly summarized as follows: - "1. Creation Of an emergency relief commission of three members, to in clude one experienced in milling and second a baker, also of experience. "2. That the farm board be direct ed to deliver without cost from time to time to this commission, on its requisition, up to the maximum of 75,000,000 bushels of wheat. u3. That this commission should be broadly empowered by congress to convert into flour and other forms of food this wheat, to be distributed free through 'the Red Cross or existing philanthropic and charitable organi zations or agencies throughout the country to destitute,' jobless and suf fering people.. 4. This commission should select its ' own chairman and be empowered to employ the necessary clerks and assistants and use government office space and facilities. "5. Congress , should also make a small appropriation for expenses of this commission say $50,000. ' "6. This commission should expire officially by limitation, January 1, 1932." - Milton People in Wreck Bob McCumber, well known Milton man is in a Walla Walla hospital badly inured as the result of an acci dent which transpired near Umapme early Sunday morning,' when a truck loaded with young people returning from a dance, failed to make the turn on the highway and rolled over. While McCumber and others were debating how to get the truck back on the highway, a car came along and ran into them. - McCumber sustained a broken leg and probable skull frac ture. Albert Welty was seriously in jured and one of the girls in the party had several teeth knocked out. Umatilla Rapids Bill Is Heartily Endorsed, Meier "Unqualified indorsement" of the senate bill providing for immediate development of Umatilla rapids is an nounced by Governor-elect J. L. Meier in a statement issued to the Colum bia Valley, association, as follows: - "The immediate passage of senate bill No. S-2252, providing for the de velopment of the Umatilla Rapids project on the Columbia river for the four-fold purpose of navigation, power, reclamation and interstate bridge and giving municipalities a preference right for the purchase of power developed and containing a tax reimbursement clause which will re sult in reduction of taxes, has my un qualified indorsement. "This measure is patterned after the Boulder Canyon dam act which is now in operation and is both feasible and practical. The present unemploy ment situation, the generation of pow er, augmented by the imperative need for lower transportation rates on agricultural products, -emphasize the importance of this legislation. It will prove an impetus to state develop ment in Oregon and will permit of greater industrial and commercial ex pansion. Its economic value cannot be over-estimated and it is worthy of the support of every citizen." ' ' Garage Man Faces Trial 0. W. Carpenter, Dixie garage man, Monday went f to trial in superior court at Walla Walla, charged with second degree murder. Carpenter shot Hank O'Malley in a dispute over potato land, O'Malley later dying from the wound. The defendant, who formerly was a resident of Portland, claims he-shot in self defense. College Women Meet Hotel Pendleton will be the scene ef a luncheon tomorrow at one o'clock when college women of this section will meet to effect an organization. To be eligible as an active member a woman must be a graduate of a selected college or university and to be an associate member an attend ance of two years is necessary. , Dogs After Sheep Dogs mutilated several sheep and killed one or two in the flock of Charles Betts, south of Athena, one day this week. A watch is being kept on the , flock and hereafter all stray dogs seen at the Betts farm will receive a warm reseeptio'ta. , . Sunshine D Won the Prize Rod for Catching Largest Trout The $25 prize fishing rod awarded by Rogers & Goodman for the largest trout caught in a Umatilla county stream during the open season, was won by Arthur Jenkins of Athena. A 20-inch rainbow took down the rod. It was a beautiful "speckled beau ty," and ho mistake. " Arthur took it on a plain snell hook baited with angle worms, one bright morning and was; in town, with the prize fish be- 1U1C llKJKfll, "At first,"; says Art, "I thought a measlie white fish was nibbling at the bait, but when I tightened the line I believed I was fast to a snag. Then all at once the big boy came to the surface, and after that things began to happen and all at once, too. "There was a log at the lower end of the hole and the big fellow made a bee line for it, and under he went. It was then that I had a lotta hard work keeping the line in position so that the leader would ' not become fast. Finally I edged him out from under the log and were him out." For- a while during the fishing sea son, Dick Swift held an option on winning the rod with an 18-inch rain bow, which he landed on the Umatilla river, below Pendleton, and up to the time Jenkins caught the big 'un that didn't "get away," had the prize won. Whitman Team Defeats Locals Eldon "Myrick, ex-Athena high school player, brought his Sigma Chi fraternity basketball team over from Whitman college Friday evening, and defeated his old team mate3 " in a practice game, 37 to 21. Coach Miller played his full string of basketball tossers in the fray, and all were in good condition except Lowell Jenkins who was nursing a sprained ankle. Athena proved to" be close in checking and thus held the score down. The Whitman quintet played a smooth of fensive game throughout, while Athe na showed up very well in the first game of the season. Jack Moore was the high point winner for Athena. J The B. B. Club A pleasant evening was spent Mon day by the B. B. club, when members were guests at dinner at the home of Mr. and Mrs. M.VI. Miller. A Christmas note was accented in the decorations and the tallies used at bridge which followed dinner. Mrs. Flint Johns and Bert Logsdon won high honors for the evening and Mrs. Lloyd Michener was awarded the consolation prize. The club will he entertained next Tuesday evening at the home of Mr, and Mrs. C. M. Eager. Society Flier Sets Mark Ruth Nichols flew her Fleet, mono plane "the. New Cincinnati" past all the transcontinental records of her own sex and took her place right up among the best of the masculine fliers Wednesday by completing a two-aay one-stop flight from coast to coast in 13 hours, 21 minutes and 43 seconds. Christmas Health Seals S. R. Thompson of Pendleton, is county chairman for the sale of Christmas Health Seals under the auspices of the Umatilla County Health Association. Towns of the county will further the sale of Health Seals over the preholiday period. ... Henry Dell motored to Walla Wal la Tuesday...... ... , ...;..,.. Athena Beaten By Milton In First Blue Mountain Basketball League Game Eddie Buck's basket shooting abil ity was just sufficiently good Wed nesday evening for Milton to win the opening game from Athena Athletic Association's team in the Blue Moun tain League, by the score of 26 to 22. As indicated by the close score the game was well played. By close checking Athena 'overcame what she lacked- in toBsing -skill,' and .;. only Buck's cleverness accounted for the difference of the four winning points. With a little more practice Athena is going to put up a fine article of basketball. Milton led from the start and was never headed. The first quarter end ed, Athena 4,.Milton 7. At the end of the first half the score stood Milton 17, Athena 11. In the third quarter Athena crawled up with 7 points, making it 18, while Milton garnered 6, stopping at 23. Milton was held to three points in the last quarter, Athe na scoring four, the game ending 26-22. The lineup for Athena was Wayne Pinkerton, center; John Pinkerton, Dean Pinkerton, guards'; Arthur Tay lor, Wilbur Harden, forwards. Subs Jim Hodgen, Orel Michener. Following is the revised and com plete playing schedule of the Blue Mountain Basketball League: Wednesday, Dec 10 Milton at Athena, Pendleton at Adams. . Tuesday, Dec. 16 Athena at Pen dleton, Milton at Adams. Friday, Dec. 26 Adams at Athena, Pendleton at Milton. Tuesday, Dec. 30 Athena at Mil ton, Adams at Pendleton. Tuesday, Jan 6 Athena at Adams, Milton at Pendleton. Wednesday, Jan 14 Pendleton at Athena, Adams at Milton. Wednesday, Jan 21 Milton at Ath ena, Pendleton at Adams. Friday, Jan 30 Athena at Pendle ton, Milton at Adams. Thursday, Feb. 7 Adams at Athe na. Double header same night Adams High vs. Athena High at Athena. Pendleton at Milton. Admit Law Power Admission bv the defense that exist ing laws and the constitution make it mandatory upon the governor to nrHor (tnerial elections to fill legisla tive vacancies featured the hearing before the supreme court on the peti tion of George Putman of Salem, edi tor of the Capital Journal, for a writ of mandamus to compel uovernor Norblad to call a special election to fill the vacancy caused by the recent death of Lloyd T. Reynolds, state senator (rom Marion county. Give Free Haircuts Hair literally flew at the Children's Farm home northest of Corvallis Monday night when 26 Corvallis bar bers "sheared" the heads of more than a hundred of the youngsters. The haircutting evenings are month ly occurrences at the children's home, Corvallis and Albany barbers alter nating at giving this service, which amounts to nearly a thousand dollars a year in cash value to the manage ment of the W. C. T. U. institution. A banquet ia served before the bar bers go to work. Athena At Walla Walla -Coach Miller will take his Athena high school basketball team to Walla Walla tomorrow, lei1 a practice game. Traffic Officer Lieuallen Discusses Proposed Law Captain Buck Lieuallen, state traf fic officer in charge of this district, has returned from Portland where he attended the meeting of the western division of the U. S. , Chamber of Commerce last week says the ' East Oregonian. The chamber officials dis cussed the proposed new state traffic law with traffic " officers of this' state in order to gain the latter's -opinion upon, its advisability. . - -.., Captain Lieuallen said this morn ing that he was in favor of the law, and that it had already been, adopt ed iri eight states. The proposed law, he said, was drawn up by high traffic officials all over the United States in an attempt to find speed regulations that would be applicable anywhere in the country and could be easily en forced. The new speed regulation, which will be presented to the coming ses sion of the Oregon legislature, calls for a basic speed limit of 45 miles an hour. Persons can, however, drive faster than the basic limit without fear of being arrested provided that they do not do so recklessly, and comply with all other traffic laws. In effect, Captain Lieuallen said, the law allows persons to drive as fast as they wish if they do so safely. 0. D. O. Club A group of nine ladies who are members of the 0. D. 0. club were entertained last week Thursday af ternoon at the home of Mrs. Clifford Walker. Chrysanthemums were used with pleasing effect about the rooms and a social afternoon of needlework and chat was enjoyed by the guests. The hostess was assisted at the tea hour by Mrs. William Bush. Final plans were made for the "hard times" party to be given by the club at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Forrest Zerba tonight. A pot luck dinner will be a feature and members and guests will appear in costumes appropriate to the occasion. Oregon Trail Association Walter Meacham. former resident of Baker who has been living in Port land recently, was named temporary chairman of the reorganized uregon Trail association, when members of the organization met at the offices of the Oregon State Chamber of Com merce. E. ; G. Harland of the state chamber staff was named temporary secretary. Following his appoint ment Meacham named an organiza tion committee which will arrange a meeting to be held later at which it is proposed to form a permanent organ ization. Find Victim's Skull Blossom bar, in the Rogue river canyon above Gold Beach, has yielded a relic that harks back to the days of battles with the Indians. While men were bulding a trail to a mine their packs uncovered a human skull in which an Indian arrow was imbeded back of the mouth. Barley Used For Fuel Farmers in the vicinity of Roland, Mahitoba, are using theif surplus barley for fuel, instead of coal and wood, considering it to be cheaper at the price paid for the grain there. i i i I. Rain Supercedes Fog A rain storm Wednesday night superceded a long period of fog in this part of the state. The tempera ture rWa perceptibly. ' -- - Continental Oil any Bring Programs Back Bryce Baker of the Athena Service Mation, and local manager for the Continental Oil company, informs The Press that the company has ae-ain brought the famous Conoco programs back on the' air, beginning Decem- oer 3. , . ( . Athena will hear the Conoco uro grams by tuning in on KGIR, Butte, from 9:00 to 9:30 every Wednesday evening. -r .- - The feature of this radio hour is that the listeners themselves will have n vj ; - I I j - -tr a hand in building the programs. The broadcast will be known as the Cono co Listeners' HoUr and will be on the air once a week for 26 weeks from 17 stations, scattered throughout the country. ' -.'. The programs will be of the musical and variety type. In addition to Pat and Peggy, the regular program staff will consist of the Conoco orchestra and the "Rondoliers," a male quar tette. Each week an outstanding per sonality from the world of music, art, the theatre, etc., will be featured. Ginger Rogers, stage and screen star now playing the lead in Broad way's outstanding musical show, "Girl Crazy,' will be featured on the initial broadcast. Others who will be heard on future programs include Bud Fisher, cartoonist, creator of "Mutt and Jeff;" Frank Umbriaco, accordinist; Roy Cropper, tenor, who sang the leads in "Hit the Deck," "The Student Prince," and other shows; Betsy Ayers, popular radio soprano; Bobbie Watson, comedian of the "Follies" and the "Winter Gar den;" alargaret Speaks, neice of Oley Speaks, the composer, who will sing his songs; and Blanche Ring, musical comedy and light opera star. Charles Vonderahe Given Pardon From Penitentiary Salem. Charles Vonderahe of Mil ton, Umatilla county, sentenced to life in the state penitentiary for sec ond degree murder, was granted a conditional pardon by Governor Nor blad. A conditional pardon was also granted to John Wisdom, sentenced in Wallowa county to serve 15 years for a statutory crime. Vonderahe was convicted of killing a man named Jepson. He was re ceived at the prison May 4, 1922. A petiticr signed by 459 residents of the Milton district asked for clem ency, and Zoeth J. Houser, sheriff at time of the crime, and 10 members of the jury that convicted Vonderahe joined in the request for pardon. United States Senator Frederick Steiwer, who defended Vonderahe, in formed the governor that the evidence was largely circumstantial and pro duced by paid detectives. He said that -the late Judge G. W. Phelphs who tried the case often expressed doubt of Vonderahe's guilt. The governor s secretary, Irl S. Mc- Sherry, recently spent several days at Milton investigating the case. Putting Needy Men to Work The Pendleton civiv emergency em ployment bureau has started function ing in earnest this week to decrease unemployment. Alva : Blalock has been secured as full time clerk of the group. I Six men were put on jobs Monday morning, four getting work from the city water bureau. The city council will finance the office the rest of the month and in the meantime the county will be approached for funds to carry on the work. "Cracked" His Shoulder Leroy McCubbins fell from a lad der when one of the steps broke un der his weight at the Farmers Grain elevator, with the result that, to use "Cubby's" words he received "cracked" collar bone. He has not been working this week on account of the accident. Date Has Been Changed The date for the installation of of ficers in McKenzie Chapter, 0. E. S., has been changed to Wednesday eve ning, .uecemBw 17. - . .. , PRESIDENT RAPS HIGH BUDGET PLA Declares Efforts Are Being Made To Impose Fi nancial Burden. ' " HiiiiiiiKtuii, u. ii..rnN npnr t-t r ver declared efforts were being made tu impose greater ninancial burdens upon the government than its fin ancial position would permit. rrospenty cannot he restored W raids on the public treasury, he warn ed. Noting that nendint? lecislAtinn would impose" additional . WHen f 14,500,000,000 above the sum he ask ed for in his budget message, he said the budget contained the maximum expenditure the. eovernment eonM make without increase in taxes. Any tax increase, he mntmnorl would fall on the farmer and worker. Mr. Hoover Said some orennizntirvnu were playing politics at the expense of "human misery." ine American neonle will not ha misled by such tactics," he added. With the republican-democratic re operation movement wavering. Sena tor LaFollette, republican, Wisconsin, mtroauceo a resolution to declare the tenate for "the relief of human suf fering in this emergency over the consideration of the interests of wealthy income taxpayers." Senator Harrison of Mississippi who has been friendly to the pledge of democratic leaders for co-operation on an emergency relief nroomnv called Mr. Hoover's declaration "un warranted, uncalled for and without justification" and asserted "no man ever won more political favor unon misery of the people than . has the oresent president of the United States." Even as Mr. Hoover was reading his warning that "prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the treas ury the administration" position for n $9K nnn nnn limit n. A,,i. wu. v.v a. a. i.i. uii uivulii I r I II 1 was under attack in the senate by Senator Robinson of Arkansas, the democratic leader who had pledged co-operation. The senate promptly passed the bill of Senator McNarv of Oregon, the assistant republican lead er, for $60,000,000 drouth relief and did not even consider any cut in this amount. Venison May Be Given To Bend Needy Families Bend. Two hundred nounds of vpi.1. son will be distributed to the poor here at Christmas time, if present plans are carried out. aa the result of an auto accident Sunday night near Lava Butte, 10 miles south of Bend. "Heine" Menth. Bend hotel man. re. turning from an unsuccessful goose nunting trip, killed two Blacktail does when his car ran into a band of five defer on the highway. The road runs between deen snow. banks at that point and it was im possible to avoid the deer, Menth re ported. One of the deer was fatally nurt by the car and the other was so badly injured it had to be killed. Menth turned the carcasses over to Sheriff Claude McCaulcy, who placed the meat in cold storage. Arthur Turk. district deputy game warden, plans to ask permission of the game commis sion to distribute the meat among the needy at Christinas time. Hogs Polled, Bring $8.25 A double-deck car of fat hoo wnm loaded out of Enterprise last week by the Wallowa County Stock Market ing association for the Walla Walla Meat company, it is reported that the hoes were purchased bv the Wal la Walla concern for $8.25 per cwt. Keports indicate that the bulk of the hoes has been shinned from that sec. tion and that shipments for the next few weeks through the cold weather will be somewhat lighter. Hogs have proved by far the most profitable business for farmers in this section during the past year. Kitzmilltr Joins West Officials in charge of the annual east-west charity football game at ban rrancisco, December 27, an nounced that Johnny Kitzmiller, star University of Oregon halfback, had reconsidered a previous decision and had agreed to play with the western eleven. Kitzmiller was one of the first players invited to represent the west.Later it was reported he had de cided to cast his lot with a team be ing lined up for a benefit game in Los Angeles. Legion Holds Big Meeting One hundred and four member were in attendance at a meetintr of the American Legion Post in Pendle ton, Monday night of this week. This is said to be the largest meeting ever held by the Pendleton Post. Jack Biggs, state commander delivered an address. '