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IF YOU WANT ALL THE NEWS OF MORROW COUNTY WHILE IT IS NEWS, READ THE HEPP NER HERALD. WE PRINT IT FIRST H WM-M 3 VOLUME X HEPPNER, OREGON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1923 NUMBER 16 I lit SIX ESS HOUSES CLOSE DOORS IX AFTERNOON Tie. Livingstone Conducts Impres sive Memorial Services at the Christian Church Heppner showed honor to the memory of the late President Hard ing last Friday afternoon by closing all places of business while the peo ple joined in a memorial service in hosor of the departed chief execu tive which was conducted by Rev. W. 0. Livingstone at the First Chris tian church. The services were simple but im pr-:ssive. A selected choir opened services by singing "Lead Kindly Lis-ht." Prayer was offered by Rev J. 3. Youel, of Dallas, Oregon. Mr. Livingstone declared at the opening of his address that he would not at tempt to pronounce an eulogy on the late president neither would he preach a sermon but that ho would simply attempt to direct the thoughts of his audience to a contem plation of what Mr. Harding was as a man and a citizen as well as a pub lie official. He Bpoke of the home life of Mr. and Mrs. Harding and of the love and devotion that always seemed to exist between them, saying that if such a feeling could be emulated in ail of the homes in America that do mestic discord, divorce and its at tendant evils would be unknown. The speaker also pointed out the kindly nature of the dead president in his daily contact with others, par ticularly mentioning his great love for children which was noticed at many poionts during his western trip. The president was not a brilliant man, the speaker said, neither was lie a great genius in any particular lino, but he was honest, and kindly and good and as president had the bi-st interests of the country always at heart. Tho president was a christian man, M; Livingstone said, a member of the Baptist church and that fact counted for much in revealing the character of the man, the speaker said. Prayer wa3 offered at the close of the address for President Coolidge, the petition being that he may re ceive divine guidance in undertaking the great work before him. RIG DEMAND FOR FORI) TRUCKS Charlie Latourell, head of the Latourell Auto Co., and Ford agent for this territory, says the demand lor Ford trucks is growing rapidly many farmers having demonstrated the fact that the Ford is the most economical method for getting their wheat moved from the farm to the warehouse. About 20 Ford trucks are now engaged in this work in the county and their number is increas ing daily. The only limit, Mr. Latourell says, is the question of getting the trucks. Last Sunday morning before he had his breakfast, Mr. Latourell says lie fold a truck to the Lexington school district on which will be bulit a bus body for bringing children from the country to school. He also sold a touring car the same morning to W. M. McFerren, of Heppner, a latest model Sedan with all the full extra equipment to A. C. Ball, of lone, and a coupe to Irene Sprague, of Boardman. And then Charlie went to break fast and enjoyed his bacon and eggs. DEEB SEASON AUGUST 20 TO OCTOBER 31 THIS YEAR Deputy Game Warden Albee this moraing received a telegram from A. E. Burghduff, state game warden, to the efect that the 1923 open season for deer will run from August 20th to October 31st, both dates inclus K Instructions will be given later relative to open season on other same animals and birds. Mr .Burghduff asks for all the publicity possible on this matter that citizens may be advised as to eir rights reagrding deer hunting, j TO HEPPNER MAN COULD QUALIFY AS PRISON GUARD A well Tcnown Heppner man tells the following story on himself: Not long ago ho spent a few days at the coast and when ready to re turn to Portland a neighboring cot tager asked him if he would mind looking after a 13-year-old girl who had been visiting the cottager's fam ily and who they wished to return to her Portland home. The girl liked the coast and didn't want to go back to Portland but was persuaded to take the train in company with our Heppner friend. Soon after the train started the girl went into the next car and at the first stop she stepped off the train and ' walked back to the coast. When tho Heppner man reached home he found a telegram awaiting him from his coast neighbor which said: "Girl entrusted to your care at 9:00 A. M. was back here at 11. If you want a new job I will be glad to recommend you to Governor Pierce as a guard at the peniten tiary. Think you have qualified." THE WHEAT MARKET Brown & Lowry, local wheat buy ers, report having opened the wheat market here Saturday by buying three cars of Forty-fold from O. T. Ferguson. Another lot or two has been bought since that time. Prices paid yesterday were on the basis of 82 to 83 qents for Turkey and 87 to 88 for Forty-fold. No Bluestem has been offered so rav this season and no prices have been quoted on that variety. COMMERCIAL BUSINESS Basil Russell and L. D. Thorpe, who registered from Walla Walla, sailed down on Heppner about dark Saturday evening and spent Sunday, doing a thriving business as sky pilots. The plane was kept busy all day Sunday doing a passenger busi ness and darkness forced the aviator to quit before all of his would-be passengers had received their thrill. The air lanes must be in better con dition for travel than they were a year ago as the rate has been reduc ed from $10 to $5 for a ten-minute flight. It is said Messrs Russell and Thorpe have made a proposition to the Rodeo management to put on aj exhibition flight during the three days of the Rodeo. EDERAL TAXPAYERS' NAMES TO BE PUBLISHED Portland, Ore., Aug. 9. Clyde G. Huntley, collector of Internal reve nue, today mailed to postmasters throughout the state a typewritten list containing the names of every in dividual who filed a federal income tax return for the calendar year 1922, residing in the respective post master's immediate locality. By a requirement of the revenue law these lists will be posted by the postmaster for inspection by the general public. This arrangement applies to all post officea in the state from which re turns were filed with the exception of Portland, Eugene and Pendleton. In lieu of typewritten lists at these points, a card index showing the names of all persons who filed re turns is maintained at the collector's office in the custom house at Port land and the branch offices at Eu gene and Pendleton. These cards may be inspected at any time by in terested taxpayers. STEPHENSON-HIGHES Mr. Mervyn Stephenson of Condon and Miss Kelly Cecil Hughes of Fos sil were married at The Dalles Mon day, August 6, at 7:20 p. m. The bride is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Hughes and was one of the most popular young school ma'ams of Wheeler county. The bridegroom has been around this community for several years and is well known as an Industrious young man, He is In the employ of th state highway department in the capacity of bridge engineer. Fossil Journal. The bride is a niece of Mr. and j Mrs .Sam Hughes of Heppner. FOUR STATES CALLED TO WHEAT E AGREEMENT OX PRICE STABILI ZATION' IS SOUGHT Fanners and legislators of Idaho, Washington, Oregon, Montana to Confer Saturday Moscow, Idaho, Aug. 9. Farmers and legislators representing four states Idaho, Washington, Montana and Oregon havpe been Invited to assemble, here Saturday, August 18, to agree on a program for stabiliza tion of the price of wheat. The call was issued by the Moscow chamber of commerce as a further step in its endeavor to remedy the present illog ical economic situation of the wheat farmer. Leaders of farmers' organizations, together with senators and represen tatives of the four northwestern states and proponents of various so lutions of the present difficulty have been Invited. Already sufficient re sponse has been received to assure the success of the meeting. Farmers of the Moscow district are holding preliminary meetings to discus the event. Government fixation of the price of wheat was proposed by th(e Mos cow chamber of commerce in a reso lution adopted last winter. This pro posal was embodied in the Gooding bill, which will be before congress again at Its n,ext session, providing that the government fix the price of wheat by buying at $1.75 for three years. This proposal has aroused nation-wide discussion, which has produced several alternative plans. Among those who have signified their intention to be present at the ' Moscow meeting are Senator Frank R. Gooding of Idaho, author of the Gooding bill; Representative Burton L. French of Idaho, who haH sug gested that the government agree to buy surplus wheat at a fixed price in June; S. B. L. Penrose, president1 oi v Hitman college, who proposes--that the government fix a bounty on export wheat and an equivalent duty on wheat imported; Sen? Mr C. C. Dill and Representative J. W Sum u.ers of Washington, and President Adams of the Washington Fanners' union. Vr.e object of the meeting it if announced, Is not to induce accep tance of any particular plan, but to irystulize effort around whichever p;an seems best after review of all of ihem, so as to get some a;ten in time to help the farmer in iiis finan cial problems as soon as possible. If the four northwestern slates can 3gre on a unit progra rw the lu.pe is expressed that othrv 'sec-Hens of the country can come to similar agreements in similar sectio ir.l meet inrt, which may result !n a great nationa, meeting. WHEAT ASSOCIATION HEAD WAS HEPPNER VISITOR A. H. Lea, manager of the Oregon Co-operative Wheat Growers asso ciation, was a visitor here last Wed nesday evening, returning to Tort land on Thursday morning's train. It is understood that reports had reached Portland to the effect that some Morrow county members of the association were not satisfied with results of the association last yeai and that reports were in circulation that a meeting was to be called to discuss withdrawal from the associa tion. Mr. Lea therefore asked to have every member of the associa tion notified by letter that he would be In Heppner on Wednesday even ing to meet with the members and hear any complaints that might be made and to talk over the situation. No member with a grievlance or complaint appeared, however, and no meeting was held. It is said on the street that an of ficial of the Morrow County Farm Bureau recently addressed a letter to members of the wheat growers as sociation asking for a vote or ex pression of opinion from the mem bers on th,e question of withdrawal from the association but as the ac tion was taken without authority from officers of the association, but few responses were forthcoming. John Patterson went tn Pnrtlaml this morning on a short business i trip. GRAIN GROWERS ASK COOLIE fOR RELP SPECIAL SESSION OF CONGRESS IS REQUESTED Conditions and Economic Punish ment of Last Three Years Aro Held Intolerable Minneapolis, Aug. 12. President Coolidge was urged to call a special session of congross immediately to provide relief for the nation's wheat growers, 'in a telegram sent tonight by the American Wheat Growers as sociated, Inc., the largest association of wheat growers U the country. The telegram was signed by offi cers of the association and trustees of the nine state wheat-growing as sociations which compose the par ent body. It was dispatched at the close of a four-day session of the board of directors of the larger as sociation. In its communication to the pres ident, the American Wheat Growers Associated advocated immediate leg islation authorizing tho establish ment of a federal agency to pur chase wheat in the open market when it reaches a price lower than $1.75 a bushel, as a means of stabil izing this market. "Impelled by the intolerable condi tions and economic punishment now experienced by the wheat growers of America as the culmination of three years of extreme price depression, the American Wheat Growers Asso ciated, Inc., respectfully urges that you call an immediate session of con gress to provide means of relief. This Is the largest exclusive organization of wheat, growers , in the United States with' 60,000 members in nine wheat states, established to secure a fair price for wheat through co-operative marketing. But the develop ment of such an organization is nec essarily a matter of some time, and tho American Wheat Growers Asso ciated, Inc., will not this year bo in a position to control bushelage suf ficiently to influence markets to a degree which is Imperative if the na tion's wheat growers are to bo af forded relief. "The American Wheat Growers Associated, Inc., advocates through immediate legislation, the eslabl. ali ment of a federal agency, suitably financed, to go into the open market and purchase wheat whenever the price drops below a basis of $1.75 per bushel for No. 1 dark northern spring wheat at Chicago, with suit able differentials for wheat of dif ferent grades and qualities, this agency to act during the marketing year of 1923 and until July 1, 1 924. From -that date onward, wheat pro ducers, through their organization, will exert sufficient domestic price control to insure capital returns commensurate with their capital and labor Investment." Those who affixed their signatures to the telegram were George C. Jew ett, general manager, and William J. Brown, president of the American Wheat Growers Associated, and the following trustees representing the associations named; Warren Pope and H. J. Weeth for Colorado; Geo. C. Jewett and H. J. Herman, for Idaho; William J. Brown and W. H. Frederick for Minnesota; J. F. Wal ton and B. D. Hollenback for Mon tana; James Thomas and J. L. Hull for Nebraska; George E. DuiB and A..N. Winge for North Dakota; A. It. 'Shumway and C. A. Harth for Oregon; Carl Gunderson and C. W. Croes for South Dakota; W. J. Rob FROM TUX EACTORY TOBA GGq $J ROH YOU OWW WITH iniACMXX mm Annua MM inson and C. N. Hatch for Washing ton. Reports from all states show that wleut growers are unable to with stand another year of present prices, Mr. Jewett asserted tonight. He said that at present there are 12 states wheat growing associations, nine of which act through the American Wheat Growers' organization. "The need of the wheat market Is for immediate, temporary action," Mr. Jewett said. "There is no thought of any permanent fixing of prices by tho government. Before the uexi marketing season the co operative associations will be in con trol of more than two-thirds of the wheat grown in the heavy wtieai states, and from that time the farm ers will be in a position to determine by their own power that domestic wheat prices are set on a plaice that will afford satisfactory returns." PREDICTS ELEVEN-CENT GAS ON PACIFIC COAST Seattle, Aug. 13. Douglas A. Shelor, manager of the Automobile Club of Washington, today predicted that gasoline will go down to 11 cents on tho Pacific coast as the re sult of the over production at the refineries. Co-operative plans for selling gaso lne In competition with the big com panies cannof meet with tho sus tained success due to the fact that the companies will immediately lower their prices to meet the new competition, in Shelor's opinion. CITY COUNCIL PASSES At a recent meeting of the city council two new ordinances were placed on third reading and passed. One forbids tho parking of any vehicle on Main street between May and Baltimore streets between the hours of midnight and 6:00 A. M. A fine of not more than $50 or im prisonment of not more than 2 5 days is imposed for infraction of the ordi nance which In intended principally to keep the street clear from curb to curb to avoid Inteiferrliig with the operation of the sprinkling truck which operates on Main street between tho hours named. Tho other ordinance passed re quires that all persons selling milk or cream vjthtii the limits of the city shall obtain a permit showing that their cows have been tested and found free from tuberculosis and that the stables aro kept in a sanitary condition. A fine of not less than $10 nor more than $100 or Impris onment of 5 to 50 days Is provided. HEAT OPS CORN ON EAR THE LOVE STAR STATE Cleburn, Texas, July 28. A record in heat and hot weather stories was set hero when the mercury soared around 110 and J. A. Davis told of coin popping off the ear. Davis ex hibited the ear, which had been picked from a field on a farm near Cleburn. The Intense heat had caused sev eral kernels to explode, Davis de clared. Sweltering hearers of the yarn expressed never a doubt. Eternally Changing Is the World and its Infinite Parts Our meat stocks are replenished daily to insure a wholesome food for that HEALTHFUL HUNGER The Central Market GOVERNOR PIERCE SETS PRISONER WHO DEMANDED Hit RELEASE GETS IT Query Who Runs Pen; the Gov ernor, Parole Board or Convicts? James Charles Connorc the con vict who a f,ew days ago addressed an unusual letter to Governor Pierce in hich he demanded a pardon, was granted his freedom last Saturday by the governor. The pardon was not recommended by the parole boa. In his letter to the governor Con nors demanded his pardon becauso of hospital service rendered during the epidemic of influenza at the prison a couple of years ago during which time he claims that he con tracted the drug habit. He also charges that the parolo board did not give him a square deal. He also charged cruel and inhuman treat ment on the part of prison officials and guards. Former officials at the prison de clare that Connors Is one of tho most desperate men ever confined there. According to his alleged record as published by Portland papers, he 18 said to hav,e a long criminal record and that he specialized In beating; elderly widows out of their small means. Governor Plerco also granted a conditional pardon to Frank Foster, a bad chock artist, who Is said to have passed worthless paper in five states. His release was opposed bv the parole board and by the judgo and prosecuting attorney who heard and tried the case. It is said that when Foster laBt appeared before tho parolo board ho said ho did not want a pardon on hlH own account but that he wanted nn opportunity to vindicate the humano policy of Warden Johnson and Gov ernor Pierce. Since Warden John son took chargo of the prison nearly 50 convict.'! have escaped from tho In stitution. Keren I !y tho convicts sent an ultimatum to the governor de manding that tliii entire manage ment of I lie prison bo turned over to the warden and threatened that if their demands were not met within 60 days that thero would bo many more escapes. Many citizens are asking tho question: "Who Is running the pen itentiary, the parojo board, tho gov ernor, the warden or tho convicts?" WHEAT MEN IN CONFERENCE AT SPOKANE YESTERDAY Several hundred wlieatgrowern were expected to gather at Spokano yesterday to confer on tho wheat situation. While the, prime object of tho meeting was announced to bo In tho nature of an effort to have an ex tra session of conn gross called to give som emcasuro of relief to the farmers, It was announced that no definite plan had been adopted but that all plana heretofore 1Ihcuhbi1 would be considered and the best ono selected. U. S. Senator Borah and Repre sentative French, of Idaho, and Stalo Market Agent Spence, of Oregon, were listed as being on the program as speakers.