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IF YOU WANT ALL THE NEWS OF MORROW COUNTY WHILE IT IS NEWS, READ THE HEPPNER HERALD. WE PRINT IT FIRST VOLUME IX HEPPNER, OREGON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1923 NUMBER 41 FOR 0. S. SENATE AYOULD CONTEST FOR C. L. Mo NARY'S SEAT Writer Credited With Being Close to Klan Activities Gives Some Advance Dope Under a Salem date line E. A. Koen, publisher of the Polk County Observer, and who has been credited with having given out the most re liable advance political information regarding matters in which the Ku Klux Klan and the Patriotic societies are interested, recently sent out the following interesting article: News that former Senator Cham berlain contemplates returning to Oregon in the near future and an nounce his candidacy for the .United States senatorship has created a po litical sensation. It is the one big item up for discussion wherever pol iticians congregate, and the senti ments expressed are varied. Adding to the interest in this sit uation news comes from Washington that on March 1 Mr. Chamberlain will be out a job on the shipping board, and that he and the other members of the board arei quitting at the request of the president. All of which adds spice to the situation. On the republican side a strong movement is under way to induce State Senator Charles Hall to be come a candidate for the republican nomination. The Marshfield man shakes his head and insists that he has had all of politics that he wants for a decade and that he intends to devote his energies to business. Not withstanding this declaration pres sure continues to be made upon the man who came so nearly getting the republican nomination for governor. Inside information is that Mr. Hall will not run. Organization republicans, by which is meant the leaders of the party in the recent disastrous campaign, are out for Charles L. McNary, who Is out of favor with the elements that went over to the democratic party and elected Walter M. Pierce gov ernor. The "regular republicans," as they choose to call themselves, ar gue that they cannot understand the logic of the contention that McNary injured himself with republicans by precipitate action in making it pos sible for Olcott to appoinnt the dis trict judge of Coos and Curry coun ties just before Olcott's retirement fro moffice. They insist that it was his duty to make it possible for the republican governor to name the man. Scandal Said to Loom fl'g Reports coming from Washington relative to the forthcoming reaigna tios of all the members of the Unit ed States shipping board, are so cir cumstantial that they are being ac cepted as facts by those in the know. The story goes that President Hard ing called in all members of the board and went over with them evi dence of corruption that has been collected by the federal department of justice, and which, it is said, will startle the nation when It is made public. The president is said to have taken the position that the scandal is to be of such dimensions that he felt that the shipping board should have be come cognizant of the facts long be fore the official Investigation was started. It is claimed that the mem bers of the board, and particularly former Senator Chamberlain, urged that the corruption really took place before he was in office long enough to act. To which the president re plied that he had gone into the mat ter thoroughly and had concluded that in the interest of the party np represented in office the members of the board would have to go. In plain terms he is sajd to have advised them to hand In their resignations, effec tive on March 1. Having no other recourse It fol lows that shipping board members agreed to this. This narration throws light upon the private letters that Chamberlain has been writing to per sonal friends that he expected to sever connection with the shipping board about March 1, and returning to Oregon become a candidate for the United States senate, seeking the democratic nomination. (Continued on . column 1) ANOTHER PIONEER WOMAN' PASSES AWAY Mrs. Ruth E. French, perhaps the oldest resident of Heppner, passed away last Wednesday morning at the home of her daughter, Mrs. L. W. Briggs, at the advanced age of 94 years, 10 months and 23 days. She had been a helpless invalid for many months. She was the daughter of John and Elizabeth Glancy and was born in Clermont county, Ohio, March 8th. 1828, and was married to Asa Davis French of Dayton, Ohio, in 1849. She was the mother of five children, three sons and two daughters: M. D. L,; John G. and Millard F. French, and Mrs. Louella Gurdane and Mrs. Hannah Briggs. Mrs. Briggs and M. F. French, of Midvale, Idaho, who survive her, were with their mother when the end came. Mrs. French came with her hus band and children to Heppner in 1880 and settled on the French farm near town and she has since been a respected member of the community. Her husband died in 1891, her daughter, Mrs. Gurdane, met her death in the Heppner flood in 1903, John G. passed away in California in 1910 and D. L. French died near Heppner in 1913. ADD DEATH NOTICE After her marriage she and her husband united with the Baptist church, of which she was a member until a few years after her husband's death, when with her eldest son she united with the First Christian church of Heppner, in which she was a faithful member until death. The funeral was held from the Federated church Friday afternoon, Rev. Livingstone, of the Christian church, conducting the service. 60UL0 PLAN WOULD EX TEND FOREIGN CREDITS Washington, D. C, A plan for fi nancing foreign purchasers of Amer ica's farm products, known as the Gould plan, is being discussed in con gressional circles. According to the plan the war finance corporation y; to purchase drafts against grain ship pers abroad. The drafts are to hp drawn against and guaranteed by foreign importers and also by the government of the country receiving the grain. "To make tho plan easily under stood," stated Mr. Gould in explana tion of his proposal, "we will sup pose that an exporter in this coun try buys a million bushels of wheat for a million dollars and ships it to an importer in Spain. The exporter draws a three months' or longer draft on the Spanish importer for one mil lion dollars. The Spanish importer accepts the draft by writing his name across the face, which will hold him responsible. The importer then lakes it to the Spanish government and a proper officer endorses it, thus mak ing the government also responsible. "The draft will then be mailed to the United , States exporter who would cash it with the war finance corporation as payment for his ship ment. The draft would draw interest and the war finance corporation should charge a fee for the services to take care of any losses that might occur. "The foreign importer would sell this million bushels of wheat to mill ers on about 90. doys' time. The mill ers would sell to the bakers on simi lar terms. The bakers would sell bread to their customers who would pay cash in small amounts. The baker would then pay the millter, the miller the importer, and the importer would pay the war finance corpora tion." It is thought that this plan would make available credits for foreign buyers who are at present unable to purchase the required quantities. One objection has been made that losses might occur to the war" finance corporation. The reply is made, how ever, that such losses would be small and, if made, would occur In a good cause. PATRON-TEACHER MEETING Monthly p. T. A. meeting Tuesday, February 13th, at High School audi torium. Come out and help your children win library fund for theli room. MISS BLANCHE FAHT, Secretary. BETTER WOOL TALKED OF AT BOSTON OREGON' GROWERS NOT INCLIN ED TO CONTRACT Some Contracts hi Utah and Nevada at From 88 to 43 Cents ; Per Pound (Oregonian) Boston, Mass., Feb., 1. Much talk is heard In the Boston wool trade of an impending boom in wool prices and a great turnover of the staple. Conservatives regard the situation as unhealthy. The very large sales of men's wear and dress goods since the recent openings, causing a with drawal of all lines by the largest manufacturer, is a strong incentive toward wool buying. Further open ings February 5 will be closely watched by wool dealers for evidence on which wool prices can be fixed. Buyers of Boston houses In the west are pleading by telegraph to be permitted to contract for new wool, yet most houses still hold them in leash. In spite of this some 30,000 fleeces have been contracted, mostly in Utah and Nevada, largely for .one Boston house end a Rhode Island mill. Prices paid are reported to range from 38 to 43 cents. Even these prices are not satisfactory to the growers as a whole. Some wool men see danger of a drift bacfc 10 pools and consignment houses if growers and buyers do not get to gether on prices. The wool market continues firm, notwithstanding the signs of weak ness at the London sales on Wednes day. Declines In that market were not sufficient to affect prices In this country, but they served to make dealers more cautious. No effort is being made to contract for new Ore gon or Vashingtou wools and cov ers are not trying to find buyers. There was some talk at the recent convention of business having been done, but inquiries failed to bring out details. Advices from Utah and Nevada indicate only a moderate amount of contracting so far, and what has been done appears to have been by speculators and not by east ern dealers. THEOROX JELL, FORMER HEPPHER MAX DIES AT PORTLAND Theoron E. Fell, a former well known resident of this city, died at Portland January 29th, at the age of 64 years, following an illness of sev eral months' duration. He is sur vived by his widow, Mary D. Fell, one son, Melville D. Fell, and three brothers, Georgo D., of Portland; Dr. J. H., of Prairie City, and Walter P., of Eugene. Funeral services were held at the Portland crematorium. Do Not THAT We must eat The general trend of prices is upward. Our prices have been reduced 20 to 25 per cent. Our meats are good meats. This reduction has been effected by the new management. We invite your patronage. Central Market G. B. SWAGGART BIG ACREAGE COPPER MORROW COUNT I' LEA 13 STATE WITH 2.-iti0 AChl'S Treatment has Proven Step in Ad vance in Profitable Wheat Production Morrow county has between twenty and twenty-five thousand acres of dry treated wheat which is fall seeded. Although Morrow county has done more work with the dry treatment of wheat than any other county in Ore gon, we find that large acreages have been seeded in other states. Reports from county agents in Washington indicate the following acreages seed ed with dry treated wheat, there this fall: Adams county, 25,000 acres. They expect to so treat at least fifty per cent of their spring wheat this year. In Douglas county, 50,000 au'es seeded, and in commenting the county agent says that the advent cf the day treatment will result in elim inating one of their biggest gat: bios in 'rcir winter wiier.t farming sys tem. Spok.me county, 20,000; acres; Franklin count, at least fifty per cent of their winter acreage and expect the same proportion of their spring; wheat acreage to be so treated. A letter received by C. C. Calkins from Professor Mackie, plant path ologist for California, indicates that at least one-third of the wheat acre age in California was dry treated for smut this year. A recent interview with the coun ty agent of Umatilla county and a large number of the farmers from various sections indicate that ' their copper carbonate tests have been most promising and without doubt a dry treatment campaign will be put cn In that section this fall. Copper carbonate has been used for the past seven years in Australia with success. It is spreading quite rapidly to all the wheat growing states and has 'given very good satis faction. A note of warning should be sound ed, however, to all users because much of the success depends upon the quality of copper carbonate se cured. Already a number of inferior products are on the market. It is possible to have these pro ducts tested and the county agents of the northwest are taking steps to have all supplies of copper carbonate analyzed and will be in position to recommend or advise against supplies which are available. Results so far would indicate that with a good, grade of copper carban ate applied with a machine which will absolutely coat the kernels, wijl give about the same control of smut as can be obtained by the old standard (Continued on patfe R, Column '1) Forget MR. PAD15ERG EXPLAINS lOXE MAYORALTY SITUATION lone, Or., Feb. 3 (To the Editor.) Referring to article in Herald of January 30, 1923, from lone corres pondent stating that "lone drops Padberg and Walker and elects H. Mason mayor." I would like it un derstood that this is not the case, as the majority of the law-abiding citi zens of lone have not dropped me as mayor, neither do they want me to resign, but the council at an ad journed meeting, taking advantage of two of the eouncilmen and myself being absent, and not observing the law in regards to the city charter or of section five of ordinance No. 103 pertaining to the election and term of office, they proceeded to declare the office of mayor vacant, and Bert Mason resigning as councilman was appointed mayor. E. L. FADBEKG. COYOTE POISON AVAILABLE Wo have replenished our supply of specially processed coyote poison and will furnish it free of charge to par ties who lire willing to place U out according to directions. The exper ience gleaned In most of tho western states indicates that the moat effec tive way of controlling the coyotes is through poison campaigns. Next year without doubt this work will be or ganized and a systematic effort made to cover the entire territory. Stock men interested in ridding their ranges of coyotes should take advan tage of this opportunity. Complete government directions will be given with the poison. C. C. CALKINS. AT The seniors have received their class pins and the usual sacrifice of shows and things to pay for them is going on. The class think their pins are the best looking ones any class has ever had. During the absence of Miss Fleet, who is attending the convention of the high school press association with Thelma Miller and Reliance Moore, the English classes are being taught by Mr. lledrick. The primary election of student body officers was held last Thurs day. Tho nominations were made and then the students voted on them. Tho votes were counted by the stu dent council and the highest candi dates who should run in the general election were determined. Following are the candidates: President, Kay McDuffee, Iictha Owen; vice presi dent, Francis Doherty, Violet llynd, Keith Logan; secretary, Mary Craw ford, Thelma Miller; seaigent at arms, Charlie Hill, Leonard Schwartz; yell leaders, Kathleen Mc Daiil, Itetha Owen, Muriel Cason, Guy Hail.. The reports of the several conimilteo were heard. The commit tee on the debate insignia announced that a little gold "11" pin was their choice, but It was not voted on as liricesj had not yet been obtained The treasurer's report was also given. The student body has a bal ance of $30.34 In tho bank and debts amounting to 120 to pay. However, this situation is not as alarming as It sounds; no student body plays buy ing been put on yet. Last Tuesday the Juniors had snap day and took pictures for the annual. The Heppner Hi basket ball team will play a game with lone at the Heppner pavilion next Friday, Feb ruary 9. The boys' team of Heppner played a game with Hardnian last Wednes day. Hcppner's second team was played most of the game. Hardman's team was no match for Heppner, especially because of some their small men. Paul Aiken played an especially good game for Heppner, piling up a targe score for his team. The game was very one-sided and ended with a score of 35-8 In Hepp ner's favor. Hardman has a good team for a town of her size; all her me,i are good sports and hard play ers. Lewis Oflmin had a very narrow i f-se.ipe while riding to school the i other morning. His horse ran away from him and we understand that ! had It not been for Nellie Flynn's b v( aid Lewis might have received serious injuries. OUT FROM STATE BOOK ACTION TAKEN AT ANNUAL MEKTIXU SATTRDA C Ail Sections of County Represented With Many Ladies Present The best attended annual meeting of the Morrow CJounty Farm Bureau ever held in Heppner was that of Sat urday when the big lodge room in tho. Odd Fellows building was crowded to capacity with representative farmers from all sections of the county. A feature of the gathering was the large number of ladies present. Paul V. Maris, director of exten sion work for O. A. C, was present and wait the principal speaker at. the morning session which convened promptly at 10:30. The keynote of Mr. Maris' address was that after all is said and done about the farmers' problems and how to solve them by statesmen, legislators and financiers, the farmer himself must, ultimately, work out his own problems through his local organizations, meaning the Farm Bureau and the Co-operative Marketing associations. The spealter quoted such eminent authorities as Eugeno Myer, of tho war finance iMiard, and Herbert Hoover, secretary of commerce, endorsing the co-operative marketing movement and stress ing Its vital Importance to the pro ducer. Ho pointed out. that neces sarily some mistakes must be made in launching such an organization as tho wheat marketing association. The undertaking is In the way of a pioneer movement and each step must bo carefully planned In ad vance. Some growers will occasion ally get a higher price outside the association than the average Inside price but this, tho speaker asserted, is to be expected and Is not a fair test of the value of tho co-operative movement. It. W. Turner, president of the bureau, presided and In his opening address mado one of his usunt strong pleas for better methods and closer co-operation among the farmers. Be fore the noon adjournment ho ap pointed committees on nominations and resolutions. An excellent 40-cent luncheon was served In tho dining room at noon by the ladies of the Christian church to which all did ample justice and the meeting re-convened at. 1:15 when an enjoyable musical program was given by Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Turner and Messrs. Kd Miller, of Lexington, and Dan Lindsay, of Alpine. The principal feature of the after noon session was tho report, of the past, year's work with an outline of plans for the coining year, by County Agent Calkins. Improvement in farming methods, particularly as regards early plowing and early seeding, improved seed va rieties, certified seed wheat, tubercu lar work In dairy herds, rodent con trol and poultry and apiary improve ment were subjects stressed in the report. One of the outstanding features of the meeting was tho action taken In passing a resolution recommended by the resolution committee, wvei'lng connection with the Oregon State Farm Bureau. Objections were made to alleged careless management and loose business methods on tho part, of the state body and the sense of the meeting was that until these abuses are remedied that Morrow county will hold aloof from the state body. Officers elected were: It. W. Turner, president; R. li. Wilcox, vice-president; J. O. Turner, secretary-treasurer. Executive Com mittee, Jack Hynd, Dwlght Misener, J. O. Klncald, Ralph Flnley, Oscar Keithlcy, Cecil Warner, Carnett Bar ratt, Hoy Campbell. EPISCOPAL f'Hl'RCII WILL NOT OPPOSE COMPULSORY SCHOOL LAW At tho recent convention of Eplsro pal churchmen at Portland a reso lution was adopted to the effect that the church will not Join with other denominations In testing In the courts the constitutionality of the compulsory school law adopted by Un people at the November election, al though It will interfere with the work of Episcopal schools. No reason was announced for th stand taken.