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. NOT ONE DAY CAN BE FOUND in the week but. that you do 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, as Second-Class Mail Matter VOLUME U ATHENA, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, MAY 22, 1931 NUMBER 21 TAX COMMISSION WILL MA S Instructions Indicate Course to Be Taken by Those Af fected by New Law. Salem. The state tax commission this week will mail out approximately 65,000 blanks for returns to be made by taxpayers under the new intangi bles and personal income tax laws. Each blank will be accompanied by general instructions for the informa tion and guidance of the taxpayer. "While the list of names used in mailing the blanks has been com piled from all available sources, it does not include many who are liable for the payment of either the intan gibles or personal Income tax or both," reads a statement issued by the tax commission. "In this connec tion the commission calls attention that failure of anyone to receive a blank form through the mails does not, in any sense, relieve him or her of liability for making the return and paying the tax. "All of those subject to either the intangibles or personal income tax who may not receive blanks are asked to communicate with the commission and blanks will be forwarded to them," says the announcement. . The statement continues: While the personal income tax law was approved by the people at the election last November, and taxes thereunder would ordinarily have be come due and payable April 1 of this year, the date for filling returns and making payments was deferred, by order of the commission, to June 15, 1931. This was done for the reason that the personal income and the new intangibles tax law enacted by the last legislature have inter-locking provisions and the latter does not be come effective until June 6.' Both laws first apply to incomes received during the calendar year 1930. The forms prepared by the com mission provide for a single return to be made by each taxpayer, covering income taxable under either the per sonal income or intangibles tax laws, or both, as the case may be. The intangibles tax law distinctly pro vides that it may be so administered in connection with the personal in come tax law. The former applies only to net income received as inter- est and dividends from intangibles, the latter applies to net income of the taxpayer received from other sources. The same income is therefore taxable only once, depending on its source. This combination of the two taxes in one return will, the commission believes, afford the largest possible convenience to taxpayers and, at the same time, will reduce expense and facilitate administration. The instructions which accompany each blank set out in detail the var ious kinds of income which are cov ered by each tax, the deductions and exemptions allowable and the rates under each law, also the penalties provided for failure to file returns and for attempts to evade the taxes. It is distinctly provided that the amounts collected under personal in come and intangibles tax laws, to gether with the amount collected un der the excise tax on income of cor porations, shall be applied to reduce the direct property tax for state pur poses. Such reduction will appear in the state levy of taxes for 1932 and will be reflected in property tax state ments next year. Baker Newspaper Fails The Baker Daily Record, published as a morning paper since March 20, was suspended and will be sold at sheriff's sale by the creditors. Claims against it were said to be about $20, 000. The Record was established as a weekly in 1926. Since January, 1929, Ernest L. Crockatt formerly of Pendleton published it, first as a weekly, then as a semi-weekly, and during the last three months as a daily. Member of Graduating Class Hugh McEwen, oldest son of Mr. and Mrs. A. L. McEwen is a member of the Helix eighth grade class who , will receive state certificates tonight as a part of the high school com mencement exercises. His class is " comprised of eight pupils, seven of whom are boys. The high school will graduate a class of 16 students. Jail Jumping Curbed The next man who tries to jump out of the consultation room at the Walla Walla county jail will bounce back. Sheriff Mclnroe has installed heavy screens to make escape im possible. Robert Beers jumped out last week and landed in the peni tentiary for his pains. Fractures Limb ' Mrs. Percy Wilson is receiving treatment at St. Luke's hospital, Spo kane, for a compound fracture to one of her limbs, as the result of a fall. U. P. Moves To BringBack Local Freight Business A party of Union Pacific railroad officials were in Athena Saturday in terviewing Athena merchants and business men, with the view of re trieving loss of freight business to auto truck service from Portland to Eastern Oregon and Washington points, which the railroad is now ready to serve with a truck pickup service. C. M. Eager, local agent for the Union Pacific, informs the Press that Union Pacific Stages, Inc., have es tablished an express service with free pickup and delivery in a number of towns in Oregon. The service is as follows. The office in Portland will remain open until 6 p. m. to receive shipments from the stage company. These shipments will leave Portland every night, arrive in Pendleton the next morning in time to connect with the O.-W. R. & N. local freight train which arrives here between 9:30 and 11:30 .a m. The time from Portland to Athena is very near as fast as auto truck time and they are endeavoring to get back some of the business that has gone to the truck lines, and which rightfully belongs ,to the railroad company. He adds that the O.-W. R. & N. paid taxes of $1,295,868.22 in the state of Oregon for the past year, some of which no doubt went to the upkeep of the highways over which trucks operate. According to officials the Union Pacific pays Umatilla county this year $232,774.98 in taxes and this money is used for road maintenance, etc. The railroad has several hundred em ployees in the county and many of these own their own homes, spending their pay checks in their own town. Pendleton merchants have been quick to endorse this action and Wed nesday's East Oregonian carried a half page advertisement setting forth the reason why local merchants should patronize the railroads. The new rate schedule is on less than carload lots and include ' free pickup and delivery at your door. Bud Miller has been employed as local pickup man for the Athena district. Oppose License Cut Proposed by Hal Hoss A number of county judges have gone on record in opposition to Hal Hoss' proposed cut in automobile lic enses in Oregon to a flat $3 fee. Eighteen countv luderes have regis tered their disapproval in unmis takable terms. Counties represented so' far by replies are Douglas, Grant Lane, Linn, Wasco, Deschutes, Clat sop, Union Hood River Lake, Uma tilla. Multnomah. Jefferson. Marion Washington and Coos. The auery. asking for "effect on vour county road situation and fin ances if Hoss' proposal for $3 auto mobile license fee is put into ettect, was made of each county judge in th state and of the chairman of the board of commissioners of Mult nomah county. "A property tax on automobiles has proved in the past unsatisfactory and uncollectable," wired I. M. Schannep of Umatilla county. "Under a i license counties would lose $6 to $7 a car, or receive from the license fees only about one seventh as much as now received. How will the bonded counties pay their bonds?" Miss Nichols Will Try It Within a week Miss Ruth Nichols, holder of speed and altitude records for women fliers, will hop oft on her anlo trans-Atlantic flieht. according to a statement made by her technical advisor. Colonel Clarence D. Cham berlain, himself a trans-Atlantic pilot. The take-off will be from Droyer's Point airport, Jersey City, lor HarDor Grace, N, F., where Miss Nicholas will leave the American continent be hind with Paris as her destination. She will fly the same plane in which she established her other records. , Miller in Charge The services of M. I. Miller have been retained by Athena-Weston Le gion post as caretaker and manager of the swimming pool at city park for the summer. The pool was clean ed by- Mr.' Miller Monday and later filled with water from the city wa ter works. With warmer weather, the pool will begin to receive patron age from swimmers of the com munity. Buys Athena Property May Crowley and J. E. Crowley have sold to Peter Sorensen, lot 10 in block 5, Kirk's second addition to Athena. There is a garage building on the lot that Sorensen is re modeling into a dwelling, which he will occupy. Fishermen Were Cold Athena anglers who fished on the Umatilla river Sunday last, nearly froze out, and but few trout were creeled. A rousing big fire built in a pile of drift wood, felt mighty good and thawed svme of them out. Plane Crash in Front Yard Kills Two 1 PH : ml . :Jj 4fell Losing control of a monoplane flying above Los Angeles, two men were killed when the craft crushed Into the front yard of a home. Additional Lots and New Fence Added to Cemetery This week the Athena Cemetery Association added a new plot of thirty burial lots to the cemetery from acreage recently acquired, and a new fence encloses the entire ceme tery property on the east, south, west and on the north, for the dis tance of the new plot. A twenty-foot driveway now ex tends through the length of the cemetery on the south side, and it will be of great convenience in ac commodating vehicles. The new fence is of wire with iron posts. The association secured the fencing material from Rogers & Goodman at cost, and the work of erecting it was done by donation la bor on the part of Ernest Hanie, C. O. Henry, Carl Sheard, Chas. Math ews, Dad Welch and others. Under supervision of the associa tion, the cemetery . Is being kept in good condition. The work done thus far by the association has been ma terially assisted by the few, who have taken membership, and with an in crease in membership, improvement will be made accordingly. A life membership in the association for $100 involves on the organization perpetual care of one burial lot. There are a number of lots now in the cemetery that havebeen under perpetual care of the association, and with perhaps a few exceptions, their appearance is very marked when compared with those lots not having care and attention. On the whole, however, Athena cemetery presents a very favorable appearance at this time, but the as sociation hopes in the future to have support eo that expense of upkeep of all lots may be met. Dad Welch is sexton and caretaker for. the as sociation. , , . Railroads Announce Fare Lower for Memorial Day Round-triD Memorial day excursion fares of approximately one cent a mile over most of the western united States on Mav 28. 29 and 30. with a return limit of June 8, was announced jointly Wednesday by the Union Pa cific, Northern Pacific, Great North ern, Southern Pacific, Chicago, Mil waukee, St. Paul & Pacific railroad, the Spokane, Portland & Seattle rail way and the Oregon Electric. v - The bargain fares will apply be tween all points in Washington, Ore gon, California, Idaho, Nevada, utan and Montana (west of and including Butte and Havre,) also Wyoming (west of and including Granger,) and to some points in British Columbia. Passengers traveling at the cent-a-mile fares may occupy Pullmans and parlor cars upon payment of the usual charges. One hundred ano fifty pounds of baggage will be al lowed and children may travel for half fare. Narrowly Escaped Accident Wayne Pinkerton recently nar rowly escaped an accident on the Old Oregon Trail near Emigrant Springs when he was engaged in hauling wood from the mountains. His truck was narrowly missed by a trailer which broke awav from an oil truck '-' and crashing into the ditch was com pletely destroyed by fire, Z5U0 gai Ions of gasoline were consumed. Athena at Helix Arnold Wood will take his Athena Athletics to Helix Sunday, where they will play the last scheduled league game of the season with Kill lungs Grizzlies. A week from bunday play off games will be played at Pendleton Round-Up park to decide which two teams of the league will play cham pionship game. ' Manager Littlejohn Has a Formidable Bunch of Players for Weston Game S-a-a-y, Buddy! That baseball game which has been given a prominent place on the Weston Pioneer picnic program, between Athena and Wes ton pre-war players, is going to be a sizzler, and no doubt about it, what ever. Lissen here: " ' Catchers Frank Sanders, C. M. Jones, Lawrence Lieuallen, Hugh Lieuallen. Pitchers Dave Stone, Arthur Jen kins, Herman Hoffman, Frankie La Fave. Infield Curley Catron, James Cress well, Justin Harwood, Arnold Wood, Alex McKenzie, Herbert Parker. Outfield Henry Dell, Allen Bell, Ralph McEwen, Jesse Smith, Gerald Kilgore, John Standage. There they are! Is it any wonder that Billy Little john, shrewd and capable manager that he is, is all oiled up over hav ing the honor of pitting such a bunch of peachy players against Sad Sid Barnes' Weston Wobblies. And Billy is smoking 50c cigars. Let him smoke 'em; all he wants of them. With such a flock of players to burn up the Weston diamond Billy and the fans over here are counting the game as good as won. One of the fellas is itching to win a roll of kale from Sim Culley, and another says the shouting will be over when the Weston goat is tied to the grand stand, placidly masticating Kernel Wood's pink pajamas. Play Bawl! Saturday afternoon, June 13th, free to everybody. Lenore McNair Marries C. E. Crane, Klamath Falls Friends of Mr. and Mrs. Lew Mc Nair have received announcements of the marriage of their daughter Vera Lenore to Charles Edward Crane on Sunday, May 3, at Klamath Falls. The bride who is a sophomore at the University of Oregon is an at tractive and charming girl who is popular with a wide circle of friends in Athena and at college. She is a graduate of Athena 4igh school and is a member of Alpha Delta Pi. Mr. Crane attended the University of, Washington at Seattle and is now employed by the Standard Oil com pany at Klamath Falls where the young people will make their home. Rebekahs Election Is Spirited at Corvallis Corvallis. Esther Bond of Halsey was elected grand warden of the Re bakah assembly in a spirited contest in which eight candidates vied for the position which will lead to the presidency of the order. The election occupied the entire morning session of the Rebekahs. Ora L. Cosper of Dallas, and Edna Jacobs of Portland, who have been secretary and treasur er respectively for 40 years, were re elected. Ethel Meldrum of JMilwaukie, vice president, was advanced to the presi dency, succeeding Leona Thiel of As toria. Maude Rodgers of Enterprise, elected warden last year, moved up to the vice presidency. Registration at this 75th annual session of the grand bodies of Odd Fellows, passed the 1200 mark Wed nesday as more delegates and visitors poured into the city for the opening of the grand lodge proper. Grand Master L. L. Baker of Eugene oc cupied the chair. J. M. Wilson of Tillamook was elected grand patriach of the grand encampment of Odd Fellows, He succeeds E. J. Pratt of McMinnville. E. E. Sharon of Portland was reelect ed grand scribe for the 38th consecu tive year, and A. H. Knight of Canby was reelected treasurer. William O. Marley of Hillsboro was named grand junior warden, the only new elective officer, the others being advanced in regular progression. Other new offi cers are Earl H. Shank, Hood River, grand high priest; Joseph Schweit zer, Portland, grand senior warden, and Pratt, grand representative. G. W. Haw of Portland holds over an other year as the other grand repre sentative. On installation of Grand Patriarch Wilson he announced the following appointive officers: Charles Meldrum, Milwaukic, grand marshal; C. E. Bragg, La Grande, grand sentinel, and C. B. House, Klamath Falls, grand outside sentinel. Rock Gardens Popular Rock eardens on street parkings are becoming popular with Athena home owners. The latest rock con struction is at the home of Mrs. Gross on Fourth street. Rock was secured on the Weston Mountain and Bryce Baker . proved himself worthy of the rank of landscape gardener, by the oritrmality he employed in ar ranging the rocks to receive the growing plants. In Justice Court Pleading guilty in Justice Rich ards' court to possession of a still and liquor manufacture, Fancho Stubblefield was fined $500 and given 30 days in the county jaiL Hanley Stubblefield and Carl Meifert, arrest ed with Fancho in the south part of the county, were given 60 and 30 days in jail respectively. The still was taken by officials in the Albee lec tion. Annual Spring Recital Miss Edna Hanna of the Malen Burnett School of music announces that she will present the pupils of her Athena class in their annual spring recital at the school auditor ium Tuesday evening, June 2. The complete program, will be published soon. Commencement Exercises Close With Fine Program Athena high school auditorium was filled to capacity Friday evening, when the twelve members of the graduating class were given their diplomas at the close of an interest ing commencement program. Prof. Lapham of Whitman college, delivered an inspiring address and the musical numbers, vocal and in strumental, were delightfully receiv ed by the audience. Numbers by the glee club, under direction of Mrs. Bloom, Dan Tilley's school band and a splendid number by a mixed quartet, were features of the evenings program. In well chos en words, Jack Moore presented the class gift, an encyclopedia set, to Athena high school. Arnold Wood, chairman of the school board, pre sented the diplomas to the class mem bers. New Golf Course Is Assured by a Full Membership A new golf course is assured for Athena by the signing up of a full membership club of twenty; at $15 each, as required by Laurence Pink erton, who will put in a course of nine holes in his pasture which com prises about 37 acres of grass land, lying north of his farm home near town. ,, ' Mr. Pinkerton will start work at once on the course which was laid out by Glenn Dudley, and hopes to have it completed for play within a week or ten days. As described by Mr. Pinkerton, there will be a couple of sand hazards in the course, but in the main the course has a good cov ering of grass. He made a trip to Pilot Rock to see the golf course at that place, and says the Athena course will be much superior to the one at the Rock. Those included in the club's mem bership are Gordon Watkins, Dean Pinkerton, Penn Harris, M. I. Mill er, Arthur' Taylor, E. C. Prestbye, Bryce Baker, Leonard Geissel, Wayne Pinkerton, D. A. Lowe, Ernest Dun can, Bert Logsdon, Gerald Kilgore, Max Hopper, Justin Harwood, Lisle Gray, F. N. Johns, W. J. Kirk, Dr. McKinney, F. S. LeGrow, Sol Pickett, Miss Helen Hansell, Leland Jenkins, Frank Little and W. P. Littlejohn. Other names are expected to be added to the membership roll, as there is considerable interest being taken in the new course. Pass State Examination M. I. Miller teacher of the eighth grade in the Athena school reports that all pupils taking the state ex aminations passed with a good aver age. The examinations were consider ed fairly easy, history being the most difficult. Mildred Alkire made the highest average in the class, receiv ing a grade of 95. The other mem bers of the class are Buddy Weber, Arleen Foster, Aaron Douglas, Dan ny Reeder, " Max Johnson, Maxine Martin, Jewell Pinkerton, Fern Car sten and Norbet Walter. Campfire Girls Have Permanent Quarters Athena Campfire groups are active in plans for the summer months to come. At a meeting Monday of the Wauna group which has as guar dian, Mrs. Bert Logsdon and Mrs. C. M. Eager, the members decided to take over the Kemp property on Jefferson street. The owner Henry Mraz has generously offered the use of house and premises for Campfire headquarters for the three groups, Wauna, Ohayata and Bluebird. The girls are making plans for improve ments and expect to make the house attractive with fresh paper and paint. They will appreciate any as sistance which might be volunteered either in th9 way of labor or furnish ings. Try also announce a silver tea to be given at the Christian church, Saturday afternoon June 6 when a display of quilts and hooked rugs will be a feature. There will also be an exhibit of handcraft by the girls, accomplished this year. Ohayata group met Wednesday at the McEwen home. The meeting was held on the lawn and was followed by games and supper, a feature of which wbs steak broiled over a campfire. Long Way From Home Two thousand miles from home a dog awaits his master in the "refuge" of the Chicago Anti-Cruelty society of Chicago, 111., according to a letter received from the society by R. D. Brown, Umatilla county clerk, Mon day. The dog was picked up by the society and found to be wearing Uma tilla county license tag No. 1264. County records showed the number was issued on Febraury 27, 1930, to W. H. Swanson, Pendleton. Building Stock Barn Marion Hansell is building a com modious hay and stock barn on his Wild Horse mountain ranch. The frame work is constructed with forest log material, the roof of corrugated iron and lumber is utilized for the sidings. The barn will afford space for a large tonnage of hay and shel ter for cattle. Ballot Title Ready Baltyt title for the referendum of the state police department act ap proved by the 1931 legislature, has been completed by Attorney-General Van Winkle and delivered to the sec retary of state. The ballot title was requested by Ed H. Averill, ex-state game warden, who filed the prelimin ary referendum petition. Pendleton Man Suicides Will H. Isaac, 61, son of the late Captain Isaac, Helix pioneer, com mitted suicide in the southern out skirts of Pendleton, Monday. He drank carbolic acid. His wife and three minor children reside in Pen dleton. He had been despondent for several days. The body was discov ered near a fence Tuesday morning by a Pendleton youth, who notified the authorities. BUTLER AND I GEN COMMITTEE PLAN Executive Conference of the State Police Was Held at Salem Tuesday. Salem.--"Don't confuse the state police of Pennsylvania with the coal and iron guards," Major General Smedley D. Butler cautioned news paper men here in the course of an interview Tuesday afternoon. "Most people do that to the detriment of the state police. The coal and iron guards are private police hired by the coal and iron companies to guard private property and have no connec tion whatever with the state police organization." Butler, here by invitation of Gov ernor Meier, went into conference with the governor's special committee to give the benefit of his experience in police organizations for use in set ting up the newly created department in this state. Contrary to the general impression, that he was called west to organize the Oregon police, the marine general made it clear that he was only here to tell the gover nor's committee what he knew about such organizations through his years of marine and police work. From his experience and that of other experts the committee will evolve the organization that is to head up law enforcement activities in Oregon. Members of the committee are Major General George A. White; Brigadier General Thomas A. Silea; Colonel A. E. Clark of Portland; Luke S. May, Seattle criminologist, and R. R. Hewitt, dean of the school of law of Willamette university. " The conference was strictly inform al and just as strictly executive. "There s nothing coming up that the press and public would be inter ested in," Major General George A. White, chairman of the committee, told newspapermen clamoring for ad mission to the conference chambers. "If there is any row or if General Butler forgets himself and uses a cuss word we will let you know about it." Correcting an impression gained from a press dispatch originating in the East to the effect that he favored the enlistment of single men exclu sively for the state police organiza tion General Butler declared that he was not prejudiced against married men in such an organization. "An ideal organization will only h take in single men but would permit them to marry after so long a time." he explained. "That's the way we do in the marines. We don't take in married men on a first enlistment but after they are in many of them marry with the approval Of their officers and then reenlist and remain in the ser vice. Fully 25 per cent of the ma rines are married men. There's a lot of rough work to be done in any po lice organization and wives might be in the way, you understand." Butler considers the state police force of Pennsylvania a model organ ization of its kind, and declared that it had resulted not only in increased efficiency in police work in that state but in materially reduced costs. Vic Harris Home Again Vic Harris, who . spent several months at Portland, where he re ceived medical treatment has arrived home and is in greatly improved health. Vic says he was not so lone some in Portland, as long as he had John Rothrock to crony with. Funeral of Mrs. Stanfield A UrctB number of friends attend ed tha funeral of Mrs. Harriett Town- send Stanfield, pioneer Umatilla coun ty woman and mother or benator Robert N. Stanfield, at Echo, Tues day afternoon. Mrs. Stanfield had spent most of her life in Uregon, com ing to Pendleton in 1873. For many Hhn lived at Umatilla landing. She is survived by the following children: Robert N. Stanticld ot ta kpr; Hui?h N. Stanfield. of Echo; Gerald E. Stanfield, of Weiser; Mrs. Asa Thompson ol San rrancisco; Mrs. Daisy Frasier, of Riverside, California; Mrs. Carl Helm, of La Grande; Mrs. Arthur Means, of Portland; Miss Katherlne Stanfield, of Echo; Mrs. J. B. Perry, of Pendleton, and Ralph Stanfield of Echo. Feeds Jravelers People along the highway running through Athena are confronted with the problem of feeding, the traveling "hikers" so prevalent now due to un employment. One resident reports appinir a eroun- of four bovg about high school age who were attempting to "hitch-hike" across the country. This same person admits that hard ly a day passes that at least one way farer asks for food or money to buy it. Mac-Hi Graduates 59 Last night pupils of MacLoughlin high took part in closing exercises. Fifty-nine are in the graduating class. Gwendolyn Beardsley delivered the salutatory address. The main ad dress was given by Dr. E. T. Allen I of Whitman college, Leave for Portland Mr. and Mrs. William McBride and daughter, Mrs. Ferrol Clark and lit tle son Jimmie have left for Portland after spending the past two weeks visiting at the home of Mrs. Edith Lumsden on Dry Creek. Mrs.Clark and Jimmie whose home is in Chicago drove here and will spend the sum mer with her parents in Portland. Mr. Clark is an engineer on a yacht i plying tho waters of tht Great Lakes,