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VOLUME X
HEPPNER, OREGON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1924
NUMBER 3S
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WH00PP0SESNEWB05S
WILLIAM J. SIMMONS
IS NAMED IN EDICT
Banishment Laid to Active Opposi
tion, to Regime of Dr. H. W.
Brans, Imperial Wizard
Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 11. William
Joseph Simmons, founder and em
peror of the Ku Klux Klan, and Ed
ward Young Clarke, at one time
acting Imperial wizard of the organ
ization, have been banished from the
klan for their active opposition to
the regime headed by Dr. H. W,
Evans, imperial wizard, it was an
nouncfid here today in klan circles
In a statement issued here Mr,
Clarke declared he was not surprised
at the development, declaring that
"the attempt was made because
Evans and his associates are desper
ate and realize it is only for a short
time the ywill be able to hold the
reins of the organization and tram
ple in the dust all the foundation
principles and ideals of the Knights
of the Ku Klux Klan.",
He declared that neither Dr.
Evans nor the imperial kloncilium
nor the body of dragons has the le
gal right to banish either himself or
Emperor Simmons, and asserted that
the real reason for the attempted
banishment was an effort to stop the
gathering of klansmen at the nation
al congress which he has called to
meet in Atlanta, February 6.
Official to Appeal
The klan official said he would
make a "regular formal appeal
against the banishment through the
regular courts of the order and then
to civil courts of the state if it be
comes necessary."
Emperor Simmons was expected to
issue a statement which it is be
lieved will be along the' same lines
as that given out by his fellow of
ficial.
Officials of the, imperial palace de
clined to comment on the reported
expulsions, but confirmation of the
imports here came from persons
closely associated with Dr. Evans. It
was stated that the banishment was
made after grand dragons represent
ing every state in the union had met
in Washington two days ago and
signed charges against the two offi
cials. '
A copy of these charges was in
the hand of Mr. Clarke early to
day. The accusations are said to be
lengthy, but the former acting im
perial wizard would not make them
public, declaring that "they were
now in the hands of my attorney."
Letter Held -Treason
The order, it is understood,
charged him "with actively attempt
ing to disrupt the organization," and
allying himself with enemies of the
order and bringing it into disre
pute." The banishment, it was stated, was
a counter movement on the part of
Dr. Evans and his administration to
the fight waged against him by the
Simmons faction, which reached a
climax recently when Mr. Clarke di
rected a letter to President Coolidge,
asking that steps be taken to reform
a certain "element" in the organiza
tion or else that it be disbanded.
It is understood, it was charged,
that Mr. Clarke's letter to the presi
dent "constitutes treason," in that
it was "an attempt to disband and
break up the order, and bring it into
disrepute."
Members of the Simmons faction
stated today that the imperial head
quarters of the klan had been moved
from here to Washington. This was
denied by Imperial officials and
those representing the order in the
nation's capital.
CALL FOR COUNTY WARRANTS
All General Fund Warrants of
Morrow County, Oregon, registered
prior to AugUBt 31st, 192J, will be
paid on presentation, at the office of
the County Treasurer on or after
January 22nd, 1924, on which date
Interest on said warrants will cease.
Dated at Heppner, Oregon, Janu
ary 10th, 1924.
LEON W. BRIGGS,
38-39 County Treasurer.
Fred S. Ashley, of Echo, was
business visitor here Friday.
PENDLETON BUSINESS
MEN JOIN WITH FARMER
The following letter, whMi is self
explanatory, has been received by
Dean Goodman, secretary of the
Heppner Commercial club, from Geo.
C. Bap, secretary of the Pendleton
Commercial Association, and has
been given to the Herald for publica
tion: I wish to extend to you and mem
bers of your organization a very cor
dial invitation to be present at a big
meeting to be held in this city under
the auspices of the County Farm
bureau and this association on Jan
uary 19, at 1:30 p. m., in the Elks'
building.
The object of this meeting is to
effect a state, county and town or
ganization for the furthering of a
whjeat marketing plan proposed by
Secretary of Agriculture Wallace
and quite recently endorsed by a
committee 'from the Oregon State
Bankers' association.
We will have with us at this meet
ing a number of speakers who have
made an intense study o this plan
and who will be able to state their
findings in a clear and concise man
ner. Thee is no questioning the
fact that those of us who reside in
a wheat raising district realize the
seriousness of the situation now
faced by the farmer and appreciate
the fact that there must be some
remedy found in the very near fu
ture, if he is to survive.
I respectfully urge that your ass
ciation arrange to have as many del
egates present as possible at this
meeting in order that they become
acquainted with the actual facrts of
the wheat situation.
Assuring you that a good atten
dance will be sincerely appreciated,
I am.
Tours very truly,
GEORGE C. BARR,
Secretary Pendleton Comm. Assn
SHERIFF GETS ANOTHER STILL
Sheriff McDuftee took a little
drive down Juniper canyon the oth
er day and added another still to
his already large and varied collec
tion. The latest acquisition to the
sheriff's collection is a very com
plete copper worm and a copper hot
water tank from a kitchen range all
set up and ready to operate and a
barrel of masn was also on hand
ready for business but, unfortunate -'y,
frozen almost solid. The plant
was set up in the open within a few
yards of a w'ljeat. field but so cleverly
concealed by a small draw and plenty
of sage brush as to be hard to find.
No one was in ;ight when the sher
iff made his visit, but evidences
there were in t lenty that the plant
had been In cpf ration for several
months and that another batch was
about ready to be run.
LOCAL FORD DISTRIBUTOR
LOOKS OVER MYRTLE POINT
Chas. H. Latourell, local Ford
dealer, visited Myrtle Point, Coos
county, last week to look over that
town with the view of establishing
himself there as representative of
the Ford company, having been of
fered the agency at that place by the
Portland branch office.
Mr. Latourell has built up a splen
did business since coming to Hepp
ner and is known here as one of the
town's most progressive business
men. While Myrtle Point is no larg
er' a town than this it is said that
the field there is better as a Ford
distributing point. It is understood
Mr. Latourell returned Sunday
evening and says there is nothing
certain about making any move. In
fact, he talked as tho Heppner still
looks good to him. Mrs. Latourell
accompanied him on the trip, which
was made in their Cadillac.
TAKES BANKRUPTCY ACT
The petition of Harry E. Barthol
omew in bankruptcy has been re
ceived by Thomas Fitx Gerald as re
feree in bankruptcy cases. The
debts of the petitioner are set forth
as about $50,499. His assets con
sist of about $100 worth of personal
clothing and $300 worth of house
hold goods, according to the peti
tioner, both of which are claimed ex
empt. Echo News.
It pays to advertise in the Herald.
GET S01E RELIEF
ON ORE-WASH. HIGHWAY
County Judge Campbell and Com
missioner Benge have returned from
Portland and Salem after attending
a meeting of the state highway com
mission at Portland and a meeting
of the county judges and commis
sioners at Salem.
The purpose of the officials in
meeting with the highway commis
sion was to push the project of com
pleting the Oregon-Washington high
way from Jones hill to the county
line beyond Lenaduring during the
present year. In this the Morrow
county officials acted in unison with
the Umatilla county officials who
were also present on a similar er
rand, there still being a few miles of
highway uncompleted in this county.
Because of shortness of funds the
highway commissioners were not dis
posed to make any promise at this
time, although they admitted the im
portance of having the ,0.-W. route
completed in order to relieve the
congestion on the Columbia River
highway during the summer months
of heavy travel. That road went to
pieces last summer - and is being
practically rebuilt this winter be
tween Arlington and Pendleton.
A plan was finally submitted to
the commission which may bring re
sults at the February meeting, how
ever, that will relieve the local sit
uation and give the people of Butter
creek a chance to get to Jones hill
at any time of the year and thus
make use of the highway already
completed.
' The plan Is about as follows:
When arrangements were made
with the state to build the highway
from Heppner ' to Jones hill the
county agreed to co-operate to the
amount of $30,000.00, this amount
to be paid to the! state in three an
nual installments of $10,000,00 each.
The first installment is due this year
and the proposition has been made
that if the commission will advertise
for bids for the three-mile section
from Jones hill to Lena that the
county will bid on the work and, if
the contract is secured, will do the
work and take credit on the amount
yet due to the state. This plan will,
if put over, pay the debt due the
state, secure three miles of needed
highway and keep the money at
home. No action was taken on the
matter last week, but the commis
sion promised to take the matter up
at the February meeting and give a
definite answer.
heat
SOME WANT STATE-WIDE REFER
EXDUM, OTHERS OPPOSE.. MAT-
TER IS DELAYED
(Condon Globe-Times)
After some delay Saturday after
noon, the meeting of wheat growers
at the courthouse got under way by
choosing Oscar Maley as chairman.
He said he is losing money each
year because he could sell his wheat
for a higher price in the open mar
ket than the association gets for
him. He also said the wheat grow
ers had' been handed the "bull" for
three yjears where they had expect
ed bullion, and It is now time to get
bullion, and if the association cannot
get it, then let us try for ourselves.
Gus Burres declared he had lost
$1,000 a year through the associa
tion and expected to lose more If
some way were not found to pry the
association fetters loose. He said it!
is easy to see where fairness lies !
as well as prejudice. J
A. K. York voiced his disapproval
of the present conditions under the
association. He said that he, like
many others, had been long dissatis
fied, but had continued to hope for
improvement. He declared also that
the selling costs are much too high
far above what had been promised
the growers when they Joined the as
sociation. Mr. York added that the Washing
ton association had given- the grow
Gilliam
Hold
DISTRICT DEPUTY GEARHEART
VISITS HEPPNER ELK'S LODGE
E. G. Gearheart, district deputy
grand exalted ruler of the Benevo
lent and Protective Order of Elks,
was a visitor in Heppner last Thurs
day evening when he made an offi
cial visit to the local lodge of that
order.
Mr. Gearheart is a member of the
pioneer family of Clatsop county, for
which Gearheart Park was named,
and is a loyal son of that county.
Speaking of weather conditions at
Astoria, Mr. Gearheart said that he
played golf all day the previous Sun
day in his shirt sleeves, which he
thought was some recommendation
for the climate at Oregon's largest
seaport.
Local members of the order re
gret that their distinguished guest
could not have remained here over
Friday, when, had Heppner a golf
course, he might have played 18
holes without even a shirt on so far
as the weather was concerned. Mr.
Gearheart expects to make another
visit here during the coming sum
mer. POPULAR HEPPNER GIRL
MARRIES IDAHO BUSINESS MAN
Miss Helen Barratt, eldest daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Barratt,
and one of Heppner's most popular
young ladies, became the bride of
Mr. Irvin C. Reiman, of St. Maries,
Idaho, at a quiet home wedding at
the Barratt residence in this city.
About 25 guests, immediate rela
tives and close friends of the bride,
were present to witness the inter
esting qeremony which was held at
high noon with Rev. W. O. Living
stone officiating. A wedding dinner
was served after the ceremony, af
ter which Mr. and Mrs. Reiman left
for Pendleton and Spokane, where
tlfey "expected to spend some time be
fore going to his home at St. Maries,
where they will reside.
The romance which led to Satur
day's wedding started at O.A.C. a
few years ago when both parties
were students at that institution. Mr.
Reiman graduated with the class of
1922 and Miss Barratt a year later.
Since his graduation Mr. Reiman has
been engaged in business at St. Mar
ies until recently when he disposed
of his business. They expect to re
sidue, for a time at least at the Idaho
city.
The Episcopal guild met with Mrs
Percy Hughes on Court street Thurs
day afternoon when a very pleasant
session was had.
Growers
Disbandment Meet
ers an opportunity to vote upon dis
banding and that he could Bee no
reason why a referendum vote should
not be taken In this state,) even with
out the petition of 10 per cpt of the
memDers.
"All we ask Is a chance to vote on
the question. Isnt that iiir?" he
asked.
J. W. Dyer pointed out that prac
tically every industry except agricul
ture id organized, and that organiza
tion is the means of holding prices
up. He declared that if the associa
tion has faults, they should be cor
rected but not by tearing down the
only structure through which the
farmer has any chance to get bene
fits of organization. Build it ud.
.don't tear i( down, was his appeal
to the growers.
Mr. Dyer praised the officers of (
the association and said he was con
vinced that he received better re
turns for his wbeat, as a member of
the association than he could have
received outside the organization.
He reiterated that the disbanding
Idea is wrong, and that It would be
a mistake to vote the organization
out of existence.
Mr. Wherli pointed out that young
farmers who are trying to pay for
their land find conditions under the
association very difficult, and that
they want the money for their wfyiat,
when they need it and that they
don't want to be tied up so long in
(Continued on Pas Fv)
Wheat Sections Would
Boycott Portland Town
CHAMBER'S STAND AGAINST
WHEAT SUBSIDY CITED
Merchants of Grain Belt Declare a
Campaign. ..Mistake, Say
Wholesalers
Dissatisfaction expressed in the
Columbia river basin wheat country
because the Portland Chamber of
Commerce directors have auopted a
resolution opposing the American
wheatgrowers' export subsidy plan
is finding expression In announced
boycott of Portland wholesale and
jobbing houses by some merchants
of the wheat belt, says th,e Oregon
ian. Yesterday there came the expres
sion of such an avowed policy from
a group of Pendleton merchants. Al
ready there have been Bimilar com
plaints and announced withdrawal
of business from cities of Washing
ton and Idaho.
The wholesalers directly con
cerned say the step taken up the
country is all wrong, because they
were not in any way responsible for
action taken by the Chamber direc
tors. Some of the firms that have
received notice of the boycott are not
even members of the chamber.
The directors of that body did not
oppose the wheatgrowers' plan in
full, but after a study was made of
it they voted against the legislative
features of the proposal, although
they did not act at all upon the co
operative marketing portion of the
scheme, reserving that for further
consideration. The wheat-growing
districts are, generally, favoring it
and are working for its adoption.
They maintain the local trade body
was influenced against It by grain
exporters here.
Along the same line the Oregon
Journal prints the following:
Complete severance of business
connections between communities of
th,e Inland Empire and Portland has
been urged in resolutions passed by
commercial clubs and farm federa
tions of Walla Walla, Wash., Mos
cow, Idaho, and Pendleton.
Advice of this drastic action was
received Saturday by the Portland
Chamber of Commerce as a result of
the resolution adopted last week In
opposition to the American Wheat-j
growers' export plan.
For several days business men of
Eastern Oregon, Eeastern Washing
ton and Idaho have been proposing
that a boycott be established against
Portland wholesalers and jobbers,
but the resolutions adopted at Wal-
laWalla and Moscow go still further
and propose that all business connec
tions bje severed until Portland busi
ness men show their sincerity by
taking the same stand against other
subsidy plans.
SelflnhneHH Alleged
The business men of the Interior
are not alon in this plan, for the
producers have been called upon to
arrange for the shipment of their
products to other points than Port
land.
The Portland chamber was ad
vised today that La Grande: and Bak
er also were joining In the general
boycott of Portland. Similar action
has been taken at Nampa, Caldwell
and several other communities
which have been allied closely with
Portland in business.
Although the Portland chamber
announced that it is1 opposed to the
wheat export subsidy plan because
of the legislative and political fea
tures and because it would establish
a precedent for other products, the
interior communities express the
opinion that the action was taken to
satisfy the selfish interest of Port
land milling and export Interests.
Co-Opratlon Urged
The Moscow, Idaho, Chamber of
Commerce urged its business men
and producers to co-operate in an
effort to divert its business and ship
ments to other points in the North
west than Portland.
The resolution adopted Saturday
by thp executive committee of the
Wall a Walla county unit of the
I Washlnrt'jn Farm Bureau federation
I
was as follows:
"Whereas, Wheat is the most im
portant product of the Northwest and
the price of wheat to a large extent
governs the priqe of other farm pro
ducts, and,
"Whereas, The deploabi condi
tion of agriculture today is largely-
due to the price of wheat, which,
measured by the cost of production
or the purchasing valine of the farm
ers dollar, is lower today than it
has been for half a century, and
failure to bring relief to the farmer
from his present situation will have
a most serious effect upon every oth
er Industry and upon the consum
ing public, and,
"Whereas, Aa a result of many
conferences of bankers, merchants
and wheait producers throughout the
wheat b(elt of the United States, or
ganizations are now being perfected
for the purpose of urging upon con
gress the creation oT a government
wheat export commission with the
power to fix a bonus upon export
wheat, to be paid by a tax on all
farmers' wheat, and,
"Whereas, The Portland Chamber
of Commerce, upon recommendation
of the Portland grain dealers' com
mittee, actuated as we believe by
greed and avarice, rather than by a
sene of fair play, has declared
against this plan which haB been
adopted by the leading agricultural
and financial men of the Inland Em
pire, and,
"Whereas, the action of the Port
land Chamber of Commerce, is based
largely upon the flimsy argument
that Buch proposed relief for agricul
tural Interests Is economically un
sound and class legislation, and,
"Whereas, It Is obvious that the
grain committee's argument upon
which tho Portland Chamber of
Commerce based its action would ap
ply with equal force to the steel in
dustry, ship subsidy, Portland dif
ferential freight rates, government
rale regulations, all tariff legislation
and numerous government commis
sions now in oporation,
"Therefore, be it resolved by the
executive committee of the Walla,
Walla County Farm Bureau that tha
Portland Chamber of Commerce ba
asked to show Its sincerity and hon
esty of purpose by making the sama
emphatic declaration in reference to
these important subjects as it has
in the case of the proposed relief for
the distressed farmers of the United
States, and
"Whereas, Portland's commercial
importance Is due largely to tha
wealth collected from the Inland
Empire since the days when the pio
neer first turned the virgin soil into
farms, and
"Whereas, the Portland Chamber
of Commerce now shows an indiffer
ence for the distress of those who
were asked to make sacrifices during
the war that thero might be a sup
ply of food for our soldiers and our
associates.
"Therefore, bo It further resolved
that we suggest to all members of
the farm bureau and to all people
who are In sympathy with the move
ment for restoring prosperity to tha
agricultural districts, that careful
and serious consideration bo given to
the advisability of severing all busi
ness relations with a peopfe who
stand in opposition to the efforts be
ing put forth for the farmers' re
lief." Receives News of Father's Death
S. E. Notson received a telegram
Monday morning announcing tha
death of his father, R. P. S. Not
son, at Hamburg, Iowa, at the ad
vanced age of 94 years.
Mr. Notson was a native of Ten
nesee but had been a resident of
Iowa for th,e greater part of his life.
He Is survived by his widow, who in
In feeble health, five sons, three
daughters and a number of grand
children and great grandchildren. He
was of the sturdy, pioneer type of
law-abiding. God-fearing citizens
who helped to build up the great
state of Iowa, one of the greatest in
the middle west.